University Of Nevada Press: 244 books

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by Tim Stroshane
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016

This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty miles of the San Joaquin River, from Gustine to Mendota, four corporate entities called “exchange contractors” retain paramount water rights...
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The Void, The Grid & The Sign

Traversing The Great Basin

by William L. Fox
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

This is a story that few know, but those who do are its disciples. The story, of the highest and driest of all American deserts, the Great Basin, has no finer voice than that of William Fox. Fox’s book is divided into the three sections of the title. In “The Void,” he leads us through the Great...
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Across America and Back

Retracing My Great-Grandparents' Remarkable Journey

by Mary Ann Hooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018

After unearthing her great-grandparents’ diaries, Mary Ann Hooper set out on a journey to retrace their 1871 trip across the United States on the newly-opened Transcontinental Railroad—via Chicago, just destroyed by the Great Fire, then across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains to the Golden...
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Teaching About Place

Learning From The Land

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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008

The sixteen essays in this anthology describe the practice of teaching about place, with the goal of inspiring educators as well as other readers to discover the value of close investigation of their own places. The contributors discuss places from the desert river canyons of the American West, to...
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Fishes of the Great Basin

A Natural History

by John W. Sigler, John W. Sigler
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016

Naturalists and recreational anglers will welcome the paperback edition of this comprehensive volume, first published in 1986, which describes every species in the lakes and streams of the Great Basin. Includes an updated checklist of established species, discussion of threatened and endangered species, glossary, bibliography, and index.
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by Mary Austin, Melody Graulich
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017

The Trail Book is a classic of American nature writing. First published in 1918, it is a collection of children’s tales, framed by its setting in New York’s Museum of Natural History. For two children, Oliver and his sister Dorcas, the museum’s famed dioramas (which were new at that time) come...
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Abracadabra

A Novel

by David Kranes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

Abracadabra is a fantastical and inventive addition to the tradition of noir writing, which not only delights and surprises at every turn but also raises important questions about identity, the human condition, the nature of evil, and the state of the union. The novel begins with a mystery, when Mark...
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Grace Period

A Novel

by Gerald W. Haslam
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006

***A masterpiece by one of the West’s best-loved authors***Just when Sacramento journalist Marty Martinez thinks his life can’t get any worse, it does. His beloved son has died of AIDS, his wife has divorced him and joined a cult, and his daughter blames him for the disintegration of their family....
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by Lawrence Coates
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

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. It’s in this setting that Katherine Watson, a forty-seven-year-old event planner and mother of two, moves back into her childhood home with her teenage...
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Swooning Beauty

A Memoir Of Pleasure

by Joanna Frueh
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006

When her parents died and her marriage disintegrated within the span of a few months, art historian and performance artist Joanna Frueh entered a painful period of grief and mourning. This book is about how she healed herself and in the process explored the range of her potential as a woman.Swooning...
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Embattled Memories

Contested Meanings in Korean War Memorials

by Suhi Choi
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014

The Korean War has been called the “forgotten war,” not as studied as World War II or Vietnam. Choi examines the collective memory of the Korean War through five discrete memory sites in the United States and South Korea, including the PBS documentary Battle for Korea, the Korean War Memorial...
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by Brian Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017

The Whole of the Moon consists of six crisscrossing narratives set along the old Route 66, from the Inland Empire to the terminus just off Sunset Boulevard. The stories span the years from the late 1950s to the present, and the characters are bound by a fact unknown to them: they have each checked...
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Remembering Korea 1950

A Boy Soldier'S Story

by H. K. Shin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001

Hyung K. Shin was sixteen years old when the North Korean army invaded South Korea in June 1950. Fleeing his home, Shin soon found himself alone in Pusan, a refugee without resources or any means of support. To save himself from destitution, he lied about his age and volunteered for service in the...
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Cold Deck

a novel

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

Jude is a Las Vegas casino dealer who barely survived the deadly MGM fire in 1980. More than two decades later, he’s still dealing, a tired, middle-aged man, divorced, struggling with debt, and trying to be a good father to his children. Then he loses his job and his car is totaled in an accident....
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