Across the Bay

Reducere. A breathtaking collection of work celebrating 125 years of San Francisco's legendary museum The de Young is San Francisco's oldest art museum, trea...

Reducere. Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more i...

Reducere. DescriptionOver forty years and across a variety of media, artist Rick Bartow has created a powerful body of work. His representations of humans, a...

Reducere. From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark...

Reducere. What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many l...

A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the pres...

DescriptionOf all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer's many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in ...

Reducere. In Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life in Power and Politics Alexandra M. Nickliss offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age's most prominent ...

DescriptionExplore 60 of the best rail-trails and multiuse pathways across three states--Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont--with this official guid...

Reducere. Old San Juan is the oldest settlement in Puerto Rico and it sits on a narrow bluff with the Atlantic Ocean to the north and San Juan Bay to the sou...

From anti-war walkouts to anarchist youth newspapers, rallies against educational privatization, and workshops on fair trade, teenage girls are act...

Reducere. Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book Prize Immigrants make up the largest propor...

Reducere. Empire Builder is the previously untold story of a pioneer who almost single-handedly transformed the bankrupt village of San Diego into a thriving...

Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more i...

Reducere. DescriptionThe U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country's colonial past. Using Subic Bay (...

LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a fa...

Reducere. We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial-colonial violence. Lo...

Emmy Award-winning journalist and fifth-generation Oregon native Grant McOmie provides travelers with an in-depth guide to 101 of the best Oregon d...

This book is an illustrated guide to events that led to today's spectacular vision of the Shrine of the B b and its garden terraces on Mount Carmel...

Iw gara, when translated, means the kinship of plants and people. And that is exactly what Enrique Salm n explores in this important book. Iw gara ...

Reducere. In all of North America there is no more perfect intersection of climate, culture, and colorful history than San Francisco - the culmination of Man...

Reducere. Take a trip down memory lane to beloved destinations for fun and families across Virginia's tidewater. Cruise the rails of Ocean View Amusement Par...

Reducere. DescriptionShortly after Ponce de Leon discovered La Florida in 1513, early Spanish settlers found a large and sheltered bay on the Gulf of Mexico....

Reducere. In 1958, San Francisco welcomed its first major league baseball team when the Giants left New York and journeyed across the country to the Bay Area...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Tampa Bay area has a rich and fascinating history. Truly an international city, Tampa attracted its residents from all over the worl...

Reducere. Beach Haven, founded in 1874, was designed as one of the first summer seashore resorts in New Jersey for wealthy Philadelphians. Beach Haven's boar...

Reducere. Considered the "Best Ride in New York City, " the Staten Island Ferry has been immortalized over the years in art, literature, film, and music. In ...

Reducere. In 1765, when Joseph Rotch sailed across the bay from Nantucket, he brought with him the skills and knowledge to start New Bedford's whaling indust...

Reducere. In 1832, Benjamin Bonneville led the first wagon train across the Continental Divide on the Oregon Trail. Financed by a rival of the Hudson's Bay C...

Reducere. Serge A. Storms gives condo living a try in this latest acid-splashed Florida crime caper from the "insanely funny" (New York Times Book Review) Ti...

Reducere. "The twenty-five mysteries that Katherine Hall Page has cooked up for her sleuth, Faith Fairchild, make for delectable reading. What a body of work...

DescriptionSurrounded by the English Channel to the north, the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Bay of Biscay to the south, Br...

The Gold Rush drew the Portuguese from the Azores, sweeping them across the Atlantic Ocean and around South America's Cape Horn to the California s...

Reducere. Serge A. Storms gives condo living a try in this latest acid-splashed Florida crime caper from the "insanely funny" (New York Times Book Review) Ti...

Reducere. 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, History A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today's costly, e...

On this edition the chart specification has been improved to show coloured light flashes. Cables and pipelines across the chart have been updated. ...

Reducere. A sumptuously illustrated adaptation casts the powerful imagery of F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel in a vivid new format. From the green...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel.The one that got away. Every girl has one, right?Mine was a char...

Reducere. ``A balanced, well-written account which provides the best overall understanding of these events. -Library Journal. ``Compelling.``-Publishers Week...

Reducere. The book is a memoir about growing up Black in Cape Charles, Virginia on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. It details the origin of the town as ...

Reducere. In the Golden Age of Piracy, none was more dreaded than Blackbeard. Sam, Derek, and Caitlin head for a week's vacation at Virginia Beach, where thr...

Reducere. Lily is a twelve-year-old Chinese American girl living in San Francisco's Chinatown when an earthquake destroys her home and sets her neighborhood ...

Reducere. Withdrawal of the mighty Hudson Bay Company from present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan created a lawless environment with new economic opportunities...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Bay Area Book of the Year A book unlike anything ever written by a comp...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom ancient rock drawings, historic sites, and modern museums to eco- and cultural tourism, sports events and powwows, the Native Ameri...

You may have heard of ships. You may have also heard of the sea and the night. But did you realize there's nothing more beautiful than a ship and i...

Reducere. This is the story of the founding of New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Boerne, Comfort and the other German settlements of the Texas Hill Country. Ref...

Come for a journey along the Jersey shore with naturalist and ecologist Joanna Burger! In these deeply felt, closely observed personal essays, Burg...

Reducere. She's determined. He's angry. Falling in love would be impossible for these Alaska neighbors. Or would it?Jemma's chased her dream all the way to A...

Reducere. A missing grandmother. A trek across rugged Alaska. A woman who'd rather be anywhere else.Bree loves cities and dislikes wilderness. When her mothe...

Reducere. Following the success of World War II Rhode Island, author Christian McBurney returns, with new coauthors Norman Desmarais and Varoujan Karentz, to...

Reducere. Hailed by critics and readers across the country for its wit, irreverence, and unflinching honesty, Doing Battle illuminates the events and experie...

Reducere. This is a story of tides and coastlines, winds and waves, islands and beaches. It is also a retelling of indigenous creativity, agency, and resista...

Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seasid...

Reducere. A vivid account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad -- available for the first time in trade paperback -- by the author of the bestsell...

Reducere. On February 15, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where ...

Reducere. A flicker of lightning behind a thunderhead then a deep rumble marked the approach of a storm. Selena squeezed the hand of her handsome Greek husba...

A handbook for therapists, humane educators, teachers, and anyone interested in creating a safe and successful animal-assisted therapy program. Con...

Reducere. From the acclaimed author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth, and Roads to Quoz, a dazzling collection of travel tales from the road. HERE, THERE, ELSEWH...

DescriptionDeer are the most common problem a gardener can face. These cute but pesky animals think home-grown flowers and vegetables are delicious...

Reducere. DescriptionAn adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture.A scientist and bestselling nature writer...

Reducere. DescriptionCaptain Joe Barbour was born in Newton, Bonavista Bay, in 1898. He began sailing as a boy and at the age of twenty-one he first became m...

Reducere. The Wolfe Pet Sitting Agency returns to unravel another mystery--and this time, it's a slippery slope for our heroes and their newfound husky-dog s...

Discover the beauty and diversity of America's great outdoors in this tour of its most iconic national parks. Explore Florida's river-laced Evergla...

"Inspiring"--Danny Meyer, CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group; Founder, Shake Shack; and author, Setting the Table James Beard Award-winning food j...

Reducere. Discover the man behind everyone's favorite call to action, Full speed ahead! in this inspiring and engaging biography about the first Admiral of t...

The Coast to Coast Walk remains Britain's favourite long-distance walk. This book lets you savour 192 glorious miles from St Bees on the Cumbrian C...

This is England's most popular walk, and this enlarged, updated guidebook does it justice at last. Its 184 miles (296 km) run across the north of E...

Reducere. "Great naval action and deep historical detail in the vein of O'Brian and Forester." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In Dewey Lambdin's Kings and ...

DescriptionTake a trip down memory lane to beloved destinations for fun and families across Virginia's tidewater. Cruise the rails of Ocean View Am...