Eccentrics Heroes And Cutthroats Of Old Berkeley
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Eccentrics Heroes And Cutthroats Of Old Berkeley
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Author : Richard Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: RSB Books
Release Date : 2007-07-17
Eccentrics Heroes And Cutthroats Of Old Berkeley written by Richard Schwartz and has been published by RSB Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-17 with History categories.
In Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley, author Richard Schwartz seems to have leaned so far over the magic hole of history that he fell in and lived with the people he studied. The intimacy he has developed with men and women of nineteenth and early twentieth century Berkeley blurs the fact that these people and events are of another time. The seventeen stories Schwartz tells here remind us of an often-overlooked reality: that the face of humanity of the past is the same as our own. Although the world these wise and colorful characters inhabit is in so many ways different from ours, their spirit rings true to our modern sensibilities. Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley shows how deeply we share the emotions and motivations of our ancestors whether she be a Native American girl trapped as a Berkeley domestic, a Civil War veteran gossiping and reminiscing his way down Shattuck Avenue in a horse-drawn wagon, or an African American dairyman whose keen observations bring him riches in a community that embraced him as a town founder. Schwartz brings forth these long-forgotten people from their resting place, and does so with such skill as a storyteller that we can, for a time, straddle two worlds and sense their profound continuity.
Eccentrics Heroes And Cutthroats Of Old Berkeley
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Author : Richard Schwartz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Eccentrics Heroes And Cutthroats Of Old Berkeley written by Richard Schwartz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
The seventeen stories Schwartz tells here remond us of an often-overlooked reality: that the face of humanity of the past is the same as our own. Although the world of these colorful characters inhabit is in so many ways different from ours, their spirit rings true to our modern sensibilities, Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cuttthroats of Old Berkeley shows how deeply we share the emotions and motivations of our ancestors...whetehr she's a Native American girl trapped as a Berkeley domestic, a Civil War veteran gossiping and reminiscing his way down Shattuck Avenue in a horse-drawn wagon, or an African American dairyman whose keen observations and inventive skill bring him riches in a community that embraced him as a town founder. Schwartz brings forth these long-forgotten people from their resting place, and does so with such skill as a storyteller that we can, for a time, straddle two worlds and sense their profound continuity.
Berkeley 1900
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Author : Richard Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: R S B Books
Release Date : 2009-09
Berkeley 1900 written by Richard Schwartz and has been published by R S B Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09 with History categories.
"Berkeley 1900" transformed a stack of molding 100-year old newspapers into an extraordinary award winning compilation of everyday life at the turn of the century. The fascinating news articles are organized into thirty chapters. Each chapter examines a particular aspect of everyday life as the reporters of the day saw it.
Earthquake Exodus 1906
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Author : Richard Schwartz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Earthquake Exodus 1906 written by Richard Schwartz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Earthquake Exodus, 1906 tells the story of the ten-week relief effort in the East Bay after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Within hours of the earthquake, the people of Berkeley began to organize a citizens' committee, knowing that terrified masses of stricken refuges would pour into their town within hours. By revisiting both their challenges--smallpox, fires, and keeping public order--and acts of grace, such as taking in the homeless, setting up temporary camps, and dispensing food, Richard Schwartz illuminates a nearly forgotten episode in Bay Area history. Containing many breathtaking photos and illustrations not seen for nearly one hundred years, this new visual history offers up singularly human details of one of the nation's most infamous disasters.
Waiting For The Big One
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Author : Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-08-29
Waiting For The Big One written by Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-29 with Social Science categories.
This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following the idea that earthquake risk is multiple and hard to grasp, the book explores the earthquake’s “mode of existence,” guiding the reader through different epistemic moments of the earthquake-risk definition. Through in-depth interviews, the book provides a rarely seen anthropology of risk from the perspective of experts, scientists, and concerned residents for whom the possibility of partial or complete destruction of their living environment is a constant companion of their everyday lives. It argues that the characterization of the threats and the measures taken to limit its impacts constitute an integrated part of both their residential experiences and their professional practices.
The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty
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Author : Richard Schwartz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-06
The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty written by Richard Schwartz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Independent Publisher Book Awards 2018, Bronze Medal Winner - Biography As the Statue of Liberty stood unlit and unloved by American politicians in 1886, one of her saviors was creating a theatrical sensation at New York's Fourteenth Street Theatre. Actor M. B. Curtis, who had achieved overnight success in Sam'l of Posen, a groundbreaking play that transcended the common stereotypes of Jewish characters current at the time, was basking in public accolades at every curtain call when he came to Lady Liberty's aid. Curtis's rise to the top of his profession and hisresulting fall from grace is a dramatic arc that rivals anything created for the stage. Actor, producer, real estate developer, promoter, hotelier, benefactor, and murder suspect, Curtis reached the highs of celebrity and fame as well as the lows of failure, illness, and a faltering career.The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty rescues his story from the dusty archives of forgotten history and reexamines an actor whose creativity and cultural influence still resonate today.
Mount Diablo
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Author : Linda Rimac Colberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Mount Diablo written by Linda Rimac Colberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Contra Costa County (Calif.) categories.
Mount Diablo, The Extraordinary Life and Landscapes of a California Treasure, is a first-of-its-kind collection of original fine art photographs and panoramic creations of one of California's premier landscape photographers, Stephen Joseph.
Degeneration
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Author : Max Simon Nordau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Degeneration written by Max Simon Nordau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Comparative literature categories.
Nihilism Inc
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Author : Arran Gare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Nihilism Inc written by Arran Gare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Civilization, Western categories.
Anagram Solver
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Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Anagram Solver written by Bloomsbury Publishing and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Games & Activities categories.
Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.