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The Best of Edward Abbey
• Edward Abbey
• ANTHOLOGY
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Abbey compiled this generous collection of his fiction and non-fiction in 1984, including excerpts from The Brave Cowboy, Black Sun, and The Monkey Wrench Gang, along with sections of Desert Solitaire and other essays.
(GEN336, $16.95)
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The Big Year, A Tale Of Man, Nature, And Fowl Obsession
• Mark Obmascik
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Obmascik, himself an over-the-edge birder, recounts with glee and page-turning detail the race to see the most birds in North America in a year. It's an utterly compelling account of a three-way race (roofing contractor, tycoon, software nerd), likely never again to be equaled.
(BRD29, $14.00)
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The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife
• Christopher W. Leahy
• Gordon Morrison
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching.
(NAM21, $19.95)
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Butterflies through Binoculars, The West
• Jeffrey Glassberg
• FIELD GUIDE
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A photographic identification guide to butterflies found throughout the western United States.
(BUG11, $24.95)
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Compass Guide Nevada
• Deke Castleman
• Jeff Gnass
• GUIDEBOOK
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This volume goes farther than most conventional guidebooks in giving the reader a sense of place.
(USW223, $21.00)
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Crossing Paths, Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild
• Craig Childs
• EXPLORATION
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Adventurer and naturalists Craig Childs vividly describes 23 meetings with the animals of the American desert, from camel to rainbow trout.
(SWU170, $14.95)
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Deep Design, Nine Little Art Histories
• Libby Lumpkin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A collection of nine lively essays on the history of common iconography and symbols.
(GEN135, $17.95)
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The Desert Cries, A Season of Flash Floods in a Dry Land
• Craig Childs
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Naturalist and adventurer Craig Childs's impressionistic account of five flash floods which killed 22 people in Arizona in 1997.
(SWU172, $14.95)
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Desert Survival Skills
• David Alloway
• GUIDEBOOK
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A friendly, humorous guide to short-term and long-term survival in the desert.
(DES06, $24.95)
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Devil's Bargain, Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West
• Hal Rothman
• HISTORY
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In this scholarly history, Rothman traces the development of tourism in places as diverse as Las Vegas, Santa Fe and Aspen.
(USW453, $19.95)
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Earthtones, A Nevada Album
• Ann Ronald
• Stephen Trimble
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A handsomely illustrated portrait capturing the diversity of landscapes, people and culture of Nevada.
(SWU51, $39.95)
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Fodor's Las Vegas
• Sar Sper
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining.
(USW539, $16.95)
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Frommer's American Southwest
• Frommer's
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical travel guide in the popular series featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep.
(SWU183, $22.99)
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A Garden of Bristlecones, Tales of Change in the Great Basin
• Micahel Cohen
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A natural and cultural history.
(SWU52, $34.95)
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Getting Over the Color Green
• Scott Slovic
• ANTHOLOGY
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An anthology and tribute to the American desert.
(SWU62, $19.95)
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Great Basin National Park Map
• Earthwalk Press
• GUIDEBOOK
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A detailed hiking map of great Basin National Park.
(SWU54, $5.95)
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Insight City Guide Las Vegas
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• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical, portable guide to Las Vegas. Organized geographically, this compact guide features color photographs, maps, concise essays on history and culture, and a brief overview of attractions.
(SWU256, $15.95)
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Kingbird Highway, The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand
• Kenn Kaufman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Kaufman's absorbing account of coming-of-age as a Wichita teenager on the road in 1973 with a summer's pay in his pocket and the goal of seeing as many birds as he could in a year.
(BRD27, $14.00)
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The Land of Little Rain
• Mary Austin
• Terry Tempest Williams
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In this turn-of-the-century desert hymn, Austin -- a writer and naturalist who accompanied her husband to Death Valley in the 1890s -- finds a vibrant ecosystem where her forbears saw wasteland. An illuminating natural history.
(CAL66, $13.00)
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Las Vegas Map
• National Geographic
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A fold-up map of Las Vegas, shown at a scale of 1:21,000
(USW252, $8.99)
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Lonely Planet Las Vegas Encounter
• Sara Benson
• GUIDEBOOK
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This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map.
(USW515, $11.99)
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Made in the Southwest: A Shopper's Guide to the Region's Best Native American, Hispanic and Western Craft Traditions
• Laura Morelli
• GUIDEBOOK
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A shopper's guide by writer and art historian Laura Morelli to all that is handmade and beautiful in the Southwest's Hispanic, Native American and Western traditions. With a state-by-state guide to artisans and stores and 80 color illustrations.
(SWU209, $24.95)
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Mammals of North America
• Roland W. Kays
• Don E. Wilson
• FIELD GUIDE
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The most comprehensive guide to mammals found north of Mexico.
(NAM11, $19.95)
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Mobil Travel Guide City Guide Las Vegas
• Mobil Travel Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
• COMING IN JANUARY
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Celebrating 50 years, these practical guides feature the same Mobil star rating system.
(USW579, $16.95)
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Moon Las Vegas
• Rick Garman
• GUIDEBOOK
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A no-nonsense practical guide in the Moon series, jam-packed not only with travel necessities (hotels, restaurants, sights), but also with a good overview of history, flora and fauna and geology.
(SWU242, $17.95)
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Mountain City
• Gregory Martin
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A memoir of rural life in the Basque-influenced sheep herding country of northern Nevada.
(SWU55, $19.00)
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Native Universe, Voices of Indian America
• Clifford E. Trafzer
• ANTHOLOGY
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This sumptuously illustrated cultural history, written exclusively by Native Americans, is published in celebration of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
(USA95, $22.00)
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Nevada Map
• Compass
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A folded map of the state of Nevada.
(SWU58, $4.95)
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The New Encyclopedia of the American West
• Howard R. Lamar
• REFERENCE
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A massive -- and entertaining -- reference to the West.
(USW416, $85.00)
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Paul Strand Southwest
• Paul Strand
• Rebecca Busselle
• Trudy Wilner Stack
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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With 50 black-and-white photographs, this book showcases Strand's elegant photography against the backdrop of the Southwest.
(USW442, $50.00)
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Pauline Frommer's Las Vegas
• Pauline Frommer
• GUIDEBOOK
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A family-friendly, quirky, practical guide by the daughter of travel guru Arthur Frommer.
(SWU253, $16.99)
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Picasso
• Hans L. Jaffe
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A classic overview of Picasso's art with reproductions of important works.
(SPN85, $19.98)
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Picasso
• Christian-Peter Warncke
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautifully illustrated color Tashen monograph featuring the works of Picasso.
(SPN90, $20.00)
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Picasso
• Jean-Louis Ferrier
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This oversize paperback is a thoroughly illustrated study of Picasso's art over the decades. Each essay features gorgeous color reproductions.
(SPN84, $27.50)
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Picasso
• Patrick O'Brian
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Patrick O'Brian, who knew the artist, covers the life and work of Picasso.
(SPN86, $18.95)
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Picasso
• Timothy Hilton
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An extended illustrated essay on Picasso's achievement and place in 20th-century art.
(SPN82, $16.95)
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Picasso, Master of the New Idea
• Paule du Bouchet
• Marie-Laure Bernadac
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A colorful pocket-size reference on the development of Picasso and his art. Includes hundreds of color and archival photographs, a useful chronology and long section of writing by and about Picasso.
(SPN27, $12.95)
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Remember D-Day, Both Sides Tell Their Stories
• Ronald J. Drez
• David Eisenhower
• HISTORY
• YOUNG ADULTS
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An engaging and well-constructed history of the D-Day invasion for readers in grades 5 to 8, complete with anecdotes from soldiers, black-and-white photographs and plenty of historical information.
(USA96, $17.95)
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Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
• Scott Weidensaul
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An eye-opening trek in the footsteps of conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, whose 1953 journey across America resulted in the classic Wild America.
(USA123, $15.00)
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Scats and Tracks of the Desert Southwest
• James Halfpenny
• Todd Telander
• FIELD GUIDE
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A pocket guide to tracks, scats and signs of the animals of the region.
(SWU61, $9.95)
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The Secret Knowledge of Water
• Craig Childs
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Naturalist and adventurer Craig Childs's lyrical travelogue of his journey through Arizona, Utah, the Grand Canyon and Northern Mexico.
(SWU169, $14.99)
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
• David Sibley
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird.
(USW418, $19.95)
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Smithsonian Handbooks Birds of North America, Western Region
• Fred J. Alsop, III
• FIELD GUIDE
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A guide to birds found west of the Mississippi with a page devoted to each of 700 species.
(USW415, $25.00)
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Soul of Nowhere
• Craig Childs
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Naturalist and adventurer Craig Childs's account of travels in the American desert.
(SWU171, $22.95)
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Steep Trails
• John Muir
• Edward Hoagland
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A collection of Muir's essays and letters spanning 29 years of adventures in Mount Shasta, Salt Lake, San Gabriel, Nevada, the Grand Canyon, Oregon and Washington.
(USW277, $14.95)
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Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
• Ronald Wright
• HISTORY
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A powerful history of imperialism and resistance in the Americas, with a focus on the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Wright draws on an impressive range of archival material in reconstructing this classic account.
(NAM20, $17.00)
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To See Every Bird On Earth: A Father, A Son, And A Lifelong Obsession
• Dan Koeppel
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In this enormously appealing memoir of a life devoted to birds. Koeppel chronicles his father's growing obsession and accomplishment as an elite birdwatcher, one of a handful of people who have tallied 7,000 species.
(BRD28, $14.00)
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The Verb to Bird, Sightings of an Avid Birder
• Peter Cashwell
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A memoir of the birding life, its pleasures, obsessions and pitfalls. Based in the Carolinas (where he teaches English), Cashwell recounts in these essays the birds he's encountered, the why and wherefores of the birding life and some very entertaining anecdotes.
(BRD26, $14.95)
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Where Las Vegas Cityguide
• Where Magazine
• GUIDEBOOK
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A sturdy pocket guide to top city sights, helpfully keyed to overview maps and featuring a detailed downtown PopOut map.
(SWU237, $9.95)
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