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| bordellos near las vegas: Chronicles of Old Las Vegas James Roman, 2011-10-01 Discover one of !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags /--America's most fascinating cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning Las Vegas's 150-year history. James Roman takes readers on a tour through the glamorous and sometimes sordid history of Las Vegas and explains how a railroad town transformed itself into the Entertainment Capital of the World. Essays explore the major historic events from the founding of Sin City and the building of the Hoover Dam to the rise of the Rat Pack at the Sands and the establishment of the Mafia-controlled casinos. Also included are intriguing tales of Vegas celebrities from Frank Sinatra and Liberace to Siegfried and Roy, as well as numerous historical photos and full-color maps. |
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| bordellos near las vegas: World War II and Nevada Charles Weller, 2024-05-28 World War II and Nevada is an in-depth examination of the state’s role in the war. Nevada’s geographic location, land, sky, mineral resources, and the sacrifices of its people were crucial to victory—and transformed the state. The war brought the first significant development of the gaming industry; the introduction of a huge, permanent military presence; the diversification of its population; and a shift in political and economic power within the region. Nevada’s previously unexamined role in the internment of Japanese Americans is explored, and so too is the role of women and minority groups in support of the war. The book concludes with a comprehensive list of those killed, wounded, or made prisoners of war during the conflict. Weller provides the most thorough analysis of Nevada’s war effort to date and historians will find the book a valuable addition to their World War II history collections. |
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| bordellos near las vegas: The State of Sex Barbara Brents, Crystal Jackson, Kathryn Hausbeck, 2009-12-16 This study of Nevada’s brothels uses empirical data and sociological theory to situate the United States’ only legal brothel industry in the political economy of contemporary tourism. The personal accounts of sex workers make this a compelling read for students and those interested in the sex industry. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Lonely Planet Las Vegas Sara Benson, 2006 Feast on caviar and top-shelf vodka in Red Square. Find your inner diva in an ultra lounge. Bask in the megawatt glow of the Strip. All-night poker, eye-popping shows, Rat Pack haunts - whatever your motive, our essential, savvy guide gets you under the sequined skin of Sin City. Hit the jackpot - from Texas hold'em tips and blackjack basics to loose slots, our expert-written gambling chapter helps you beat the odds. Sleep it off - handy floor plans and info-packed reviews of the Bellagio and major casino hotels, plus downtown deals and booking advice. Baby your body - chichi spas, dreamy pools, post-buffet workout options and only-in-Vegas shops for naughty new outfits. Go deeper - behind-the-scenes chapters reveal the history, arts and culture of this enigmatic city. Ditch the ding-ding-ding - a slew of side trips to the Hoover Dam, Grand Canyon, Zion, Death Valley and more. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Las Vegas Access Harper Collins Publishers, 1996 There are at least 5,400 pair of dice rollin' round-the-clock in Las Vegas. Whether you're looking for tickets to a sold-out show or looking for the best shops for spending your winnings, this color-coded guide lets you see at a glance where you are, where you're headed, and what special attractions await you just around the corner. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Las Vegas: A Desert Paradise Ralph J. Roske, 1986-09-01 “PROLOGUE THE SEARCH FOR GOOD WATER On November 7, 1829, a New Mexican trader named Antonio Armijo led a 60-man party on the first leg of what became a historic deviation from the Great Spanish Trail route to Los Angeles. That deviation resulted in the discovery of Las Vegas. By Christmas Day, Armijo’s caravan had crossed southern Utah and moved into the northwest corner of Arizona. The caravan camped near what is now Littlefield — a sleepy hamlet about 100 miles northeast of present Las Vegas. Armijo dispatched a reconnaissance party to look for a possible shortcut west, and to look for water. A member of the party was a young Mexican scout named Rafael Rivera. He decided to break away from the main party and head due west alone over unexplored desert.” Excerpt From: Ralph J. Roske. “Las Vegas: A Desert Paradise.” iBooks. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Las Vegas Deke Castleman, 1999 Created by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Covering everything there is to see and do as well as choice lodging and dining, these gorgeous full-color guides are perfect for new and longtime residents as well as vacationers who want a deep understanding of the region they're visiting. Outstanding color photography, plus a wealth of archival images Topical essays and literary extracts Detailed color maps Great ideas for things to see and do Capsule reviews of hotels and restaurants About the Author Las Vegas is Deke Castleman's middle name. He's been covering the boomtown since 1987, when he researched the first edition of Moon Publications' Nevada Handbook. He has also contributed to Las Vegas Access, Fodor's USA, Great American Vacations, and Great American Vacations for Travelers With Disabilities. He has edited two guides to Las Vegas for Huntington Press, and he is the managing editor of the Las Vegas Advisor, a monthly newsletter for Las Vegas visitors and locals. Castleman is also the author of Las Vegas 2040, a novel about the future of Las Vegas. About the Photographers Michael Yamashita has been shooting pictures for National Geographic books and magazines since 1979. He has participated in five Day in the Life projects, and has recieved awards from the National Press Photographers Association and the New York Art Directors Club, among others. His work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Kodak's Professional Photographer's Showcase at EPCOT Center. Mr. Yamashita's images are also featured in Compass Sanfrancisco and Compass Manhattan. Kerrick James is well known for his photography of the Southwest. In addition to appearing in Compass Arizona, San Francisco, and The American Southwest, his work is featured prequently in Hemispheres and National Geographic Traveler, as well as several Smithsonian guidebooks and school textbooks. He lives in Mesa, Arizona, with his wife and two sons. |
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| bordellos near las vegas: The Sweet Box Irv Danesh, MD, 2023-03-01 The feds don't like it when a doctor's group overbills them. Two doctors, veterans of the ER battlefield and caught in the federal financial mess, decide to pull up stakes and go to a place they can make a difference and some money. On the other side of the country, a small town in northeastern Nevada has everything, a good tax base, a working community, friendly people, and the best Italian food west of New York City. If this town is such a great place to live, why can't the residents find a doctor to take care of their medical needs? Drs. Abraham Bergman and Malcom York, partners in the practice of medicine, travel to Nevada to listen to a proposition pitched by a three-fingered mayor and a beautiful woman. The woman happens to own and operate the Sweet Box, a legal bordello that has been a part of the town since its establishment in the Wild West of old. In the meantime, times are changing, and a politician is running for higher office on a platform of morality. In this case, the specific morality of having bordellos participate in the civic structure of small towns in northeastern Nevada. But what is the moral fiber of the politician, and to what lengths would he go to close the Sweet Box and why? Add in an ex-Army helicopter pilot who also happens to be a flight nurse, his voluptuous pilot/nurse partner, a mysterious brilliant surgeon, and the very available ladies of the bordello and you have the story of the Sweet Box and the small town of Shangri-La in northeast Nevada. |
| bordellos near las vegas: FEmpowerment Sandy Shepard, 2007-10 By using the Bond Girl (from the ever-popular James Bond movies and books) as her paradigm, fEmpowerment coach Sandy Shepard leads the reader to experience, then unleash, her inner authentic self. Ms. Shepard states that she aims to change the world, one Bond Girl at a time. A successful businesswoman and attorney, Ms. Shepard is particularly passionate about helping harried women weave sensual femininity into their daily routines, and this book uses a friendly best girlfriend style to help women empower their lives. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Mob Mayhem Volume One Dennis N. Griffin, Daniel Zimmerman, Salvatore "Sal" Lucania, 2019-12-07 If you liked The Godfather and Goodfellas, you’ll love these three up-close-and-personal true accounts of gangsters and organized crime. THE RISE AND FALL OF A “CASINO” MOBSTER: The Tony Spilotro Story Through a Hitman’s Eyes by Frank Cullota and Dennis Griffin Bestselling “mob expert” Dennis Griffin and former mob enforcer and Spilotro confidant, Frank Cullota, tell the story of the Las Vegas gangster whose quest for power and lack of self-control with women cost the Mob its control of Vegas—and lost Tony his life. “Sets the record straight about Tony the man and Tony the mobster. It’s an eye-opener.”—Frank Calabrese, Junior, author of Operation Family Secrets SHOTS IN THE DARK: The Saga of Rocco Balliro by Daniel Zimmerman In 1963, Rocco Balliro and a pair of associates stormed an apartment in Boston and were immediately caught in a shootout with Boston police officers, waiting in ambush for him. It was a rescue mission that went downhill in a hurry, leaving his beloved girlfriend and her toddler son dead. “Fascinating . . . a real page-turner for Mob enthusiasts and organized crime history buffs.”—Dennis N. Griffin, bestselling author of The Rise and Fall Of A “Casino” Mobster THE GANGSTER’S COUSIN: Growing up in the Luciano Family by Salvatore Lucania Young Sal navigates the streets of Harlem, experiencing the inherent corruption of the US justice system and discovering the truth about the secret world of outlaw figures—like his cousin and namesake, Charles “Lucky” Luciano. “A wonderfully different take on the usual Mafia story . . . a sometimes exciting, sometimes poignant, and often humorous adventure.”—Thrive Global |
| bordellos near las vegas: The Incomplete Angler - Ten Years of Fruits de Mer (standard edition) Dave Thompson, 2018 For ten years, the Fruits de Mer record label has been releasing some of the most exhilarating, and eminently collectible, records of the 21st century. Now, for the first time, the full story of this remarkable phenomenon is told. Featuring over 50 exclusive interviews and a wealth of rare and unseen photos, The Incomplete Angler is a celebration of modern record collecting, and the people who make it possible. Includes behind the scenes stories and interviews with Sendelica, Us and Them, Crystal Jacqueline, Cranium Pie, the Chemistry Set, Astralasia, Stay, Beautify Junkyards, Soft Hearted Scientists, the Pretty Things, Schizo Fun Addict, Jack Ellister, the Bevis Frond, Anton Barbeau, Alison O'Donnell and more. Also includes a full discography, including collectible variants and coloured vinyl releases. |
| bordellos near las vegas: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Southwest USA & Las Vegas , 2012-07-02 Now available in PDF format. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Southwest USA and Las Vegas will lead you straight to the best attractions the region has to offer. Whether you're taking in the views at the Grand Canyon, gambling in Las Vegas, or enjoying the hot pools at Jemez Springs, this guide provides the insider tips you need. Fully illustrated, it covers all the major areas, including Utah, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, to Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Arizona. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Southwest USA and Las Vegas explores the culture, history, architecture, entertainment, shopping, tours, and scenic walks. You'll find 3-D illustrated cutaways and floor plans of the must-see sights-including a cutaway illustration showing the geology of the Grand Canyon-as well as street maps and reliable information for getting around this diverse region. Plus, this guidebook is packed with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops, and nightlife in each area for all budgets. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that brighten every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Southwest USA and Las Vegas truly shows you this state as no one else can. |
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| bordellos near las vegas: Cities in the Wilderness Bruce Babbitt, 2007-08-03 In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought--and fresh air--to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in. We've all experienced America's changing natural landscape as the integrity of our forests, seacoasts, and river valleys succumbs to strip malls, new roads, and subdivisions. Too often, we assume that when land is developed it is forever lost to the natural world--or hope that a patchwork of local conservation strategies can somehow hold up against further large-scale development. In Cities in the Wilderness, Bruce Babbitt makes the case for why we need a national vision of land use. We may have a space program, he points out, but here at home we don't have an open-space policy that can balance the needs for human settlement and community with those for preservation of the natural world upon which life depends. Yet such a balance, the author demonstrates, is as remarkably achievable as it is necessary. This is no call for developing a new federal bureaucracy; Babbitt shows instead how much can be--and has been--done by making thoughtful and beneficial use of laws and institutions already in place. A hallmark of the book is the author's ability to match imaginative vision with practical understanding. Babbitt draws on his extensive experience to take us behind the scenes negotiating the Florida Everglades restoration project, the largest ever authorized by Congress. In California, we discover how the Endangered Species Act, still one of the most effective laws governing land use, has been employed to restore regional habitat. In the Midwest, we see how new World Trade Organization regulations might be used to help restore Iowa's farmlands and rivers. As a key architect of many environmental success stories, Babbitt reveals how broad restoration projects have thrived through federal- state partnership and how their principles can be extended to other parts of the country. Whether writing of land use as reflected in the Gettysburg battlefield, the movie Chinatown, or in presidential political strategy, Babbitt gives us fresh insight. In this inspiring and informative book, Babbitt sets his lens to panoramic--and offers a vision of land use as grand as the country's natural heritage. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Endangered Dreams Kevin Starr, 1996 History of California in the 1930s, discussing topics that include the depression, Utpon Sinclair's campaign for governor, Harry Bridges and the San Francisco general strike, and the public and private relief programs for the more than one million emigrants from the dust bowl. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Madam Millie Max Evans, 2013-02-15 Mildred Clark Cusey was a whore, a madam, an entrepreneur, and above all, a survivor. The story of Silver City Millie, as she referred to herself, is the story of one woman's personal tragedies and triumphs as an orphan, a Harvey Girl waitress on the Santa Fe railroad, a prostitute with innumerable paramours, and a highly successful bordello businesswoman. Millie broke the mold in so many ways, and yet her life's story of survival was not unlike that of thousands of women who went West only to find that their most valuable assets were their physical beauty and their personality. Petite at five feet tall with piercing blue eyes, Millie captured men's attention by her very essence and her unmistakable joie de vivre. Born to Italian immigrant parents near Kansas City, she and her sister were orphaned early and separated from each other. Millie learned hard lessons on the streets, but she never gave up and she vowed to protect and support her ailing older sister. Caught in a domestic squabble in her foster home, Millie wound up in juvenile court with Harry Truman as her judge. This would be only the first of many brushes in her life with prominent politicians. When physicians diagnosed her sister with tuberculosis and recommended she move West to a Catholic home in Deming, New Mexico, Millie moved with her. Expenses ran high and after a brief stint waiting tables as a Harvey Girl, Millie found that her meager tips could easily be augmented by turning tricks. Thus, out of financial need and devotion to her sister, Mildred Cusey turned to a life of prostitution and a career at which she soon excelled and became both rich and famous. |
| bordellos near las vegas: From Bordello to Ballot Box Jessi Winchester, W. Lane Startin, 2001 The story of Jessi Winchester who in the mid-1990s made worldwide headlines as a legal prostitute competing in the Mrs. Nevada beauty pageant and then later running for U.S. Congress and lieutenant governor of Nevada.--Jacket. |
| bordellos near las vegas: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Southwest USA & Las Vegas DK Publishing, 2010-09-01 The DK Eyewitness Southwest USA and Las Vegas travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions the region has to offer. Whether you’re taking in the views at the Grand Canyon, gambling in Las Vegas or enjoying the hot pools at Jemez Springs; this guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs, with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife for all budgets. It’s fully illustrated and covers all the major areas from Utah, Santa Fe and Alberquerque to Phoenix, Las Vegas and Arizona. You'll find 3D cutaways and floorplans of all the must-see sites – there’s even a cutaway to show the geology of the Grand Canyon – plus reliable information for getting around this diverse region. Exploring the culture, history and architecture, not missing the best in entertainment, shopping, tours and scenic walks, DK Eyewitness Southwest USA and Las Vegas is your essential companion. DK Eyewitness Southwest USA and Las Vegas – showing you what others only tell you. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Wrong Numbers Glen Meek, Dennis N. Griffin, 2019-10-15 Cybercrime meets organized crime in this true crime story about a hacker attempting to control Sin City’s call-girl racket. Was a hacker diverting phone calls meant for Las Vegas escort services? The FBI wanted to know, and so did associates of a New York Mafia family. In one of the most unusual undercover operations ever, the FBI had an agent acting as a manager in a real Las Vegas escort service. Federal agents expected to find prostitution and drugs in the Las Vegas escort industry. What their investigation uncovered was even more serious . . . Praise for Wrong Numbers “An intriguing and well-researched crime story detailing the intersection of big money and quick sex in the city that contains a lot of both.” —Jack Sheehan, author of Skin City “Wiseguys and wannabes are on the hunt for a shadowy hacker who may hold the keys to control of Las Vegas’ multi-million dollar call girl racket, while FBI agents are hunting them. The result is a gripping true-life crime story that reads like a collaboration between Elmore Leonard and William Gibson told with the knowing savvy of two longtime chroniclers of Sin City’s hidden underbelly.” —Kevin Poulsen, author of Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground “In ’90s Vegas, call girls worked for “entertainment” services that were little more than phone numbers, dispatchers, and drop safes. When a mystery hacker started diverting customers’ calls to one service’s number, it launched a series of dangerous events that involved the Mob, feds, hackers, service owners, and the phone system itself. This slice of Sin City history is as little-known as it is thrilling, and it’s well-told by investigative journalist Glen Meek and crime writer Dennis Griffin.” —Deke Castleman, author of Whale Hunt in the Desert: Secrets of a Vegas Superhost |
| bordellos near las vegas: Moonlight Confessions Gina Marie Martini, 2021-02-22 Sadie Meade is a rebellious, promiscuous teenager in the 1960s whose only care in the world is her inadequate breast size. Born into a humble Catholic family from Massachusetts, she struggles to find her place in the family dynamic. A new job opportunity for Sadie’s father whisks the Meades to the exciting city of Las Vegas, leaving their ordinary life on the East Coast behind. Living in the heart of Sin City is uneventful with an overbearing father whose antiquated views and sharp tongue are intolerable for a headstrong young woman like Sadie. She leaves the security of her home and enters a world of debauchery. Her young-adult life is in constant turmoil as she compromises her integrity, indulging in dangerous liaisons. To unravel the web of destruction she created, Sadie makes important decisions to alter the course of her destiny. Enter Tommy Cavallo—a charming, wealthy hotel and casino manager. Sadie’s sweet, angelic looks oppose her reckless persona. The two develop an intimate friendship that leads to wedding vows. Sadie aspires to make amends for her destructive behaviors through familial obligations and philanthropic commitments. When a dear friend is found murdered, she faces her demons, using cunning methods in hopes of uncovering the mystery surrounding her friend’s death. Eventually, her shady past creeps up to haunt her. Sadie resorts to lies and manipulations as survival tactics, jeopardizing her future, her marriage, and her freedom. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Journeys Jan Morris, 1985-05-02 Superbly written articles about cities as different as Las Vegas and Stockholm, about journeys across Europe and China, and about romantic re-visits to such historic sites as the Acropolis and the Taj Mahal. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Wanna Get Lucky? Deborah Coonts, 2011-02 Complete with designer duds, porn conventions, partner-swapping parties, and clever repartee, this is chick-lit gone wild and sexy, lightly wrapped in mystery and tied up with a brilliantly flashing neon bow. Wanna Get Lucky? hits the proverbial jackpot.--Booklist. |
| bordellos near las vegas: The Biggest Game in Town Al Alvarez, 2009-08-17 Since its first publication twenty years ago, The Biggest Game in Town has become a sought-after cult classic. Acclaimed writer and critic Al Alvarez delves into the murky and compelling world of high-stakes Vegas poker, where 'the next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing'. Uncovering an exotic underground rich in ambiance and eccentricity, The Biggest Game in Town is a real one of a kind, deftly capturing the skewed psyches and peculiar rites of professional poker players who descend every year for the World Series of Poker. It's a world that seems almost too surprising and bizarre to be true. 'A cool, precise, sharply witty, vivid evocation of a place and people, their appearances, behaviour and speech..Mr Alvarez is a shrewd analyst of the psychology of gamblers and a cleverly selective recorder of their bizarre talk with which, directly and indirectly, they reveal their secure grasp of unreality and their insane courage' Sunday Telegraph 'It will have most readers sitting on the edge of their seats' Sunday Times 'A new classic on gambling...it's quite brilliant' Time Out 'This is a magnificent book. Beyond the straights and full houses, Alvarez has written about people who are extremely good at what they do, and about America' San Francisco Chronicle |
| bordellos near las vegas: Savage Journey Peter Richardson, 2023-04-25 A superbly crafted study of Hunter S. Thompson’s literary formation, achievement, and continuing relevance. Savage Journey is a supremely crafted study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's influences, development, and unique model of authorship, Savage Journey argues that his literary formation was largely a San Francisco story. During the 1960s, Thompson rode with the Hell's Angels, explored the San Francisco counterculture, and met talented editors who shared his dissatisfaction with mainstream journalism. Peter Richardson traces Thompson's transition during this time from New Journalist to cofounder of Gonzo journalism. He also endorses Thompson's later claim that he was one of the best writers using the English language as both a musical instrument and a political weapon. Although Thompson's political commentary was often hyperbolic, Richardson shows that much of it was also prophetic. Fifty years after the publication of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and more than a decade after his death, Thompson's celebrity continues to obscure his literary achievement. This book refocuses our understanding of that achievement by mapping Thompson's influences, probing the development of his signature style, and tracing the reception of his major works. It concludes that Thompson was not only a gifted journalist, satirist, and media critic, but also the most distinctive American voice in the second half of the twentieth century. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Born in an Eggshell R. W. Alexander, 2004-09 Haig Shell, a handsome, white Nigerian is born in an eggshell. He's an alien who can freeze everything. While invisible he works against terrorists and kisses girls. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Bad Habits John C. Burnham, 1993 Seeks to discover why so many good people engage in activities that many, including themselves, consider bad, finding a coalition of economic and social interest in which the singleminded quest for profit is allied to the values of the Victorian saloon underworld and bohemian rebelliousness. |
| bordellos near las vegas: The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution Scott Cunningham, Manisha Shah, 2016-08-10 Prostitution bears the unique title of being both the world's oldest profession and one of the least understood occupations. Unlike most of the crime and family literature, prostitution appears to have all the features of traditional markets: prices, supply and demand considerations, variety in the organizational structure, and policy relevance. Despite this, economists have largely ignored prostitution in their research and writings. This has been changing, however, over the last twenty years as greater access to data has enabled economists to build better theories and gain a better understanding of the organization of sex market. The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution fills the gap in our understanding. It brings together many of the top researchers in the field who explain how the prostitution markets are organized across space and time, the role of technology in shaping labor supply and demand, the intersection of prostitution with trafficking, and the optimal use of law enforcement. What makes the material unique is its explicit focus on economics as the primary methodology for organizing our understanding of prostitution. The Handbook brings to scholars' attention for the first time a collection of original writings on prostitution that provides an overview of what is known and what is not known in this area. Researchers with an interest in underground markets, labor economics, risky behaviors, marriage, and gender will find the book's contents illuminating and path breaking. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Hoover Dam Joseph E. Stevens, 2014-09-12 In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken—the construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers toiled twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to erect the huge structure that would harness the Colorado River and transform the American West. Construction of the giant dam was a triumph of human ingenuity, yet the full story of this monumental endeavor has never been told. Now, in an engrossing, fast-paced narrative, Joseph E. Stevens recounts the gripping saga of Hoover Dam. Drawing on a wealth of material, including manuscript collections, government documents, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, and personal interviews and correspondence with men and women who were involved with the construction, he brings the Hoover Dam adventure to life. Described here in dramatic detail are the deadly hazards the work crews faced as they hacked and blasted the dam’s foundation out of solid rock; the bitter political battles and violent labor unrest that threatened to shut the job down; the deprivation and grinding hardship endured by the workers’ families; the dam builders’ gambling, drinking, and whoring sprees in nearby Las Vegas; and the stirring triumphs and searing moments of terror as the massive concrete wedge rose inexorably from the canyon floor. Here, too, is an unforgettable cast of characters: Henry Kaiser, Warren Bechtel, and Harry Morrison, the ambitious, headstrong construction executives who gambled fortune and fame on the Hoover Dam contract; Frank Crowe, the brilliant, obsessed field engineer who relentlessly drove the work force to finish the dam two and a half years ahead of schedule; Sims Ely, the irascible, teetotaling eccentric who ruled Boulder City, the straightlaced company town created for the dam workers by the federal government; and many more men and women whose courage and sacrifice, greed and frailty, made the dam’s construction a great human, as well as technological, adventure. Hoover Dam is a compelling, irresistible account of an extraordinary American epic. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Lost in Mongolia Tad Friend, 2001-02-27 Find yourself in the midst of a heated battle over a sitcom laugh track. Learn to get away with spectacular crimes. Get lost with the reindeer people in the mountains of Mongolia. In Lost in Mongolia a collection of Tad Friend's most original, witty, and wide-ranging articles and essays from The New Yorker, Esquire, and Outside we are taken on a cultural tour of global proportions. Friend reports from the entertainment mecca of Hollywood on topics that range from the life and death of River Phoenix to the widespread plagiarism of movie ideas, to why celebrity profiles are always dreadful. He critiques the larger American culture with articles such as White Trash Nation, In Praise of Middlebrow, and a brief rumination on what it means when your girlfriend steals and wears your favorite shirt. Readers will also journey to foreign lands and American outposts, as Friend goes on the trail of the Marcos dynasty in the Philippines, is harassed in Morocco, and digs up buried treasure in Sun Valley. Lost in Mongolia is a one-of-a-kind collection from a refreshingly candid and well-traveled journalist. |
| bordellos near las vegas: The Challenge of Progress Harry F. Dahms, 2019-11-26 Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of “progress”? |
| bordellos near las vegas: Quickies Don Voorhees, 2004 Did you know the original Barbie doll was modelled after a German sex doll, which was modelled after a popular German sex cartoon character named Lilli, also known as the Bimbo'? How about that a woman performing fellatio on a man might make her pregnancy more successful? Read this salacious and thoroughly entertaining compendium of sexual trivia and you will learn this and much more! Pop trivia author Don Vorhees answers all kinds of burning questions from are men with larger testicles more promiscuous, to how do porcupines make love?' |
| bordellos near las vegas: An Underground Education Richard Zacks, 2010-10-06 The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge. Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than atoms, that Remembrance of Things Past has something to do with a perfumed cookie, that the Monroe Doctrine means we get to take over small South American countries when we feel like it. But really, is this kind of knowledge going to make you the hit of the cocktail party, or the loser spending forty-five minutes examining the host's bookshelves? Wouldn't you rather learn things like how the invention of the bicycle affected the evolution of underwear? Or that the 1949 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to a doctor who performed lobotomies with a household ice pick? Or how Catherine the Great really died? Or that heroin was sold over the counter not too long ago? For the truly well-rounded intellectual, nothing fascinates so much as the subversive, the contrarian, the suppressed, and the bizarre. Richard Zacks, auto-didact extraordinaire, has unloosed his admittedly strange mind and astonishing research abilities upon the entire spectrum of human knowledge, ferreting out endlessly fascinating facts, stories, photos, and images guaranteed to make you laugh, gasp in wonder, and occasionally shudder at the depths of human depravity. The result of his labors is this fantastically illustrated quasi-encyclopedia that provides alternative takes on art, business, crime, science, medicine, sex (lots of that), and many other facets of human experience. Immensely entertaining, and arguably enlightening, An Underground Education is the only book that explains the birth of motion pictures using photos of naked baseball players. Richard Zacks is the author of History Laid Bare: Love, Sex and Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding, which was excerpted in classy magazines like Harper's and earned the attention of the even classier New York Times, which noted that Zacks specializes in the raunchy and perverse. The Georgia State Legislature voted on whether to ban the book from public libraries. He has studied Arabic, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and Hebrew, and received the Phillips Classical Greek Award at the University of Michigan. He has also told his publisher that he made a living in Cairo cheating royalty from a certain Arab country at games of chance, although the claim remains unverified. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, The Village Voice, TV Guide, and similarly diverse publications. Zacks is married and busy warping the minds of his two children, Georgia and Ziegfield. He resides in New York City, and can be reached via e-mail at rzacks@echonyc.com. |
| bordellos near las vegas: AIDS in America Susan Hunter, 2015-07-14 With more than one million people currently infected and half a million already dead, the U.S. ranks among the top ten most severe AIDS epidemics in the world. Americans should know more about the current state of the epidemic so they can protect themselves and demand that the government act responsibly to reduce the danger of HIV in this country. Hunter exposes the ways in which the U.S. shamefully resembles a developing country, and the many fronts on which the government has failed to control the spread of the disease. In this startling book, she also shows what we must do to change the future of AIDS. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Son of a Gambling Man Bob Miller, 2013-03-12 A memoir of growing up in mob-run Sin City from a casino heir-turned-governor who's seen two sides of every coin When Bob Miller arrived in Las Vegas as a boy, it was a small, dusty city, a far cry from the glamorous, exciting place it is today. Driving the family car was his father Ross Miller, a tough guy—though a good family man—who had operated on both sides of the law on some of the meaner streets of industrial Chicago. The Miller family was as close and as warm as Ozzie and Harriet, as long as you knew that Ozzie was a bookmaker and a business acquaintance of some very dubious criminal types. As Bob grew up, so did Vegas, now a town of some two million. Ross Miller became a respectable businessman and partner in a major casino, though he was still capable of settling a score with his fists. And Bob went on to law school, entering law enforcement and eventually becoming a popular governor of Nevada, holding office longer than anybody in the state's history. And the Miller family's legacy continues. Bob's own son is presently serving as Secretary of State. A warm family memoir, the story of a city heir, with just a little bit of The Godfather and Casino thrown in for spice, Son of a Gambling Man is a unique and thoroughly memorable story. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Social Problems Today James M. Henslin, 1990 An anthology of readings 1) that make clearer the interrelationships of social problems (both to one another and to the social institutions of society), 2) that show that social problems do not stand in isolation but are deeply embedded in our culture, and 3) that suggest that solutions require fundamental change in our culture. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Hollywood Horrors Andrea Van Landingham, 2021-11-01 The name “Hollywood” conjures up fantastical images of bright lights, glamorous dreams, and impossible riches. From its humble beginnings as a ranch sprawling northwest of Los Angeles in the late 1800s, Hollywood has spanned lifetimes as a factory of dreams, a dazzling place where all things are possible. This collection of stories takes you on a journey into the golden age, illuminating the space between the airy fantasy and the gritty reality of life in Hollywood. In a transient city where nothing lasts, thousands of stories have taken place in their time here. From the offscreen debauchery of the silent era, to countless dramatic and mysterious deaths, to the sinister past lives of world-famous LA landmarks, vestiges of Hollywood’s checkered past can still be found all over the city. With generations of Tinseltown’s luminaries living and working under the sunny guise of paradisal prosperity, their real stories reveal the sordid underbelly lurking directly beneath the surface. A dangerous collusion between the studios, the press, the mob, and the LAPD forms an impenetrable behind-the-scenes network of corruption, power and control, where the truth is always up for sale. A network in which the most glamorous and well-known figures are merely players in this elaborate charade. It’s magical and gritty, it’s ugly and dirty, it’s the land of dreams...it’s Hollywood. |
| bordellos near las vegas: Cuba in the American Imagination Louis A. Pérez Jr., 2008-08-15 For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island as they have persisted and changed since the early nineteenth century. Drawing on texts and visual images produced by Americans ranging from government officials, policy makers, and journalists to travelers, tourists, poets, and lyricists, Perez argues that these charged and coded images of persuasion and mediation were in service to America's imperial impulses over Cuba. |
IP67 e IP68 no celular: entenda os limites do contato com á água
Jan 29, 2018 · Afinal, é possível lavar o celular ou submergi-lo em uma banheira sem risco de danos? De acordo com a marca, isso depende da classificação IP (Ingress Protection), na qual …
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胎压的单位是什么？bar，kpa，psi有何区别？我们日常说的胎压 …
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Mpa与Bar的关系? - 百度知道
Mpa和Bar都是压强的单位，工程上习惯把压强单位说成压力单位。 单位换算： 1MPa=1000000Pa 1 GPa=1000MPa=1000 000kPa=1000 000 000Pa 1MPa=145PSI 1Torr=1/760 atm Torr （0℃ …
压力单位MPa、psi、bar之间如何换算？_百度知道
压力单位MPa、psi、bar之间如何换算？1bar=0.1MPa=14.5psibar、MPa、psi均是压强单位，表示物体单位面积上所受到的压力。压力在物理学方面指垂直作用在物体表面上的力。受力物是物 …
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1Mpa等于10bar。 解： 兆帕 (MPa)、千帕 (KPa)、帕 (Pa)和巴 (bar)都是压强的度量单位。 因为1兆帕=1000千帕，1千帕=1000帕，1巴=100000帕。 所以1兆帕=1x1000千帕=1000千帕， …
mbar相当于多少帕?_百度知道
回答如下： 1Mpa=1000kpa=1000000pa。 世界气象组织决定，今后气压单位既可用“百帕（hPa）”，也可用“毫巴（mbar）”，两者暂时并用，最后逐步统一使用“百帕”。简写符 …
1bar等于多少mpa？_百度知道
Sep 29, 2015 · 1bar等于0.1mpa。 解：巴 (bar)、帕 (Pa)、千帕 (KPa)和 兆帕 (MPa)都是 压强单位。 因为1兆帕=1000千帕、1千帕=1000帕，1巴=100000帕， 那 …
psi和bar换算关系 - 百度知道
Jul 15, 2024 · 1. psi和bar的换算关系是1psi等于0.0689475728bar。 2. psi是一个计量单位，其中"p"代表磅力 (pound)，"s"代表平方 (square)，"i"代表英寸 (inch)。在美国，psi常用作压强的 …
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May 14, 2025 · Xbox Game Bar通常不需要单独下载，因为它是Windows 10及更高版本系统自带的一个功能。但如果Xbox Game Bar在您的系统中丢失或损坏，您可以尝试以下步骤来重新安装 …
