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Author : Howard Pease
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Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Long Wharf written by Howard Pease and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cary McClelland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608808
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley written by Cary McClelland and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Three Books Selection for 2019 “Essential.… A conflicted and complex portrait of a city starving for solutions.” —Brandon Yu, San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley. The richer the region gets, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes, and cracks in the city’s facade—rapid gentrification, an epidemic of evictions, rising crime, atrophied public institutions—are growing wider. Inspired by Studs Terkel’s classic works of oral history, Cary McClelland spent years interviewing people at the epicenter of recent change, from venture capitalists and coders to politicians and protesters, capturing San Francisco as never before.
Author : Charles Eugene Banks
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mount Vesuvius Horror written by Charles Eugene Banks and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and authentic account of the terrible calamity that befell the city of the Golden Gate, stricken by earthquake and devasted by fire. Described and penned by eye-witnesses and those who worked to relieve the suffering. A vivid account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and other great historical catastrophes which have destroyed thousands of lives and laid whole countries in ruin.
Author : Frank Soulé
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Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Annals of San Francisco; Containing a Summary of the History of ... California and a Complete History of Its Great City: to which are Added, Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens. By Frank Soulé, John H. Gihon, and James Nisbet. Illustrated with 150 Engravings written by Frank Soulé and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381920
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Making Americans written by Gary D. Schmidt and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Americans is a study of a time when the authors and illustrators of children's books consciously set their eyes on national and international sights, with the hope of bringing the next generation into a full sense of citizenship. Schmidt examines the literature for young people published during a momentous period in our nation's past, and documents in detail its role as an instrument of nation-building and social reform. A thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of children's books as cultural transmitters and transformers.
Author : John S. Hittell
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849677869
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book A History of the City of San Francisco written by John S. Hittell and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scenes which the author tries to depict for the reader show a multitude of figures and many phases of passion. A host of adventurers flocking from the centers of civilization on the shores of the Atlantic, half across the world, to a remote corner on the coast of what was then the semi-barbarous Pacific, coming to make a brief stay in the rude search for gold, brought a high culture with them, and suddenly lifted their new home to an equal place among the most enlightened communities. The early American settlers in California, instead of being, as many persons at a distance supposed they would be, the mere offscourings of a low rabble, were, in a large proportion, men of knowledge and capacity; and if generally inexperienced in high station and serious responsibility, yet not incompetent for them. This book gives an account of them and their efforts to make San Francisco the town it is today.
Author : David M. Fine
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826316219
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book San Francisco in Fiction written by David M. Fine and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the beginning there was the bay, the land, the forty-three hills, the coastline down to Monterey, the strip of mountains, the quiet valley behind, the vast ocean, the hidden faults." And with the landscape came the stories, as Paul Skenazy and David Fine note in their introduction to this new anthology of essays. San Francisco is as much a place in the mind as on the map; if the terrain set the stage for the stories, the stories have helped remake our perceptions of the space. These twelve essays explore the relationship between place and prose--between San Francisco the city and San Francisco the territory of fiction. From the Gold Rush times of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, through the Prohibition Era of Dashiell Hammett to the Beat days of Jack Kerouac and the present works of writers like Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Arturo Islas, San Francisco has been blessed with great writers who have given life to the land in their fiction. These essays engage the history and geography, ethnic, gender, and class conflicts, and stylistic range of the fiction. They demonstrate how authors as various as Jack London, Gertrude Atherton, Frank Norris, William Saroyan, James D. Houston, Joan Didion, and Wallace Stegner have re-created and revised our understanding of this region.
Author : Academy of Pacific Coast History
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Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History written by Academy of Pacific Coast History and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.S. Hittell
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 1144353769
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A History of the City of San Francisco and Incidentally of the State of California written by J.S. Hittell and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Todd Calgi Gallicano
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 1524713716
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Selkie of San Francisco written by Todd Calgi Gallicano and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thrilling sequel to Guardians of the Gryphon's Claw, an epic adventure novel that "is sure to keep lovers of Rick Riordan running to the shelves," Sam London dives headlong into his second case involving a selkie, a mysterious girl, and an ominous new threat to the mythical and human worlds (School Library Journal)! Sam London didn't mean to uncover an ancient secret, but when he found out that mythical creatures are real and living in our national parks, he became the newest recruit to the Department of Mythical Wildlife. Ever since, the middle schooler has been anxiously awaiting the call for his next case . . . and it finally arrives with the brazen appearance of a selkie in San Francisco Bay. Along with Dr. Vance Vantana and the guardian Tashi, Sam pursues the selkie, who has taken a peculiar interest in fashion's newest "it" girl and social media star, Pearl Eklund. But the closer he gets, the more questions emerge about Pearl's mysterious connection to the mythical world. Is she the long-lost hope for an entire civilization or the harbinger of its doom? It's up to Sam to find out the truth, and fast. . . . The fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Praise for Guardians of the Gryphon's Claw, Book One: "A death-defying, globe-spanning adventure, packed with creatures out of folklore and myth." --Publishers Weekly "So original and exciting. This is the best fantasy-adventure novel I have read in some time." --Martin Olson, New York Times bestselling author of The Adventure Time Encyclopaedia
Author : Adah Bakalinsky
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459619005
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Stairway Walks in San Francisco (Large Print 16pt) written by Adah Bakalinsky and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of public stairways traverse San Francisco's 42 hills, exposing incredible vistas while connecting colorful, unique neighborhoods, and veteran guide Adah Bakalinsky loves them all. Her updated Stairway Walks in San Francisco explores well-known and clandestine corridors from Lands End to Bernal Heights while sharing captivating architectural, historical, pop culture, and horticultural notes along the way. This revised and expanded edition has been thoroughly updated and includes two additional walks, new maps, and new color photographs. The two new walks presented are: The Blue Greenway Walking, a new history, which follows the Embarcadero and weaves along the present day contour of the Bay into the future parklands and new neighborhood of San Francisco; and Jazz Takes A Walk in the Sunnyside neighborhood where the undulating geology of San Francisco invites one to hear the dance in the walk. A comprehensive appendix lists every one of the City's 600-plus public stairways. Long-term residents and tourists alike have used the book for over 25 years to adventurously uncover San Francisco's unexpected details.
Author : Ariel Rubissow Okamoto
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268253
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Natural History of San Francisco Bay written by Ariel Rubissow Okamoto and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration into the San Francisco Bay covers an array of topics including fish and wildlife populations, ocean and climate cycles, endangered and invasive species, and the path from industrialization to environmental restoration.
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Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Building and Engineering News written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erica J. Peters
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0759121532
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book San Francisco written by Erica J. Peters and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco is a relatively young city with a well-deserved reputation as a food destination, situated near lush farmland and a busy port. San Francisco's famous restaurant scene has been the subject of books but the full complexity of the city's culinary history is revealed here for the first time. This food biography presents the story of how food traveled from farms to markets, from markets to kitchens, and from kitchens to tables, focusing on how people experienced the bounty of the City by the Bay.
Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615355006
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Britannica Book of the Year 2011 written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Britannica Book fo the Year 2011 provides a valuable viewpoint on the people and events that shaped the year. In addition to keeping the Encyclopaedia Britannica updated, it serves as a great reference source for the latest news on the ever-changing populations, governments, and economies throughout the world.
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Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Blue Book of American Shipping written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
