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Publisher : American Dreams
ISBN 13 : 9781599751412
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Las Vegas Dreams written by and published by American Dreams. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynn M. Zook
Publisher : America Through Time
ISBN 13 : 9781634990677
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Gambling on a Dream written by Lynn M. Zook and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone thinks they know the history of the Las Vegas Strip. But the real story is both fascinating and not well known. What was there before the Bellagio, the Wynn, the Venetian, or those empty plots of land that look out of place? Why is the Flamingo one of the oldest and most surviving hotels on the boulevard? From conception to implosion, you get the detailed histories of the hotels built during those formative years, including the El Rancho Vegas, Hotel Last Frontier, Flamingo, Thunderbird, Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn, Sahara, Sands, Royal Nevada, Riviera, and the Dunes. Included in these histories are architectural designs, the neon signage, and how each of the hotels evolved. This book also includes rarely seen, historic imagery. The dreamers, who saw the future like few others and who built these hotels, helped turn a five-mile stretch of blacktop highway into the Entertainment Capital of the World. This is the story of the first twenty-five years of the Classic Las Vegas Strip--how it began, and how it grew.
Author : Pete Earley
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307429733
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Super Casino written by Pete Earley and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and probing book, award-winning author Pete Earley traces the extraordinary evolution of Las Vegas -- from the gaudy Mecca of the Rat Pack era to one of the country's top family vacation spots. He revisits the city's checkered history of moguls, mobsters, and entertainers, reveals the real stories of well-known power brokers like Steve Wynn and legends like Howard Hughes and Bugsy Siegel, and offers a fascinating portrait of the life, death, and fantastic rebirth of the Las Vegas Strip. Earley also documents the gripping tale of the entrepreneurs behind the rise and fall and rise again of one of the largest gaming corporations in the nation, Circus Circus -- to which he was given unique access. In his trademark you-are-there style, he takes us behind the scenes to meet the blackjack dealers and hookers, the heavy hitters and bit players, the security officers, cabbies, and showgirls who are caught up in the mercurial pace that pulses at the heart of this astounding city.
Author : Paul W. Papa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493070339
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Haunted Las Vegas written by Paul W. Papa and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas ... including the ghosts, unexplained phenomenon, and other spooky happenings. The strip is much more than bright lights, gambling, wild shows, and quick marriage ceremonies. Haunted Las Vegas reveals the true mysteries of Sin City and brings the old legends to life in a chilling way. The Flamingo: Listed as one of the ten most haunted sites in America by the Wall Street Journal, the Flamingo Hotel is home to the ghost of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. A known gangster, Bugsy is often called the man who invented Las Vegas. Even though he was killed in Hollywood, his ghost reportedly remains at the Flamingo. The Demon Swing: In the dead of night, many people reportedly see smoke or mist surrounding Fox Ridge Park, home of the boy ghost on the demon swing. It is unknown how the ghost ended up in the park, but beware of this unfriendly boy--he is known to push people off the swings. [reading line] Eerie Tales and Spine-Tingling Stories From America's Sin City
Author : Cele C. Otnes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520937505
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Cinderella Dreams written by Cele C. Otnes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture—romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture. With an emphasis on North American society, Cele C. Otnes and Elizabeth H. Pleck show how the elaborate wedding means far more than a mere triumph for the bridal industry. Through interviews, media accounts, and wide-ranging research and analysis, they expose the wedding's reflection—or reproduction—of fundamental aspects of popular consumer culture: its link with romantic love, its promise of magical transformation, its engendering of memories, and its legitimization of consumption as an expression of perfection. As meaningful as any prospective bride might wish, the lavish wedding emerges here as a lens that at once reveals, magnifies, and reveres some of the dearest wishes and darkest impulses at the heart of our culture.
Author : Ricardo Miguez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144380701X
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book American Dreams written by Ricardo Miguez and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholars included in this collection sought to indicate more contemporary working definitions for the expression "American Dream", or rather Dreams. The multidisciplinary selections come from many countries and represent scholars from different backgrounds. They reflect the current developments and approaches in the field of US Studies and we hope to help broaden the scope of programs in higher education institutions. The chapters are thematically organized in two sections: “Initial Dialogues” and “Comparative Dialogues.” The first one comprises essays that set the foundations for our discussions and intends to familiarize newcomers with the theme. The second section extends the possibilities of working comparatively with the American Dreams and a number of other interdisciplinary fields of interest for US Studies programs.
Author : Jim Bickford
Publisher : Jim Bickford
ISBN 13 : 9781620304983
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book American Comeback written by Jim Bickford and published by Jim Bickford. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cheryl Bradshaw
Publisher : Pixie Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Scandalous Dreams written by Cheryl Bradshaw and published by Pixie Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rae. Sasha. Callie. Kenna. Four lifelong friends. Four women looking for love. Scandalous Dreams: Vegas Dreams #2, Sasha's Story After one too many years spent living with her lying, cheating husband Damon, Sasha finally gets the courage to file for divorce. Only problem? Damon isn’t about to let her go. As his obsession grows, Sasha turns to dashing Irish attorney Gideon O’Shea for help, but Damon isn’t about to concede. He’ll do anything to keep her. ANYTHING. The Vegas Dreams series includes four novellas: Sweet Dreams (Rae's Story) Scandalous Dreams (Sasha's Story) Stolen Dreams (Callie's Story) Summer Dreams (Kenna's Story)
Author : Stacey Lynn
Publisher : Stacey Lynn
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Dream Maker written by Stacey Lynn and published by Stacey Lynn. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thing I expect is to wake up, married to my teammate's little sister. Not only do I have to worry about facing the wrath of my best friend, I'm beginning to think staying married might be the best idea I've ever had. MORE DETAILS COMING SOON
Author : Mary Ann Caws
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134296053
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book City Images written by Mary Ann Caws and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1991. Knowing any real city, and still more so, knowing what it is to know a city, may be as much about passive as about active experience. What we read in the field-that field of the city in all its bizarre mixture of culture and nature-is bound to determine, to some non-fictional extent, what we know of it, what we imagine it could be, what we fear it may be, or become. These essays are meant to be, albeit in their critical mode, the recountings of knowing something through something else: they are the projected imagination, through reading, of the reading by the self and/or others (a wide range of each) of a city, or cities as such, of what city-knowing or city-thinking is. The city as stage, market, and labyrinth, variously trafficked and aestheticized, dreamt and politicized, as passionately written by authors from Cicero to Kazin, from Wordsworth, Dickens, Whitman, and Woolf, to Williams, Ashbery, and Bonnefoy, is the place the essays play themselves out, through architecture and metaphor.
Author : The Project on Vegas The Project on Vegas
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375230
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Strip Cultures written by The Project on Vegas The Project on Vegas and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "hot babes," actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night. It’s loud and excessive, but, as the Project on Vegas demonstrates, the Strip is not a world apart. Combining written critique with more than one hundred photographs by Karen Klugman, Strip Cultures examines the politics of food and water, art and spectacle, entertainment and branding, body and sensory experience. In confronting the ordinary on America’s most famous four-mile stretch of pavement, the authors reveal how the Strip concentrates and magnifies the basic truths and practices of American culture where consumerism is the stuff of life, digital surveillance annuls the right to privacy, and nature—all but destroyed—is refashioned as an element of decor.
Author : Stephen Duncombe
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 1682191834
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Dream or Nightmare written by Stephen Duncombe and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream or Nightmare is a book of left wing strategy like no other: It proposes that, to compete with the right, progressives cannot depend on reason and hard fact. They must also deploy drama in the battle of ideas. Donald Trump’s presidency has shown how this is done, albeit to ends that are deplorable. Abandoning logic and truth, the Fabulist in Chief conjures up spectacle to energize his base. Troops are dispatched to counter a fictional threat from convoys of helpless refugees. A powerful Supreme Court nominee is reduced to tears by accusations from a woman who has been sexually assaulted. Open fascists are described as “good people,” physical attacks on journalists are lauded in front of cheering crowds. If they are to engage with this Barnum-like politics, leftists must learn how to communicate in today’s “vernacular of the spectacular,” invoking symbol and emotion themselves, as well as truth. Matching the right in this fashion does not mean adopting its values. Rather Duncombe sets out what he calls a politics of “ethical spectacle.” Of extraordinary relevance to the dark carnival of contemporary politics, this new edition of the book formerly known as Dream sets out an electrifying new vision of progressive politics that is both persuasive and provocative. Stephen Duncombe is Professor of Media and Culture at New York University and author and editor of six books on the intersection of culture and politics. Duncombe, a life-long political activist, co-founded a community-based advocacy group in the Lower East Side of Manhattan which won an award for “Creative Activism” from the Abbie Hoffman Foundation, and is currently co-director of the Center for Artistic Activism, a research and training organization that helps activists create more like artists and artists strategize more like activists.
Author : Eric Wargo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1644112701
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self written by Eric Wargo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Outlines a set of clear principles to help guide dreamworkers, illustrated through real precognitive dream experiences • Shows how to detect precognitive dreams through their characteristic features, explaining how dreams relate to memory and why dreams about future experiences are often symbolic or distorted • Explores the mind-blowing implications of precognition for our lives, including how our present thoughts actually shape--or shaped--our past Once only the stuff of science fiction, evidence has grown that precognition--glimpses of your future in dreams and visions and being influenced subtly in waking life by what is to come--is real. Your future thoughts and feelings shape who you are now. And your present thoughts and feelings shape--or shaped--your past. In this accessible exploration of precognition, precognitive dreamwork, and a radically new biographical sensibility, the Long Self, that precognition awakens us to, Eric Wargo shows how dreamworkers can play the role of citizen scientists, adding to our understanding of this fascinating, almost unexplored dimension of human life. Wargo outlines a set of clear principles to guide dreamworkers, each illustrated through real dreamers’ experiences. Drawing on psychoanalysis and contemporary sleep science, he explores how precognition relates to memory, explaining why dreams of future experiences are often distorted and what those distortions probably mean. He discusses never-before-described dream features, including “time gimmicks” (symbols hinting at time distortion) and “calendrical resonance” (the tendency of dreams to foretell experiences exactly a year or years later). He describes why an understanding of precognition augments Jung’s theory of synchronicity by highlighting our own role in producing meaningful coincidences in our waking lives. He also shows how precognition manifests in other states of consciousness like lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, trance states, sleep paralysis, meditation, and hypnagogia. We are at a major turning point in science’s understanding of time, causality, and the self. We are more than who we think we are from moment to moment--we are our past, present, and future simultaneously. When we understand this, a dream journal becomes a personal time machine, with mind-blowing discoveries in store for the traveler.
Author : Pat Mulligan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1425950086
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (259 download)
Download or read book The Life and Times of a Hollywood Bad Boy written by Pat Mulligan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story and raw exposition of a Baby Boomer's life growing up in a decadent sub culture of society. It's an autobiographical account of a child-man growing up as an impoverished elder son of seven. With his father in prison and his mother fighting alcoholism, he discovers that humor is the panacea for pain. The Life and Times of a Hollywood Bad Boy has some very funny anecdotes about the New York night life in the 70's, the Hollywood scene of the 80's and the Vegas explosion during the 90's. There are great stories about celebrities such as Robert DeNiro, Andy Garcia, Robin Williams and other comics who have been in the limelight for over 20 years. " an entertaining and funny read." Tress Wright, Producer/Writer/Director. "It's an honest, unabashed and candid account of a life lived in the fast lane of the Autobahn!" Ron Stevens, CEO of All Star Radio Networks.
Author : Aaron M. Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317512472
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Gambling with the Myth of the American Dream written by Aaron M. Duncan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the rise and increased acceptance of gambling in America, particularly the growth of the game of poker, as a means for examining changes to the American Dream and the risk society. Poker both critiques and reinterprets the myth of the American Dream, putting greater emphasis on the importance of luck and risk management while deemphasizing the importance of honesty and hard work. Duncan discusses the history of gambling in America, changes to the rhetoric surrounding gambling, the depiction of poker in the Wild West as portrayed in film, its recent rise in popularity on television, its current place in post-modern America on the internet, and future implications.
Author : Wayde Gilchrist
Publisher : The Idea Store Inc
ISBN 13 : 0984338519
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Dream Interpretation by Example written by Wayde Gilchrist and published by The Idea Store Inc. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream expert Wayde Gilchrist teaches you how to interpret your dream by using real dreams from the internet as examples--complete and detailed analysis of 100 actual dreams.
Author : S Thomas
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452023611
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book 1 Dreamy Deal written by S Thomas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
