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Cattle in the Cold Desert by University of Nevada Press 9780874175035
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85First published in 1985, Cattle in the Cold Desert has deservedly become a classic in the environmental history of the Great Basin, brilliantly combining a lively account of the development of the... -
Lost in Austin: A Nevada Memoir by University of Nevada Press 9780874177879
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.99Lost in Austin is fascinating reading for anyone who cherishes nostalgic memories of living in a small town, or who contemplates moving to one. It offers an engaging portrait of a Nevada that exists... -
A Black Bridge: Poems by Ralph Tejeda Wilson
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.65In A Black Bridge, Ralph Tejeda Wilson offers both an apparently simple, lucid, palpable surface and a powerfully complex, resonant undercurrent of connotation. The title itself operates as both a... -
Let There be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark by Paul Bogard
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74The development of the modern world has brought with it rampant light pollution, destroying the ancient mystery of night and exacting a terrible price--wasted energy, damage to human health, and the... -
Embattled Memories: Contested Meanings in Korean War Memorials by Suhi Choi
Booksplease Price: €48.43The 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... -
They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans' Story by Gretchen Cassel Eick
Booksplease Price: €52.35When Charles Ohiyesa Eastman, a degreed Dakota physician with an East coast university education, met Elaine Goodale, a teacher and supervisor of education among the Sioux, they were about to witness... -
The River and the Railroad: An Archaeological History of Reno by Mary Ringhoff
Booksplease Price: €40.22When the City of Reno decided at the beginning of this century to create a trench to lower the railroad tracks that ran through its center, archaeologists associated with the ReTRAC (Reno... -
Politics, Culture and Sociability in the Basque Nationalist Party by Roland Vazquez 9780874178227
Booksplease Price: €45.10Until now, social scientists studying Spanish politics have focused on party systems, regime transition, and election analysis, and anthropologists studyingSpain have largely neglected its political... -
Basque Nationalism And The Spanish State by Andre Lecours 9780874177220
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.87Basque nationalism has been extensively examined from the perspectives of Basque culture and internal conditions in the Basque Country, but Andre Lecours is among the first to demonstrate how Basque... -
Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage Susan Shillinglaw 9781647791803
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23Carol Henning Steinbeck, writer John Steinbeck's first wife, was his creative anchor, the inspiration for his great work of the 1930s, culminating in The Grapes of Wrath. Meeting at Lake Tahoe in... -
York's Ride: A Novel of Old California Michael Dennis Cassity 9781647791834
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647791834Author Michael Dennis CassityFormat PaperbackPage Count 239 -
The Trail Book by 9780874175882
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.20Considered a classic of American nature writing, this collection of stories is essentially a frame tale set in the New York Museum of Natural History, where two children discover displays that come... -
Wilderness Tapestry-Eclectic Approach To Preservation by 9780874172003
Booksplease Price: €40.96To further understanding of the meanings and values of wilderness, this volume explores wilderness and its significance to humans from myriad viewpoints, based on a meeting of the North American... -
Dummy Up and Deal: Inside the Culture of Casino Dealing by 9780874176223
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.20The glitter and excitement that tourists associate with casinos is only a facade. To the gaming industry's front-line employees, its dealers, the casino is a far less glamorous environment, a... -
Harm: Poems by 9780874175370
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.29Memory's deposit is my only asset now, says the narrator of Miles Wilson's wrenching poetry collection. These are fiercely honest poems about how a man's life can meander through pain and... -
A Rebellious People-Basques Protests And Politics by 9780874171730
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.61In this scholarly work, Zirakzadeh argues that there is a calculated reasoning behind ETA's political violence that is often overlooked by researchers. His book is a comprehensive account of the... -
Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction by 9780874176032
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.20The literary image of Los Angeles has evolved since the 1880s from promotional literature that hyped the region as a New Eden to contemporary visions of the city as a perplexing, sometimes corrupt,... -
Romancing Nevada'S Past-Historic Sites And Ghost Towns In Eureka Lander And White Pin Counties by 9780874172287
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.59Drawing on county records, newspaper microfilm, personal interviews, and on-site investigation, Hall provides the reader with a history of 175 significant sites, rendering a treasury of interesting... -
Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place 9780874175738
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74From a cartographer who wrote to a writer who mapped, the literary significance of surveying is revealed in this study of human relationships to the landscape. From the very beginning, American... -
The Master of Monterey: A Novel by 9780874175295
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14The American conquest of California is the subject of Lawrence Coates's remarkable new novel, a tale rich in magical irony, fraught with caustic truths and wrenching insights into the human condition... -
The Family Ranch: Land, Children, and Tradition in the American West by 9780874178197
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.20Ranch families in the twenty-first century face many challenges, from competition with agribusiness corporations to tax laws that encourage development over agriculture and prevent the smooth... -
That Water, Those Rocks: (A Novel) by 9780874175301
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.90For several generations, Katharine Haake's family has been intimately linked with the landscape and history of far-northern California. In That Water, Those Rocks, she offers a brilliant novel that... -
East of Eden, West of Zion: Essays on Nevada 9780874171501
Booksplease Price: €24.07A collection of essays in which a dozen historians and novelists present their impressions and concerns about ""end of the century Nevada."" Human expectations and illusions are seen as a backdrop... -
Ceremonies Of The Damned: Poems by Adrian C. Louis 9780874173024
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.48The world of acclaimed Native American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of pain-the blizzard-blasted plains and dusty towns of the northern Midwest, the hopeless barrenness of the Reservation, and... -
Writing Western History: Essays on Major Western Historians by Richard W. Etulain 9780874175172
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.63Historians of the American West are indebted to the pioneering scholars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such as Frederick Jackson Turner, Walter Prescott Webb, and Herbert Eugene... -
The Ox-bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark by 9780874176919
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.35Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the classic novel ""The Ox-Bow Incident"", was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, who helped to change American literature by making the... -
A Fateful Time: The Background and Legislative History of the Indian Reorganization Act by Elmer R. Rusco 9781647792220
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.01The Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934 has been generally acknowledged as the most important statute affecting Native Americans after the General Allotment Act of 1887, and it is probably the... -
No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life by Linda M. Hasselstrom 9780874178319
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97In No Place Like Home, Linda Hasselstrom ponders the changing nature of community in the modern West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into... -
Old Heart of Nevada: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Elko County by 9780874172959
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.30Elko County, in the old heart of Nevada, is rich in historic sites, many of them hitherto uncharted and some verging on disappearing. For the first time, historian Shawn Hall identifies and locates... -
Many Californias: Literature From The Golden State by Gerald W. Haslam 9780874173253
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €27.98Haslam divides the state into five regions, selecting prose and poetry from each that reflects their history, terrain, and culture. Many Califonias features sixty-seven authors ranging from Jack... -
Homeless in Las Vegas: Stories from the Street by Kurt Borchard
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.44The homeless men and women represented in this book speak candidly about their plight, its origins, and the many obstacles to escaping it. They discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that... -
Solitude-Art And Symbolism In The National Basque Monument by Carmelo Urza
Booksplease Price: €39.01Urza discusses the genesis of the National Basque Monument to the Basque Sheepherder that is located in Reno, Nevada. He also describes the competition held to determine the monument's design and the... -
The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West by Diana L. Ahmad 9780874178449
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74America's current ""war on drugs"" is not the nation's first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although... -
Cold Deck: A Novel by H. Lee Barnes 9780874178845
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.34Jude 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... -
Weave Me a Crooked Basket: A Novel by Charles Goodrich 9781647791223
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74Weave Me a Crooked Basket is an unconventional love story featuring a makeshift coalition of farmers, artists, scientists and community members who turn a small organic farm into a work of art to... -
Minerals of Nevada by Stephen B. Castor 9780874178821
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €37.00This is the first synoptic catalogue of Nevada minerals, listing every mineral found in the state along with the places where they occur. It includes the geologic history of the state, the history of... -
Rough-Water Man: Elwyn Blake's Colorado River Expeditions by Richard E. Westwood 9780874179149
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85The passage of the 1902 Reclamation Act created a mandate for the federal government to build dams on the Colorado River and its powerful tributaries. By 1920 the US Geological Survey had surveyed... -
Alzheimer's and Dementia: A Practical and Legal Guide for Nevada Caregivers Kim Boyer 9781647791780
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85Individuals or families receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or brain damage from a stroke face daunting questions: how to provide care when the patient can no longer manage his or... -
Where Coyotes Howl and Wind Blows Free: Growing Up in the West by 9780874172553
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.29In this collection of coming-of-age stories, the editors carefully balance gender and ethnicity to provide readers with the first anthology to truly reflect the heterogeneity of the West. Thirty-five... -
Sweet Promised Land by 9780874177060
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.20Dominique Laxalt was sixteen when he left the French Pyrenees for America. He became a sheepherder in the Nevada desert and nearby hills of the Sierra. Like all his fellow Basque immigrants,...