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Leisure, Pleasure and Healing

Author : Estee Dvorjetski
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047420519
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Leisure, Pleasure and Healing written by Estee Dvorjetski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with leisure, pleasure and healing at the thermo-mineral sites in the Levant since the biblical era throughout the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and early Muslim periods. It looks closely at the question of whether the spas, which are models for social interaction between pagans, Christians and Jews, served as sacred cult places or popular sites of healing. The main objectives of the book are as follows: • Clarifying the leisure-time activities at the spas based on Classical and Rabbinic literature, pilgrims’ travel-books, Syriac and Arabic texts, the Geniza fragments, cartographic evidence, and archaeological findings. • Lightening the daily life, healing cults, medical recommendations and treatments. • Examining the social history of medicine at the curative baths.

Hidden Picture-Perfect Escapes Palm Springs

Author : Richard Mahler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569754313
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Picture-Perfect Escapes Palm Springs written by Richard Mahler and published by . This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ulysses Press's Hidden Guides are where vacations meet adventures. First, each book in the Hidden series reviews a destination's famed attractions. Then - and more importantly - it invites the reader to go further by exploring hidden spots that other guides overlook, including small inns and recommended restaurants.

Hidden Southern California

Author : Ray Riegert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569752821
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Southern California written by Ray Riegert and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-28 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden guides combine unique travel choices, outdoor adventures and little-known locales into a guide where vacations meet adventures. Each guide includes detailed maps, complete internet information for each listing, highlighted author favorites, suggested itineraries and walking and driving tours. With so many famous places and hyped attractions, it's all too easy to get caught running (well, driving, actually) all over Southern California from one spot to the next. This guide tells how to get off the freeway and explore the boulevards and side streets of Los Angeles and San Diego as well the coast roads and inland desert highways. Hidden Southern California combines traditional attractions, including seven historic missions and eight theme parks, with outdoor adventures, including 123 beaches and parks, 270 hiking trails and 105 surfing spots. It provides selective recommendations for lodging in the city, along the coast and even in desert and mountain parks, including 15 beach cottages, 77coastal inns and 13,193 campsites at 350 campgrounds. The author offers opinionated reviews of local restaurants including 14 Mexican, 14 Italian, 13 American diners, 8 California, 8 French, 7 bar and grills, 6 Japanese, 6 Chinese, 5 hamburger joints, 4 Thai, 4 Continental, 3 Indian and 2 Jewish delis, as well as Vietnamese, Caribbean, Columbian, Korean, Greek, Salvadoran, West African, Cajun, soul food, fresh seafood, Mediterranean, Argentine, Persian, Belgian and vegetarian (and that's just the first chapter on Los Angeles). The guide also contains special features on Los Angeles' historic Mexican public markets, Hollywood film making in action, the ultimate side trip south of the border andold-time Hollywood, including 15 historic theaters and a driving tour of old mansions.

Point of View ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Point of View ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sunset

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Sunset written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unseen Midcentury Desert Modern

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Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423642066
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Unseen Midcentury Desert Modern written by and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, Daniel Chavkin began photographing some of the more discreet and off-the-beaten-path midcentury modern homes and buildings in the Palm Springs area. These included secret gems created by such famous modernist architects as William Cody and John Porter Clark, as well as others by relatively lesser-known designers. The result is this rich photographic collection of largely unseen examples of desert modern architecture. Many of the buildings shown herein are not easily accessible by, or in some cases completely off-limits to, the general public, so the photographs in this book may be the only opportunity for midcentury aficionados to ever see some of these buildings. Daniel Chavkin is a photographer who lives and works in Palm Springs and Los Angeles. He began his career shooting celebrity portraits, but his passion is for midcentury modern architecture—and especially the desert modernism of Palm Springs. His love of modernism was forged while studying at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He also owns the graphic design business Design Lab 2.

Hidden Colorado

Author : Richard Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569751275
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Colorado written by Richard Harris and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely updated third edition revisits old favorites from Vail to Mesa Verde and adds information on rising hot spots like Glenwood Springs, where visitors can explore Glenwood Canyon Trail and then relax in one of the Rockies' largest hot-spring pools. Veteran travel writer Richard Harris sweeps through Denver and Boulder, and then leads the reader to pueblo ruins, ghost towns, ski resorts, and fishing holes.

Guilt & Pleasure

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guilt & Pleasure written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sun Seekers

Author : Ananda Pellerin
Publisher : Atelier Aditions
ISBN 13 : 9780997593587
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Sun Seekers written by Ananda Pellerin and published by Atelier Aditions. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunshine and nature: California as a beacon of better health Since the mid-19th century, the idea of California has lured many waves of migrants. Here, writer and editor Lyra Kilston explores a less examined attraction: the region's promise of better health. From ailing families seeking a miracle climate cure to iconoclasts and dropouts pursuing a remedy to societal corruption, the abundance of sunshine and untamed nature around the small but growing Los Angeles area offered them refuge and inspiration. In the wild west of medical practice, eclectic nature-cure treatments gained popularity. The source for this trend can be traced to the mountains and cold-water springs of Europe, where early sanatoriums were built to offer the natural cures of sun, air, water and diet; this sanatorium architecture was exported to the West Coast from Central Europe, and began to impact other types of building. Sun Seekers: The Cure of Californiaconstitutes the second volume of The Illustrated America(following 2016's Old Glory), Atelier Éditions' ongoing series excavating America's cultural past. Lyra Kilstonis a writer and editor focused on architecture, history, design and urbanism. Her work has appeared in Artforum, Los Angeles Review of Books, Time, Wiredand Hyperallergic, among other publications. She was on the curatorial team of Overdrive: LA Constructs the Future, 1940-1990, exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Building Museum.

Slab City

Author : Charlie Hailey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262347865
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Slab City written by Charlie Hailey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An architect and a photographer explore a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, and survivalists inhabiting a former military base in the California desert. Under the unforgiving sun of southern California's Colorado Desert lies Slab City, a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, survivalists, and homeless people. Called by some “the last free place” and by others “an enclave of anarchy,” Slab City is also the end of the road for many. Without official electricity, running water, sewers, or trash pickup, Slab City dwellers also live without law enforcement, taxation, or administration. Built on the concrete slabs of Camp Dunlap, an abandoned Marine training base, the settlement maintains its off-grid aspirations within the site's residual military perimeters and gridded street layout; off-grid is really in-grid. In this book, architect Charlie Hailey and photographer Donovan Wylie explore the contradictions of Slab City. In a series of insightful texts and striking color photographs, Hailey and Wylie capture the texture of life in Slab City. They show us Slab Mart, a conflation of rubbish heap and recycling center; signs that declare Welcome to Slab City, T'ai Chi on the Slabs Every morning, and Don't fuck around; RVs in conditions ranging from luxuriously roadworthy to immobile; shelters cloaked in pallets and palm fronds; and the alarmingly opaque water of the hot springs. At Camp Dunlap in the 1940s, Marines learned how to fight a war. In Slab City, civilians resort to their own wartime survival tactics. Is the current encampment an outpost of freedom, a new “city on a hill” built by the self-chosen, an inversion of Manifest Destiny, or is it a last vestige of freedom, tended by society's dispossessed? Officially, it is a town that doesn't exist. Research for this project was supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Postcards from Mecca

Author : Leslie Ervin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914224419
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Postcards from Mecca written by Leslie Ervin and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Keef Smith was seeking escape from a troubled home life and the havoc of childhood polio when she took a job as postmaster in Mecca, on the edge of California's Salton Sea. She and her cousin Lula Mae Graves set out to photograph the last of the prospectors, burro packers and stage stops in the remote desert to the east. They traveled by burro, foot and Ford though sandy washes and roadless canyons, armed with a .38 revolver and a large format camera. While making postcards for the Post Office spinner rack, the women were remade in the wilderness and wound up creating an unparalleled portrait of one of the lesser-known deserts in the West. Susie Smith's photos were nearly lost to history when--upon her death--they were tossed out by a county estate administrator. A savvy archaeologist jumped into a dumpster and rescued many of the photos in this book. Postcards From Mecca presents portraits of a mysterious land along with the story of its heroic chroniclers, self-taught documentary photographers of the 1920s and '30s.

Blue Desert

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816510818
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Blue Desert written by Charles Bowden and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt

Fodor's Southern California 2008

Author : Michael Nalepa
Publisher : Fodor
ISBN 13 : 140001901X
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fodor's Southern California 2008 written by Michael Nalepa and published by Fodor. This book was released on 2008 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fodor's. For Choice Travel Experiences. Fodor's helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you're at the helm, Fodor's offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It's like having a friend in Southern California -Updated annually, Fodor's Southern California provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook. -Fodor's Southern California features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime. -If it's not worth your time, it's not in this book. Fodor's discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor's Choice designations, ensure that you'll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Southern California. -Experience Southern California like a local Fodor's Southern California includes choices for every traveler, from hiking Death Valley and catching the perfect wave to sampling authentic Mexican cuisine and shopping L.A.'s trendy boutiques, and much more -Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include "Top Reasons to Go," "Word of Mouth" advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls. -Fodor's Southern California includes a pullout map Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

New West

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book New West written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. Thomas. Vol. 1-50; 51, no. 3- ol. 63

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. Thomas. Vol. 1-50; 51, no. 3- ol. 63 written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

California 2009

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Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400007291
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California 2009 written by and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes information on hotels and resorts, restaurants, beaches, walking and driving tours, nighttime entertainment, shopping, and sights of interest

The North American Deserts

Author : Edmund Carroll Jaeger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804704984
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The North American Deserts written by Edmund Carroll Jaeger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares and contrasts the 5 North American deserts according to terrain, weather, and wildlife.