L Durham: 16 books
Durham’s Place-Names of Greater Los Angeles
Includes Los Angeles, Ventura, and Orange Counties
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
• The pueblo that became the city was established in 1781 as “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.” A hill located less than 1,000 feet from Los Angeles city hall was used as a base during the first American occupation of Los...
Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Eastern Sierra
Including Death Valley, Alpine, Inyo & Mono Counties
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
• The Federal Writers’ Project named an area three miles south-southeast of Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley the Devil’s Cornfield because the arrowweed growing there resembled shocks of corn tied about the middle.
• The Devil’s Golf...
Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Central Coast
Includes Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Benito, Monterey & Santa Cruz Counties
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
• Sutil Island, a 1,250 foot-long island, 1,900 feet off the southwest end of Santa Barbara Island was named after one of merchant-explorer Sebastian Vizcaino’s ships.
• Gaspar de Portola founded Presidio of San Carlos Borromeo de Monterey,...
Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Desert Counties
Includes Imperial, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
• The name Rancho Cucamonga, derived from an Indian word, suffered a number of bizarre spellings by early Americans including, Coco Mongo Ranch, Cocomouga’s Ranch, Qui-qual-mun-go Ranch, Kikal Mungo ranch and Rancho Cocoa-Mungo.
• A place...
Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Gold Country
Including Yosemite National Park, Madera, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Amador, El Dorado, Placer, Sierra & Nevada Counties
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
• Above-ground graves resembling small, outdoor ovens furnished the name for the Mariposa County village of Hornitos. Hornitos is a Spanish word that means “little ovens.”
• In 1885, Alexander Kirkwood founded a hotel called Rattlesnake...
Durham’s Place Names of California’s North Coast
Includes Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino & Trinity Counties
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
• Wounded Knee Mountain in Del Norte County got its name from an incident suffered by an Unites States Geological Survey employee who was working in the neighborhood in 1915. The mountain sits just one and a half miles west of Broken Rib Mountain, another sore spot in California’s...
Durham’s Place-Names of Central California
Includes Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings & Kern Counties
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
• Steven Barton founded the town of Isabella near the Kern River and named it for Queen Isabella of Spain in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition celebrating the quadricentennial of the discovery of America. Sixty years later, a dam was built on the river and the original...
Knowing the Suffering of Others
Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.
From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to...
by Martha L. Durham
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Through my hurts, my pain, and my sorrows, Jesus has been here with me, holding my hand. He gave me a sparkle of hope. It kept me going and still does. I know my heavenly Father knows where I am. He is my everything. One day as I was driving my city bus downtown Atlanta, I heard the Lord say three...
Imagining Legality
Where Law Meets Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
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Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the books and law in action, a third concept of...
Women's Voices on American Stages in the Early Twenty-First Century
Sarah Ruhl and Her Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Women are at the center of American theatre and have the potential to shape the cultural imagination of theatre-goers as a complex new era unfolds. Sarah Ruhl, one of the twenty-first century's most honored playwrights, is read in concert with her contemporaries whose writing also wrestles with the vexing issues facing Americans in the new century.
by L. Durham
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Jay, a strong mountain man who lives alone, meets Justina while she is swimming naked in a pond. She quickly leaves, but accidentally drops a necklace on the ground, which he later finds. Determined to return it to her, he travels into town to see if he can find her. The shop boy doesn't know where she...
by Lieut. Norman L. Durham
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate Napoleon Bonaparte’s command and control of the Grand Armée through the lens of organizational design. Napoleon’s methodology behind the design of the Grand Armée is analyzed using modern principles of organizational design. The structure that Napoleon...
by L. Durham
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Brock Barnes loved the cowboy life. He had come west to California during the gold rush in 1850. That was ten years ago and when his dream proved to be more fantasy than reality he took a job driving cattle from San Francisco to Abilene. He not be making his fortune but he enjoys the freedom and excitement...
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