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Presents a memoir of the author's long-time work with San Francisco's homeless while sharing a call for more effective action.
A biography of the author of "Trout fishing in America" and "A Confederate general from Big Sur" portrays his career from life among the Beats in 1950s San Francisco to the hippies in the 1960s to his abrupt suicide in 1984.
San Francisco
by Lonely Planet Publications (Firm), Benson, Sara, Bing, Alison, Vlahides, John A.
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Type: Book
Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A "Half-Open Door to America": Guarding the Golden Gate -- Chapter 2. "One Hundred Kinds of Oppressive Laws": Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island -- Chapter 3. "Agony, Anguish, and Anxiety": Jap…
Supplemental CD-ROM contents: Includes music by Stan Getz, Art Blakey, Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Woody Shaw and others.
It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a…
"A riveting drama of marital therapy"-- Gretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco, recently separated, with two children and demanding jobs, they've started going to a marriage counselor. Unfolding over the course of ten months and taking pla…
Introduction -- Rule of experts. Management ; Fraternity ; Playground -- The paradox of debt. Shelter ; Crunch ; Revolt ; Failure -- Supremacy. Eclipse ; Pinched -- Epilogue. "Cities require infrastructure as they grow and persist; infrastructure requires funding, typically fro…