First published in 1946, Mammals of Nevada is a monumental work. Hall and a team of more than sixty scientists, graduate students, and staff members of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in Kansas spent innumerable hours trapping, preparing, studying, and documenting thousands of specimens found within the state.... more

Nevada has an extraordinary diversity of minerals, some of them unique to the state and some the focus of human exploitation for millennia.... more

The memoir of a scientist and the wild silk moths he studies Biologist Michael Collins has been studying wild silk moths since he was a boy.... more