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[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

[Paperback] - $12.00
Poems
Poet Elizabeth Dodd’s world stretches from the lightless cave home of the eyeless, transparent fish known as a blindcat to the imagination of painter Georgia O’Keeffe.... more

[Paperback] - $21.95
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

[Paperback] - $19.95
An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation
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
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

[Hardcover] - $34.95
Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World
The advent of the Atomic Age challenged purveyors of popular culture to explain to the general public the complex scientific and social issues of atomic power.... more

[Hardcover] - $65.00
A Textbook for Studying Basque, Volume 1 (includes a free downloadable mp3 audio guide)
The Basque language is one of Europe’s most ancient, its origins as mysterious as those of the Basque people themselves.... more