The Negro Trail Blazers of California: A Compilation of Records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, ,

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Reducere. There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and th...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Feng MenglongIllustration(s): 2 mapsTranslator: Olivia MilburnNumber of pages: 344Publication d...

Reducere. Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of infor...

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Reducere. An intimate portrait of Baldwin's mythic life. James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century...

Reducere. In September 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farm workers went on strike against grape growers in and around Delano, California. More than a la...

In this study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930. It devotes special a...

Reducere. Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, an...

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Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...

"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."--Library Journal"Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the...

The Sierra Nevada, California's iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agricult...

Nineveh, Iraq, is one of the longest occupied cities in the world, dating at least back to the mid-7th millennium BC. UC Berkeley excavations uncov...

Reducere. In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney t...

Reducere. This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ...

Reducere. This highly readable, spectacularly illustrated compendium is an ecological journey into a wondrous land of extremes. The California Deserts explor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Vladimir GuerreroIn 1774, the Spanish viceroy of Mexico sent Juan Bautista de Anza, captain of the Presidio at Tubac (in wh...

The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, play...

This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of "whit...

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Publisher: Heyday BooksAuthor(s): Obi KaufmannNumber of pages: 592Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 206 x 152 x 53Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As ...

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. Often likened to Rigoberta Menchu and Nadine Gordimer, Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. Director of Health and Educ...

This work documents the network of ideas that has been labelled conceptual art. Including texts by and taped discussions among and with the artists...

Reducere. For this powerful successor to his best-selling guide to California wine, Charles E. Olken has joined forces with Joseph Furstenthal to craft The N...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the period from Rome's Stone Age beginnings on the Tiber River to its conquest of the Italian peninsula in 264 B.C., the Romans i...

Reducere. After World War I, artists without formal training "crashed the gates" of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lin...

Water scarcity, urban population growth, and deteriorating infrastructure are impacting water security around the globe. Struggling with the most s...

Reducere. DescriptionThis engrossing anthology gathers together a remarkable collection of writings on the use of strategy in war. G rard Chaliand has ranged...

Remains of the Everyday traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling. Over the last century, ...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 30 color illustrations, 3 b-w photographs, 16 line illustrations, 10 tablesNumber of page...

One of the greatest works of Spanish literature, this 800-year-old saga narrates the legendary exploits of the soldier-adventurer Ruy D'az of Bivar...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Olivier DarrigolNumber of pages: 418Collection: California Studies in the History of SciencePub...