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Reclaiming San Francisco

Author : James Brook
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872863354
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming San Francisco written by James Brook and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming San Francisco is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city-a spirit "resistant to authority or control." The official story of San Francisco is one of progress, development, and growth. But there are other, unofficial, San Francisco stories, often shrouded in myth and in danger of being forgotten, and they are told here: stories of immigrants and minorities, sailors and waterfront workers, and poets, artists, and neighborhood activists-along with the stories of speculators, land-grabbers, and the land itself that need to be told differently. Contributors include historians, geographers, poets, novelists, artists, art historians, photographers, journalists, citizen activists, an architect, and an anthropologist. Passionate about the city, they want San Francisco to be more itself and less like the city of office towers, chain stores, theme parks, and privatized public services and property that appears to be its immediate fate. San Francisco is not alone in being transformed according to the dictates of the global economy. But San Franciscans are unusual in their readiness to confront the corporate agenda for their city.

The Palace Hotel

Author : Richard Harned
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738559698
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Palace Hotel written by Richard Harned and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it opened in 1875, the Palace Hotel was the largest and most luxurious hotel in the world, a perfect symbol of one of the most remarkable eras in San Francisco history. Built at a time when Nevada's fabulously rich silver mines were pouring millions of dollars each month into San Francisco, it typified the color and grandiose extravagances of the whole bonanza period. After the original hotel was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire, a successor Palace Hotel took its place and remains one of the most prestigious hotels in San Francisco today.

Cool Gray City of Love

Author : Gary Kamiya
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620401266
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Cool Gray City of Love written by Gary Kamiya and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kaleidoscopic tribute to San Francisco by a life-long Bay Area resident and co-founder of Salon explores specific city sites including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Land's End sea cliffs while tying his visits to key historical events. By the author of Shadow Knights. 30,000 first printing.

Painted Ladies

Author : Morley Baer
Publisher : Studio Books
ISBN 13 : 9780525475231
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book Painted Ladies written by Morley Baer and published by Studio Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to the colorful painted Victorian homes of San Francisco.

Crocker-Langley San Francisco Directory

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Crocker-Langley San Francisco Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 2104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Statement of Vote

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Statement of Vote written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Here Today

Author : Roger R. Olmsted
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Here Today written by Roger R. Olmsted and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1968 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Little Bee

Author : Chris Cleave
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416589643
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Little Bee written by Chris Cleave and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people have read, discussed, debated, cried, and cheered with Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee girl whose violent and courageous journey puts a stunning face on the worldwide refugee crisis. “Little Bee will blow you away.” —The Washington Post The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide in this page-turning #1 New York Times bestseller, book club favorite, and “affecting story of human triumph” (The New York Times Book Review) from Chris Cleave, author of Gold and Everyone Brave Is Forgiven. We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn’t. And it’s what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you’ll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don’t tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.

The Mars Room

Author : Rachel Kushner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476756600
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Mars Room written by Rachel Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood—“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”—and from Stephen King—“The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.” It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is “wholly authentic…profound…luminous” (The Wall Street Journal), “one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)—a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and “affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists” (Entertainment Weekly).

A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area

Author : Rachel Brahinsky
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520288378
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area written by Rachel Brahinsky and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation. A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural and economic landscape of indigenous resistance to colonial rule, radical interracial and cross-class organizing against housing discrimination and police violence, young people demanding economically and ecologically sustainable futures, and the often-unrecognized labor of farmworkers and everyday people. The book asks who had—and who has—the power to shape the geography of one of the most watched regions in the world. As Silicon Valley's wealth dramatically transforms the look and feel of every corner of the region, like bankers' wealth did in the past, what do we need to remember about the people and places that have made the Bay Area, with its rich political legacies? With over 100 sites that you can visit and learn from, this book demonstrates critical ways of reading the landscape itself for clues to these histories. A useful companion for travelers, educators, or longtime residents, this guide links multicultural streets and lush hills to suburban cul-de-sacs and wetlands, stretching from the North Bay to the South Bay, from the East Bay to San Francisco. Original maps help guide readers, and thematic tours offer starting points for creating your own routes through the region.

Bohemian San Francisco

Author : Clarence E. Edwords
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Bohemian San Francisco written by Clarence E. Edwords and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Bohemian San Francisco" (Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining) by Clarence E. Edwords. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Negro Motorist Green Book

Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negro Motorist Green Book written by Victor H. Green and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Author : Malinda Lo
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525555269
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Last Night at the Telegraph Club written by Malinda Lo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award A New York Times Bestseller "The queer romance we’ve been waiting for.”—Ms. Magazine Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible. But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day. (Cover image may vary.)

The Fire Rose

Author : Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618240374
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Fire Rose written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty Meets Beast in San Francisco Accepting employment as a governess after hard times hit her family, medieval scholar Rosalind Hawkins is surprised when she learns that her mysterious employer has no children, no wife, and she is not to meet with him face to face. Instead, her duties are to read to him, through a speaking tube, from ancient manuscripts in obscure, nearly-forgotten dialects. A requirement for the job was skill in translating medieval French, and she now understands the reason for that requirement, and assumes her unseen employers interest in the descriptions of medieval spells and sorcery is that of an eccentric antiquary. What she does not realize is that his interest is anything but academic. He has a terrible secret and is desperately searching for something that can reverse the effects of the misfired spell which created his predicament. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

920 O’Farrell Street

Author : Harriet Lane Levy
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787205363
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book 920 O’Farrell Street written by Harriet Lane Levy and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1947, Harriet Lane Levy’s autobiography, 920 O’Farrell Street, chronicles her childhood in an upper-middle-class San Francisco neighborhood during the mid-late nineteenth century—a period in which young women such as Levy were expected to marry well-off men, generating additional societal expectations. The intellectually inclined Levy was hesitant to marry early and instead took herself off to study at the University of California at Berkeley.

The Adult Learner

Author : Malcolm S. Knowles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000072894
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adult Learner written by Malcolm S. Knowles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes? These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’ pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centred approach to learning have been hugely influential and are still the basis of the learning practices we use today. Understanding these principles is the cornerstone of increasing motivation and enabling adult learners to achieve. The 9th edition of The Adult Learner has been revised to include: Updates to the book to reflect the very latest advancements in the field. The addition of two new chapters on diversity and inclusion in adult learning, and andragogy and the online adult learner. An updated supporting website. This website for the 9th edition of The Adult Learner will provide basic instructor aids including a PowerPoint presentation for each chapter. Revisions throughout to make it more readable and relevant to your practices. If you are a researcher, practitioner, or student in education, an adult learning practitioner, training manager, or involved in human resource development, this is the definitive book in adult learning you should not be without.

The Country in the City

Author : Richard A. Walker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989734
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book The Country in the City written by Richard A. Walker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award Finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008). The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis, stitched from fields, farms and woodlands, mines, creeks, and wetlands. In The Country in the City, Richard Walker tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place. The Bay Area’s civic landscape has been fought over acre by acre, an arduous process requiring popular mobilization, political will, and hard work. Its most cherished environments--Mount Tamalpais, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, Mount Diablo, the Pacific coast--have engendered some of the fiercest environmental battles in the country and have made the region a leader in green ideas and organizations. This book tells how the Bay Area got its green grove: from the stirrings of conservation in the time of John Muir to origins of the recreational parks and coastal preserves in the early twentieth century, from the fight to stop bay fill and control suburban growth after the Second World War to securing conservation easements and stopping toxic pollution in our times. Here, modern environmentalism first became a mass political movement in the 1960s, with the sudden blooming of the Sierra Club and Save the Bay, and it remains a global center of environmentalism to this day. Green values have been a pillar of Bay Area life and politics for more than a century. It is an environmentalism grounded in local places and personal concerns, close to the heart of the city. Yet this vision of what a city should be has always been informed by liberal, even utopian, ideas of nature, planning, government, and democracy. In the end, green is one of the primary colors in the flag of the Left Coast, where green enthusiasms, like open space, are built into the fabric of urban life. Written in a lively and accessible style, The Country in the City will be of interest to general readers and environmental activists. At the same time, it speaks to fundamental debates in environmental history, urban planning, and geography.