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Author : Scott Harvey Tang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Pushing at the Golden Gate written by Scott Harvey Tang and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meredith Oda
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659274X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Gateway to the Pacific written by Meredith Oda and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco’s identity as the “Gateway to the Pacific,” using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco’s postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city’s redeveloped Japanese-American enclave. Focusing on the development of the Center, Meredith Oda shows how this multilayered story was embedded within a larger story of the changing institutions and ideas that were shaping the city. During these formative decades, Oda argues, San Francisco’s relations with and ideas about Japan were being forged within the intimate, local sites of civic and community life. This shift took many forms, including changes in city leadership, new municipal institutions, and especially transformations in the built environment. Newly friendly relations between Japan and the United States also meant that Japanese Americans found fresh, if highly constrained, job and community prospects just as the city’s African Americans struggled against rising barriers. San Francisco’s story is an inherently local one, but it also a broader story of a city collectively, if not cooperatively, reimagining its place in a global economy.
Author : Carl P Lavo
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513344
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Pushing the Limits written by Carl P Lavo and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vice Admiral Allan Rockwell McCann left no reminiscences that might reveal a deeper sense of his extraordinary service, but naval historian Carl LaVO has filled that void by writing this revealing—and often inspiring—biography. Among McCann’s many accomplishments: Served as liaison officer for the modification of the antiquated O-12 submarine into the privately-leased Nautilus that made the first attempt to sail beneath the Arctic ice shelf in 1931; pioneered the McCann Submarine Rescue Chamber; directed fire from the sub tender Pelias at Japanese aircraft attacking Pearl Harbor; commanded the battleship Iowa during the Battle of Leyte Gulf; was Chief of Staff of the Navy’s 10th Fleet that stymied a last ditch effort to attack North America via U-boats; headed the Navy task force that transported President Truman to the Potsdam conference; and as ComSubPac was aboard the first submarine to navigate under the polar ice in 1947. This book is an overdue appreciation of a significant admiral who has been all but ignored in naval history.
Author : Conor Dougherty
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 052556022X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Golden Gates written by Conor Dougherty and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism • Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy • Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival • A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Tells the story of housing in all its complexity.” —NPR Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist movements that have risen in tandem with housing costs.
Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307427366
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Pushing the Limits written by Henry Petroski and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London’s Tower Bridge; our most ambitious projects, like China’s Three Gorges Dam; our most embarrassing moments, like the wobbly Millennium Bridge in London; and our greatest failures, like the collapse of the twin towers on September 11. Throughout, Petroski provides fascinating and provocative insights into the world of technology with his trademark erudition and enthusiasm for the subject.
Author : Allison Varzally
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520941276
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Making a Non-White America written by Allison Varzally and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens in a society so diverse that no ethnic group can call itself the majority? Exploring a question that has profound relevance for the nation as a whole, this study looks closely at eclectic neighborhoods in California where multiple minorities constituted the majority during formative years of the twentieth century. In a lively account, woven throughout with vivid voices and experiences drawn from interviews, ethnic newspapers, and memoirs, Allison Varzally examines everyday interactions among the Asian, Mexican, African, Native, and Jewish Americans, and others who lived side by side. What she finds is that in shared city spaces across California, these diverse groups mixed and mingled as students, lovers, worshippers, workers, and family members and, along the way, expanded and reconfigured ethnic and racial categories in new directions.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004215131
Total Pages : 1402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Push Me, Pull You written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval and Renaissance viewers demanded art and architecture that provoked emotional and/or performative interactivity. The authors of these essays explore the history of this call and response from the view of both artists and devotees.
Author : Corrine Jackson
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 0758291558
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Pushed written by Corrine Jackson and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a seventeen-year-old girl is caught between supernatural rivals, knowing who to trust becomes nearly impossible—in this YA romantic adventure series. Remy O’Malley was just learning to harness her uncanny healing power when she discovered the other, darker half of her bloodline. Now she’s trapped between two worlds, uneasy among her fellow Healers—and relentlessly hunted by the Protectors. Remy must conceal her dual identity, and the presence of her Protector boyfriend Asher Blackwell, at all costs. But when she encounters a shadow community of Healers, her loyalties will be put to the test. With the lives of her loved ones hanging in the balance, Remy must decide whether to take sides in a centuries-old war—or go to a place from which she may never return . . .
Author : Tyler Green
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520377532
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Carleton Watkins written by Tyler Green and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] fascinating and indispensable book."—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2018—The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing, 2018 California Book Awards Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) is widely considered the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century and arguably the most influential artist of his era. He is best known for his pictures of Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. Watkins made his first trip to Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. His photographs of Yosemite were exhibited in New York for the first time in 1862, as news of the Union’s disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg was landing in newspapers and while the Matthew Brady Studio’s horrific photographs of Antietam were on view. Watkins’s work tied the West to Northern cultural traditions and played a key role in pledging the once-wavering West to Union. Motivated by Watkins’s pictures, Congress would pass legislation, signed by Abraham Lincoln, that preserved Yosemite as the prototypical “national park,” the first such act of landscape preservation in the world. Carleton Watkins: Making the West American includes the first history of the birth of the national park concept since pioneering environmental historian Hans Huth’s landmark 1948 “Yosemite: The Story of an Idea.” Watkins’s photographs helped shape America’s idea of the West, and helped make the West a full participant in the nation. His pictures of California, Oregon, and Nevada, as well as modern-day Washington, Utah, and Arizona, not only introduced entire landscapes to America but were important to the development of American business, finance, agriculture, government policy, and science. Watkins’s clients, customers, and friends were a veritable “who’s who” of America’s Gilded Age, and his connections with notable figures such as Collis P. Huntington, John and Jessie Benton Frémont, Eadweard Muybridge, Frederick Billings, John Muir, Albert Bierstadt, and Asa Gray reveal how the Gilded Age helped make today’s America. Drawing on recent scholarship and fresh archival discoveries, Tyler Green reveals how an artist didn’t just reflect his time, but acted as an agent of influence. This telling of Watkins’s story will fascinate anyone interested in American history; the West; and how art and artists impacted the development of American ideas, industry, landscape, conservation, and politics.
Author : Helen Hamilton Gardener
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pushed by Unseen Hands written by Helen Hamilton Gardener and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Betty J Birner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351374044
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Language and Meaning written by Betty J Birner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and Meaning provides a clear, accessible and unique perspective on the philosophical and linguistic question of what it means to mean. Looking at relationships such as those between literal and non-literal meanings, linguistic form and meaning, and language and thought, this volume tackles the issues involved in what we mean and how we convey it. Divided into five easy-to-read chapters, it features: Broad coverage of semantic, pragmatic and philosophical approaches, providing the reader with a balanced and comprehensive overview of the topic; Frequent examples to demonstrate how meaning is perceived and manipulated in everyday discourse, including the importance of context, scientific studies of human language, and theories of pragmatics; Topics of debate and key points of current theories, including references to ongoing controversies in the field; Annotated further reading, allowing students to explore topics in more detail. Aimed at undergraduate students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, this book is essential reading for those studying this topic for the first time.
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466892668
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation of short stories has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.
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Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Sunset written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book United States Coast Pilot written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul F. Hammond
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1618627473
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Isaac Rules written by Paul F. Hammond and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben stopped and stood motionless, holding his breath. It didn't help; he couldn't stop shaking. Yet nobody had stared at him. How could they not notice? He was amazed nobody paid him any attention. He continued walking slowly along the water end of State Street and veered toward the left wharf just as the owner of his rooming house told him...Ben shuffled along the uneven cobblestones, taking deep breaths. He could see the three-master just up ahead. When Ben departs Boston in 1859 for his first experience as a first mate, he has little idea what is in store for him. Their voyage is soon disgraced and overwhelmed by piracy and murder. In the midst of chaos and conflict, Ben clings to the code of principles and beliefs taught to him by the captain. Will the Isaac Rules—those lessons of command and self-reliance—along with a moving discovery of faith give the young man the will and the way to earn his survival despite desperate circumstances?
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Golden Gate National Recreation Area written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Golden Gate National Recreation Area written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
