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Basin and Rangeby John A. McPheeISBN 0374516901 (0-374-51690-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Basin and Range'Book summary:One of the most valuable tools for the advancement of geological science has in fact been the humble road cut. United States Interstate 80 crosses the entire North American continent, in the process exposing hundreds of millions of years of geological history. In Basin and Range, McPhee, accompanied at times by Princeton geologist Kenneth S. Dreyfuss, demonstrates how the contorted and tilted rocks seen in these road cuts reveal how islands of the earth's crust have floated across the earth's surface, crashing and folding to form basin and range. This is a masterful and sometimes even poetic volume of popular writing about plate tectonics, communicating the profound satisfaction of using scientific research as a tool for understanding the world around us.
This is the first of four books on North American geology by McPhee, collectively entitled Annals of the Former World. The other volumes are In Suspect Terrain, Rising from the Plains, and Assembling California. [via]
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Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Womenby Alexa AlbertISBN 0449006581 (0-449-00658-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women'Book summary:A journey into a fascinating subculture, Alexa Albert's exploration of Nevada's infamous cathouses began as a public-health study into the safe-sex practices of these legal working girls and the effectiveness of condom requirements in preventing sexually transmitted diseases. It took her three years to gain access to the brothels, and when her project was eventually approved by the head of the Nevada Brothel Association, she was surprised to be invited to stay at Mustang Ranch, among the women of the brothel, for the duration of her research. She learned that despite the legalization of prostitution in several counties of Nevada, the working girls still faced restrictive local ordinances and work regulations that kept them virtual prisoners inside the brothel compound. Outside, they encountered the same social stigma that has always haunted sex workers. In her compassionate, engaging first book, Albert answers all the questions you might ever have about prostitutes, providing a rich and nuanced depiction of a largely hidden world. --Regina Marler [via]
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Burning Manby Janelle Brown, Barbara Fischman Traub, John PlunkettISBN 1888869135 (1-888869-13-5)
Hardcover, Hardwired
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burning Man'Book summary:Wired magazine's book division, HardWired, has taken the rich color process that gives their newsstand editions such impact and put it to even better use here, producing a volume of full-page photographs uninterrupted by text or the eye-candy layout that make Wired so amusing and difficult to read. This book features work by nearly a dozen photographers documenting the Black Rock Arts Festival, better known as Burning Man. This annual event draws thousands of revelers to a desolate stretch of desert for a few days of performance art, naked frolicking, and a bizarre, mock auto-da-fé wherein the giant wood and neon Burning Man is destroyed in the culmination of this festival of images. Sixteen pages of text separate the daylight photos from those taken at night, and the endpapers, prints of the cracked and empty desert surface, neatly wrap this exquisitely beautiful package. [via]
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Californiaby Deborah Bosley, Jamie Jensen, Mick Sinclair, Susan Compo, Donald HuteraISBN 1858280907 (1-85828-090-7)
Softcover, Rough Guides, Limited
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The City of the Saints: Among the Mormons and Across the Rocky Mountains to Californiaby Richard F. BurtonISBN 1589762304 (1-58976-230-4)
Softcover, Narrative Pr
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Compass American Guide to Las Vegasby Deke CastlemanISBN 0679003703 (0-679-00370-3)
Softcover, Fodor's Travel Publications
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Construction of Hoover DamISBN 0916122514 (0-916122-51-4)
Softcover, Gem Guides Book Co
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Desert Summits: A Climbing & Hiking Guide to California and Southern Nevadaby Andy ZdonISBN 1893343022 (1-893343-02-2)
Softcover, Spotted Dog Pr Inc
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Desesperacionby Stephen KingISBN 9875660620 (987-566-062-0)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Desperationby Stephen KingISBN 1568954204 (1-56895-420-4)
Hardcover, Compass Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desperation'Book summary:A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his magic touch: Desperation is the genuine goods. The ensemble cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years, may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of "God"--whom the New York Times describes as "the edgiest creation in Desperation. Remote, isolated, ironic, shrouded behind disguises, perhaps 'another legendary shadow,' this deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak." [via]
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dreamby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0679785892 (0-679-78589-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream'Book summary:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the ne plus ultra of Hunter S. Thompson and the whole gonzo clan he spawned. Written in the lurid afterglow of the 1960s, Fear and Loathing is a loosely connected series of mad dashes across the desert, trashed hotel rooms, and goofs on the brutish, naïve, or merely unhip, perpetrated by Thompson and his mammoth Samoan attorney. The pair start out high on a medicine cabinet's worth of elixirs, powders, and pills, and stay that way for 200 pages. They careen through an unsettling landscape of paranoia and alienation, but that doesn't mean the book isn't a riot. Here's a small taste: "By this time, the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a tolerable level. The room service waiter had a vaguely reptilian cast to his features, but I was no longer seeing huge pterodactyls lumbering around the corridors in pools of fresh blood."
Though somewhat dated (it appeared serially in Rolling Stone throughout November 1971), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a book of real vitality and Rabelaisian wit. A document of the counterculture after it was well past ripe and deep into rot, the book is a wild ride, a paranoid ramble that is thoroughly exhilarating and worth the trip. No pun intended. [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,: ISBN 0394464354 (0-394-46435-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream: ISBN 0586081321 (0-586-08132-1)
Hardcover, Paladin - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream: ISBN 0679785892 (0-679-78589-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, Tie-In Editionby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0679602984 (0-679-60298-4)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, Tie-In Edition'Book summary:Dr. Thompson made the list of inspirational scribes when I polled in a recent writing workshop, and why not? Back in a spiffy Modern Library edition, replete with additional essays, I find in this iconographic work that HST both invoked--and provoked--an era that was not so much the '60s proper, but rather the mean, shadow-filled death of that time, which is still playing out. Thank God Thompson was there to explode the myth of "objective" journalism and help pave the way for the pens and voices that followed. [via]
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Gem Trails of Nevadaby James R. MitchellISBN 1889786152 (1-889786-15-2)
Softcover, Gem Guides Book Co
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Gem Trails of Nevadaby Rick Mitchell, James R. MitchellISBN 0935182535 (0-935182-53-5)
Softcover, Gem Guides Book Co
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Geologic & the Natural History Tours in the Reno Areaby Becky W. PurkeyISBN 1888035013 (1-888035-01-3)
Softcover, Univ of Nevada Pr
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The Hiker's Guide to Nevadaby Bruce GrubbsISBN 1560443723 (1-56044-372-3)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hiker's Guide to Nevada'Book summary:This 197-page paperback was published in 1994 by Falcon (2ND printing). This book is in like-new condition in every way, except for very minor shelf wear on cover edges. Internally, pages are clean, unmarked, and like new. The binding is solid and flexible. Overall, a very nice, new condition volume. [via]
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History of Nevadaby Russell R. ElliottISBN 0803207816 (0-8032-0781-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Nevada'Book summary:This updated edition of History of Nevada is still the most comprehensive one-volume economic, political, and social history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." It will be welcomed by students and general readers.[via] -
Innocentby Harlan CobenISBN 1585476293 (1-58547-629-3)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Innocent'Book summary:Matt Hunter made a mistake when he was 20 years old and paid for it with a four-year stint in prison that left him with a determination never to be locked up again. Finally, his life is back on the promising track he was taking before he accidentally killed a man: He has a good job, a newly pregnant wife he adores, and is about to close on the home of their dreams. Then he gets a couple of bizarre photos on his cell phone that seem to show his wife in a compromising position with a black-haired stranger. But before he can sort out who sent the anonymous pictures and why, he's running from the law--especially from the cop who was his best friend in grade school, and a sharp young detective who's stepped right into the middle of an FBI investigation spurred by the discovery that a dead nun who wasn't who she claimed to be is somehow mixed up in Matt and Olivia Hunter's life. Coben deftly wields a complicated plot involving a missing stripper, a dead gangster, an incriminating videotape, and a couple of agents who aren't quite who they seem to be, while Hunter manages to hold onto his faith in Olivia despite her clouded past and uncertain future. Like all Coben's protagonists, (including the hero of his popular series starring sports agent turned detective Myron Bolitar) Hunter is a nice, middle-class New Jersey boy who's still the innocent of the title, despite the miscarriage of justice that sent him to prison. Or was it? That's the moral question at the heart of this tightly constructed thriller, which will no doubt shoot directly to the top of the bestseller list, and deservedly so. --Jane Adams
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The Innocents Abroad/Roughing Itby Mark Twain, Guy CardwellISBN 0940450259 (0-940450-25-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It'Book summary:Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXII. WE were at sea now, for a very long voyage -- we were to pass through the entire length of the Levant; through the entire length of the Mediterranean proper, also, and then cross the full width of the Atlantic -- a voyage of several weeks. We naturally settled down into a very slow, stay-at-home manner of life, and resolved to be quiet, exemplary people, and roam no more for twenty or thirty days. No more, at least, than from stem to stern of the ship. It was a very comfortable prospect, though, for we were tired and needed a long rest. We were all lazy and satisfied, now, as the meager entries in my note-book (that sure index, to me, of my condition) prove. What a stupid thing a notebook gets to be at sea, any way. Please observe the style: '" Sunday--Services, as usual, at four bells. Services at night, also. No cards. "Monday--Beautiful day, but rained hard. The cattle purchased at Alexandria for beef ought to be shingled. Or else fattened. The water stands in deep puddles in the depressions forward of their after shoulders. Also here and there all over their backs. It is well they are not cows-- it would soak in and ruin the milk. The poor devil eagle* from Syria * Afterwards presented to the Central Park. looks miserable and droopy in the rain perched on the forward capstan. He appears to have his own opinion of a sea voyage, and if it were put into language and the language solidified, it would probably essentially dam the widest river in the world. "Tuesday--Somewhere in the neighborhood of the island of Malta. Can not stop there. Cholera. Weather very stormy. Many passengers seasick and invisible. "Wednesday--Weather still very savage. Storm blew two land birds to sea, and they came on board. A hawk was blown off, also. He circled round and round the shi... [via]
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Las Vegasby Deke Castleman, Michael YamashitaISBN 1878867822 (1-878867-82-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Las Vegasby Frances Anderton, John ChaseISBN 3895086398 (3-89508-639-8)
Softcover, Ellipsis London, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Vegas'Book summary:Las Vegas: A Guide to Recent Architecture is one in a series of lovely little guides to many of the world's major cities created by British publisher Ellipsis. The information contained here ranges from brief perspectives on the city's architectural history to tips on which maps are best for visitors and how to navigate the local public transit system. The book considers architecture not as something that happens on isolated building sites, but rather as social, cultural, and political phenomena. At four inches square, this highly portable book is an ideal travel companion.
Some of the other books in the series cover Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, and Tokyo. Each guidebook has its own flavor, as different writers--usually architects--cover each city. --Loren E. Baldwin [via]
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Las Vegasby Michael S. Yamashita, Deke Castleman, Kerrick James, Michael YamashitaISBN 0679000151 (0-679-00015-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Lonely Planet Californiaby James Lyon, Tony Wheeler, Nancy Keller, Marisa Gierlich, Scott McNeely, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, David Schulte-PeeversISBN 0864426445 (0-86442-644-5)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Las Vegas: City Guideby Sam BensonISBN 174059875X (1-74059-875-X)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Las Vegas: City MapISBN 1740594282 (1-74059-428-2)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Michelin USA Southwest Atlas & Travel Guideby MichelinISBN 2067102699 (2-06-710269-9)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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Moon Handbooks Nevadaby Deke CastlemanISBN 1566912768 (1-56691-276-8)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Mother Countryby Peggy LeonISBN 1579620957 (1-57962-095-7)
Hardcover, Permanent Pr Pub Co
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Mountain Cityby Gregory MartinISBN 0865476160 (0-86547-616-0)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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Moving to Las Vegasby Patricia Smith, John L. Smith, Theresa A. MatagaISBN 1569802424 (1-56980-242-4)
Softcover, Barricade Books Inc
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Nevadaby Robert Fisher, Deke CastlemanISBN 0679005358 (0-679-00535-8)
Softcover, Fodor's Travel Publications
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Nevada: A Bicentennial Historyby Robert LaxaltISBN 0874171792 (0-87417-179-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nevada Pr
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Nevada Atlas & Gazetteerby DelormeISBN 0899333346 (0-89933-334-6)
Softcover, Delorme
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Nevada Gardener's Guideby Linn Mills, Dick PostISBN 1591861160 (1-59186-116-0)
Softcover, Cool Springs Pr
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Nevada Gardner's Guide: The What, Where, When, How & Why of Landscape Gardening in Nevadaby Linn Mills, Dick PostISBN 1888608978 (1-888608-97-8)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionaryby Helen S. CarlsonISBN 087417094X (0-87417-094-X)
Softcover, Univ of Nevada Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary'Book summary:Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years in her search for the origins of Nevada's place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and city planners and poring through historical accounts, archival documents, county records, and newspaper files. The result of her labors is Nevada Place Names, a fascinating mixture of history spiced with folklore, legend, and obscure facts. A reprint. [via]
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The Oxford Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195090888 (0-19-509088-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Mark Twain'Book summary:Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he's become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain's books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century "boy's holiday book" (Twain's own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view--he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that "annihilation has no terrors for me"). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he created an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical music of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do without the Oxford Mark Twain. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and short pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you've got the book bargain of the millennium. [via]
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Presa / Preyby Michael CrichtonISBN 9875660280 (987-566-028-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Preyby Michael CrichtonISBN 0060536985 (0-06-053698-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prey'Book summary:In Prey, bestselling author Michael Crichton introduces bad guys that are too small to be seen with the naked eye but no less deadly or intriguing than the runaway dinosaurs that made 1990's Jurassic Park such a blockbuster success.
High-tech whistle-blower Jack Forman used to specialize in programming computers to solve problems by mimicking the behavior of efficient wild animals--swarming bees or hunting hyena packs, for example. Now he's unemployed and is finally starting to enjoy his new role as stay-at-home dad. All would be domestic bliss if it were not for Jack's suspicions that his wife, who's been behaving strangely and working long hours at the top-secret research labs of Xymos Technology, is having an affair. When he's called in to help with her hush-hush project, it seems like the perfect opportunity to see what his wife's been doing, but Jack quickly finds there's a lot more going on in the lab than an illicit affair. Within hours of his arrival at the remote testing center, Jack discovers his wife's firm has created self-replicating nanotechnology--a literal swarm of microscopic machines. Originally meant to serve as a military eye in the sky, the swarm has now escaped into the environment and is seemingly intent on killing the scientists trapped in the facility. The reader realizes early, however, that Jack, his wife, and fellow scientists have more to fear from the hidden dangers within the lab than from the predators without.
The monsters may be smaller in this book, but Crichton's skill for suspense has grown, making Prey a scary read that's hard to set aside, though not without its minor flaws. The science in this novel requires more explanation than did the cloning of dinosaurs, leading to lengthy and sometimes dry academic lessons. And while the coincidence of Xymos's new technology running on the same program Jack created at his previous job keeps the plot moving, it may be more than some readers can swallow. But, thanks in part to a sobering foreword in which Crichton warns of the real dangers of technology that continues to evolve more quickly than common sense, Prey succeeds in gripping readers with a tense and frightening tale of scientific suspense. --Benjamin Reese [via]
Red Rocksby Joan UriosteISBN 0930410173 (0-930410-17-3)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Roadside History of Nevadaby Richard MorenoISBN 0878424105 (0-87842-410-5)
Softcover, Mountain Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roadside History of Nevada'Book summary:There's more to Nevada than one-armed bandits, cheap buffets, and Elvis impersonators. From ice ages to expeditions, Paiutes to pioneers, and dams to divorce seekers, Roadside History of Nevada provides an overview of the Silver State. Richard Moreno divides Nevada into six geographical-historical areas, rich and often surprising in detail: Pyramid Lake yielded a world-record 41-pound cutthroat trout; Virginia City housed Mark Twain when he wrote for the Territorial Enterprise; and Lovelock Cave was the site of one of the West's greatest archeological misunderstandings. Survey the boom and bust of the mining industry, trace the desperate plight of the Donner party trapped in Sierra snow, and observe the growth of gambling from low-profile to a neon-castle industry. [via]
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Rockhounding Nevadaby William A. KappeleISBN 1560446013 (1-56044-601-3)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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The Rough Guide To Californiaby Rough GuidesISBN 1858285399 (1-85828-539-9)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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Roughing Itby Mark TwainISBN 1419145509 (1-4191-4550-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roughing It'Book summary:"This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Still, there is information in the volume . . ." Thus begins Mark Twain's Prefatory to Roughing It. The book is a humorous account of Twain's six years spent in Nevada, San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands (as Hawaii was known at the time) and is comprised of various anecdotes and tall tales, told as only Mark Twain can tell them. [via]
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Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books - Roughing It: ISBN 1421807653 (1-4218-0765-3)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - Roughing It: ISBN 1582873518 (1-58287-351-8)
Hardcover, North Books - Roughing It: ISBN 1582878439 (1-58287-843-9)
Hardcover, North Books - Roughing It: ISBN 1404327630 (1-4043-2763-0)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com - Roughing It: ISBN 0140390103 (0-14-039010-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Roughing It: ISBN 0451524071 (0-451-52407-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Roughing It: ISBN 0486427048 (0-486-42704-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Roughing It: ISBN 0520238923 (0-520-23892-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr - Roughing It: ISBN 0743436504 (0-7434-3650-4)
Softcover, Pocket Classics - Roughing It: ISBN 0809531828 (0-8095-3182-8)
Softcover, Wildside Pr - Roughing It: ISBN 0520024788 (0-520-02478-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr - Roughing It: ISBN 0520205596 (0-520-20559-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr - Roughing It: ISBN 0870527088 (0-87052-708-8)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books - Roughing It: ISBN 0195101332 (0-19-510133-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Roughing It (1872: ISBN 0195114019 (0-19-511401-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Roughing It: ISBN 0520205588 (0-520-20558-8)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr - Roughing It: ISBN 0809439964 (0-8094-3996-4)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books - Roughing It: ISBN 087052707X (0-87052-707-X)
Hardcover, Marboro Books - Roughing It: ISBN 0895776286 (0-89577-628-6)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association - Roughing It: ISBN 3829053894 (3-8290-5389-4)
Hardcover, Konemann - Roughing It: ISBN 1419145509 (1-4191-4550-9)
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Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynnby John L. SmithISBN 1568581904 (1-56858-190-4)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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S Is for Silver: A Nevada Alphabetby Eleanor Coerr, Darcie ParkISBN 1585361178 (1-58536-117-8)
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The Silver State: Nevada's Heritage Reinterpretedby James W. HulseISBN 0874173183 (0-87417-318-3)
Softcover, Univ of Nevada Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Silver State: Nevada's Heritage Reinterpreted'Book summary:The essential history of Nevada in an updated edition. Nevada has changed dramatically over the past quarter century, and in this third edition of The Silver State, renowned historian James W. Hulse recounts the major events - historical, political, and social - that have shaped our state. Hulse's cohesive and readable approach offers students and general readers an accessible account of Nevada's colorful history. The new edition highlights the social and political changes that have occurred since the original publication of The Silver State in 1991. Hulse discusses the impact of a growing population; changes in the economy and education system; expanding roles of women; recent developments in state politics, including the 2003 legislative session; the influence of Nevada's growing ethnic population and increasingly divergent demographic groups; and the impact of federal policies, including President George W. Bush's 2002 decision to authorize the opening of a nuclear-waste depository at Yucca Mountain. In addition, all the recommended-reading lists have been updated. The Silver State explores many dimensions of the Nevada experience and its peoples - from the prehistoric Anasazi Indians to the creators of extravagant casinos on the Las Vegas Strip; from dust-stained Comstock miners to the state's contemporary and very cosmopolitan Sunbelt population. This book will inspire readers to take another look at the rich cultural heritage and eventful history of Nevada, the Silver State. [via]
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