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In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance

In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance

by David Thomson

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 330 PAGES

A social history of the state, including the extraordinary spectacle of Las Vegas, organized as a series of literary snapshots told in the first person. (USW213, $14.00)

Eyewitness Guide Las Vegas

Eyewitness Guide Las Vegas

by Eyewitness Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 208 PAGES

Gorgeously illustrated and filled with full-color neighborhood and regional maps, this compact book is a good overview of Las Vegas, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. (SWU198, $23.00)

Las Vegas Map

by Borch Maps

  • MAP

A laminated, folded map of Las Vegas. (SWU41, $8.95)

 
Fodor's Las Vegas' 25 Best

Fodor's Las Vegas' 25 Best


by Fodor's Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 176 PAGES

A shirt-pocket guide and map, this slim book includes a pull-out map of the city and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing. (USW471, $12.99)

Time Out Las Vegas

Time Out Las Vegas


by Time Out

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

A practical guide to Vegas with a focus on restaurants, attractions and activities. (USW346, $19.95)

About Looking

About Looking


by John Berger

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1991
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

A collection of essays by the novelist, art critic, and farmer John Berger, which belongs on the shelf of every intellectually curious traveler. (GEN119, $15.95)

Las Vegas, An Unconventional History


by Michael Murphy | Stephen Ives

  • HISTORY
  • 2005
  • DVD

A PBS documentary on the story of Las Vegas, from its beginnings until about 1970. (SWU271, $24.99)

Neon Metropolis, How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century


by Hal Rothman

  • HISTORY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

An insightful study on the often-quirky history of this uniquely American city, with emphasis on social history, culture, urban planning and architecture. (SWU268, $34.95)

Sun, Sin and Suburbia: An Essential History of Modern Las Vegas


by Richard Bryan | Geoff Schumacher

  • HISTORY
  • 2004
  • HARD COVER
  • 272 PAGES

Schumacher covers the last 20 years of Las Vegas history in depth, beginning with a brief overview of the city's 19th-century origins, then moving on to the infamous Strip, the legacies of Howard Hughes and Steve Wynn, and the development of downtown and residential communities. An uncommon look at the city of sin. (USW478, $22.95)

Super Casino, Inside the New Las Vegas


by Pete Earley

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 512 PAGES

A candid portrait of the casino management, dealers, prostitutes, security officers, gamblers and other figures of Las Vegas. (USW253, $7.99)

Learning from Las Vegas

Learning from Las Vegas


by Robert Venturi | Steven Izenour | Denise S. Brown

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 1977
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

A seminal discourse on urban sprawl and the gaudy, many-splendored architecture of Las Vegas. (USW242, $25.95)

24/7, Living it Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas


by Andres Martinez

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

Former Wall St. Journal reporter Andres Martinez takes his $50,000 book advance to Las Vegas to try his luck at the casinos for a month. (USW255, $15.00)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream


by Hunter S. Thompson

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 204 PAGES

The classic of 1970s gonzo journalism and a dizzying chronicle of a duo's drug-induced misadventures and scrapes with the people of Las Vegas. (USW254, $14.95)

Divisadero

Divisadero


by Michael Ondaatje

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 273 PAGES

Ondaatje weaves several stories into an interconnected, lushly depicted tale of family, desire and dislocation in this novel, which moves back-and-forth in time from San Francisco to Nevada's casinos and, eventually, to south-central France. (FRN665, $15.00)

Basin and Range


by John McPhee

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 1990
  • PAPER
  • 216 PAGES

McPhee's illuminating account of travels in the company of geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes along Route 80 from Utah to California. (GEO13, $15.00)

Cadillac Desert, The American West and Its Disappearing Water

Cadillac Desert, The American West and Its Disappearing Water


by Marc Reisner

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 582 PAGES

A definitive history of water development in the American desert -- and a now-classic chronicle of wrong-headed policies and misadventures controlling the great rivers of the West. (USW246, $18.00)

Desert Solitaire

Desert Solitaire


by Edward Abbey

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 1990
  • PAPER
  • 303 PAGES
  • FAVORITE

One of the great works on the value of the desert, eloquent and laugh-out-loud funny. Although Abbey writes specifically about his experiences as a ranger at Arches National Park outside Moab, Utah, his message is universal. (DES02, $14.95)

Earthtones, A Nevada Album


by Ann Ronald | Stephen Trimble

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 136 PAGES

A handsomely illustrated portrait capturing the diversity of landscapes, people and culture of Nevada. (SWU51, $27.95)

The Sagebrush Ocean, a Natural History of the Great Basin

The Sagebrush Ocean, a Natural History of the Great Basin


by Jennifer Dewey | Stephen Trimble

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 136 PAGES

A classic natural history of the Great Basin. Trimble evokes the mystery, beauty, geology, and life of the region. With a map, 44 color, and 92 black-and-white photos. (USW365, $39.95)

National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States: Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah

National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States: Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah


by Peter Alden

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

A compact photographic guide to the wildflowers, trees, mosses, butterflies, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of the American Southwest. (SWU14, $19.95)

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