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Bohemian Los Angeles: And the Making of Modern Politics
ISBN: 9780520256231 / Angielski / Miękka / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bohemian Los Angeles brings to life a vibrant and all-but forgotten milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women whose story played out over the first half of the twentieth century and continues to shape the entire American landscape. It is the story of a hidden corner of Los Angeles, where the personal first became the political, where the nation's first enduring gay rights movement emerged, and where the broad spectrum of what we now think of as identity politics was born. Portraying life over a period of more than forty years in the hilly enclave of Edendale, near downtown Los...
Bohemian Los Angeles brings to life a vibrant and all-but forgotten milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women whose story played out o...
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136,70 zł |
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Early Escondido: The Louis A. Havens Collection
ISBN: 9780738555959 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Louis A. Havens was a Southern California pioneer businessman, storyteller, and artist who brought the community of Escondido together via his camera. He was the first successful photographer in the thriving north San Diego County agricultural city, incorporated in 1888. Prior to his arrival, the occasional photographer might seasonally visit Escondido or attempt to set up shop, realizing little success. Havens s timing in his arrival, combined with his skillful eye, ensured his success from 1911 to 1944. His collection documents Escondido s early residents, architecture, events, and...
Louis A. Havens was a Southern California pioneer businessman, storyteller, and artist who brought the community of Escondido together via his camera....
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95,59 zł |
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Las Vegas Babylon: The True Tales of Glitter, Glamour, and Greed, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9781590771365 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens in Vegas doesn't necessarily stay in Vegas and the proof is in this lively and entertaining compilation of stories chronicling decades of decadence, celebrity shenanigans, and political corruption, as well as the glitz and glamour of the casinos that pass for everyday life in Las Vegas. Underneath the city's present success lies many infamous tales of excess and debauchery. Using new information from recently released FBI documents, Jeff Burbank brings to life the Vegas mob in its heyday, recounting never-before-heard tales of the mobsters who made Vegas what it is today. But...
What happens in Vegas doesn't necessarily stay in Vegas and the proof is in this lively and entertaining compilation of stories chronicling decades of...
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70,65 zł |
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Idaho: A Bicentennial History
ISBN: 9780393333206 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Idaho is a state that, historically, has had a hard time being one. Once the scene of Indian wars and labor conflicts, Idaho now seems likely to be a major battleground between those who want to develop its resources and those who want to preserve the landscape unspoiled. The national importance of Idaho in that conflict is central to Ross Peterson's story, making this book of interest to all Americans.
Idaho is a state that, historically, has had a hard time being one. Once the scene of Indian wars and labor conflicts, Idaho now seems likely to be a ...
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95,41 zł |
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The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space
ISBN: 9780292717558 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner, Gold Award in Californiana, California Book Awards, Commonwealth Club of California, 2008 City plazas worldwide are centers of cultural expression and artistic display. They are settings for everyday urban life where daily interactions, economic exchanges, and informal conversations occur, thereby creating a socially meaningful place at the core of a city. At the heart of historic Los Angeles, the Plaza represents a quintessential public space where real and imagined narratives... Winner, Gold Award in Californiana, California Book Awards, Commonwealth Club of California, 2008 |
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149,79 zł |
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Ghost Towns of Montana: A Classic Tour Through the Treasure State's Historical Sites
ISBN: 9780762745173 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wind whistles through an abandoned mine shaft. A loose door knocks in the breeze. Cattle feed past the tilted skeleton of a barn. Underneath, if you listen hard enough, you can hear the faint sounds of a tin pan piano, the crack of a miner's hammer against stone, the distant giggle of dance hall girls. Peppered throughout Montana, the remains of a bygone age stand weathering in slowly fading bits and pieces. Read about Castle Town, once home to more than 1,500 miners and families, now a sparse scattering of cabins and frame shacks. Explore Garnet, named after a semiprecious stone, abandoned...
Wind whistles through an abandoned mine shaft. A loose door knocks in the breeze. Cattle feed past the tilted skeleton of a barn. Underneath, if you l...
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70,65 zł |
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The Enders Hotel: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780803217690 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the center of the rural boomtown of Soda Springs, Idaho, stands the historic Enders Hotel, Cafe, and Bar, a three-story brick building that has been many things to many people. But to one family who bought it as an attempt to renew themselves it was home, a place they desperately tried to hold on to and yet, after seventeen years of living there, the very place from which they wanted to escape.Growing up under its leaking roof, Brandon R. Schrand watched a cast of broken characters pass through the hotel doors an alcoholic artist, a forgotten boxing champ, an ex-con, a homeless family and...
In the center of the rural boomtown of Soda Springs, Idaho, stands the historic Enders Hotel, Cafe, and Bar, a three-story brick building that has bee...
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82,62 zł |
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Turmoil in New Mexico, 1846-1868: Facsimile of 1952 Edition
ISBN: 9780865346215 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vital history of New Mexico and Arizona during the formative years between the American Occupation and the coming of the railroad has been compressed by the author into one volume with hundreds of footnotes and many profiles.
The vital history of New Mexico and Arizona during the formative years between the American Occupation and the coming of the railroad has been compres...
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173,88 zł |
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Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Durango, Colorado
ISBN: 9780870812576 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,80 zł |
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Jewish "junior League": The Rise and Demise of the Fort Worth Council of Jewish Women
ISBN: 9781603440127 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its founding in 1901 through the second half of the twentieth century, the Fort Worth section of the National Council of Jewish Women fostered the integration of its members into the social and cultural fabric of the greater community. Along the way, it championed important social causes, including an Americanization school for immigrants and literacy initiatives. But by 1999, facing declining membership and--according to some--decreased relevance to the lives of Jewish women, the Council's national and local leaders found themselves confronting the end of the group's existence.
... From its founding in 1901 through the second half of the twentieth century, the Fort Worth section of the National Council of Jewish Women fostered th...
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135,70 zł |
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Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchosvolume 7
ISBN: 9781603440516 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A silent story is told by the stone chimneys of South Texas that were used to prepare the Tejano ranch meals of an earlier century and by the rifle port holes still seen in crumbling walls that once protected families. It is a story of a life and culture rarely portrayed in standard historical accounts, but to some degree kept alive in literary works and ballads and revealed mutely in the material culture nineteenth-century ranchers left behind. Andres Tijerina has mined both traditional and nontraditional sources to portray the daily lives of the Texans of Mexican descent who peopled the...
A silent story is told by the stone chimneys of South Texas that were used to prepare the Tejano ranch meals of an earlier century and by the rifle po...
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86,72 zł |
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Montana: A Bicentennial History
ISBN: 9780393333831 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Montana has a rich story, in which different people have sought both great fortune and modest prosperity. How well they succeeded is part of the story told in this engaging history.
Montana has a rich story, in which different people have sought both great fortune and modest prosperity. How well they succeeded is part of the story...
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95,41 zł |
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Red Lodge
ISBN: 9780738556260 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From enchanting downtown architecture to the spectacular Beartooth Highway, Red Lodge wears its vibrant history with pride. A coal-mining boom founded the city and attracted immigrant populations between 1895 and 1920. John Liver-Eatin Johnston
served as constable, and Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, and Frederic Remington paid visits. Though the coal boom eventually faded, Red Lodge refused to become a ghost town. Cattle ranching thrived in the valleys and foothills, fostering such Rodeo Hall of Fame stars as Turk, Alice, and Marge Greenough and Bill and Bud Linderman. Meanwhile the... From enchanting downtown architecture to the spectacular Beartooth Highway, Red Lodge wears its vibrant history with pride. A coal-mining boom founded...
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108,63 zł |
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Curiosities of the California Desert: Historic, Offbeat & Forgotten Attractions
ISBN: 9781540202635 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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147,76 zł |
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San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement
ISBN: 9781592134465 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The struggle to save the International Hotel and prevent the eviction of its elderly residents became a focal point in the creation of the contemporary Asian American movement, especially among Filipinos. The author, a student activist during the anti-eviction protests, relates this history.
The struggle to save the International Hotel and prevent the eviction of its elderly residents became a focal point in the creation of the contemporar...
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123,95 zł |
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Glacier National Park: The First 100 Years
ISBN: 9781560373360 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Place, 2009 Benjamin Franklin Awards, history category.
First Place, 2009 APPL Media and Partnership Award, non-association book category. Finalist, 2009 ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards, regional category. This book is also available as a non-returnable limited edition. See ISBN 9781560377494.
First Place, 2009 Benjamin Franklin Awards, history category.
First Place, 2009 APPL Media and Partnership Award, non-association book category. <... |
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173,66 zł |
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Rocky Mountain National Park
ISBN: 9780738556277 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rocky Mountain National Park is often called the crown jewel of the nation s park system. Set in Colorado in the southern part of the Rocky Mountain chain, which forms the backbone of North America, the park contains 72 named peaks above 12,000 feet with the tallest of these, Longs Peak, rising to 14,259 feet. Established in 1915 as a national park, it now hosts more than two million visitors every year. Vacationers enjoy picnicking, hiking, camping, climbing, skiing, and simply admiring the beauties of the park, which include alpine plants, wildflowers, aspen, conifers, lakes, streams,...
Rocky Mountain National Park is often called the crown jewel of the nation s park system. Set in Colorado in the southern part of the Rocky Mountain c...
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108,63 zł |
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Historic Photos of Los Angeles
ISBN: 9781596523746 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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182,35 zł |
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The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California
ISBN: 9781605970264 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Col. J.C. Fremont was a military officer, explorer and the first republican candidate to run for US President. From 1838 to 1841 he worked on many expeditions exploring and mapping the western portions of the United States. In 1842 Kit Carson and 25 men went with Freemont to explore the South Pass. "The country thus explored is daily making deeper and more abiding impressions upon the minds of the people, and information is eagerly sought in regard to its natural resources, its climate, inhabitants, productions, and adaptation for supplying the wants and providing the comforts for a dense...
Col. J.C. Fremont was a military officer, explorer and the first republican candidate to run for US President. From 1838 to 1841 he worked on many exp...
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145,81 zł |
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Wyoming Ghost Stories
ISBN: 9781931832946 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,98 zł |
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