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California by Kevin Starr
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $20.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977530Author Kevin StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Los Angeles. Portrait of a City by Kevin Starr 9783836502917
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $61.96From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city's cultural,... -
The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris 9780140187700
Booksplease Price: $21.11Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers... -
The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley by Aaron Gilbreath 9781496218636
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.072022 Oregon Book Award Finalist A vivid journey through California's vast rural interior, The Heart of California weaves the story of historian Frank Latta's forgotten 1938 boat trip from Bakersfield... -
Van Halen: Exuberant California, Zen Rock'n'roll by John Scanlan 9781861899163
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48'I hate the word maturing,' singer David Lee Roth once said. 'I don't like the word evolving - or any of that bullshit. The point is to keep it as simplistic, as unassuming, and as stupid as possible... -
Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development by Steven P. Erie 9780804746809 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $1.53How do city-regions successfully compete in the global age? Mixing history and policy analysis, Steven Erie offers a compelling account of the improbable rise of Los Angeles, explaining how a region... -
Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush by Richard T. Stillson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Spreading the Word examines the ways in which easterners who traveled West during the California gold rush of 1849-51 obtained, assessed, and used information. At the beginning of the gold rush the... -
Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development by Steven P. Erie
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $12.01How do city-regions successfully compete in the global age? Mixing history and policy analysis, Steven Erie offers a compelling account of the improbable rise of Los Angeles, explaining how a region... -
Paradise Plundered: Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego by Steven P. Erie 9780804756037 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $2.81The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s... -
Beyond <I>Chinatown</I>: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California by Steven P. Erie 9780804751407 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $3.08As urban growth outstrips water supplies, how can the global challenge of providing "liquid gold" be met? Mixing history and policy analysis, Steven Erie tells the compelling story of the... -
American Gridlock: Why the Right and Left Are Both Wrong - Commonsense 101 Solutions to the Economic Crises H. Woody Brock 9780470638927
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $22.23A sensible solution to getting our economy back on track Pessimism is ubiquitous throughout the Western World as the pressing issues of massive debt, high unemployment, and anemic economic growth...