'Set against the vibrant yet turbulent backdrop of World War II-era California, Emerald City Blue...

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Some Final Beauty and Other Stories showcases women and Chicanx characters whose resistance, reco...

'Rebels and Outliers: Real Stories of the American West shines a spotlight on the unforgettable c...

What do coyotes have to do with culture?This unique collection of essays offers a gripping explor...

Spanning from Texas in 1977 to California in 2012, The Daughters is a kaleidoscopic novel about a...

María Esquinca delivers a searing collection of poems that traverse borders--both physical and em...

Principled University Leadership: Critical Decision-Making in Academia is a personal account by u...

'Set against the vibrant yet turbulent backdrop of World War II-era California, Emerald City Blue...

The Long Now Conditions Permit confronts the persistent brutalities of our world through poetry t...

In A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, poetry becomes a lens through which to explore the complex, vision...

The Lake Tahoe Basin is both a natural treasure and a complex case study in environmental managem...

The Battle to Stay in America is the story of a community coming to grips with the federal govern...

Basques of the American West: New and Collected Essays on History and Ethnicity brings together n...

On a San Francisco street corner in 1953, aspiring painter and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti shook h...

Tangential Terrains

Few estates born from the discovery of the Comstock Lode still survive. Among the grandest, Bower...

An archaeology project unearths the details of daily life in a western mining community

In the late 1970s the golden valley between Utah's Wasatch Mountains was home to some of the best...

Smoke and Tailings delves into the environmental history of copper-smelting technologies in Monta...

A grieving mother ghost-hunts in Virginia City. A college student's field trip to the Moonlite Bu...

Look. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as t...

This anthology seeks to reflect the heterogeneity of the American West. Balancing gender and cult...

In these in-depth essays, Wallace Stegner's biographer continues to explore various aspects of St...

Analyses media coverage, political speeches, films, and television shows to demonstrate the role ...

The role of Native American teachers and administrators working in reservation schools has receiv...

Sun, Sin & Suburbia

Sonoma is one of Northern California's most desirable places to live and a popular tourist destin...

Long-term wildland fire-fighter David J. Strohmaier shares his personal and provocative explorati...

For thousands of Italian Americans, Las Vegas has amply fulfilled the American dream. In this fas...

Addresses our ambivalence about fire and the realities of loss to it. This book examines the proc...

Most language mavens seem to come not to praise English, but to bury it; they constantly warn us ...

Literary scholar Ann Ronald gathers in one volume her most notable published essays about Nevada,...

In 1950, Velma Johnston came upon a horse trailer leaking blood. When she discovered the destinat...

Lyman 'Bean' Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota...

A vivid story collection centered around down-and-out, hardscrabble individuals

In a fascinating text, the author examines the history of a tradition that is truly unique and co...

In Psychotherapy as Religion, William Epstein sets out to debunk claims that psychotherapy provid...

The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes th...

Barney Nelson investigates how American liteature has shaped the way people view animals as 'wild...

Acclaimed writer Robert Laxalt's spare, precise, and lyrical prose perfectly captures the tension...

The first comprehensive source of information about one of the Great Basin's most vital plant fam...

An updated and expanded edition of a major analysis of ranching and land use in the Great Basin.

The senior years can be daunting, for spouses, children, other caregivers, and seniors themselves...

Covers important and neglected ground - environmental language theory. David W. Gilcrest poses tw...

This work examines the rapid economic growth of Spain's Bilbao region during its massive exportat...

Demonstrates how Basque nationalism was shaped by the many forms and historical phases of the Spa...

The half-century between 1880 and 1930 saw rampant growth in many American cities and an equally ...