Resultaten gefilterd op "University of Nevada Press"

Going Through Ghosts

Mary Sojourner

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Maggie Foltz is a fifty-five-year-old cocktail waitress in a rundown casino in the southern Nevada Mojave Desert. She spends her days serving drinks t... Lees meer

From the Still Empty Grave

A Wilbur Stevens

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• In this masterful collection of poems, Las Vegas poet Stevens explores the complex connections between life and death, place and experience, the world... Lees meer

East of Eden, West of Zion

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• Human expectations and illusions are the backdrop of today's Nevada as a new human frontier. As an overview of Nevada society, this study deals with c... Lees meer

Geographical Identities of Ethnic America

• Paperback | Engels
• Twenty distinguished geographers examine the ways in which place fashions, recreates, and contextualizes human identity in North America. This volume ... Lees meer

Dead Neon

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Las Vegas is considered a modern icon of excess. The authors of the fourteen stories in Dead Neon imagine Sin City in the near future, when excess has... Lees meer

The Pinon Pine

Ronald M Lanner

• Paperback | Engels
• An engaging look at the history of the pinon pine and its ecosystem. Combining natural history and observations of the cultural importance of the tree... Lees meer

Geology of the Great Basin

Bill Fiero

• Paperback | Engels
• An introduction to geology of one of continent's most interesting regions. Lees meer

Connecting the West

Shawn Hall

• Paperback | Engels
• A 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 lis... Lees meer

Skin of the Earth

Art Gibney

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• A collection of stories set in Nevada, where traditional ways collide uneasily with apocalyptic technologies. Art Gibney seeks to capture the tensions... Lees meer

Indian Gaming and the Law

• Paperback | Engels
• This book is a compilation of select papers and comments presented during the North American Conference on the Status of Indian Gaming, held in 1989 i... Lees meer

The Goodbye House

Lawrence Coates

• Hardcover | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• In the aftermath of the early 2000s dot-com bust, the people of San Jose, California face a changing landscape of lost dreams and careers gone awry. I... Lees meer

Liberty Lanes

Robin Troy

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Liberty Lanes is a bowling alley in a small Montana town where a senior bowling league meets three times a week. Nelson Moore, one of the bowlers, has... Lees meer

Married to a Daughter of the Land

Maria Raquel Casas

• Paperback | Engels
• Examines the role of Spanish-Mexican women in the development of California. This book describes the history of women in the American West and the com... Lees meer

More Peoples of Las Vegas

• Paperback | Engels | Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History
• The remarkable economic growth of Las Vegas between 1980 and 2007 created a population boom and a major increase in the ethnic and religious diversity... Lees meer

Imaging Hoover Dam

Anthony F Arrigo

• Hardcover | Engels
• The mighty Hoover Dam, starting as a dream of land developers and farmers, became the most ambitious civil engineering project of the Great Depression... Lees meer

Working on Earth

• Paperback | Engels
• This collection of essays examines the relationship between environmental injustice and the exploitation of working-class people. Twelve scholars from... Lees meer

Believing in Place

Richard V Francaviglia

• Paperback | Engels
• Presents the personal testimony of a scientist who discovers the divine in the land he has studied for decades. Geographer Richard V. Francaviglia rec... Lees meer

Lost in Austin

Jim Andersen

• Paperback | Engels
• Suitable for those who cherish nostalgic memories of living in a small town, or who contemplates moving to one, this book offers a portrait of Nevada ... Lees meer

Conservation Fallout

John Wills

• Paperback | Engels
• One of the most controversial atomic projects of the US nuclear industry during the 1960s and 1970s was the construction of a nuclear power plant at D... Lees meer

The Circle of Mountains

Sandra Ott

• Paperback | Engels | Basque
• In this work, ethnographer Sandra Ott examines a pastoral French-Basque community to study the impact of modern day developments on their society. Lees meer

Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes

Margaret M Wheat

• Paperback | Engels
• With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods... Lees meer

The Land of My Fathers

Robert Laxalt

• Hardcover | Engels | Basque (Hardcover)
• The son of a Basque emigrant, Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a Basque village in the French Pyrenees in 1960. Based on this visit and a... Lees meer

The Family Ranch

• Hardcover
• Offers readers a personal, inside view into the lives of six diverse ranching families and the land that shapes their days and nights. This book featu... Lees meer

The American West

David Hamilton Murdoch

• Paperback | Engels
• David H. Murdoch argues that Americans' beliefs about the West have little to do with history and amount to a modern functional myth. Lees meer