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Historic Railroad Stops and Stage Stations in Elko County, Nevada
Shawn Hall's immensely popular guidebooks to Nevada ghost towns have become essential resources for backcountry explorers and scholars alike.... more

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Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon
One of the most controversial atomic projects of the US nuclear industry during the 1960s and 1970s was the construction of a nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon, a relatively unsettled and biologically rich part of the central California coast.... more

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Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking
Mountain climbing is a relatively new sport in human history. Until the eighteenth century, mountains were considered inhospitable, even evil.... more

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Rethinking the Health Care Debate
Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to build support for their preferred remedies, to the point where the language and imagery of a health care crisis are now deeply embedded in contemporary politics and popular culture.... more

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Raul Luis “Ruly” Cruz is a young Mexican American who lives in El Paso, just across the Rio Grande from Mexico, home of his an-cestors and some of his current relatives.... more

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An Environmental History of the Sierra Nevada
John Muir called it the "Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I’... more

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Growing Up in Southern California
Before crowded malls and heavy metal bands, there was the age of cruising. In Cruising State, Buckley takes the reader back to his childhood in Montecito, just outside of Santa Barbara, during the 1950s and 1960s.... more

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Gaming Prohibition and the Internet
The story of the Wire Act and how Robert Kennedy’s crusade against the Mob is creating a new generation of Internet gaming outlaws.... more