Hometown Pasadena

Hometown Pasadena

Author: Joseph C. Dunn

Publisher: Prospect Park Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780975393918

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Hometown Pasadena is a new breed of city guide, an in-depth, personality-rich, four-color book written by locals for locals. The five co-authors Colleen Dunn Bates, Jill Ganon, Sandy Gillis, Mel Malmberg and Mary Jane Horton are all longtime San Gabriel Valley residents, and the foreword authors are Larry Mantle (from NPR's KPCC) and Larry Wilson (editor of the Pasadena Star-News). The book is rich in history, arts, culture, restaurants, gardens, architecture, children's activities, sports and much more, and it is filled with interviews with people who make a difference in the community. It is written and designed with wit, style and intelligence. Hometown Pasadena became an immediate success, going into its fourth printing in less than one year. 256 pages, four-color throughout, flexibound binding with flaps, extensive photography and color maps


At Home Pasadena

At Home Pasadena

Author: Jill Alison Ganon

Publisher: Prospect Park Publishing

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 0975393936

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A richly photographed book showcasing the most beautiful, creative, and/or interesting homes and gardens in a city famous for them.


Hometown Pasadena

Hometown Pasadena

Author: Mary Lea Carroll

Publisher:

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781938849992

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A lively new edition of the witty, colorful hit book that unlocks the insider secrets of Pasadena and environs.


Hometown Pasadena 2009-2010

Hometown Pasadena 2009-2010

Author: Sandy Gillis

Publisher: Prospect Park Books

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780975393949

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A new kind of city book, written by longtime locals who dig deep to reflect the place they find so special. This witty, richly colorful book unlocks the insider secrets of the San Gabriel Valley. With a forewords by KPCC's Larry Mantle and cover art by R. Kenton Nelson, it celebrates the people, places and passions that make Pasadena remarkable.


Literary Pasadena

Literary Pasadena

Author: Patricia O'Sullivan

Publisher: Prospect Park Books

Published: 2013-04-12

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1938849108

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The historic, handsome city in the shadow of Los Angeles has been a creative hotbed since the Arroyo Arts & Crafts scene of the early twentieth century. This literary journal gathers short fiction by such Pasadena-area writers as Michelle Huneven (Blame), Victoria Patterson (This Vacant Paradise), Jervey Tervalon (Understand This), Naomi Hirahara (Snakeskin Shamisen), Lian Dolan (Helen of Pasadena), Ron Koertge (The Arizona Kid), Dianne Emley (the Nan Vining mysteries), and Jim Krusoe (Parsifal). Produced as a companion to LitFest Pasadena (May 2013), Literary Pasadena: The Fiction Edition is the first in an annual series that will move on to include editions in poetry, essays, humor, and more.


Hometown Santa Monica

Hometown Santa Monica

Author:

Publisher: Prospect Park Publishing

Published: 2007-11

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0975393928

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A witty, honest, and savvy guide to Santa Monica, Venice, and environs: where to eat, shop, learn, discover and explore.


South Pasadena's Ostrich Farm

South Pasadena's Ostrich Farm

Author: Rick Thomas

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780738555782

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Edwin Cawston courted the early-20th-century publics fascination with exotic foreign creatures when he began raising ostriches, for more than the use of their feathers in the clothing industry. When Cawston brought the enormous, flightless, African birds onto prime real estate in the Arroyo Seco of South Pasadena, Los Angeles County, more than a few observers thought that the looniest bird might be him. But Cawston was determined to showcase struthio camelus, the biggest bird in the world at 8 vertical feet and 350 pounds. The Cawston Ostrich Farm soon became one of the most popular Southern California attractions, drawing millions to watch people ride the birds bareback at a cruising speed of 35 miles per hour. Cawston supplied ostrich plumes for budget-minded consumers as well as fancy feathers for Vaudeville dancers, movie actresses, and even European queens, becoming a great promoter and showman of his time.


A Murder in My Hometown

A Murder in My Hometown

Author: Rebecca Morris

Publisher: WildBlue Press

Published: 2018-05-22

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1947290665

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The New York Times–bestselling true crime author returns to her Oregon hometown to investigate an unsolved murder and its effect on her community. Corvallis, Oregon, 1967. After attending a party on a fall evening, seventeen-year-old high school senior Dick Kitchel disappeared. Ten days later, his body was spotted by two children as it floated down the Willamette River. He had been beaten and strangled. While the nation as a whole faced major upheaval—from the Vietnam War to the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—the college town of Corvallis was devastated by Dick Kitchel’s unsolved murder. Police had a suspect but never made an arrest. Decades later, a cold case detective claimed to have solved the case. Yet justice proved elusive once again. Now Rebecca Morris, a New York Times–bestselling author and Kitchel’s former classmate, returns to her hometown to explore how the murder changed her town and the lives Kitchel’s friends.


Advancing Culturally Responsive Research and Researchers

Advancing Culturally Responsive Research and Researchers

Author: Penny A. Pasque

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-08-19

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1000640892

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Advancing Culturally Responsive Research and Researchers: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods encourages readers to design and engage in methodologies and methods that place cultural relevancy at the center of inquiry. In doing so, it highlights the need to uplift voices and needs of people who have been historically marginalized in the environments that we both inhabit and engage in as part of knowledge construction. The scholars whose work is featured in this volume take up research from different paradigmatic, ontological, epistemological, axiological, and methodological approaches – yet, with adherence to centering cultural responsiveness in all research decisions. Each chapter seeks to extend understandings of social inequities, methodologies, and/or methods – and to contribute to meaningful and evolving social change through innovative and cutting-edge research strategies. While doing this work, the authors illustrate and highlight the importance of researcher positions and reflexivity in supporting the expansion of culturally responsive approaches; they also do so while considering global sociopolitical conditions of this moment in time. The contributions to this volume were initially presented at the first biennial Advanced Methods Institute in 2021. The Institute was hosted by QualLab in The Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology and shared this volume’s thematic focus. As a handbook, the volume can help faculty and advanced researchers with interest in doing culturally responsive projects to better understand frameworks, approaches, and considerations for doing so. It includes activities to support readers in developing said understandings.


Rise of the Spectacular

Rise of the Spectacular

Author: John Hannigan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-29

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1000409023

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In this prequel to Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis (1998), his acclaimed book about the post-industrial city as a site of theming, branding and simulated spaces, sociologist John Hannigan travels back in time to the 1950s. Unfairly stereotyped as ‘the tranquillized decade’, America at mid-century hosted an escalating proliferation and conjunction of ‘spectacular’ events, spaces, and technologies. Spectacularization was collectively defined by five features. It reflected and legitimated a dramatic increase in scale from the local/regional to the national. It was mediated by the increasingly popular medium of television. It exploited middle-class tension between comfortable conformity and desire for safe adventure. It celebrated technological progress, boosterism and military power. It was orchestrated and marketed by a constellation, sometimes a coalition, of entrepreneurs and dream merchants, most prominently Walt Disney. In this wide-ranging odyssey across mid-century America, Hannigan visits leisure parks (Cypress Gardens), parades (Tournament of Roses), mega-events (Squaw Valley Olympics, Century 21 Exposition), architectural styles (desert modernism), innovations (underwater photography, circular film projection) and everyday wonders (chemistry sets). Collectively, these fashioned the ‘spectacular gaze’, a prism through which Americans in the 1950s were acculturated to and conscripted into a vision of a progressive, technology-based future. Rise of the Spectacular will appeal to architects, landscape designers, geographers, sociologists, historians, and leisure/tourism researchers, as well as non-academic readers who are by a fascinating era in history.