The Californians

Author : Alison Rose Jefferson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496229061
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living the California Dream written by Alison Rose Jefferson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.

Author : Matt Ritter
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597141475
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Californian's Guide to the Trees Among Us written by Matt Ritter and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We bring the strength and beauty of the natural world into our urban landscapes by planting trees, and California is blessed with a rich horticultural history, visible in an abundance of cultivated trees that enrich our lives with extraordinary color, bizarre shapes, unusual textures, and unexpected aromas. A Californian's Guide to the Trees among Us features over 150 of California's most commonly grown trees. Whether native or cultivated, these are the trees that muffle noise, create wildlife habitats, mitigate pollution, conserve energy, and make urban living healthier and more peaceful. Used as a field guide or read with pleasure for the liveliness of the prose, this book will allow readers to learn the stories behind the trees that shade our parks, grace our yards, and line our streets. Rich in photographs and illustrations, overflowing with anecdote and information, A Californian's Guide to the Trees among Us opens our eyes to a world of beauty just outside our front doors.

Author : George R. Boggs
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807779873
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A College for All Californians written by George R. Boggs and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive and contemporary history of the largest and most diverse public system of higher education in the United States. Serving over 2 million students annually—approximately one-quarter of the nation's community college undergraduates—California’s 116 community colleges play an indispensable role in career and transfer education in North America and have maintained an outsized influence on the evolution of postsecondary education nationally. A College for All Californians chronicles the sector's emergence from K–12 institutions, its evolving mission and growth following World War II and the G.I. Bill For Education, the expansion of its ever-broadening mission, and its essential role in the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education. Chapters cover California’s junior and community colleges’ development, mission, governance, faculty, finances, athletics, student support services, and more. It also examines the successes and ongoing political, financial, and educational challenges confronting this uniquely American educational experiment. Book Features: Encapsulates the evolution and contemporary status of our nation’s largest and most diverse undergraduate education system.Examines how the colleges were influenced by the political, economic, and social issues of the day.Includes new historical information affecting postsecondary education in California.Analyzes some of the most important current and emerging issues that will continue to influence California’s community colleges. Contributors: Carlos O. Turner Cortez, Michelle Fischthal, Jonathan Lightman, Jessica Luedtke, David W. Morse, Joe Newmyer, Mark Robinson, Leslie M. Salas.

Author : David Starr Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California and the Californians written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert F. Heizer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520034150
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Californians written by Robert F. Heizer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1977-09-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major contribution to California historiography...will allow other scholars to analyze more fully the origins of racism and the range of ethnic experiences in California."--"Pacific Historical Review" "A rare and realistic examination of American racism at work. It should be placed in the hands of every American who questions the reality of American racism."--"Race and Schools"

Author : Lori Wick
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780736919456
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whatever Tomorrow Brings written by Lori Wick and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their mother dies, Kaitlin Donovan must rely on her faith to hold the family together until their father returns to San Francisco, and they can begin a new life

Author : Joe Mathews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268520
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Crackup written by Joe Mathews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "California Crackup is brilliant. It cuts through the familiar tangle of diagnoses and quick-fix solutions to provide a comprehensive and persuasive analysis of California's dysfunctional governmental system. Paul and Mathews have coolly laid out a complicated story, made it readable, sometimes even comedic. It is the best discussion of the issue I've seen in over three decades."--Peter Schrag, author of California: America's High-Stakes Experiment "I know of no other work that combines so succinctly and enjoyably a historical summary of California's existing problems with such a sweeping and provocative program of reform."--Ethan Rarick, University of California, Berkeley "Mark Paul and Joe Mathews have produced an indispensable guide to California's crisis of governance--and they have done so with humor, scholarship, fairness and storytelling verve. Every Californian should read this book."--Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars "Mark Paul... has a talent for presenting California Big Think stuff in an easily accessible and always readable way...[offering] clear and creative insights on the subject of California's collapse."--CalBuzz "Joe Mathews has done an artful, fascinating, and convincing job of connecting the California of today's Schwarzenegger era to the long history that made his rise possible.--James Fallows,The Atlantic Monthly on Mathews' book, The People's Machine

Author : Lori Wick
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780736919470
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sean Donovan written by Lori Wick and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentenced to hang for his part in a bank robbery, Sean Donovan is saved from execution when Charlotte Cooper, owner of the livery, agrees to marry him

Author : Lori Wick
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780736919463
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Time Goes By written by Lori Wick and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five years Jeff Taylor has wanted to apologize to Bobbie Bradford, but she left town the day after the humiliating episode at the picnic. Older now, Jeff has grown in his faith and as a man. Still, the news that Bobbie is returning to Santa Rosa while considering Cleve Ramsey's proposal of marriage comes as a shock.

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923566
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Endangered Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place where the hopes and fears of the American dream have been played out in a bigger and bolder way. And no one has done more to capture this epic story than Kevin Starr, in his acclaimed series of gripping social and cultural histories. Now Starr carries his account into the 1930s, when the political extremes that threatened so much of the Depression-ravaged world--fascism and communism--loomed large across the California landscape. In Endangered Dreams, Starr paints a portrait that is both detailed and panoramic, offering a vivid look at the personalities and events that shaped a decade of explosive tension. He begins with the rise of radicalism on the Pacific Coast, which erupted when the Great Depression swept over California in the 1930s. Starr captures the triumphs and tumult of the great agricultural strikes in the Imperial Valley, the San Joaquin Valley, Stockton, and Salinas, identifying the crucial role played by Communist organizers; he also shows how, after some successes, the Communists disbanded their unions on direct orders of the Comintern in 1935. The highpoint of social conflict, however, was 1934, the year of the coastwide maritime strike, and here Starr's narrative talents are at their best, as he brings to life the astonishing general strike that took control of San Francisco, where workers led by charismatic longshoreman Harry Bridges mounted the barricades to stand off National Guardsmen. That same year socialist Upton Sinclair won the Democratic nomination for governor, and he launched his dramatic End Poverty in California (EPIC) campaign. In the end, however, these challenges galvanized the Right in a corporate, legal, and vigilante counterattack that crushed both organized labor and Sinclair. And yet, the Depression also brought out the finest in Californians: state Democrats fought for a local New Deal; California natives helped care for more than a million impoverished migrants through public and private programs; artists movingly documented the impact of the Depression; and an unprecedented program of public works (capped by the Golden Gate Bridge) made the California we know today possible. In capturing the powerful forces that swept the state during the 1930s--radicalism, repression, construction, and artistic expression--Starr weaves an insightful analysis into his narrative fabric. Out of a shattered decade of economic and social dislocation, he constructs a coherent whole and a mirror for understanding our own time.