Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In Playa W
A guide to fifty of the best Nevada hikes for every taste and level of fitness includes outings suitable for families with small children and full-scale assaults on challenging peaks, from the basin-a
Psychotherapy is immensely popular in the US even though consistently ineffective because it reaffirms basic American values of self-sufficiency and individualism, argues Epstein (social work, U. of N
Explores the diverse ways in which women use humor in their storytelling and in their working relationships with men in the western theme town of Winthrop, Washington, in a study based on interviews w
For millennia the ecology of the Great Basin has evolved because of climate change and the impacts of human presence. Nevada’s Changing Wildlife Habitat is the first book to explain the transformation
Brian Young is the creator of powerful, sometimes harsh poems that combine outrage with lyricism, brooding melancholy with rich, sensual, even playful language. Young’s work is difficult, in the sense
A collection of letters from and to the writer whose book, The Desert , fostered an appreciation of the American Southwest in the early years of the 20th century. Although he wrote that he rode alone
Every conceivable aspect of trip planning is covered in the guide, including maps and descriptions of the trail, where to locate the nearest airport, other area attractions that shouldn't be missed an
From 1940 to 1989, nearly every hotel on the Las Vegas Strip employed a full-time band or orchestra. After the late 1980s, when control of the casinos changed hands from independent owners to corporat
Charcoal and Blood is a detailed account of a heinous crime perpetrated on Italian immigrants engaged in the production of charcoal on Nevada’s mining frontier at the close of the nineteenth century.
Brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, joining young men from all over the world intent on making a fortune in the Cali-fornia Gold Rush. Their search for wealth took them across Me
Young, a retired senior scientist from the USDA Agricultural Research Services, has teamed with Clement, who is still a rangeland scientist with the agency, to provide this ecological study of cheatgr
Nevada's history as a state has been largely a story of the exploitation of its natural resources. Mining has torn down mountains and poisoned streams and groundwater. Uncontrolled grazing by vast her
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
Maggie Foltz is a fifty-five-year-old cocktail waitress in a rundown casino in the southern Nevada Mojave Desert. She spends her days serving drinks to lonely old folks playing the slot machines and h
