Author: David G. Schwartz
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Keywords: gambling, studies, series, internet, prohibition, wire, gaming, cutting
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2005-08-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0874176204
ISBN-13: 9780874176209

The story of the Wire Act and how Robert Kennedy s crusade against the Mob is creating a new generation of Internet gaming outlaws. Gambling has been part of American life since long before the existence of the nation, but Americans have always been ambivalent about it, what David Schwartz calls the "pell-mell history of legal gaming in the United States" is a testament to our paradoxical desire both to gamble and to control gambling. It is in this context that Schwartz examines the history of the Wire Act, passed in 1961 as part of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy s crusade against orga

Author: Anthony D. Smith
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Keywords: perspective, comparative, ethnonationalism, identity, national
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1993-03-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0874172047
ISBN-13: 9780874172041

Author: H. Lee Barnes
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Keywords: series, literature, western, novel, lucky
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0874175399
ISBN-13: 9780874175394

The streets of early Las Vegas are a tough place for a boy to grow up. Pete Elkins is fatherless, living in a cramped apartment with his mother, a party-girl with a penchant for falling in love with the wrong kind of man, and his older sister, grown up too young from trying to parent both her brother and their feckless mother. Pete is headed for serious trouble when he is befriended by Willy Bobbins, a casino owner with a murky past and even murkier business practices. But Willy is also deeply compassionate and wise, and he soon becomes a surrogate father for the lonely Pete. Gradually, Pete b

Author: Ronald M James
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Keywords: series, history, humanities, shepperson, nevada, justice, county, courthouses, temples
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1994-08-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 087417239X
ISBN-13: 9780874172393

Author: Kelly J. Dixon
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Keywords: history, shepperson, series, nevada, wilber, virginia, saloons, archaeology, boomtown, city
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0874176085
ISBN-13: 9780874176087

Animal bones and saloon meals: a captivating and never before seen view of everyday life in the Virginia City saloons of the Old West. The image of Old West saloons as sites of violence and raucous entertainment has been perpetuated by film and legend, but the true story of such establishments is far more complex. In Boomtown Saloons, archaeologist Kelly J. Dixon recounts the excavation of four historic saloon sites in Nevada’s Virginia City, one of the West’s most important boomtowns, and shows how the physical traces of this handful of disparate drinking places offer a new perspective

Author: E. Malcolm Greenlees
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Keywords: management, financial, accounting, casino
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1988-05-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0874171253
ISBN-13: 9780874171259

A completely revised and expanded edition of the most comprehensive book on casino accounting

Author: Jack E. Sheehan
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Keywords: vegas, las, made, men, players
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-10-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 087417306X
ISBN-13: 9780874173062

Las Vegas has been largely shaped by a handful of colourful and astute casino operators who turned a dusty desert town into the gaudy, booming holiday mecca that it is today. The essays in this book introduce us to these "players". We discover how early leaders like Cliff Jones, Moe Dalitz and Benny Binion first grasped Las Vegas’s potential as a centre for high-stakes gambling, and we read of mobster "Bugsy" Siegel’s effort to bring to reality another man’s dream of a glamorous resort-casino on a then-remote site at the edge of town. Other visionaries like Jay Sarno, Sam Boy