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  • Neon Metropolis

    How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century

    by Hal Rothman ...
    Praise for the Previous Edition (0 415 92612 2): ...lively and provocative...this book will teach you something startling on nearly every page... --The New York Times Book Review Like the Emerald City, Las Vegas glitters brightly in the vast Nevada desert, a haven for refugees from ordinary America. A hip, iconic, playground that exports nothing, it nonetheless earns billions from consumer ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • The Making of Modern Nevada

    by Hal Rothman ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Nevada has always been different from other states. Almost from its beginning, Nevada sanctioned behaviors considered immoral elsewhere—gambling, prize-fighting, brothels, easy divorce—and embraced a culture of individualism and disdain for the constraints of more conventional society. In The Making of Modern Nevada, author Hal Rothman focuses on the factors that shaped the state’s original ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Death Valley National Park

    A History

    by Hal Rothman, Char Miller ...
    Series series America's National Parks
    The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a national monument in 1933, Death Valley was an anomaly within the national park system. Though many who knew this landscape were convinced that its stark beauty should be preserved, to do so required a ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Blazing Heritage

    A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks

    by Hal K. Rothman ...
    National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national parks were a psychic battleground for the contests between fire suppression and its use as a management tool. Blazing Heritage tells how the national parks shaped federal fire management. ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Playing the Odds

    Las Vegas and the Modern West

    by Hal K. Rothman ...
    This collection of Hal Rothman's wide-ranging, brash, and brilliant essays on Las Vegas offers up a treasury of insights on the follies and possibilities of the New West. Confident, passionate, learned and, yes, wise, Rothman is simply one of the most important voices writing on the region today. He is also a hell of a lot of fun to read. - Virginia Scharff, professor of history and Director, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Reopening the American West

    Edited by Hal K. Rothman ...
    Take a good look at the American West and you'll see that the frontier is undergoing constant changes—not only changes made to the land but also changes in attitudes about the land held by the people who live there.In this book Mike Davis, Stephen Pyne, William deBuys, Donald Worster, Dan Flores, and others re-examine the relationship between people and the environment in the American West over ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Black Cat Weekly #138

    by Eve Fisher, Hal Charles, Michael Mallory, Tony Rothman, Robert F. Young, Evelyn E. Smith, Damon Knight, Arthur B. Reeve, Bryce Walton, Al Reynolds ...
    This issue, we have original mysteries from Eve Fisher (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), Tony Rothman, and Michael Mallory (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman), plus a classic novel from Arthur B. Reeve (one of his Craig Kennedy scientific detective series). And, of course, we have a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.On the science fiction side, we 6 tales instead of ... Read more

    $4.07 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

    by PE Moskowitz ...
    “An exacting look at gentrification” (New York Times Book Review)—and the lives devastated in the processThe term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Sun, Sin & Suburbia

    The History of Modern Las Vegas, Revised and Expanded

    by Geoff Schumacher ...
    More than forty million visitors per year travel to Sin City to visit the gambling mecca of the world. But gambling is only one part of the city’s story. In this carefully documented history, Geoff Schumacher tracks the rise of Las Vegas, including its vital role during World War II; the rise of the Strip in the 1950s; the explosive growth of the 1990s; and the colossal collapse triggered by the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • What Money Can't Buy

    The Moral Limits of Markets

    by Michael J. Sandel ...
    In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society.Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Time Travel MEGAPACK®

    by Fritz Leiber, R. A. Lafferty, Keith Laumer, Ron Goulart, Avram Davidson ...
    Time travel remains a favorite subgenre in science fiction, and we are pleased to present another volume of classic tales. From pulp adventure to literary gems, here are stories that range from the ancient past to the far future...20 in all, by masters of their craft!Included are:TIME IN THE ROUND, by Fritz LeiberTRANSFER POINT, by Anthony BoucherGUEST IN THE HOUSE, by Frank Belknap LongA STONE ... Read more

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  • Brazil's Dance with the Devil

    The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy

    by Dave Zirin ...
    One of the Boston Globe's Best Sports Books of the Year: "Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny" (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man).The people of Brazil celebrated when it was announced that they were hosting the World Cup—the world's most-viewed athletic tournament—in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. But as the events were approaching, ordinary ... Read more

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