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Casino

Love and Honor in Las Vegas

By: Nicholas Pileggi

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Casino

Love and Honor in Las Vegas

By: Nicholas Pileggi

The true story behind the Martin Scorsese film: A “riveting . . . account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled” (Kirkus Reviews). Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Mafia classic Wiseguy—basis for the film Goodfellas—Nicholas Pileggi reveals how the pair worked together to oversee Las Vegas casino operations for the mob. He unearths how Teamster pension funds were used to take control of the Stardust and Tropicana and how Spilotro simultaneously ran a crew of jewel thieves nicknamed the “Hole in the Wall Gang.” For years, these gangsters kept a stranglehold on Sin City’s brightly lit nightspots, skimming millions in cash for their bosses. But the elaborate scheme began to crumble when Rosenthal’s disproportionate ambitions drove him to make mistakes. Spilotro made an error of his own, falling for his partner’s wife, a troubled showgirl named Geri. It would all lead to betrayal, a wide-ranging FBI investigation, multiple convictions, and the end of the Mafia’s longstanding grip on the multibillion-dollar gaming oasis in the midst of the Nevada desert. Casino is a journey into 1970s Las Vegas and a riveting nonfiction account of the world portrayed in the Martin Scorsese film of the same name, starring Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone. A story of adultery, murder, infighting, and revenge, this “fascinating true-crime Mob history” is a high-stakes page-turner (Booklist).

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Open Road Media

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1504041623

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9781504041621

GoodFellas

By: Nicholas Pileggi

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GoodFellas

By: Nicholas Pileggi

Telling the fascinating and brutal details of the day-to-day life of a New York mobster, this is Henry Hill's own story. He speaks of violence, wild spending sprees, his wife, and his code of honour. But to save his life, Hill turns into a Federal witness, and the mob is still hunting him down for revealing their involvement in hundreds of crimes.

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Bloomsbury Paperbacks

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074757863X

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9780747578635

Wiseguy

By: Nicholas Pileggi

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Wiseguy

By: Nicholas Pileggi

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan). This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds…with Henry Hill’s crackling narration drawn straight out of Wiseguy and overseeing all the unforgettable action. “Nonstop...absolutely engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review). Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob—from one who’s lived it.

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Simon & Schuster

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1982129905

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9781982129903

Casino

Love and Honor in Las Vegas

By: Nicholas Pileggi

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Love and Honor in Las Vegas

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1504041623

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Wiseguy

The 25th Anniversary Edition

By: Nicholas Pileggi

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Wiseguy

The 25th Anniversary Edition

By: Nicholas Pileggi

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307

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Simon and Schuster

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1451642784

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9781451642780

Retrometabolic Drug Design and Targeting

By: Nicholas Bodor,Peter Buchwald

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Retrometabolic Drug Design and Targeting

By: Nicholas Bodor,Peter Buchwald

Innovative approach to drug design that's more likely to result in an approvable drug product Retrometabolic drug design incorporates two distinct drug design approaches to obtain soft drugs and chemical delivery systems, respectively. Combining fundamentals with practical step-by-step examples, Retrometabolic Drug Design and Targeting gives readers the tools they need to take full advantage of retrometabolic approaches in order to develop safe and effective targeted drug therapies. The authors, both pioneers in the fields of soft drugs and retrometabolic drug design, offer valuable ideas, approaches, and solutions to a broad range of challenges in drug design, optimization, stability, side effects, and toxicity. Retrometabolic Drug Design and Targeting begins with an introductory chapter that explores new drugs and medical progress as well as the challenges of today's drug discovery. Next, it discusses: Basic concepts of the mechanisms of drug action Drug discovery and development processes Retrometabolic drug design Soft drugs Chemical delivery systems Inside the book, readers will find examples from different pharmacological areas detailing the rationale for each drug design. These examples set forth the relevant pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of the new therapeutic agents, comparing these properties to those of other compounds used for the same therapeutic purpose. In addition, the authors review dedicated computer programs that are available to support and streamline retrometabolic drug design efforts. Retrometabolic Drug Design and Targeting is recommended for all drug researchers interested in employing this newly tested and proven approach to developing safe and effective drugs.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118407768

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9781118407769

Wiseguy

The 25th Anniversary Edition

By: Nicholas Pileggi

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The 25th Anniversary Edition

By: Nicholas Pileggi

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Family Names

The Origins, Meanings, Mutations, and History of More Than 2,800 American Names

By: Julius Nicholas Hook

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The Origins, Meanings, Mutations, and History of More Than 2,800 American Names

By: Julius Nicholas Hook

ORIGINS, MEANINGS, MUTATIONS AND HISTORY OF MORE THAN 2,800 AMERICAN NAMES.

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Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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0020800002

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9780020800002

Casino

By: Nicholas Pileggi

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Casino

By: Nicholas Pileggi

Beschrijving van de infiltratie van de mafia in Las Vegas waaraan de politie in 1987 een einde maakte.

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270

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9022520145

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9789022520147

Goodfellas

By: Nicholas Pileggi

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Goodfellas

By: Nicholas Pileggi

The Bloomsbury Film Classics, The Original Novel series presents books from a number of films from the last 40 years that have been considered to have shown great cinematic merit.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0747543240

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9780747543244

Goodfellas: Screenplay

By: Martin Scorsese

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Goodfellas: Screenplay

By: Martin Scorsese

Henry Hill grows up in the 1950s, in a Brooklyn neighbourhood where Italian-American gangsters walk tall in the streets, commanding the respect of their peers. Young Henry dreams that one day he too might be a professional 'wiseguy' - a 'goodfella'. His wishes come true with remarkable speed once he teams up with renowned hoodlum Jimmy Conway and his alarmingly psychotic pal Tommy DeVito. Henry embarks on an everyday life of crime which takes him from rags to gaudy riches, in and out of the federal penitentiary and under the unwelcome spotlight of the FBI. As the 1970s turn sour Henry finds himself at the sharp end of the cocaine trade, increasingly adrift from his extended mobster 'family' and forced to make a tough decision about his future. The film that re-established Martin Scorsese's eminence among American directors after years of professional difficulties, 'GoodFellas' is a tour de force which lays bare the crude and venal motives which drive a happy band of thieves and murderers.

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Faber & Faber

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0571202497

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9780571202492

Casino

By: Nicholas Pileggi,Martin Scorsese

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Casino

By: Nicholas Pileggi,Martin Scorsese

With the intensity of a Jacobean tragedy, Casino unfolds its tale of a love triangle between a gambler, his wife, and his henchman amid the glittering, festering Babylon of Las Vegas. The film makes daring use of voice-over and rapidly shifting points of view and time frame, leaving conventional film language far behind.

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0671001604

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9780671001605

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