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Essential Books These 3 items are available for $44, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSWU164)		  
In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance  •  David Thomson
HISTORY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 330 PAGES
A highly original, captivating social history of the state, including the extraordinary spectacle of Las Vegas, organized as a series of literary snapshots told in the first person. A travelogue of sorts, Thomson pieces together an astute, well written and researched portrait of Nevada. Wonderful. (USW213, $14.00)		   In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance
Eyewitness Guide Las Vegas  •  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)		   Eyewitness Guide Las Vegas
Las Vegas Map  •  Borch Maps
MAP
A laminated, folded map of Las Vegas at a scale of 1:20,000. Two Sides. 26x20 inches. (SWU41, $8.95)		  



Also Recommended

Fodor's Las Vegas' 25 Best  •  Fodor's Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide to Vegas with a focus on restaurants, attractions and activities. (USW346, $19.95)
 		  
About Looking  •  John Berger   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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  •  Michael Murphy  •  Stephen Ives   • HISTORY  •  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  •  Hal Rothman   • HISTORY  •  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  •  Richard Bryan  •  Geoff Schumacher   • HISTORY  •  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  •  Pete Earley   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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  •  Robert Venturi  •  Steven Izenour  •  Denise S. Brown   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  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  •  Andres Martinez   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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  •  Hunter S. Thompson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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  •  Michael Ondaatje   • LITERATURE  •  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  •  John McPhee   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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  •  Marc Reisner   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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  •  Edward Abbey   • NATURAL HISTORY • 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  •  Ann Ronald  •  Stephen Trimble   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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  •  Jennifer Dewey  •  Stephen Trimble   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  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  •  Peter Alden   • FIELD GUIDE  •  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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