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112 pages. Features: Vladimir Nekola generates his own electric power in downtown Chicago using wind and sun; Stu Kingman and family install a home photovoltaic system; Wind Generators and Birds; Electric Cars - Toys or Reality?; EV Battery Chargers; Electric Vehicle Tires; A Graphic Guide to Solar Water Pumping; California 'Net Metering' legislation introduced; Mark Klein and the Gimme Shelter Crew; David Booth's straw bale home odyssey; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
Single Santa-shaped piece of cardstock measuring approx. 7" x 3.5". Features color Santa illustration on front and enticements to join "Our 1956 Christmas (Savings) Club" on back. Average wear and soiling. A nice memento of this Oakland Bank. Book
203 pages. This book represents an outgrowth of author's model of Holistic Prenatal Care, which she developed during 3 years as Mental Health Director for a holistic health program. Part of a re-awakening in the world which reclaims the heritage of the body and its natural processes. Author is a psychotherapist in private practice in Berkeley, California. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
144 pages. Features: Jane Powell's "Fabulous Bunga-Mansion in Oakland, California; Robert Stacy-Judd and his Atwater Bungalows; Classic Pasadena Craftsman; Artist's bungalow makeover; Piloting a Craftsman Houseboat Cruiser; The Little Bungalow That Came Back; CJ Hurley Century Arts - taking inspiration from the Japanese Tea Ceremony; and more. Unmarked. with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
156 pages including index. Contains notes used for many years at the California Institute of Technology to introduce both undergraduate and graduate students to the elements of the simple LCAO method. Includes illustrative examples. Prior owner's name upon half-title page else unmarked. Average wear. Book
342 pages. Includes numerous interesting black and white photos. In this first-hand, first-person story, Larry Robinson tells what it's like to be Larry Robinson - to share in the glory of the Montreal Canadiens, to win six Stanley Cups as part of the celebrated franchise, to hold the NHL record for most playoff games played, to leave Canada for the endless summer of California and a new career as a Los Angeles King. Average wear. Unmarked. Some yellowing to pages. Reading crease along spine. Book
399 pages including index. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more flexible and less centralized than their Soviet counterparts were. Excellent copy with minimal wear. Considerable light pencil markings to contents. Book
494 pages including index. Blends fact and historical vision with striking metaphor to re-create the nature of the California dream and reveal its significance as a social, psychological, and symbolic exercise. "It should become a classic book on California." - James D. Hart. Above-average but not excessive wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Good working copy. Book
158 pages. Index. Lovely colour photography throughout. Presents the best from inns tucked away in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California. Very minor moisture exposure to bottom edge of some back pages else book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Moderate wear. to dust jacket with, again, some evidence of moisture exposure to bottom edge of back panel. Overall a clean, bright, unmarked and attractive copy of this lovely work. Book
224 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Contents include: The Colorado Narrow Gauge Circle; Eastern Lines; Canadian Narrow Gauge; California; Central America. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
63 pages. Many interesting old illustrations. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Históricos Ultramarinos, 1958. 4to.; 131 pp., y 9 láminas fuera de texto, una de ellas con el mapa del periplo californiano de Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo. Encuadernación original en tela estampada.
San Francisco, Published by Jo Mora, Jr., 1933. 4to.; 120 pp. sin numerar, con el texto y las maravillosas ilustraciones de Mora, entre ellas los retratos de doce insignes piratas, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Morgan, Capitán Low, Capitán Kidd, Barba Azul, Red Legs, entre otros Primera edición. Encuadernación original en tela estampada. Planos ligeramente desencajados. La primera obra escrita y dibujada por el polifacético escultor, ilustrador y cowboy, a quien se denominó "Renaissance Man of the West", nacido en Montevideo e hijo del escultor catalán Domingo Mora. El presente libro fue comprado por la "Grace Steamship Line" para ser ofrecido a sus pasajeros en los Cruceros de New York a Vancouver, ida y vuelta a través del Canal de Panamá. Como escultor dejó casi toda su obra en Monterrey, California y en la cercana Misión de Carmel.
Mm 260x290 Volume rilegato di pp. 206, sovraccoperta editoriale illustrata a colori con piccoli strappi ai margini, illustrazioni in bianco e nero e a colori, in buono stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Quarto in pale yellow paper wraps, illus, with b&w photos (front and rear); 143 pages : numerous B&w illustrations, maps ; 28 cm "Originally published in 1914 by Historic Record Company." Biography. History. Mendocino County, Northern California.
Large quarto in green DJ, x, 181 pages, b&w illustrations ; 29 cm. Palo Alto (Calif.) -- History. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.
Green paisely octavo, gilt to spine, leather spine, 56 pages, b&w illus, frontispiece, plates, portraits, 25 cm. San Francisco (Calif.) -- History.
Quarto in blue-green multi-color illus jacket; bibliographical references (pages 489-536) and index. "California is obsessed with water. The need for it--to use and profit from it, to control and manipulate it--has shaped California history to a remarkable extent. Not surprisingly, the story of Californians and water is a fascinating one, filled with enough intrigue and plot twists to power a spellbinding novel. Here for the first time Norris Hundley, a noted historian of the American West, tells that entire story, from before the arrival of Europeans to the drought that ushered in the 1990s. He begins by describing the waterscape in its natural state, a scene of incredibly varied terrain and watercourses and wildly fluctuating rainfall. The aboriginal Californians did little to alter this natural state. Aside from diverting streams in a limited way for irrigation or fish harvesting, they simply took what water they needed from the places where they found it. Early Spanish and Mexican immigrants, although they exploited water supplies on a large scale for their settlements, considered water a community resource, not to be monopolized by anyone. It was the Americans, arriving in ever-increasing numbers after the Gold Rush, who transformed California into a collection of the nation's preeminent water seekers. By the late twentieth century, a large, colorful cast of characters and communities had wheeled and dealed, built, diverted, and connived their way to an entirely different California waterscape. The results are presented not sensationally, but soberingly. One of Hundley's most important contributions to California water history, besides creating a clear, engrossing narrative of its intricacies, is to demolish the image of a monolithic "water empire" managed by a coercive elite. There have always been competing individuals and interests in every question of water use, and the mammoth projects - dams, aqueducts, and irrigation districts - have all come about through uneasy, constantly shifting political alliances. The story is still being written, and it revolves, as it always has, around the effect of human values on the waterscape. The California experience will be of interest to anyone concerned about the future of water on our planet." óPublisher. Contents: The aboriginal waterscape : manipulation and near harmony -- Hispanic patterns : community and authority -- The American takeover : laissez-faire, localism, and monopoly -- Urban imperialism : a tale of two cities -- Hydraulic society triumphant : the great projects -- Hydraulic society on the defensive -- Water policy at a crossroads -- Reflections. Access: Materials specified: Table of contentshttp://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780520077867.pdf SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Water-supply -- California -- History. Water-supply. Wasserversorgung Water-supply -- California -- History. Geschichte (1770-1990) Genre/Form: History. Time: Geschichte 1770-1990. Geographic: California -- History. Californie -- Histoire. California. Kalifornien California -- History. Identifier: Natural resources; Water; Development; California; geschiedenis; history; water; dorst; thirst; Water Management (General); Waterbeheer (algemeen) Note(s): "A centennial book"--Page [i]./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-536) and index.
Light blue octavo, white spine, 131 pages, b&w illustrations, maps, portraits, 28 cm. Signed by author. 2 Post-Its notes included. || "On the summit of Russian Hill there stands a collection of houses unlike any other in San Francisco. Survivors of the earthquake and fire of 1906, they symbolize great themes of the city's history and remind us of their remarkable residents."--Page [4] of cover. Contents: Author's note -- Map of the Summit 1853-1893 -- Prologue -- A summit chronology 1848-1886 -- Homer, Ranlett and Atkinson -- Almarin Brooks Paul -- Other residents of the Summit -- A summit chronology 1870, 1888-1898 -- Five panoramas of the Summit -- Rev. Joseph Worcester -- Willis Polk -- The Worcester Group -- Worcester and the Swedenborgian Church -- Kate Atkinson, Gelett Burgess, and Les Jeunes -- The Livermore family -- Troubled times at the "House of Many Corners" -- The Jenks and Hanford residences -- Frank W. Demerest. Russian Hill (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History.
Quarto in white jacket; xiii, 521 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 457-499) and index. Contents: Preface -- Introduction : nineteenth-century California, a fragmented commonwealth -- The crucible of Western water law, 1850-1872 -- Panacea or curse : attitudes toward irrigation in nineteenth-century California -- Schemers and dreamers : California's first irrigation projects -- Irrigation in the 1870s : the origins of corporate reclamation in the arid West -- Response to monopoly : institutional roots of the irrigation district, 1868-1885 -- William Hammond Hall and state administrative control over water in the nineteenth century -- Lux v. Haggin : the battle of the water lords -- The Wright Act, 1887-1897 : promise unfulfilled -- The beginnings of federal reclamation in California -- The state asserts itself : irrigation and the law in the progressive period -- Toward a state water plan : the genesis of the Central Valley Project -- Conclusion : the lost dream. / Irrigation -- Economic aspects -- California -- History.† Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- California -- History.† Irrigation -- Aspect Èconomique -- Californie -- Histoire.† Agriculture -- Aspect Èconomique -- Californie -- Histoire.† Agriculture -- Economic aspects.† Irrigation -- Economic aspects.† Bew‰sserungsfeldbau† Agrarstruktur† Strukturwandel† Landwirtschaft† Geschichte (1850-1931)† History.† California.† Kalifornien†California; Arid regions; Irrigation, 1850-1931.; Socioeconomic aspects
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to lower front edge and very tiny bump to upper rear corner. Page lower and fore-edges untrimmed. 135pp. A unique contribution to the history California, originally published in 1859, this work details the extensive travels by the author around California. Tucked into an attached wallet at the rear is a large fold-out map of California's Golden Chain - the places connected with the 1849 Gold Rush. Map in perfect condition. Limited Edition of 600 copies. With drawings throughout. Extremely scarce in the UK.
Tan quarto ; xii, 128 p : illus ; 28 cm Uncommon. Numerous interesting sepia tone photo reproductions of historical interest throughout. // Yuba County (Calif.) -- History -- Law
220 p. 8vo. Age stain. Front flyleaf removed. Original worn cloth binding. NOTE: Early California inked ownership: "Ada Knight / San Luis Obispo / California / Dec. 23, 1884.
113p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition; top edge gilt. Bookplate on frt. pastedown.
Tre opere rilegate in uno. (mm. 135 x 80). Legatura coeva in mezza pelle verde con titoli impressi e dorati al dorso. Tutte e tre le opere sono stampate a Torino, Tipografia e libreria dell'oratorio di S. Francesco di Sales, 1875 - 1876. pp. 303; 296; 152. Ottimo esemplare.
