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MP-NEV University of Nevada The City Of Trembling Leaves
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£19.76
MP-NEV University of Nevada I Remember Christine A Novel
Book SynopsisOscar Lewis sets his first novel in mid-1850s San Francisco. An ""authorized biography"" of a California entrepreneur has just been published, but James Horton is scarcely recognizable to those who knew him. Walter Doane, novelist and longtime friend of the Horton family, is persuaded to set down his own reminiscences of the irascible Horton and, most notably, Christine Winton, Horton's mistress.Trade Review“I Remember Christine is a novel to be read slowly and savored quietly for its uncannily sensitive estimate of both persons and place.” —New York Herald Tribune Books“He who begins I Remember Christine will not easily put it down unfinished.” —Saturday Review
£16.96
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Circle Of MountainsBasque Shepherding
Book SynopsisProvides an excellent ethnography of a French Basque agrarian and sheepherding community. The commune of Sainte-Engrâce extends along a mountain valley in the southeastern corner of Soule, one of the three Basque provinces in France. Sandra Ott examines the importance of cooperation and reciprocity as the essential basis for the main institutions within this community.Trade ReviewSandra Ott's fine-grained ethnography provides a memorable view of a French Basque agrarian and shepherding community and expands the scope of Basque ethnography in useful ways. . . . Ott is a formidable ethnographer."" —American Anthropologist
£19.16
MP-NEV University of Nevada Gandydancers Children A Railroad Memoir
Book SynopsisThis memoir focuses on the now-vanished lifestyle of railroad hands and their families who lived along the Southern Pacific railroad tracks in the 1920s and 1930s
£16.76
MP-NEV University of Nevada Sand in a Whirlwind Paiute Indian War of 1860
Book SynopsisPresents a dramatic account of the events surrounding hostilities between settlers and Pyramid Paiutes in the spring of 1860. Thirty years after its publication Ferol Egan's now classic tale continues to enlighten and engage readers.
£21.71
MP-NEV University of Nevada Nevada Place Names A Geographical Dictionary
Book SynopsisA compendium of Nevada place names, filled with folklore, legend and obscure facts. It examines the history and origin of names like Bloody Run, Dead Peak, Burning Moscow and Physic Spring.
£20.21
MP-NEV University of Nevada Combat Zoning Military LandUse Planning In Nevada
Book SynopsisProvides a clear and disturbing picture of military land-use planning and how it has affected residents in Nevada. Loomis contends that a lack of citizen participation in the development of land-use plans is a weakness in the planning process and that both the military and the citizenry should take an active role to avoid future conflicts.Trade ReviewManagement of public lands will become increasingly important in the years to come, and military land-use planning is germane to this issue. There is very little information available today on military land-use planning, and Combat Zoning is concise, easy to read, and well-documented. —David M. Chambers""Loomis presents a good overview of military use of public lands in the state of Nevada, and his central theme is clear: the public needs to be more closely involved in the military's planning process for withdrawal of public lands—lands that are a common legacy of the citizens of Nevada and the United States."" —Larry Hartsfield""Loomis has chosen a substantial topic and enhanced our understanding of it."" —Bryce Nelson, The Western Historical Quarterly, November 1993
£21.56
MP-NEV University of Nevada History and Humanities Essays in Honor of Wilbur
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£22.75
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Pinon PineA Natural And Cultural History
Book SynopsisAn engaging look at the history of the piñon pine and its ecosystem. Combining natural history and observations of the cultural importance of the tree to both native Indians and European settlers, Lanner provides information on the management of the tree and its interdependence with the birds and animals of the piñon-juniper woodland.Trade ReviewA well-written and often witty survey of the natural history of (piñon) pines, spiced with observations on their importance to the native Indians and subsequent European settlers. . . . The engaging text and copious pictures make it difficult to put the book down, and the appendix of recipes for pine-nut dishes is an added bonus."" —Library Journal
£16.76
MP-NEV University of Nevada Diasporas in the New Media Age Identity Politics and Community
Book SynopsisThe explosion of digital information and communication technologies has influenced the various aspects of contemporary life. This book includes the essays that explore the personal, familial, and social impact of modern communication technology on populations of European, Asian, African, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, and Latin American emigrants.
£36.71
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Flock
Book SynopsisThis title is a collection of sketches, merging nonfiction and myth. Working within the oral tradition it follows a detailed history of the sheep industry in historic California with lyrical allegoric vignettes about sheep management, shearing, weather sense, and grazing the Sierra.Trade Review"'My sheep book,' Austin called it. Like her other early works - especially The Land of Little Rain, Lost Borders, and Isidro - The Flock explores the interrelationships between landscape and human culture through the portrayal of a particular aspect of Western society. It also represents Austin's effort to rethink and revise the age-old pastoral tradition in an American setting....The Flock is not about Austin, and yet we have such a strong sense of personal presence, in her voice and style, that we are made to think about the way a mind comes to understand and be changed by listening to the stories of 'others' and retelling them. The reader is jolted from a position of passive reception of information into an awareness of the ambiguous creation of meaning." - Melody Graulich, editor of Exploring Lost Borders: Critical Essays on Mary Austin"
£17.56
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Sespe Wild Southern Californias Last Free River
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MP-NEV University of Nevada Connecting the West Historic Railroad Stops and Stage Stations in Elko County Nevada
Book SynopsisA survey of the railroad and stage stations of Elko County in Nevada, along with other historic sites. The author offers a history of each site he lists, along with period and contemporary photographs, directions for locating the sites, and an assessment of their present condition.
£24.71
MP-NEV University of Nevada The OxBow Man A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Book SynopsisWalter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the classic novel ""The Ox-Bow Incident"", was one of the important writers of the twentieth century. This work is an examination of a complex, anguished writer and an assessment of Clark's pivotal place in the literary history of the West. It is an examination of the literary world of the twentieth-century West.Trade Review"Benson gives us Clark, whole. He was a man's man, a brilliant, inexhaustible talker, a really good tennis player, a teacher who seemed to care more about his students than himself, a good father whose son Bob gave Benson access to materials very close to the heart, and a friend through thick and thin....Benson doesn't shy away from anything, and in the end you have to marvel at his subject, a man who genuinely stayed young, trying to approach the perfect." - Thomas Lyon, Western Historical Quarterly"
£19.16
MP-NEV University of Nevada Archetypal Light Poems
Book SynopsisThe subjects of these poems include the lightless cave home of an eyeless, transparent fish known as a blindcat and the imagination of painter Georgia O'Keeffe. They include closely observed images, compelling metaphors, and understanding and sympathy for the natural world.Trade Review"Elizabeth Dodd's voice is the voice of a land, its living inhabitants, its histories, its stone, its weather. The poems in Archetypal Light bear stendy and attentive witness to the concrete specifics of these earthly elements and to the dreams and visions they suggest. 'Imagine the earth as self-elegy, memory articulated...' Dodd suggests. With salt marsh, cedar, harrier, elk, blue mussel, rock climbers, pioneers, and other astonishing panoplies of life, these poems pursue the way of that imaginative stance and discover the expansive heart of themselves in the journey."-Pattiann Rogers"
£11.66
MP-NEV University of Nevada Teaching About Place Learning from the Land
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£20.21
MP-NEV University of Nevada An Enduring Legacy The Story of Basques in Idaho
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£15.26
MP-NEV University of Nevada Geology of the Great Basin
Book SynopsisAn introduction to geology of one of continent's most interesting regions.Trade Review“Most travelers through the Great Basin see only the great American Desert. Luckily, there are people like Bill Fiero who can explain this landscape with knowledge and affection. He examines the geologic history of the Basin in an easy and instructive manner. Intended for the general reader, this well-illustrated work mixes basic principles with the latest discoveries in Basin geology.” - Library Journal“The introduction to geologic concepts that precedes the geologic history will make this book especially useful to nongeologists. . . . Beautiful color and black-and-white photos together with clear geologic diagrams compose nearly half of the book. The reader learns not only the history of the rocks but something of why, for twenty years, this landscape has excited Bill Fiero, both as a geologist and as a teacher.” - Choice“I recommend Geology of the Great Basin to both the casual and interested readers of natural history, and to the professional earth scientist. Bill Fiero’s writing style and organization, along with the excellent photographs and sketches, make this book an exciting introduction to the earth sciences for the casual reader. For the avid reader of natural history, the beauty of this book is found in the clarity and the wealth of information presented by Fiero.” - A. W. Magee, Progress in Physical Geology""For anyone curious of the science of the environment of the west, Geology of the Great Basin is a top pick that should not be ignored."" - The Midwest Book Review
£24.71
MP-NEV University of Nevada Between Grass and Sky Where I Live and Work
Book SynopsisA collection of personal essays from one of the most widely published American environmental writers addresses the concerns about the effects of ranching on the environment.Trade ReviewRecently mentioned in Ron Steffens article on his favorite books of the last twenty-five years (Bloomsbury Review, December 2005): ""Linda Hasselstrom's Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work takes the honor of that work and gives a vision of ranchlands where working and living are intertwined.""""There are those who would argue that the viewpoints of a rancher and those of a nature lover are incompatible. Hasselstrom would not be among them, for she embraces Nature-with-a-capital-N as her home, her workplace, her inspiration, and her mission. Self-described as a 'rancher-slash-writer,' Hasselstrom, in these personal essays, details with pragmatic honesty economic, environmental, educational, and ethical issues confronting today's independent rancher. Beleaguered by the plagues of modern society, ranching is endangered as much by the inflamed rhetoric of ersatz environmental groups as it is by land developers intent on suburbanizing America's open spaces. With impassioned eloquence, Hasselstrom takes on all comers, from animal-rights activists to agribusiness conglomerates and eco-terrorists to militant vegetarians, patiently explaining facts, refuting arguments, defending opposing philosophies in logical, sensible, rational terms. 'You don't know what it's like,' she cautions and invites those quick to condemn to walk a mile in her rattlesnake-repelling high-top boots before castigating a way of life on which this country once thrived and must protect in order to do so again."" —Carol Haggas, Booklist""No one has chronicled more fully what it means to be a daughter of the Ranching West than Linda Hasselstrom."" —Teresa Jordan""Hasselstrom’s . . . book becomes a landscape as well as a gathering, a place that joins across time and space."" —The Bloomsbury Review""Direct, earthy, funny, impassioned and provocative, this book offers a . . . field guide to rural life on the High Plains."" —SueEllen Campbell""...a splendid sampling of her prose, by turns brash, provocative, passionate, chilling, and funny...Linda Hasselstrom writes with a naturalist's perceptive eye, an environmentalist's concern, and a rancher's long and practical experience of working and living on the land. Between Grass and Sky belongs on the bookshelves of all who care about our American prairies."" - Story Circle Book Reviews
£16.76
MP-NEV University of Nevada Aurrera v. 2 A Textbook for Studying Basque
Book SynopsisSuitable for beginning-level students who are learning Basque in a classroom setting or on their own, this book covers a third and fourth semester of college-level study.
£48.75
MP-NEV University of Nevada Married to a Daughter of the Land SpanishMexican
Book SynopsisExamines the role of Spanish-Mexican women in the development of California. This book describes the history of women in the American West and the complex role of gender, race, and class in the borderlands of the Southwest.Trade Review"This work provides the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of Mexican/EuroAmerican intermarriage in the Spanish borderlands. Casas convincingly challenges earlier studies that portrayed Spanish-speaking California women as helpless debutantes whose fathers used them to protect their own economic interests and social position." - Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America "Casas's engaging depiction of nineteenth-century California offers a new understanding of the intermixing of peoples concomitant with the Spanish-Mexican and the American conquests of California." - Journal of American History "The women's stories are compelling and provide an important contribution to Western history and the growing work on Mexican Americans and women in the 19th century." - CHOICE"
£20.21
MP-NEV University of Nevada Class and Gender Politics in Progressiveera
Book SynopsisThe dawn of the twentieth century saw enormous changes throughout the United States. Seattle was one of the western cities that boomed during this period. This work expands our understanding of the roles that gender and class played in the construction of progressive politics in Seattle.Trade Review"To my knowledge, there is no book set in the urban West that examines the political relationships between these groups and certainly none that does with the analytical prowess of Putman's." - Eugene P. Moehring, author of Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840-1890 "John Putman places this study in the context of the expanding field of western history and connects his work to it by emphasizing the 'New West' as a focus for both historical development and scholarly attention." - Elizabeth V. Faue, author of Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945"
£40.80
MP-NEV University of Nevada In the Desert of Desire Las Vegas and the
Book SynopsisExamines how Las Vegas' culture of spectacle has obscured boundaries between art and entertainment, as well as public and private interest. This work offers an insight into the increasing commercialization of nature and culture across America, and the ways Las Vegas has manipulated them to achieve ever-higher levels of extravagance and spectacle.Trade Review"In the Desert of Desire is a remarkable book. It deserves a wide readership, especially among students and scholars concerned with tourism, spectacle, and the American West. It should be required reading for those concerned with Las Vegas." - C. Richard King, Journal of the West "As I tagged along on his zigzagging explorations...I felt the exhilarated giddiness of one of those long, winding nocturnal rambles through the Strip itself." - Marc Cooper, Los Angeles Times Book Review"
£16.76
MP-NEV University of Nevada 50 Classic Hikes in Nevada From the Ruby
Book SynopsisIncludes outings suitable for families with small children and full-scale assaults on challenging peaks. This book offers useful information about the geology, wildlife, plants, history, and weather features of Nevada, as well as helpful directions to ensure safe and comfortable travel in Nevada's rugged and isolated backcountry.
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MP-NEV University of Nevada Urbanism and Empire in the Far West 18401890
Book SynopsisReveals how Americans used cities and towns to build their Western empire, developing their urban centers with wealth from the hinterlands and supplying the growing population with foodstuffs and other resources from their rural tributaries, while at the same time using their regional connections as outlets for the goods and services of the cities.Trade Review"This important book will fill a gap in the literature and, in its comprehensive treatment of the development of urban networks across all areas of the Far Western states, should become a definitive, much quoted work." - Timothy R. Mahoney, author of River Towns of the Great West: The Structure of Provincial Urbanization on the American Midwest, 1820-1870"
£40.80
MP-NEV University of Nevada Purshia The Wild and Bitter Roses
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the Purshia, ancient members of the rose family. It examines their biology and their significant role in the ecology of the Great Basin. Topics covered include: their evolution and origins; the history of their recognition as forage supply; and their characteristics.
£32.21
MP-NEV University of Nevada Travels with My Royal A Memoir of the Writing
Book SynopsisA memoir by Nevada writer Robert Laxalt exploring his life as a writer. It includes vignettes about his youth in Carson City, tales of his early days as a reporter, when his assignments included interviewing gangsters, and a discussion of the writing of several of his major books.
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MP-NEV University of Nevada The New West of Edward Abbey
Book SynopsisThis study assesses the literary career of Edward Abbey. The author asserts that his role as social commentator and environmental activist is complemented by his guise as a writer of romance - one who reconceives the contemporary world in order to envision a better one.Trade Review“The New West of Edward Abbey is valuable precisely because it attempts an evaluation of Abbey’s entire career, rather than merely offering explications of his various works. . . . It is deferential without being worshipful, thorough without pedantry, unified without being reductive. It represents the best kind of literary criticism, expanding the reader’s enjoyment and understanding without posturing or cleverness.” —James K. Folsom, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly“Ronald’s book is a trustworthy and at times eloquent guide for one wishing not only to explore Abbey’s inner landscape but to see, through his eyes, the outer.” —Harold P. Simonson, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, July 1983“What is perhaps most important in this work is that Ann Ronald is so honest. There is much she admires about Abbey’s works, but she is not willing to suspend her critical judgment for the sake of aggrandizing her subject author. This is balanced, perceptive criticism at its best.” —Delbert Wylder,Modern Fiction Studies“With the possible exception of Edward Abbey himself, it seems safe to assume that no one knows more about the writing of Edward Abbey than an unassuming professor of English named Ann Ronald.” —James R. Hepworth, Western American Literature
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MP-NEV University of Nevada The Basques the Catalans and Spain Alternative
Book SynopsisAn introduction to Basque and Catalan nationalism. It examines and compares the history, motives and methods of the two movements, considering the influence of such aspects as: the choice of language, race and descent; large-scale immigration; and the causes and effects of social violence.
£19.16
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Decline of Carlism
Book SynopsisCarlism is one of the most significant forces in Spanish politics since the 1830s. This book documents its evolution since the 1930s and shows how the movement shifted in the 1950s and 1960s from the extreme right to the moderate left. It sets the movement in national and local contexts.
£40.50
MP-NEV University of Nevada Geographical Identities of Ethnic America Race
Book SynopsisA collection of essays addressing the relationships between racial and ethnic identities and place in North America. Eighteen geographers examine the ways in which place fashions, recreates and contextualizes human identity, exploring social, cultural and economic aspects.
£24.71
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Trail Book
Book SynopsisThis collection of stories is essentially a frame tale set in the New York Museum of Natural History, where two children discover displays that come to life and admit them into a series of exciting adventures that include talking animals and magical travels through the vast landscapes of the pre-Columbian continent.
£16.76
MP-NEV University of Nevada In Gravity National Park Poems Western Literature
Book SynopsisThis poet, a mountaineer and field hydrologist, focuses on nature and the environment, as well as many other issues of our time, in this, his second collection.Trade Review“Rawlins is that rare being: a whole man; a compassionate philosopher, and an artist of the written word. Be sure to explore In Gravity National Park. You’ll want to return to it again and again.” -Bloomsbury Review ""As he gives himself to the ceaseless pressure of the winds and undertakes the long, bumpy roads that stretch between him and so many that he loves, C. L. Rawlins also finds a world of gritty miracles. This collection, with its cadences as subtle and shifting as the weather, vividly evokes the high-plains country of the poet’s heart."" -John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home Winner of the Poetry award from the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association in 1999.
£12.71
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Desert Look
Book SynopsisPrivate detective Jack Ross has been in the desert for six months when he is interrupted by a reporter. She needs Jack's help to solve a case involving two Las Vegas showgirls, one of whom was Jack's mother. He embarks on a quest to find out if her death was murder rather than accidental.Trade ReviewThe style is as spare as the Nevada landscape, whose desert and mountains are nicely described. For readers who revel in noir mystery (and can match Jack's patience in ferreting out facts), Schopen's latest will satisfy."" —Publishers Weekly “This is a brave and unusual book, more textured than most mysteries, more concerned with visions and myths than straightforward seek-and-solve.” —Booklist
£15.96
MP-NEV University of Nevada Harm Poems
Book SynopsisPoetry that considers a life lived in the American West, in a family, in a body that bears the residue of blue-collar work long into adulthood, and the undoing of that body by age.Trade Review"The language here is so muscular, the metaphors so sharply and freshly drawn, the insights so unsentimental, that I was won over to the breadth and depth of the work, the new facets of masculinity revealed by a writer who insists on telling the blunt and rocky truth about what it has meant to him to be a man." - Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Writing the Sacred into the Real "These are not pink poems for pale people. The voice - edgy, wry, wittily ironic - reminds me, through its refusal to lie, of Larkin, Alan Dugan, Levine, while avoiding all show-biz 'authenticity.' Nor is this a first book in the usual sense. Instead, it's the art of a grown man's 'true naming at eye level.' Thus in his highly re-readable compressions of a difficult lifetime, Wilson's depth and craft give lessons in the force of few words, the unsaid as a presence." - Reg Saner, author of Climbing into the Roots
£12.56
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Watchful Gods and Other Stories
Book SynopsisThis collection - Walter Van Tilburg Clark's only published volume of short fiction - reflects both Clark's literary power and the major concerns of his novels: the interior and intuitive complexities of good and evil, and the fragile, intricate web that connects humankind to the rest of the natural world.
£16.76
MP-NEV University of Nevada Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California Volume
Book SynopsisPart of a two-volume set first published in 1962/63, this book offers a history of the railroads of Nevada and Eastern California, as well as the sites and personalities encountered along the routes. This volume covers the varied and spectacular geography of Southern Nevada and Eastern California.Trade Review“This is an admirable regional history of the last 150 years of regional growth with a sharp focus on the chief engine of that growth—the trains. Deeply, lovingly researched, Myrick’s will stand as the definitive history.” —Reference & Research Book News “An absolute must for anyone interested in Western history, written with wit and pizazz, and presented with real skill.” —The Coast Book Review ""It's a fascinating, comprehensive coffee table-sized publication, even for non-railroad buffs."" -Herald and News
£60.75
MP-NEV University of Nevada Mind the Gap The Education of a Nature Writer
Book SynopsisDeals with the author's life in a rural community on Cape Cod, addressing such subjects as the annual herring spawn, resident and migratory birds, wildlife, his neighbors, and the complex rhythms of life in this region of plunging winds and vast seas. This work explores the literary and environmental influences that shaped his interest in nature.Trade Review"John Hay is one of the most respected and loved writers working today, both as a person and as a superb natural history writer. The paths that led to his professions of teacher and writer are revealed with charm and insight in this book that everyone who enjoys nature writing will cherish." - Ann Zwinger "Hay's beautiful memoir resonates with intelligence and insight." - Booklist"
£15.26
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Archaeology of the Donner Party
Book SynopsisThe tragic saga of the Donner Party has inspired both legend and scholarship ever since the survivors were rescued from the High Sierra snows in the spring of 1847. This work offers insight into the ordeal of these ill-fated emigrants and demonstrates the vital role that archaeology can play in expanding our understanding of historical events.Trade Review"The Archaeology of the Donner Party is a significant book, not simply because it provides new insights regarding a well-covered episode of western history, but also because it demonstrates how historians and archaeologists can work together to arrive at conclusions of benefit to both disciplines. The result is good history and good archaeology." - Western Historical Quarterly"
£16.76
MP-NEV University of Nevada License to Steal Nevadas Gaming Control System
Book SynopsisSeven precedent-setting case studies taken from the files of the Nevada Gaming Control Board illustrate vital issues addressed in the first decade of the megaresorts.Trade ReviewIt’s a fascinating book. Rich in story and the kind of historic detail one hears from casino professionals at the end of a long night. In using the state’s gaming control institutions to tell the story of Las Vegas, however, Jeff Burbank gets the truth and from the sources and people who can document what happened. For fans of Las Vegas, and I am one, start reading and you can’t stop."" —Nicholas Pileggi, author of Casino and Wise Guy""License to Steal is the first ever, detailed examination of the regulation, and occasional non-regulation, of licensed gambling in Nevada. Jeff Burbank looks at the world with the eye of an experienced journalist: he presents concrete facts, not speculation or opinions. A good thing, because many of the stories he relates would be rejected as completely implausible if presented as fiction: the forger who did not know how to spell the name of his life-long friend, or the casino owner who threw parties with swastika-covered birthday cakes on Hitler’s birthday. Burbank’s straight presentation of the facts behind the ruling paints a complete picture of how the system really works."" —I. Nelson Rose, author of Gambling and the Law
£19.16
MP-NEV University of Nevada Dust Devils
Book SynopsisIra Hamilton wins the bronc-riding competition at a local rodeo, and is given a beautiful Arabian colt as a prize. The horse is soon stolen by Hawkeye, a notorious local rustler. Ira's efforts to retrieve his prize pit him against the Black Rock Desert and the wrath of Hawkeye and his gang.Trade ReviewA superbly written coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of a frontier—and its people—in transition."" —Booklist ""A tight little story, and superbly American as well."" —Kirkus Reviews Dust Devils was chosen as one of the New York Public Library's 1998 Books for the Teen Age and selected by the ALA as one of the 71 Best Books for Young Adults for 1999.
£14.36
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Secret Life of John CVan Dyke Selected
Book SynopsisIn this collection of letters, the authors critically examine the ecological principles and reality of the ""desert saint"" Van Dyke. The letters depict a privileged, patrician, and pampered member of the upper class, who saw most of the deserts from plush railroad cars and hotel rooms.Trade Review“This volume performs a service for those of us who are, in a sense, reworking the ground that John Van Dyke and his contemporaries prepared nearly a century ago. Not everyone will share Teague’s and Wild’s enthusiasm for Van Dyke and The Desert, but readers of this trim and attractive volume will certainly come away from it with a new appreciation for the man and the cultural production of an American region.” —Eric Gary Anderson, ISLE
£28.46
MP-NEV University of Nevada East of Eden West of Zion Essays on Nevada
Book SynopsisA collection of essays in which a dozen historians and novelists present their impressions and concerns about “end of the century Nevada”. Human expectations and illusions are seen as a backdrop for today's Nevada as a new human frontier. As an overview of Nevada society, this study deals with culture as well as economics, with tradition as well as rapid population growth.Trade ReviewThis is a little book with a lot to say about Nevada. . . . It is an intriguing potpourri of essays by twelve Nevada scholars that provides humanistic insight into the state’s history and culture and presents the place in a more favorable light.” —Robert W. Davenport, Pacific Historical Review, February 1990
£20.85
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Lucky a Novel
Book SynopsisThe streets of early Las Vegas are a tough place for a boy to grow up. Pete Elkins is fatherless, living in a cramped apartment with his mother, a party girl, and his older sister. Pete is headed for serious trouble when he is befriended by Willy Bobbins, a casino owner with a murky past.
£19.16
MP-NEV University of Nevada Building Hoover Dam An Oral History of the Great Depression
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£20.21
MP-NEV University of Nevada Crows Range An Environmental History of the Sierra Nevada
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£28.46
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Downside Problem and Pathological Gambling
Book SynopsisThis text gives information on the new status of gambling and the issues that arise with the existence of legal commercial gaming. It includes contributions from some of the world's leading authorities on theory and teatment approaches to problem and pathological gambling.
£56.25
MP-NEV University of Nevada Earning Power Women and Work in Los Angeles
Book SynopsisThe half-century between 1880 and 1930 saw rampant growth in many American cities and an equally rapid movement of women into the work force. This title examines the role that women played in this growth as they attempted to make their financial way in a rapidly changing world.
£40.80
