Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD, Paperback - Lou Cannon

Reducere. In the Spring of 1992 five days of rioting laid waste to South Central Los Angeles, took scores of lives, cost the city more than 900 million in pr...

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

Reducere. "Scandal on the Turf!" the Los Angeles Times proclaimed. It was October 1940, a mere few months after Seabiscuit had won the Santa Anita Derby, and...

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

Reducere. During the first six decades of the Twentieth Century, Southern California boasted a comprehensive network of suburban electrically powered trains ...

The 1977-78 Los Angeles Dodgers came close. Their tough lineup of young and ambitious players squared off with the New York Yankees in consecutive ...

Colorful cable cars, sunny beaches, seaside havens, and thundering waterfalls: Buckle up for the best of the Golden State with Moon California Road...

Ed Gein was convicted of killing only two women. It is not his number of murders that have made this damaged man the prototype for a number of the ...

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...

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...

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. This eye-opening journey through centuries of medical care on the battlefield is a fascinating read. The research is impressive, the writing style ...

DescriptionThe Story of Trees takes the reader on a visual journey from some of the earliest known tree species on our planet to the latest fruit c...

Reducere. Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles explores how social, economic, political, and cultural demands created the web of freeways whose very...

Reducere. You ever look at your microwave oven and wonder if it is good for more than making popcorn and TV dinners? Wonder no more. You can prepare an amazi...

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

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...

Publisher: Poursuite editionsAuthor(s): Cyril DesrochePublication date: 2020Dimensions: 173 x 234 x 48Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera f...

A look at Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr., two very different men on a very similar mission--cultural revolution through peace; now in pa...

"From front offices to college campuses, Jake Fischer takes you on an engrossing tour of the NBA in its latest golden age, when some of the most ca...

Publisher: Rock N' Roll ColouringIllustration(s): 25 images to colour inNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 240 x 267 x 7Cover typ...

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. 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 ...

Reducere. Named one of Los Angeles Times Book Critic David Ulin's "Top 10 Books of 2015", Wide Awake draws together nationally acclaimed poets and gifted new...

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. "Read this man's book." --James EllroyA harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels--th...

Reducere. Above Los Angeles II, Hardcover

Reducere. Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. both shook, and changed, the world, in their quest for peace among all people, but what threads ...

Video Green examines the explosion of late 1990s Los Angeles art driven by high-profile graduate programs. Probing the surface of art-critical buzz...

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

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 ...

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 complete history of Tom Petty in Los Angeles. When Tom Petty arrived in Los Angeles in 1974 in search of a record deal for his band Mudcrutch, th...

Reducere. A heartpounding, exhilarating novel based on the hot new movie from Nick Cannon, King of the Dancehall. The coming of age story of Tarzan Brixton, ...

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...

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Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Steven IllingworthIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 70Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 126 x 203 ...

This book combines urban theory with film studies and cultural theory to explore how twentieth century Los Angeles is configured through the lens o...

Reducere. In 1946, Elizabeth Short traveled to Hollywood to become famous and see her name up in lights. Instead, the dark-haired beauty became immortalized ...

Los Angeles based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artist's book, receiving widespread critical...

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

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

Reducere. In Atmospheric Noise, Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encount...

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

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

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. "Excellent social history...an indispensable account of a time of beauty and terror." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review A modern epic of the battles...

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