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Neon Metropolis
How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
Av Hal Rothman
Inbunden, 2002
2585 kr
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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 …
Neon Metropolis
How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
Av Hal Rothman
Häftad, 2003
637 kr
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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 …
Grit Beneath the Glitter
Tales from the Real Las Vegas
Häftad, 2002
441 kr
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The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known. They offer a …
Grit Beneath the Glitter
Tales from the Real Las Vegas
E-bok, 2002
518 kr
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The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known. They offer a …
America's National Monuments
Politics of Preservation
Av Hal Rothman
Häftad, 1994
305 kr
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By examining the history of the national monuments, from the passage of the Antiquities Act of 1906 to the present, this book traces the evolution of federal preservation. The author shows how laws, policies, personalities, personal and bureaucratic rivalries have affected preservation efforts.
I'll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again
Recollections of the First Forest Rangers of the Inland Northwest
Av Hal Rothman
Häftad, 1994
352 kr
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This collection provides a context for the best and most informative letters written by early foresters. The writers illuminate how they were forced to balance the agency's regulatory impulses with the needs of rural communities that depended upon forests for their livelihood.
Devil's Bargains
Tourism in the Twentieth-century American West
Av Hal Rothman
Häftad, 1998
416 kr
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The American West has always been seen as a land of opportunity, but tourism has transformed it into a land of opportunism. From Sun Valley to Santa Fe, towns all over the region have been turned over to outsiders - not just those who visit, but those who control. There's no denying that tourism …
New Urban Park
Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism
Av Hal Rothman
Inbunden, 2004
628 kr
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From Yellowstone to the Great Smoky Mountains, America's national parks are sprawling tracts of serenity. This book looks at the new phenomenon of urban parks, focusing on San Francisco's Golden Gate National Recreation Area as a prototype for the 21st century.
Out Of The Woods
Essays in Environmental History
Häftad, 1997
744 kr
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Through the pages of Environmental History Review, now Environmental History, an entire discipline has been created and defined over time through the publication of the finest scholarship by humanists, social and natural scientists, and other professionals concerned with the complex relationship …
Neon Metropolis
How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
Av Hal Rothman
E-bok, 2015
727 kr
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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 …
Neon Metropolis
How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
Av Hal Rothman
E-bok, 2015
712 kr
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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 …
I'll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again
Recollections of the First Forest Rangers of the Inland Northwest
Av Hal Rothman
Inbunden, 1994
423 kr
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This collection provides a context for the best and most informative letters written by early foresters. The writers illuminate how they were forced to balance the agency's regulatory impulses with the needs of rural communities that depended upon forests for their livelihood.
Lbj's Texas White House
Our Heart's Home
Av Hal Rothman
Inbunden, 2001
295 kr
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A history of Lyndon Baines Johnson's ranch in Texas, which he and his family called ""our heart's home"" and made the Texas White House during his five years as president. The text explores the ranch's ethos and operation, and thus examines the relationship between power and place in US culture.
National Parks Book Series, 5 Volume Set
Av George Bristol, Don Lago m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
1102 kr
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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 …
