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Category : Tourism
Languages : en
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Author: Andrew Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789812587503
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Includes a section detailing California's history, five features covering the state's life and culture, ranging from Californian cuisine to its ever-present car culture, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers.

Author: Insight Guides
Publisher: Apa Publications (UK) Limited
ISBN: 1839053607
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to California and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination's history and culture, it's ideal to inspire and help you plan your travels. With its great selection of places to see and colourful magazine-style layout, this California guidebook is just the tool you need to accompany you before or during your trip. Whether it's deciding when to go, choosing what to see or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Long Beach, Lake Tahoe, it will answer all the questions you might have along the way. It will also help guide you when you'll be exploring Los Angeles or discovering San Francisco on the ground. Our California travel guide was fully-updated post-COVID-19. The Insight Guide CALIFORNIA covers: Northern California, San Francisco, Greater San Francisco Bay Area, Wine Country, Along the North Coast, The High North, Central Valley, Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada, Monterey Peninsula and the Big Sur Coast, Southern California, The Central Coast, Los Angeles, Disneyland and around LA, South Bay and the Orange Coast, The Deserts, San Diego. In this guide book to California you will find: IN-DEPTH CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL FEATURES Created to provide a deeper dive into the culture and the history of California to get a greater understanding of its modern-day life, people and politics. BEST OF The top attractions and Editor's Choice featured in this California guide book highlight the most special places to visit. TIPS AND FACTS Up-to-date historical timeline and in-depth cultural background to California as well as an introduction to California's food and drink, and fun destination-specific features. PRACTICAL TRAVEL INFORMATION A-Z of useful advice on everything, from when to go to California, how to get there and how to get around, to California's climate, advice on tipping, etiquette and more. COLOUR-CODED CHAPTERS Every part of the destination, from Nevada City to Hollywood has its own colour assigned for easy navigation of this California travel guide. CURATED PLACES, HIGH-QUALITY MAPS Geographically organised text, cross-referenced against full-colour, high-quality travel maps for quick orientation in Downtown San Francisco, Santa Barbara and many other locations in California. STRIKING PICTURES This guide book to California features inspirational colour photography, including the stunning Yosemite National Park and the spectacular Golden Gate Bridge.

Author: Ansight Guides
Publisher: Insight Guides
ISBN: 9780395733844
Category : California, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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Author: Insight Guides
Publisher: Apa Publications (UK) Limited
ISBN: 1780057660
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 908

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Insight Guide California is a comprehensive full-colour guide to everybody's favourite state. The new edition of this travel guide, completely revised in 2012 and with hundreds of specially commissioned photos, gives detailed coverage of all the best attractions, with full-colour mapping and plenty of practical information to help you get around. New chapters on California cuisine, touring the wine regions, and exploring the great outdoors complement lively features on California's culture and history. Special magazine-style essays cover a variety of subjects, such as the moviemakers of Sunset Boulevard and San Francisco's cable cars. Our "Best of California" section is an easy short-cut to all that is unmissable - from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Napa Valley, Hearst Castle to the Redwood Forests. Travel tips provide all the planning information you'll need, such as how to get around, how much to budget for your trip, plus our selective, independent listings recommend where to stay and where to eat in California. Whether it's your first time of visiting or your fifth, and whether you want a coastal drive or a hike in the mountains, a tour of Disneyland or a wine tour, Insight Guide California is the ideal companion.

Author: Martin Kenney
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804791422
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Public Universities and Regional Growth examines evolutions in research and innovation at six University of California campuses. Each chapter presents a deep, historical analysis that traces the dynamic interaction between particular campuses and regional firms in industries that range from biotechnology, scientific instruments, and semiconductors, to software, wine, and wireless technologies. The book provides a uniquely comprehensive and cohesive look at the University of California's complex relationships with regional entrepreneurs. As a leading public institution, the UC is an examplar for other institutions of higher education at a time when the potential and value of these universities is under scrutiny. Any yet, by recent accounts, public research universities performed nearly 70% of all academic research and approximately 60% of federally funded R&D in the United States. Thoughtful and distinctive, Public Universities and Regional Growth illustrates the potential for universities to drive knowledge-based growth while revealing the California system as a uniquely powerful engine for innovation across its home state.

Author: Andrew Rolle
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118701143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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The eighth edition of California: A History covers the entire scope of the history of the Golden State, from before first contact with Europeans through the present; an accessible and compelling narrative that comprises the stories of the many diverse peoples who have called, and currently do call, California home. Explores the latest developments relating to California’s immigration, energy, environment, and transportation concerns Features concise chapters and a narrative approach along with numerous maps, photographs, and new graphic features to facilitate student comprehension Offers illuminating insights into the significant events and people that shaped the lengthy and complex history of a state that has become synonymous with the American dream Includes discussion of recent – and uniquely Californian – social trends connecting Hollywood, social media, and Silicon Valley – and most recently "Silicon Beach"

Author: Kent G. Lightfoot
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520244710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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"Relevant, timely, and approachable, California Indians and Their Environment is an instant classic that should be invaluable for anyone interested in California's diverse natural and cultural landscapes and the future sustainability of the state."--Torben Rick, author of Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective "California Indians and Their Environment stands respectfully on the shoulders of scholarly giants and demonstrates the cumulative power of cultural, historical, and scientific research. It is a remarkably inclusive and relevant text that is both highly informative of past indigenous life ways and identities and strikingly insightful into current environmental crises that confront us all."--Seth Mallios, author of The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown "In this highly readable and insightful book, Lightfoot and Parrish show how the natural diversity of California not only influenced the contours of Indian lifeways, but was indeed augmented by burning and other practices, that were used to sustain indigenous economies. The ingenuity and skill with which California Indians managed and used natural resources underscores the need to infuse modern land-use policy with the knowledge of people whose ecological experiences in North America eclipse those of Euroamericans by a factor of forty."--Kenneth E. Sassaman, author of People of the Shoals: Stallings Culture of the Savannah River Valley "This book is a deeply informative and fascinating examination of California Indians' rich and complex relationship with the ecological landscape. Lightfoot and Parrish have thoroughly updated the classic book, The Natural World of the California Indians, with critical analysis of anthropological theory and methods and incorporation of indigenous knowledge and practices. It is a lucid, accessible book that tells an intriguing story for our modern times."--Melissa K. Nelson, San Francisco State University and President of The Cultural Conservancy "At once scholarly and accessible, this book is destined to be a classic. Framed around pressing environmental issues of concern to a broad range of Californians today, Lightfoot and Parrish provide an historical ecology of California's amazingly diverse environments, its biological resources, and the Native peoples who both adapted to and actively managed them."--Jon M. Erlandson, author of Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast "California Indians and Their Environment fills a significant gap in our understanding of the first peoples of California. Lightfoot and Parrish take on the daunting task of synthesizing and expanding on our knowledge of indigenous land-management practices, sustainable economies, and the use of natural resources for food, medicine, and technological needs. This innovative and thought-provoking book is highly recommended to anyone who wants to learn more about the diverse traditions of California Indians."--Lynn Gamble, author of The Chumash World at European Contact "This innovative book moves understanding of the Native Peoples of California from the past to the future. The authors' insight into Native Californians as fire managers is an eye-opener to interpreting the ecological and cultural uniqueness of the region. Lightfoot and Parrish have provided the best introduction to Native California while at the same time advancing the best scholarship with an original synthesis. A rare feat!"--William Simmons, Brown University

Author: Obi Kaufmann
Publisher: Heyday Books
ISBN: 9781597144025
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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"[A] gorgeously illustrated compendium."--Sunset This lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California, revealing its myriad ecologies, topographies, and histories in exquisite maps and trail paintings. Based on decades of exploring the backcountry of the Golden State, artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of living, connected systems like no book has done before. Kaufmann depicts layer after layer of the natural world, delighting in the grand scale and details alike. The effect is staggeringly beautiful: presented alongside California divvied into its fifty-eight counties, for example, we consider California made up of dancing tectonic plates, of watersheds, of wildflower gardens. Maps are enhanced by spirited illustrations of wildlife, keys that explain natural phenomena, and a clear-sighted but reverential text. Full of character and color, a bit larger than life, The California Field Atlas is the ultimate road trip companion and love letter to a place.

Author: Mark Baldassare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780520225121
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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An insightful portrait of what the future holds for the rapidly changing state of California focuses on political distrust, racial and ethnic change, and regional diversity as the central factors that will affect the state's political and social climate.