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Author : Barbara VanderWerf
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ISBN 13 : 9780963292209
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Granada, a Synonym for Paradise written by Barbara VanderWerf and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanna L. Dyl
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029574247X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Seismic City written by Joanna L. Dyl and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — earthquake, fires, and recovery — profoundly disrupted the urban order and challenged San Francisco’s perceived permanence. The crisis temporarily broke down spatial divisions of class and race and highlighted the contested terrain of urban nature in an era of widespread class conflict, simmering ethnic tensions, and controversial reform efforts. From a proposal to expel Chinatown from the city center to a vision of San Francisco paved with concrete in the name of sanitation, the process of reconstruction involved reenvisioning the places of both people and nature. In their zeal to restore their city, San Franciscans downplayed the role of the earthquake and persisted in choosing patterns of development that exacerbated risk. In this close study of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Joanna L. Dyl examines the decades leading up to the catastrophic event and the city’s recovery from it. Combining urban environmental history and disaster studies, Seismic City demonstrates how the crisis and subsequent rebuilding reflect the dynamic interplay of natural and human influences that have shaped San Francisco.
Author : Jean Rusmore
Publisher : Wilderness Press
ISBN 13 : 0899975658
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Peninsula Trails written by Jean Rusmore and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choose from more than 150 trips on over 500 miles of trails with this comprehensive guide to every park and preserve on the San Francisco Peninsula. From Fort Funston and San Bruno Mountain south to Saratoga Gap, and from the Bay west to the Pacific Ocean, the peninsula offers something for everyone. This edition includes 18 new trips covering newly acquired public lands. Also includes maps and a trips-by-theme appendix.
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Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Devil's Slide, SR-1 from Half Moon Bay Airport to Linda Mar Blvd, Pacifica written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Drayson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788547446
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Lost Paradise written by Elizabeth Drayson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson. 'An admirable achievement... [Drayson has] expertise as a scholar and command as a storyteller' BBC History Magazine 'A glittering homage to one of the world's most beautiful and storied cities' Dan Jones 'Beauty built on blood and brutality... A fascinating new tome' Daily Mail From the early Middle Ages to the present, foreign travellers have been bewitched by Granada's peerless beauty. The Andalusian city is also the stuff of story and legend, with an unforgettable history to match. Romans, then Visigoths, settled here, as did a community of Jews; in the eleventh century a Berber chief made Granada his capital, and from 1230 until 1492 the Nasrids – Spain's last Islamic dynasty – ruled the emirate of Granada from their fortress-palace of the Alhambra. After capturing the city to complete the Christian Reconquista, the Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella made the Alhambra the site of their royal court. In Lost Paradise, Elizabeth Drayson takes the reader on a voyage of discovery that uncovers the many-layered past of Spain's most complex and fascinating city, celebrating and exploring its evolving identity. Her account brings to the fore the image of Granada as a lost paradise, revealing it as a place of perpetual contradiction and linking it to the great dilemma over Spain's true identity as a nation. This is the story of a vanished Eden, of a place that questions and probes Spain's deep obsession with forgetting, and with erasing historical and cultural memory.
Author : Kirsten Hunter Holder
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book National Parks at the Urban Edge written by Kirsten Hunter Holder and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 2456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliographic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : June Morrall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738555836
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Princeton-by-the-Sea written by June Morrall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Local writer and historian June Morrall tells the unique story of Princeton and Miramar through vintage images culled from private collections, the Spanishtown Historical Society, and the San Mateo County History Museum"--P. [4] of cover.
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Total Pages : 1614 pages
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Download or read book Paperbound Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noah Webster
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107688655
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Studies in Words written by C. S. Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations.
Author : Daniel Edward Lorenz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The New Mediterranean Traveller written by Daniel Edward Lorenz and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Edward Lorenz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
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Download or read book The Mediterranean Traveller written by Daniel Edward Lorenz and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New Sydenham Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences written by New Sydenham Society and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Richardson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A New Dictionary of the English Language written by Charles Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199313628
Total Pages : 947 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 947 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweet tooth is a powerful thing. Babies everywhere seem to smile when tasting sweetness for the first time, a trait inherited, perhaps, from our ancestors who foraged for sweet foods that were generally safer to eat than their bitter counterparts. But the "science of sweet" is only the beginning of a fascinating story, because it is not basic human need or simple biological impulse that prompts us to decorate elaborate wedding cakes, scoop ice cream into a cone, or drop sugar cubes into coffee. These are matters of culture and aesthetics, of history and society, and we might ask many other questions. Why do sweets feature so prominently in children's literature? When was sugar called a spice? And how did chocolate evolve from an ancient drink to a modern candy bar? The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets explores these questions and more through the collective knowledge of 265 expert contributors, from food historians to chemists, restaurateurs to cookbook writers, neuroscientists to pastry chefs. The Companion takes readers around the globe and throughout time, affording glimpses deep into the brain as well as stratospheric flights into the world of sugar-crafted fantasies. More than just a compendium of pastries, candies, ices, preserves, and confections, this reference work reveals how the human proclivity for sweet has brought richness to our language, our art, and, of course, our gastronomy. In nearly 600 entries, beginning with "à la mode" and ending with the Italian trifle known as "zuppa inglese," the Companion traces sugar's journey from a rare luxury to a ubiquitous commodity. In between, readers will learn about numerous sweeteners (as well-known as agave nectar and as obscure as castoreum, or beaver extract), the evolution of the dessert course, the production of chocolate, and the neurological, psychological, and cultural responses to sweetness. The Companion also delves into the darker side of sugar, from its ties to colonialism and slavery to its addictive qualities. Celebrating sugar while acknowledging its complex history, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets is the definitive guide to one of humankind's greatest sources of pleasure. Like kids in a candy shop, fans of sugar (and aren't we all?) will enjoy perusing the wondrous variety to be found in this volume.
