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Explores the Huntington's Chinese Garden - Liu Fang Yuan, or the Garden of Flowing Fragrance - one of the largest such gardens outside China. This work discusses the challenges of constructing the garden in Southern California as well as the cultural traditions and aesthetics of Chinese garden design.

Bill Zender's Casino-ology took the art of casino management to new levels by introducing superior mathematical concepts to improve efficiencies within a casino operation. But after struggling through one of the worst financial periods in history, the world has changed. It's imperative that casino managers be reactive to evolving markets, and Casino-ology 2 addresses all the issues relevant to a new and challenging gaming environment. In Casin...

A rendezvous with a strip-club owner who starts a church based on the writings of Thomas Paine. A savage journey to the heart of Hunter S. Thompson's Las Vegas, with the Good Doctor as guide. A Lord of the Rings-like adventure into the city's underground flood channels. A seven-day stay at a seedy motel on East Fremont street. The stories in My Week at the Blue Angel aren't about Steve Wynn or Cirque du Soleil, and they aren't set in Caesar's ...

The Kill Phil" strategy remains highly effective when used in confrontations with even the world's best players, but tournament play is evolving. This edition reflects the new trends in tournament poker by refining the use of the all-in move and providing adaptations that take into account the new style of hyper-aggressive play.

In 1975, Ian Andersen left the mundane world of corporate America to play high-stakes blackjack. He described his conquests in the classing Turning the Tables on Las Vegas (Vanguard Press). Now, after 25 more years in the casino trenches, Andersen has written his long-awaited sequel, which describes his personal program for success in blackjack and poker. The new edition of Andersen's classic book on casino comportment is revised, updated, and...

Sam Durango is riding high. He's the star of the TV western "The Vegas Kid, " he's married to a glamorous actress and lives in a beautiful home in the Hollywood hills. And then his life becomes a country-western song. His show is canceled his wife leaves him and --thanks to her lawyers--he's homeless and broke. Left with no choice but to move on, Sam leaves California and his old life, ready for a new start in Las Vegas.

Timesong is the inspirational story of a three-legged coyote named j.b. who befriends an autistic boy named Tom. Following the loss of his father, Tom retreats into a shell of isolation, j.b. counters Tom's despair with a simple and uplifting explanation of immortality. Timesong combines elements of science and religion to forge a thought-provoking message for young and old in time of personal crisis. For those trying to reconcile the loss of ...

More Frugal Gambling is a 400-plus-page powerhouse packed with new and improved techniques for navigating the fast-growing and constantly changing casino scene.

Evvie North's a typical young wife and mother--until a stray bullet kills her 18-month-old daughter and forever shatters Evvie's normal life. When her husband, Ted, a DEA agent, suggests they go to Panama to buy a boat and cruise the Caribbean, she agrees--anything to bury her grief, anything to forget that she was once a mother. Shipwrecked off Panama's coast, Evvie finds herself on an island inhabited by gentle Cuna Indians but controlled by...

A story of adventure and discovery, love and loss and the eternal bond between father and son. Perfert for the holidays.

Deep in the Nevada desert, on a military base that doesn't exist, the U.S. government has developed the most sinister warplane ever to rule the skies. Its name is Rhombus and it's the pinnacle of man's genius applied to the art of mass destruction.

Plenty of gambling books explain how to play the games, that's Gambling 101. Gambling 102 takes you to the next stage, where you're playing the games in the best manner for the least amount of effort. Within these pages, gambling's "Wizard of Odds" provides the best strategies possible along with the easiest learning curve for all the casino games, from baccarat to video poker, from sic bo to sports betting.

It was Las Vegas' crime of the century. Lonnie "Ted" Binion, ne'er-do-well son of the famed casino owner Benny Binion, was found dead in his home September 19, 1998. Some claimed overdose, others speculated suicide, investigators said murder. Ted's girlfriend, Sandy Murphy, and her lover Rick Tabish were charged with Binion's murder and the show began. Follow the most riveting courtroom drama in Las Vegas history, presented pictorially, with o...

The casino floors are jammed with new and different kinds of slot machines. In this guide John Robison tells you what they are, how they work, and how you should play them. Formerly sold only in bulky report format, this new pocket-sized book can be easily carried into the casinos to be used as a reference. Contains graphics of slot and video poker pay schedules you will encounter, along with representative return percentages.

Sex is for sale 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in Nevada's legal brothels. Former madam Lora Shaner takes you into the parlour -- and bedroom -- of Sheri's Ranch, in this compelling account of the sex-for-money culture. Read about the nun turned prostitute, the errant wife, the happy-hooker tag team, the pro with the heart of gold, and the turn outs, part-timers, sex addicts, adventure-seekers, and other ladies of the house. The newly update...

This book brings together the best writing of Las Vegas' most popular columnist, the Las Vegas Review Journal's John L Smith. Smith provides singular insights into the fast, fluid, and often funny town he's chronicled for nearly 20 years. Subjects include: Las Vegas mayor and Mob mouthpiece Oscar Goodman, legendary slot cheat Bill Land, and seldom-chronicled gambling icons such as Mel Exber (Las Vegas Club), Si Redd (IGT), and Big Julie Weintr...

Offers a look at Bob Stupak, controversial casino owner and builder of the Stratosphere Tower, the tallest structure west of the Mississippi.

Golf-writer and hacker extraordinaire, Michael Konik roams the golfing universe in this outstanding collection of stories about the game and its grandeur. Konik's intimate profiles take you inside the minds and motives of some of the biggest names in golf -- John Daly and Phil Mickelson, Raymond Floyd and Jim Colbert, Helen Alfredsson and Laura Davies, Dave Pelz and Vince Gill among them.

A collection of one of the renowned gambling writer's best magazine pieces. It includes stories that take you to the final table of the World Series of Poker where a $1 million prize awaits the winner, to a secret golf course reserved for the biggest gamblers in Las Vegas, and to the inner sanctum of an international bookmaking operation.

Can you imagine betting a million dollars on a football game or winning seven million on a single horse race? Can you fathom what it's like to be the resident backgammon player at the Playboy Mansion or tow win the World Series of Poker ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? twice? It's all in a day's work for the eight gamblers in this book. Collectively, they've won hundreds of millio...