University Of Nevada Press: 244 books
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
A History of America’s First National Playground
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
This book examines the creation, characteristics, and tribulations of the first United States National Recreation Area. It also addresses the National Park Service’s historic role in managing reservoir-based recreation in a uniquely arid region. First named the Boulder Dam Recreation Area, this...
by Gloria Pilar Totoricagüena
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Gloria P. Totoricagüena presents a thorough comparative examination of the remarkable endurance of Basque identity and culture in six countries of the far-flung Basque diaspora. Using the results of interviews and extensive anonymous surveys with more than eight hundred informants in the diaspora,...
Success Depends on the Animals
Emigrants, Livestock, and Wild Animals on the Overland Trails, 1840–1869
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Between 1840 and 1869, thousands of people crossed the American continent looking for a new life in the West. Success Depends on the Animals explores the relationships and encounters that these emigrants had with animals, both wild and domestic, as they traveled the Overland Trail. In the longest...
Gambling, Space, and Time
Shifting Boundaries and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
The eight essays in Gambling, Space, and Time use a global and interdisciplinary approach to examine two significant areas of gambling studies that have not been widely explored--the ever-changing boundaries that divide and organize gambling spaces, and the cultures, perceptions, and emotions related...
Cheatgrass
Fire and Forage on the Range
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2009
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is an exotic species that appeared in North America in the late nineteenth century and has since become a dominant plant in the arid and semiarid rangelands between the Sierra Nevadas, Cascades, and Rocky Mountains. It is the first grass to appear after the region's long,...
Shrubs Of The Great Basin
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1987
Mozingo presents the life histories of more than sixty species of both common and unusual shrubs, and discusses how shrubs grow, reproduce, and adapt to the extreme weather conditions that are part of daily life in the Great Basin. Drawings by Christine Stetter.
A Tale of Two Bridges
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridges of 1936 and 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
A Tale of Two Bridges is a history of two versions of the San Francisco—Oakland Bay Bridge: the original bridge built in 1936 and a replacement for the eastern half of the bridge finished in 2013. The 1936 bridge revolutionized transportation in the Bay Area and profoundly influenced settlement...
Great Basin Rock Art
Archaeological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Rock art is one of humankind’s most ancient forms of artistic expression, and one of its most enigmatic. For centuries, scholars and other observers have struggled to interpret the meaning of the mysterious figures incised or painted on natural rocks and to understand their role in the lives of...
All In
The Spread of Gambling in Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Gambling, the risky enterprise of chance, is one of America’s favorite pastimes. Office March Madness brackets, a day at the race track, a friendly wager, the random ridiculous Super Bowl prop bet, bingo night, or the latest media frenzy over the Powerball jackpot—all emphasize the ubiquity of...
by Roland Vazquez
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2010
Until now, social scientists studying Spanish politics have focused on party systems, regime transition, and election analysis, and anthropologists studying Spain have largely neglected its political parties. This book is a pathbreaking work of political anthropology and an ethnographic study of the...
by Andre Lecours
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2007
An examination of Basque nationalism from a historical perspective.*** ***Basque nationalism has been extensively examined from the perspectives of Basque culture and internal conditions in the Basque Country, but André Lecours is among the first to demonstrate how Basque nationalism was shaped...
by Valerie P Cohen, Michael P. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Tree Lines unites striking ink drawings of high-altitude pine trees with poetic vignettes about how people interact with mountain environments. The drawings and text work together to form a direct artistic encounter with timberline conifers. The husband and wife team of Valerie and Michael Cohen employ...
Believing In Place
A Spiritual Geography Of The Great Basin
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The austere landscape of the Great Basin has inspired diverse responses from the people who have moved through or settled in it. Author Richard V. Francaviglia is interested in the connection between environment and spirituality in the Great Basin, for here, he says, "faith and landscape conspire...
Going Away to Think
Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Scott Slovic has spent his life as a teacher, writer, environmental activist, and leader in the field of ecocritical literary studies. In Going Away to Think, he reflects on the twin motivations of his life—the commitment to do some good in the world and the impulse to enjoy life and participate...