Author: Thomas N. Keefer
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Category : Combined sewers
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: John Gregory Dunne
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520254336
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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"In September 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farm workers went on strike against grape growers in and around Delano, California. More than a labor dispute, the strike became a movement for social justice that helped redefine Latino and American politics. The strike also catapulted its leader, Cesar Chavez, into prominence as one of the most celebrated American political figures of the twentieth century. More than forty years after its original publication, Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike, based on compelling first-hand reportage and interviews, retains both its freshness and its urgency in illuminating a moment of unusually significant social ferment." -- Book cover.

Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1053

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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

Author: John C. Bollens
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520313755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.

Author: Joseph Grinnell
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Category : Ground squirrels
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Category : Land treatment of wastewater
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: Carey McWilliams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520925181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions

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Category : Sewage disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Publisher: American Water Works Association
ISBN: 1583210172
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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Annotation A guide to selecting, installing, testing, and maintaining water meters. Coverage includes selecting meter types, impacts on service adequacy, meter installation, testing of meters, and maintenance and repair of displacement meters. Also discusses shop layout and equipment, records, and remote registration. Includes a list of AWWA manuals. This manual discusses recommended practices; it is not an AWWA standard calling for compliance with certain specifications. Can be used by new and existing utilities of all sizes, and by design engineers and consultants. Member price $40.00. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author: United States. Department of the Army
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Languages : en
Pages : 180

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