San Francisco's West Portal Neighborhoods, Hardcover - Richard Brandi

Reducere. When you're in West Portal and the adjacent Forest Hill and St. Francis Wood, it's hard to believe you're still in San Francisco. These quiet and p...

Reducere. San Francisco's Chinatown--the oldest, largest, and most famous Chinese enclave outside of Asia--is more than a tourist attraction. Since its birth...

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. The transformation of San Francisco's Sunset District from a seemingly uninhabitable, windswept realm of sand dunes and shrub to a comfortable resi...

Reducere. Richard Dillon, one of California's premier historians, tells the compelling story of San Francisco's exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlu...

Reducere. San Francisco's Queen of Vice uncovers the story of one of the most skilled, high-priced, and corrupt abortion entrepreneurs in America. Even as Pr...

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The unique character of San Francisco's Chinatown is revealed in a historical map and fascinating photographs This colorful and celebratory time ca...

Reducere. The world's fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 eart...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Portola has a long and unique history dating back to the late 1800s. Too often misidentified with neighboring districts, it has its ...

Reducere. At the turn of the 20th century, the Haight-Ashbury first gained prominence as the gateway to Golden Gate Park; six decades later, it would anchor ...

Reducere. Showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim memories and hazy legends. Not just a list of places, facts, and dates, this title shows...

Publisher: Asian Art Museum of San FranciscoAuthor(s): Kumja Paik KimIllustration(s): full-color illusNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2017Dim...

Reducere. DescriptionThe prestige of Pacific Heights and Presidio Heights has long fascinated and awed San Francisco residents and visitors. The westward exp...

Reducere. North Beach and Telegraph Hill are among San Francisco's most charming and historic districts. In the early years, Mexican and Spanish settlements ...

Reducere. Hemmed in by steep hills, Glen Park is defined by its quintessentially San Franciscan topography. Only 120 years ago this area, as well as neighbor...

Reducere. DescriptionOn June 29, 1776, Fr. Francisco Palou dedicated the first site of Mission San Francisco de Asis on the shores of Dolores Lagoon. At the ...

Reducere. Portalul ingerilor . Continuarea romanului Carbon modificat . Ecoul primei impuscaturi, ca o prima gura de whisky, care arde... Un nou corp. O noua...

Reducere. San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban...

From the bestselling author of The House of Mondavi a riveting, revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San F...

Reducere. Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to mode...

Reducere. The Zodiac Killer may have been San Francisco's most notorious serial killer, but another equally cruel killer was also stalking the streets at the...

Portalul ingerilor - Richard Morgan

Ecoul primei impuscaturi, ca o prima gura de whisky, care arde...Un nou corp. O noua aventura. La treizeci de ani dupa evenimentele din Carbon modi...

Mexican American Baseball in the San Fernando Valley explores the teams and players that dotted the valley landscape throughout the 20th century. I...

Reducere. DescriptionWhere y'at? In New Orleans, this simple question can yield hundreds of answers. People on the same block might say that they live in Pig...

Reducere. Winner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize West Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucci...

Reducere. San Gabriel is often referred to as the "birthplace of the Los Angeles region." The area's first inhabitants were native peoples often called Gabri...

Reducere. West Virginia, "Child of the Storm, " was the only state formed as a result of the Civil War. The struggle between eastern and western Virginia ove...

Reducere. Former Dean of the Yale School of Art, Richard Benson has been a photographer for more than four decades, but until now his art often took a back s...

Levels of 'employer brand awareness' are rising fast across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, as leading companies realise that skilled, moti...

Reducere. "Magda is essentially lyrical and human. . . . In her early poems she is almost always the poet of tenderness. And her lyricism is precisely recogn...

Reducere. The West Bank has been a vital part of greater New Orleans since the city's inception, serving as its breadbasket, foundry, shipbuilder, railroad t...

How can small businesses make huge impacts? If a picture speaks a thousand words, branding is the tool to shine in a sea of thousands of competitor...

Reducere. Description"Kathryn Lasky's latest is a sleight-of-hand that will have you clapping your hands. With the brio and big-heart that characterizes all ...

Reducere. Even in its early days, Rochester had multiple neighborhoods, small settlements with names such as Swillburg, Goat Hill and the Butter Bowl. Today,...

Jack West is Indiana Jones meet Jason Bourne with a rocket launcher. A secret mythological sect seeks to rule the world. History, legend and global...

Bertram Portal was born into a wealthy family, famous for their mill at Laverstoke in North Hampshire which made banknote paper for the Bank of Eng...

Reducere. A captivating, richly illustrated full account of the making of the ground-breaking movie classic West Side Story (1961). A major hit on Broadway, ...

Reducere. After the American Civil War, many African Americans found a new life in "River Town." Louisville became a historic marker for freed men and women ...

Reducere. The history of Charlotte is inseparable from the history of its neighborhoods. From the city's founding until the late 1890s, the four wards create...

Pepper Town, Methodist Town, the Gas Plant district and the 22nd Street South community--these once segregated neighborhoods were built by African ...

Reducere. After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out what lay w...

Reducere. Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid's charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life--and t...

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