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Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life along the San Andreas Fault (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin offers a history of earthquakes and a guide to the San Andreas Fault, the seismic scar that bisects the Golden State's spectacular scenery. He examines the mythology, culture, social implications, politics and science of earthquakes.
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Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Taking us from the open spaces of rural New Mexico and the fields of California's Great Central Valley to the intellectual milieu of student life in Berkeley during the 1950s, this title presents a testimonio of a young Mexican American woman's struggle to rise out of poverty.
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Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Few cities captivate the imagination as does Los Angeles. It is the locus of spectaculars: movies, earthquakes, freeways, riots, and sunsets.... Læs mere
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Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history.
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My Los Angeles: From Urban Restructuring to Regional Urbanization (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, this book provides an understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world.
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Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking... Læs mere
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Music and Politics in San Francisco: From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Covers the San Francisco's musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923).
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Natural History of San Francisco Bay (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Bustling with oil tankers, laced with pollutants, and crowded with forty-six cities, the San Francisco Bay is home to healthy eelgrass beds, young Dungeness crabs and... Læs mere
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Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A document of Depression-era Los Angeles, that illuminates a pivotal moment in L A's history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations - and the mystique - for which the City of Angels is still known.
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Neptune’s Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Tells a story about evolution, as well as a tale of the storms, scurvy, and shipwrecks that plagued the Pacific coast's explorers, naturalists, and scientists, many of whom led turbulent or tragic lives, with themes reflected in the wonder and danger of the coast itself.
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Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Offers a history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States - the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant... Læs mere
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Managing Water: Avoiding Crisis in California (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Water in California is controlled, stored, delivered, and managed within a complex network of interlocking and cooperating districts and agencies. Unraveling... Læs mere
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