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The Golden Gate
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Author : Vikram Seth
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2002-02
The Golden Gate written by Vikram Seth and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02 with City and town life categories.
The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life. It was awarded the 1986 British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
Golden Gates
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Author : Conor Dougherty
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-02-18
Golden Gates written by Conor Dougherty and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-18 with Social Science categories.
A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism • Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy • Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival • A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Tells the story of housing in all its complexity.” —NPR Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist movements that have risen in tandem with housing costs.
The End Of The Golden Gate
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2021-05-25
The End Of The Golden Gate written by and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with Literary Collections categories.
Capturing an ever-changing San Francisco, 25 acclaimed writers tell their stories of living in one of the most mesmerizing cities in the world. Over the last few decades, San Francisco has experienced radical changes with the influence of Silicon Valley, tech companies, and more. Countless articles, blogs, and even movies have tried to capture the complex nature of what San Francisco has become, a place millions of people have loved to call home, and yet are compelled to consider leaving. In this beautifully written collection, writers take on this Bay Area-dweller's eternal conflict: Should I stay or should I go? Including an introduction written by Gary Kamiya and essays from Margaret Cho, W. Kamau Bell, Michelle Tea, Beth Lisick, Daniel Handler, Bonnie Tsui, Stuart Schuffman, Alysia Abbott, Peter Coyote, Alia Volz, Duffy Jennings, John Law, and many more, The End of the Golden Gate is a penetrating journey that illuminates both what makes San Francisco so magnetizing and how it has changed vastly over time, shapeshifting to become something new for each generation of city dwellers. With essays chronicling the impact of the tech-industry invasion and the evolution, gentrification, and radical cost of living that has transformed San Francisco's most beloved neighborhoods, these prescient essayists capture the lasting imprint of the 1960s counterculture movement, as well as the fight to preserve the art, music, and other creative movements that make this forever the city of love. For anyone considering moving to San Francisco, wishing to relive the magic of the city, or anyone experiencing the sadness of leaving the bay—and ultimately, for anyone that needs a reminder of why we stay. Bound to be a long-time staple of San Francisco literature, anyone who has lived in or is currently living in San Francisco will enjoy the rich history of the city within these pages and relive intimate memories of their own. • GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY: A percentage of the proceeds will be given to charities that help those in the bay experiencing homelessness. Every copy purchased offers a small way to help those in need.
The Golden Gate
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Author : Vikram Seth
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1986
The Golden Gate written by Vikram Seth and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Fiction categories.
This novel in verse about a group of California yuppies was one of the most highly praised books of 1986 and a bestseller on both coasts.
The Golden Gate
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Author : Peter Beren
language : en
Publisher: Insight Editions
Release Date : 2012-04-17
The Golden Gate written by Peter Beren and has been published by Insight Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with Photography categories.
The Golden Gate Bridge is an icon of one of the most storied of American cities, San Francisco. Standing between the Bay and the mighty Pacific like a guardian of the West, the Golden Gate retains its grip on the American imagination long after its twenty-seven-year record of being the longest suspension bridge in the world was superseded. Featuring a selection of stunning images of the Bridge, many from angles and positions that show it in a whole new light, The Golden Gate: San Francisco's Celebrated Bridge showcases the acclaimed photography of San Francisco native, Morton Beebe. Complementing Beebe's photographs is a short history of the bridge and memorable quotes from a variety of San Francisco natives and visitors affected by the its imposing presence, illustrating the firm grip this near-mythic structure has on our collective imagination.
The Final Leap
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Author : John Bateson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2012-04-18
The Final Leap written by John Bateson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-18 with Social Science categories.
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and most photographed structures in the world. It’s also the most deadly. Since it opened in 1937, more than 1,500 people have died jumping off the bridge, making it the top suicide site on earth. It’s also the only international landmark without a suicide barrier. Weaving drama, tragedy, and politics against the backdrop of a world-famous city, The Final Leap is the first book ever written about Golden Gate Bridge suicides. John Bateson leads us on a fascinating journey that uncovers the reasons for the design decision that led to so many deaths, provides insight into the phenomenon of suicide, and examines arguments for and against a suicide barrier. He tells the stories of those who have died, the few who have survived, and those who have been affected—from loving families to the Coast Guard, from the coroner to suicide prevention advocates.
Latinos At The Golden Gate
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Author : Tomás F. Summers Sandoval (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2013
Latinos At The Golden Gate written by Tomás F. Summers Sandoval (Jr.) and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco
Golden Gate
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Author : Kevin Starr
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Release Date : 2012-04-24
Golden Gate written by Kevin Starr and has been published by Bloomsbury Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-24 with History categories.
Kevin's Starr's Golden Gate is a brilliant and passionate telling of the history of the bridge itself, and a recounting of the rich and peculiar history of the California experience. The Golden Gate is a grand public work, a symbol and a very real bridge, a magnet for both postcard photographs and suicides. In this compact but comprehensive narrative, Starr unfolds the hidden-in-plain sight meaning of the Golden Gate, putting it in its place among classic works of art.
Black Death At The Golden Gate
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Author : David K Randall
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2019-05-07
Black Death At The Golden Gate written by David K Randall and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with History categories.
A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress. For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin—a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong’s tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide. To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable—or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. Spearheading a relentless crusade for sanitation, Blue and his men patrolled the squalid streets of fast-growing San Francisco, examined gory black buboes, and dissected diseased rats that put the fate of the entire country at risk. In the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson, Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue’s race to understand the disease and contain its spread—the only hope of saving San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate.
Immigration At The Golden Gate
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Author : Robert Eric Barde
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2008-03-30
Immigration At The Golden Gate written by Robert Eric Barde and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-30 with History categories.
Presents the history of San Francisco's Angel Island Immigration Station that operated between 1910 and 1940. Argues that Asian immigrants, rather than being welcomed, were denied liberties and even entrance to the United States.