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Gold Standard
The Golden State Warriors' Dominant Run to the 2017 Championship
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Dominant. Few seasons in sports history better exemplify that term than the Golden State Warriors' road to the 2016-2017 NBA championship. After adding Kevin Durant to an already elite lineup, the Warriors stormed to a league-leading 67 wins in the regular season. Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Klay...
California Why Stop?
A Guide to California Roadside Historical Markers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
You are in your car, blazing down the road. A historical marker appears. You want to stop but you can't. What did it say? Here at last is the solution to your problem. This book presents the actual inscriptions of Califorina's 1,013 offical markers.
Sleetmute
A True Story of Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
New York City. 1968. I was 24. I had just graduated from college. I applied to VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) as a possible deferment from the Army and Vietnam. I was young and I thought I knew everything. I figured if they had VISTA in any state they had to have VISTA in every state. I requested...
Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary
She Led by Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiancé, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution....
Cuba and Its Music
From the First Drums to the Mambo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising,...
Wildman of Rhythm
The Life and Music of Benny Moré
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
Benny More (1919-1963) was one of the giants at the center of the golden age of Cuban music. Arguably the greatest singer ever to come from the island, his name is still spoken with reverence and nostalgia by Cubans and Cuban exiles alike.
Unable to read music, he nevertheless wrote more than...
Rhythms of Race
Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha cha. In her history of music and race in midcentury America,...
by Jim Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
The wit, the wisdom, and the wanderings of a cruiser.
Uplake
Restless Essays of Coming and Going
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
For many years, Ana Maria Spagna has stayed put, mostly, in a small mountain valley at the head of a glacier-carved lake. You�re so lucky to live there, people say. She is lucky. But she is also restless. In Uplake she takes road trips, flies to distant cities, fantasizes about other people�s...
by Aaron Needham
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Chicago, Illinois.
by Doug Gelbert
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour from walkthetown.com is ready to explore...
Vodou in Haitian Memory
The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Throughout Haitian history—from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti—arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” and a “cultural paradox,” as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life...
Historic Walks in San Francisco
18 Trails Through the City's Past
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Eighteen self-guided walking tours down city streets that will take you back in time, with colorful stories about the buildings along the way and the people associated with them. Easy-to-follow maps, and dozens of historic photographs. You will read tales about such well-known figures as Jack London,...
A History of Pacific Northwest Cuisine
Mastodons to Molecular Gastronomy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
With a dash of humor and a sprinkling of recipes, culinarian Marc Hinton chronicles the bounty of the Pacific Northwest from the mastodon meals of the earliest inhabitants to the gastronomic revolution of today. In this lively narrative, learn how Oregon's and Washington's chefs have used the region's...