Cathedral City
Cathedral City

Author: Gregory Hinton

Publisher: Kensington Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781575668505

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Set against the backdrop of Cathedral City, which is about to be reconstructed by greedy developers, a powerful story details the intertwining lives of an extraordinary cast of characters.

Imperial
Imperial

Author: William T. Vollmann

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-07-30

Total Pages: 1789

ISBN-13: 1101105151

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From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming with patterns, facts, stories, people and hope, this is an epic study of an emblematic region.

Lord of the Sacred City
Lord of the Sacred City

Author: J. Jeffery Tyler

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9789004111202

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This volume provides a new perspective on civic history by focussing on the precarious position and power of the German bishop. While the author explores the decline of episcopal power, culminating in physical expulsion, he also sheds light on the bishop's remarkable survival through the ministrations of episcopal ritual.