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  • Long Beach Fire Department

    by Glen Goodrich, Long Beach Firefighters Museum ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Long Beach Fire Department�s adaptability has been tested by a wide variety of disasters that have marked it as a unique firefighting force on the West Coast. Thousands of residents and others have owed their very lives to thedepartment since its 1897 formation. The LBFD moved into action during the devastating 1933 Long Beach earthquake, in which its own Fire House No. 1 was reduced to rubble ... Read more

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  • A Death in the Islands

    The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow

    by Mike Farris ...
    Lies, murder, and a legendary courtroom battle threaten to tear apart the Territory of Hawaii.In September of 1931, Thalia Massie, a young naval lieutenant’s wife, claims to have been raped by five Hawaiian men in Honolulu. Following a hung jury in the rape trial, Thalia’s mother, socialite Grace Fortescue, and husband, along with two sailors, kidnap one of the accused in an attempt to coerce a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Deadliest Sea

    The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History

    by Kalee Thompson ...
    Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real life action and adventure at its finest. The full story of an amazing rescue—where extraordinary courage, ingenuity, will, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

    The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

    by Richard White ...
    A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Draw

    The Greatest Gunfights of the American West

    by James Reasoner ...
    Known for his ability to make history come vividly to life, Reasoner strips away the dime novel legends and Hollywood myths to show us how the gunfighters of the Old West really lived, killed, and were killed.Praised for his “well-researched” (Booklist) and “lively, suspenseful” (Publishers Weekly) novels, James Reasoner now proves that truth can be even more exciting than fiction.Among the true ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Fighting Fire in the Sierra National Forest

    by Marcia Penner Freedman ...
    To live in the foothills on the periphery of the Sierra National Forest is to live with the certainty of summer wildfires. Each year, from April forward, Californians watch the sky and sniff the air for telltale signs of smoke. While fire remains a constant threat, the strategy for combating it has evolved with the understanding of its beneficial role in the forest environment. Marcia Penner ... Read more

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  • Los Angeles Street Food

    A History from Tamaleros to Taco Trucks

    by Farley Elliott ...
    Series series American Palate
    A history and guidebook for locals and visitors who want to explore the flavorful delights of the nation's street food capital—includes photos!Los Angeles is the uncontested street food champion of the United States, and it isn't even a fair fight. Millions of hungry locals and tourists take to the streets to eat tacos, down bacon-wrapped hot dogs, and indulge in the latest offerings from a fleet ... Read more

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  • Shortfall

    Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking

    by Alice Echols ...
    The rollicking true story of a 1930s version of Bernie Madoff—and the building and loan crash he helped precipitate—in a wonderful work of narrative nonfiction by the Gustavus Myers book award winnerShortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic—boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years—and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in ... Read more

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  • The Case of Rose Bird

    Gender, Politics, and the California Courts

    by Kathleen A. Cairns ...
    Rose Elizabeth Bird was forty years old when in 1977 Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown chose her to become California’s first female supreme court chief justice. Appointed to a court with a stellar reputation for being the nation’s most progressive, Bird became a lightning rod for the opposition due to her liberalism, inexperience, and gender. Over the next decade, her name became a rallying cry as ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Gendering Radicalism

    Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California

    by Beth Slutsky ...
    Series series Women in the West
    In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a card-carrying member of the Young Communist League. Nearly forty years later, in 1966, Kendra Claire Harris ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Custer and the Sioux, Durnford and the Zulus

    Parallels in the American and British Defeats at the Little Bighorn (1876) and Isandlwana (1879)

    by Paul Williams ...
    In June 1876 the 7th U.S. Cavalry was savagely defeated at the Little Bighorn in the Montana wilderness during an attempt to seize Sioux and Cheyenne hunting grounds. Three years later redcoats mirrored this utter disaster with an equally high-handed grab for Zulu lands in South Africa.Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and Lieutenant Colonel Anthony W. Durnford had much in common, from modes of ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • SiGe-based Re-engineering of Electronic Warfare Subsystems

    by Saurabh Sinha, Wynand Lambrechts ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides readers a thorough understanding of the applicability of new-generation silicon-germanium (SiGe) electronic subsystems for electronic warfare and defensive countermeasures in military contexts. It explains in detail the theoretical and technical background, and addresses all aspects of the integration of SiGe as an enabling technology for maritime, land, and airborne / ... Read more

    $89.09 USD