Nevada Books

Not very exciting, but the big battles werent fought out West. Very good research. If your from the West and love civil war history this is a book for you.

I was once a member of Harlequin Romance fromm 1994-1995, then I moved to the house I'm in now, and I lost the book. When I found out I was able to purchase it, I said "Thank you Amazon.com!" :) The reason I say this is because the whole plot about hypnosis, the want for a child as well as struggling with trust is the background for this book Cyn was a wonderful heroine that all indepent women (including myself) can relate to. Along with a good heroine, ther has to be a evenly spectacular hero. Chance perfectly fits this mold. As the comedy of errors allow fate to bring them together, this book will allow you to watch along the way.

This is a good guide for those that are experienced at backcountry winter travel.He shows several routes and peak descents,and rates them according to difficulty.There is some basic information on winter travel, including snow camping and avalanche safety, but you would be wise to study these topics further before attempting any of these routes.

Originally written in 1904, these tales weave together the lives of the son of homesteaders and a Paiute Indian, the Basket Woman. The stories are straightforward enough, and often incorporate Paiute tales; the author was respectful of Paiute culture and her local environment, so these stories rarely offend our modern sensibilities. Still, these aren't going to grab every kid's attention, and would be best recommended for a quiet, thoughtful reader with an interest in Native American culture at the turn of the century.

I wish I would have had it BEFORE I was there this summer. Great for trip planning and self touring of Vegas and the surrounding area. Good referances to economic features and useful information.

I like the book, although I wish there was more of description of why I would want to go on each hike.

(Re)evaluating Nature especially in the new millenium is a new trend in thinking about the landscape. Misrach initiates this conversation with this early book about the changing face of the American West that has been transformed into a bombed-out wasteland. Somewhat beautiful? Yes, I thin kso. He approaches the subject sarcastically serious with a proposal to turn this highly violent landscape into America's newest national park, one which I would be the first visitor. His photographs instigate new questions in landscape photography and the new definition of "beauty" in all visual studies. A must for any artist/architect/planner. There is a new landscape. Misrach has found it.

I am currently in the start-up of a new casino. It is a new jurisdiction with a wealth of inexperience. The book plays a very practicle role in this setting and would probably be used best as a reference. The other side of the book serves as a basis for discussion among those people "in the know".

It is always nice in an opening to have someone walk around asking the right questions, making you think of the "small things". This book does just that(save for walking around).

I have not read all the chapters, but what I have read I would recommend.

When I was a graduate student in anthropology several decades ago, Levi-Strauss was close to God and structuralism was the most modern method yet created to perceive other societies. My fellow students and I dreamed of being able to apply structuralist principles to the societies we would research. Some of us did, others did not. Yet the fascination with discovering �underlying organizational principles� in any society still tickles all these years later. The anthropological world in general has moved on. I still have a sneaking admiration for somebody, like Sandra Ott, who could, in a relatively brief period of field work, uncover and document structural patterns in a society and language far from her own. One question, I believe, that young anthropologists of today might pose is, having discovered those principles, what do you do with them ? Culture, or just human life, is so complex, so diverse. Motivations are so multilayered. Is this the best method of description possible ? Especially since the society in question, one of the most isolated of French Basque villages in Soule departement along the Spanish border, has no doubt changed greatly in the 23 years between her research and when I read the book. Are those principles still operational ?

THE CIRCLE OF MOUNTAINS is a carefully-written, no, painstakingly-written volume which reveals an ethnographer of great skill. Although I would by no means recommend it to a casual reader, it is good anthropology. Like many lesser books of its type, it is full of incredible ethnographic detail, thickly studded with Basque terms and phrases, which will be useful only to Basques or to people who study them professionally. These terms also persuade readers that Ott knew her stuff, a definite plus for her academic supervisors, not so pleasant for others. Teachers of anthropology, if they are looking for a structuralist work, may find THE CIRCLE OF MOUNTAINS just the thing. If anthropology, structural or not, is the art of description and if capturing descriptions of disappearing worlds is important, then Ott�s book is praiseworthy. Aldikatzia and üngürü, two Basque principles of social organization, found in many different contexts in the village society, are neatly defined and described. Aldikatzia or serial replacement �orders relationships and roles within systems� while üngürü or rotation �is a principle by means of which systems are ordered�. The former is visible to all, the latter is more abstract. The village itself is seen as a circle, neighborly relations similary circular. In addition, there is a marvelous parallel drawn between conception and birth of children and the making of cheese. The Basques saw their special cheeses, made in the mountain huts by male shepherds while they cared for their flocks in the high pastures in summer, as similar in a wide variety of ways to the babies produced by women in the village below. The shepherds were inordinately proud of these mountain cheeses, which were strictly differentiated from cheeses made in the home proper. Rennet curdled milk to form a cheese, they thought, just as human semen �curdled� red blood to form an infant. The cheese maker up in the mountains was even called the �housewife� at the times when he made cheese. The analogy is continued in far greater detail. The men recreate the female reproductive role up in the shepherding huts, and re-enact the birth process by making cheeses. It is a reversal of roles, not unknown in other parts of the world, though the cheese/baby analogy was a first for me.

Douglass� book on Basques, �Death in Murelaga� will not satisfy many readers, even dedicated anthropologists. Kurlansky�s �A Basque History of the World� is readable, but lightweight and diffuse. Perhaps for those seeking knowlege about the Basques, Ott�s book, in the tradition of Goldilocks, is �just right�, though it may prove too detailed and narrowly-focussed for general readers. 4 stars for anthropology, 3 stars for readability.

This book takes a close look at a long neglected area of both Civilian Conservation Corp history and Arizona history. Moore's effort will be of interest to anyone seeking a scholarly but down-to-earth account of CCC work in the western United States. (By "scholarly," I mean that Moore's work includes footnotes, a useful bibliography, and index, which should make it a boon to other researchers of the CCC. By "down-to-earth," I mean that Moore's book isn't written in some long-lost scholarly vernacular that only college professors can decipher. To me, it's historical storytelling at its best.)

Moore knows his subject and he knows the region, delving deeply into individual camp histories and providing intimate glimpses into the lives of the men who lived and worked in those camps. The illustrations - rarely, if ever seen elsewhere - are an asset in their own right. If you study New Deal-related subjects, you owe it to yourself to read this book.