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Download or read book San Lorenzo written by Doris Marciel and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Lorenzo has been a desirable place to live since 1847, when squatters built their cabins on the north side of San Lorenzo Creek, then part of two Mexican ranchos. When landowners could not evict their unwanted guests, the settlement known as Squatterville grew into a town at Four Corners, now the intersection of Hesperian and Lewelling Boulevards. Named San Lorenzo in 1854, over the next 90 years it developed into a close-knit rural community. The great shipyard boom during World War II brought many new families to one of the first self-contained communities of tract homes in the nation, initially developed by David D. Bohannon. This tract, San Lorenzo Village, helped swell the population of this unincorporated area, striving to hold its own between the urban encroachment of San Leandro and Hayward.
Book Synopsis Michelangelo at San Lorenzo by : William E. Wallace
Download or read book Michelangelo at San Lorenzo written by William E. Wallace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book amends a common misconception about one of the greatest Renaissance masters, who has been characterized since his own day as incapable of effective collaboration. This study focuses on San Lorenzo, a key Florentine monument of the Renaissance, where Michelangelo's contributions to the church are among his greatest achievements as a sculptor and architect. Organised around his three commissions at San Lorenzo - the never-realised facade for the church, the Medici chapel and the Laurentian Library - each chapter examines the organisation and day-to-day operations at the building site, as well as the artist's personal and professional relations with nearly three hundred persons who assisted him in carrying out the designs. From the marble quarries at Seravezza to the building site in Florence, William Wallace relates Michelangelo's struggles and triumphs as he worked on these projects for over two decades.
Book Synopsis The San Lorenzo Valley by : Lisa Robinson
Download or read book The San Lorenzo Valley written by Lisa Robinson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The headwaters of the San Lorenzo River are just 15 miles from the city of San Jose and just 15 miles from the city of Santa Cruz, both thriving towns during the Mission period. Even so, a steep canyon, an almost impenetrable forest, and formidable grizzly bears ensured that these headwaters remained unexploited by Westerners until the 1880s. Once the rich natural resources such as vast forests of redwood lumber, lime deposits, and tan oaks were discovered, this virgin landscape was pillaged and plundered. A few enlightened individuals understood that the clear-cutting techniques of the lumber companies would soon result in the total loss of this natural wonder. Their endeavors resulted in the founding of California's first state park at Big Basin, saving this precious resource for future generations.
Book Synopsis The San Lorenzo Valley Flume by : Lisa Robinson
Download or read book The San Lorenzo Valley Flume written by Lisa Robinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-12-26 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the San Lorenzo Valley Flume which operated between Boulder Creek and Felton in Santa Cruz County during the latter part of the 19th Century. The book explores the people who financed it, built it, played on it, worked on it, and, eventually, tore it down. It examines the method of construction and the challenges faced operating and maintaining the flume.
Book Synopsis Legendary Locals of Castro Valley, Hayward, and San Lorenzo, California by : Doris Marciel
Download or read book Legendary Locals of Castro Valley, Hayward, and San Lorenzo, California written by Doris Marciel and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hayward area is a region in California made up of a city, Hayward, and two unincorporated towns, San Lorenzo and Castro Valley. The three communities share a common history, but each has unique individual stories--such as failed gold miner and entrepreneur William Hayward, who established a stagecoach stop and boardinghouse in 1851 that quickly attracted a diverse group of settlers and led to the establishment of the city of Hayward. Other legendary locals include Castro Valley historian Lucille Lorge, whose grandfather owned the first business in Castro Valley; English sailor Harry Rowell, who jumped ship in San Francisco Bay and was later known as the "King of the Rodeo" for his rodeo stock; and San Lorenzo Village developer David Bohannon, who changed the San Lorenzo farming area into a sprawling suburban center and the first planned community during World War II.
Book Synopsis The Vines of San Lorenzo. The Making of a Great Wine in the New Tradition by : Edward Steinberg
Download or read book The Vines of San Lorenzo. The Making of a Great Wine in the New Tradition written by Edward Steinberg and published by GAJA DISTRIBUZIONE SNC. This book was released on 2012-05-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo by : Kenneth Hirth
Download or read book Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo written by Kenneth Hirth and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo examines the specialized craft production, manufacturing, adoption, and spread of obsidian cutting tools at San Lorenzo, Mexico, the first major Olmec center to develop in the southern Gulf Coast region of Mesoamerica. Through the systematic analysis of this single commodity, Kenneth Hirth and Ann Cyphers reconstruct the importation of raw material and the on-site production and distribution of finished goods from a specialized workshop engaged in the manufacture of obsidian blades. The obsidian blade was the cutting tool of choice across Mesoamerica and used in a wide range of activities, from domestic food preparation to institutional ritual activities. Hirth and Cyphers conducted a three-decade investigation of obsidian artifacts recovered at Puerto Malpica, the earliest known workshop, and seventy-six other sites on San Lorenzo Island, where these tools were manufactured for local and regional distribution. Evidence recovered from these excavations provides some of the first information on how early craft specialists operated and how the specialized technology used to manufacture obsidian blades spread across Mesoamerica. The authors use geochemical analyses to identify thirteen different sources for obsidian during San Lorenzo’s occupation. This volcanic glass, not locally available, was transported over great distances, arriving in nodular and finished blade form. Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo offers a new way to analyze the Preclassic lithic economy—the procurement, production, distribution, and consumption of flaked stone tools—and shows how the study of lithics aids in developing a comprehensive picture of the internal structure and operation of Olmec economy. The book will be significant for Mesoamericanists as well as students and scholars interested in economy, lithic technology, and early complex societies.
Book Synopsis The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio Region, Californi by : Carroll Marshall Wagner
Download or read book The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio Region, Californi written by Carroll Marshall Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University Of California Publications, Bulletin Of The Department Of Geological Sciences, V14, No. 6.
Download or read book San Lorenzo written by Bruno Santi and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Lorenzo is unparalleled among other Floretine churches in that its history is so closely interwoven with the very origins of local Christianity, with the most significant cultural an artistic renewal the city has ever known, and with the rise of the family who were the church's patrons to the pinnacle of power in Florence and Subsequently in the whole of Tuscany.
Download or read book Cat's Cradle written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best. “[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist.”—Harper’s Magazine “Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—Atlantic Monthly
Book Synopsis San Lorenzo Valley by : Lisa Robinson
Download or read book San Lorenzo Valley written by Lisa Robinson and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The headwaters of the San Lorenzo River are just 15 miles from the city of San Jose and just 15 miles from the city of Santa Cruz, both thriving towns during the Mission period. Even so, a steep canyon, an almost impenetrable forest, and formidable grizzly bears ensured that these headwaters remained unexploited by Westerners until the 1880s. Once the rich natural resources such as vast forests of redwood lumber, lime deposits, and tan oaks were discovered, this virgin landscape was pillaged and plundered. A few enlightened individuals understood that the clear-cutting techniques of the lumber companies would soon result in the total loss of this natural wonder. Their endeavors resulted in the founding of California's first state park at Big Basin, saving this precious resource for future generations.
Book Synopsis Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1 by : Victoria Reifler Bricker
Download or read book Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1 written by Victoria Reifler Bricker and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, Victoria Reifler Bricker, well-known cultural anthropologist, was selected to be series editor. This first volume of the Supplement is devoted to the dramatic changes that have taken place in the field of archaeology. The volume editor, Jeremy A. Sabloff, has gathered together detailed reports from the directors of many of the most significant archaeological projects of the mid-twentieth century in Mesoamerica, along with discussions of three topics of general interest (the rise of sedentary life, the evolution of complex culture, and the rise of cities).
Book Synopsis The vines of San Lorenzo. The making of a great wine in the new tradition. Ediz. cinese tradizionale by : Edward Steinberg
Download or read book The vines of San Lorenzo. The making of a great wine in the new tradition. Ediz. cinese tradizionale written by Edward Steinberg and published by GAJA DISTRIBUZIONE SNC. This book was released on 2012-05-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of San Lorenzo by : Elizabeth Brooks
Download or read book The Story of San Lorenzo written by Elizabeth Brooks and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, with a New Atlas of the World: The Century atlas of the world, prepared under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith by :
Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, with a New Atlas of the World: The Century atlas of the world, prepared under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Beauty written by Matthew A. Cohen and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magic of early Renaissance architecture. The notion that numerical proportional systems contribute to the serene, orderly appearance of the basilica of San Lorenzo has long stood as a virtual axiom of architectural history. In this book, Cohen challenges this and many other long-standing preconceptions about proportional systems in the history of architecture. Using Brunelleschi's basilicas of San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito as case studies, the author presents a detailed analysis of his comprehensive measurements of these buildings, which he recorded from scaffolding, meticulous observations of the built fabric, and a variety of documentary sources. This book presents a rigorous new approach to an important but little studied area of architectural history and is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval and Renaissance architecture.
Book Synopsis The Early Olmec and Mesoamerica by : Jeffrey P. Blomster
Download or read book The Early Olmec and Mesoamerica written by Jeffrey P. Blomster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in Olmec studies, this book reveals the complexity and diversity of 'America's first civilization'.
