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The Beauty of the Beasts: Tales of Hollywood's Wild Animal Stars

THE BEAUTY OF THE BEASTS is a chronicle of many years Ralph Helfer spent as a Hollywood animal behaviorist, and is full of behind–the–scenes accounts of the many television programs and films in...
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The Log from the "Sea of Cortez" (Penguin Modern Classics)

In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was...
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Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles

Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska and raised in Oklahoma, but he belongs to Los Angeles in a way few other artists do. Since the 1960s, Ruscha's iconic images of the cityscape and culture of...
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Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World

Few stories in the annals of American counterculture are as intriguing or dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.Dubbed the “Hippie Mafia,” the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as...
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

Revealing the story behind the Manson family, conspiracy, and investigation, a twenty-fifth anniversary edition narrates Deputy D.A. Vincent Bugliosi's determined prosecution, the psychological...
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The Girl in Alfred Hitchock's Shower

The New York Times bestselling author who investigated the Zodiac case now uncovers a real-life mystery of murder, body doubles, and obsession Marli Renfro was a model who played a part in one of...
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Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier

Customer Review: This book opened my eyes to what life on the western frontier was really like. Forget current media fictionalizations, the frontier was not a shooting gallery. No handsome stranger...
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Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City

More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history. Manufacturer:...
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Sierra Nevada: The Naturalist's Companion, Revised edition

All lovers of the mountains will welcome Verna Johnston's new and completely updated edition of her classic, Sierra Nevada, originally published in 1970. A professional biologist, veteran...
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Geology of the Sierra Nevada (California Natural History Guides)

Customer Review: Three decades ago geologist Mary Hill wrote a handbook to the Sierra Nevada's geologic history and it became the standard guide. The aptly named author has now extensively revised...
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Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (Public Anthropology, 5)

Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American...
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Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965

Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag...
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After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this provocative...
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A Maritime History of Baja California

"A Maritime History of Baja California" describes the most important harbors and anchorages of the Baja California peninsula by charts, maps, satellite imagery and photos. The history of each of...
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Where I Was From

In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state's...
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