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Crossing California
Language: en
Pages: 425
Authors: Sam McManis
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-01 - Publisher: Linden Publishing

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Sacramento Bee journalist Sam McManis spent five years on the road trying to find the real California. He discovered that there is more than one California, but
Pacific Eldorado
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Thomas J. Osborne
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-22 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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Osborne's work is the first history text to explore the sweep of California's past in relationship to its connections within the maritime world of the Pacific B
The Cultural Cold War
Language: en
Pages: 458
Authors: Frances Stonor Saunders
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-05 - Publisher: New Press, The

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During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agen
Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750
Language: en
Pages: 520
Authors: Lorraine Daston
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-05 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Discusses how European scientists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonders, monsters, curiosities, marvels, and other phenomena to envis
Running to Glory
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Sam McManis
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-26 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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The runners from Eisenhower High School have every justification to fail. They’re from low income families, many of whom are migrant workers. With little time