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Book San Francisco s Bayview Hunters Point

Download or read book San Francisco s Bayview Hunters Point written by Tricia O'Brien and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard to imagine cows walking up Third Street or sheep on Innes Avenue, yet a large portion of the area known today as Bayview Hunters Point was once extremely rural. Called Butchertown by locals, the neighborhood was a source of much of San Francisco's food. Over the years, it evolved into an interesting combination of residences, businesses, and industries. The area was home to slaughterhouses, tanneries, tallow works, a saddle shop, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, numerous boat yards including the legendary Allemand Brothers Boat Repair, and the U.S. Naval operations at Hunters Point Shipyard. Alongside these entities lived thousands of residents with unique stories and lifestyles.

Book Janice Guy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barney Kulok
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-10-23
  • ISBN : 9780692057537
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Janice Guy written by Barney Kulok and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Justine KurlandEssay by Thomas StruthJanice Guy weaves together thirty photographs from two distinct moments of Janice Guy¿s output as an artist: it re-presents a group of works that were produced and exhibited between 1975 and 1980, interspersing them with newly printed pictures selected from her archive during our research for the book.

Book Hunters Point  Former  Naval Shipyard Disposal and Reuse

Download or read book Hunters Point Former Naval Shipyard Disposal and Reuse written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asteroid Hunters

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  • Author : Carrie Nugent
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-03-14
  • ISBN : 1501120085
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Asteroid Hunters written by Carrie Nugent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the top scientists in the field of asteroid hunting explains how, for the first time, humanity could have the knowledge to prevent a devastating asteroid impact. --

Book Goodbye Letter

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  • Author : Barney Kulok
  • Publisher : Hunters Point Press
  • Release : 2020-09-15
  • ISBN : 9780578576916
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Goodbye Letter written by Barney Kulok and published by Hunters Point Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concrete and permutational poems celebrating a serene atrophy of language, from the author of My Vibe In his latest collection, Goodbye Letter, New York-based poet Jeremy Sigler (born 1968) deconstructs his very will to write, as he articulates, verbally and graphically, the implied obsolescence of language itself. The book feels less like a proper literary work (a book of poetry) and more like a manual for poetic survival. One poem reads like some sort of linguistic code that manages to murmur "it is what it is"; another is more classically "concrete," reflecting on typewriter and pattern poems of past centuries; and another consists of a complete signature of unmarked blank pages (they await being torn out and curled up into a loose tube) as was the 19th-century prototype for the stethoscope, but used this time to listen in on the poet's "speaking" heart. Sigler's newest collection may be seen as a field guide to a poet's last gasp.

Book The Nazi Hunters  How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World s Most Notorious Nazi

Download or read book The Nazi Hunters How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World s Most Notorious Nazi written by Neal Bascomb and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling spy mission, a moving Holocaust story, and a first-class work of narrative nonfiction. This Sydney Taylor Book Award- and YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award-winning story of Eichmann's capture is now a major motion picture starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, Operation Finale! In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials -- one that cemented the Holocaust in the public imagination. This is the thrilling and fascinating story of what happened between these two events. Illustrated with powerful photos throughout, impeccably researched, and told with powerful precision, THE NAZI HUNTERS is a can't-miss work of narrative nonfiction for middle-grade and YA readers.

Book A Dangerously Curious Eye

Download or read book A Dangerously Curious Eye written by Barry Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from the bridges and cable cars, hidden away behind the famous hills, there is another San Francisco Bay Area that most people never see. San Francisco's Hunter's Point and Fillmore District, West Oakland and Richmond's Iron Triangle -- in the 1970s these places on the edges of this great American metropolis offered Barry Shapiro an alternate reality where he pointed his lens. Although Barry made his reputation as a professional photographer with the 1972 publication of Handmade Houses: The Woodbutcher's Art, his day job as a teacher of remedial reading to adults gave him an entree into a world that white America only saw in the blaxploitation films of the day like "Shaft" and "Superfly." His curious eye brought him to many dangerous places, but with the trust he earned, he was able to not only hang out in this unique subculture, but be allowed to photograph their very intimate and sometimes dark moments. In these photos we see glimpses of tenderness that can explode into violence, tension that dissolves into laughter, kids showing off for the camera, and tough motorcycle gangs chilled out after a night of hard partying. What instantly captures the viewer's attention is that Barry, with the force of his energetic personality, established a trusting relationship with each of his subjects, whether that relationship lasted for years or only a few seconds. When Barry wasn't hanging out in these fringe neighborhoods, he was prowling the streets of the Bay Area with his stealth Leica shooting poignant black-and-white moments of street life through the windows of his VW bus. These images record an incredible slice of everyday urban life without any hint of his even being there. Barry captured what Henri Cartier-Bresson called "the decisive moment" over and over with a natural ability that only the best photographers have. Always a maverick, rarely inclined to shoot to spec and unwilling to compromise or cater to photographic fashion, Barry shot his black-and-white photographs with no thoughts of commercialism. Although his career as a photographer spanned more than forty years, and he spent the last sixteen years of his life as a high-school teacher and principal, he never stopped shooting. With a foreword by famed San Francisco rock photographer Jim Marshall and an introduction by best-selling novelist Mark Joseph, two of Barry's closest friends, A Dangerously Curious Eye will show you a very different side of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Book B  Wurtz  Pan Paintings

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  • Author : Barney Kulok
  • Publisher : Hunters Point Press
  • Release : 2020-09-15
  • ISBN : 9780578634302
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book B Wurtz Pan Paintings written by Barney Kulok and published by Hunters Point Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorgeous abstractions on roasting pans and takeout containers from a beloved figure of the New York art world For nearly five decades New York-based artist B. Wurtz (born 1948) has transformed humble materials and discarded objects into humorous and wryly beautiful works of art. This full-color, Swiss-bound monograph focuses on the artist's iconic series of "pan paintings" made on disposable aluminum roasting pans and to-go containers. In 1990, Wurtz discovered patterns stamped in the bottom of these mass-produced products and grasped their potential as "readymade abstract paintings." In the three decades since, he has worked across a wide variety of pan shapes and sizes, applying dazzling combinations of color using the patterns as predetermined compositions. Pan Paintingsprovides the first overview of the various permutations in color and shape that comprise this long-term series. The book includes an essay by art historian and curator Erica Cooke which considers this critically acclaimed body of work and its deep entanglement with the craft-oriented ethos and amateur culture of postwar America.

Book The Body Hunters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sonia Shah
  • Publisher : New Press, The
  • Release : 2012-03-13
  • ISBN : 1595588310
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book The Body Hunters written by Sonia Shah and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by John le Carré as “an act of courage on the part of its author” and singled out for praise by the leading medical journals in the United States and the United Kingdom, The Body Hunters uncovers the real-life story behind le Carré's acclaimed novel The Constant Gardener and the feature film based on it. "A trenchant exposé . . . meticulously researched and packed with documentary evidence" (Publishers Weekly), Sonia Shah's riveting journalistic account shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing new global trend. Drawing on years of original research and reporting in Africa and Asia, Shah examines how the multinational pharmaceutical industry, in its quest to develop lucrative drugs, has begun exporting its clinical research trials to the developing world, where ethical oversight is minimal and desperate patients abound. As the New England Journal of Medicine notes, “it is critical that those engaged in drug development, clinical research and its oversight, research ethics, and policy know about these stories,” which tell of an impossible choice being faced by many of the world's poorest patients—be experimented upon or die for lack of medicine.

Book On Hunter   S Point

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  • Author : Joanne Bunyak
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2017-03-31
  • ISBN : 1543410111
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book On Hunter S Point written by Joanne Bunyak and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One phone call from Lena Klovic to her niece, Wendy Wilson, opened Dr. Tim Meltos Pandoras box. That one discussion sent the doctors life spiraling out of control. His unscrupulous practice described a lengthy, tainted profession. His personal relationships didnt fare any better. Exposure by three young women scaled havoc at Barrington Hospital, shattering his entire being, while winging revenge sent a timely strike to his soul. Despite plots and plans, romance budded and bloomed. Happiness replaced vengeance. Joy prevailed while sorrow dissipated. Strangers surprisingly became family. Tim Meltos viciousness eventually forced his life to come full circle on Hunters Point.

Book Baldwin Lee

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-09-06
  • ISBN : 9780578315034
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Baldwin Lee written by and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n 1983, Baldwin Lee (b. 1951) left his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his 4 × 5 view camera and set out on the first of a series of road trips to photograph the American South. The subject of his pictures were Black Americans: at home, at work, and at play, in the street, and among nature. This project would consume Lee-a first-generation Chinese American-for the remainder of that decade, and it would forever transform his perception of his country, its people, and himself. The resulting archive from this seven-year period contains nearly ten thousand black-and-white negatives. This monograph, *Baldwin Lee*, presents a selection of eighty-eight images edited by the photographer Barney Kulok, accompanied by an interview with Lee by the curator Jessica Bell Brown and an essay by the writer Casey Gerald. Arriving almost four decades after Lee began his journey, this publication reveals the artist's unique commitment to picturing life in America and, in turn, one of the most piercing and poignant bodies of work of its time.

Book The Links

Download or read book The Links written by Robert Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sacred Evil

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  • Author : Heather Graham
  • Publisher : MIRA
  • Release : 2020-11-16
  • ISBN : 0369701542
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Sacred Evil written by Heather Graham and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the world of the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters as they try to stop a resurrected evil from taking more lives, in book 3 of this thrilling series from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham. The details of the crime scene are no coincidence. The body—a promising starlet—has been battered, bloodied and then discarded between two of Manhattan’s oldest graveyards. One look and Detective Jude Crosby recognizes the tableau: a re-creation of Jack the Ripper’s gruesome work. But he also sees something beyond the actions of a mere copycat. Something more dangerous…and unexplainable. As the city seethes with suspicion, Jude calls on Whitney Tremont, a member of the country’s preeminent paranormal investigating team, to put the speculation to rest. Yet when Whitney and Jude delve deeper, what they discover is more shocking than either could have predicted, and twice as sinister… Previously published in 2011

Book Military Bases

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  • Author : United States. General Accounting Office
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Military Bases written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Draft EIS

Download or read book Draft EIS written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Snow Hunters

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  • Author : Paul Yoon
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-08-06
  • ISBN : 1476714819
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Snow Hunters written by Paul Yoon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A highly anticipated debut novel from 5 Under 35 National Book Foundation honoree featuring a Korean War refugee who emigrates to Brazil to become a tailor's apprentice and confronts the wreckage of his past"--

Book Devil May Cry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2007-08-07
  • ISBN : 1429917423
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Devil May Cry written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an ancient Sumerian god, Sin was one of the most powerful among his pantheon. . . Until the night Artemis brutally stole his godhood and left him for dead. For millennia, this ex-god turned Dark-Hunter has dreamed only of regaining his powers and seeking revenge on Artemis. If only life were that simple. Unfortunately he has bigger fish--or in Sin's case--demons, to fry. The lethal gallu that were buried by his pantheon are now stirring and they are hungry for human flesh. Their goal is to destroy mankind and anyone else who gets in their way. Sin is the only one who can stop them—that is if a certain woman doesn't kill him first. Unfortunately, Sin discovers that now he must rely on her or witness an annihilation of biblical proportions. Enemies have always made strange bedfellows, but never more so than when the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Now a man who knows only betrayal must trust the one person most likely to hand him to the demons. Artemis may have stolen his godhood, but this one has stolen his heart. The only question is will she keep it or feed it to the ones who want him dead?