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Cruising State: Growing Up In Southern California (Western Literature Series) מאת Christopher Buckley Throughout the 18 narratives in this book, the author conjures up the feeling of being young in California at some time between the 50s and the 70s. The physical and social details re-create a more innocent time and a richer environment, both for those there then, and those who missed out....

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Casino Accounting and Financial Management: Second Edition מאת E. Malcolm Greenlees A completely revised and expanded edition of the most comprehensive book on casino accounting ...

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Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature מאת S.K. Robisch This book presents a new perspective on the role of the wolf in American literature. The wolf is one of the most widely distributed canid species, historically ranging throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere. For millennia, it has also been one of the most pervasive images in human mythology, art...

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No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life מאת Linda M. Hasselstrom In "No Place Like Home", Linda Hasselstrom ponders the changing nature of community in the modern West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into mean, congested cities. Hasselstrom's ruminations are both intensely personal and universal. The bo...

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Black Rock מאת Paul F. Starrs A photographer and a geographer explore where the pavement ends. Nevada’s enigmatic Black Rock country, despite its apparent silence and isolation, is actually an area where natural forces are ceaselessly restless and life in many forms has endured for millennia. Its haunting landscape ...

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The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories (WEST WORD FICTION) מאת Catherine Brady This book presents eleven new stories that are set in and around San Francisco by an award-winning author. The stories in this collection explore those moments when the seemingly fixed coordinates of our lives abruptly give way - when mother love fractures, a faithful husband abandons his family, a ...

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In Denali: A Photographic Essay Of Denali National Park And Preserve Alaska מאת Kim Heacox This work explores the landscapes, wildlife, plant life, and history of Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Following a timetable of Denali's human history are extensive descriptions of the major mammals, a mammal and bird checklist, and a list of commonly seen of flowering plants....

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Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility מאת Scott Slovic  In Going Away to Think, ecocritic Scott Slovic offers a selection of seventeen essays that include travel narratives, meditations on the social role of ecological literary criticism, responses to socially engaged literary and scholarly texts, and demonstrations of the author...

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Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in Calif., 1820-1880 מאת Maria Raquel Casas Until recently, most studies of the colonial period of the American West have focused on the activities and agency of men. Historian Maria Raquel Casas examines the role of Spanish-Mexican women in the development of California. She finds that, far from being pawns in a male-dominated society, Calif...

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The Nature Way מאת Corbin Harney Corbin Harney's long life encompassed remarkable changes in the lives of Native Americans and in the technological and political development of the world. He was born into an impoverished Western Shosone family on the Nevada-Idaho border. As an adult, Harney found his calling as a traditional healer...