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  • av Michael W Bowers
    560,-

  • av Timothy F. Johnson
    1 130,-

    "Made up of original, contrasting narratives translated and published here for the first time, Basques and Vicuänas at the Mouth of Hell explores one of the great puzzles of colonial Latin American history: Why did "nationalist" factions arise in the midst of the world's greatest silver bonanza in the highland city of Potosâi, Bolivia, and why did they attack each other with murderous violence? Just as importantly, how was this dispute resolved, or was it? Newly discovered documents help tell this fascinating, true story of gangland violence, political intrigue, and an unstable government"--

  • - Portrait of a Marriage
    av Susan Shillinglaw
    416,-

    Carol Henning Steinbeck, writer John Steinbeck's first wife, was his creative anchor, the inspiration for his great work of the 1930s, culminating in The Grapes of Wrath. Meeting at Lake Tahoe in 1928, their attachment was immediate, their personalities meshing in creative synergy. Carol was unconventional, artistic, and compelling. In the formative years of Steinbeck's career, living in San Francisco, Pacific Grove, Los Gatos, and Monterey, their Modernist circle included Ed Ricketts, Joseph Campbell, and Lincoln Steffens. In many ways Carol's story is all too familiar: a creative and intelligent woman subsumes her own life and work into that of her husband. Together, they brought forth one of the enduring novels of the 20th century.

  • av Kim Boyer
    366,-

  • av Bruce Bond
    286,-

  • av Hannah Dierdorff
    286,-

  • av Don Lago
    416,-

  • av Lynn Galvin
    390,-

    "In Legacy of the Blue Mountains, author Lynn Galvin asks: What might happen to a group of Apache children, born in present times, yet living as if in the past and marooned in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico when their last renegade adult dies? As they attempt to reach their nearest, last known family members, they embark on a journey to a place none of them has ever seen or visited before. Will they be able to remain undetected while following a memorized path laid out in previous centuries that will lead them into the modern world? As the last remaining Apache children confront the challenges of survival in unfamiliar lands, will they endure long enough to reunite with their remaining relatives?"--

  • av Joxe K Mallea-Olaetxe
    366,-

  • av Eve Quesnel
    406,-

  • av Lincoln A Mitchell
    726,-

  • av David A. Hardy
    560,-

    Profiles in Judicial Excellence introduces, for the first time, the individuals who served as justices of the Nevada territorial and supreme courts. State and legal historians will find it a valuable and accessible source of information.

  • av Michael Dennis Cassity
    350,-

  • av Kyce Bello
    286,-

    "In Far Country, Kyce Bello documents an unmapped territory in which loss becomes a medium for deepening connection and love. In poems firmly rooted in the Southwestern bioregion, landscape and language are layered into vivid sequences where the personal, collective, and ecological merge and illuminate one another."--

  • av Stephen Trimble
    560,-

    New paperback edition coming Spring 2025! Noted writer and photographer Stephen Trimble mixes eloquent accounts of personal experiences with clear explication of natural history. His photographs capture some of the most spectacular but least-known scenery in the western states. The Great Basin Desert sweeps from the Sierra to the Rockies, from the Snake River Plain to the Mojave Desert. "Biogeography" would be one way to sum up Trimble's focus on the land: what lives where, and why. He introduces concepts of desert ecology and discusses living communities of animals and plants that band Great Basin mountains--from the exhilarating emptiness of dry lake-beds to alpine regions at the summits of the 13,000-foot Basin ranges. This is the best general introduction to the ecology and spirit of the Great Basin, a place where "the desert almost seems to mirror the sky in size," where mountains hold "ravens, bristlecone pines, winter stillness--and unseen, but satisfying, the possibility of bighorn sheep." Trimble's photographs come from the backcountry of this rugged land, from months of exploring and hiking the Great Basin wilderness in all seasons; and his well-chosen words come from a rare intimacy with the West.

  • av Israel G Solares
    856,-

    Underground Leviathan explores the emergence, dynamics, and lasting impacts of a mining firm, the United States Company. Through its exercise of sovereign power across the borders of North America in the early twentieth century, the transnational US Company shaped the business, environmental, political, and scientific landscape. Between its initial incorporation in Maine in 1906 and its final demise in the 1980s, the mining company held properties in Utah, Colorado, California, Nevada, Alaska, Mexico, and Canada. The firm was a prototypical management-ruled corporation, which strategically planned and manipulated the technological, production, economic, urban, environmental, political, and cultural activities wherever it operated, all while shaping social actors internationally, including managers, engineers, workers, neighbors, and farmers. Author Israel G. Solares examines how the twentieth century multinational firm established and articulated multinational corporate sovereignty in ways that reflect other multinational titans, like the East Asian Trade companies, and presages the digital giants and space corporations of the twenty-first century. Bridging the domineering practices used during the colonization of Southern Asia with the futuristic colonies on the Moon, Underground Leviathan documents the cost of a corporation's unyielding desire to consume the secrets at the center of the Earth.

  • - A Celebration of Basque Culture
    av Nancy Zubiri
    440,-

    A photographic showcase of the largest Basque festival in the US, held in Boise, Idaho, every five years. The photography of Jon Hodgson, combined with the writing of Basque-American expert Nancy Zubiri, captures the essense of the ancient Basque people who have adapted their culture to the Western American landscape.

  • - Immigration's Hidden Front Line
    av Michael Kagan
    606,-

    Tells the story of a community coming to grips with the federal government's crackdown on immigrants and learning how to defend itself. Informative and personal, this is a story about mothers and fathers, lawyers and activists, local police and federal agencies, and a struggle for the identity of a nation.

  • - A Textbook for Studying Basque, Volume 1
    av Linda White
    840,-

    The Basque language is one of Europe's most ancient, its origins as mysterious as those of the Basque people themselves. Aurrera! is a comprehensive text for beginning-level students who are learning Basque in a classroom setting or on their own.

  • - New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell's 1869 River Journey
    av Don Lago
    610,-

    John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adventures in American history. For nearly twenty years Lago has researched the Powell expedition. Here he offers a feast of new and important material about the river trip, that will significantly rewrite the story of Powell's famous expedition.

  • - Expanding Opportunity and Programs to Support Successful Student Outcomes at the University of Nevada, Reno
    av Melisa Choroszy
    416,-

    Low income and first-generation students comprise a significant portion of today's college student population. The articles in this publication examine the various programs and strategies that are designed to support student success for these populations.

  • - Emotion, Environment and Public Memory at American Historical Sites
    av Jennifer K Ladino
    656,-

    Investigates the natural and physical environments of seven diverse National Park Service sites in the American West and how they influence emotions about historical conflict and national identity. Chapters center around the region's diverse inhabitants and the variously traumatic histories these groups endured.

  • - Dams, Deals, and a Noble Myth
    av Byron E Pearson
    830,-

    Tells the remarkable true story of the attempts to build dams in one of America's most spectacular natural wonders. Based on twenty-five years of research, this fascinating ride through history chronicles a century of Colorado River water development and debunks the myth that the Sierra Club saved Grand Canyon.

  • - Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West
     
    750,-

    Brings together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about the literary and cultural left in the American West. Left in the West expands our understanding of what constitutes the literary left in the US by including writers, artists, and movements not typically considered within the traditional context of the literary left.

  • - Conservation and Management in Redwood National and State Parks
    av Butch Weckerly
    906,-

    The Roosevelt elk populate the parks along California's north coast and comprise the largest land mammals in the parks. In a study spanning more than twenty years, Weckerly made key observations and conducted various investigations under a multitude of ecological conditions. Few authors have dedicated this much time and effort into a single research area.

  • - Stories of Iraq and Nevada
    av Caleb S. Cage
    416,-

    A collection of loosely connected short stories set during the early stages of the Iraq War (2004 and 2005). The stories rotate from battles with insurgents and the drudgery of the war machine in Iraq to Nevada, where characters are either preparing for war, escaping it during their leave, or returning home having seen what they've seen.

  • av Mary Lee Fulkerson
    856,-

    Thirty-two women artists scattered over 200,000 square miles introduce a powerhouse of three-dimensional art in Women Artists of the Great Basin. This book is a stunning visual rendering of a wide range of visionary women artists of all ages and backgrounds, and readers will discover their dynamic works and get to know them on a personal level.

  • - Testimony on Behalf of the Dark
     
    480,-

    Development has brought with it rampant light pollution, destroying the ancient mystery of night. In Let There Be Night, twenty-nine writers, scientists, poets, and scholars share their personal experiences of night and help us to understand what we miss when dark skies and nocturnal wildness vanish. They also propose ways by which we might restore the beneficence of true night skies.

  • - The Story of Basques in Idaho
     
    376,-

    Brothers John and Mark Bieter chronicle three generations of Basque presence in Idaho from 1890 to the present, a story that begins with a few solitary sheep-herders and follows their evolution into the prominent ethnic community they are today.

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