University of Nevada Press

This memoir focuses on the now-vanished lifestyle of railroad hands and their families who lived along the Southern Pacific railroad tracks in the ...

DescriptionFor many students in Nevada and throughout the nation, they are the first in their family to go to college--these students are identifie...

Reducere. Dr. Maya Summer works at Arizona Public Health, overseeing and researching a myriad of public health issues. A passionate advocate for a motorcycle...

Description2018 Reading the West Book Awards Nonfiction WinnerHave you ever wondered about society's desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we v...

Tells the story of a community coming to grips with the federal government's crackdown on immigrants and learning how to defend itself. Informative...

In this edited collection, contributors tackle current water issues in the era of climate change using a wide variety of recent literature and film...

DescriptionThe Grand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the last century. Unthinkable as it may seem today, many people promoted dammin...

DescriptionFrom the sculptured peaks of Mount Rushmore to the Coloradan prairie lands at Sand Creek to the idyllic islands of the Pacific, the West...

DescriptionIn this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about th...

Reducere. Cyprinodon diabolis, or Devils Hole pupfish: a one-inch-long, iridescent blue fish whose only natural habitat is a ten-by-sixty-foot pool near Deat...

It is our intent to present as accurate and up-to-date an account as possible of Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) Buchh., known popularly as the g...

The Sierra Nevada, California's iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agricult...