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Carol and John Steinbeck
Portrait of a Marriage
ISBN: 9781647791803
Pub Date: 19 November 2024
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
In Steinbeck’s formative years, she was his mainstay, his partner, his inspiration
The Dove of the Morning News
Poems
ISBN: 9781647791735
Pub Date: 3 December 2024
Format: Paperback
80 Pages
2022 Test Site Poetry Prize winner In poems both personal and historical, The Dove of the Morning News explores conceptions of collectivity, inflected by each psyche, as a force of both connection...
Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter
Poems
ISBN: 9781647791711
Pub Date: 3 December 2024
Format: Paperback
80 Pages
2022 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Poetry Prize winner Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter is a story about leaving religion and coming of age in a world of accelerating climate apocalypses and environmental...
Roots and Resilience
California Ranchers in their Own Words
ISBN: 9781647791612
Pub Date: 12 November 2024
Format: Paperback
120 Pages
In Roots and Resilience, the authors invite readers to consider an intimate relationship with the California landscape and its history. Ranching in the region goes back centuries, and many of these...
Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell
A Documentary History of Potosí in the Early 1620s
ISBN: 9781647791384
Pub Date: 7 November 2024
Format: Hardcover
472 Pages
In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of Potosí, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later by a viceroy’s blanket amnesty. Basque immigrants were at the center of...
My Life in Nevada Politics
The Memoirs of Senator Richard H. Bryan
ISBN: 9781647792190
Pub Date: 19 November 2024
Format: Paperback
364 Pages
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...
Dream City
A Novel
ISBN: 9781647791650
Pub Date: 8 October 2024
Format: Hardcover
356 Pages
In this unconventional tale of Las Vegas during the two delirious boom decades before the bust of the Great Recession, failed actor “C. D.” Reinhart, who has launched a new career in hotel marketing,...
The University of Nevada, 1874-2024
150 Years of Inspiring Excellence
ISBN: 9781647791698
Pub Date: 1 October 2024
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
With a foreword by University of Nevada, Reno President Brian Sandoval
In October 1874, a small preparatory school opened its doors in the remote northern Nevada town of Elko with an enrollment of seven students. With vision and determination, this tiny institution grew, and in 1886, Morrill Hall welcomed a class of thirty-five to the campus that was now nestled on a bluff above the Truckee Meadows located in Reno. At the time of the University of Nevada, Reno’s sesquicentennial, nearly 21,000 students, who have reached record levels of diversity and achievement, are now guided through the college experience by an equally diverse and talented faculty who mentor them toward their chosen professions. During the next 150 years, the University will continue to graduate exceptional students, as its community looks to the future while recollecting on the extraordinary dedication and achievements of the people who made the...
Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis
The Industrial Revolution to the Present
ISBN: 9781647791599
Pub Date: 24 September 2024
Format: Paperback
258 Pages
Concentrating on a powerful, emerging genre, Tatiana Konrad’s Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis provides a survey of popular narratives that further our understanding of climate change...
A History of Hazardous Objects
A Novel
ISBN: 9781647791636
Pub Date: 10 September 2024
Format: Paperback
172 Pages
Laura de León is a radar astronomer who studies Potentially Hazardous Objects (PHOs) such as threatening asteroids and comets at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. In Los Angeles...
Carol and John Steinbeck
Portrait of a Marriage
ISBN: 9781647791803
Pub Date: 19 November 2024
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
In Steinbeck’s formative years, she was his mainstay, his partner, his inspiration
The Dove of the Morning News
Poems
ISBN: 9781647791735
Pub Date: 3 December 2024
Format: Paperback
80 Pages
2022 Test Site Poetry Prize winner In poems both personal and historical, The Dove of the Morning News explores conceptions of collectivity, inflected by each psyche, as a force of both connection...
Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter
Poems
ISBN: 9781647791711
Pub Date: 3 December 2024
Format: Paperback
80 Pages
2022 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Poetry Prize winner Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter is a story about leaving religion and coming of age in a world of accelerating climate apocalypses and environmental...
Roots and Resilience
California Ranchers in their Own Words
ISBN: 9781647791612
Pub Date: 12 November 2024
Format: Paperback
120 Pages
In Roots and Resilience, the authors invite readers to consider an intimate relationship with the California landscape and its history. Ranching in the region goes back centuries, and many of these...
Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell
A Documentary History of Potosí in the Early 1620s
ISBN: 9781647791384
Pub Date: 7 November 2024
Format: Hardcover
472 Pages
In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of Potosí, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later by a viceroy’s blanket amnesty. Basque immigrants were at the center of...
My Life in Nevada Politics
The Memoirs of Senator Richard H. Bryan
ISBN: 9781647792190
Pub Date: 19 November 2024
Format: Paperback
364 Pages
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...
Dream City
A Novel
ISBN: 9781647791650
Pub Date: 8 October 2024
Format: Hardcover
356 Pages
In this unconventional tale of Las Vegas during the two delirious boom decades before the bust of the Great Recession, failed actor “C. D.” Reinhart, who has launched a new career in hotel marketing,...
The University of Nevada, 1874-2024
150 Years of Inspiring Excellence
ISBN: 9781647791698
Pub Date: 1 October 2024
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
With a foreword by University of Nevada, Reno President Brian Sandoval
In October 1874, a small preparatory school opened its doors in the remote northern Nevada town of Elko with an enrollment of seven students. With vision and determination, this tiny institution grew, and in 1886, Morrill Hall welcomed a class of thirty-five to the campus that was now nestled on a bluff above the Truckee Meadows located in Reno. At the time of the University of Nevada, Reno’s sesquicentennial, nearly 21,000 students, who have reached record levels of diversity and achievement, are now guided through the college experience by an equally diverse and talented faculty who mentor them toward their chosen professions. During the next 150 years, the University will continue to graduate exceptional students, as its community looks to the future while recollecting on the extraordinary dedication and achievements of the people who made the...
In October 1874, a small preparatory school opened its doors in the remote northern Nevada town of Elko with an enrollment of seven students. With vision and determination, this tiny institution grew, and in 1886, Morrill Hall welcomed a class of thirty-five to the campus that was now nestled on a bluff above the Truckee Meadows located in Reno. At the time of the University of Nevada, Reno’s sesquicentennial, nearly 21,000 students, who have reached record levels of diversity and achievement, are now guided through the college experience by an equally diverse and talented faculty who mentor them toward their chosen professions. During the next 150 years, the University will continue to graduate exceptional students, as its community looks to the future while recollecting on the extraordinary dedication and achievements of the people who made the...
Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis
The Industrial Revolution to the Present
ISBN: 9781647791599
Pub Date: 24 September 2024
Format: Paperback
258 Pages
Concentrating on a powerful, emerging genre, Tatiana Konrad’s Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis provides a survey of popular narratives that further our understanding of climate change...
A History of Hazardous Objects
A Novel
ISBN: 9781647791636
Pub Date: 10 September 2024
Format: Paperback
172 Pages
Laura de León is a radar astronomer who studies Potentially Hazardous Objects (PHOs) such as threatening asteroids and comets at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. In Los Angeles...