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Book Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles 2014

Download or read book Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles 2014 written by Not For Tourists and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles is the essential urban handbook that thousands of Los Angelenos rely on daily. It divides the city into fifty-seven mapped neighborhoods and pinpoints all of the essential services and entertainment hotspots with NFT’s user-friendly icons. The guide also includes: A foldout highway map covering all of Los Angeles Over 150 neighborhood and city maps A guide to TV and movie studio locations Details on sports and outdoor activities Listings for the best shopping destinations Everything from supermarkets, cafés, bars, and gas stations to information on twenty-four-hour services, beaches, public transportation, and city events—NFT will help you find a boutique for an Oscar gown and then show you how to get there.

Book Street Level  Los Angeles in the Twenty First Century

Download or read book Street Level Los Angeles in the Twenty First Century written by Rob Sullivan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latter part of the C20th, a series of seminal books were written which examined Los Angeles by the likes of Reyner Banham, Mike Davis, Edward Soja, Allen Scott, Michael Dear, Frederick Jameson, Umberto Eco, Bernard-Henri Levy, and Jean Baudrillard which have been hugely influential in thinking about cities more broadly. The debates which were generated by these works have tended to be very heated and either defensive or offensive in approach. A sufficient amount of time has since passed that a more measured approach to evaluating this work can now be taken. The first section of this book, 'Contra This and Contra That', provides such a critique of the various theories applied to Los Angeles during the last century, balancing the positive with the negative. The second part of the book is an investigation of L.A. as it exists on the ground today. While political, the theoretical stance taken in this investigation is not mounted as a platform from which to advocate a particular ideology. Instead, it encompasses cultural as well as economic issues to put forth a view of L.A. which is coherent and cogent while at the same time considering its multi-layed, complex and ever-changing qualities. It concludes by arguing that sectored off and 'totalizing' visions of the city will not do as instruments of urban analysis and that only a theory as mobile as its target will do: one that replicates the polymer nature of this place. It proposes that, extending that theory to the world beyond this particular city, only a theory that models itself on the mobile and polymer nature of the world, while still retaining a sense of the actual and the real, will do as an instrument with which to comprehend the world. In doing so, this book is not only a model by which to think through Los Angeles, but as a model by which to think through other world cities.

Book A People s Guide to Los Angeles

Download or read book A People s Guide to Los Angeles written by Laura Pulido and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media and, in the process, create a fresh history of Los Angeles. Roughly dividing the city into six regions—North Los Angeles, the Eastside and San Gabriel Valley, South Los Angeles, Long Beach and the Harbor, the Westside, and the San Fernando Valley—this illuminating guide shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape.

Book Blue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joe Domanick
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-08-11
  • ISBN : 1451641079
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Blue written by Joe Domanick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American policing is in crisis. Here, award-winning investigative journalist Joe Domanick reveals the troubled history of American policing over the past quarter century. He begins in the early 1990s with the beating of Rodney King and the L.A. riots, when the Los Angeles Police Department was caught between a corrupt and racist past and the demands of a rapidly changing urban population. Across the country, American cities faced similar challenges to law and order. In New York, William J. Bratton was spearheading the reorganization of the New York City Transit Police and later the 35,000-strong New York Police Department. His efforts resulted in a dramatic decrease in crime, yet introduced highly controversial policing strategies. In 2002, when Bratton was named the LAPD's new chief, he implemented the lessons learned in New York to change a department that previously had been impervious to reform. Blue ends in 2015 with the LAPD on its unfinished road to reform, as events in Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Ferguson, Missouri, raise alarms about the very strategies Bratton pioneered, and about aggressive racial profiling and the militarization of police departments throughout the United States. Domanick tells his story through the lives of the people who lived it. Along with Bratton, he introduces William Parker, the legendary LAPD police chief; Tom Bradley, the first black mayor of Los Angeles; and Charlie Beck, the hard-nosed ex-gang cop who replaced Bratton as LAPD chief. The result is both intimate and expansive: a gripping narrative that asks big questions about what constitutes good and bad policing and how best to prevent crime, control police abuse, and ease tensions between the police and the powerless. Blue is not only a page-turning read but an essential addition to our scholarship.--Adapted from book jacket.

Book Dictionary of English and French Idioms

Download or read book Dictionary of English and French Idioms written by Jean Roemer and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1853 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles 2020

Download or read book Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles 2020 written by Not For Tourists and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With details on everything from the Hollywood Bowl to the Sunset Strip, this is the only guide a native or traveler needs. The Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles is the essential urban handbook that thousands of Los Angelenos rely on daily. The map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood guidebook divides the city into fifty-seven mapped neighborhoods and pinpoints all of the essential services and entertainment hot spots with NFT’s user-friendly icons. Want to drive around the palm tree-peppered concrete jungle like a pro? NFT has you covered. How about sunbathing on a beach? We’ve got that, too. The nearest Hollywood club, holistic health practitioner, sports outing, or shopping destination—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. The guide also includes: • A foldout highway map covering all of Los Angeles • More than 150 neighborhood and city maps • A guide to TV and movie studio locations • Listings for the best shopping destinations Everything from supermarkets, cafés, bars, and gas stations, to information on twenty-four-hour services, beaches, public transportation, and city events—NFT will help you find a boutique for an Oscars gown, and then show you how to get there.

Book My Los Angeles in Black and  Almost  White

Download or read book My Los Angeles in Black and Almost White written by Andrew Furman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s, roughly half of Furman’s high school basketball teammates lived in the largely Anglo, and increasingly Jewish, San Fernando Valley, while the other half were African Americans bused in from the inner city. Los Angeles was embroiled in efforts to desegregate its public school district, one of the largest and most segregated in the country. Tensions came to a head in the late 1970s as the state implemented its forced busing plan, a radical desegregation program that was hotly contested among Los Angeles residents—particularly among Valley residents—and at all levels of the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. In My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White, the high school’s diverse basketball team serves as the entry point for a trenchant exploration of the judicial, legislative, and neighborhood battles over school desegregation that gripped the city in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education and that continue to plague our "post-racial" nation. Furman accesses a diverse array of opinions about these years and about the current crisis of race and public education by examining landmark judicial decisions, public policy studies, and newspaper articles, and by interviewing key community leaders, including former U.S. Representative Bobbi Fiedler, the Jewish activist who led the campaign to stop forced busing in Los Angelese, and retired Superior Court Judge Paul Egly, with whom Fiedler and her allies wrangled. Furman also documents his recent visit to Los Angeles during which he met with several of his former teammates, coaches, and neighbors. At once critical and fair-minded, My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White cuts through the incendiary rhetoric over school desegregation to offer a lucid, engaging, and informed account of our long legacy and current challenges regarding race and public education.

Book The Cambridge History of the English Language

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the English Language written by Richard M. Hogg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language covers the period 1476-1776, beginning at the time of the establishment of Caxton's first press in England and concluding with the American Declaration of Independence, the notional birth of the first (non-insular) extraterritorial English. It encompasses three centuries which saw immense cultural change over the whole of Europe: the late middle ages, the renaissance, the reformation, the enlightenment, and the beginnings of romanticism. During this time, Middle English became Early Modern English and then developed into the early stages of indisputably 'modern', if somewhat old-fashioned, English. In this book, the distinguished team of six contributors traces these developments, covering orthography and punctuation, phonology and morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics, regional and social variation, and the literary language. The volume also contains a glossary of linguistic terms and an extensive bibliography.

Book My City  My Los Angeles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeryl Brunner
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2013-03-21
  • ISBN : 076279321X
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book My City My Los Angeles written by Jeryl Brunner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do famous people love to do during their free time in Los Angeles? Angelenos and other notables have their rituals that connect them to the city in a unique way: favorite restaurants, museums, beaches, parks, markets, landmarks, haunts, and hideaways. The activities are as diverse and eclectic as the city itself. My City, My Los Angeles gives readers something truly unique––a chance to experience L.A. the way the city’s most notable luminaries do.

Book Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles 2017

Download or read book Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles 2017 written by Not For Tourists and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Not For Tourists Guide to Los Angeles is the essential urban handbook that thousands of Los Angelenos rely on daily. The map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood guidebook divides the city into 57 mapped neighborhoods and pinpoints all of the essential services and entertainment hotspots with NFT’s user-friendly icons. Want to drive around the palm tree–peppered concrete jungle like a pro? NFT has you covered. How about sunbathing on a beach? We’ve got that, too. The nearest Hollywood club, holistic health practitioner, sports outing, or shopping destination—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. The guide also includes: • A foldout highway map covering all of Los Angeles • Over 150 neighborhood and city maps • A guide to TV and movie studio locations • Listings for the best shopping destinations Everything from supermarkets, cafés, bars, and gas stations, to information on 24-hour services, beaches, public transportation, and city events—NFT will help you find a boutique for an Oscar gown and then show you how to get there.

Book United States Statutes at Large

Download or read book United States Statutes at Large written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dramatic Works of William Wicherly  Esq  Containing Love in a Wood      The Gentleman Dancing master  The Plain Dealer  The Country Wife

Download or read book The Dramatic Works of William Wicherly Esq Containing Love in a Wood The Gentleman Dancing master The Plain Dealer The Country Wife written by William Wycherley and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The works of the ingenious Mr  W  W   collected into one volume  containing Plain Dealer  Country Wife  Gentleman Dancing master  Love in a Wood

Download or read book The works of the ingenious Mr W W collected into one volume containing Plain Dealer Country Wife Gentleman Dancing master Love in a Wood written by William Wycherley and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Martindale s American Law Directory

Download or read book Martindale s American Law Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beginning French Language

Download or read book Beginning French Language written by Renée Ezinne Awa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teach yourself French Language with the all-new and exciting book Beginning French Language. This book is a systematic guide for the Anglophone learner. From now on, French language ceases to be a nightmare to the Anglophone learner since the books are especially packaged for an easy study and learning of the French language and more especially, it has accompanying mp3.  Ah Ezinne, why didn't you bring out this book before now? You would have saved me the stress of running to and fro in search of where to study French Language. Your work is excellent and I am getting the best out of it. A. Ayo, IT expert/student, Alliance Française, Lagos, Nigeria.  Great work! Phonetics and pronunciation well dissected. Emeka C; student, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.  Teach-yourself is indeed an understatement. You become a teacher of the language. It is a refreshing delight!!! Sade O; banker, Lagos, Nigeria