Traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from many writers over the years.

Safe Passages brings together in a single volume the latest information on the emerging science of road ecology as it relates to mitigating interactions between

For decades, nuclear testing in America's southwest was shrouded in secrecy, with images gradually made public of mushroom clouds blooming over the desert. Now,

Culture-to-culture encounters between "natives" and "aliens" have gone on for centuries in the American Southwest—among American Indian tribes, between Americ

Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity