Eladatl: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines, Paperback - Sesshu Foster

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...

Reducere. Twenty-one years after Kaya Press first published Sesshu Foster's City Terrace Field Manual, a powerful collection of prose poems that map the East...

Reducere. Brawling, street-wise prose poems push the boundaries of narrative form, taking the reader through the physical and psychological landscapes of Eas...

Reducere. Mexican American Baseball in East Los Angeles highlights the unforgettable teams, players, and coaches who graced the hallowed fields of East Los A...

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

As the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Quetzal and a scholar of Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, Martha Gonzalez is uniquely posit...

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...

Reducere. On December 29, 1972 an Eastern Air Lines' Lockheed L-1011, as Flight 401 on its way from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, to Miami...

Reducere. In the early 20th century, there was no better example of a classic American downtown than Los Angeles. Since World War II, Los Angeles's Historic ...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of writings, reflections, and interviews from political philosopher and critical theorist Brad Evans, written between 2010 ...

Reducere. Updated for the first time in over twenty years, the third edition of Insects of the Los Angeles Basin is a beautifully produced and richly illustr...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first completely detailed and lavishly illustrated Guide to all of the medals and ribbons of the United States Air Force since its b...

Reducere. DescriptionFor 150 years, LAPD officers have pinned on a badge, holstered a gun and traveled the corridors of history, leaving behind the rich trad...

Few states of the United States have a more varied, a more interesting or a more instructive history than California, and few have done so little t...

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

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...

DescriptionFor 150 years, LAPD officers have pinned on a badge, holstered a gun and traveled the corridors of history, leaving behind the rich trad...

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...

Reducere. On a chilly Monday morning in 1935, a young maid opened the garage door of a Southern California seaside villa onto a grim scene. Her employer, a p...

Reducere. DescriptionColin Dayan has one of the most original minds in America and also one of the fiercest. Here for the first time she turns her rigorous i...

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Reducere. Tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in t...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of conten...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Probably much of the confusio...

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...

Reducere. Growth on the flatlands along the western extents of Imperial Highway in the 1920s was once measured in beans, barley, and jackrabbits. After 2000,...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Art Deco made its formal appearance in Paris at the 1925 L Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, a showcase for ar...

Reducere. Los Angeles and the movies grew up together, and a natural extension of the picture business was the premium presentation of the product the bigges...

Reducere. In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small t...

Reducere. 1. Testify 3: 30 2. Guerrilla Radio 3: 26 3. Calm Like A Bomb 4: 58 4. Mic Check 3: 33 5. Sleep Now In The Fire 3: 25 6. Born Of A Broken Man 4: 40...

Reducere. Colin Dayan meditates on the connection between her personal and family history and her relationship with animals in this lyrical memoir about her ...

DescriptionSouth Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect. But this depict...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A fascinating tour of Los Angeles told through vintage images. The City of Angels' story is told through a fun and colorful collection of old photo...

Reducere. The Los Angeles Railway's Yellow Cars, a system cobbled together from numerous horse-powered lines, cable car lines, and upstart narrow-gauge troll...

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...

Reducere. In 1957 the Dodgers broke the hearts of blue-collar Brooklyn for the embrace of booming Los Angeles. Thus began a new era for the fabled Bums, whos...

Reducere. Girlz in the Hood is the unsentimental, moving, and surprisingly humorous account of a girl and her ten siblings who grew up in one of the roughest...

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

Reducere. This volume presents a pictorial history of Los Angeles hotels downtown, in Hollywood, and along the Wilshire Boulevard corridor from the late 19th...

Reducere. In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the ...