Introduction : the many faces of Las Vegas / Hal Rothman and Mike Davis
Scripting Las Vegan : noir naifs, junking up, and the new strip / Norman M. Klein
Las Vegas of the mind : shooting movies in and about Nevada / Francisco Menendez
Discordant infrastructure / Peter Goin
Growth, services and the political economy of gambling in Las Vegas, 1970-2000 / Eugene Moehring
Lighting Las Vegas : electricity and the city of glitz / Jay Brigham
Build it and the water will come / Jon Christensen
The social costs of rapid urbanization in southern Nevada / Robert E. Parker
Rise to power : the recent history of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas / Courtney Alexander
Class struggle in Oz / Mike Davis
Squeezing the juice out of Las Vegas : reflections on growing up in Smalltown, USA / Brian Frehner
I don't know anybody lived there / Shannon McMackin
How I became a native / William N. Thompson
Inside the glitter : lives of casino workers / Kit Miller
She works hard for her money : a reassessment of Las Vegas women workers, 1945-1985 / Joanne L. Goodwin
Inside Jean / Constance Devereaux
Looking into a dry lake : uncovering the women's view of Las Vegas / Amie Williams
Colony, capital and casino : money in the real Las Vegas / Hal Rothman
Who puts the "sin" in "Sin City" stories : girls of grit and glitter in the city of women / Kathryn Hausbeck
Nevada goes global : the foreign gaming rule and the spread of casinos / William N. Thompson
Canto : Las Vegas / Richard Misrach.