Las Vegas 2007 Entertainment Book
Title | Las Vegas 2007 Entertainment Book PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Release | 2006-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781598781533 |
A Photo Tour of Las Vegas
Title | A Photo Tour of Las Vegas PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hudson |
Publisher | Photo Tour Coffee-Table Books |
Total Pages | 155 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9781930495036 |
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.
Weird Las Vegas and Nevada
Title | Weird Las Vegas and Nevada PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Oesterle |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9781402739408 |
A travel guide to Las Vegas that also focusses on the neglection of its historic places.
In The Desert Of Desire
Title | In The Desert Of Desire PDF eBook |
Author | William L. Fox |
Publisher | University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2007-08-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0874176522 |
Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds in satisfying our fantasies of wealth and the excesses of pleasure and consumption that go with it. In this context, Fox examines how Las Vegas’s culture of spectacle has obscured the boundaries between high art and entertainment extravaganza, nature and fantasy, for-profit and nonprofit enterprises. His purview ranges from casino art galleries—including Steve Wynn’s private collection and a branch of the famed Guggenheim Museum—to the underfunded Las Vegas Art Museum; from spectacular casino animal collections like those of magicians Siegfried and Roy and Mandalay Bay’s Shark Reef exhibit to the city’s lack of support for a viable public zoo; from the environmental and psychological impact of lavish water displays in the arid desert to the artistic ambiguities intrinsic to Las Vegas’s floating world of showgirls, lapdancers, and ballet divas. That Las Vegas represents one of the world’s most opulent displays of private material wealth in all its forms, while providing miserly funding for local public amenities like museums and zoos, is no accident, Fox maintains. Nor is it unintentional that the city’s most important collections of art and exotic fauna are presented in the context of casino entertainment, part of the feast of sensation and excitement that seduces millions of visitors each year. Instead, this phenomenon shows how our insatiable modern appetite for extravagance and spectacle has diminished the power of unembellished nature and the arts to teach and inspire us, and demonstrates the way our society privileges private benefit over public good. Given that Las Vegas has been a harbinger of national cultural trends, Fox’s commentary offers prescient insight into the increasing commercialization of nature and culture across America.
Las Vegas Little Red Book
Title | Las Vegas Little Red Book PDF eBook |
Author | Molly Sullivan |
Publisher | Justin, Charles & Co. |
Total Pages | 329 |
Release | 2007-03-26 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1932112480 |
Saucy insider Molly Sullivan shows you that it's not your boyfriend's, husband's, father's or brother's Vegas anymore! Molly's Las Vegas Little Red Book is the perfect entree to that unforgettable no tell weekend for single gals on the prowl, soccer moms on holiday, and all those fabulous fun-seeking women in between!
Las Vegas, the Entertainment Capital
Title | Las Vegas, the Entertainment Capital PDF eBook |
Author | Donn Knepp |
Publisher | Sunset Books/Sunset Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780376055248 |
Looks at celebrities and performers associated with Las Vegas from the forties to the eighties, and discusses the city's history and surrounding attractions
Las Vegas 2018 Entertainment Book
Title | Las Vegas 2018 Entertainment Book PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | |
Release | 2017-07-24 |
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ISBN | 9781609679842 |