Download or read book California the New Empire State written by Paul Francis Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empire State written by Jason Shiga and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy is a stereotypical geek who works at the library in Oakland, California, and is trapped in his own torpidity. Sara is his best friend, but she wants to get a life (translation: an apartment in Brooklyn and a publishing internship). When Sara moves to New York City, Jimmy is rattled. Then lonely. Then desperate. He screws up his courage, writes Sara a letter about his true feelings, and asks her to meet him at the top of the Empire State Building (a nod to their ongoing debate about Sleepless in Seattle). Jimmy's cross-country bus trip to Manhattan is as hapless and funny as Jimmy himself. When he arrives in the city he's thought of as "a festering hellhole," he's surprised by how exciting he finds New York, and how heartbreaking—he discovers Sara has a boyfriend! Jason Shiga's bold visual storytelling, sly pokes at popular culture, and subtle text work together seamlessly in Empire State, creating a quirky graphic novel comedy about the vagaries of love and friendship. Praise for Empire State: "He [Shiga] displays a wicked sense of comic timing." -Publishers Weekly "Empire State: A Love Story (Or Not) is funny, sweet, geeky and affecting, and definitely worth a read." -Wired.com "Shiga's illustrations . . . are unique and endearing, and his images of NYC are instantly recognizable." -am New York "If Woody Allen grew up in Oakland rather than Manhattan, he'd most likely see the world, and especially New York City, as Jason Shiga does in Empire State." -Big Think.com
Download or read book California written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homes and Happiness in the Golden State of California written by Benjamin Cummings Truman and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Empire State Building written by Lisa Bullard and published by Lerner Digital ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! People come from all over the world to see the Empire State Building. You can see all of New York City from the top of this tall skyscraper! Just how many floors does the Empire State Building have? And how long did it take workers to create this amazing structure? Read this book to find out! Learn about many remarkable sites in the Famous Places series - part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!
Download or read book The Log of the Empire State written by Geneve L. A. Shaffer and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Log of the Empire State written by Geneve L. A. Shaffer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homes and Happiness in the Golden State of California written by Benjamin Cummings Truman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Homes and Happiness in the Golden State of California: Being a Description of the Empire State of the Pacific Coast, Its Inducements to Native and Foreign-Born Emigrants, Its Productiveness of Soil and Its Productions, Its Vast Agricultural Resources IS illustrated volume has been prepared iii the interest of two general classes - emigrants, from all sections of the civilized world, seeking: for permanent homes in a healthful agricultural country, of the first part, and the people generally of California, of the second part, Who are anxious to share their splendid lands and their incomparable climate With other industrial men and women of their own kind from all quarters of the globe. The present inhabitants of California - numbering upwards of. _one million, and who produced in a new State, in 1882, bushels of wheat, bushels of barley, pounds of beet sugar, pounds of wool, pounds of honey, 10 000 gallons of wine, $17, 645, 000 in gold and silver, and 50, 820 flasks of quicksilver - want to say, to another million of English, Irish, Scotch, Welsh, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese; Italian, Rhssian, Swedish, Norwegian, Canadian, New England, Western and Southern men and women, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Orange Empire written by Douglas Cazaux Sackman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-02-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Douglas Sackman peels an orange and finds inside nothing less than an American agricultural-industrial culture in all its inventive, exploitative, transformative, and destructive power. A beautifully researched and intellectually expansive book."—Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
Download or read book The Log of the Empire State written by Geneve L. Shaffer and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Log of the Empire State, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text is readable and clear.
Download or read book Path of Empire written by Aims McGuinness and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest route between New York City and San Francisco—a route that combined travel by ship to the east coast of Panama, an overland crossing to Panama City, and a final voyage by ship to California. In Path of Empire, Aims McGuinness presents a novel understanding of the intertwined histories of the California Gold Rush, the course of U.S. empire, and anti-imperialist politics in Latin America. Between 1848 and 1856, Panama saw the building, by a U.S. company, of the first transcontinental railroad in world history, the final abolition of slavery, the establishment of universal manhood suffrage, the foundation of an autonomous Panamanian state, and the first of what would become a long list of military interventions by the United States.Using documents found in Panamanian, Colombian, and U.S. archives, McGuinness reveals how U.S. imperial projects in Panama were integral to developments in California and the larger process of U.S. continental expansion. Path of Empire offers a model for the new transnational history by unbinding the gold rush from the confines of U.S. history as traditionally told and narrating that event as the history of Panama, a small place of global importance in the mid-1800s.
Download or read book Only in New York written by Heather Alexander and published by 50 States. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only in New York takes young readers on a journey through the weirdest, biggest, and best that the Empire State has to offer, from Buffalo to the Big Apple and everywhere in between.
Download or read book Juana Briones of Nineteenth Century California written by Jeanne Farr McDonnell and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juana Briones de Miranda lived an unusual life, which is wonderfully recounted in this highly accessible biography. She was one of the first residents of what is now San Francisco, then named Yerba Buena (Good Herb), reportedly after a medicinal tea she concocted. She was among the few women in California of her time to own property in her own name, and she proved to be a skilled farmer, rancher, and businesswoman. In retelling her life story, Jeanne Farr McDonnell also retells the history of nineteenth-century California from the unique perspective of this surprising woman. Juana Briones was born in 1802 and spent her early youth in Santa Cruz, a community of retired soldiers who had helped found Spanish California, Native Americans, and settlers from Mexico. In 1820, she married a cavalryman at the San Francisco Presidio, Apolinario Miranda. She raised her seven surviving sons and daughters and adopted an orphaned Native American girl. Drawing on knowledge she gained about herbal medicine and other cures from her family and Native Americans, she became a highly respected curandera, or healer. Juana set up a second home and dairy at the base of then Loma Alta, now Telegraph Hill, the first house in that area. After gaining a church-sanctioned separation from her abusive husband, she expanded her farming and cattle business in 1844 by purchasing a 4,400-acre ranch, where she built her house, located in the present city of Palo Alto. She successfully managed her extensive business interests until her death in 1889. Juana Briones witnessed extraordinary changes during her lifetime. In this fascinating book, readers will see California’s history in a new and revelatory light.
Download or read book Empire State written by Empire State, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York written by Val Lawton and published by Discover America. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, and people of New York. --Amazon.
Download or read book Imperial written by William T. Vollmann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 1789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming with patterns, facts, stories, people and hope, this is an epic study of an emblematic region.
Download or read book California s Spiritual Frontiers written by Sandra Sizer Frankiel and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
