University Of Nevada Press imprint: 244 books
Imaging Hoover Dam
The Making of a Cultural Icon
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The mighty Hoover Dam, starting as a dream of land developers and farmers, became the most ambitious civil engineering project of the Great Depression. This landmark in the middle of the Mojave Desert, holding back the largest man-made lake in America, also became, like Mount Rushmore or the Empire...
Working on Earth
Class and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This collection of essays examines the relationship between environmental injustice and the exploitation of working-class people. Twelve scholars from the fields of environmental humanities and the humanistic social sciences explore connections between the current and unprecedented rise of environmental...
Saving the Pryor Mountain Mustang
A Legacy of Local and Federal Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
In 1968 the residents of Lovell, Wyoming began the work of saving the Pryor Mountain Mustang, a breed of horse with a genetic link dating back to the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistadores’ horses. In this moving case study, Christine Reed shows how, through a grassroots campaign, these residents...
by Michael J. Makley
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Lake Tahoe is one of the scenic wonders of the American West, a sapphire jewel that attracts millions of visitors each year. But the lake drew Native Americans to its summer shores for millennia, as well as more recent fortune hunters, scientists, and others.
A Short History of Lake Tahoe recounts...
The End of Eden
Agrarian Spaces and the Rise of the California Social Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The story of the Joad family’s journey from their ravaged farm in dustbowl Oklahoma to the storied paradise of California helped inform a nation about the brutality, poverty, and vicious competition among fellow immigrants desperate for work. But Steinbeck is only one successor to a rich and esteemed...
by Mike White, Douglas Lorain
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
This is the second book in a series of detailed guidebooks covering all the best “life-list” backpacking vacations in the spectacular backcountry of the American West. This new volume specifically covers the best such adventures in the states of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Every conceivable...
Grand Canyon
A History of a Natural Wonder and National Park
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Grand Canyon has long inspired deep emotions and responses. For the Native Americans who lived there, the canyon was home, full of sacred meanings. For the first European settlers to see it, the canyon drove them to great exploration adventures and Wild West dreams of wealth. The canyon also held...
Casino Accounting and Financial Management
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this work, author E. Malcolm Greenlees provides detailed information about the role of state governments in the regulation of gaming. He also discusses the dominance of slot machines as the major revenue source in most casinos; he provides information about changes in the types and operation of...
Honest Horses
Wild Horses In The Great Basin
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2006
Horses have been part of the American West since the first Spanish explorers brought their European-bred steeds onto the new continent. Soon thereafter, some of these animals, lost or abandoned by their owners or captured by indigenous peoples, became the foundation of the great herds of mustangs...
by Bill Fiero
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Geology of the Great Basin is the essential introduction to the geology of this physically complex, ever-changing region. Written in a clear, succinct style and generously illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and maps, the book describes the fundamentals of geologic processes, then discusses the...
The Family Ranch
Land, Children, and Tradition in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
As a stabilizing force in the American West, ranch families play a critical role in our country. They contribute to our nation with the food they raise, the resources they manage, and the environments and heritage they preserve. Award-winning author Linda Hussa offers readers an intimate view into...
The Word On The Street
Homeless Men In Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Just beyond Las Vegas’s neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each year to enjoy its gambling and entertainment, the city’s homeless people are largely invisible, segregated from tourist areas because it’s “good...
Death Valley National Park
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a national monument in 1933, Death Valley was an anomaly within the national park system. Though many who knew this landscape...
by S.K. Robisch
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
The wolf is one of the most widely distributed canid species, historically ranging throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere. For millennia, it has also been one of the most pervasive images in human mythology, art, and psychology. Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature examines the wolf’s...