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Surfing in San Diego (Paperback)
John C. Elwell, Jane Schmauss, California Surf Museum
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R658
R542
Discovery Miles 5 420
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San Diego County has nearly 75 miles of picturesque coastline on
the mighty Pacific Ocean, and for decades, San Diego has boasted of
producing some of the worldA[a¬a[s finest surfers. But here surfing
is more
than a sportA[a¬ait is a Southern California lifestyleA[a¬aand as
such has heavily influenced the beach towns throughout the county.
Much research points to surfing having come to Southern California
in 1907,
and it may have taken hold in San Diego as early as 1910. Join with
us in this wonderful pictorial journey through San DiegoA[a¬a[s
little-known surfing past.
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Marysville's Chinatown (Paperback)
Brian Tom, Lawrence Tom, Chinese American Museum of Northern California
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R657
R541
Discovery Miles 5 410
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Marysvilleas Chinatown was once one of the most important
Chinatowns in America. The early Chinese settlers called Marysville
Sanfow, or athe third city, a meaning the third city by river to
the goldfields. Two of the first four Chinese American judges in
California were from Marysville as was the first Chinese American
elected to the San Francisco Board of Education. The Marysville
Chinatown was among the first Chinatowns built in Californiaas Gold
Country and is the only one to survive to this day. Because of
this, it is possible to view the full panorama of Chinese-American
history through the viewpoint of this one Chinatown.
For centuries handcrafted tile has been a predominant decorative
surface in tropical climes from Middle East through the Gulf of
Mexico to California. California tile makers excelled in their
craft during the first half of the twentieth century, producing
richly patterned designs for building facades, interiors, garden
ornamentation, furniture, and even serving pieces. "Old California"
art tile is rich in tradition and innovation. Over 1700 color
images in two volumes, comprise this comprehensive collection, with
essays on early California tile companies. Arranged alphabetically
by company, this volume includes hundreds of tiles from:
Hispano-Moresque, Kraftile, Helen Greenleaf Lane, L.A. Pressed
Brick, Malibu, Markoff, Muresque, Pacific, Pomona, Poxon, Rhead, S
& S, Taylor, Tropico, Tudor, Walrich, West Coast, Woolenius,
and tile furnishings and crafts from Cellini-Craft, Hillside
Pottery, and Monterey Furniture. A companion volume covers
potteries from Acme to Handcraft. Both volumes are enriched by
rarely seen archival photographs including historical site
installations and have useful guides to tile terminology and
techniques. This landmark publication, designed to broaden
appreciation of this colorful and varied aspect of American
decorative arts, will serve to inspire and guide architects,
designers, collectors, and historians alike
An account of the golden trade of the Moors, and a source book on
Saharan trade routes, caravan organization and Sudanese history.
The author covers anthropology and economic geography as well as
history, as he examines and explores the hot little towns, sharp
traders and the brutal rulers. He seeks to encourage and inspire a
generation of scholars to discover more about parts of Africa still
surprisingly little known to the outside world.
Children's success in literacy is largely dependent on the active
and systematic communications between parents and teachers. In this
study the essence of literacy is observed in the Portillo Community
when working class Mexican-American parents empowered each other by
sharing their experiences to help their children in school.
Utilizing their ability to read and interpret their reality the
families collectively organized to transform their children's
educational opportunities.
More than 350 beautiful color photographs and a descriptive text
depict 18th to mid-20th century Mexican devotional art including
danced masks, devils and angels, santos, milagritos, retablos, and
ex-votos. These religious items were used in ceremonies both at
home and church, and include wood carvings, as well as clay, stone,
metal, and paper items. Seven essays include a major new work by
historian and scholar Gloria Fraser Giffords, who, along with Tom
Pirazzini, edited the essays. Other essays are by Philip Wrench,
Roberto G. Cruz Floriano, Janet Brady Esser, Martha J. Egan, and
Joanna Stuhr cover ing the history, symbolism, and uses of Mexican
devotional art, as well as the methods of manufacture. For
historians, folk art connoiseurs, and those who have an interest in
Mexican culture, this is an essential and welcome new volume.
This book is the product of the efforts of a number of people
dating back to 1956, when Professor T. Kemp, then head of the
University Institute for Human Genetics in Copenhagen, proposed a
study on the importance of x-ray irradiation in pregnant women.
Under the guidance of Professors Dyhre Trolle and Preben Plum of
the Uni versity Hospital in Copenhagen, the investigation was
expanded to deal with prenatal and perinatal factors of importance
for the development of the infant. The corpus of medical data that
resulted from these efforts was collected and organized by Drs.
Bengt Zachau-Christiansen and Aage Villumsen. The project's birth
cohort included all deliveries that took place at the State
University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, over a two-year
period from 1959 to 1961. As part of the perinatal study, the
mothers and children were subjected to regular and thorough medical
examinations during pregnancy and through the first year of the
child's life. The detailed data from these examinations, as well as
information about treatment administered, were systematically
collected and coded.
In June 1941, the jaws of the German war machine clamped onto the
Soviet Union, with German soldiers - the Third Reich's teeth -
slicing through the Red Army, encircling and killing and capturing.
Before the end of the year, the Red Army halted the German
blitzkrieg and saved the Soviet Union. It was a defining moment of
World War II and a defining moment of military history - a defining
moment of what it meant to go to war in the twentieth century, with
an army designed to devastate, to kill, to enslave butting heads
with an army decapitated by Stalin's purges. For the next six
months, German armies fought toward Moscow but ultimately failed to
seize that objective, from the Black Sea in the south to Leningrad
in the north. More than just a pivotal moment of World War II, more
than just the beginning of the Eastern Front, the campaign toward
Moscow - Germans versus Soviets in a no-holds-barred battle for the
soul of Europe - speaks to what it meant to be a soldier in World
War II. (Far more soldiers, German and Russian, fought and died on
the Eastern Front than the entire U.S. war effort.) In a book
drawing from hundreds of soldiers' accounts, and thousands of
letter and diaries, Stahel and Luther tell the story of Operation
Barbarossa but also the story of men at war in the twentieth
century.
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American Indian languages and American linguistics - Papers of the 2nd Golden anniversary symposium of the Linguistic society of America held at the University of California, Berkeley, on November 8 and 9, 1974 (Hardcover, Reprint 2019)
Wallace L. Chafe, Linguistic Society of America. Washington, University Of California (Berkeley), Golden Anniversary Symposium of the Linguistic Society of America, 2 <1974, Berkeley, Calif.>
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R4,250
Discovery Miles 42 500
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A dramatic and thought-provoking novel of one family's triumph in the face of the hardships and challenges of the post-Civil War South.
The Wake of the Wind, J. California Cooper's third novel, is her most penetrating look yet at the challenges that generations of African Americans have had to overcome in order to carve out a home for themselves and their families. Set in Texas in the waning years of the Civil War, the novel tells the dramatic story of a remarkable heroine, Lifee, and her husband, Mor. When Emancipation finally comes to Texas, Mor, Lifee, and the extended family they create from other slaves who are also looking for a home and a future, set out in search of a piece of land they can call their own. In the face of constant threats, they manage not only to survive but to succeed--their crops grow, their children thrive, they educate themselves and others. Lifee and Mor pass their intelligence, determination, and talents along to their children, the next generation to surge forward. At once tragic and triumphant, this is an epic story that captures with extraordinary authenticity the most important struggle of the last hundred years.
The Notary Public Handbook is your official source of laws related
to notaries public in California. A notary public is a public
official who performs invaluable services for the legal, business,
financial, and real estate communities. Although there are no
significant statutory changes for 2019, new additions this year
include a fee table on page 19 and an Index at the back of the
handbook to better assist you in finding information on a specific
topic of interest. This Notary Public Handbook is designed to
supplement your course of study, which will prepare you for the
notary public examination. All statutory references are to
California Codes, unless otherwise indicated. Once you are
commissioned, the Secretary of State strongly recommends that you
keep your Notary Public Handbook as a ready reference to help you
perform your duties.
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