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[Hardcover] - $29.95
The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada
The "Red scare" of the 1950s created a national crisis that challenged concepts of loyalty and freedom of speech in every corner of American society.... more

[Paperback] - $21.95
A Practical and Legal Guide for Nevada Caregivers
Alzheimer’s and Dementia has established itself as Nevada’s most useful guide for people with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias and for their families, health care workers, and professional caregivers.... more

[Paperback] - $19.95
The Invention of a Myth
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 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

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Photographs from the Water in the West Project
Edited by Peter Goin,
Text by Ellen Manchester
In a photographic response to the crisis of drought in the West, six photographers illustrate why water is not a commodity or a legal right, but the most basic source of physical life.... more

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An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation
New afterword by Martha C. Knack. 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

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A Phytogeographic Reference
Atlas of Nevada Conifers is a major scientific contribution to our understanding of the ecology of Nevada.... more

[Hardcover] - $60.00
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
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