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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Features Author Tanya Lloyd Kyi Publisher Whitecap America Release date 20150903 Pages 96 ISBN 1-940416-07-8 ISBN 13 978-1-940416-07-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days It was the way out. Invented on the cusp of the depression, Route 66 was the road out of the mines, off the farm, away from troubled Main Street. It was the road to opportunity. Between 1926 and 1956, many people from the southern and plains states trekked west to California on Route 66, the Mother Road. Some never reached California. Instead, they settled along the road, building restaurants, tourist attractions, gas stations, and motels. The architecture of each structure reflected regional building traditions and the difficulties of the times. The designs of buildings and signs served as invitations for passing travelers to stop, fill their tanks, have a bite, and stay the night. Along Route 66 describes the architectural styles found along the highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, and pairs photos with stories of the buildings and of the people who built them, lived in them, and made a living from them. With striking black-and-white images and unforgettable oral histories of this rapidly disappearing architecture, Quinta Scott has docomented the culture of America's most famous road. Features Summary "Along Route 66" describes the architectural styles found along the highway from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, and pairs photos with stories of the buildings and of the people who built... Author Quinta Scott Publisher University of Oklahoma Press Release date 20000815 Pages 320 ISBN 0-8061-3250-7 ISBN 13 978-0-8061-3250-1

    Combine items to save on shipping costs.   Hardcover book in reasonable condition. Some wear on the cover. There is an inscription and slight wear on the title page and light foxing on the last page. 63 pages.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Space age architecture: Going back to the future with the visionary West Coast architect Michigan-born architect John Lautner (1911 1994) was behind some of the most striking and innovative architectural designs in mid-20th-century America. Designing homes and commercial buildings primarily in Southern California, Lautner s innovative work captured the pioneering optimism of 1950s America, a time of space-age technology, economic growth, and affluence. Today, several of Lautner s houses are labeled Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments.Lautner s projects focused on the relationship between humans, space, and nature. He was always particularly sensitive to the surrounding environment and would often integrate water and natural landscapes into his designs. His houses are characterized by sweeping rooflines, glass-paneled walls, and steel beams, in a heady combination of fantasy and minimalism. Eschewing architectural orthodoxies, Lautner emphasized geometric shapes such as circles and triangles, incorporating myriad technological innovations.Ingenious uses of modern building materials such as concrete allowed him to blend his structures into unique locations in the Californian landscape, perching his sci-fi structures on hillsides, beaches, and deserts. Residences in the Los Angeles area, including the Chemosphere House and the Silvertop, boast panoramic views and still exude an almost otherworldly magnetism.In this new Basic Art guide, we take you into the heart of Lautner s idiosyncratic practice, discover his manifold influences and ideas, and survey the resulting gems of modern architecture." Features Summary Space age architecture: Going back to the future with the visionary West Coast architectMichigan-born architect John Lautner (1911 1994) was behind some of the most striking and innovative architectural designs in mid-20th-century America... Author Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange (Author), Peter Gossel (Editor) Publisher Taschen Release date 20161230 Pages 96 ISBN 3-8365-4411-3 ISBN 13 978-3-8365-4411-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 13 working days Kendo is the first in-depth historical, cultural, and political account in English of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship, from its beginnings in military training and arcane medieval schools to its widespread practice as a global sport today. Alexander Bennett shows how kendo evolved through a recurring process of "inventing tradition," which served the changing ideologies and needs of Japanese warriors and governments over the course of history. Kendo follows the development of Japanese swordsmanship from the aristocratic-aesthetic pretensions of medieval warriors in the Muromachi period, to the samurai elitism of the Edo regime, and then to the nostalgic patriotism of the Meiji state. Kendo was later influenced in the 1930s and 1940s by ultra nationalist militarists and ultimately by the postwar government, which sought a gentler form of nationalism to rekindle appreciation of traditional culture among Japan's youth and to garner international prestige as an instrument of "soft power." Today kendo is becoming increasingly popular internationally. But even as new organizations and clubs form around the world, cultural exclusiveness continues to play a role in kendo's ongoing evolution, as the sport remains closely linked to Japan's sense of collective identity. Features Summary Offers historical, cultural, and political account in English of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship. This book shows how this martial art evolved through a recurring process of "inventing tradition... Author Alexander C. Bennett Publisher University of California Press Release date 20150729 Pages 328 ISBN 0-520-28437-2 ISBN 13 978-0-520-28437-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "Space Cadet 3X-245 (aka Topo) is a do-gooder cosmonaut who monitors the universe from the deck of his space station. When the sun mysteriously gets switched off, he hops into his spaceship to retrieve the Galactic Flame and relight the thing before all the planets freeze up. Striking heroic poses and pointing as gravely off into the starry cosmos as a bucktoothed space mole could, Topo flits around inventive page compositions and elaborate multilevel settings that kids handy at navigating video-game landscapes will love running their eyes over. Argentinean design firm DGPH doles out plenty of ludicrous fun as Topo laser-blasts a random monster blocking the entrance to the sun's control center and finally has to rely on his timid helper bot to save the day. With discreet bits of text scattered about each page, this high-octane sf adventure is better suited for independent readers than for reading aloud, though adults will want to use their best digital monotones to voice Topo's handy Computron." - ALA Booklist What would you do if the sun went out? The brave space cadet Topo searches the universe to discover how to relight the sun's flame before everything freezes forever Join this vibrant adventure as an inventive hero and his robot friends have fun saving the galaxy. Collectors of limited edition vinyl toys and fans of anime, manga, and plush characters like the Ugly dolls, will adore Topo and his cute crew. "As a DGPH fan, I loved it. The artwork is extremely cute, and most of the pages would look great as art prints. I would want Space Cadet Topo and his Bot friends on a t-shirt." - Supah Cute "Immedium is really on a roll. They keep puttin' out books by some of my favorite artists The newest addition to their lineup is by the awesome Argentinian design duo DGPH. DGPH's Space Cadet Topo is an adventure story filled with super cute illustrations and my favorite little Mole, Topo...The books that Immedium publishes are my favorite - they perfectly pair great stories with art by some of the world's best illustrators. The books appeal to kids, parents, and collectors alike " - Tokyo Bunnie 'Space Cadet Topo is a fun-packed, enjoyable and incredibly imaginative tale of against all odds valor that takes you on an amazing journey of galactic proportions...This is a roller-coaster of a book. The story bolts you in and the illustrations take you on this amazing ride through space as our hero tries to save the universe. At times throughout the book I felt as if I were immersed in a video-game game; climbing through mazes, discovering new characters, testing my abilities...The crisp illustrations are littered with so many fun elements that will have kids (and adults) reading this story over and over again, each time discovering something new."- I Like Characters "Space Cadet Topo has to turn the sun back on and save the galaxy from freezing to death in this picture book by DGPH...The digitally mastered illustrations create a galaxy...full of twists, turns, and traps one would expect to find in classic platform video games." - School Library Journal "Subtle humor abounds and its fun to follow Topo and friends as they overcome the obstacles they meet." - Bayviews - Association of Children's Librarians of Northern California "For the holidays or any time a great new read for youngsters is Space Cadet Topo: The Day the Sun Turned Off" - New York Space Society, NSS, chapter Features Summary "Space Cadet 3X-245 (aka Topo) is a do-gooder cosmonaut who monitors the universe from the deck of his space station. When the sun mysteriously gets switched off... Author Dgph Publisher Immedium Release date 20100916 Pages 36 ISBN 1-59702-022-2 ISBN 13 978-1-59702-022-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "Women Change the World" is a collection of world-changing women--from actresses, recording artists, and writers to businesswomen and other high-profile female professionals--on women's unique contributions to society. "Women Change the World" will be released in conjunction with the California Women's Conference, which offers its attendees inspiration, resources, and connections to take the next steps in their businesses, personal development, or philanthropic endeavors. 2012's conference speakers included Marcia Cross, Donna Karen, Gloria Allred, and many others. "Women Change the World" aims not only to show how women can be the heart of success, but also to inspire other women to go out and change the world themselves. Features Summary Women Change the World is a collection of world-changing women from actresses, recording artists, and writers to businesswomen and other high-profile female professionals on women's unique contributions to society... Author Michelle Patterson Publisher Benbella Books Release date 20140610 Pages 256 ISBN 1-939529-17-4 ISBN 13 978-1-939529-17-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days I didn't realise my mother was a person until I was thirteen years old and she pulled me out of bed, put me in the back of her car, and we left home and my dad with no explanations. I thought that Ma was all that she was and all that she had ever wanted to be. I was wrong. As we made our way from Virginia to California, returning to the places where she'd lived as a child in foster care and as a teenager on the run, repaying debts and keeping promises, I learned who she was in her life-before-me and the secrets she had kept - even from herself. But when life on the road began to feel normal I couldn't forget the home we'd left behind, couldn't deny that, just like my mother, I too had unfinished business. This enigmatic pilgrimage takes them back to various stages of Alex's mother's life, each new state prompting stories and secrets. Together they trace back through a life of struggle and adventure to put to rest unfinished business, to heal old wounds and to search out lost friends. This is an extraordinary story of a life; a stunning exploration of identity and an authentic study of the relationship between a mother and her child. The Lauras is the new novel from the exceptionally gifted author of The Shore, which was long listed for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Features Summary I didn't realise my mother was a person until I was thirteen years old and she pulled me out of bed, put me in the back of her car, and we left home and my dad with no explanations... Author Sara Taylor Publisher William Heinemann Ltd Release date 20160804 Pages 304 ISBN 1-78515-077-4 ISBN 13 978-1-78515-077-7

Jarrolds First Edition 1966 - Book and wrapper still in very good but not perfect condition -  Erle Stanley Gardner (1889 -1970) was an American lawyer and author. Though best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories, he also wrote a series of non-fiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico, including this book - Many photo illustrations - 160 pages. *N.B.* If you buy more than one book from me you only pay R 6 postage on each additional book   – see what else I have to offer, it might be worth your while.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days In his extraordinarily timely new book, Castaneda focuses in on Mexico, a country whose fate is increasingly entwined with that of the United States. In Castaneda's view, Mexico is still a society about which too little is known and too much is proposed. Americans have been unsure how to interpret the enormous changes that are taking place in today's Mexico - and affecting today's United States - from the Chiapas rebellion of 1994 to the current economic crisis. Castaneda examines the key issues in Mexican life: the impact of emigration, the relationship between politics and economics, and the enormous cultural changes taking place as Mexico moves closer to the United States. He also explores the United States' changing perceptions of Mexico and the basic historic and cultural outlooks that still divide the two countries. Finally, he examines the campaign behind Proposition 187 in California, discussing the dangerous mix of ignorance and bias that has formed so much of America's reaction to Mexico. Features Summary Mexico's fate is encreasingly entwined with that of the United States. In this book, Castaneda examines the key issues in Mexican life: the impact of emigration... Author Jorge Castaneda Publisher The New Press Release date 19950130 Pages 256 ISBN 1-56584-311-8 ISBN 13 978-1-56584-311-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days You've found Nemo - now find Dory! Imagine a pretty blue fish, lost in a big blue ocean. That's Dory! But she's not lost in the way you think. Dory has lost her memory - a big part of who she is. So now she's on a mission to find herself! An old memory has swum up from Dory's past, of a beautiful bay in California. Maybe she could find her family there! So Dory sets off on an epic journey to look for her family and find answers. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale? * A charming Level 1 reader based on the hit Disney film * Part of the popular _Adventures in Reading_ series * Touching story of friendship, family and identity * Beautifully illustrated with colourful film artwork * Green book band Features Summary Read about Finding Dory with Disney Learning! The Disney Learning approach gives kids the skills to succeed with fun and imaginative learning practice. Author Scholastic Publisher Scholastic Press Release date 20160707 Pages 32 ISBN 1-4071-6582-8 ISBN 13 978-1-4071-6582-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Everything was fine fourteen years after she left New York. Until suddenly, one day, it wasn't. Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loved passionately, she was building the life she always wanted. But when enormous stress threatened her marriage, Emily made some rash decisions. That's when she fell in love with someone else. That's when she got pregnant. Resolved to tell her husband of the affair and to leave him for the father of her child, Emily's plans are thwarted when the world is suddenly split open on 9/11. It's amid terrible tragedy that she finds her freedom, as she leaves New York City to start a new life. It's not easy, but Emily---now Connie Prynne-forges a new happily-ever-after in California. But when a life-threatening diagnosis upends her life, she is forced to rethink her life for the good of her thirteen-year-old daughter. A riveting debut in which a woman must confront her own past in order to secure the future of her daughter, Kim Hooper's People Who Knew Me asks: "What would you do?" Features Summary Everything was fine fourteen years after she left New York. Until suddenly, one day, it wasn't. Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most... Author Kim Hooper Publisher St Martin's Press Release date 20160627 Pages 304 ISBN 1-250-07798-2 ISBN 13 978-1-250-07798-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience The Odyssey in all its glory. Green's version, with its lyrical mastery and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to enjoy Homer's epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral tradition. Features Summary "This is a translation of the epic Greek poem by Homer."--Provided by publisher. Author Homer (Author), Peter Green (Translator) Publisher University of California Press Release date 20180327 Pages 522 ISBN 0-520-29363-0 ISBN 13 978-0-520-29363-2

Hardcover. English. Bloomsbury. 2007. 273pp. Good condition in hardcover with good dw. 'In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence - of both hand and heart - that sets fire to the rest of their lives.' 'Divisadero takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France. It is here, outside a small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in the life and the world of a writer from an earlier time - Lucien Segura. His compelling story, which has its beginnings at the turn of the century, circles around 'the raw truth' of Anna's own life, the one she's left behind but can never truly leave. And as the narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough-hewn from the past.'--BOOK JACKET.

Hardcover. English. William Heinemann. 1952. 1st UK Ed. 525pp. In fair condition, no dw. In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean and read by thousands as the book that brought Oprah's Book Club back, East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century.

DAVID ANDERSON "ON SAFARI" THE SOURCE FOR SAFARIS IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA David Anderson is an expert on safari design and planning with over 30 years of experience, renowned for his knowledge of safari destinations. He  became captivated by Africa after a five-week trip to Kenya in 1978 and two years later, planned and organized his first safari for a small group of friends. That success led him to organize other safaris, which eventually resulted in the creation of David Anderson Safari. Over the years, he has designed hundreds of safaris and personally escorted over fifty. Concerned with declining tourism to Africa and the inevitable impact that this was having on endangered wildlife, Anderson organized the 'Focus on Africa' Project in 1993. Over a sixteen-week period, one hundred thirty-six mostly amateur photographers traveled throughout East and Southern Africa on twenty-five safaris, which he designed. In all, more than 250,000 photo frames were exposed.  The award winning book,  On Safari: The Source for Safaris in East and Southern Africa  was inspired because David saw the need for an attractive coffee-table book that provided more than just wonderful pictures and  should be a resource book with solid information for the safari traveler. Anderson lives in Santa Barbara, California, but travels frequently to Africa in search of knowledge, adventure, and of course, to practice the art and science of photography. Hardcover book in fine unread condition