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  • Earning Power

    Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930

    by Eileen Wallis ...
    Series series The Urban West Series
    The half-century between 1880 and 1930 saw rampant growth in many American cities and an equally rapid movement of women into the work force. In Los Angeles, the city not only grew from a dusty cow town to a major American metropolis but also offered its residents myriad new opportunities and challenges.Earning Power examines the role that women played in this growth as they attempted to make ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Bottom of the Harbor

    by Joseph Mitchell ...
    On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells, every person he introduces, every scene he describes is illuminated by his passion for the eccentrics ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Land of Little Rain

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Beauty of Southwest Wilderness

    by Mary Austin, Sabrina Hendricks ...
    Mary Austin's "The Land of Little Rain" is a lyrical exploration of the natural beauty and stark realities of the high desert of California. Through a series of evocative essays, Austin masterfully intertwines the landscape's physicality with its cultural and spiritual significance to native peoples and settlers alike. Her keen observations render the region's flora and fauna not merely as ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City of Quartz

    Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker).No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • My Life as an Indian

    The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet

    by J. W. Schultz ...
    A fascinating memoir of a white man who gained access to the private lives of the Blackfeet Indians.First published in 1907, My Life as an Indian is the memoir of J. W. Schultz’s life as a young white man among the Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana Territory. Inspired by the journals of Lewis and Clark and George Catlin’s depictions of Indian life in his paintings, Schultz journeyed to the American ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Money and the Power

    by Sally Denton, Roger Morris ...
    Las Vegas—the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. The Money and the Power is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence. Based on five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris reveal the city’s historic ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ghosts of 42nd Street

    A History of America's Most Infamous Block

    by Anthony Bianco ...
    Imagine shuffling down Broadway through the hustle and bustle right into the nonstop, neon heart of New York City: 42nd Street.Once a quiet neighborhood of brownstones and churches, the area wastransformed in the early 1900s into an entertainment hub unlike any in theworld. No place has ever evoked the glamour and romantic possibility of bigcity nightlife as vividly as did 42nd Street. It was the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let It Burn

    MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City

    by Michael Boyette, Randi Boyette ...
    On a narrow street in a working-class neighborhood, the police are held at bay by a small band of armed radicals. Two assaults have already failed. After a morning-long battle involving machine guns, explosives, and tear gas, the radicals remain defiant. In a command post across the street from the boarded-up row house that serves as the militants’ headquarters, the beleaguered police commissioner ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Charcoal and Blood

    Italian Immigrants in Eureka, Nevada, and the Fish Creek Massacre

    by Silvio Manno ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Charcoal and Blood is a detailed account of a heinous crime perpetrated on Italian immigrants engaged in the production of charcoal on Nevada’s mining frontier at the close of the nineteenth century. On August 18, 1879, in a canyon near Fish Creek, outside Eureka, Nevada, five Italian charcoal burners were slain and six more were wounded, while fourteen were taken prisoner by a sheriff’s posse ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Bombs in the Backyard

    Atomic Testing and American Politics

    by A. Constandina Titus ...
    Series series Nevada Studies in History and Pol Sci
    On January 27, 1951, the first atomic weapon was detonated over a section of desert known as Frenchman Flat in southern Nevada, providing dramatic evidence of the Nevada Test Site's beginnings. Fifty years later, author A. Costandina Titus reviews contemporary nuclear policy issues concerning the continued viability of that site for weapons testing. Titus has updated her now-classic study of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848

    Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848

    by Will Bagley ...
    Series series Overland West Series
    The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and astonishing change. In this ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • San Francisco, California

    by Patricia Kennedy ...
    Series series Images of America
    On January 30, 1847, the small harbor village of Yerba Buena was rechristened "San Francisco." As the Gold Rush quickly propelled the population to over 50,000, fortunes made in the silver Comstock lode and the railroad transformed the area into the financial and cultural center of the West. Captured here in over 200 vintage images are the life and times of the city's earliest residents and their ... Read more

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