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Fragments of a mortal mind: a nonfiction novel shows us how the disparate elements of our lives gather into the construction of our deepest selves. The author describes how the world we take in becomes us as we metabolize it. This quasi-memoir novel is a meditation on living in America"--

Big Bend National Park: Mexico, the United States, and a Borderland Ecosystem is the story of binational cooperation along the Rio Grande/Râio Bravo corridor. Audiences in Mexico and the United States may find compelling the description of public and private efforts to create a unique memorial to friendship, even as it reveals how often cultural differences get in the way"--

Look. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California. A dream dashed four times in merciless succession until it was ultimately realized in a stunning blind tasting in Paris. In that tasting, in the year of America's bicentennial, California wines took their place as the leading wines of the world.

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Where Light Comes and Goes is the second novel in a trilogy about a young female physician. This second book takes Dr. Abby Wilmore to Yellowstone National Park to operate a medical clinic for the summer tourist season. This novel of contemporary popular fiction offers an insider's view of a family medical practice involving the career of a woman doctor"--

Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens tells the fascinating history of the battle over Nevada's lucrative public lands through the lens of the April 2014 armed standoff between Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy and armed militia allies against federal officers attempting to provide security for a court-ordered cattle impoundment.

Heavy Ground explores the social, political, and technological history of the St. Francis Dam Disaster in California, the worst civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American History. Approximately 400 people died in March 1928, when the concrete gravity dam built by Los Angeles engineer William Mulholland suddenly and tragically collapsed, releasing over 12 billion gallons of water into the Santa Clara River Valley.

Riddle Field tackles the complex process of self-awareness and recovery in the wake of profound sexual trauma by avoiding many of the most direct ways of commenting on it. In interweaving the voices of an entire fictional town that is about to be changed forever by the destruction of a dam, the poems highlight the environment, both human and natural, that sexual trauma is born from, and calls to attention the many ways in which we create intim...

Public Policies and the Social Sciences

Ripped-from-the-headlines stories of a fractured nation grappling with moral corruption and environmental devastation

Based on a true event, The Brightest Place in the World traces the lives and interactions of six Las Vegans in the wake of an industrial disaster. Grief and regret, disloyalty and atonement, infatuation and love--all are on display as the characters struggle to recover and adjust when their lives are forever changed.

A beginning-level text in the Basque language

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When Sophia Hughes meets Geoffrey Scott in St. Thomas, a scrap of inhospitable desert in the Utah Territory, she is torn between her attraction for the stranger, her fidelity as a polygamist wife, and her unresolved feelings for the man who abandoned her.

An examination of Victorian theater as it moved out of San Francisco and into the smaller towns of the American West

Farm to Form is the first book to investigate the relationship between the rise of industrial food and the emergence of literary modernisms in Britain and Ireland. By weaving insights from modernist studies, food studies, and ecocriticism together, Farm to Form contends that industrial food production transformed the natural world into a "modernist" terrain that shaped new literary forms, positioning modernism as central to the study of narrat...

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In this meticulously researched study of Basque boardinghouses in the United States, Jeronima Echeverria offers a compelling history of the institution that most deeply shaped Basque immigrant life and served as the center of Basque communities throughout the West.

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