Local H – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 5

Kyle Conway
At Home in the Petromodern Paradox

Boomtowns are difficult places to live. North Dakota, long familiar with oil's boom-and-bust cycle, became the epicentre of an extraordinary rush in 2008: towns doubled in size almost overnight, and commu…

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Todd M Compton
A Frontier Life

Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies Winner of the Evans Biography Award, the John Whitmer Historical Society Best Biography Award, and the Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book AwardFrontier…

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Randolph Lewis
Bummerland

With radical candor and sardonic wit, Randolph Lewis offers an autopsy of the recent past, looking for glimmers of hope and redemption among the detritus strewn about by neo--Gilded Age billionaires, Big …

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In Haste with Aloha

This ambitious volume assembled by scholar David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from two diaries, written between 1881 and 1885 by Hawaiian r…

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Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
The Cruelest Miles

When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away…

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Pamela Galbreath
In the Scent of Horses, Hay, and Old Barns

A narrative retelling of the life of a horse girl who moved west and started one of the nation's longest running equestrian schools.In early autumn, 1958, thirty-two-year-old Eleanor Fracker Smith left he…

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Camille Suárez
Dreams of Small Countries

Prior to US conquest, a group of elite, mixed-race Mexicans called Californios nurtured the dream of patria chica ("small homeland") in what is now the state of California. Californios' settler …

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Michael Stewart Foley
Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed al…

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Oliver Rosales
Civil Rights in Bakersfield

2024 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies 2025 Honorable Mention, Norris & Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association 2025 The Ambassad…

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Richard White
Finishing Nature

The immense waters of Tulare Lake were repurposed long ago for irrigation of industrial farms in the Central Valley, leaving a dry expanse. But even now wet years conjure the ghost of the lake: Recent atm…

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Nathan Barnes, Jeremy Barnes
Hiking Through History Washington

Imagine hiking a trail deep in Washington's woods and finding the wreckage of a World War Two era plane, the rusted railroad ties from an abandoned Northern Pacific Railway line, or the crumbling stone f…

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Anaïs Renevier,
The Case of the Missing Blackfeet Women

Montana, Summer 2017. A 20-year-old woman disappears from the massive Blackfeet reservation in the northwest corner of the state.In June 2017, Ashley Heavyrunner Loring was seen on video at a family party…

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Lauren E M Everett
Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land

Rent control and other tenant protections have profound and positive impacts on individuals' and communities' lives. Lauren Everett's Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land shows how rent control impacts th…

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Eiichiro Azuma
Settling the California Delta

Tracing the forgotten history of a Japanese farm settlement in the Sacramento River delta.Before wartime removal and incarceration, most West Coast Japanese Americans, including immigrant Issei and US-bor…

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Alex Werth
On Loop

How struggles over Black sound have shaped Oakland's culture, politics, and geography.Chicago has house. Detroit has techno. But Oakland slaps.On Loop explores the role of Black dance music and sonic poli…

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Lauren E M Everett
Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land

Rent control and other tenant protections have profound and positive impacts on individuals' and communities' lives. Lauren Everett's Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land shows how rent control impacts th…

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Joe Wilkins
Every Sky at Home

Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana, and make no mistake---those sagebrush-studded prairies and hard badlands raised him just as much as did his mother, as his elderly grandf…

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Michael W Childers
The Mountains Are Calling

Yosemite National Park hosts more than four million visitors annually, a number that underscores both the national park's immense popularity and its limits. Large numbers of visitors means air pollution f…

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Carolyn Grattan Eichin
From San Francisco Eastward

Finalist for the 2021 Willa Literary Award in Scholarly Non-Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Will Rogers Medallion Award in Western Non-FictionCarolyn Grattan Eichin's From San Francisco Eastward explores th…

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Out of the Lab, Into the Street

Out of the Lab, Into the Streets tells the story of how academic workers built the largest strike in the history of American higher education and set a new standard of militancy in one of the fastest grow…

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