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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

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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

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A Basque-American Memoir
Nevada sheep rancher Joe Juaristi spoke for years about making a trip back to the Spanish Basque Country that he left sixty years earlier, but each time the subject came up the discussion evolved into a family debate about the scope and members of the journey.... more

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Tall Tales and True History From a California Mining Town
The Bodie Mining District was established in 1860 after the discovery of gold deposits in the area. Bodie’... more

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Community and Identity in the American West
The American West, from the beginning of Euro-American settlement, has been shaped by diverse ideas about how to utilize physical space and natural environments to create cohesive, sometimes exclusive community identities.... more

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Letters from a Marriage
Edited and with commentary by Candace C Kant
Popular western writer Zane Grey was a literary celebrity during his lifetime and the center of a huge enterprise based on his writing, which included books, magazine serials, film and stage versions of his stories, even comic strips.... more

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Friendly Fallout 1953 is a hybrid work of literature that combines the actual history of aboveground atomic testing in the Nevada desert in 1953 with fictional vignettes that explore the impact of the tests on the people who participated in them and on civilian “downwinders.... more

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Shifting Boundaries and Cultures
The eight essays in Gambling, Space, and Time use a global and interdisciplinary approach to examine two significant areas of gambling studies that have not been widely explored—... more