Download or read book The Word On The Street written by Kurt Borchard and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just beyond Las Vegas’s neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each year to enjoy its gambling and entertainment, the city’s homeless people are largely invisible, segregated from tourist areas because it’s “good business.” Now, through candid discussions with homeless men, analysis of news reports, and years of fieldwork, Kurt Borchard reveals the lives and desperation of men without shelter in Las Vegas. Borchard’s account offers a graphic, disturbing, and profoundly moving picture of life on Las Vegas’s streets, depicting the strategies that homeless men employ in order to survive, from the search for a safe place to sleep at night to the challenges of finding food, maintaining personal hygiene, and finding an acceptable place to rest during a long day on the street. That such misery and desperation exist in the midst of Las Vegas’s hedonistic tourist economy and booming urban development is a cruel irony, according to the author, and it threatens the city’s future as a prime tourist destination. The book will be of interest to social workers, sociologists, anthropologists, politicians, and all those concerned about changing the misery on the street.
Download or read book Housing the Elderly written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beneath the Neon written by Matthew O'Brien and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2007-03-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.
Download or read book Homeless in Las Vegas written by Kurt Borchard and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The homeless men and women represented in this book speak candidly about their plight, its origins, and the many obstacles to escaping it. They discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that Las Vegas’s focus on tourism, indulgence, and diversion offers its homeless residents. This compelling and emotionally charged ethnography counters many of the stereotypes of homeless men and women, revealing the remarkable diversity of their circumstances. It also offers their perspectives on social services and civic attitudes toward homelessness.
Download or read book The Real Las Vegas written by David Littlejohn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-28 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a look beyond the bright lights to see an ever-growing human population and big business in the Las Vegas area. In-depth interviews and photo-biography reveal an unusual but quite metropolitan city that is more than just tourists. 32 illustrations.
Download or read book Dark Days Bright Nights written by Matthew O'Brien and published by Central Recovery Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society. Are you aware that hundreds of people live underground in the flood channels of Las Vegas? Few people were until Matthew O'Brien grabbed a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton for protection and explored the storm-drain system in depth. This research resulted in his landmark book Beneath the Neon. Now the drains have been covered by CNN, Fox News, NPR, Dr. Phil, the New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and many other media outlets. They have even found their way on to popular TV shows, including CSI, Criminal Minds, and into mainstream movies. But the fact that several of these drug- and gambling-addicted tunnel dwellers have clawed their way out of the drains and turned around their lives has received far less attention. Dark Days, Bright Nights shares their harrowing stories and provides a unique perspective on one of America's most fascinating cities. It also paints a larger picture of homelessness and recovery in America. These stories are the happy (though not Hollywood) ending to the infamous tunnel tale. The narrative is complemented by bios and stark, black-and-white images of the survivors, putting a scarred, knowing face to the unblinkingly honest accounts.
Download or read book Using Public Lands to Help Meet a Growing Need written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1994 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of Las Vegas written by Barbara Land and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s Las Vegas welcomes 35 million visitors a year and reigns as the world’s premier gaming mecca. But it is much more than a gambling paradise. In A Short History of Las Vegas, Barbara and Myrick Land reveal a fascinating history beyond the mobsters, casinos, and showgirls. The authors present a complete story, beginning with southern Nevada’s indigenous peoples and the earliest explorers to the first pioneers to settle in the area; from the importance of the railroad and the construction of Hoover Dam to the arrival of the Mob after World War II; from the first isolated resorts to appear in the dusty desert to the upscale, extravagant theme resorts of today. Las Vegas—and its history—is full of surprises. The second edition of this lively history includes details of the latest developments and describes the growing anticipation surrounding the Las Vegas centennial celebration in 2005. New chapters focus on the recent implosions of famous old structures and the construction of glamorous new developments, headline-making mergers and multibillion-dollar deals involving famous Strip properties, and a concluding look at what life is like for the nearly two million residents who call Las Vegas home.
Download or read book Death Orchid written by Jane Brooke and published by Pink Flamingo Media. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LAS VEGAS, not THAT Vegas, but N. Vegas, a dangerous black hole of sexual depravity, acid etched freedom, consenting sex, crime, private sex clubs, BDSM, gay, straight, young, old, Goth, Punk, Hip hop kids. Also, lawyers, sport stars, doctors, preachers, rich bi sexual divorcees, and cops, needing release from the 24/7 mass death and carnage. There are top predators, Alpha females and males. One is Mandal, 27, bi sexual, a gorgeous tall blonde ex-grifter, thief, whore, at 25 a contract killer for the New Jersey Mafia. She murders a Mafia Don, six of his crew, stealing a million dollars, then drifts into Vegas. The other female, OBA, a stunning, 6ft 2, lesbian black Somali, ex soldier, killer, tribal, scars on her face, sidekick of an artist, killer, super thief named Mal. They all meet, merge, fall in love and move through Vegas as a vicious serial killer runs amok, killing the homeless. With the backdrop of a young beautiful female’s death, a vengeful Mafia Don’s daughter, a crazed ex childhood Sitcom star and a burnt out homicide cop, here exposed is a hidden world of violence and liberating sexual honesty, a world few human beings ever thought possible.
Download or read book Veterans Dependents Guide written by and published by GovAmerica.org. This book was released on with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents written by United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. Office of Public Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents written by Department of Veterans Affairs and published by Office of Public Affairs. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents booklet provides detailed information on the full range of federal benefits available to military veterans and their dependents, including program description, payment amounts and eligibility. The booklet also contains the addresses and telephone numbers of VA hospitals, clinics, benefits offices and national cemeteries nationwide.
Download or read book Federal Benefits for Veterans Dependents and Survivors 2012 written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a complete summary of the benefits available to qualified American veterans of the armed forces, including health insurance, pensions, education, vocational rehabilitation, home loan guaranties, life insurance, burial benefits, and many others.
Download or read book Cities and Homelessness written by Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem. The homeless today face the same challenges as in years past: poverty, tenuous or no ties to family and friends, physical and mental health issues, and substance abuse. Compared to the 1950s to 1970s, more homeless are now sleeping on city streets versus in shelters or single room hotels. Homelessness rates are affected by economic trends, lack of equitable and inclusive healthcare and housing, decline in public assistance programs, and natural and man-made disasters. This collection of essays covers case studies, innovations, practices and policies of municipalities coping with homelessness in the 21st century.
Download or read book Annual Plan for Fiscal Year written by National Toxicology Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Toxicology Program Annual Report for Fiscal Year written by National Toxicology Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
