Resultaten gefilterd op "University of Nevada Press"

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

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

The Last Shepherd

Martin Etchart

• Paperback | Engels | Basque
• Mathieu Etchiberri wants nothing more than to leave his family's Arizona sheep ranch and go to college, but his father insists that he take over the r... Lees meer

Abracadabra

David Kranes

• Paperback | Engels
• Abracadabra is a fantastical and inventive addition to the tradition of noir writing, which not only delights and surprises at every turn but also rai... 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

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

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

Identity, Culture, and Politics in the Basque Diaspora

Gloria Pilar Totoricagüena

• Hardcover | Engels | Basque (Hardcover)
• A comparative study of ethnic identity in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Peru, the United States of America, and Uruguay that illustrates the effects ... Lees meer

Elvis, Marilyn, and the Space Aliens

Robin Holabird

• Paperback | Engels
• Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and space aliens like the Transformers share a surprising connection along with James Bond, Indiana Jones, and Rocky Ba... 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

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

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

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

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 Lucky

H Lee Barnes

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Unfolding from the bygone era of 1950s Las Vegas through the turbulent decades that followed, this epic novel examines the universal search for identi... 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

Straight White Male

Gerald W Haslam

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Leroy Upton has come a long way from the sun-baked working-class neighbourhood in Bakersfield where he grew up. The son of an oil-field labourer, he i... 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

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

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

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