Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley

Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9780393608809
ISBN-13 : 0393608808
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley by : Cary McClelland

A Stanford University Three Books Selection for 2019 “Essential.… A conflicted and complex portrait of a city starving for solutions.” —Brandon Yu, San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley. The richer the region gets, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes, and cracks in the city’s facade—rapid gentrification, an epidemic of evictions, rising crime, atrophied public institutions—are growing wider. Inspired by Studs Terkel’s classic works of oral history, Cary McClelland spent years interviewing people at the epicenter of recent change, from venture capitalists and coders to politicians and protesters, capturing San Francisco as never before.

The Hardest Place

The Hardest Place
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Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages : 697
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ISBN-10 : 9780812985221
ISBN-13 : 0812985222
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis The Hardest Place by : Wesley Morgan

COLBY AWARD WINNER • “One of the most important books to come out of the Afghanistan war.”—Foreign Policy “A saga of courage and futility, of valor and error and heartbreak.”—Rick Atkinson, author of the Liberation Trilogy and The British Are Coming Of the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan. The area’s rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made it a natural hiding spot for local insurgents and international terrorists alike, and it came to represent both the valor and futility of America’s two-decade-long Afghan war. Drawing on reporting trips, hundreds of interviews, and documentary research, Wesley Morgan reveals the history of the war in this iconic region, captures the culture and reality of the conflict through both American and Afghan eyes, and reports on the snowballing missteps—some kept secret from even the troops fighting there—that doomed the American mission. The Hardest Place is the story of one of the twenty-first century’s most unforgiving battlefields and a portrait of the American military that fought there.

Prehistory of Long Valley, Idaho

Prehistory of Long Valley, Idaho
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951P00390918L
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Rating : 4/5 (8L Downloads)

Synopsis Prehistory of Long Valley, Idaho by : Quentin Mark Arnold

Flight

Flight
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 45
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:642108977
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Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Flight by : John Steinbeck

Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa

Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780262362832
ISBN-13 : 026236283X
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa by : Nicolas Friederici

The hope and hype about African digital entrepreneurship, contrasted with the reality on the ground in local ecosystems. In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces, innovation prizes, and investment funds. Politicians and technologists have offered Silicon Valley-influenced narratives of boundless opportunity and exponential growth, in which internet-enabled entrepreneurship allows Africa to "leapfrog" developmental stages to take a leading role in the digital revolution. This book contrasts these aspirations with empirical research about what is actually happening on the ground. The authors find that although the digital revolution has empowered local entrepreneurs, it does not untether local economies from the continent's structural legacies.

Working Days

Working Days
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 0140144579
ISBN-13 : 9780140144574
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Working Days by : John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a journal revealing his arduous journey toward its completion. The journal, like the novel it chronicles, tells a tale of dramatic proportions—of dogged determination and inspiration, yet also of paranoia, self-doubt, and obstacles. It records in intimate detail the conception and genesis of The Grapes of Wrath and its huge though controversial success. It is a unique and penetrating portrait of an emblematic American writer creating an essential American masterpiece.

Long Hammering

Long Hammering
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Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015032228523
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Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Long Hammering by : Albert James Williams-Myers

"Long Hammering addresses the integral role that African Americans played in every aspect of Hudson Valley society, which historically is the embryo of New York history. From the time of the colonial period when enslaved African labor was vital tot he tremendous wealth New York generated as a British Colony, to the end of the 19th century when a more democratic society was, African American involvement was a historical fact." -- Publisher's description.

Historic Houses of the Hudson River Valley, 1663-1915

Historic Houses of the Hudson River Valley, 1663-1915
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Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015060836718
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Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Historic Houses of the Hudson River Valley, 1663-1915 by : Gregory R. Long

Overlooking the majestic Hudson River, the Hudson Valley has long been a favored place to live. Historic Houses of the Hudson River Valley is a sumptuous presentation of 33 houses in the region, ranging from the earliest Dutch cottages still extant to the grand Gothic and Italianate revival, stately Georgian, Federal, and beaux-arts country homes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.