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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. The Forgetters: Stories. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Bad Indians (Expanded Edition): A Tribal Memoir. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Octavo, softcover, new, uncorrected proof, in yellow wraps. 379 pp. including blank note pages and notes on author. An exhilarating journey through the world of books, featuring personal reflections on Susan Sontag, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, W. G. Sebald, and Christopher Hitchens. "A troublemaker of the good kind since his youth, Wasserman continues to inspire with his vigorous dedication to the life of the mind, exhibited with clarity and grace in this book." —Viet Thanh Nguyen. pre first edition. …

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Unnatural Habitat: The Native and Exotic Wildlife of Los Angeles. Bearzi, Maddalena (illustratore). Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out in California (with a New Preface). Book.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condizione: New. The Birds in the Oaks: Secret Voices of the Western Woods. Gedney, Angelina (illustratore). Book.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condizione: New. Louder Than the Lies: Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self-Love. Book.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condizione: New. The State of Fire: Why California Burns. Book.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condizione: New. Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely. Gedney, Angelina (illustratore).

Hardback or Cased Book. Condizione: New. Portrait in Red: A Paris Obsession. Book.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condizione: New. Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It's a Lie: A Memoir in Essays. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Updated for the first time in twenty years with completely redrawn birds and more, the classic and remarkably easy-to-use guide for identifying birds in the Sierra Nevada.John Muir Laws began his lifelong project of connecting people to the natural world when he noticed that novice birders often distinguish birds by color and size rather than by family, genus, and species. Inspired by his observation, he created a guide to Sierra birds that assumes no prior birding knowledge on the part of the reader. The guide became the most popular of its kind, used frequently by local birders and visitors alike. Now updated for the first time in twenty years, The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birdsoriginally published as Sierra Birds: A Hiker's Guidefeatures fully redrawn color illustrations throughout.Color-coded keys eliminate the time-consuming frustration of thumbing randomly through a guide, and a cross-index is also included for more advanced birders. All this in a format that is simply organized, lightweight, and small enough to tuck inside a pocket. Featuring more than 200 species, The Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds is a friendly, invaluable resource for anyone seeking to identify birds in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Now in paperback: a gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland.'A fascinating and evocative memoir in essays.'Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewTribal chairman and celebrated storyteller Greg Sarriswhose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdrich and Stephen Graham Jonesinvites us into intimate and contemplative scenes from his own life in Becoming Story. With this memoir-in-essays he asks: What does it mean to be truly connected to the place you call hometo walk where innumerable generations of your ancestors have walked And what does it mean when you dedicate your life to making that connection even deeper Moving between his childhood and the present day, Sarris creates a kaleidoscopic narrative about the forces that shaped his early years and his eventual work as a tribal leader. He considers the fathomless past, historical traumas, and possible futures of his homeland. His acclaimed storytelling skills are in top form here, and he charts his journey in prose that is humorous, searching, and profound. Described as 'jewellike' by the San Francisco Chronicle, Becoming Story is also a gently powerful guide in the art of belonging to the place where you live.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The first book on the birds of California's oaks, from our most lyrical and observant wanderer of the woods.With charm and delight, The Birds in the Oaks introduces us to the birds who burrow, forage, and soar among California's keystone trees. The mighty oak hosts a multitude of avian denizensfrom canopy hoppers to ground nesters to short-billed surface pluckerswho rely on the trees' well-stocked pantry of acorns, insects, and flowers for sustenance and shelter. Spunky kinglets, crimson-eyed towhees, cuddle-craving bushtits, intrepid nuthatches, and impudent wrens are among the many memorable cast members in this pageant of oak-allied birds.Jack Gedney lyrically conveys the beautiful, comic, and endearing qualities of over fifteen bird species, each profile paired with an illustration by Angelina Gedney. His bird-filled tales of adaptation, ingenuity, and sheer persistence also bring to light the warp and weft of cross-species interdependence. The Birds in the Oaks reveals to us the utter joy of birds, the superabundant world of the oaks, and the innumerable interconnections these living beings create. Gedney, Angelina (illustratore).…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A tender, astonishing, and richly beautiful story cycle about remembering our shared histories and repairing the world.'Each tale is a testament to never forgetting that the mountains, the sea, the rivers, animals and humans are all one. Osprey and abalone, wind and child, hummingbird and humanall unforgettable.' Susan Straight, author of MeccaPerched atop Gravity Hill, two crow sistersQuestion Woman and Answer Womanrecall stories from dawn to dusk. Question Woman cannot remember a single story except by asking to hear it again, and Answer Woman can tell all the stories but cannot think of them unless she is asked. Together they recount the journeys of the Forgetters, so that we may all remember. Unforgettable characters pass through these pages: a boy who opens the clouds in the sky, a young woman who befriends three enigmatic people who might also be animals, two village leaders who hold a storytelling contest. All are in search of a crucial lesson from the past, one that will help them repair the rifts in their own lives.Told in the classic style of Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok creation stories, this book vaults from the sacred time before this time to the recent present and even the near future. Heralded as a 'a fine storyteller' by Joy Harjo, Greg Sarris offers us these tales in a new genre of his own making. The Forgetters is an astonishmentcomforting and startling, inspiring reveries and deepening our love of the world we share. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Now in paperback and newly expanded, this gripping memoir is hailed as essential by Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and ELLE magazineamong others.Bad Indianspart tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoiris essential reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Widely adopted in classrooms and book clubs throughout the United States, Bad Indiansnow reissued in significantly expanded formplumbs ancestry, survivance, and the cultural memory of Native California.In this best-selling, now-classic memoir, Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen family and the experiences of California Indians more widely through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. This expanded edition includes several new poems and essays, as well as an extensive afterword, totaling more than fifty pages of new material. Wise, indignant, and playful all at once, Bad Indians is a beautiful and devastating read, and an indispensable book for anyone seeking a more just and accurate telling of American history.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Ride across California on the back of the wind and learn about the dramatic impact that seasonal weather and climate change have on the Golden State.'Selby's greatest gift to readers is to reveal the climate as an indomitable equalizer.' Los Angeles TimesOften stereotyped as the land of unflaggingly perfect weather, California has a world-renowned reputation for sunny blue skies and infinitely even-keeled temperatures. But the real story of the state's weather is vastly more complex. From the scorching heat of Death Valley to the coastal redwoods' dripping in dew, California is home to a dizzying array of landscapes and bespoke weather patterns. In The California Sky Watcher, earth scientist William A. Selby takes readers on a journey through the seasons and across the state, exploring the atmospheric science that connects us all under our single sky dome.With more than 125 photographs, diagrams, and explanatory charts, Selby guides us through the grand cycles that govern the world we see, feel, and hear every day, from the cirrus clouds that swirl overhead to the breezes that beckon us outside. Unraveling the mysteries behind the state's fog, floods, fires, droughts, and snowstorms, Selby shares his love affair with the sky and reveals what these changeable energies forecast for the future of California's climate.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Now in paperback, Pulitzer-winning novelist Jane Smiley's first nonfiction volume on writing since 2005's best-selling Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel.'Smiley gives educators, readers, and writers much to discuss. Highly recommended.' --Library Journal, starred review'Line for line, Smiley delivers such clear, vibrant, precise prose--handed forth as calmly and equitably as an ice cream cone, even when she's incensed--that a reader feels smarter just taking it in.' --The Boston GlobeLong acclaimed as one of America's preeminent novelists, Jane Smiley is also an exquisite observer of the craft of writing. In The Questions That Matter Most this Pulitzer Prize-winning writer offers penetrating essays on some of the aesthetic and cultural issues that mark any serious engagement with reading and writing. Beginning with a personal introduction tracing Smiley's migration from Iowa to California, the author reflects on her findings in the varied literature of the Golden State, whose writers have for decades pondered the West's contested legacies of racism, class conflict, and sexual politics. As she considers the ambiguity of character and the weight of history, her essays provide fresh entry points into literature, and we lucky readers can see how Smiley draws inspiration from across the literary spectrum to invigorate her own writing. With enthusiasm and meticulous attention, Smiley dives beneath surface-level interpretations to examine the works of Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldór Laxness, and Jessica Mitford. Throughout, Smiley seeks to think harder and, in her words, with 'more clarity and nuance' about the questions that matter most. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The story of how nearly 100,000 Americans achieved reparations and an official apology for one of the most shameful episodes in US history.'Redressgives us an insider's step-by-step view of how a bold and determined group of Japanese Americans achieved an unprecedented goal that, at the beginning, looked impossible. We have a lot to learn from their extraordinary success.' Adam HochschildFor decades the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans remained hidden from the historical record, its shattering effects kept silent. But in the 1970s the Japanese American Citizens League headed a campaign for an official government apology and monetary compensation. Redress is John Tateishi's firsthand account of this against-all-odds campaign. Tateishi, who led the JACL Redress Committee for many years, admits the task was herculean. The campaign sought an unprecedented admission of wrongdoing from Congress. It depended on a unified effort but began with an acutely divided community; for many, the shame of 'camp' was so deep that they could not even speak of it. And Tateishi knew that the campaign would succeed only if the public learned that there had been concentration camps on U.S. soil.Redress is the story of a community reckoning with what it means to be both culturally Japanese and American citizens, and what it means to prevent terrible harms from happening again. This edition features a new preface about the lessons Tateishi's story might have for reparations efforts today.…