Author : Melissa Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Oakland (Calif.)
ISBN : 099144390X
This Is Oakland
Melissa Davis
This Is Oakland
This Is Oakland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of This Is Oakland book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Hella Town
Mitchell Schwarzer
Author : Mitchell Schwarzer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520391536
Hella Town by Mitchell Schwarzer Pdf
Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland’s built environment. Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger and more glamorous twin, Oakland has a fascinating history of its own. From serving as a major transportation hub to forging a dynamic manufacturing sector, by the mid-twentieth century Oakland had become the urban center of the East Bay. Hella Town focuses on how political deals, economic schemes, and technological innovations fueled this emergence but also seeded the city’s postwar struggles. Toward the turn of the millennium, as immigration from Latin America and East Asia increased, Oakland became one of the most diverse cities in the country. The city still grapples with the consequences of uneven class- and race-based development-amid-disruption. How do past decisions about where to locate highways or public transit, urban renewal districts or civic venues, parks or shopping centers, influence how Oaklanders live today? A history of Oakland’s buildings and landscapes, its booms and its busts, provides insight into its current conditions: an influx of new residents and businesses, skyrocketing housing costs, and a lingering chasm between the haves and have-nots.
Oakland on Quality Management
John S Oakland
Author : John S Oakland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136376108
Oakland on Quality Management by John S Oakland Pdf
'Oakland on the New Quality Management' shows managers how to implement a Total Quality Management strategy throughout all activities and thereby achieve top quality performance overall, not just focusing on product or service quality. The text addresses the issues of implementing TQM, teamwork, and changes in culture, and emphasizes the integration of TQM into the strategy of the organization with specific advice on how to implement TQM. Topics covered include quality function deployment (QFD), communications and quality strategy, measurement and benchmarking, and teamwork for culture change, including the 'Drive' model. Ten points are presented to aid senior management in their thinking on commitment, culture and communication issues.
Oakland
Beth Bagwell,Erika Mailman
Author : Beth Bagwell,Erika Mailman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Oakland (Calif.)
ISBN : 0615629164
Oakland by Beth Bagwell,Erika Mailman Pdf
Eye from the Edge
Ruben Llamas
Author : Ruben Llamas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : 1885401604
Eye from the Edge by Ruben Llamas Pdf
A real American memoir of mid-20th Century, West Oakland, California. A rare glimpse into urban adventures, immigrant challenges and musical culture. An easy and interesting read for all ages.
Swimming with Horses
Oakland Ross
Author : Oakland Ross
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459743557
Swimming with Horses by Oakland Ross Pdf
A whodunnit on horseback, Swimming with Horses blends equestrian sports, teenage nostalgia, political tensions in new and old South Africa, and a modern take on Canadian identity, all rolled into a taut literary thriller.
Out of Oakland
Sean L. Malloy
Author : Sean L. Malloy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501712708
Out of Oakland by Sean L. Malloy Pdf
Out of Oakland offers a wonderful case study in the possibilities and limitations of transnational organizing. ― Diplomatic History In Out of Oakland, Sean L. Malloy explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party (BPP); the continuing exile of former members, including Assata Shakur, in Cuba is testament to the lasting nature of the international bonds that were forged during the party's heyday. Founded in Oakland, California, in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the BPP began with no more than a dozen members. Focused on local issues, most notably police brutality, the Panthers patrolled their West Oakland neighborhood armed with shotguns and law books. Within a few years, the BPP had expanded its operations into a global confrontation with what Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver dubbed "the international pig power structure." Malloy traces the shifting intersections between the black freedom struggle in the United States, Third World anticolonialism, and the Cold War. By the early 1970s, the Panthers had chapters across the United States as well as an international section headquartered in Algeria and support groups and emulators as far afield as England, India, New Zealand, Israel, and Sweden. The international section served as an official embassy for the BPP and a beacon for American revolutionaries abroad, attracting figures ranging from Black Power skyjackers to fugitive LSD guru Timothy Leary. Engaging directly with the expanding Cold War, BPP representatives cultivated alliances with the governments of Cuba, North Korea, China, North Vietnam, and the People's Republic of the Congo as well as European and Japanese militant groups and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. In an epilogue, Malloy directly links the legacy of the BPP to contemporary questions raised by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Flavors of Oakland
Elazar Sontag
Author : Elazar Sontag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0964435276
Flavors of Oakland by Elazar Sontag Pdf
Flavors of Oakland will take you on a culinary tour through one of America's most vibrant cities. In each of the 20 chapters you will meet an Oakland resident who shares their story and a treasured recipe from their culture. Magnificent photos of the people and recipes bring the Flavors of Oakland to your own kitchen wherever you may be.
Oakland, Jack London, and Me
Eric Miles Williamson
Author : Eric Miles Williamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123274461
Oakland, Jack London, and Me by Eric Miles Williamson Pdf
Acclaimed novelist, editor, and critic Eric Miles Williamson, with the publication of his first book of nonfiction, establishes himself as one of the premier critics of his generation. There is no other book that resembles Oakland, Jack London, and Me. The parallels between the lives of Jack London and Eric Miles Williamson are startling: Both grew up in the same waterfront ghetto of Oakland, California; neither knew who his father was; both had insane mothers; both did menial jobs as youths and young men; both spent time homeless; both made their treks to the Northlands; both became authors; and both cannot reconcile their attitudes toward the poor, what Jack London calls "the people of the abyss." With this as a premise, Williamson examines not only the life and work of Jack London, but his own life and attitudes toward the poor, toward London, Oakland, culture and literature. A blend of autobiography, criticism, scholarship, and polemic, Oakland, Jack London, and Me is a book written not just for academics and students. Jack London remains one of the best-selling American authors in the world, and Williamson's Oakland, Jack London, and Me is as accessible as any of the works of London, his direct literary forbear and mentor.
Humpty Dumpty In Oakland
Philip K Dick
Author : Philip K Dick
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473209589
Humpty Dumpty In Oakland by Philip K Dick Pdf
Set in the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1950s, Humpty Dumpty in Oakland is a tragicomedy of misunderstandings among used car dealers and real-estate salesmen: the small-time, struggling individuals for whom Philip K. Dick always reserved his greatest sympathy. Jim Fergesson, an elderly garage owner with a heart condition, is about to sell up and retire; Al Miller is a somewhat feckless mechanic who sublets part of Jim's lot and finds his livelihood threatened by the decision to sell; Chris Harman is a record company owner who for years has relied on Fergesson to maintain his cars. When Harman hears of Fergesson's impending retirement he tips him off to what he says is a cast-iron business proposition: a development in nearby Marin County with an opening for a garage. Al Miller, though, is convinced that Harman is a crook, out to fleece Fergesson of his life's savings. As much as he resents Fergesson he can't bear to see that happen and - denying to himself all the time what he is doing - he sets out to thwart Harman.
Home Field Advantage
Paul Brekke-Miesner
Author : Paul Brekke-Miesner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 0615886922
Home Field Advantage by Paul Brekke-Miesner Pdf
Theatres of Oakland
Jack Tillmany,Jennifer Dowling
Author : Jack Tillmany,Jennifer Dowling
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439634059
Theatres of Oakland by Jack Tillmany,Jennifer Dowling Pdf
Oakland has a rich theatre history, from the amusements of a gas-lit downtown light opera and vaudeville stage in the 1870s to the ornate cinematic escape portals of the Great Depression. Dozens of neighborhood theatres, once the site of family outings and first dates, remain cherished memories in the lives of Oaklanders. The city can still boast three fabulous movie palaces from the golden age of cinema: the incomparable art deco Paramount, which now offers live performances and films; the stately Grand Lake gracing the sinuous shores of Lake Merritt; and the magnificently eccentric Fox Oakland, with its imposing Hindu gods flanking the stage. The Paramount and Grand Lake still stir the heartstrings of patrons with showings preceded by interludes on their mighty Wurlitzer organs.
The Oakland Hills Vodou Murders
Glen C. Carrington
Author : Glen C. Carrington
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468522167
The Oakland Hills Vodou Murders by Glen C. Carrington Pdf
The novel is about the murder of Hillary Chatham Dillard, an interracial co-ed at an affluent college campus in Californias Oakland Hills. The body, covered in duck feathers with a majestic mallard duck head protruding from her mouth, was discovered after an annual alumni affair. Was it voodoo or as pronounced in Caribbean slangvodou? The main character, retired Detective Bill Lincoln, entered the case after a three-month unsuccessful police investigation. Detective Lincoln, a straight shooter, never discloses his political and social allegiances. He clings to the high road, but under relentless grinding pressure, will bend the rules back whereby they may snap! Hes a realistknowing that true idealism can have you night swimming in the San Francisco Bay with a concrete ankle brace. Detective Lincoln delves into the quirks and quagmires of suspects with monetary and social affluence, alleged Mafia connections, local explosive politics, and the necromantic elements of voodoo. Two voodoo practitioners provide conflicting opinions. Which one, if either, speaks the truth? And, theres the memorable Lenny, the Detectives helper whos been hospitalized for twenty years due to complete short-term memory loss and follows any command ordered by his superior. The affluent Dillard family demand to know their daughters murderer. They have three remaining children: the eldest, Franklin Jr., is running for high political office; Monique, a design engineer, is stunning and; Radcliffe, the youngest, is a ladies man with neither career ambitions nor job supporting his lavish lifestyle. The landscape is the beautiful hills of Oakland California where the affluent and powerful sit ruling their flat land subjects to the murky crevices and dark corners of the New Orleans bayou. It is here where superstition supersedes reality and having a gun may not be enough!
Pretest Census in Oakland, California, and Camden, New Jersey
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Camden (N.J.)
ISBN : LOC:00183658281
Pretest Census in Oakland, California, and Camden, New Jersey by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population Pdf
Oakland
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738535826
Oakland by Anonim Pdf
In the nineteenth century, Oakland was both a bustling industrial village and a rural farming community. The town was home to busy ax factories, a railway complex built for tourists and trade, an electric power company, a waterfall nearly as high as Niagara Falls, oxen plowing fields, and a Civil War memorial to rival any in the state of Maine. Today, Oakland is a quiet suburban town for most of the year. Its downtown does not draw the shoppers it once did, and its factories and farms can be counted on two hands. Even after two hundred years of change, Oakland continues to rebuild and transform itself for the twenty-first century.