University Of Nevada Press imprint: 244 books

Minimal Damage

Stories Of Veterans

by H. Lee Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

The Salt Lake City Tribune has called Lee Barnes “one of the finest writers of short stories in the contemporary West.” Minimal Damage contains seven stories and a novella that depict veterans of several wars in search of dignity and purpose in a civilian life that has no need for men who were...

Left in the West

Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West

by Gioia Woods
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018

In this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about the literary and cultural Left in the American West—as it is distinct from the more often-theorized literary left in major eastern metropolitan centers. Left in...

Because I'd Hate to Just Disappear

My Cancer, My Self, Our Story

by Don Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018

“Illness, in the larger sense of mortality,” Don Hardy writes, “is an inescapable shared trait among all living creatures, and we humans know about it, whether or not we want to talk about it.” Because I’d Hate to Just Disappear is a portrait of a husband and wife, Don and Heather...

Basque Violence

Metaphor And Sacrament

by Joseba Zulaika
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2000

This book captures the complexity and humanity of one of the most agonizing of contemporary problems—that of terrorist violence. Basque Violence is in fact a pioneering attempt to give a fully contextualized, cultural account of the endemic conflict engaging Basque villagers both as protagonists...

Through a Vegan Studies Lens

Textual Ethics and Lived Activism

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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019

Interest in the vegan studies field continues to grow as veganism has become increasingly visible via celebrity endorsements and universally acknowledged health benefits, and veganism and vegan characters are increasingly present in works of art and literature. Through a Vegan Studies Lens broadens...

Psychotherapy As Religion

The Civil Divine In America

by William M. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006

***A provocative look at America on the couch.***In Psychotherapy as Religion, William Epstein sets out to debunk claims that psychotherapy provides successful clinical treatment for a wide range of personal and social problems. He argues that the practice is not a science at all but rather the civil...

Corbett Mack

The Life of a Northern Paiute

by Michael Hittman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013

Corbett Mack (1892–1974), was a Northern Paiute of mixed ancestry, caught between Native American and white worlds. A generation before, his tribe had brought forth the prophet Wovoka, whose Ghost Dance swept the Indian world in the 1890s. Mack’s world was a harsh and bitter place after the last...

Wrangling Women

Humor and Gender in the American West

by Kristin M. McAndrews
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008

The small Methow Valley community of Winthrop, Washington, has reinvented itself as a western-theme town. Winthrop women function as trail guides, wranglers, horse trainers, packers, and ranchers and work in an environment where gender stereotypes must be carefully preserved for the sake of the tourist-based...

Population Ecology of Roosevelt Elk

Conservation and Management in Redwood National and State Parks

by Butch Weckerly
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017

The Roosevelt elk populate the parks along California’s north coast and comprise the largest land mammals in the parks, some weighing up to 1,200 pounds. They are a stable terrestrial land mammal population, a fixture in the parks, but still require ongoing stewardship and management.   In a study...
by Sandra Ott
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008

During the first half of the twentieth century, the French Basque province of Xiberoa was a place of refuge, conflict, and foreign occupation. With the liberation of France in 1944, many Xiberoans faced new conflicts arising from legal and civic judgments made during Vichy and German occupation. War,...
by Richard V. Francaviglia
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2005

The Great Basin was the last region of continental North America to be explored and mapped, and it remained largely a mystery to Euro-Americans until well into the nineteenth century. In Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin, geographer-historian Richard Francaviglia shows how the Great Basin...

Reimagining Environmental History

Ecological Memory in the Wake of Landscape Change

by Christian Knoeller
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017

Christian Knoeller presents a radical reinterpretation of environmental history set in the heartland of America. In an excellent model of narrative-based scholarship, this book dynamically reimagines American environmentalism across generations of writers, artists, and scientists. Knoeller starts...

Obesity Surgery

Stories Of Altered Lives

by Marta Meana, Lindsey Ricciardi
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008

Obesity is a major national health problem, and science has been developing a number of ways to address it. The most revolutionary is surgical intervention to alter the gastrointestinal system so that less food/nutrients can be consumed and/or absorbed. People who undergo this surgery usually experience...
by Lawrence Coates
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012

California’s Santa Clara Valley was once home to a vigorous wine industry. The Garden of the World is the tale of a pioneer winemaking family headed by Paul Tourneau, a fiercely ambitious vintner determined to make the finest wines in California. His plans are disrupted by a phylloxera epidemic...
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