Golden Gates

Author : Conor Dougherty
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780525560227

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Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty Pdf

A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism • Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy • Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival • A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Tells the story of housing in all its complexity.” —NPR Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist movements that have risen in tandem with housing costs.

Author : David K. Randall
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393609462

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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by David K. Randall Pdf

A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress. For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin—a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong’s tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide. To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable—or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. Spearheading a relentless crusade for sanitation, Blue and his men patrolled the squalid streets of fast-growing San Francisco, examined gory black buboes, and dissected diseased rats that put the fate of the entire country at risk. In the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson, Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue’s race to understand the disease and contain its spread—the only hope of saving San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate.

Author : Richard Misrach
Publisher : Aperture Direct
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1597112038

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Golden Gate by Richard Misrach Pdf

"The photographs in this book were made between 1997 and 2002 from the front porch of my house in the Berkeley Hills; this special oversized edition presents a selection of forty key images from this series, and was created to commemorate the seventy-fiith anniversary of the 1937 construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, Richard Misrach"--Colophon.

Author : Vikram Seth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Novels in verse
ISBN : 0670058602

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The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth Pdf

The Great California Novel Has Been Written, In Verse (And Why Not?): The Golden Gate Gives Great Joy' Gore Vidal 'A New Star In The Literary Firmament & It Outshines In Brilliance Anything That I Have Seen In Half-A-Century Of Star-Spotting & Seth Has The Stuff That Nobel Laureates Are Made Of' Khushwant Singh, Illustrated Weekly Of India 'A Tour De Force Of Rhyme And Reasonableness. The Golden Gate Doesn'T Only Compellingly Advocate Life'S Pleasures, It Stylishly Contributes Another One To Them' Sunday Times , London 'Seth Is The Most Astute And Sharp-Tongued Social Critic To Arrive On The Scene Since Jonathan Swift' India Today 'A Thing Of Anomalous Beauty & Seth Writes Poetry As It Has Not Been Written For A Century' Washington Post Book World

Author : James Ponti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534414952

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Golden Gate by James Ponti Pdf

Rebel surfer-turned-field ops specialist Sydney finds herself in hot water while undercover on a marine research vessel, while her City Spies teammates investigate a suspected mole.

Author : Robert Eric Barde
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073922596

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Immigration at the Golden Gate by Robert Eric Barde Pdf

Presents the history of San Francisco's Angel Island Immigration Station that operated between 1910 and 1940. Argues that Asian immigrants, rather than being welcomed, were denied liberties and even entrance to the United States.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556032750549

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Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, Picayune Strand Restoration Project (formerly Southern Golden Gate Estates Ecosystem Restoration), Collier County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alistair MacLean
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : California
ISBN : 9780006144946

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The Golden Gate by Alistair MacLean Pdf

Travelling from San Francisco, the Presidential motorcade is waylaid by an unusual criminal in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge. A reign of civilised terror follows, the kidnappers hoping to collect a king's ransom.

Author : Anna Pegler-Gordon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469665733

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Closing the Golden Door by Anna Pegler-Gordon Pdf

The immigration station at New York's Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest U.S. port for immigrant entry until World War I. In popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the "great American melting pot." But as this fresh examination of Ellis Island's history reveals, it was also a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travelers and maritime laborers who reached New York City from Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, and even within the United States. And from 1924 to 1954, the station functioned as a detention camp and deportation center for a range of people deemed undesirable. Anna Pegler-Gordon draws on immigrants' oral histories and memoirs, government archives, newspapers, and other sources to reorient the history of migration and exclusion in the United States. In chronicling the circumstances of those who passed through or were detained at Ellis Island, she shows that Asian exclusion was both larger in scope and more limited in force than has been previously recognized.

Author : Roger Daniels
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466806856

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Guarding the Golden Door by Roger Daniels Pdf

As renowned historian Roger Daniels shows in this brilliant new work, America's inconsistent, often illogical, and always cumbersome immigration policy has profoundly affected our recent past. The federal government's efforts to pick and choose among the multitude of immigrants seeking to enter the United States began with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Conceived in ignorance and falsely presented to the public, it had undreamt of consequences, and this pattern has been rarely deviated from since. Immigration policy in Daniels' skilled hands shows Americans at their best and worst, from the nativist violence that forced Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan to the generous refugee policies adopted after World War Two and throughout the Cold War. And in a conclusion drawn from today's headlines, Daniels makes clear how far ignorance, partisan politics, and unintended consequences have overtaken immigration policy during the current administration's War on Terror. Irreverent, deeply informed, and authoritative, Guarding the Golden Door presents an unforgettable interpretation of modern American history.

Author : Henry George Bonavia Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000598749

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The Golden Gate, and Other Stories, Etc. [With Plates.] by Henry George Bonavia Hunt Pdf

Author : Tracie Peterson
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0764218999

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In Places Hidden by Tracie Peterson Pdf

On her way to San Francisco to find her brother, Caleb, who went missing three months ago, Camriann Coulter meets Judith and Kenzie, who both have their own mysteries to solve in the booming West Coast city. The women decide to help each other, including rooming together and working at Kenzie's cousin's chocolate factory. Camri's search for her brother, an attorney, leads her deep into the political corruption of the city--and into the acquaintance of Patrick Murdock, a handsome Irishman who was saved from a false murder charge by Caleb. Patrick challenges all of Camri's privileged beliefs, but he knows more about what happened to her brother than anyone else. Together, they move closer to the truth behind Caleb's disappearance. But as the stakes rise and threats loom, will Patrick be able to protect Camri from the dangers he knows lie in the hidden places of the city?

Author : Tomás F. Summers Sandoval (Jr.)
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469607665

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Latinos at the Golden Gate by Tomás F. Summers Sandoval (Jr.) Pdf

Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco

Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026623494

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The Golden Gate. A Complete Manual of Instructions, Devotions and Preparations by Sabine Baring-Gould Pdf

Author : Byron Preiss
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Secret by Byron Preiss Pdf

The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.