Author: Rudi Stern
Publisher: ST Media Group International Inc.
Keywords: neon, new
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0944094163
ISBN-13: 9780944094167
This is the only book in which neon is studied both as a handcraft and artistic medium with its own expressive potential. The only comprehensive visual history of 100 years of neon, this will delight anyone interested in the contemporary arts. First published as Let There Be Neon, this is a revised edition (including an additional chapter).
Author: Nelson Algren
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Keywords: wilderness, neon
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1583225501
ISBN-13: 9781583225509
The stories in The Neon Wilderness established Algren in the pantheon of American writers and formed the vein that he mined for all his subsequent novels and stories. Included are "A Bottle of Milk for Mother," about a youth being cornered for a murder, "The Face on the Barroom Floor," in which a legless man nearly pummels someone to death, and "So Help Me," Algren’s first published story. "Algren’s short stories are now generally acknowledged to be literary triumphs." — The New York Times
Author: John T Cullen
Publisher: Clocktower Books
Keywords: blue, neon
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2007-02-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0743309073
ISBN-13: 9780743309073
In this steamy, intriguing novel of suspense, DEA Special Agent Laurel "Blue" Humboldt must unravel not only the deadly secrets of an international drug cartel, but also the unusual love triangle in which she finds herself. Does she care more for lovely Chinese American detective Martha Yee, or handsome millionaire John Connor? She can’t think too long, because the cartel’s deadly assassin is closing in.
Author: Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Keywords: vol, evangelion, genesis, neon
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2004-03-24
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1591164001
ISBN-13: 9781591164005
Evangelion, Vol. 1, contains a Japanese sound FX glossary plus special bonus commentary by series mecha designer Ikuto Yamashita, as well as the famous "confession letter" written by director Hideaki Anno in the months before the original TV series premiere that laid out his deeply personal motivations to make Evangelion.
Author: Jessica "Neon Dragon" Peffer
Publisher: Impact
Keywords: dragonart
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-09-25
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1581806574
ISBN-13: 9781581806571
How to Draw a Dragon: "Cautiously approach the dragon, offer it a piece of candy or a little sister, and draw while it happily munches away." From the creator of the wildly popular website NeonDragonArt.com, DRAGONART shows you how to create awesome, delightful and frightening beasts, armed only with a pencil and ink pen. You’ll begin your quest by conquering a super-easy dragon that even the most foolish of ogres could draw. You’ll forge onward to discover simple secrets and spiffy tricks for making creatures friendly or fierce, sorrowful or cynical… drawing them from all different
Author: John Kennedy Toole
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: bible, neon
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1994-01-12
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802132073
ISBN-13: 9780802132079
The first novel by the Pulizer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy Of Dunces. David is a young boy growing up in a small Southern town in the 1940s. From his porch, David can see the whole valley, including the neon Bible that lights up the sky, emblem of the God-fearing folk who snub his family because Poppa can’t afford the church dues.
Author: Hal Rothman
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: twenty, first, century, started, vegas, metropolis, las, neon
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-04-18
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0415926130
ISBN-13: 9780415926133
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 America. A hip, iconic, playground that exports nothing, it nonetheless earns billions from consumer services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to mirror its success and huge, respectabl
