Search Results - "Nevada"

Uncertainty underground Yucca Mountain and the nation's high-level nuclear waste /

Subjects: “…Radioactive waste disposal in the ground Nevada Yucca Mountain.…”
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The ordinary spaceman : from boyhood dreams to astronaut / by Anderson, Clayton C., 1959-

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Theater in a crowded fire ritual and spirituality at Burning Man / by Gilmore, Lee, 1969-

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My first summer in the Sierra / by Muir, John, 1838-1914

Subjects: “…Natural history Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)…”

Exposure of the American people to Iodine-131 from Nevada nuclear-bomb tests review of the National Cancer Institute report and public health implications /

“…Nevada Test Site (Nev.)…”
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Jennie Carter a Black journalist of the early West / by Carter, Jennie, 1830 or 31-1881

Subjects: “…African American women journalists California Nevada County Correspondence.…”
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Hoover Dam 75th Anniversary History Symposium proceedings of the Hoover Dam 75th Anniversary History Symposium, October 21-22, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada /

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Tungsten in peace and war, 1918-1946 / by Limbaugh, Ronald H.

Table of Contents: “…Steel alloys and the rise of modern industry -- Tungsten in World War I -- From Pacific Tungsten to Nevada-Massachusetts -- Tungsten and the Great Depression -- Mining and marketing during the New Deal -- Strategic metals at the start of World War II -- American wartime metal policy and practice -- Nevada-Massachusetts in World War II -- Epilogue.…”
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Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States /

Table of Contents: “…Warren -- Chapter 5: Creating a Civic Spark: Using AmeriCorps National Service to Catalyze Rural Climate Change Action -- Kif Scheuer, Kristen Wraith and Kristin Brubaker -- Chapter 6: Participatory Research to Assess the Climate Resiliency of Snow-fed River Dependent Communities: A Collaborative Modeling Case Study in the Truckee-Carson River System -- Loretta Singletary and Kelley Sterle -- Chapter 7: Nevadas Approach to Minimizing the Risk from Prolonged Drought -- Mark Walker and Kerri Jean Ormerod -- SECTION TWO: COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE -- Chapter 8: Mitigating Projected Impacts of Climate Change and Building Resiliency through Permaculture -- Roslynn Brain McCann, Jeremy Lynch and Jeff Adams -- Chapter 9: Engaging Southeastern Science Educators in the Development of a Climate Change Instructional Module -- Martha C. …”
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The opium debate and Chinese exclusion laws in the nineteenth-century American West / by Ahmad, Diana L., 1953-

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Marching students : Chicana and Chicano activism in education, 1968 to the present /

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Back to Bizkaia : a Basque-American memoir / by Juaristi, Vince J., 1969-

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Regulating Internet gaming : challenges and opportunities /

Intelligence-led policing a policing innovation / by Carter, Jeremy G., 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Law enforcement intelligence -- Organizational influences on police change and intelligence -- Research design exploring ILP adoption -- Empirical findings of ILP adoption -- Case study: Florida fusion center -- Case study: southern Nevada counter-terrorism center -- Recommendations for ILP adoption -- References -- Index.…”
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Too hot to touch the problem of high-level nuclear waste / by Alley, William M.

Table of Contents: “…The search for a geologic repository; 13. Nevada wins the lottery; 14. The Nevada test site; 15. …”
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Like a loaded weapon the Rehnquist court, Indian rights, and the legal history of racism in America / by Williams, Robert A., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…: the languages of racism -- The Supreme Court and the legal history of racism in America -- "The savage as the wolf" : the founders' language of Indian savagery -- Indian rights and the Marshall Court -- The rise of the plenary power doctrine -- What "every American schoolboy knows" : the language of Indian savagery in Tee-Hit-Ton -- Rehnquist's language of racism in Oliphant -- The most Indianophobic Supreme Court Indian law opinion ever -- The dangers of the twentieth-century Supreme Court's Indian rights decisions -- Expanding Oliphant's principle of racial discrimination : Nevada v. Hicks -- The court's schizophrenic approach to Indian rights : United States v. …”
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Mark Twain unsanctified newspaper reporter / by Caron, James Edward, 1952-

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Legalizing prostitution from illicit vice to lawful business / by Weitzer, Ronald John, 1952-

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Religious interests in community conflict beyond the culture wars /

Table of Contents: “…Penning & Andrew Storteboom -- Sweet land of liberty : the gay marriage amendment in Nevada / David F. Damore, Ted G. Jelen, & Michael W. …”
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Regionalism and the humanities

Table of Contents: “…Moore -- Place is political : creating regional cultures -- State pieces in the U.S. regions puzzle : Nevada and the problem of fit / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Imagining place : Nebraska territory, 1854-1867 / Kurt E. …”
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