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This study explores how Jack London's Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San Francisc...

Jack Foley has been prominent in the San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene since the mid-1980s. The Light of Evening traces the arc of his life. This...

Reducere. Shake Up Your Sexy with 138 alluring recipes and illustrations celebrating songs by Prince! LoveSexy Cocktail Guide is a curated collection of 138 ...

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. DescriptionIn 1969, Robert Cameron (1911-2009) began leaning out of a helicopter with his Pentax 6 7 cm camera to shoot city- and landscapes above ...

Reducere. DescriptionA Legacy in Brick and Stone by John Weaver IIThe definitive history of the American Third System of Fortifications that defended our coa...

Description"Who is Michael Jang? I don't know if he's a hipster or a nerd, a conceptual genius or instinctual savant. All I know is that he takes s...

Reducere. DescriptionThe definitive history of the American Third System of Fortifications that defended our coastline for more than half of century, these a...

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...

DescriptionOnce considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for...

Reducere. During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Ex...

DescriptionThis generously illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the powerfully expressive work of David Park (1911-...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of over 650 actual Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer job interview questions along with their full answers, referenc...

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 ...

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

Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939, Vol. 1: San Francisco Bay Area is the only book to give a detailed account of early flying in the Bay Ar...

Reducere. Dr. Daniela's Owen, Ph.D., an assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, has published her first book sp...

Reducere. In the second book of her "Right Now" series, Dr. Daniela Owen, Ph.D. explains the choice that we all have when we face our fears, and provides sim...

Reducere. In the third book of her Right Now series, Dr. Daniela Owen, Ph.D. helps children learn what it means to be kind and aware of other people. Sometim...

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

Reducere. Rescues from the Sky features the true stories of the US Coast Guard Aviation Medical Rescue Service as seen through the eyes of a wet-behind-the-e...

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. When what you believe turns out to be a lie, how far will you go for the truth?"Just go home and pretend it never happened, " is the advice given t...

Reducere. Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever-one that could easily be ...

DescriptionThe beloved lead character from Jacob's New Dress is back in an encouraging story about gender expression. When Jacob goes to the boys' ...

Reducere. Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever-one that could easily be ...

What's more exciting than a prison break? Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 and have never been caught. Many ...

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. 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. The Emporium--"California's Largest, America's Grandest Store"--was a major shopping destination on San Francisco's Market Street for a century, fr...

Reducere. Predominantly built as a "bedroom" community for the San Francisco Bay Area, Pacifica's rich and diverse heritage stretches back to the Spanish exp...

Reducere. Roller Derby found a home in the San Francisco Bay Area following its Depression-era Chicago origins. An early television sensation, it faded to a ...

Reducere. What was once home to the native tribe known as the Ohlone, and functioning as guardian of the San Francisco Bay under Spanish, Mexican, and Americ...

Reducere. Today, the Caldecott Tunnel connects Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The original two bores of this tunne...

Reducere. 2017 Gourmand International World Cookbook Awards "Best Bread Book in the US" In the second book in the series, How To Bake MORE Bread focuses on s...

Reducere. Sports Rhymes of Soccer features five poems about the following subjects: the historic heroes of the FIFA World Cup; the two FIFA Players of the 20...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Fredrick Von Stieff M. D.Editor: Katie Schuh JuarezBrain in Balance gives insight into how your balance of neurotransmitter...

Reducere. JOHN MUIR'S exuberance for nature was the touchstone for his commitment to the earth and all its creatures. As naturalist, writer, and activist, Mu...

Reducere. Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody and Support is written by Emily Doskow, a seasoned family law attorney and mediator based in the San Franci...

Reducere. National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America's faltering cities. Progressives claimed they k...

Reducere. During a career spanning six decades, Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) became one of the most prolific and outspoken landscape architects of his genera...

Reducere. Understand History's Most Enigmatic Serial KillerIn December of 1968, a serial killer began orchestrating a campaign of terror in the San Francisco...

Reducere. Fiction. California Interest. In late '90s San Francisco, Edie Wunderlich was the It girl, on the covers of the city's alt-weeklies, repping the fr...

DescriptionLong a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler's Books and Magazines is o...

Reducere. Who would have thought a simple bean could do so much? Heirloom bean expert Steve Sando provides descriptions of the many varieties now available, ...

Gina "Tinkerbell" Miyoko is not your typical private eye. Armed with a baby blue Magnum, a Harley blessed with Holy Water by her dramatically dispo...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat if a political party in disarray turned to a man to lead them with no political background? What if a country torn apart by ideolog...

From the Castro to the Ferry Building and many places in between, take a knitting adventure through San Francisco. We introduce you to ten Bay Area...

The Farallon Islands lie almost 30 miles outside the entrance to San Francisco Bay and are comprised of over 20 islands, islets, sea stacks, and ro...

Reducere. On the life and afterlives of Jay DeFeo's Estocada, a work created in the shadow of The RoseIn 1965, Jay DeFeo (1929-89) was evicted from her San F...

Reducere. This exploration begins by tracing the concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley and the resulting growth in start-ups, jobs, and wealth. This ...

Reducere. DescriptionThere are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors'proximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstei...

Reducere. Charlotte Novik is a typical 19-year-old girl: she has an obnoxious older brother, friends who drive her crazy, a giant mansion overlooking the San...

Reducere. This is a 30th Anniversary reprinting of a book that has been lauded by Newsweek and cited by numerous people -- from students of parapsychology to...

Reducere. Black Bear, a retired Alaskan sled dog, continues her adventures in this second book in the Black Bear Sled Dog Adventure series. See San Francisco...

Reducere. Understand History's Most Enigmatic Serial KillerIn December of 1968, a serial killer began orchestrating a campaign of terror in the San Francisco...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery night Isaac wonders if the next shifter in his bar will be the werewolf sent to kill him. The supernatural creatures of San Franci...

DescriptionWhy is there so much bad blood involved in the stories of artists and their artworks? Immerse yourself in 18 infamous artistic rivalries...

Reducere. Understand History's Most Enigmatic Serial KillerIn December of 1968, a serial killer began orchestrating a campaign of terror in the San Francisco...

Provocative and prolific, Boots Riley has written lyrics as the frontman of underground favorites The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club, as well ...

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. 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. The Heart of Dominance is a how-to guide to the concepts and skills at the heart of consensual dominance. If you are new to dominance, still figuri...

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. "A lavish taste of Persian culture and cuisine . . . [A] compelling, poignant and most delectable book." --BookPage For Donia Bijan's family, food ...

Reducere. The roots of San Francisco's celebrated food and drink culture are as diverse as the city itself. A bountiful ocean, rich soil and ingenious reside...

Reducere. DescriptionFor centuries, California's environment has nurtured remarkable people. Ohlone Lope Inigo found a way to protect his family in troubled ...

Reducere. Explore the exciting world of miniature die-cast model fire engines-in full color. In this guide author and long-time collector Andrew Benzie prese...

Reducere. Kissing the Limitless is a manual for self-liberation through magic. By practicing the Great Work of the ancient alchemists and magicians, readers ...