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Beyond the Glimmering Lights

Author : Trish Geran
Publisher : Stephens PressLlc
ISBN 13 : 9781932173475
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Glimmering Lights written by Trish Geran and published by Stephens PressLlc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Glimmering Lights relates the struggles, pains, and victories of black residents and entertainers during the most racially unjust period in the history of Las Vegas. Told through the eyes of author and native Las Vegan Trish Geran, she narrates her Aunt Magnolia's life and times in Las Vegas, experiences that occurred from 1942 to 1960 and stories passed on by early settlers. While searching in her aunt's garden, Trish discovers the evidence that proves what she constantly heard while growing up in Las Vegas, that black people played a major role in the development of Las Vegas. Trish Geran, writes a historical saga that is part history and part journey of discovery. She describes the race relations in the city, the unfair treatment in the workplace, the indecent housing conditions and how the black residents developed their own community and Strip.

How to Improve at Soccer

Author : Jim Drewett
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778735694
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book How to Improve at Soccer written by Jim Drewett and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed photographs take readers through step-by-step drills on dribbling, passing, shooting, heading, playing goal, and more. Clear text outlines the rules of the game and discusses staying fit, and the secrets to the success of current stars.

The Strip

Author : Stefan Al
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026203574X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Strip written by Stefan Al and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015—ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the “implosion capital of the world” as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new—offering a non-metaphorical definition of “creative destruction.” In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change. Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts—with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.

Vegas Lights

Author : D. S. Dehel
Publisher : eXtasy Books
ISBN 13 : 1487425163
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Vegas Lights written by D. S. Dehel and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It isn’t easy being a sylph in the twenty-first century, especially one cursed by an ex-boyfriend and hunted by her undine brother, but Sylvie Forrest is ready to start over again in Las Vegas, the city that shimmers with neon colors that take her breath away. The ante gets upped when she rescues singer Xavi Cabrera, lead singer of Aces and Kings, from crazed fans, and he repays her by bringing her into his world. What seems like the luck of the draw may just be chance, or maybe it’s magic. If she can save Xavi from himself, she just may have hit the jackpot this time.

Trick Or Treat in Las Vegas

Author : Eric James
Publisher : Hometown World
ISBN 13 : 9781492686996
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Trick Or Treat in Las Vegas written by Eric James and published by Hometown World. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexpected visitor arrives in town! But who is he? What is he? Where did he come from? Readers will learn the answers to all these questions as they watch the mysterious visitor travel through places they know and love in Las Vegas! Come along and celebrate an unforgettable Halloween night!

Dark Days, Bright Nights

Author : Matthew O'Brien
Publisher : Central Recovery Press
ISBN 13 : 1949481433
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Dark Days, Bright Nights written by Matthew O'Brien and published by Central Recovery Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society. Are you aware that hundreds of people live underground in the flood channels of Las Vegas? Few people were until Matthew O'Brien grabbed a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton for protection and explored the storm-drain system in depth. This research resulted in his landmark book Beneath the Neon. Now the drains have been covered by CNN, Fox News, NPR, Dr. Phil, the New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and many other media outlets. They have even found their way on to popular TV shows, including CSI, Criminal Minds, and into mainstream movies. But the fact that several of these drug- and gambling-addicted tunnel dwellers have clawed their way out of the drains and turned around their lives has received far less attention. Dark Days, Bright Nights shares their harrowing stories and provides a unique perspective on one of America's most fascinating cities. It also paints a larger picture of homelessness and recovery in America. These stories are the happy (though not Hollywood) ending to the infamous tunnel tale. The narrative is complemented by bios and stark, black-and-white images of the survivors, putting a scarred, knowing face to the unblinkingly honest accounts.

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.

Beneath the Neon

Author : Matthew O'Brien
Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 0929712390
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Beneath the Neon written by Matthew O'Brien and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2007-03-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.

My Week at the Blue Angel

Author : Matthew O'Brien
Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Week at the Blue Angel written by Matthew O'Brien and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A savage journey into the heart of Hunter S. Thompson's Las Vegas with the Good Doctor as tour guide. A Lord-of-the-Rings-like adventure in the city's underground flood channels. A seven-day stay at a seedy motel on East Fremont Street. The stories in My Week at the Blue Angel aren't about Steve Wynn, Cirque du Soleil, or how to play poker, and they aren't set in Caesars Palace, XS Nightclub, or a 2,000-seat showroom. They're about prostitutes, ex-cons, and the homeless, and they're set under Caesars Palace and in trailer parks and weekly motels. In this creative nonfiction collection, Matthew O'Brien--author of Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas--and veteran photographer Bill Hughes show a side of the city rarely seen. A side beyond the neon lights, themed facades, and motel-room doors. A side beyond the barbwire fences, No Trespassing signs, and midnight shadows.

The Desert Rose

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447274652
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Desert Rose written by Larry McMurtry and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bittersweet, funny and touching, Larry McMurtry's The Desert Rose is the story of Harmony, a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. Yet she maintains a calm cheerfulness in that arid neon landscape of supermarkets, drive-in wedding chapels, and all-night casinos. While Harmony's star is fading, her beautiful, cynical daughter Pepper's is on the rise. But Harmony remains wistful and optimistic through it all. She is the unexpected blossom in the wasteland, the tough and tender desert rose.

Young Las Vegas

Author : Joan Burkhart Whitely
Publisher : Stephens Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1932173323
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Young Las Vegas written by Joan Burkhart Whitely and published by Stephens Press, LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Las Vegas we know was conceived -- if anybody really conceived it -- in 1931, when Nevada liberalised its divorce and gambling laws, which would ultimately transform the city into America's playground for grown-ups. It was also the year an unprecedented engineering project began, that would turn the Colorado River from a wild killer stream to a wild reservoir that waters not only California vegetables but also sprawling Las Vegas suburbs. From 1905 to 1931, Las Vegas was still a tiny oasis in a big, dangerous desert. Its isolated people made their own swamp coolers, their own entertainment and sometimes their own whiskey. The author, Joan Burkhardt Whitely, enlisted older Las Vegans to help capture the memories of a Mojave Mayberry where neighbours took care of each other, not merely because no one else would, but because it was their hometown, and they cared.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007161232
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue of the novel inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.

The Immersive Worlds Handbook

Author : Scott A. Lukas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0240820932
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Immersive Worlds Handbook written by Scott A. Lukas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industry insider Scott Lukas teaches you how to design exciting, believable, authentic themed spaces. Make your immersive worlds come alive with the gems in this book, including key industry interviews and case studies!

Las Vegas, 1905-1965

Author : Lynn M. Zook
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738569697
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Las Vegas, 1905-1965 written by Lynn M. Zook and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone thinks they know the story of Las Vegas: the showgirls, the gambling, the mob. But Las Vegas has always been much more. Families have lived here since its founding in 1905. After 1931, legalized gaming became the big tourist draw, and following World War II, the town began to market itself as "America's Playground." That is when the famed Las Vegas Strip came into its own and downtown was dubbed "Glitter Gulch." These vintage postcards show how Las Vegas evolved from a dusty railroad town into the "Entertainment Capital of the World," while remaining a city filled with families and pioneering souls.

A Photo Tour of Las Vegas

Author : Andrew Hudson
Publisher : Photo Tour Coffee-Table Books
ISBN 13 : 9781930495036
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book A Photo Tour of Las Vegas written by Andrew Hudson and published by Photo Tour Coffee-Table Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish coffee-table-format tribute to the attractions of Sin City is organized geographically to cover its downtown, north strip, south strip, and "off the strip" areas, in a full-color photographic tour that is complemented by historical information. Simultaneous.

A Valley of Light and Shadow

Author : Jarret Keene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944877088
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Valley of Light and Shadow written by Jarret Keene and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sin City, what does it mean to be "sinful"? And how much do we concede in order to see ourselves as "good"?A Valley of Light and Shadow walks the thin neon line betweensalvation and damnation. Surrounded by cannabis dispensaries and slot machines, these Las Vegas writers find their sense of right and wrong unmoored. Some reach a realization that their earlier moral lines were naively drawn. Others come to terms with the notion that Las Vegas is where good people go to submit to vice or where bad people land, hoping for a second chance. And some celebrate the best parts of Las Vegas, where good people can achieve great things. In this 11th volume of the annual Vegas Writes anthology, 14 local writers share their deepest and most tantalizing stories about surviving in shadow and thriving in light, crafting an enduring message for the future.

Alas Vegas

Author : James Wallis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906402174
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Alas Vegas written by James Wallis and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a shallow grave in the desert to a life-and-death game at the top of the city, ALAS VEGAS is a four-part journey through a nightmare casino city. The book includes the Fugue mechanics, three additional campaigns, a stand-alone story game and contributions by outstanding RPG designers from around the world.