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[Paperback] - $18.00
I Remember Christine
(a novel)
by Oscar Lewis
Oscar Lewis sets his first novel in mid-1850s San Francisco. An “authorized biography” of a California entrepreneur has just been published, but James Horton is scarcely recognizable to those who knew him.... more

[Hardcover] - $39.95
Identity, Culture, and Politics in the Basque Diaspora
by Gloria P. Totoricagüena
A comparative study of ethnic identity in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Peru, the United States, and Uruguay that illustrates the effects of globalization on the daily lives of Basques abroad.... more

[Paperback] - $18.95
Imagining Los Angeles
A City in Fiction
by David Fine
The literary image of Los Angeles has evolved since the 1880s from promotional literature that hyped the region as a New Eden to contemporary visions of the city as a perplexing, sometimes corrupt, even apocalyptic place that reflects all that is wrong with America.... more

[Hardcover] - $44.95
Improvisational Poetry from the Basque Country
by Gorka Aulestia
Foreword by William A. Douglass Translated by Lisa Corcostegui and Linda White. Improvisational Poetry from the Basque Country introduces the Basque bertsolari to the English-speaking world and provides an understanding of an interesting cultural phenomenon—the artist in Basque society who is capable of improvising verse on any subject spontaneously and setting it to music.... more

[Paperback] - $12.00
In Gravity National Park
Poems
by C. L. Rawlins
In his poetry, Rawlins evokes the natural world and the American West in exciting detail. Philosophical, harsh, beautiful, gritty, in his poems Rawlins reveals himself to be a "non-romantic Romantic.... more

[Hardcover] - $24.95,
[Paperback] - $18.95
In the Desert of Desire
Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle
by William L. Fox
Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds in satisfying our fantasies of wealth and the excesses of pleasure and consumption that go with it.... more

[Paperback] - $16.00
In the Shadow of the Strip
Las Vegas Stories
Edited by Richard Logsdon, Todd Moffett, Tina D. Eliopulos
Las Vegas holds a unique place in the popular imagination and in the work of any number of contemporary writers of fiction.... more

[Paperback] - $14.95
Indian Gaming and the Law
Edited by William R. Eadington
This book is a compilation of select papers and comments presented during the North American Conference on the Status of Indian Gaming, held in 1989 in Reno, Nevada, shortly after the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA).... more