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"Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticalés once bustled with life and excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of rubble known as the Heap. In exchange for digging gear, a rehabilitated bicycle, and a small living stipend, a vast community of Dig Hands removes debris, trash, and bodies from the building's mountainous remains, which span more than twenty acres of...
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This book represents a summary glimpse of a life work of extensive oral history interviews with cannery workers, skippers, fishermen, residents and working people on Old Ocean View Avenue who worked its fishing and canning industries and knew Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck. The photography in this book vividly illustrates the information, understanding and appreciation of Cannery Row history, the basis of John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" and Ed Ricketts'...
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Strike Slip Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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AROMASTORY is the tale of a small California town, situated on the meeting points of three counties, nestled in a valley between two scenic mountain ranges, just beyond the outer edge of the San Francisco Bay Area. Despite the rampant growth and expansion of the urban regions that surround it, Aromas has somehow gone relatively unnoticed and unchanged for decades. AROMASTORY explores the economic opportunities that originally brought settlers to the...
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Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Athens, Greece, is best known for the Parthenon, the ruins of an ancient temple completed in 438 BC to honor the goddess Athena. But what many people don't know is that it only served as a temple for a couple hundred years. It then became a church, then a mosque, and by the end of the 1600s served as a storehouse for munitions. When an enemy army fired hundreds of cannon balls at the Acropolis, one directly hit the Parthenon. Much of the sculpture...
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Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Architecture is an all-embracing adventure without end. It is a story that can never be completed - not as long as mankind continues to build, to invent, to discover; it is the story told in this book. The history of architecture is also a history of many other things - of politics, economy, religion, of science, ecology and of art and culture generally - and so is essentially a history of the world. For architecture - in its forms and functions -...
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Welcome to the White House! Go behind the scenes to get a 360-degree view of America s most famous presidents' residence, from how it was built in 1792 and the fire of 1812, to today's state dinners, celebrations, celebrity pets, and more.
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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2019.
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English
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"An earlier version of this book, published in 1988, was titled Williamsburg Before and After: The Rebirth of Virginia's Colonial Capital. It explored how the Reverend W.A.R. Goodwin, the rector of Williamsburg's historic Bruton Parish Church, persuaded John D. Rockefeller Jr. to invest millions of dollars in the restoration of the eighteenth-century capital. Yet the story of the restoration, as told in the first edition of this book, was not the...
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Pacific Grove Books
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Discover Pacific Grove in a delightful new way--on foot! Pacific Grove at Your Feet features, walks, hikes, and rambles along our shoreline bluffs, our historic downtown district, and our wild and woodsy urban forest. Not just another trail guide, this book is teeming with local legend and lore presented in a friendly, breezy style. Fourteen different walks are included, from our eastern border at the Monterey Bay Aquarium to the southwestern edge,...
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Some nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incomparable art collection. Yet few of them are aware of the remarkable history of that place and of the buildings themselves-a fascinating story that historian James Gardner elegantly chronicles in the first full-length history of the Louvre in English. More than 7,000 years ago, men and women camped on a spot called le Louvre for reasons unknown; a clay...
16) Viejo Monterey: romantic legends and folklore ... of people, places and things that made Monterey
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[d'Angelo Pub. Co.]
Pub. Date
[1969]
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English
19) Farm buildings
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Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"In Farm Buildings, beginning readers will learn about the many buildings on a farm and their uses. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they are introduced to daily life on the farm. An interactive feature asks readers to match items and animals with which building they go in, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Farm Buildings also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table...
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Carpenters and builders library volume 2
Publisher
T. Audel
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
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