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Strip Cultures
Author | : The Project on Vegas |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-09-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780822375234 |
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On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "hot babes," actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night. It’s loud and excessive, but, as the Project on Vegas demonstrates, the Strip is not a world apart. Combining written critique with more than one hundred photographs by Karen Klugman, Strip Cultures examines the politics of food and water, art and spectacle, entertainment and branding, body and sensory experience. In confronting the ordinary on America’s most famous four-mile stretch of pavement, the authors reveal how the Strip concentrates and magnifies the basic truths and practices of American culture where consumerism is the stuff of life, digital surveillance annuls the right to privacy, and nature—all but destroyed—is refashioned as an element of decor.
Strip Cultures
Author | : The Project on Vegas The Project on Vegas |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-10-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822359480 |
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On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "hot babes," actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night. It’s loud and excessive, but, as the Project on Vegas demonstrates, the Strip is not a world apart. Combining written critique with more than one hundred photographs by Karen Klugman, Strip Cultures examines the politics of food and water, art and spectacle, entertainment and branding, body and sensory experience. In confronting the ordinary on America’s most famous four-mile stretch of pavement, the authors reveal how the Strip concentrates and magnifies the basic truths and practices of American culture where consumerism is the stuff of life, digital surveillance annuls the right to privacy, and nature—all but destroyed—is refashioned as an element of decor.
United States Naval Medical Bulletin
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1206 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : IND:30000100134232 |
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Public Health Reports
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1965-07 |
Genre | : Public health |
ISBN | : UFL:31262071912793 |
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Digital Imaging for Cultural Heritage Preservation
Author | : Filippo Stanco,Sebastiano Battiato,Giovanni Gallo |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2011-07-28 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9781439821732 |
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This edition presents the most prominent topics and applications of digital image processing, analysis, and computer graphics in the field of cultural heritage preservation. The text assumes prior knowledge of digital image processing and computer graphics fundamentals. Each chapter contains a table of contents, illustrations, and figures that elucidate the presented concepts in detail, as well as a chapter summary and a bibliography for further reading. Well-known experts cover a wide range of topics and related applications, including spectral imaging, automated restoration, computational reconstruction, digital reproduction, and 3D models.
Arizona Strip District Resource s Management Plan RMP
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NWU:35556031226129 |
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The Strip
Author | : Stefan Al |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2017-03-03 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262035743 |
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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.
Gleanings in Bee Culture
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Bee culture |
ISBN | : WISC:89047151501 |
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