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Great Hikes
Deborah Wall has written an exciting and useful hiking guide for the Southwest. Featuring Arizona, Nevada and California's most picturesque destinations, this book is not to be missed by outdoor enthuasists of all ages. Filled with beautiful pictures and informative maps and guides, this book is the ultimate companion for any outdoor adventure. The author and editor of the guide have taken special care in selecting the most interesting and breath-taking hikes for feature in this book. Even non hikers will enjoy the vibrant narrative of Wall, as she draws you into her hiking adventures.
Media Authorship
Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture industry of new media. Defining media broadly, across a range of creative artifacts and production cultures—from visual arts to videogames, from textiles to television—contributors consider authoring practices of artists, designers, do-it-yourselfers, media professionals, scholars, and others. Specifically, they ask: What constitutes "media" and "authorship" in a technologically converged, globa...
Adventures
Adventures provides first-hand accounts of the best and most exciting outdoor adventures in the Southwest, giving readers the exact information they need to create their own adventures. Included are stories on sandboarding at the Amargosa and Sand Mountain dunes, canyoneering in Zion's Right Fork, horsepacking in the Humboldt Range, snowboarding in the Wasatch Range, rock climbing at Mt. Charleston's The Hood, hiking Coyote Gulch, mountain biking Bootleg Canyon, and llama trekking the Arizona Strip. Listed for each trip are driving directions, camping and fee information, pack and equipment suggestions, maps, park schedules, and trail conditions.
Hope's Beat
The paramedics, one at each end, rolled the gurney out the door. Hummer followed, standing in the street as the men opened the back of the ambulance and slid the gurney inside. They banged the door closed, cutting off Hummer's view of her Nana forever. Hummer was alone. Fifteen year-old Hummer Manning was too numbed by her grandmother's death to understand that even greater problems lay ahead. Would her father take custody of her? Would the woman he was about to marry accept her? Where would she live and go to school? Only the beat of her favorite music could penetrate her grief.
We All Live in Vegas
Text in English & French. If Francois Paolini feels 'at home' in Las Vegas, it's because he has found here the possibility to create a world where man raises his eyes to the gods instead of keeping them fixed on the asphalt. Whether they depict a gold ingot, a dark pyramid that has dropped from a science-fiction sky, Legos for big kids or a concourse of giants, Paolini's photos are paintings of atmosphere that bring together in one image what the visitor has perceived without always analysing, as well as a concentration of astonishing dreams for those who were not there. Las Vegas as shown by Paolini is the last sacred ode to the outrageness that this modern, materialistic, down-to-earth world has forgotten. What a wonderful tribute paid to Las Vegas for its Centennial Celebration.
Sun, Sin & Suburbia
People all over the globe know Las Vegas as gambling's Mecca, Sin City, the Entertainment Capital of the World, a resort destination that attracts more than 35 million visitors per year. But that's just one piece of the story of this fascinating metropolis of 1.5 million people - and counting. With more than 6,000 people rushing to the valley each month, Las Vegas responded to the influx with enthusiasm and a can-do attitude, all while coping with enormous economic, social and political challenges. This carefully documented history focuses on the most exciting and chaotic decade in Las Vegas history: the 1990s. Veteran journalist Geoff Schumacher captures the true essence of Las Vegas, seeing past the neon and discovering the multi-faceted communities beyond.
To Dance on Sands
The only time she felt free was when she was dancing. Performing her own creations on her own stage, it would be like dancing forever. Then one day, in the middle of Death Valley, it appeared to her like a dream. A beautiful theatre that no one wanted. To Dance on Sands is the autobiography of Marta Becket, artist, dancer, and performer, and subject of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Amargosa. From her childhood in bohemian New York of the 1920s and 30s to her career as a painter, dancer and chorus performer on Broadway and television, Becket tells, in quirky, honest prose the story of the many ups and downs she faced living a life in the arts. To Dance on Sands is the story of a fiercely independent woman driven by her creative muses to live life on her own terms. From the glitz of New York to performing before a hand painted audience in a remote ghost town, Marta Becket's tale is one that will inspire the dancer and artist in everyone.
Runnin'
Traces the history of the University of Las Vegas, Nevada Runnin' Rebels basketball team.
Long Journey from Wikame
Book & CD. This unique volume could be treasured for the beautiful artwork alone. The poem woven within tells of the artist's encounter with the Hualapai of the Mohave, the People of the Wikame. In legends and dreams an elder of the tribe tells the story of his peoples' origins, their history, religion, and way of life from their beginnings to the present day. A poignant, sad, and sometimes mystical history haunts the people who once roamed over the vast, dry expanse of the Southwest's largest desert. Their struggle to survive and thrive, first in this harsh land and later with the invasion of strange and foreign people leaves them clinging tight to their old ways while being thrust into a new, and very bewildering world.
Young Las Vegas
The Las Vegas we know was conceived -- if anybody really conceived it -- in 1931, when Nevada liberalised its divorce and gambling laws, which would ultimately transform the city into America's playground for grown-ups. It was also the year an unprecedented engineering project began, that would turn the Colorado River from a wild killer stream to a wild reservoir that waters not only California vegetables but also sprawling Las Vegas suburbs. From 1905 to 1931, Las Vegas was still a tiny oasis in a big, dangerous desert. Its isolated people made their own swamp coolers, their own entertainment and sometimes their own whiskey. The author, Joan Burkhardt Whitely, enlisted older Las Vegans to help capture the memories of a Mojave Mayberry where neighbours took care of each other, not merely because no one else would, but because it was their hometown, and they cared.
