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Bright Light City

Author : Larry Gragg
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700619038
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Bright Light City written by Larry Gragg and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Elvis crooned "Bright light city . . . gonna set my soul on fire," he voiced and embraced the siren call of a glittering urban utopia that continues to mesmerize millions. Call it Sin City or Lost Wages, Las Vegas definitely deserves its rapturous "Viva!" Larry Gragg, however, invites readers to view Las Vegas in an entirely new way. While countless other authors have focused on its history or gaming industry or entertainment ties, Gragg considers how popular culture has depicted the city and its powerful allure over its first century. Drawing on hundreds of films, television programs, novels, and articles, Gragg identifies changing trends in the city's portraits. Until the 1940s, boosters promoted it as the "last frontier town," a place where prospectors and cowboys enjoyed liquor, women, and wide-open gambling. Then in the early 1950s commentators increasingly characterized Las Vegas as a sophisticated resort city in the desert, and ever since then journalists, filmmakers, and novelists have depicted a city largely built by organized crime and featuring non-stop entertainment, gambling, luxury, and, of course, beautiful-and available-women. In Gragg's narrative, these images form a kaleidoscope of lights, sounds, characters, and ultimately amazement about this neon oasis. In these pages, readers will meet gangsters like Bugsy Siegel, Tony Spilotro, and Lefty Rosenthal, as well as Las Vegas's most popular entertainers: Elvis Presley, Sinatra's Rat Pack, Liberace, and Wayne Newton, not to mention the Folies Bergere showgirls. And Gragg's skillful interweaving of fictional and journalistic accounts of organized crime shows just how mutually reinforcing they have become over the years. Vegas will always make people's eyes light up as bright as the Strip, witness the new TV show Vegas or the recent film The Hangover. For everyone entranced by its glitter and glamour, Bright Light City is a must read boasting color photos and bursting with insider details: an eclectic blend of stories, people, sights, and sounds that together make up this desert city's extraordinary appeal.

Bright Light City

Author : Michael Hodjera
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059583857X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Bright Light City written by Michael Hodjera and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-05-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ULTIMATE HOSTILE TAKEOVER A visitor from beyond the solar system is planet shopping. A member of a dying species, he is looking for new real estate to annex. He finds it on planet earth. PLANET FOR SALE A genius at economics, he devises a plan to take over the planet without a single shot being fired. By masterfully manipulating a political and economic climate characterized by relaxed standards and minimal oversight, he surreptitiously succeeds in building a vast financial empire that transcends national boundaries and grows to encompass the balance of the world's vulnerable energy resources. Now he is only a couple of acquisitions away from checkmate in a game that must spell doom for humanity. At ground zero the task of preventing the total annihilation of the human species falls to two unlikely people-an entertainer and a recovering vampiress. The entertainer is none other than the King himself, Elvis Presley who, contrary to common belief, is alive and well and currently living incognito on the Big Island of Hawaii. The vampire is his sultry and mysterious longtime girlfriend, Desdemona. Together they are headed for a showdown with a formidable, soulless menace in the city that never sleeps. And the stakes could scarcely be higher .

A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World. 1872. Thirteenth Edition

Author : Alexander George Findlay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World. 1872. Thirteenth Edition written by Alexander George Findlay and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Name Is Aram

Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486490904
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book My Name Is Aram written by William Saroyan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marvelously captivating." — The New York Times. First published in 1940, Saroyan's international bestseller recounts the exploits of an Armenian clan in northern California at the turn of the 20th century. Based on the author's loving and eccentric extended family, the characters in these 14 related short stories provide humorous and touching scenes from immigrant life.

Arts of Wonder

Author : Jeffrey L. Kosky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226451062
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Arts of Wonder written by Jeffrey L. Kosky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kosky focuses on a handful of artists - Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy - to show how they introduce spaces hospitable to mystery and wonder, redemption and revelation, and transcendence and creation.

Darkness to Light

Author : Lamar Odom
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1948836203
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Darkness to Light written by Lamar Odom and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Fame. Sex. Pain. Drugs. Death. Booze. Money. Addiction. Redemption. Dizzying heights. Rock-bottom depths. Desperation and elation—sometimes in the same hour. Not to mention power . . . and the struggle for it. The world knows Lamar Odom as a two-time NBA world champion who rocketed to uncharted heights of fame thanks to being a member of both the storied Los Angeles Lakers and the ubiquitous Kardashian empire. But who is Lamar, really? Fans have long praised his accessibility and genuine everyman quality—he is a blinding talent who has suffered a series of heartaches, setback, and loss. But until now, his most candid moments have remained behind closed doors . . . sometimes face-down on the floor. In Darkness to Light, Lamar gives readers an intimate look into his life like never before. His exclusive and revealing memoir recounts the highs and lows of fame and his struggle with his demons along the way to self-discovery and redemption. From the pain of his unraveled marriage to Khloé Kardashian to the harmful vices he used to cope—and the near-death experience that made him rethink everything about his life—this is Lamar as you have never before seen him. Lamar brings basketball fans directly into the action of a game during the Lakers championship years. He shares his personal account of the lifelong passion that started as one shining light in a childhood marked by loss and led to his international fame as one of the most extraordinary athletes of all time. In this profoundly honest book, Lamar invites you to walk with him through the good times and bad, while looking ahead to a brighter future.

A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World, 1887

Author : Alexander G. Findlay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World, 1887 written by Alexander G. Findlay and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Petrol In My Blood

Author : Eric Jackson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300398019
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Petrol In My Blood written by Eric Jackson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shadow of Spirit

Author : Philippa Berry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134920040
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Shadow of Spirit written by Philippa Berry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By illuminating the striking affinity between the most innovative aspects of postmodern thought and religious mystical discourse, Shadow of Spirit challenges the long established assumption that western thought is committed to nihilism. This collection of essays by internationally recognised scholars explores the implications of the fascination with the `sacred', `divine' or `infinite' which characterizes much contemporary thought. It shows how these concerns have surfaced in the work of Derrida, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Kristeva, Irigaray and others. Examining the connection between this postmodern `turn' and the current search for a new discourse of ethics and politics, it also stresses the contribution made by feminist thought to this unexpected intellectual direction.

A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Disfiguring

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226791333
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Disfiguring written by Mark C. Taylor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disfiguring is constructive or, perhaps more accurately, reconstructive. By exploring the religious dimensions of twentieth-century painting and architecture, he shows how the visual arts continue to serve as a rich resource for the theological imagination.

The Sonoran Desert

Author : Eric Magrane
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816531234
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Sonoran Desert written by Eric Magrane and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert cottontail // Sylvilagus audubonii - Simmons B. Buntin

The Universalist Leader

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Universalist Leader written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Touring California and Nevada Hot Springs

Author : Matt C. Bischoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493029126
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Touring California and Nevada Hot Springs written by Matt C. Bischoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're seeking a soak in naturally heated mineral water or out for a sightseeing adventure, this fully updated and revised color edition of Touring California and Nevada Hot Springs guides you to more than 100 of the best sites for soaking in the beauty of the region. Historian and veteran outdoors author Matt Bischoff reveals his favorite "hot spots," from primitive pools in the backcountry to handcrafted bathhouses surrounded by civilization. Look inside to find: Full-color photos Color, GPS-compatible maps and detailed directions Historical background information on the springs and their surroundings Tips on safety, access, and availability of services Best time of year, restrictions, water temperature, camping info, and much more

Playing Tahoe

Author : Sandra Hochman
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1683365275
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Playing Tahoe written by Sandra Hochman and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turner Publishing is proud to present a new edition of Sandra Hochman's, Playing Tahoe First published by Wyndham Books in 1981, Hochman's fifth novel is an unsparing and no-holds-barred look at the music business through the eyes of a woman who bets it all. From the Wyndham edition: At age forty she was Americas greatest pop lyricist. From rock and roll through new wave, Sylvia Lundholm and her composer-partner Nick Dimani made millions while creating the platinum records in which millions found the sound of their own longing and joy. Set against the background of the rock and roll music business in New York City and the casinos and hotels and ski lifts of Lake Tahoe, Playing Tahoe captures that specific moment in Sylvia Lundholm's life when she recognized that love was the one song she could not write, and that only by breaking with the superhype celebrity of her career might she learn in the hands of her new lover. Revson Cranwell was the male courtesan every woman wanted. He was cold, well-bred, indifferent. But he made her hot. She had everything else that money could buy. Now she wanted him. He was her song, her lover, her best friend. She would kill for him. But he would make that unnecessary. In Tahoe, at Harrah’s, where Dimani is performing, Sylvia and Dimani meet to create a last great album that will cover the world with his music. But as the tendrils of Dimani's music threaten to clutch Sylvia back into the world she is so desperate to leave, the clash between her passion for Revson and Dimani's desperation for Sylvia’s poetry erupts into cold-blooded violence. Playing Tahoe will give you insight into the world of rock and roll and big casinos. But above all it will teach you the games of a woman who, gambling for love, desperately wants to hold on to the richness of her own life. Sandra Hochman has created a novel that explores the guts of a woman in the midst of a change, who will overturn the American Dream to follow a stranger, Revson, who is a new antihero of modern fiction.

Soul Survivor

Author : Mike Pilavachi
Publisher : Gospel Light Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780830733248
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Soul Survivor written by Mike Pilavachi and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the purpose of the spiritual desert - those times when you feel distanced from your dreams and goals? This is your chance to discover meaning in the dry places. Mike Pilavachi, leader and founder of the Soul Survivor youth movement, has touched and inspired thousands with his message that the desert is ultimately a place we should desire to be. Like a crucible, the desert burns away all of the waste in our lives, giving way to pure character and humility, Only when we come to the end of ourselves and our desire for independence can we come to the beginning of God.

Seeing Silence

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226820033
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Silence written by Mark C. Taylor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Finding silence amidst restlessness is what makes creative life possible-and death comprehensible. But how do we find-more importantly, how do we "understand"-silence while immersed in the chattering of the digital age? Have we forgotten how to listen? Are we less prepared than ever for the ultimate silence that awaits us all? Mark C. Taylor's new book is a philosophy of silence for our nervous, buzzing present, a timely work for a world where noise is a means of distraction, domination, and control. Here Taylor asks the reader to pause long enough to hear what is not said, and to attend to what remains unsayable. But in his account, our way to "hearing" silence is to "see" it: Taylor explores variations of silence by considering the work of leading modem and postmodern visual artists, from Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt to James Turrell and Anish Kapoor. Drawing also on the insights of philosophers, theologians, writers, and composers, he weaves a rich narrative modeled on the Stations of the Cross. "We come from and return to silence; in between, silence is the gap, hesitation, interval that allows thoughts to form and words to emerge," he writes. His chapter titles suggest our positions toward silence--or rather, our pre-positions: Without. Before. From. Beyond. Against. Within. Around. Between. Toward. With. In. Recasting Hegel's phenomenology of spirit and Kierkegaard's stages on life's way, Taylor translates the traditional "Via Dolorosa" into a Nietzschean "Via Jubilosa" that affirms silence in the midst of noise, light in the midst of darkness"--