Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
California Southland
Author: Southland
Author: Nina RevoyrPublisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1936070480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles. —Winner of a 2004 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Award in Literature —Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award —Nominated for an Edgar Award The plot line of Southland is the stuff of a James Ellroy or a Walter Mosley novel . . . But the climax fairly glows with the good-heartedness that Revoyr displays from the very first page. —Los Angeles Times Jackie Ishida’s grandfather had a store in Watts where four boys were killed during the riots in 1965, a mystery she attempts to solve. —New York Times Book Review, included in “Where Noir Lives in the City of Angels” Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly. While trying to fulfill a request from his will, Jackie discovers that four black teenagers were killed in the store he ran during the Watts Riots of 1965—and that the murders were never solved or reported. Along with James Lanier, a cousin of one of the victims, she tries to piece together the story of the boys’ deaths. In the process, Jackie unearths the long-held secrets of her family’s history—and her own. Moving in and out of the past, from the shipping yards and internment camps of World War II; to the barley fields of the Crenshaw District in the 1930s; to the means streets of Watts in the 1960s; to the night spots and garment factories of the 1990s, Southland weaves a tale of Los Angeles in all of its faces and forms.
Plein Air Painters of California, the Southland
Author: Ruth Lilly WestphalPublisher: Westphal Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Geology Underfoot in Southern California
Author: Robert Phillip SharpPublisher: Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN: 9780878422890
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Twenty vignettes focus on particular geologic scenes, relationships, and features of southern California's active landscape.
California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs
Author: California (State).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Received document entitled: APPENDIX TO PETITION FOR WRIT
California. Court of Appeal (1st Appellate District). Records and Briefs
Author: California (State).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Southern California Year 'round Vacation Land Supreme
Author: All-Year Club of Southern CaliforniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Point Loma Community in California, 1897-1942
Author: Emmett A. GreenwaltPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Loma, Point (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Architect and Engineer of California
Author: Blue Sky Metropolis
Author: Peter J. WestwickPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520289064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Like citrus, oil, movies, radio, and television, aerospace helped create Southern California and embody its values. Blue Sky Metropolis launches an entirely fresh consideration of an iconic industry that answered the immemorial hunger of the human race for flight and the future."--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California "Blue Sky Metropolis presents an intriguing survey of a unique time in Southern California history, when cheap land and benign weather lured massive aerospace enterprises to the region—eventually serving as home to nearly half of the nation’s defense and space fabricators. Before there was a Silicon Valley, high-tech dreamers were on the loose in the Southland, creating inventions as diverse as the Voyager planetary spacecraft and the Stealth bomber. These highly readable essays help us understand how it happened—how Southern California shaped aerospace, and vice versa."—Charles Elachi, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory "Peter Westwick has assembled a rich collection of essays that tell a wonderful story about the importance of the aerospace industry to Southern California and the importance of Southern California to the aerospace industry. There's technology, sociology, economics, geography, anthropology, and much more woven through the chapters. It's an ambitious project, but it succeeds in being interesting, informative, and entertaining."—Michael Rich, President and CEO, The RAND Corporation