The Outside Lands

Author : Hannah Kohler
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250086868
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outside Lands written by Hannah Kohler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco, 1968: Jeannie and Kip are bereaved and adrift, their mother dead under mysterious circumstances, and their father--a decorated World War II veteran--consumed by guilt and losing control of his teenage children. Kip, a dreamer and swaggerer prone to small-time trouble, enlists with the Marines to fight in Vietnam. Jeannie finds a seemingly safe haven in early marriage to a doctor and motherhood. But when Kip is accused of a terrible military crime, Jeannie is seduced--sexually, emotionally, politically--into joining an underground antiwar organization. As Jennie attempts to save her brother, her search for the truth leads her into two dangerous relationships, with a troubled young woman and a grievously wounded veteran, that might threaten her marriage, her child, and perhaps her life. This is the story of a family caught in the maelstrom of sweeping change, where social customs and traditional values are overturned by events that will transform America. An emotionally wrenching and morally complex novel, The Outside Lands is Hannah Kohler's powerful, confident debut and announces her as a remarkable new literary talent.

Author : San Francisco (Calif.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1482 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Francisco Municipal Reports written by San Francisco (Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Mallery
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496230264
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Vice written by James Mallery and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Mallery explores the implications of such social constructs as gender, race, and class for the development of San Francisco from the gold rush through World War I.

Author : Wendy MacNaughton
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452130205
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meanwhile in San Francisco written by Wendy MacNaughton and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a stroll through the City by the Bay with renowned artist Wendy MacNaughton in this collection of illustrated documentaries. With her beloved city as a backdrop, a sketchbook in hand, and a natural sense of curiosity, MacNaughton spent months getting to know people in their own neighborhoods, drawing them and recording their words. Her street-smart graphic journalism is as diverse and beautiful as San Francisco itself, ranging from the vendors at the farmers' market to people combing the shelves at the public library, from MUNI drivers to the bison of Golden Gate Park, and much more. Meanwhile in San Francisco offers both lifelong residents and those just blowing through with the fog an opportunity to see the city with new eyes.

Author : David Brunicardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781600478727
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outside Lands written by David Brunicardi and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seven short stories in David Brunicardi's debut collection transport readers to places both natural and supernatural. Set predominately in the San Francisco Bay Area, each resonant tale follows characters whose lives are dominated by events that are beyond their control. A young woman on a camping trip whose world is unraveling before her eyes, a man struggling to protect his wife from a rapidly deteriorating community, an outcast returning to the abandoned town that he wishes he could forget - these characters and more are brought to life in the Outside Lands.

Author : Terence Young
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801874321
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930 written by Terence Young and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bulletin asked its readers if it were not time for the city to finally establish a public park, residents had only private gardens and small urban squares where they could retreat from urban crowding, noise, and filth. Five short years later, city supervisors approved the creation of Golden Gate Park, the second largest urban park in America. Over the next sixty years, and particularly after 1900, a network of smaller parks and parkways was built, turning San Francisco into one of the nation's greenest cities. In Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930, Terence Young traces the history of San Francisco's park system, from the earliest city plans, which made no provision for a public park, through the private garden movement of the 1850s and 1860, Frederick Law Olmsted's early involvement in developing a comprehensive parks plan, the design and construction of Golden Gate Park, and finally to the expansion of green space in the first third of the twentieth century. Young documents this history in terms of the four social ideals that guided America's urban park advocates and planners in this period: public health, prosperity, social coherence, and democratic equality. He also differentiates between two periods in the history of American park building, each defined by a distinctive attitude towards "improving" nature: the romantic approach, which prevailed from the 1860s to the 1880s, emphasized the beauty of nature, while the rationalistic approach, dominant from the 1880s to the 1920s, saw nature as the best setting for uplifting activities such as athletics and education. Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.

Author : Woody LaBounty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982346105
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carville-by-the-Sea written by Woody LaBounty and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1890s, a bohemian settlement erupted at San Francisco's Ocean Beach as writers, judges, and lady bicyclists arranged, combined, and stacked old transit cars to create one of the quirkiest communities in the city's history. The lush design recalls an antique scrapbook with hundreds of rare images.

Author : Jill Williamson
Publisher : Blink
ISBN 13 : 0310724236
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captives written by Jill Williamson and published by Blink. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One choice could destroy them all. When eighteen-year-old Levi returned from Denver City with his latest scavenged finds, he never imagined he’d find his village of Glenrock decimated, loved ones killed, and many—including his fiancée, Jem—taken captive. Now alone, Levi is determined to rescue what remains of his people, even if it means entering the Safe Lands, a walled city that seems anything but safe. Omar knows he betrayed his brother by sending him away, but helping the enforcers was necessary. Living off the land and clinging to an outdated religion holds his village back. The Safe Lands has protected people since the plague decimated the world generations ago ... and its rulers have promised power and wealth beyond Omar’s dreams. Meanwhile, their brother Mason has been granted a position inside the Safe Lands, and may be able to use his captivity to save not only the people of his village, but also possibly find a cure for the virus that threatens everyone within the Safe Lands’ walls. Will Mason uncover the truth hidden behind the Safe Lands’ façade before it’s too late?

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on irrigation and reclamation.0:
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colorado River Basin. Hearings ... on S. 727 ... Dec. 17-31, 1924 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on irrigation and reclamation.0: and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colorado River Basin written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: