Free Download Maureen Gilmer, "Redwoods and Roses: The Gardening Heritage of California"
English | ISBN: 149303832X | 2020 | 224 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
Redwoods and Roses explores the special relationship California's diverse peoples have shared with nature and the unique gardens and landscapes they have created over the years to nurture and enhance those bonds. From pre-colonial times to the Victorian era, California gardening expert Maureen Gilmer brings this garden history to life, showing how the gardens and landscapes were created and profiling the heirloom plants within them. But Redwoods and Roses is more than a book on gardening history. Here, the reader will discover how to recreate period designs in her own garden, from making a no-fuss adobe-look wall from the Mission era to finding heirloom plants for a cottage garden. Redwoods and Roses is a blend of natural history, California history, plants profiles, landscaping tips, and sensible garden advice, as well as an eloquent plea for the preservation of many remarkable plants.

Into the Inferno A Photographer's Journey into California's Megafires and Fallout by Stuart Palley | 7.54 MB
English | 322 Pages

Title: Into the Inferno
Author: Stuart Palley
Year: 2022

Marques Vickers, "Murder in California: Serial Killers and Unsolved Murders: The Topography of Evil: Notorious California Murder Sites"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 109764846X | EPUB | pages: 267 | 3.7 mb

Marques Vickers, "Murder in California: The Topography of Evil: Notorious California Murder Sites"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1538006480 | EPUB | pages: 490 | 7.3 mb
The second edition of "Murder in California: The Topography of Evil" is Marques Vickers' visual return to 108 infamous crime scenes detailing the shocking and often searing narratives behind each tragedy. Over 225 images amplify insight by escorting the reader to the crime location, offering a critical context and perspective. The captured snapshots portray visual testimonies of extinguished lives removed by acts of violence. Crime scenes often revert back into unremarkable landscape or unassuming buildings over the ensuing years and decades. Several have altered little since their moment of infamy. Many are passed daily by pedestrian and vehicular traffic unaware of a location's unique significance. California has been the residence for many notorious profiled individual and serial killers including the Zodiac, Ted Unabomber Kaczynski, Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, Jim Jones, Richard Allen Davis, David Carpenter, The Menendez Brothers, Juan Corona, Rodney Alcala, Phil Spector, Dan White, Juan Corona, Richard Ramirez and Scott Peterson. The media has christened some with monikers like the Trailside Killer, Children of Thunder, Co-ed Killer, Vampire of Sacramento, Zebra Killers and Death House Landlady. The state has been the death site of notable victims including Senator Robert Kennedy, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, Supervisor Harvey Milk, Mobster Bugsy Siegel, Black Panther Huey P. Newton, Journalist Chauncey Bailey, Nicole Simpson-Brown, Rapper Notorious B.I.G., Polly Klaas, Lacy Peterson, singers Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke and actors Haing Ngor, Ramon Novarro and Sal Mineo. The Murder in California edition profiles are segmented into nine categories. Within the context of each, important issues and questions are raised. These subjects include capital punishment, racial perceptions, contributing parental influences, media reporting, public opinion, juvenile sentencing, self-incrimination protections and the impartiality of our judicial system.

Climbing California's Fourteeners: Hiking the State's 15 Peaks Over 14,000 Feet (Climbing Mountains Series) by Toby Evans
English | September 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1493045466 | 224 pages | PDF | 12 Mb
From the southernmost peak of Mt. Langley to Mt. Shasta in the north, California's fifteen peaks of 14,000 feet or more are some of the most challenging and beautiful mountains in the country. Over the past decade the rise of endurance activities (including obstacle racing) and the popularity of reality television have increased the popularity of these daunting climbs (California's Fourteeners have been featured on The Amazing Race, Man vs. Wild, and Django Unchained).

Philip L Martin, "Unfulfilled Promise: Collective Bargaining In California Agriculture"
English | 2019 | pages: 234 | ISBN: 0367212781, 0367215594 | PDF | 21,2 mb
The "plight of the California farmworker" has been the main theme of over 100 years of government reports, scholarly writings, and popular literature. Farmworkers were excluded from most of the 1930s legislation which regulated wages and working conditions and recognized that workplace disputes could best be settled by collective bargaining.

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BF16CV7T | 2023 | 28 hours and 20 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 778 MB
Author: Malcolm Harris
Narrator: Patrick Harrison
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip assemblers, showing how Northern California created the world as we know it Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart of Silicon Valley, whose products are changing how we do everything from driving around to eating food. It is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, and an integral part of the capitalist world system.

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
English | February 14th, 2023 | ISBN: 031659203X | 720 pages | True EPUB | 9.04 MB
The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an "extraordinary"* story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative. (*Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth)

James Rawls, Walton Bean, "California: An Interpretive History"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0073406961 | PDF | pages: 577 | 21.2 mb
Now in its tenth edition, this best-selling text continues to provide an up-to-date survey of California history and offers original interpretations of the major challenges faced by the nation's most populous and economically powerful state.

California Cookbook: Healthy and Delicious California Recipes Straight from the Golden State by BookSumo Press
English | February 15, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08WP7H3T5 | 124 pages | PDF | 4.13 Mb
Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply.