Los Angeles - The Development, Life and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California, Paperback - Timothy Grundy

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...

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

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. First published in 1993, this groundbreaking book is now fully revised and updated with the latest scientific information. Join a team of geologist...

Reducere. In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song "The Tide Is High, " or...

Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Italian phra...

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...

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

DescriptionWhether you want to wander the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, lounge poolside in Palm Springs, or marvel at the San Diego Zoo, t...

Reducere. Southern California can be called a sunny place for shady people. Its criminal history is as rich and varied as anywhere. Old West outlaws, serial ...

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

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

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. William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a sel...

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

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

Reducere. Mi Raza Primero is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale-in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest populat...

Reducere. This book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both th...

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

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): George J. SanchezNumber of pages: 390Collection: American CrossroadsPublication date: 2022Dimen...

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...

DescriptionPaul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a strictly enforced So...

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

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

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 only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a...

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

Reducere. The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. "When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters...

Reducere. Gunfights and general lawlessness were common in the frontier cities of the American West. Tombstone and Dodge City are legendary. But neither saw ...

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....

Presents an approach to moral philosophy. This work of dry theory, is intended for those intrigued by the questions about goodness and human life.

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 ...

Sir Richard Francis Burton was perhaps the most colorful British explorer of the 19th century. In 1860 he left England and his fiance to explore th...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Rashmi SadanaIllustration(s): 25 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 274Publication date: 2021Dim...

Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), hailed as "a city symphony in reverse, " challenges whether the movies have ever really depicted L...

DescriptionDreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles's pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depressi...

Revolution in Development uncovers the surprising influence of postrevolutionary Mexico on the twentieth century's most important international eco...

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...

DescriptionThe work of American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) is brought into brilliant focus in this definitive book, originally published to acco...

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...

This study begins with a brief survey of economic thought on the relationship between foreign trade and national power, from the Mercantilists on. ...

Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time How do...