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It Came from Berkeley

Author : Dave Weinstein
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781423602545
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book It Came from Berkeley written by Dave Weinstein and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2008 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Berkeley famous worldwide? Because of its inventiveness, its liberal attitudes, and its artists and writers. Did you know that public radio, California cuisine, the lie detector, the atomic bomb, free speech, the hot tub, and yuppies were all invented in this all-American city? J. Stitt Wilson, Berkeley's first Socialist mayor, once said, "Any kind of a day in Berkeley seems sweeter than the best day anywhere else." In How Berkeley Became Berkeley, Dave Weinstein goes about showing us just that. He tells the story of this unique city from the beginning-the 1840s-to present day by focusing on the events and people that made Berkeley into the famous-and infamous-place that it continues to be. More than any other general book about Berkeley, How Berkeley Became Berkeley brings the history of the town and the university to life with anecdotes that are amusing, surprising, sometimes shocking, and often touching. Dave Weinstein, a native of Long Island, New York, received his undergraduate degree in art history at Columbia University in 1973, and then studied journalism at UC Berkeley. He has lived in the Bay Area for thirty years, and spent twenty years as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers. Dave has written two books, Signature Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the text for a photo book Berkeley Rocks. He writes for the magazine CA Modern, and for four years has been writing a popular series of architect profiles for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Buzz

Author : Jeffrey Spivak
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813126436
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Buzz written by Jeffrey Spivak and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Depression was defined by poverty and despair, but visionary American filmmaker Busby Berkeley (1895-1976) managed to divert the public's attention away from the economic crash with some of the most iconic movies of all time. Known for his kaleidoscopic dance numbers featuring multitudes of performers in extravagant costumes, his musicals provided a brief respite for an audience whose reality was hard and bitter. Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley is a revealing study of the director, drawing from interviews with his colleagues, newspaper and legal records, and Berkeley's own unpublished memoirs to uncover the life of a Hollywood legend renowned for his talent and creativity. Jeffrey Spivak examines how Berkeley's career evolved from creating musical numbers for other directors in films such as 42nd Street (1933) and Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) to directing his own pictures, such as Strike up the Band (1940) and The Gang's All Here (1943). Though Berkeley claimed he was no choreographer, his movies revitalized the public's waning interest in musical pictures. While other popular filmmakers advertised their works specifically as nonmusical, Berkeley embraced his niche, eventually becoming the premier dance director of his time. However, the happy face Berkeley presented publicly did not necessarily reflect his life. Offstage and away from the set, the director met with scandal, and his fondness for liquor and women was well known. In September 1935, he was involved in a car accident that left three people dead and four others severely injured. Accused of driving under the influence, he was put on trial for second-degree murder. The accident significantly changed the nature of his stardom.

Signature Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area

Author : Dave Weinstein
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781586857516
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Signature Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area written by Dave Weinstein and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2006 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long time Bay Area writer and journalist explores residential San Francisco architecture and fifteen of the lesser-known architects who designed the homes, including a summary of each architects' birth and death dates, style, active projects, famous projects, and a list of houses to visit. h formality without stuffiness. Faudree is a designer wit iture. Plus, learn how to discover additional storage nooks around the house. Ideal for anyone looking to reorganize, this book includes ways to contain hobbies, collections, tools, office materials, media, and more; and great ideas for using outbuildings and sheds for additional storage. 'Home Storage' is an essential resource. ovided by the nation's top designers and architects; construction blueprints available for every home; and planning and design advice, and tips throughout. lanning on building a shed or having one installed on a property. A complete guide to the types of sheds available, it offers tips for adding storage systems and other accessories, and building information that is geared to both the novice do-it-you rselfer and ith maps, photographs, illustrations, and at the out

Berkeley at War : The 1960s

Author : W.J. Rorabaugh Professor of History University of Washington
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198022522
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley at War : The 1960s written by W.J. Rorabaugh Professor of History University of Washington and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989-05-04 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berkeley, California, was the bellwether of the political, social, and cultural upheaval that made the 1960s a unique period of American history--a time when the top-down methods of a conservative establishment collided head-on with the bottom-up, grass-roots ethos of the civil rights movement and an increasingly well-educated and individualistic middle class. W.J. Rorabaugh, who attended the graduate school of the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1970s, presents a lively and informative account of the events that overtook and changed forever what had once been a quiet, conservative white suburb. The rise of the Free Speech Movement, which gave a voice to disfranchised students; the growth and increasing militance of a black community struggling to end segregation; the emergence of radicalism and the anti-war movement; the blossoming of "hippie" culture, with its scorn for materialism and enthusiasm for experimentation with everything from sex and drugs to Eastern philosophies; the beginnings of modern-day feminism and environmentalism--and how all of these coalesced in the explosive conflict over People's Park--are traced in a meticulously researched and authoritative narrative. At issue was the question of power, and the struggle between the establishment and the powerless led to developments that the advocates of a freer society could scarcely have foreseen: Ronald Reagan, elected governor of California in reaction to the events at Berkeley, and Edwin H. Meese III, who battled against the student movement and People's Park, rose to national power in the 1980s (without, however, gaining any popularity in Berkeley, where Walter Mondale won 83 percent of the vote in 1984). An invaluable account of its time and place, this book anchors the '60s in American history, both before and since that colorful decade.

Mathematics at Berkeley

Author : Calvin C. Moore
Publisher : A K Peters/CRC Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematics at Berkeley written by Calvin C. Moore and published by A K Peters/CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-02-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating history of the mathematics department at the University of California, Berkeley, Moore describes how this institution evolved from a single facutly member at a financially-troubled private college into a major research center that is ranked among the very best in the USA and in the world. Moore's account spans from its origins in the 1850s to the establishment and early years of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in the early to mid 1980s.

The Color of America Has Changed

Author : Mark Brilliant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199798818
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Color of America Has Changed written by Mark Brilliant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment that the attack on the "problem of the color line," as W.E.B. DuBois famously characterized the problem of the twentieth century, began to gather momentum nationally during World War II, California demonstrated that the problem was one of color lines. In The Color of America Has Changed, Mark Brilliant examines California's history to illustrate how the civil rights era was a truly nationwide and multiracial phenomenon-one that was shaped and complicated by the presence of not only blacks and whites, but also Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, and Chinese Americans, among others. Focusing on a wide range of legal and legislative initiatives pursued by a diverse group of reformers, Brilliant analyzes the cases that dismantled the state's multiracial system of legalized segregation in the 1940s and subsequent battles over fair employment practices, old-age pensions for long-term resident non-citizens, fair housing, agricultural labor, school desegregation, and bilingual education. He concludes with the conundrum created by the multiracial affirmative action program at issue in the United States Supreme Court's 1978 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke decision. The Golden State's status as a civil rights vanguard for the nation owes in part to the numerous civil rights precedents set there and to the disparate challenges of civil rights reform in multiracial places. While civil rights historians have long set their sights on the South and recently have turned their attention to the North, advancing a "long civil rights movement" interpretation, Mark Brilliant calls for a new understanding of civil rights history that more fully reflects the racial diversity of America.

The Graves Are Not Yet Full

Author : Bill Berkeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0786724919
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Graves Are Not Yet Full written by Bill Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1983 journalist Bill Berkeley has traveled through Africa's most troubled lands-Rwanda, Liberia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zaire-seeking out the tyrants and military leaders who orchestrate seemingly intractable wars. Shattering the myth that ancient tribal hatred lies at the heart of the continent's troubles, Berkeley instead holds accountable the "Big Men" who came to power during this period, describing the very rational methods behind their apparent madness.

Exit West

Author : Mohsin Hamid
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073521218X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Exit West written by Mohsin Hamid and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE “It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” —Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review “Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.” —Entertainment Weekly, “A” rating The New York Times bestselling novel: an astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands, from the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the forthcoming The Last White Man. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. . . . Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.

Red Ranger Came Calling

Author : Berkeley Breathed
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613717588
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Red Ranger Came Calling written by Berkeley Breathed and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While spending Christmas in 1939 with a well-meaning aunt, a young boy who does not believe in Santa Claus has an unusual experience that changes his thinking.

Mars Needs Moms!

Author : Berkeley Breathed
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524740306
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Mars Needs Moms! written by Berkeley Breathed and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milo doesn't get it: What's the big deal about moms? They're just slave-driving broccoli bullies. Yet they are worshipped the world over! Perhaps even the galaxy over-because here come Martians and they're after one thing only: moms. Milo's mom in particular! That's quite a long way to come for a mom-could it be that Milo has been overlooking something special?

Sediments of Time

Author : Reinhart Koselleck
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503605973
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Sediments of Time written by Reinhart Koselleck and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory of historical repetition, duration, and acceleration; his encounters with philosophical hermeneutics and political and legal thought; his concern with the limits of historical meaning; and his views on historical commemoration, including that of the Second World War and the Holocaust. A critical introduction addresses some of the challenges and potentials of Koselleck's reception in the Anglophone world.

Secret Stairs: East Bay

Author : Charles Fleming
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595808809
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Secret Stairs: East Bay written by Charles Fleming and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and Updated in September 2020! The hills of the East Bay contain one of the finest and densest urban hiking environments in the state of California—more than 400 paved pathways and public staircases lattice up and down the slopes of Berkeley and Oakland alone. Rising high above the city centers, with towering views of the San Francisco Bay, the Bay Bridge, and San Francisco itself, these elegant civic walking trails—many of them shaded in oaks and redwoods, and many unknown even to local residents—present a unique landscape for both the casual walker and dedicated hiker. Charles Fleming, the Southern California author whose bestselling 2010 walking guide Secret Stairs turned the hidden public staircases of Los Angeles into popular hiking trails, now turns his eyes northward. For Secret Stairs: East Bay, Fleming has designed more than 30 individual hiking loops. Linking multiple staircases into one-to two-hour self-guided strolls, these urban treks will delight the tourist, newly arrived Berkeley undergraduate, and veteran Bay Area resident alike. The circular walks, each calibrated by length, difficulty, and duration—and each accompanied by a detailed, easy-to-follow map—are sprinkled with fascinating facts about the historic staircases, the historic homes around them, and the famous Bay Area characters who gave them their names. Walk the walks of Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and John Muir! Climb Berkeley’s massive Fred Herbert and Tamalpais Paths, hike Easter Way, and summit Sunset Trail! Mount Oakland’s Oakmore stairs, then tackle the hills of Upper Rockridge and Crocker Highlands via the public staircases. And do it all within easy walking distance from BART or bus stops, free parking, and excellent Bay Area cafés.

Cloud and Wallfish

Author : Anne Nesbet
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763688037
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Cloud and Wallfish written by Anne Nesbet and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Noah Keller has a pretty normal life until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March ... As Noah, now 'Jonah Brown,' and his parents head behind the Iron Curtain into East Berlin, the rules and secrets begin to pile up so quickly that he can hardly keep track of the questions bubbling up inside him: who, exactly, is listening--and why?"

The Free Speech Movement

Author : Robert Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052092861X
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Free Speech Movement written by Robert Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on Berkeley's celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many movement veterans, this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates in fresh ways one of the most important events in the recent history of American higher education. The contributors—whose perspectives range from that of FSM leader Mario Savio to University of California president Clark Kerr—-shed new light on such issues as the origins of the FSM in the civil rights movement, the political tensions within the FSM, the day-to-day dynamics of the protest movement, the role of the Berkeley faculty and its various factions, the 1965 trial of the arrested students, and the virtually unknown "little Free Speech Movement of 1966."

Berkeley High School Slang Dictionary

Author : Rick Ayers
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556435218
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley High School Slang Dictionary written by Rick Ayers and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing a striking array of words the students of Berkeley High have identified as part of the cultural and linguistic fabric of spoken English, this volume is more than a list of new slang terms; it's also an exciting look at how different cultures and communities reclaim their language in creative ways.

George Berkeley in America

Author : Edwin S. Gaustad
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300113440
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book George Berkeley in America written by Edwin S. Gaustad and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1959-12-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Berkeley, the Irish philosopher and Anglican priest, settled in Newport, Rhode Island, one of the few places in New England that was hospitable to Anglicans. There his lively mind and sympathetic spirit involved him in a variety of interests. This book is an account of an episode of his religious life of colonial New England.