Secrets of Los Angeles: A 1920s Sourcebook to the City of Angels, Paperback - Peter Aperlo

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. In all of North America there is no more perfect intersection of climate, culture, and colorful history than San Francisco - the culmination of Man...

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

The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home ...

The "Soul of" collection is a new approach to the art of travelling that consists of vagabonding around, chance encounters, and unforgettable exper...

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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...

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

Reducere. Side A 1. Testify 2. Guerrilla Radio 3. Calm Like A Bomb 4. Mic Check 5. Sleep Now In The Fire 6. Born Of A Broken Man Side B 1. Born As Ghosts 2. ...

Reducere. Readers in Los Angeles are thirsty for stories that bring their city to life. This anthology features a diverse range of voices and genres. Like th...

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

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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...

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...

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

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

It's 1924. Sam Lacy, tough as nails robbery/homicide detective follows his own unique code of conduct within the racist and corrupt Los Angeles Pol...

Reducere. Test Your Los Angeles Angels Knowledge!The Ultimate Los Angeles Angels Trivia Book is a staple for anyone who loves baseball, sports trivia, and th...

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

LA NY is a dazzling visual tale of two cities, Los Angeles and New York, as seen from the air. Photographed straight down at a ninety-degree angle ...

A mystery, a comedy, and a riveting human drama rolled into one, from the bestselling author of MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVILPublisher: H...

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

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionHow Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy Street food markets have become wildly popul...

DescriptionHow Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy Street food markets have become wildly popul...

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...

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...