H. Clark Powell, 1900-1938. Memoirs of His Life and a Bibliography of His Writings. Edited by L.C. Powell. [With a Portrait.].
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 18
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Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
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Published: 1939
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 36
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 18
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1990-04-12
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 0199923272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned and marvelously diverse (and diverting)" (The New York Times Book Review) and "rich in details and alive with interesting, and sometimes incredible people" (Los Angeles Times). Now, in Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles. In a lively and eminently readable narrative, Starr reveals how Los Angeles arose almost defiantly on a site lacking many of the advantages required for urban development, creating itself out of sheer will, the Great Gatsby of American cities. He describes how William Ellsworth Smyth, the Peter the Hermit of the Irrigation Crusade, the self-educated, Irish engineer William Mulholland (who built the main aquaducts to Los Angeles), and George Chaffey (who diverted the Colorado River, transforming desert into the lush Imperial Valley) brought life-supporting water to the arid South. He examines the discovery of oil, the boosters and land developers, the evangelists (such as Bob Shuler, the Methodist Savanarola of Los Angeles, and Aimee Semple McPherson), and countless other colorful figures of the period. There are also fascinating sections on the city's architecture the impact of the automobile on city planning, the Hollywood film community, the L.A. literati, and much more. By the end of the decade, Los Angeles had tripled in population and become the fifth largest city in the nation. In Material Dreams, Starr captures this explosive growth in a narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose.
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 36
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 712
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Luis A. Campos
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-07-16
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 022678357X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Engineering” has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores these complex prospects from a resolutely historical approach, tracing cases across the decades of the long twentieth century. These essays span the many levels at which life has been engineered: molecule, cell, organism, population, ecosystem, and planet. From the cloning of agricultural crops and the artificial feeding of silkworms to biomimicry, genetic engineering, and terraforming, Nature Remade affirms the centrality of engineering in its various forms for understanding and imagining modern life. Organized around three themes—control and reproduction, knowing as making, and envisioning—the chapters in Nature Remade chart different means, scales, and consequences of intervening and reimagining nature.
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 746
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 824
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Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKArticles, pamphlets, reprints of articles by and about Lawrence Clark Powell, UCLA librarian. Included are essays and articles honoring Powell, and essays by Powell on readers and reading, librarianship, and book arts.