Take a look inside Nevada Rock Art at photo-eye.com

Posted on March 19, 2013 by BRI

Nevada Rock Art contains rarely seen images that are themselves artifacts of fieldwork conducted throughout the back roads, valleys, summits, drainages, and mountain ridges of Nevada. From the northernmost wildlife refuge to the sun-blasted southern tip of creosote-bush country, the process of photographing is itself a testimonial to better than two decades of exploring and experiencing Nevada’s beguilingly diverse landscapes.

Nevada Rock Art

Nevada Rock Art by Peter Goin

Take a look inside the book at photo-eye Bookstore | Peter Goin: Nevada Rock Art | photobooks.

Click here to order Nevada Rock Art from photo.eye

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Black Rock (paperback)

Posted on March 19, 2013 by BRI


The Black Rock is a desert realm the size of Delaware about one hundred miles north of Reno, Nevada.

Shaped by water, wind, geothermal activity, and human interaction since ancient times, the desolate, haunting landscape nonetheless teems with life in forms that have endured for millennia.

In a brilliant duet, a photographer and a geographer explore this eloquent, enigmatic landscape that has been the focus of study and contemplation by scientists, explorers, naturalists, overland sojourners, and artists.

 

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Museum of New Mexico Press order form for retailers and individuals.

Friends of Black Rock / High Rock online store or office in Gerlach, Nevada.

Center for Basque Studies online store at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Amazon.com offers a Look Inside!

Black Rock Institute Press

 

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Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert

Posted on March 19, 2013 by BRI

 

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Sundance Books and Music online or store in Reno, Nevada.

In person at the Churchill County Museum store in Fallon, Nevada.

Amazon.com

Black Rock Institute Press, paperback: $30.00 

Black Rock Institute Press, hardback: $60.00 

Visit our Contact page for more information or to ask us a question.

Buy a copy today!  Available paper-bound or hard-bound.

Author, Michon Mackedon, presenting her Award winning, new book Bombast:  Spinning Atoms in the Desert (2010) at the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno.

 

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December 7, 2012 Mackedon to present at the Carson Valley Sertoma Club in Gardnerville, Nevada

Posted on November 30, 2012 by BRI

On Friday, December 7th at the Carson Valley Sertoma Club meeting Michon Mackedon will speak about her book Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert. 

The weekly meetings are held on Friday morning at 7:00 a.m. at Sharkey’s Casino in the Rib Room.  Get more information about this event at the Carson Valley Sertoma Club website.

 

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December 20, 2012 Mackedon at Red Hawk Events Center in Sparks, Nevada

Posted on November 30, 2012 by BRI

On Thursday, December 20th at the Sparks Centennial Sunrise Rotary Club meeting Michon Mackedon will speak about her book Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert. 

Meetings are weekly, Thursday morning, 7:00 a.m. at the Red Hawk Events Center in Wingfield Springs.    For more information about the Rotary of Sparks visit www.sparkscentennialrotary.com

 

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August 14 – Rotary Club of Minden program includes local Author- Michon Mackedon

Posted on July 5, 2012 by BRI
Michon Mackedon is scheduled to speak on August 14, 2012 at Rotary Club of Minden, Nevada meeting.  Michon is the Author of Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert (2010).Courtesy of the U.S. Department of EnergyThe Minden Rotary Club meets Tuesdays at 12:00 PM, at the Carson Valley Inn – 1627 Hwy 395 N. – Minden, Nevada.   More information about the Rotary Club of Minden at http://mindenrotary.org/

Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert is a crucial linchpin in Atomic Revival studies. Michon Mackedon recounts Nevada’s relationship with the nuclear industry and a host of players including the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Energy, scientists, military men, and journalists. With “an awareness born of deceit” shared by other Nevadans, Mackedon considers the manipulated language and imagery doled out by the atomic industry to make the unsafe appear safe and the unthinkable, thinkable. This second book published by Black Rock Institute Press is an environmentally charged survey of nuclear culture in the “Silver State.” Augmented with “Atomic Pop” images of the nuclear era, this book is an ironic, dead-serious, no-holds barred post-mortem that lights up Nevada’s nuclear industry.
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July 5th – Mackedon to present at Mensa Annual Gathering

Posted on April 7, 2012 by BRI

Mensa 2012 Annual Gathering in Reno, Nevada

PROGRAM NAME: Nuclear Propaganda in the American West

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Drawing on research undertaken while writing Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert, Mackedon will explore ways in which Orwellian imagery has been implemented by nuclear agencies and industries to marginalize populations living in the shadow of nuclear projects and to disguise the dangers of atomic testing and permanent high level nuclear waste disposal in the American West.  The talk will be accompanied by slides of atomic testing and include descriptions of instances where specific propaganda tropes were and still are used to mollify or intimidate affected populations.

SPEAKER NAME(S): Michon Mackedon

SPEAKER BIO:

MICHON MACKEDON: Michon Mackedon is professor emerita, English and humanities, Western Nevada College. For 22 years, she served as vice chairman of the Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects.  Her recently published book, Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert (Reno: Black Rock Institute Press, 2010) has won multiple awards, including the Foreword Review Book of the Year in Regional Non-fiction.  Mackedon and her husband, Michael, live in Fallon, Nevada, where they raised their four children. For more information, contact Michon at mackedon@phonewave.net, or visit www.spinningatoms.com.

Scheduled for:

DATE: Thursday, 07/05/2012

START TIME: 10:30 AM

END TIME: 11:45 AM

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May 29, Mackedon speaks at Yerington, NV Rotary meeting

Posted on April 6, 2012 by BRI

Rotary of Yerington, Nevada
Dini’s Lucky Club
Tuesday @ 7:00 PM

Michon Mackedon, Author of Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert is scheduled to speak at the May 29th Rotary of Yerington meeting.

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Mackedon speaks at Yerington Lions Club May 8th

Posted on April 6, 2012 by BRI

Michon Mackedon, Author of Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert is scheduled to speak May 8th at the Yerington Lions Club.

Lions Club House
7 North West St.
Yerington NV 89447

Meetings
Every Tuesday 7pm

http://www.yeringtonlions.org/contact.html

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Mackedon speaks May 17th for Fernley Rotary

Posted on April 6, 2012 by BRI

May 17, 2012

SCHEDULED SPEAKER:  Michon Mackedon, author

SPEAKER’S TOPIC:  Nuclear Testing History of Nevada

More information at the Fernley Rotary website: http://www.fernleyrotary.org/

MEETING TIME AND LOCATION: Thursdays, 11:30-1:00 (meeting begins at noon), Crosswinds Church, 3015 Farm District Road, Fernley, Nevada

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