University Of Nevada Press: 244 books
Minimal Damage
Stories Of Veterans
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,...
Mapping And Imagination In The Great Basin
A Cartographic History
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
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
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
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...