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Author: Bolterpyre
Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
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Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sons of Trident--a Protectorate Regiment originating from the Ocean World of Triton. The Regiment was deployed to assist in the defense of a desert world beleaguered by alien belligerents. The story follows Centauri Patrol Team as they uncover the mystery behind the attack of the Dusk Riders, which was bolstered by an unlikely force...
Author: Sheila Swan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-05-07
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 151078117X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNevada’s iconic art form comes to life. Sheila Swan and Peter Laufer take readers on a journey, not only along the Las Vegas Strip, but down quiet, two-lane rural roads punctuated by neon signs—those glistening beacons that represent commerce in the vast Great Basin. The photographers’ stunning work captures the argon violets, krypton purples, helium golds, and xenon blues that glow amid the nighttime desert sky. Readers will discover that neon is not just a medium for casino advertising. The colorful images of cowboys and cowgirls, animals, desert landscapes, and a myriad of other creative designs all illuminate Americana. The neon sign helps define Nevada and its businesses, from bars and casinos to the stores, restaurants, motels, and theaters that line the streets of the Silver State’s cities and towns, and those rural areas that are barely a blip on the map. With a compelling blend of striking full-color photographs and fascinating historical commentary, this book celebrates an art form that wholly embraces the state’s unique personality. First published in 1994, this newly updated and expanded edition of Neon Nevada explores the resurgence of this art form during the last decade, which has resulted in an appreciation of Nevada neon that will never fade. This survey of neon casts the new edition as a defining source for neon scholars and attracts neon aficionados to what can only be defined as a medium as distinctive and interesting as Nevada itself.
Author: Paul Maziar
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 0978998987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCold War Kids bassist and visual artist Maust and wordsmith Maziar collaborate to offer a book that's a guided tour through places they've been, both actual and abstract.
Author: Ben Ehrenreich
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2020-07-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1640093540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLayering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.
Author: Michael A. Mares
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002-05-14
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780674007475
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Travel ... into the deserts of Argentina, Iran, Egypt, and the American Southwest ..."--Front inside flap.
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Published: 2006-06
Total Pages: 160
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Author: Mary Sue Suit
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1996-05-01
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780486294780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInstructions, diagrams for quick-piecing one of the most popular quilting patterns. Motifs, ranging from simple to complex, include Spring Mosaic, Goose Flight, Nebraska Windmill, Aunt Sukey's Choice and 8 others.
Author: Peter Laufer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011-11-08
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 076277570X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is no neon to match Nevada’s. The combination of Wild West mythology and the remaining untamed pitch-black nighttime landscape, replete with real cowboys and real gambling, makes the Silver State a unique and appropriate canvas for neon art. Modern Nevada began with a nonstop desire for riches. It continues for many as a state of dreams often vividly expressed through exploding neon. Neon Nevada brings all this alive. Cameras in hand, authors Sheila Swan and Peter Laufer embarked on their first Nevada neon trek in the 1970s. They followed this up with a second nocturnal treasure hunt in the early 1990s—and a third in 2010, in the course of which they discovered that neon is fading fast; most notably on the Las Vegas Strip. Most of all, though, they realized that their passion for the art and craft of neon had not waned. A compelling blend of full-color photographs and absorbing prose, Neon Nevada takes us on a literal and figurative journey not only down the Las Vegas strip but also down quiet two-lane roads punctuated occasionally with neon signs, those glittering beacons of civilization against the desert night sky. The authors talk with sign owners, with those who created and maintained the neon, and those who collect it.
