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[Hardcover] - $29.95
Academic Freedom Imperiled
The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada
by J. Dee Kille
The University before and during World War II was a small (fewer than 2,000 students) school offering basic programs to a largely Nevada-based student body in the nation’s least-populated state.... more

[Paperback] - $21.95
Alzheimer’s and Dementia
A Practical and Legal Guide for Nevada Caregivers
by Kim Boyer, Mary Shapiro
Individuals or families receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, or brain damage from a stroke face daunting questions: how to provide for care when the patient can no longer manage his or her own affairs, how to protect their rights and property, where to go for help, and how to cope with the day-to-day challenges of fading memory and diminished cognition.... more

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The American West
The Invention of a Myth
by David Hamilton Murdoch
Americans have chosen to invest one small part of their history, the settlement of the western wilderness, with extraordinary significance.... more

[Paperback] - $18.95
The Archaeology of the Donner Party
by Donald L. Hardesty
The tragic saga of the Donner Party has inspired both legend and scholarship ever since the survivors were rescued from the High Sierra snows in the spring of 1847.... more

[Paperback] - $21.95
Arid Waters
Photographs from the Water in the West Project
Edited by Peter Goin,
Text by Ellen Manchester
Arid Waters is a photographic response to the growing crisis of water scarcity, which exists because our culture thinks of water as a commodity, or an abstract legal right, rather than the most basic physical source of life.... more

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As Long as the River Shall Run
An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation
by Martha C. Knack, Omer C. Stewart
The history of the Northern Paiutes of Pyramid Lake in northwestern Nevada is one fraught with the conflicts and tensions of the modern West—relentless encroachment by non-Indians into Indian lands;... more

[Paperback] - $35.00
Atlas of Nevada Conifers
A Phytogeographic Reference
by David Alan Charlet
Atlas of Nevada Conifers is a major scientific contribution to our understanding of the ecology of Nevada.... more

[Hardcover] - $60.00
Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Nevada
by Ted Floyd, Chris S. Elphick, Graham Chisholm, Kevin Mack, Robert G. Elston, Elisabeth M. Ammon, John D. Boone
The first state-wide inventory of breeding birds in Nevada Nevada’s diverse landscape, which ranges from lofty alpine peaks to marshy wetlands, saline playas, sagebrush-covered steppes, and lush agricultural valleys, is home to a surprising number and variety of bird species.... more