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4) Lost Vegas
6) Lost Vegas
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A highly original history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents. Little else made by human hands seems as stable as a building--yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. To survive, they must become shape-shifters. In a refashioning of architectural history, Edward Hollis recounts more than...
11) Lost Vegas
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Every year millions flock to Las Vegas trying to fulfill a dream and win big, but outside and even underground is another world that couldn't be more different. Lisa Ling investigates the dark, shocking and sometimes dangerous underbelly of Sin City that few get to see.
14) Elvis in Vegas
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Las Vegas is where so many of the key moments of Elvis' life took place: from his first appearance there at age twenty-one, to his marriage to Priscilla at the Aladdin Hotel, to the annual "Elvis Festivals" of the 1970s, Vegas was his home away from Graceland. These photographs constitute a fan's chronicle of the original American superstar. Personal, poignant, and atmospheric, they are much more than a gathering of studio or magazine images--in fact,...
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John O'Brien's books have established him as a writer who communicated the voice of the loner with blistering realness and unmistakable force. In Leaving Las Vegas, he wove a love story of incredible passion among two lost souls. In The Assault on Tony's, he unfolded a psychological drama among five drunks who spend their last days barricaded in a bar. Stripper Lessons is perhaps O'Brien's most interior and intense book, a powerful story of a man's...
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