George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco
by Lincoln A. Mitchell
ISBN: 9781647791872
Pub Date: 8 April 2025
Format: Hardcover
575 Pages
Those who recognize Mayor George Moscone’s name may think of him as the career politician who was assassinated along with Harvey Milk, but there was much more to this influential and fascinating man’s...
My Life in Nevada Politics tells the entertaining, informative, and at times poignant story of the rise of Richard Bryan from humble beginnings in Las Vegas to the pinnacle of Nevada politics during...
A Generational Journey from Mt. Whitney to Death Valley
by Withanee Andersen and Jim Andersen
ISBN: 9781647791063
Pub Date: 26 March 2024
Format: Paperback
172 Pages
Following in her father’s footsteps, Withanee Andersen begins the expedition of a lifetime when she and her comrades embark on a trek from Mt. Whitney to Death Valley, tracing the rugged path her...
In 1973, a radical choice that Jill Derby made while under pressure changed the trajectory of her career from a potential profession in academia to that of a lifelong political activist. When You Dare...
In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees. The son of Basque emigrants, Laxalt wanted to learn as much as he could about...
Savage West is a literary biography chronicling the life and novels of neglected Montana novelist, Thomas Savage (1915-2003). It seeks to restore him to a high position in the ranks of western American, let alone Montanan, literature.
Basque Women's Stories, Constructing Meaning from Memory
Edited by Larraitz Ariznabarreta and Nere Lete
ISBN: 9781949805338
Pub Date: 22 November 2021
Format: Paperback
300 Pages
Memory and Emotion: (Basque) Women’s Stories denounces the silence to which women —particularly those who withdraw from adopting a male-dominated discourse—have been subject. This is a collection about women whose stories were long silenced or disregarded: diasporic and exiled women, activists, militant scholars, avant-garde writers, and forerunners of women’s rights. The researchers and contributors to this volume have dared to remember and retell the stories of those women who blazed a trail through unchartered territory—women whose contributions have been overlooked and ignored. In that sense, each contribution to Memory and Emotion: (Basque) Women’s Stories could be deemed a metatextual process of memory construction— a process of meaning-making from past experiences, knowledge, and identity. The chapters focus on relevant questions such as: Does emotion help us remember? How do emotions affect the ability to recall memories? Does memory contribute to adaptation? Does restoring one’s self—individually and/or collectively—mean daring to remember? And is oblivion...
A Journey of Survival From Russia to East Asia to the American West
by David Horgan
ISBN: 9781647790202
Pub Date: 17 August 2021
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
The sweeping true story of two courageous women—Russian Jewish refugees who survived World War II in China and Japan and their subsequent life as American immigrants
