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(a novel)
Oscar Lewis sets his first novel in mid-1850s San Francisco. An “authorized biography” of a California entrepreneur has just been published, but James Horton is scarcely recognizable to those who knew him.... more

[Hardcover] - $39.95
A comparative study of ethnic identity in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Peru, the United States, and Uruguay that illustrates the effects of globalization on the daily lives of Basques abroad.... more

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A City in Fiction
The literary image of Los Angeles has evolved since the 1880s from promotional literature that hyped the region as a New Eden to contemporary visions of the city as a perplexing, sometimes corrupt, even apocalyptic place that reflects all that is wrong with America.... more

[Hardcover] - $44.95
Aulestia takes a scholarly and in-depth look at the art of the bertsolari and introduces this Basque art to the English-speaking world.... more

[Paperback] - $12.00
Poems
In his poetry, writer and mountaineer C. L. Rawlins evokes the natural world and the American West in exciting detail.... more

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Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle
Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds in satisfying our fantasies of wealth and the excesses of pleasure and consumption that go with it.... more

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Las Vegas Stories
Las Vegas holds a unique place in the popular imagination and in the work of any number of contemporary writers of fiction.... more

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This book is a compilation of select papers and comments presented during the North American Conference on the Status of Indian Gaming, held in 1989 in Reno, Nevada, shortly after the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA).... more