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Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley

Author : Richard Schwartz
Publisher : RSB Books
ISBN 13 : 9780967820422
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley written by Richard Schwartz and published by RSB Books. This book was released on 2007-07-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley, author Richard Schwartz seems to have leaned so far over the magic hole of history that he fell in and lived with the people he studied. The intimacy he has developed with men and women of nineteenth and early twentieth century Berkeley blurs the fact that these people and events are of another time. The seventeen stories Schwartz tells here remind us of an often-overlooked reality: that the face of humanity of the past is the same as our own. Although the world these wise and colorful characters inhabit is in so many ways different from ours, their spirit rings true to our modern sensibilities. Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley shows how deeply we share the emotions and motivations of our ancestors whether she be a Native American girl trapped as a Berkeley domestic, a Civil War veteran gossiping and reminiscing his way down Shattuck Avenue in a horse-drawn wagon, or an African American dairyman whose keen observations bring him riches in a community that embraced him as a town founder. Schwartz brings forth these long-forgotten people from their resting place, and does so with such skill as a storyteller that we can, for a time, straddle two worlds and sense their profound continuity.

Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley

Author : Richard Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley written by Richard Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeen stories Schwartz tells here remond us of an often-overlooked reality: that the face of humanity of the past is the same as our own. Although the world of these colorful characters inhabit is in so many ways different from ours, their spirit rings true to our modern sensibilities, Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cuttthroats of Old Berkeley shows how deeply we share the emotions and motivations of our ancestors...whetehr she's a Native American girl trapped as a Berkeley domestic, a Civil War veteran gossiping and reminiscing his way down Shattuck Avenue in a horse-drawn wagon, or an African American dairyman whose keen observations and inventive skill bring him riches in a community that embraced him as a town founder. Schwartz brings forth these long-forgotten people from their resting place, and does so with such skill as a storyteller that we can, for a time, straddle two worlds and sense their profound continuity.

Earthquake Exodus, 1906

Author : Richard Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthquake Exodus, 1906 written by Richard Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquake Exodus, 1906 tells the story of the ten-week relief effort in the East Bay after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Within hours of the earthquake, the people of Berkeley began to organize a citizens' committee, knowing that terrified masses of stricken refuges would pour into their town within hours. By revisiting both their challenges--smallpox, fires, and keeping public order--and acts of grace, such as taking in the homeless, setting up temporary camps, and dispensing food, Richard Schwartz illuminates a nearly forgotten episode in Bay Area history. Containing many breathtaking photos and illustrations not seen for nearly one hundred years, this new visual history offers up singularly human details of one of the nation's most infamous disasters.

Mount Diablo

Author : Linda Rimac Colberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974892566
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Mount Diablo written by Linda Rimac Colberg and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mount Diablo, The Extraordinary Life and Landscapes of a California Treasure, is a first-of-its-kind collection of original fine art photographs and panoramic creations of one of California's premier landscape photographers, Stephen Joseph.

Degeneration

Author : Max Simon Nordau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Degeneration written by Max Simon Nordau and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Berkeley

Author : Charles Wollenberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520253078
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley written by Charles Wollenberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sweeping panorama of Berkeley by one of California's finest historians. Wollenberg knows this city like no one else, and he has the rare capacity to link a compelling local narrative to larger currents in American politics, economics and culture. This book has no rivals. Anyone who cares about Berkeley—and there are many—will devour it with pleasure."—Richard Walker, Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty

Author : Richard Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967820453
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty written by Richard Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent Publisher Book Awards 2018, Bronze Medal Winner - Biography As the Statue of Liberty stood unlit and unloved by American politicians in 1886, one of her saviors was creating a theatrical sensation at New York's Fourteenth Street Theatre. Actor M. B. Curtis, who had achieved overnight success in Sam'l of Posen, a groundbreaking play that transcended the common stereotypes of Jewish characters current at the time, was basking in public accolades at every curtain call when he came to Lady Liberty's aid. Curtis's rise to the top of his profession and his resulting fall from grace is a dramatic arc that rivals anything created for the stage. Actor, producer, real estate developer, promoter, hotelier, benefactor, and murder suspect, Curtis reached the highs of celebrity and fame as well as the lows offailure, illness, and a faltering career. The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty rescues his story from the dusty archives of forgotten history and reexamines an actor whose creativity and cultural influence still resonate today.

Berkeley 1900

Author : Richard Schwartz
Publisher : R S B Books
ISBN 13 : 9780967820446
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley 1900 written by Richard Schwartz and published by R S B Books. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Berkeley 1900" transformed a stack of molding 100-year old newspapers into an extraordinary award winning compilation of everyday life at the turn of the century. The fascinating news articles are organized into thirty chapters. Each chapter examines a particular aspect of everyday life as the reporters of the day saw it.

Nihilism Inc

Author : Arran Gare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781876236007
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Nihilism Inc written by Arran Gare and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Waiting for the Big One

Author : Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030152898
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Waiting for the Big One written by Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following the idea that earthquake risk is multiple and hard to grasp, the book explores the earthquake’s “mode of existence,” guiding the reader through different epistemic moments of the earthquake-risk definition. Through in-depth interviews, the book provides a rarely seen anthropology of risk from the perspective of experts, scientists, and concerned residents for whom the possibility of partial or complete destruction of their living environment is a constant companion of their everyday lives. It argues that the characterization of the threats and the measures taken to limit its impacts constitute an integrated part of both their residential experiences and their professional practices.

Hella Town

Author : Mitchell Schwarzer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520391535
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Hella Town written by Mitchell Schwarzer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland’s built environment. Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger and more glamorous twin, Oakland has a fascinating history of its own. From serving as a major transportation hub to forging a dynamic manufacturing sector, by the mid-twentieth century Oakland had become the urban center of the East Bay. Hella Town focuses on how political deals, economic schemes, and technological innovations fueled this emergence but also seeded the city’s postwar struggles. Toward the turn of the millennium, as immigration from Latin America and East Asia increased, Oakland became one of the most diverse cities in the country. The city still grapples with the consequences of uneven class- and race-based development-amid-disruption. How do past decisions about where to locate highways or public transit, urban renewal districts or civic venues, parks or shopping centers, influence how Oaklanders live today? A history of Oakland’s buildings and landscapes, its booms and its busts, provides insight into its current conditions: an influx of new residents and businesses, skyrocketing housing costs, and a lingering chasm between the haves and have-nots.

Soho and Its Associations

Author : Edward Francis Rimbault
Publisher : London : Dulau
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soho and Its Associations written by Edward Francis Rimbault and published by London : Dulau. This book was released on 1895 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anagram Solver

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408102579
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Anagram Solver written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.

An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area

Author : Susan Dinkelspiel Cerny
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781586854324
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area written by Susan Dinkelspiel Cerny and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2007 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area is the definitive guide to the history and architecture of the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. This compendium has been written and photographed by Susan Cerny and twelve Bay Area experts and provides a historic record of how the area developed to became what it is today, and discusses transportation systems, city and suburban landscape plans, public parkland, California history, and economic, social, and political influences. Included are San Francisco Victorians, civic buildings, churches, parks, grand Period Revivals, and rustic Arts and Crafts homes, as well as significant vernacular buildings in less publicized neighborhoods and towns. Features include: Buildings by all major San Francisco Bay Area architects from the 1860s to the present. More than 2,000 entries. Architectural landmarks in every Bay Area county, arranged by chapter: San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Napa, Sonoma, and Marin. More than 100 cities, towns, and neighborhoods. A history of architectural styles popular in the Bay Area. More than 20,000 copies sold of our previous architecture guide to the Bay Area.

History of Contra Costa County, California

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book History of Contra Costa County, California written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facsimile reprint of the 1882 ed. published by W.A. Slocum, San Francisco.

Crossword Lists

Author : Anne Stibbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Crossword Lists written by Anne Stibbs and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Storytelling Animal

Author : Jonathan Gottschall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547391404
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Storytelling Animal written by Jonathan Gottschall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative scholar delivers the first book on the new science of storytelling: the latest thinking on why we tell stories and what stories reveal about human nature.