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Cattle in the Cold Desert by University of Nevada Press 9780874175035
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68First 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Lost 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... -
Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World by Ferenc Morton Szasz
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99The advent of the Atomic Age challenged purveyors of popular culture to explain to the general public the complex scientific and social issues of atomic power. Atomic Comics examines how comic books,... -
The Essential Eldercare Handbook for Nevada by Kim Boyer
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12The senior years can be daunting, for spouses, children, other caregivers, and seniors themselves. Too often a sudden crisis leaves a family unprepared and feeling helpless. Chronic illnesses and... -
Sunland: A Novel by Don Waters
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £17.31Sid Dulaney, in his mid-thirties, between jobs and short on funds, has moved back to Tucson to take care of his beloved grandmother. To hold down the cost of her prescriptions, he reluctantly starts... -
Bodie's Gold: Tall Tales and True History from a California Mining Town by Marguerite Sprague 9780874178562
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The Bodie Mining District was established in 1860 after the discovery of gold deposits in the area. Bodie's largest boom ended just over twenty years later, but the town survived into the twentieth... -
Marching Students: Chicana and Chicano Activism in Education, 1968 to the Present by Margarita Berta-Avila 9780874178418
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In 1968 over 10,000 Chicana/o high school students in East Los Angeles walked out of their schools in the first major protest against racism and educational inequality staged by Mexican Americans in... -
The Void, The Grid & The Sign: Traversing The Great Basin by William L. Fox 9780874176186
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91This 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... -
Improvisational Poetry From The Basque Country by Gorka Aulestia 9780874172010
Booksplease Price: £43.36Aulestia takes a scholarly and in-depth look at the art of the bertsolari and introduces this Basque art to the English-speaking world. This work provides an understanding of an interesting cultural... -
Mapping Historical Las Vegas: A Cartographic Journey by Joe Weber 9781948908405
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.22Las Vegas has a long and rich history that extends far beyond the clichEs of 'sin city', the Mafia, Elvis, or mindless urban sprawl. This book provides a series of maps with accompanying text that... -
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men by Renee Corona Kovet 9780874179934
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The Great Depression of the 1930s had a devastating impact on sparsely populated Nevada and its two major industries, mining and agriculture. Luckily, thanks to Nevada's powerful Senate delegation,... -
Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California v. 2; The Southern Roads by 9780874171945
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £50.98Valuable as these volumes are in relation to railroad operations in Nevada and California, their usefulness as authoritative reference sources embraces a much broader scope. Railroads of Nevada and... -
The Full Night Still in the Street Water: Poems by 9780874175349
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.58Brian Young is the creator of powerful, sometimes harsh poems that combine outrage with remarkable lyricism, brooding melancholy with rich, sensual, even playful language. Young's work is difficult,... -
Last Bonanza Kings: The Bourns of San Francisco by 9780874177862
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This is the dramatic story of one of nineteenth-century California's wealthiest and most influential families. Much of the wealth from the great mining bonanzas of the nineteenth-century American... -
Bombs in the Backyard: Atomic Testing and American Politics by 9780874173703
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68On January 27, 1951, the first atomic weapon was detonated over a section of desert known as Frenchman Flat in southern Nevada, providing dramatic evidence of the Nevada Test Site's beginnings. Fifty... -
The Nature Way by 9780874177886
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Corbin Harney's long life encompassed remarkable changes in the lives of Native Americans and in the technological and political development of the world. He was born into an impoverished Western... -
Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California v. 3; More on the Northern Roads by 9780874177015
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £50.40David Myrick's monumental railroad histories have become essential reference works for railroaders, historians, and hobbyists. His previous two volumes on the railroads of Nevada and Eastern... -
Straight White Male by 9780874173543
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Leroy Upton, the ""straight white male"" who is the novel's central character, has come a long way from the sun-baked working-class neighborhood in Bakersfield where he grew up. The son of an... -
Skin of the Earth: Stories from Nevada's Back Country by 9780874175134
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.36Nevada's back country is a region of vast spaces, drought-parched sagebrush and snow-clogged winters where rugged ranchers and fiercely independent loners seek solitude in remote canyons. But the... -
Teaching About Place: Learning from the Land by 9780874177329
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The astonishing mobility of modern Americans and the homogenizing tendencies of our economy and society have left us detached from an authentic connection to place and knowledge of the regions we... -
Geology of the Great Basin 9780874177909
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Geology of the Great Basin is the essential introduction to the geology of this physically complex, ever-changing region. Written in a clear, succinct style and generously illustrated with... -
Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics, and Community by 9780874178159
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74The explosion of digital information and communication technologies has influenced almost every aspect of contemporary life. ""Diasporas in the New Media Age"" is the first book-length examination of... -
Minimal Damage: Stories of Veterans by H. Lee Barnes 9780874179118
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77The 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... -
The Flock 9780874173550
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Blending natural history, politics, and allegory, Mary Austin champions local shepherds in the losing battle against the quickly developing tourist business in early twentieth-century California. The... -
Down by the Lemonade Springs: Essays on Wallace Stegner by 9780874174465
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Wallace Stegner is one of the finest American writers, teachers and environmentalists of the 20th century. While his writing, both fiction and non-fiction, was recognized by a Pulitzer Prize, a... -
Basque Nationalism and the Spanish State by Andre Lecours 9780874175073
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36An 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... -
An Enduring Legacy: The Story of Basques in Idaho by 9780874175684
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Brothers John and Mark Bieter chronicle three generations of Basque presence in Idaho from 1890 to the present, a story that begins with a few solitary sheep-herders and follows their evolution into... -
The Watchful Gods and Other Stories by 9780874176018
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77In 1950, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the acclaimed novel The Ox-Bow Incident - a writer who critic John R. Milton has said ""did perhaps more than anyone else to define (in his fiction) the... -
Death Valley National Park: A History by Hal K. Rothman 9780874179255
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a national monument... -
A Private War: American Code in the Belgian Congo by Robert Laxalt 9780874173246
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65In this vivid memoir, Laxalt recalls his service during WWII as a code officer in the Belgian Congo. In this remote jungle outpost, a secret war was being fought for control of the world's future... -
The Lucky: (a Novel) 9780874175394
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.42Unfolding from the bygone era of 1950s Las Vegas through the turbulent decades that followed, this epic novel examines the universal search for identity and reward in a world where the good life... -
Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City by 9780874177039
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Boomtown Saloons was heralded upon its publication as a groundbreaking book on the historical archaeology of the Old West. Its account of the excavation and analysis of four nineteenth-century... -
Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute by Michael Hittman 9780874179156
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.31Corbett Mack (1892-1974) was a Northern Paiute of mixed ancestry, caught between the Native American and white worlds. A generation before, his tribe had brought forth the prophet Wovoka, whose Ghost... -
Monsters in the Woods: Backpacking with Children by 9780874177114
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Despite America's enthusiasm for outdoors activities like hiking and backpacking, most books on these subjects focus on adults. Backpacking, however, is an ideal activity for the entire family. Tim... -
Touring the Sierra Nevada by 9780874177008
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The Sierra Nevada is one of the most scenic, biologically diverse, and historically rich mountain ranges in North America. ""Touring the Sierra Nevada"" covers the entire range and its adjacent... -
Salud!: The Rise Of Santa Barbara's Wine Industry by Victor W. Geraci 9781943859900
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47In 1965, soil and climatic studies indicated that the Santa Ynez and Santa Maria valleys of Santa Barbara County, California, offered suitable conditions for growing high-quality wine grapes. Thus... -
Connecting the West: Historic Railroad Stops and Stage Stations in Elko County, Nevada 9780874174991
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Shawn Hall's immensely popular guidebooks to Nevada ghost towns have become essential resources for backcountry explorers and scholars alike. Now Hall returns to Elko County to survey the county's... -
Cries of Crisis: Rethinking the Health Care Debate by Robert B. Hackey 9780874179774
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis since the late 1960s. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to... -
Homeless in Las Vegas: Stories from the Street by Kurt Borchard
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18The 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: £32.78Urza 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...