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Product Description: This is a revealing look at the events and personalities that defined the Beat Generation, drawing on over three decades of research.• Includes original interviews with such Beat Generation luminaries as Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ann Charters, and Roy Harper...read more

Product Description: Moon Spotlight Los Angeles and Orange County Beaches is a 130-page compact guide covering the beaches of Los Angeles and Orange County, including Long Beach, San Pedro, Venice Beach, Santa Monica, Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, and Sunset Beach, among many others...read more

Product Description: Moon Spotlight Ventura and Santa Barbara Beaches is a 70-page compact guide covering the beaches of Ventura and Santa Barbara, including the Channel Islands, Oxnard, Seacliff, Montecito, and Isla Vista, among many others. Authors Alan Bisbort & Parke Puterbaugh offer their seasoned advice on what sights are must-sees, with tips on swimming, surfing, diving, and boating...read more

Product Description: Moon Spotlight San Diego County Beaches is a 90-page compact guide covering the beaches of San Diego, including Coronado, Ocean Beach, Mission Beach, Del Mar, Encinitas, and Carlsbad, among many others. Authors Alan Bisbort & Parke Puterbaugh offer their seasoned advice on what sights are must-sees, with tips on swimming, surfing, diving, and boating...read more

Product Description: This fascinating volume offers an overview of the most influential and notorious media scandals, from newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger's groundbreaking 1735 trial for printing and publishing false, scandalous, malicious and seditious statements to Dr...read more

Product Description: When Caryl Chessman appeared on the cover of Time's March 21, 1960 issue, he was the most famous prisoner in America and arguably the best-known in the world. He not only put a face on the issue of capital punishment, he made one of the most remarkable transformations by any American writer...read more

Product Description: Grab your towel and head for the Sunshine State with beach experts Parke Puterbaugh and Alan Bisbort! These acclaimed writers—authors of six travel books—spent years combing every beach and coastal community along Florida's 1,800-mile coastline...read more

Product Description: Devoted campers, hikers, boaters, anglers, bikers, and golfers agree: Foghorn Outdoors guidebooks are essential for anyone who wants to spend less time planning and more time enjoying the outdoors. Each book is an excursion guide packed with the latest information on a variety of adventures near and far...read more

An irreverent guide to every publicly-accessible beach in Florida offers recommendations on restaurants, hotels, and attractions. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Whether inspiring, incomprehensible, insightful, bleak, or absurd, last words can be spoken by the living as well as the dying. Among the dying, last words are truly final, as was the case with Dylan Thomas, who uttered, "I’ve just had eighteen straight whiskeys...read more

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His work is in private and public collections worldwide, he has hosted radio and television discussions on everything from painting to politics, he is a cultural icon, a Los Angeles bon vivant, a brilliant and an extraordinarily funny man. The fact that can get lost in this colorful shuffle is that Charles Bragg is among the most gifted American artists of the twentieth century. The Works represents the range of Bragg's oeuvre from cartoonish caricature to stunningly beautiful portrait. Featuring 130 color plates and 50 black-and-white reproductions, it offers a biographical overview, reveals Bragg's approaches to and techniques of painting, discusses his inspirations and motivations, his social and political views, and gives the reader a sense of his inexhaustible cunning and wit. (view table of contents)

Product Description: California Beaches is a travel guide to over 200 beaches along 1000 miles of coastline. Information is provided on where to stay, places to eat, beach hours, facilities, parking and fees, and after sundown entertainment.

Product Description: From the award-winning authors of California Beaches - a guide to every strip of sand in the Sunshine State.

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Product Description: In 1967-1968, a small group of immensely talented people in the San Francisco Bay Area came together to form a short-lived but highly inventive poster and note card company, East Totem West. Its founder, Joseph McHugh, took the poster - heretofore used primarily as a travel enticement or concert announcement - to a new, revolutionary place: the poster as art...read more

Product Description: The authors exhaustively list and describe each California beach--from the classic sunny Southern California model to the ruggedly beautiful Mendocino Coast variety. And they convey the ambiance of each place by chronicling every activity, restaurant, lodging, nightclub, arcade and hangout within walking distance of the beach...read more

Product Description: Book by Einstein, Albert, Eddington, Allen Boyce

Describes the history and characteristics of beach communities along the East Coast from Maine to Florida, recommends hotels and restaurants, and includes information on nightlife