Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780876859711
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Dedicated to America's mythic city, Diane Wakoski discusses risk, betrayal, and history in this third volume of her Archaeology of Movies and Books. Wakoski skillfully weaves together pieces of fragmented memory among images of Las Vegas casinos and the green splendor of Oz with its magical shoes.
The Emerald City of Las Vegas
Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780876859711
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Dedicated to America's mythic city, Diane Wakoski discusses risk, betrayal, and history in this third volume of her Archaeology of Movies and Books. Wakoski skillfully weaves together pieces of fragmented memory among images of Las Vegas casinos and the green splendor of Oz with its magical shoes.
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780876859711
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Dedicated to America's mythic city, Diane Wakoski discusses risk, betrayal, and history in this third volume of her Archaeology of Movies and Books. Wakoski skillfully weaves together pieces of fragmented memory among images of Las Vegas casinos and the green splendor of Oz with its magical shoes.
Emerald City
Author: Agnes Vivarelli
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503505863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Emerald City is 31 stories of individuals that really wanted something, such as a soul mate relationship, a trip, a dream job, a specific house, a million dollars etc. These true stories give a detailed account of how each was achieved and the time frame it took to do so. Each person in this book used the Law of Attraction. Some also used the teachings of Abraham-Hicks and Neville Goddard. May you use this book as your yellow brick road.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503505863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Emerald City is 31 stories of individuals that really wanted something, such as a soul mate relationship, a trip, a dream job, a specific house, a million dollars etc. These true stories give a detailed account of how each was achieved and the time frame it took to do so. Each person in this book used the Law of Attraction. Some also used the teachings of Abraham-Hicks and Neville Goddard. May you use this book as your yellow brick road.
Emerald City
EMERALD CITY
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783492234290
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783492234290
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 228
Book Description
Neon Metropolis
Author: Hal Rothman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317958527
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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 services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to mirror its success and huge, respectable corporations like Coca-Cola invest in a piece of the pie, the very traits that have ostracized Las Vegas in the past -- hedonism, money worship, and permissiveness -- have today made it America's fastest growing urban center. From the gambling-driven, mob-run Sin City of the 1940s to the corporatization of the Strip as a respectable family entertainment center after the 1970s, Las Vegas has shown incredible economic resilience and adaptability. The first full account of America's new dream capital, Neon Metropolis brilliantly shows how Las Vegas gambled on the post-industrial service economy well before the rest of the country knew it was coming, and won.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317958527
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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 services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to mirror its success and huge, respectable corporations like Coca-Cola invest in a piece of the pie, the very traits that have ostracized Las Vegas in the past -- hedonism, money worship, and permissiveness -- have today made it America's fastest growing urban center. From the gambling-driven, mob-run Sin City of the 1940s to the corporatization of the Strip as a respectable family entertainment center after the 1970s, Las Vegas has shown incredible economic resilience and adaptability. The first full account of America's new dream capital, Neon Metropolis brilliantly shows how Las Vegas gambled on the post-industrial service economy well before the rest of the country knew it was coming, and won.
Emerald City
The Emerald City of Oz
Author: Lyman Frank Baum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Dorothy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Dorothy
The Butcher's Apron
Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574231441
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
as some women love jewels, love the jewels of life "All the poems in this collection," Diane Wakoski writes, "describe the ongoing process of discovering beauty and acquiring an aesthetic sensibility via food"--seeing and savoring it, cooking and sharing it, reaching out to all creation and drawing it in, devouring it, lapping it up, literally becoming one with it. In the title poem, chosen by Adrienne Rich for inclusion in Best American Poetry, the poet recalls an early memory of delight in pure color--"Red stains on a clean white bib. . . crimson blood on canvas." Blood and crisp cotton as ink and paper, bread and wine as flesh and blood, the meal as art and as sacrament--this is the stuff of The Butcher's Apron, a feast for lovers of "the jewels of life."
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574231441
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
as some women love jewels, love the jewels of life "All the poems in this collection," Diane Wakoski writes, "describe the ongoing process of discovering beauty and acquiring an aesthetic sensibility via food"--seeing and savoring it, cooking and sharing it, reaching out to all creation and drawing it in, devouring it, lapping it up, literally becoming one with it. In the title poem, chosen by Adrienne Rich for inclusion in Best American Poetry, the poet recalls an early memory of delight in pure color--"Red stains on a clean white bib. . . crimson blood on canvas." Blood and crisp cotton as ink and paper, bread and wine as flesh and blood, the meal as art and as sacrament--this is the stuff of The Butcher's Apron, a feast for lovers of "the jewels of life."
The Strip
Author: Stefan Al
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026203574X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015—ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the “implosion capital of the world” as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new—offering a non-metaphorical definition of “creative destruction.” In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change. Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts—with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026203574X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015—ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the “implosion capital of the world” as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new—offering a non-metaphorical definition of “creative destruction.” In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change. Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts—with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.