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Successfully learning English entails engaging with the places and communities around you. Grounded in Nevada brings real-world connections to students’ learning experience. Through stories set in the Silver State, and excerpts from Nevada writers, they will strengthen their reading, writing, speaking, and grammar skills while exploring the state’s histories and cultures. Each chapter encourages learners to connect their own experiences to what they read, allowing them to build confidence, foster agency, and internalize a deeper sense of belonging.

Chapters are organized into four parts: fictional readings about life in Nevada; published fiction and nonfiction by Nevada authors; realistic conversations to support speaking and listening practice; and grammar review and test-preparation activities. Every selection is paired with questions and prompts that invite reflection and discussion. An interactive grammar review appendix provides additional support as students continue developing their English skills and finding their place within Nevada’s communities.

As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, a look at how we got here

Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic considers the time leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing global plummet in commercial flight. Mobility studies scholar Christopher Schaberg tours the newly opened airport terminal outside of New Orleans (MSY) in late 2019, and goes on to survey the broad cultural landscape of empty airports and grounded planes in the early months of the novel coronavirus’s spread in 2020. The book culminates in a reflection on the future of air travel: what may unfold, and what parts of commercial flight are almost certainly relics of the past. Grounded blends journalistic reportage with cultural theory and philosophical inquiry in order to offer graspable insights as well as a stinging critique of contemporary air travel.