Product Description: North of Los Angeles - the studios, the beaches, Rodeo Drive - lies a sparsely populated region that comprises fully one half of Los Angeles County. Sprawling across 2200 miles, this shadow side of Los Angeles is in the high Mojave Desert...read more

An epic story that restores the horse to its rightful place in the history of the American WestMustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse from its evolutionary origins on this continent to its return with the conquistadors to its bloody battles on the old frontier to its present plight as it fights for survival on the vanishing range.Along the way, you meet some of the great characters -- equine and human alike -- in American history, including Comanche, the gallant horse that survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn; Charlie Joe, the intrepid cast member of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show; Fritz, the mustang that became America’s first equine movie star; and Bugz, the survivor of the 1998 wild horse massacre outside Reno, Nevada. There’s also Wild Horse Annie, who lobbied for the first federal protections for mustangs and, after a twenty-year fight, saw them signed into law in 1971. In the tradition of Barry Lopez and Peter Matthiessen, Mustang follows the horse tracks across American history and shows that despite ever-encroaching civilization and dwindling protections, the horses still run wild, with spirit unbroken -- a living tableau of our heritage. But for how much longer, no one can say.

Product Description: Twentynine Palms is a compelling account of the devastating murder of two young girls by a troubled Marine in the rural California desert town of Twentynine Palms. More than just a murder-mystery, Twentynine Palms is a passionate dissection of desert life itself...read more

Product Description: In a subtle dance of arid solitude, two southern California deserts come together at Joshua Tree National Park. One is the Colorado Desert—an extension of the Sonoran Desert—and features natural gardens of ocotillo and cholla cactus...read more

Designed by David Carson and published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum in July 2002, Surf Culture examines the history of modern surfboard design from 1900 to the present and features over 100 surfboards. It is the most comprehensive examination to date of surfing's impact on western culture and its cultural bleed into mainstream. Both exhibition and book will explore surfing related activities and by-products such as skateboarding, surf photography, film, clothing, and music and make an assessment of their socioeconomic impact. Works of art featured are all surf-influenced and by artists/surfers who have achieved prominence in either the art world or popular culture -- Craig Kauffman, Billy Al Bengston, and Robert Irwin to name just a few. Guest curator for the exhibition is Craig Stecyk of Dysfunctional fame.

Product Description: Designed by David Carson and published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum in July 2002, Surf Culture examines the history of modern surfboard design from 1900 to the present and features over 100 surfboards...read more

The gruesome true story of a troubled Marine with a long history of sexual violence profiles Valentine Underwood, who murdered two young women in a small town in the Mojave Desert, and provides a searing examination of a military culture and its code of silence. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

The classic coming-of-age novel of 1950s American youth follows the adventures and exploits of an irrepressible heroine during the summer of 1957 and is accompanied by a foreword by the real-life Gidget, the author's daughter Kathy Kohner Zuckerman. Reprint.

Jane and Trish, two career women, meet at lunch to talk about their work, their romances, and their goals

Product Description: Titters 101: An Introduction to Women's Literature [Sep 19, 1984] Anne Beatts; Judith Jacklin and Deanne Stillman ...

Product Description: For you when did the sixties really end? In the seventies did you convert from idealism to realism? Disillusionment to nostalgia? Did you sell out, burn out or grow up? Or are the sixties still alive? These are some of the questions the Woodstock Census asked...read more