Author Archives: Black Rock Institute
New! Colors of California Agriculture
“Colors of California Agriculture” (2018) by Peter Goin and Paul F. Starrs is now available! Order your copy today. Continue reading
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Take a look inside Nevada Rock Art at photo-eye.com
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 … Continue reading
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Black Rock (paperback)
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged American West, Arborglyphs, Art, Black Rock, Black Rock Desert, Burning Man, Geography, Gerlach, Nevada, History, Landscape, Map, Nevada, Paul F. Starrs, Peter Goin, Photography
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Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert
This book is for those interested in how and why manipulated language and imagery doled out by the atomic industry become parts of our lives. Continue reading
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Tagged Black Rock Institute Press, Gerlach, Nevada, History, Language, Michon Mackedon, Nevada, Nuclear, Nuclear History, Peter Goin, Regional Geography, Reno, Nevada, University of Nevada, Reno
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Death After Life: Tales of Nevada
The Black Rock Institute Press is pleased to introduce our latest publication by William A. Douglass – Death After Life: Tales of Nevada (2015). Now available at local book and gift stores in Reno, Nevada, visit a retailer or order your book … Continue reading
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Douglass in Winnemcca Oct. 22nd
Winnemucca, Nevada – More information about the Humboldt Museum http://humboldtmuseum.org – Get your copy of “Death After Life ~ Tales of Nevada” in the Museum Store.
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Douglass in Elko Oct. 21st
Elko, Nevada – More information about the Northeastern Nevada Museum http://museumelko.org – Get your copy of “Death After Life ~ Tales of Nevada” in the Museum Store.
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Douglass in Winnemucca
William “Bill” Douglass will be featured at the Humboldt Museum in Winnemucca, NV on Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 1pm Join us for a book reading and signing with Bill and his latest publication Death After Life: Tales of Nevada Located off … Continue reading
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Douglass event at Sundance Books & Music, May 14, Reno, NV
A man of untold yet startling talents is suggested in the stories by Bill Douglass in a new fictional work, Death After Life – Tales of Nevada. Book Reading & Signing – Saturday, May 14, 2 to 3 pm, … Continue reading
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Douglass wins Award!
Death After Life: Tales of Nevada by William Douglass chosen as a NABE Winter 2016 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winner, Best Book in the category Historical Fiction. Congratulations! This project is funded, in part, by a grant from the Nevada … Continue reading
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