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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. Opens everywhere on May 22, 1998.
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Paperback: 224 pages
Company: Vintage (1998-05-12) (1998-05-12)
ISBN: 0679785892
List Price: $13.95
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The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas 2009 (Unofficial Guides)
More than 4 million copies sold! This series is the only one that offers evaluations based on reader surveys and critiques, compiled by a team of unbiased inspectors.
Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars
?In my world, you are either the hunter or the prey, and I am the hunter. Vegas was my prey. I tell my crew: Vegas makes it, Vigoa takes it.?
?Jose Vigoa[pg. 37]
When it comes to violent crime, the Las Vegas cops and casino owners thought they had seen it all. But they had never witnessed anything like Jose Vigoa.
Born in Cuba, a child of Fidel Castro?s revolution, Vigoa used his quick wits and quicker fists to trade a life of poverty and desperation for one of danger and adventure as a Soviet-trained special forces officer. Battle hardened in the killing fields of Afghanistan and Angola, Vigoa won a reputation for toughness, bravery, and coolness under fire. A brilliant military career lay ahead of him.
Then, in 1980, Castro opened Cuba?s floodgates in the Mariel boatlift, and Vigoa, like so many of his countrymen and -women, braved chaos and hardship to start a new life in America?s promised land. But involvement with the drug trade brought his dreams crashing down. Years of prison followed.
On his release, Vigoa was determined to take revenge on what he perceived as the corrupt power structure of Las Vegas. On September 20, 1998, the former Spetsnaz lieutenant launched what would be the most audacious and ruthless series of high-profile casino and armored car robberies that Las Vegas had ever seen. In a brazen sixteen-month-long reign of terror, he and his tightly disciplined crew would hit the crème de la crème of Vegas hotels: the MGM, the Desert Inn, the New York-New York, the Mandalay Bay, and the Bellagio. They struck hard and fast, then vanished without a trace. Millions of dollars were stolen. Two brave men were gunned down in cold blood; others were wounded. And yet the robberies were so well planned and executed that the police??the stupids,? as Vigoa contemptuously referred to them?were all but helpless.
Not Lt. John Alamshaw. The twenty-three-year veteran, in charge of robbery detectives, was not giving up so easily. For him, Vigoa?s rampage was a personal affront. And he would do whatever it took, even risk his badge, to bring Vigao down.
With exclusive access to all the major players, including Vigoa and Alamshaw, veteran journalist and network producer John Huddy is the perfect man to tell the gripping never-before-told story of this harrowing true-crime drama that will leave readers breathless.
Author: John Huddy
Hardcover: 384 pages
Company: Ballantine Books (2008-02-19) (2008-02-19)
ISBN: 0345487451
List Price: $26.00
Amazon Price: $12.44
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Frommer's Las Vegas 2009 (Frommer's Complete)
America?s #1 bestselling travel series
Author: Mary Herczog
Paperback: 320 pages
Company: Frommers (2008-11-03)
ISBN: 047038431X
List Price: $17.99
Amazon Price: $10.10
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Las Vegas Then and Now (Then & Now Thunder Bay)
Author: Su Kim Chung
Paperback: 144 pages
Company: Thunder Bay Press (2007-06-11)
ISBN: 1592237347
List Price: $10.95
Amazon Price: $6.21
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold! And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas!' As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter S. Thompson enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of 'heinous chemicals'. His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Paperback: 224 pages
Company: HarperPerennial (2005-04-04)
ISBN: 0007204493
List Price: $16.50
Amazon Price: $8.43
Used Price: $7.95
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (Modern Library)
First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer's account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer's An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out."
This Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman's original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loath-
ing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Deca-
dent and Depraved."
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Hardcover: 304 pages
Company: Modern Library (1998-05-05) (1998-05-05)
ISBN: 0679602984
List Price: $20.00
Amazon Price: $10.10
Used Price: $8.77
Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments.
This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work.
Author: Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown
Paperback: 193 pages
Company: The MIT Press (1977-06-15)
ISBN: 026272006X
List Price: $23.95
Amazon Price: $11.00
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Michelin Guide 2009 Las Vegas (Michelin Guide Las Vegas) (Michelin Guide Las Vegas) (Michelin Las Vegas Resturants & Hotels)
Paperback: 250 pages
Company: Michelin Travel Publications (2008-10-21) (2008-10-21)
ISBN: 2067137093
List Price: $12.95
Amazon Price: $7.80
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Frommer's Las Vegas 2008 (Frommer's Complete)
You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go?they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us!
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. Opens everywhere on May 22, 1998.
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Paperback: 224 pages
Company: Vintage (1998-05-12) (1998-05-12)
ISBN: 0679785892
List Price: $13.95
Amazon Price: $7.24
Used Price: $6.75
The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas 2009 (Unofficial Guides)
More than 4 million copies sold! This series is the only one that offers evaluations based on reader surveys and critiques, compiled by a team of unbiased inspectors. ? Hotels, attractions, and restaurants in all price categories
? Extensive information on shopping, nightlife, and sports
? Easy-to-use, two-color design
? Detailed, 2-color maps
From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide® to Walt Disney World®
"A Tourist's Best Friend!"
-Chicago Sun-Times
"Indispensable"
-The New York Times
Five Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by The Unofficial Guide®:
* Over 100 hotels and casinos rated and ranked - the most offered by any guidebook - plus proven strategies for getting the best rate
* Complete detailed descriptions of each casino and casino hotel
* In-depth critical reviews of Las Vegas' 60 best shows and 30 top nightspots - the most offered by any guidebook
* Detailed reviews of more than 100 restaurants - a complete dining guide within the guide, plus the best buffets rated and ranked
* Fifty pages of gambling tips from how to play, recognize sucker games, and cut the house advantage to the bone
Author: Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge Press, Deke Castleman, Muriel Stevens
Paperback: 480 pages
Company: Wiley (2008-09-02)
ISBN: 0470285699
List Price: $19.99
Amazon Price: $10.70
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Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars
?In my world, you are either the hunter or the prey, and I am the hunter. Vegas was my prey. I tell my crew: Vegas makes it, Vigoa takes it.??Jose Vigoa[pg. 37]
When it comes to violent crime, the Las Vegas cops and casino owners thought they had seen it all. But they had never witnessed anything like Jose Vigoa.
Born in Cuba, a child of Fidel Castro?s revolution, Vigoa used his quick wits and quicker fists to trade a life of poverty and desperation for one of danger and adventure as a Soviet-trained special forces officer. Battle hardened in the killing fields of Afghanistan and Angola, Vigoa won a reputation for toughness, bravery, and coolness under fire. A brilliant military career lay ahead of him.
Then, in 1980, Castro opened Cuba?s floodgates in the Mariel boatlift, and Vigoa, like so many of his countrymen and -women, braved chaos and hardship to start a new life in America?s promised land. But involvement with the drug trade brought his dreams crashing down. Years of prison followed.
On his release, Vigoa was determined to take revenge on what he perceived as the corrupt power structure of Las Vegas. On September 20, 1998, the former Spetsnaz lieutenant launched what would be the most audacious and ruthless series of high-profile casino and armored car robberies that Las Vegas had ever seen. In a brazen sixteen-month-long reign of terror, he and his tightly disciplined crew would hit the crème de la crème of Vegas hotels: the MGM, the Desert Inn, the New York-New York, the Mandalay Bay, and the Bellagio. They struck hard and fast, then vanished without a trace. Millions of dollars were stolen. Two brave men were gunned down in cold blood; others were wounded. And yet the robberies were so well planned and executed that the police??the stupids,? as Vigoa contemptuously referred to them?were all but helpless.
Not Lt. John Alamshaw. The twenty-three-year veteran, in charge of robbery detectives, was not giving up so easily. For him, Vigoa?s rampage was a personal affront. And he would do whatever it took, even risk his badge, to bring Vigao down.
With exclusive access to all the major players, including Vigoa and Alamshaw, veteran journalist and network producer John Huddy is the perfect man to tell the gripping never-before-told story of this harrowing true-crime drama that will leave readers breathless.
Author: John Huddy
Hardcover: 384 pages
Company: Ballantine Books (2008-02-19) (2008-02-19)
ISBN: 0345487451
List Price: $26.00
Amazon Price: $12.44
Used Price: $8.94
Frommer's Las Vegas 2009 (Frommer's Complete)
America?s #1 bestselling travel series Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer?s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do.
- More annually updated guides than any other series
- 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides
- Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and suggested itineraries
- Dozens of detailed maps in an easy-to-read, two-color design
Author: Mary Herczog
Paperback: 320 pages
Company: Frommers (2008-11-03)
ISBN: 047038431X
List Price: $17.99
Amazon Price: $10.10
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Las Vegas Then and Now (Then & Now Thunder Bay)
Once upon a time, ?Sin City? attracted a different sort of visitor. Spanish explorers were the first to come to this desert oasis to enjoy its natural hot springs and named the spot Las Vegas, or ?the meadows.? Now just a century after it was founded in 1905, Las Vegas is the fastest growing metropolitan area in the US. See just how much has changed in Las Vegas Then & Now. Fascinating then-and-now photographs capture the city?s evolution from desert railroad outpost to the gambling and entertainment capital of the world.
Las Vegas remained a quiet, small town until 1931 when two events forever changed its course: the building of Hoover Dam and the legalization of gambling.
Photos from the 1940s illustrate the most dramatic development in the city with resort-style hotels and casinos popping up on the strip, including Bugsy Siegel?s Flamingo.
Fans of neon will enjoy views of ?Glitter Gulch? ? Fremont Street?s famed stretch ? as it was in the glory years of the 50s and as it is today.
Includes ?now? photos taken in September 2006 and the most up-to-date information about casino closures and new projects slated for 2006/2007.
Las Vegas remained a quiet, small town until 1931 when two events forever changed its course: the building of Hoover Dam and the legalization of gambling.
Photos from the 1940s illustrate the most dramatic development in the city with resort-style hotels and casinos popping up on the strip, including Bugsy Siegel?s Flamingo.
Fans of neon will enjoy views of ?Glitter Gulch? ? Fremont Street?s famed stretch ? as it was in the glory years of the 50s and as it is today.
Includes ?now? photos taken in September 2006 and the most up-to-date information about casino closures and new projects slated for 2006/2007.
Author: Su Kim Chung
Paperback: 144 pages
Company: Thunder Bay Press (2007-06-11)
ISBN: 1592237347
List Price: $10.95
Amazon Price: $6.21
Used Price: $6.26
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold! And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas!' As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter S. Thompson enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of 'heinous chemicals'. His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Paperback: 224 pages
Company: HarperPerennial (2005-04-04)
ISBN: 0007204493
List Price: $16.50
Amazon Price: $8.43
Used Price: $7.95
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (Modern Library)
First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer's account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer's An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out."This Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman's original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loath-
ing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Deca-
dent and Depraved."
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Hardcover: 304 pages
Company: Modern Library (1998-05-05) (1998-05-05)
ISBN: 0679602984
List Price: $20.00
Amazon Price: $10.10
Used Price: $8.77
Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments.This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work.
Author: Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown
Paperback: 193 pages
Company: The MIT Press (1977-06-15)
ISBN: 026272006X
List Price: $23.95
Amazon Price: $11.00
Used Price: $7.73
Michelin Guide 2009 Las Vegas (Michelin Guide Las Vegas) (Michelin Guide Las Vegas) (Michelin Las Vegas Resturants & Hotels)
Paperback: 250 pages Company: Michelin Travel Publications (2008-10-21) (2008-10-21)
ISBN: 2067137093
List Price: $12.95
Amazon Price: $7.80
Used Price: $25.64
Frommer's Las Vegas 2008 (Frommer's Complete)
You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go?they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us! Completely updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer's Las Vegas features lavish full-color photos of the spectacle that awaits you. This is simply the most frank, funny, outrageous guide you can buy?and it's much more up-to-date and indepth than its competition.
Our author is completely on top of the latest developments in this fast-changing destination, and she'll make sure that you never miss a minute of the fun. She'll give you an irreverent take on all the casino hotels, with all their attractions. She's also scouted out the very best restaurant choices on the very hot dining scene, and honestly reviews all the casinos, shows, clubs, shopping arcades, and golf courses in town. Frommer's Las Vegas also includes a 16-page full-color photo insert!
Author: Mary Herczog
Paperback: 320 pages
Company: Frommers (2007-11-05)
ISBN: 0470165413
List Price: $17.99
Amazon Price: $11.03
Used Price: $6.33