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Southland

Author : Nina Revoyr
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070480
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Southland written by Nina Revoyr and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles. —Winner of a 2004 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Award in Literature —Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award —Nominated for an Edgar Award The plot line of Southland is the stuff of a James Ellroy or a Walter Mosley novel . . . But the climax fairly glows with the good-heartedness that Revoyr displays from the very first page. —Los Angeles Times Jackie Ishida’s grandfather had a store in Watts where four boys were killed during the riots in 1965, a mystery she attempts to solve. —New York Times Book Review, included in “Where Noir Lives in the City of Angels” Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly. While trying to fulfill a request from his will, Jackie discovers that four black teenagers were killed in the store he ran during the Watts Riots of 1965—and that the murders were never solved or reported. Along with James Lanier, a cousin of one of the victims, she tries to piece together the story of the boys’ deaths. In the process, Jackie unearths the long-held secrets of her family’s history—and her own. Moving in and out of the past, from the shipping yards and internment camps of World War II; to the barley fields of the Crenshaw District in the 1930s; to the means streets of Watts in the 1960s; to the night spots and garment factories of the 1990s, Southland weaves a tale of Los Angeles in all of its faces and forms.

California Southland

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book California Southland written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plein Air Painters of California, the Southland

Author : Ruth Lilly Westphal
Publisher : Westphal Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Plein Air Painters of California, the Southland written by Ruth Lilly Westphal and published by Westphal Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs

Author : California (State).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Received document entitled: APPENDIX TO PETITION FOR WRIT

California. Court of Appeal (1st Appellate District). Records and Briefs

Author : California (State).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Blue Sky Metropolis

Author : Peter J. Westwick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289064
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Blue Sky Metropolis written by Peter J. Westwick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like citrus, oil, movies, radio, and television, aerospace helped create Southern California and embody its values. Blue Sky Metropolis launches an entirely fresh consideration of an iconic industry that answered the immemorial hunger of the human race for flight and the future."--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California "Blue Sky Metropolis presents an intriguing survey of a unique time in Southern California history, when cheap land and benign weather lured massive aerospace enterprises to the region—eventually serving as home to nearly half of the nation’s defense and space fabricators. Before there was a Silicon Valley, high-tech dreamers were on the loose in the Southland, creating inventions as diverse as the Voyager planetary spacecraft and the Stealth bomber. These highly readable essays help us understand how it happened—how Southern California shaped aerospace, and vice versa."—Charles Elachi, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory "Peter Westwick has assembled a rich collection of essays that tell a wonderful story about the importance of the aerospace industry to Southern California and the importance of Southern California to the aerospace industry. There's technology, sociology, economics, geography, anthropology, and much more woven through the chapters. It's an ambitious project, but it succeeds in being interesting, informative, and entertaining."—Michael Rich, President and CEO, The RAND Corporation

Geology Underfoot in Southern California

Author : Robert Phillip Sharp
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780878422890
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Geology Underfoot in Southern California written by Robert Phillip Sharp and published by Mountain Press Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty vignettes focus on particular geologic scenes, relationships, and features of southern California's active landscape.

Southern California Year 'round Vacation Land Supreme

Author : All-Year Club of Southern California
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Southern California Year 'round Vacation Land Supreme written by All-Year Club of Southern California and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Point Loma Community in California, 1897-1942

Author : Emmett A. Greenwalt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Point Loma Community in California, 1897-1942 written by Emmett A. Greenwalt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Architect and Engineer of California

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architect and Engineer of California written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

California Vieja

Author : Phoebe S. Kropp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520258045
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book California Vieja written by Phoebe S. Kropp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a rich and learned volume that has a story to tell to those seeking to understand contemporary Southern California."—David Johnson, managing editor of the Pacific Historical Review "Engagingly written and well researched, California Vieja is an intriguing, persuasive examination of the politics of memory and the built environment in southern California."—Vicki Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

Outdoor Southland of California

Author : Frederick Roland Miner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outdoor Southland of California written by Frederick Roland Miner and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Romantic Southland of California

Author : Marshall Breeden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Southland of California written by Marshall Breeden and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Southland

Author : Gordon Glattenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932804294
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Southland written by Gordon Glattenberg and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Union List of Periodicals in Libraries of Southern California

Author : Special Libraries Association. Southern California Chapter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Union List of Periodicals in Libraries of Southern California written by Special Libraries Association. Southern California Chapter and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Material Dreams

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019507260X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Material Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles. Although he treats readers to intriguing side trips to Santa Barbara and Pasadena, Starr focuses here mainly on Los Angeles, revealing how this major city arose almost defiantly on a site lacking many of the advantages required for urban development, creating itself out of sheer will, the Great Gatsby of American cities. He describes how William Ellsworth Smyth, the Peter the Hermit of the Irrigation Crusade, propounded the importance of water in Southern California's future, and how such figures as the self-educated, Irish engineer William Mulholland (who built the main aquaducts to Los Angeles) and George Chaffey (who diverted the Colorado River, transforming desert into the lush Imperial Valley) brought life-supporting water to the arid South. He examines the discovery of oil ("Yes it's oil, oil, oil / that makes LA boil," went the official drinking song of the Uplifters Club), the boosters and land developers, the evangelists (such as Bob Shuler, the Methodist Savanarola of Los Angeles, and Aimee Semple McPherson), and countless other colorful figures of the period. There are also fascinating sections on the city's architecture (such as the remarkably innovative Bradbury Building and its eccentric, neophyte designer, George Wyman), the impact of the automobile on city planning, the great antiquarian book collections, the Hollywood film community, and much more. By the end of the decade, Los Angeles had tripled in population and become the fifth largest city in the nation. In Material Dreams, Kevin Starr captures this explosive growth in a narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose.