Golden Gates

Golden Gates
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9780525560227
ISBN-13 : 052556022X
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Golden Gates by : Conor Dougherty

A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism • Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy • Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival • A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Tells the story of housing in all its complexity.” —NPR Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist movements that have risen in tandem with housing costs.

Beyond the Gate

Beyond the Gate
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Publisher : Tor Books
Total Pages : 439
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ISBN-10 : 0812550315
ISBN-13 : 9780812550313
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond the Gate by : Dave Wolverton

Relates the adventures of Gallen, Maggie, and Orick, the bear, dwellers on a distant planet where humans have perfected genetic engineering and must fend off an attack by the alien dronons

Building the Golden Gate Bridge

Building the Golden Gate Bridge
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9780295806204
ISBN-13 : 0295806206
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Building the Golden Gate Bridge by : Harvey Schwartz

Silver Award Winner, 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Young Adult (YA) Non-Fiction Moving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature the voices of the workers themselves. This is the story of survivors who vividly recall the hardships, hazards, and victories of constructing the landmark span during the Great Depression. Labor historian Harvey Schwartz has compiled oral histories of nine workers who helped build the celebrated bridge. Their powerful recollections chronicle the technical details of construction, the grueling physical conditions they endured, the small pleasures they enjoyed, and the gruesome accidents some workers suffered. The result is an evocation of working-class life and culture in a bygone era. Most of the bridge builders were men of European descent, many of them the sons of immigrants. Schwartz also interviewed women: two nurses who cared for the injured and tolerated their antics, the wife of one 1930s builder, and an African American ironworker who toiled on the bridge in later years. These powerful stories are accompanied by stunning photographs of the bridge under construction. An homage to both the American worker and the quintessential San Francisco landmark, Building the Golden Gate Bridge expands our understanding of Depression-era labor and California history and makes a unique contribution to the literature of this iconic span.

San Francisco's Golden Gate Park

San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
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Publisher : Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Total Pages : 130
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ISBN-10 : 9781558685451
ISBN-13 : 1558685456
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis San Francisco's Golden Gate Park by : Chris Pollock

This gorgeous book captures the wonders of this park by the bay. Filled with color photos and historical documents documenting the park's illustrious and colorful past.

Latinos at the Golden Gate

Latinos at the Golden Gate
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781469607665
ISBN-13 : 1469607662
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Latinos at the Golden Gate by : Tomás F. Summers Sandoval (Jr.)

Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco

Beyond the Golden Gate

Beyond the Golden Gate
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 110
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ISBN-10 : 0607950307
ISBN-13 : 9780607950304
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond the Golden Gate by : Herman A. Karl

The Golden Gate Smuggling Company

The Golden Gate Smuggling Company
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 173
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781462055678
ISBN-13 : 1462055672
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Golden Gate Smuggling Company by : Brett Douglas

In 1979, Brett Douglas was a twenty-eight-year-old US Marine Corps veteran working as a commercial tuna fisherman in California. That year, a young man named Bruce Perlowin came looking for professional seamen and found a few, including the author. The fishermen he recruited became a crew that played an integral part in smuggling more than 250 tons of marijuana that FBI agents credited to the Perlowin Conspiracy. The Golden Gate Smuggling Company provides a true, behind-the-scenes story of The Company, the largest marijuana smuggling operation in the history of San Francisco. In the early 1980s, commercial tuna fishermen used long-range tuna boats specially outfitted for the eight-thousand-mile round-trip between San Francisco and Colombia. Each boat carried at least 30 million dollars worth of marijuana to the Companys private pier in the San Francisco Bay area. Douglas, a fisherman who lived through it all, narrates this adventure from load number one to the federal courthouse in San Jose four years later. Through the story of the Company, Douglas chronicles a laid-back, Californiastyle drug-smuggling empire that operated free of Hollywood clichs: no guns, no violence, no dramatic shoot-outs or car chases.

This Bridge Will Not Be Gray

This Bridge Will Not Be Gray
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Publisher : Chronicle Books
Total Pages : 113
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ISBN-10 : 9781452165868
ISBN-13 : 1452165866
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis This Bridge Will Not Be Gray by : Dave Eggers

A “witty [and] compelling” true story for kids about San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge—and why it’s orange—by the New York Times–bestselling author! (Fast Company). In this delightfully original nonfiction book, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers tackles one of the most famous architectural monuments in the world: the Golden Gate Bridge—and all the arguments and debates about building it and what it should look like. Cut-paper illustrations by Tucker Nichols enliven the tale, and this revised edition also includes real-life letters from local constituents making the case for keeping the bridge orange. With sly humor and lots of fascinating historical facts, this is an accessible, enjoyable read for kids (or adults), transporting readers to the glorious Golden Gate no matter where they live. “Eggers’s featherlight humor provides laughs throughout.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review). “A love letter to infrastructure.” —The New York Times “A story compelling enough to keep adults interested as they read it (and re-read it and re-read it) each night at bedtime.” —Fast Company

The Golden Queen

The Golden Queen
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Publisher : Tor Books
Total Pages : 341
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0812552555
ISBN-13 : 9780812552553
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis The Golden Queen by : Dave Wolverton

Attempting to rally the forces of humanity against the Insectoid Dronon invaders, Semaritte, the clone of a slain ruler, enlists the help of a cocky bodyguard, an orphan, and an intelligent bear. Reprint.

Beyond the Golden Gate

Beyond the Golden Gate
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Publisher :
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:727165468
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Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

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