Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018, Paperback - David Kipen

DescriptionA rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, and many more, this is the ...

Reducere. Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered and diverse literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Stories, chronicles, and poems by both well-e...

Reducere. The City of Angels? No burg this side of the Pearly Gates could live up to such a moniker, and L.A. isn't even trying. You won't see many inhabitan...

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.'s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiraciesNo metropolis has been more loved or more ha...

Fully illustrated with handwritten text, Dear Sophie, Love Sophie deftly explores topics like queer identity, body image, inherited trauma, belongi...

For the first time, Anton Wagner's groundbreaking 1935 book that launched the study of Los Angeles as an urban metropolis is available in English.P...

An action-packed historical novel whose charismatic characters take the reader from the roaring twenties to the fiery nineties in America's favorit...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Rich StapletonNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 152 x 216 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

Reducere. In their simplicity is their poignancy. On August 7, 1865, Mary Louisa Black noted in her journal that they were "nooning on a nice stream in a val...

Reducere. "We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made, " wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon trai...

Description"Put on your hiking shoes, pack your binoculars, and rediscover the City of Angels." --Westways Magazine Los Angeles may have a reputati...

Reducere. Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This boo...

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los AngelesCity of Segregation documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced sep...

Reducere. DescriptionA vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los AngelesWhen Walter O'Malley moved his Br...

DescriptionThe publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained a family firm over seven generations. Published to ...

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Reducere. Spectacular Illumination: Neon Los Angeles, 1925-1965 is a spectacular collection of vintage photography that showcases the glowing neon heritage o...

DescriptionA breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel, as told by i...

DescriptionThe story of one woman's quest to move to Los Angeles and got a job in animation...and how you can too. When artist Tally Nourigat left ...

Publisher: Ohio State University PressAuthor(s): Deborah MartinsonNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 11Cover type: P...

Reducere. Mochudi is in the Kgatleng District, where novelist and campaigner Naomi Mitchison was the adopted mother of Chief Linchwe II. Mochudi, the ninth b...

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A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestsell...

An expanded and revised version of our guide How To Find Old LA, this book delves deep into the City Of Angels' best-preserved treasures - from a r...

DescriptionA sweeping history of Los Angeles told through the lens of the many marginalized groups--from hobos to taggers--that have used the city'...

Reducere. Enjoy the beautiful curated photographs (in color) of Los Angeles in California, USA The photos captures the quintessential stunning landmarks, sce...

Publisher: Angel City Press, U.S.Author(s): Benno HerzIllustration(s): 4/c illustrations t/oNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 2...

Publisher: Herb Lester Associates LtdAuthor(s): Deke DickersonIllustration(s): 1 Illustrations, unspecifiedPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x ...

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its...

Reducere. The Beatles in Los Angeles takes you past the velvet ropes and inside the mansion gates where The Beatles loved, explored, and experienced all the ...

It's no puzzle why folks visit Los Angeles or even call it home! From Disneyland to the Griffith Observatory to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, there's...

Reducere. Girls, Girls, GirlsWild SidePrimal ScreamSame Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)Rock N Roll Part II / Smokin' In The Boys RoomL...

A new title from the author/illustrator of the hugely popular All the Buildings in New York, this is a charmingly illustrated journey to the City o...

Historically, Los Angeles and its exhibition market have been central to the international success of Latin American cinema. Not only was Los Angel...

Los Angeles in the American Journals of Petru Comarnescu and Stelian Tanase - Georgiana Lolea

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The book traces the history of ACT UP/LA, whose members battled government and institutional neglect of the AIDS crisis during the 1980s and 1990s....

DescriptionFacundo Bernal's A Stab in the Dark (Palos de ciego) is a poetic chronicle of the struggles and joys of the Spanish-speaking community i...

A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.Dodger Stadium is an American icon. Bu...

Reducere. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in ...