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Mystery Postcards from the California Delta
ISBN: 9780615681795 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone loves a good mystery especially when it is in ones own back yard!
Author Carol Jensen, the Brentwood Press, and the East County Historical Society team up to learn more about the families, successes, and lives of early east Contra Costa County residents. Local citizens are challenged to identify people and locations throughout the community as captured in postcard images from the early 20th century. The response is insightful, often witty, and illustrates the interesting lives of emigrants settling the beautiful California Delta. Presented in Challenge (Mystery) and Solution... Everyone loves a good mystery especially when it is in ones own back yard!
Author Carol Jensen, the Brentwood Press, and the East County Hist... |
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68,42 |
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Cipriano Baca, Frontier Lawman of New Mexico
ISBN: 9780786473328 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is the first biography of the legendary officer Cipriano Baca, scion of a prestigious Spanish lineage tracing their heritage to the first settlers in Nuevo Mexico. Baca was well educated and a successful businessman before beginning a 52-year career as a peace officer. He was a man of honor and principle"--Provided by publisher.
"This is the first biography of the legendary officer Cipriano Baca, scion of a prestigious Spanish lineage tracing their heritage to the first settle...
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193,06 |
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What the Elders Have Taught Us: Alaska Native Ways
ISBN: 9780882409092 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Alaska's Native peoples confront contemporary challenges, they increasingly find strength in the traditional values and practices that have sustained their cultures for millennia. In stirring words, What the Elders Have Taught Us pays tribute to the first Alaskans and the ancient values they consider paramount. Ten essayists, one from each of Alaska's diverse Native cultures, were asked to write about a specific value that is common to all, lessons that have been part of their oral teachings for countless generations. The resulting essays are infused with personal reflection as well as...
As Alaska's Native peoples confront contemporary challenges, they increasingly find strength in the traditional values and practices that have sustain...
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57,13 |
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Devil's Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story
ISBN: 9780806143682 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People who own the land can own the stories-at least for a time Devil's Gate-the name conjures difficult passage and portends a doubtful outcome. In this eloquent and captivating narrative, Tom Rea traces the history of the Sweetwater River valley in central Wyoming-a remote place including Devil's Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch of the Oregon Trail-to show how ownership of a place can translate into owning its story. Seemingly in the middle of nowhere, Devil's Gate is the center of a landscape that threatens to shrink any inhabitants to insignificance except for one...
People who own the land can own the stories-at least for a time Devil's Gate-the name conjures difficult passage and portends a doubtful outcome. In t...
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82,36 |
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The Days Are Gods
ISBN: 9780803243545 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I called the bishop of the local ward, and he put the date of your move into the church bulletin, and these gentlemen came to help, Brady, the real estate agent, says. Welcome to Wellsville, Utah. Good-bye, L.A. Liz Stephens has come from Los Angeles to Utah for graduate school, and her brief stint working on a Taco Bell commercial is not much in the way of preparation for taking on the real West. In The Days Are Gods Stephens chronicles a move that is far more than a shift in geographical coordinates. With husband and dogs in tow, she searches for an authentic... I called the bishop of the local ward, and he put the date of your move into the church bulletin, and these gentlemen came to help, Brady, the rea... |
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71,39 |
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Opera in Old San Francisco: A Brief Anecdotal History
ISBN: 9781432796747 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gold was the lure Opera in the world's western hemisphere - whether sung in Italian, French, German, or English - began in the Spanish colonies of South and Central America. Years before operas were first staged in San Francisco, opera companies flourished in Lima, Santiago, Valparaiso, and Mexico City. Gold taken from the earth paid for opera houses and performers in the Spanish colonies - just as it would pay for them in San Francisco after the discovery of gold in California in 1848. And after gold was next discovered in Australia in 1851, performers continued there from California and to...
Gold was the lure Opera in the world's western hemisphere - whether sung in Italian, French, German, or English - began in the Spanish colonies of So...
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87,48 |
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The Avenues of Salt Lake City
ISBN: 9781607811817 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Salt Lake City's oldest residential historic district is a neighborhood known as the Avenues. During the late nineteenth century this area was home to many of the most influential citizens of Salt Lake City. Built from 1860 until 1930, it contains a mix of middle and upper middle class homes of varying architectural styles. This architectural diversity makes the Avenues unique among Utah's historic districts. For the past thirty years, as citizens have rediscovered the value of living in historic properties near downtown and the University of Utah, preservation efforts have soared in the... Salt Lake City's oldest residential historic district is a neighborhood known as the Avenues. During the late nineteenth century this area was home... |
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116,30 |
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Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines
ISBN: 9780822353553 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawaii and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific. She does so by interpreting fiction, closely examining colonial and military construction projects, and delving into present-day tourist practices, spaces, and narratives. For instance, in both Hawaii and the Philippines, U.S. military modes of mobility, control, and surveillance enable scenic tourist byways. Past and present U.S. military posts,...
In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawaii and the Philippines, joint...
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455,70 |
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Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines
ISBN: 9780822353706 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawaii and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific. She does so by interpreting fiction, closely examining colonial and military construction projects, and delving into present-day tourist practices, spaces, and narratives. For instance, in both Hawaii and the Philippines, U.S. military modes of mobility, control, and surveillance enable scenic tourist byways. Past and present U.S. military posts,...
In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawaii and the Philippines, joint...
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135,69 |
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Utah's Stolen Treasures: The Ancients Are Crying
ISBN: 9781618979544 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Utah's Stolen Treasures is a book that was inspired by three American Indian shields discovered by author Gene Covington's grandparents in Wayne County, Utah back in 1926. Using the discovery of the shields as a point of departure, Covington provides a multi-layered tale, based primarily upon facts regarding the study of and caring for of the shields after they were discovered. As this fascinating book takes you via photographs through some of the most beautiful country in America, it also delves into the history of the early American pioneers and the American Indians they encountered, along...
Utah's Stolen Treasures is a book that was inspired by three American Indian shields discovered by author Gene Covington's grandparents in Wayne Count...
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240,12 |
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Rugged Mercy: A Country Doctor in Idaho's Sun Valley
ISBN: 9780874223149 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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101,76 |
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Doc Holliday in Film and Literature
ISBN: 9780786473359 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The legend of Doc Holliday, now in its third century, began with his part in the now famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Denver newspapers first told his story in the late 19th century. By 1939 he was a literary icon and his character had appeared in eight films. Historians, authors, screenwriters and television have refined the legend"--
"The legend of Doc Holliday, now in its third century, began with his part in the now famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Denver newspapers first told...
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166,12 |
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When the Korean World in Hawaii Was Young, 1903-1940
ISBN: 9780824838515 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tells the stories of some "1.5" and second-generation Koreans who experienced life in Hawaii or on the US mainland since childhood. Some tales are humorous, some sad. Their stories were captured from nearly a hundred interviews taken by co-author Roberta Chang. Their stories are filled with amazing personal accomplishments, family love, and unique community life.
Tells the stories of some "1.5" and second-generation Koreans who experienced life in Hawaii or on the US mainland since childhood. Some tales are hum...
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96,90 |
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Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869-1929
ISBN: 9780813044811 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Pushes aside the palm fronds celebrated by boosters to explain how the nineteenth-century frontiers of barren southern California and waterlogged southern Florida were reimagined as havens for American leisure and agriculture. This is the story of the birth of modern America."--Anthony J. Stanonis, author of Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945 "A refreshingly original and subtly nuanced study of how nineteenth- and twentieth-century boosters sold Florida and California as 'semi-tropical' lands worthy of serious attention. With...
"Pushes aside the palm fronds celebrated by boosters to explain how the nineteenth-century frontiers of barren southern California and waterlogged sou...
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300,56 |
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Wild Catalina Island:: Natural Secrets and Ecological Triumphs
ISBN: 9781609496630 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A year-round escape for one million annual tourists, Catalina Island is gaining popularity as a world-class eco-destination. Eighty-eight percent of the island is under the watch of the Catalina Island Conservancy, which preserves, manages and restores the island's unique wild lands. Bison, foxes and bald eagles are its best-known inhabitants, but Catalina is home to more than sixty other animal and plant species that exist nowhere else on earth. And they are all within the boundaries of one of the world's most populous regions: Los Angeles County. Biologists Frank Hein and Carlos de la Rosa...
A year-round escape for one million annual tourists, Catalina Island is gaining popularity as a world-class eco-destination. Eighty-eight percent of t...
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83,81 |
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Born in Seattle: The Campaign for Japanese American Redress
ISBN: 9780295998787 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the World War II internment of 120,000 Japanese American citizens and Japanese-born permanent residents is well known by now. Less well known is the history of the small group of Seattle activists who gave birth to the national movement for redress. It was they who first conceived of petitioning the U.S. Congress to demand a public apology and monetary compensation for the individuals and the community whose constitutional rights had been violated. Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro, using hundreds of interviews with people who lived in the internment camps, and with people who... The story of the World War II internment of 120,000 Japanese American citizens and Japanese-born permanent residents is well known by now. Less wel... |
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441,16 |
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Nobody Rich or Famous: A Family Memoir
ISBN: 9780816534005 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once in a while, a book comes along that redefines the concept of family. Frank McCourt did it with Angela's Ashes; Annie Dillard did it with An American Childhood. In Nobody Rich or Famous, author Richard Shelton (b. 1933) immerses us in the hardscrabble lives of his Boise, Idaho, clan during the 1930s and '40s. Using a framework of journals, road trips, and artful storytelling, Shelton traces three generations of women. We meet his mother, Hazel, a model of western respectability, who carefully dresses in her finest clothes before walking into a bar and emptying a...
Once in a while, a book comes along that redefines the concept of family. Frank McCourt did it with Angela's Ashes; Annie Dillard did it with <...
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140,54 |
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Nobody Rich or Famous: A Family Memoir
ISBN: 9780816533992 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once in a while, a book comes along that redefines the concept of family. Frank McCourt did it with Angela's Ashes; Annie Dillard did it with An American Childhood. In Nobody Rich or Famous, author Richard Shelton (b. 1933) immerses us in the hardscrabble lives of his Boise, Idaho, clan during the 1930s and '40s. Using a framework of journals, road trips, and artful storytelling, Shelton traces three generations of women. We meet his mother, Hazel, a model of western respectability, who carefully dresses in her finest clothes before walking into a bar and emptying a...
Once in a while, a book comes along that redefines the concept of family. Frank McCourt did it with Angela's Ashes; Annie Dillard did it with <...
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82,36 |
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The Great Salt Lake Trail
ISBN: 9780788426438 / Angielski / Miękka / 558 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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181,43 |
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Case of Rose Bird: Gender, Politics, and the California Courts
ISBN: 9780803255753 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rose Elizabeth Bird was forty years old when in 1977 Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown chose her to become California's first female supreme court chief justice. Appointed to a court with a stellar reputation for being the nation's most progressive, Bird became a lightning rod for the opposition due to her liberalism, inexperience, and gender. Over the next decade, her name became a rallying cry as critics mounted a relentless effort to get her off the court. Bird survived three unsuccessful recall efforts, but her opponents eventually succeeded in bringing about her defeat in 1986, making her...
Rose Elizabeth Bird was forty years old when in 1977 Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown chose her to become California's first female supreme court chie...
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140,84 |
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