The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley, Paperback - Aaron Gilbreath

Reducere. A vivid journey through California's vast rural interior, The Heart of California weaves the story of historian Frank Latta's forgotten 1938 boat t...

Reducere. Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. This is the bold and intriguing assertion of the Heart Sutra, a text of seminal importance to the Buddhist tr...

Paolo calls Rufus "a Mack truck with no one driving." Rufus is the O'Neil family dog, and he shows up one morning with part of a twenty-dollar bill...

DescriptionGives readers a close-up look at the history and importance of the San Antonio River Walk. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, si...

Publisher: Alison HodgeAuthor(s): Paul LightfootIllustration(s): 104 colour photographs, 2 mapsNumber of pages: 88Collection: Pocket CornwallPublic...

Reducere. This book explores the heart of funeral service. It is written by a funeral director and is designed for other funeral professionals. The book is s...

Reducere. In a salute to Moore's A Visit From St. Nicholas, "The Christmas Eve Visitor" is a modern retelling of the tale, in a more relatable language for t...

Drawing on the results of her unique national sex survey--and on decades of clinical practice as a sex therapist--Gina Ogden offers a revolutionary...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of California, then keep reading...Three manuscripts in one book: History of California: A Captivat...

Reducere. "Joaquín Torres-García is one of the most complex and emblematic modern masters from the first half of the 20th century, whose work determined tran...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Aaron Rock-SingerIllustration(s): 1 b-w illustrationNumber of pages: 278Publication date: 2022D...

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 ...

Reducere. This is the history of Death Valley, where that bitter stream the Amargosa dies. It embraces the whole basin of the Amargosa from the Panamints to ...

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...

Reducere. Picked warm from a tree, a California apricot opens into halves as easily as if it came with a dotted line down its center. The seed infuses the co...

Reducere. "The Earth is a book and, with the proper tools, we can read it." -- Thomas E. Cochrane, CA Professional Geologist For the curious, here's a compel...

How, then, do people decide which risks to take and which to ignore? On what basis are certain dangers guarded against and others relegated to seco...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery year thousands of people visit the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. With a copy of Exploring Coast Salish Prehi...

DescriptionIntroduction by Toyin Falola A preeminent African American abolitionist, author, public intellectual, physician, the highest ranking bla...

Reducere. DescriptionSan Quentin State Prison, California's oldest prison and the nation's largest, is notorious for once holding America's most dangerous pr...

Reducere. Who does this land belong to? How have cultures gained access to this land? Who gets to decide who is right? These are the questions that inspired ...

How queerness and radical politics intersected--earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took ad...

Julia Morgan was a pioneering woman architect, best known for Hearst Castle, in the vanguard of Beaux-Arts design and style in the first half of th...

A "wildly entertaining" and "masterly" memoir (Times Literary Supplement) now in paperback In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the ...

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 ...

Reducere. How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-q...

DescriptionEven the most powerful men in the world are human-they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ail...

Reducere. Renowned Parisian artist Yvette Roman suffers from epileptic seizures that are preceded by extraordinary visions. Much of her work is based on thos...

DescriptionThe essential San Francisco travel guide for walkers and hikers Hundreds of public stairways traverse San Francisco's 42 hills, exposing...

Reducere. Exploring the Historic San Juan Triangle is the revised, expanded, and updated version of Mountain Mysteries, tthe number one guide to the magnific...

Bernard Herrmann is a music composer who in over 40 scores enriched the work of directors like Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, a...

Reducere. Eight-year-old Encarnación Castro embarked on a life-altering journey that challenged her endurance and resolve. Her life would never be the same. ...

Reducere. Eight-year-old Encarnación Castro embarked on a life-altering journey that challenged her endurance and resolve. Her life would never be the same. ...

Reducere. Spanning one hundred years and three continents, Letters from the Sphinx tells the story of the William Allens, an Old World family swept up in a N...

Reducere. In this poignant and startlingly original book, Brian Doyle examines the heart as a physical organ how it is supposed to work, how surgeons try to ...

Reducere. Picked warm from a tree, a California apricot opens into halves as easily as if it came with a dotted line down its center. The seed infuses the co...

Explores the impact of the National Urban League in Pittsburgh.Illustrations: 8 b&w photos, 2 maps, 1 table

Reducere. A reporter's vivid account of Central Asia's wild recent history--violent in the extreme and rife with characters both heroic and corrup It sounds ...

While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gil...