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Two sisters navigate the thrilling, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling saga of ambition, sacrifice, and the tangled ties between mothers and daughters from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife.
Southern California, 1960s: endless sunny days surfing in Malibu,…
Discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet’s California’s Best Road Trips. This trusted travel companion features 33 amazing drives, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures. Experience the majesty of Yosemite, encounter towering redwoods in Big Sur, or soak up the sun on SoCal’s beaches.…
Lonely Planet’s California is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Amble down Hollywood Boulevard, hike in Yosemite National Park and take a boat to the infamous Alcatraz; all with your trusted…
Kategorier: Konst
A history of modern and contemporary art in California from the early 20th century to the present day.
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: konst och underhållning Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
In 1967, a young woman from Sweden convinced her sister to move to the US with her to start a crochet clothing business. After an early, fortuitous meeting with Vogue, news spread quickly that young Mitan & Moni could create beautiful clothes. The two women embarked on a very successful few years creating custom…
Lonely Planet’s Experience California is your guide to unforgettable experiences and local surprises. Push boundaries in San Francisco, cruise some of America’s most famous roads, and experience nature at its biggest – all guided by local experts with fresh perspectives. Uncover California’s…
Lonely Planet’s California and Southwest USA’s National Parks is your passport to the most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip. Hike down the Grand Canyon, marvel at Sequoia and chase waterfalls in Yosemite; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of California and Southwest…
Kategorier: Konst
When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply do not see it anymore because it is everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment, design registers its redundancy: our products, environments and services have been comprehensively improved. Everything has been…
Kategorier: Dystopier och utopier Hobby Hobby, spel och lekar Livsstil, hobby och fritid Rollspel, lajv och fantasy-sport Skönlitteratur Spekulativ skönlitteratur
California Countdown is the fourth in a series of spectacular solo adventures written by Joe Dever, the author behind the award-winning LONE WOLF adventure gamebooks. Each exciting episode can be played individually, or you can combine them with others in the series to create a solo role-playing epic in which you are…
Kategorier: Konst
From the 1930s to the 1960s numerous potteries in Southern California turned out some of the finest figural pottery ever made in America. For decades these beautiful wares lingered in obscurity, but now they have rocketed to the forefront of collectibility.
They are illustrated here with over 800 color photographs…
What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens
designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for arid Southern California by directly addressing the climate, landscape, and
culture they inhabit. Whether small or large, urban or rural, luxurious
or low budget, these resilient outdoor…
What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for Northern California by directly addressing the climate, landscape, and culture they inhabit. Whether small or large, urban or rural, luxurious or low budget, these resilient outdoor…
Work by over 30 leading architects of the Spanish Revival movement in California during the 1920s and ’30s is featured in this beautifully illustrated book. Drawn from the era’s leading architectural journals, these case studies document the ”best of” residential design during this influential…
Kategorier: Konst
The Arts & Crafts Movement had a profound effect on twentieth century design. It was a precursor to the minimalism of the day, yet imbued with a quiet eloquence based in careful, exquisite design. The natural materials, the subtlely organic forms began to shape living spaces across the country. In California,…
Join fine-art photographer David Skernick as he explores the rambling back roads of Southern California. This timeless tribute to the natural landscape captures the astonishing beauty of the Sierras and Death Valley, giant redwoods at Sequoia National Park, vast deserts, central valleys, and the Pacific coastline.…
Join fine-art photographer David Skernick as he explores the rambling
back roads of Northern California. This timeless tribute to the natural landscape captures the sublime beauty of settings such as Shasta Trinity National Forest, Napa Valley vineyards, Redwoods National Park, Route 1 and the Pacific Coast, and…
Originally published in 1911 as the fourth edition of the Ye Planry Building Company Inc.’s catalog of bungalow plans, this reproduction serves as an informative resource for today’s architects, homebuilders, and homeowners. This edition features 102 detailed, hand-drawn ”pencil sketches” of…
The California Revival style of home design is a new movement, an indoor-outdoor design that uses vintage furnishings, art pottery, tile, paintings and decorative arts from California’s Spanish Revival period of the 1920s to 1940s. Carole Coates and Annie Dietz take you inside ten “real” homes and share secrets from…
For centuries handcrafted tile has been a predominant decorative surface in tropical climes from Middle East through the Gulf of Mexico to California. California tile makers excelled in their craft during the first half of the twentieth century, producing richly patterned designs for building facades, interiors, garden…
For centuries handcrafted tile has been a predominant decorative surface in tropical climes from Middle East through the Gulf of Mexico to California. California tile makers excelled in their craft during the first half of the twentieth century, producing richly patterned designs for building facades, interiors, garden…
Casual clothing, swimwear in particular, is strongly associated with the California lifestyle, and the design and manufacture of casual clothing has long been the foundation of California’s garment industry. This book explores that industry as it developed in California from the 1930s through the 1970s, with emphasis…
A New Kind of Travelogue
Take an unusual, sometimes spooky, but always fun trip through the Golden State with this little travel companion—perfect for toting on an impromptu road trip or long-planned vacation. Visit the haunted Star of India and USS Hornet. Find out who is really living in a mysterious ghost town and…
Visit 25 of California’s most haunted and historic sites. Wander the halls of Camarillo State Hospital to hear ghostly children laughing and objects moving without assistance from the living. Consider whether restless soldiers are still in the tunnels where they were killed—could this be a legend? Is there a…
Travel along the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego and visit the many pleasure and fishing piers just waiting to be discovered and enjoyed. Approximately 500 color photos take you to 51 piers in the coastal areas of San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and more. Revel in…
Kategorier: Konst
It is said that Oregonians have more body art per capita than any state in the union. Bob Baxter and his wife, Mary Gardner, have carefully vetted and selected forty-four of the best shops out of hundreds in their home state in order to expand and improve their already vast online tattoo shop directory. Spending three…
Kategorier: Konst
This is the most comprehensive study of Old West art and antiques from the Golden State to date. Best quality furniture, gold and silver objects, gold quartz jewelry, gambling tools, firearms, Bowie knives, and beer advertising items of California significance from 1850 to 1920 are shown in over 700 color photos with…
Take a tour of historic California garden design via this classic book. Released in 1914 the book offered yesterdays reader ways to plan and beautify the city lot, suburban grounds, and country estate. For todays historic home owner, there are 50 garden plans and 103 illustrations of actual gardens from photographs…
Eerie footsteps sound in thin air. Disembodied voices float down empty staircases. Apparitions peer from lace-covered windows. Welcome to the haunted Southern California coast. Meet inhabitants of the Olivas Adobe in Ventura County where icy hands pull at your clothes; glimpse ghostly lights at Smugglers Beach as they…
The drama and beauty of historic homes in California are studied and displayed here in a deeply researched text and over 350 stunning color and over 50 black and white photographs.
Southern California’s Spanish Revival monuments are pictured here-such as Hearst Castle at San Simeon, the Adamson House in Malibu,…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Their Horses Climbed Trees tells the little known story of the five hundred volunteers from California known as the ”California Hundred and Battalion”, who fought in the East during the Civil War years 1863-1865, as a part of the Second Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. They served from 1862, when…
There’s an old saying in the news business: if it bleeds, it leads. The nightly California news and other media outlets are filled with stories of crime, killing, and sorrow. Within these pages rediscover 46 of the most notorious murders and shocking crimes committed by women in the state of California between…
Amusement parks have been a staple of California recreation and entertainment for over a century. First appearing along the beaches and multiplying up and down the coast, these parks ignited an industry that has seen tremendous change and innovation. Children’s Fairyland—America’s first theme park—and…
Take a photographic journey through Southern California and step back in time to visit fast food prototypes, drive-ins, bowling alley snack bars, space age coffee shops, roadside cafes, and fine dining destinations. Enjoy photo excursions to historic landmarks like the Dal Rae and Dresden Restaurant, the last remaining…
High fashion clothing designers from California produced stunning wardrobes for Hollywood stars that were trend-setting styles in the mid-20th century. Adrian, Irene, Helen Rose, Jean Louis, and William Travilla trained in the costume departments of the movie studios before they opened their own salons. Others, such as…
This comprehensive guidebook takes you to over 200 sites where the supernatural, paranormal and unknown are most likely to encountered in California. You will find:
–the top 5 California UFO hotspots
–Bigfoot encounters
–lake monsters and coastal sea serpents
–rare chupacabra and other…
Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever seen one? This chilling volume presents twenty-six true, first-hand accounts of spooks, spirits, and hauntings across the state of California, each published here for the first time. The book introduces many cases involving normal people who suddenly find themselves in bizarre…
Lilian J. Rice was given the opportunity of a lifetime in 1922, when her employer—architect, Richard Requa—passed over to her his commission to design and develop Rancho Santa Fe, the master planned, high class community in Southern California. Rice went on to design and build homes for some of the nation’s most…
Kategorier: Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc.
California Raisins*t lovers no longer need rely on the grapevine for collector information. Here is the authoritative illustrated guide, complete with more than 500 color photographs of collectible items and their values.
Born of popular advertising and projected to near stardom, the California Raisins*t held sway in…
Meet California’s legendary monsters in this guided tour, from the sea, where life began, to the Golden State’s scenic lakes, majestic mountains, brooding forests, and rumored ”alien tunnels” beneath the streets of Los Angeles. Cower beneath a giant vulture with a wingspan of 25 feet in San…
This beautifully photographed book offers a fresh look at Southern California’s roadside eateries. Embark on a road trip to out-of-the-way Route 66 landmarks, futuristic Googie coffee shops, and exotic Polynesian paradises. Part-homage and part-guidebook, this photo essay captures the flavor and character of…
Southern California has it all! Its rich diversity in climate, terrain, people, opportunities, and ideas cannot be overstated. With an open mind, Southern California welcomes the new, the wacky, and the absurd just as much as the brilliant and traditional. In more than 220 spectacular images and captions bursting at…
Step aside Roswell: California leads the nation in UFO sightings and encounters, with over 5000 reported incidents from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. Documented here are diverse early accounts, including native American UFO encounters, the 1896 California Airship Mystery, and the 1942…
The Spanish Revival movement in architecture was well established when Barker Brothers, a California furniture retailer, approached the Mason Manufacturing about creating a line of Spanish-styled furniture. That was 1929, and within a year Mason had created a 24-piece line of furniture called Monterey. It was…
Lonely Planet’s California is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Paddle in the Pacific, trek through desert oases, and watch fog tumble over the Golden Gate Bridge; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of…
Discover the freedom of open roads while touring California with Lonely Planet’s California’s Best Trips, your passport to up-to-date advice on uniquely encountering California by car. Featuring 33 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures, you can experience the majesty of Yosemite,…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: action och äventyr Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: deckare
En genomillustrerad deckare för mellanåldern med Agatha Christie-känsla. Bästsäljarna M. G Leonard och Sam Sedgman skriver en deckarserie där alla böcker utspelar sig på tåg i olika delar av världen.
Efter sitt äventyr på Highland Falcon får Harrison äntligen följa med sin morbror Nat på en ny resa. Den här gången åker…
Ellen Cohen drömmer om att bli sångerska. Hon har en fantastisk röst, hennes personlighet är lika excentrisk som bedårande, hennes behov av kärlek omättligt. I början av 1960-talet lämnar hon Baltimore för att undslippa en framtid som försäljare av pastramimackor och pröva lyckan i New York.
Pénélope Bagieu föds…