By Susan Shillinglaw

This half paintings ebook, half biography, and half trip consultant deals perception into how landscapes and townscapes motivated John Steinbeck's artistic approach and the way, in flip, his legacy has inspired glossy California. a number of varieties of readers will relish the knowledge during this guide—literary pilgrims will research extra concerning the nation featured so prominently in Steinbeck's paintings, travelers can stopover at a similar structures that he lived in and wrote approximately, and historians will relish the engrossing point of view on everyday life in early 20th-century California. delivering a wholly new point of view on Steinbeck and the folk and locations that he dropped at existence in his writing, readers will locate enjoy this depiction of the symbiotic courting among an writer and his favourite locations.

By Noelle Salmi

Those attractively priced, four-color publications provide dozens of local and thematic excursions, whole with thousands of pictures and bulleted maps that cleared the path from sight to sight. Day via Days are the single courses that support tourists set up their time to get the main out of a visit. Full-color package deal at a cheap cost famous person scores for all motels, eating places, and points of interest Foldout entrance covers with maps and quick-reference info Tear-resistant map in a convenient, reclosable plastic pockets convenient pocket-sized trim gains: San Francisco Waterfront, the simplest neighbourhood walks, Romantic San Francisco, and extra comprises local excursions of Chinatown, Japantown, North seashore, and Russian Hill good points day journeys to Sausalito, aspect Reyes, and the Napa & Sonoma Wine nation really expert excursions characteristic Romantic San Francisco, Hippie Haight, San Francisco Literati, and Golden Gate Park taking walks or via motorcycle

By Nicholas Trotter

Are looking to roam terrific nationwide Parks or luxuriate at a complicated hotel? trip the rails or experience the variety? discover old fashioned small cities or booming gigantic towns? Ski the slopes or browse within the retailers? even if you will want urbane luxurious, back-country event, or whatever in-between, you’ll locate it among the pages of this pleasant consultant that provides you the news on: mountaineering, whitewater rafting, trout fishing, mountain cycling, snowboarding, and golf The average Wonders and wide variety of environments The breweries and their signature brews neighborhood cuisine reminiscent of buffalo, rattlesnake, and Rocky Mountain oysters three nice itinerary ideas like any For Dummies go back and forth advisor, Colorado & the Rockies For Dummies comprises: Down-to-earth trip-planning suggestion What you shouldn’t miss—and what you could pass the easiest resorts and eating places for each funds convenient Post-it Flags to mark your favourite pages

By Ahmad, Jalal Al-i; Translated by R. Campbell; Annotations and Introduction by Hamid Algar

Suppressed in Iran throughout the reign of the Shah, this ebook for the 1st time in a cautious, annotated translation was once released after the Islamic Revolution. it's a powerful and emotional assertion by way of an Iranian highbrow deeply serious about what he observed as his country’s succumbing to "A plague from the West" or "occidentosis." providing observations, insights, purposes for satisfaction in Iran’s earlier and tradition, and important analyses of the Western function in th international. Jalal Al-i Ahmad expresses the various matters that agitated the intelligentsia through the twenty years earlier than the Islamic Revolution. the writer starts off through explaining his time period "occidentosis: and describing how he sees the area: as divided among the poles of East and West. The department isn't really a lot a geographical or an ideological schism, as a department among the produces and the shoppers of machines. a short evaluate of heritage is helping clarify how and why Iran grew occidentotic. He can't and doesn't forget about the function of oil. the numerous contradictions that outcome from the pressured intake of Western machines and items in Iran are the topic of the longest and so much conscientiously thought of chapters within the publication. Westerners, who industrailized step-by-step over enormous quantities of years, by no means observed such sharp contrasts as "a guy grading Kharg Island with a big bulldozer with blue bead placing from the steerage wheel." Breaking the spell of occidentosis is the topic of one other bankruptcy. the writer rejects either the choices of final passive shoppers of the laptop and eschewing the computer and reverting to pre-industrial modes of lifestyles. quite, he advocates gaining keep watch over of the computer so Iranians can use it as a method, no longer an finish, "to abolish poverty and positioned fabric and non secular welfare with the succeed in of all." As an educator Jalal Al-i Ahmad used to be really inquisitive about ow Iran's colleges guard its occidentotic society. He issues out during this publication how leaders whose first curiosity was once no longer the welfare of the Iranian humans or the upkeep of its cultural traditions have been became out yr after yr by way of Iranian universities or again to their state from American and eu academic associations. The ebook closes with a plea for everybody not only Iranians or Easterners, to rouse to the hazards of mechanosis, the final word finish of so as to be destruction of the area with a nuclear bomb.

By Pamela Barrus

No matter if you are looking for the best food or the lowest priced locations to consume, the main sumptuous motels or the easiest offers on areas to stick, Eyewitness best 10 shuttle publications offer priceless details through neighborhood specialists to discover the easiest of every little thing at every one vacation spot.

By Donna Lynn Ikenberry

The 492,418-acre Weminuche barren region is one the most important and such a lot unbelievable wild components in Colorado. lower than 25 miles northeast of Durango, the Weminuche deals a large choice of mountain climbing possibilities with sweeping tundra landscapes, alpine lakes, and breathtaking peaks. climbing Colorado's Weminuche desert is the simplest accomplished consultant to this impressive barren region quarter. Written for all different types of trekkers, this e-book gives you specified and actual information regarding 39 hikes starting from brief strolls to in a single day backpacking journeys. journeys on viewing flora and fauna and different average historical past notes are integrated, and certain maps, elevation profiles, and path finder charts make making plans your hike a cinch. even if you have got every week to discover or simply an afternoon, make mountain climbing Colorado's Weminuche desert an crucial a part of your journey to this striking barren region zone.

By Michael L. Olsen, Chris Nicholl, Sydne Dean, Dennis Daily, Tim Blevins

Firm & Innovation within the Pikes top quarter” used to be the topic of the seventh Annual Pikes top nearby historical past Symposium. This ebook comprises the learn offered on the symposium, in addition to a few supplemental assets that round-out a dialogue of the varied techniques of the sector. advancements in invention, trade, technology, flight, tourism, crafts, arts, performing, therapeutic and neighborhood construction are explored within the chapters of this publication. each thought, try, failure and accomplishment was once based on desires and the anticipation of success.

By Richard A Maynard

Compares the truth of Western heritage with its Hollywood therapy in video clips.

By Duane A Smith

Horace Tabor: His existence and the Legend is the 1st biography to offer complete recognition to Tabor's mining, enterprise, and political actions in addition to to his matrimonial escapades. it's a cautious and specified portrait of a guy so outstanding that even in his personal lifetime the proof have been mostly obscured at the back of the legend. not often has the Victorian American West, either stable and undesirable, been larger synopsized within the determine of 1 guy.

By Morgan West

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