Author: Matt Maranian
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811865111
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The cult classic is back! More than 10 years after pioneering the gonzo guidebook genre, this all-new edition of the beloved #1 best-selling guide to bad taste L.A. has been fully revised. Packed with 75% new material, L.A. Bizarro boasts scores of fresh discoveries plus original photos presented in luscious, lurid color. Connoisseurs of the weird and wonderful, Anthony Lovett and Matt Maranian steer readers into a world of culinary curiosities, morbid museums, sexual sideshows, and dipsomaniacal dives. From pet cemeteries to piata district, hundreds of odd and outr delights are laid bare for visitors and Angelenos alike.
Author: Rough Guides
Publisher: Rough Guides UK
ISBN: 1409351688
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The Rough Guide to Los Angeles & Southern California is the definitive guide to the region. Whether you're looking for inspiring accommodation or great places to eat, you'll find the solution with hundreds of restaurant, hotel, nightlife and shop reviews. Along with a thorough look at LA's top tourist areas, from Hollywood and Beverly Hills to Santa Monica and Disneyland, the guide explores more obscure but no less deserving sights, like Downtown's arts district and Santa Catalina Island. Additionally, the book covers the broader Southern California region, including San Diego, Palm Springs and Santa Barbara. Accurate maps and comprehensive practical information, from city transport and tours to costs and currency, help you get under the skin of the region, whilst stunning photography and an inspirational introduction make this your ultimate travelling companion to this free-spirited American metropolis. Originally published in print in 2011. Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Los Angeles & Southern California. Now available in ePub format.
Author: Anna Todd
Publisher: Editura Trei SRL
ISBN: 6064012706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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De la autoarea seriei AFTER, #1 bestseller internațional și bestseller New York Times Al doilea volum din seria STARS Karina practică masajul terapeutic cu multă empatie pentru pacienții ei. Datorită meseriei sale, l-a cunoscut pe Kael, misteriosul soldat tocmai întors din Afghanistan. După ce amiciția lor s-a transformat într-o relație de iubire pasională, fiecare s-a deschis în fața celuilalt, mărturisindu-și temerile și dorințele cele mai profunde. Kael a îndemnat-o pe iubita lui să-și înfrunte tatăl autoritar și manipulator, iar Karina, la rândul ei, l-a ajutat să depășească mai ușor amintirile dureroase de pe front. Totuși, fără să vrea, Kael a făcut o greșeală: încercând să ordoneze un pic viața lui Austin, fratele Karinei, a aflat de hotărârea acestuia de a se înrola în Armată și a ales să nu-i dezvăluie nimic iubitei sale. Consecințele pentru relația lor au fost dezastruoase, iar Kael încearcă acum să repare lucrurile. Deși vrea să pară de fier, Karina duce o luptă înăuntrul său. Va avea ea puterea de a șterge trecutul? Totodată, o descoperire neașteptată legată de cea mai bună prietenă a ei o bulversează… „Todd e cel mai important fenomen literar al generaţiei sale." – Cosmopolitan „Anna Todd reușește să te facă să țipi, să plângi, să râzi, să te-ndrăgostești și să te așezi cu genunchii la gură... AFTER este o serie pe care n-ai voie s o ratezi — dar pregătește te să simți și acum emoții pe care nu credeai că ți le poate aduce o carte." - Fangirlish Anna Todd este autoarea seriei AFTER, bestseller New York Times. A fost dintotdeauna o cititoare împătimită și a început să scrie pe Wattpad, AFTER devenind seria cea mai citită de pe această platformă. Ediția tipărită a apărut în 2014. Seria AFTER a fost publicată în peste 30 de limbi, a fost vândută în peste 8 milioane de exemplare în întreaga lume și este #1 bestseller în Italia, Germania, Franța și Spania. În prezent, Anna locuiește în Los Angeles, împreună cu soțul ei. O găsiți la AnnaTodd.com, pe Twitter la @imaginator1d, pe Instagram la @imaginator1d și pe Wattpad ca Imaginator1D. La Editura Trei au apărut ambele volume din seria Landon Gibson – Nimic mai mult și Nimic mai puțin, toate romanele seriei AFTER: După ce ne-am întâlnit, După ce ne-am certat, După ce ne-am îndrăgostit, După ce am găsit fericirea, Înainte de noi, precum și primul roman din seria STARS – Cele mai strălucitoare stele. Paramount Pictures a cumpărat drepturile de ecranizare pentru AFTER.
Author: HŽctor Hoyos
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023116842X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bola–o and the fictional work of CŽsar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other contemporaries, HŽctor Hoyos defines new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also affirms the lead role of Latin American authors in reshaping world literature. Focusing on post-1989 Latin American novels and their representation of globalization, Hoyos considers the narrative techniques and aesthetic choices Latin American authors make to assimilate the conflicting forces at work in our increasingly interconnected world. Challenging the assumption that globalization leads to cultural homogenization, his book identifies the rich textual strategies that estrange and re-mediate power relations both within literary canons and across global cultural hegemonies. Hoyos shines a light on the unique, avant garde phenomena that animate these works, such as modeling literary circuits after the dynamics of the art world, imagining counterfactual ÒNaziÓ histories, exposing the limits of escapist narratives, and formulating textual forms that resist worldwide literary consumerism. These experiments help reconfigure received ideas about global culture and advance new, creative articulations of world consciousness.
Author: Richard T. LeGates
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317606272
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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The sixth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The City Reader is the anchor volume in the Routledge Urban Reader Series and is now integrated with all ten other titles in the series. This edition has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as compact cities, urban history, place making, sustainable urban development, globalization, cities and climate change, the world city network, the impact of technology on cities, resilient cities, cities in Africa and the Middle East, and urban theory. The new edition places greater emphasis on cities in the developing world, globalization and the global city system of the future. The plate sections have been revised and updated. Sixty generous selections are included: forty-four from the fifth edition, and sixteen new selections, including three newly written exclusively for The City Reader. The sixth edition keeps classic writings by authors such as Ebenezer Howard, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and Louis Wirth, as well as the best contemporary writings of, among others, Peter Hall, Manuel Castells, David Harvey, Saskia Sassen, and Kenneth Jackson. In addition to newly commissioned selections by Yasser Elshestawy, Peter Taylor, and Lawrence Vale, new selections in the sixth edition include writings by Aristotle, Peter Calthorpe, Alberto Camarillo, Filip DeBoech, Edward Glaeser, David Owen, Henri Pirenne, The Project for Public Spaces, Jonas Rabinovich and Joseph Lietman, Doug Saunders, and Bish Sanyal. The anthology features general and section introductions as well as individual introductions to the selected articles introducing the authors, providing context, relating the selection to other selection, and providing a bibliography for further study. The sixth edition includes fifty plates in four plate sections, substantially revised from the fifth edition.
Author: John Chase
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859841389
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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A free-wheeling guided tour to the cityscape of Southern California, grounding architecture as a multidisciplinary art.
Author: David McGowan
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1909394130
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. Members of bands like the Byrds, the Doors, Buffalo Springfield, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Eagles, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Steppenwolf, CSN, Three Dog Night and Love, along with such singer/songwriters as Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, James Taylor and Carole King, lived together and jammed together in the bucolic community nestled in the Hollywood Hills. But there was a dark side to that scene as well. Many didn’t make it out alive, and many of those deaths remain shrouded in mystery to this day. Far more integrated into the scene than most would like to admit was a guy by the name of Charles Manson, along with his murderous entourage. Also floating about the periphery were various political operatives, up-and-coming politicians and intelligence personnel – the same sort of people who gave birth to many of the rock stars populating the canyon. And all the canyon’s colorful characters – rock stars, hippies, murderers and politicos – happily coexisted alongside a covert military installation.
Author: Jan Friedman
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781841621265
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Jan Friedman's Eccentric America proved that the most unlikely events and landmarks could become tourist attractions. This award-winning title is dedicated to the sheer lunacy of California and her citizens, covering the biggest, the best, the wackiest and weirdest of the state's people and places. From art-car and golf-cart parades to the Valentine's Day Sex Tour at the San Francisco Zoo; from a festival that moons Amtrak to a town with its own language; from obsessed collectors of Pez, yo-yos, and bananas to kitschy theme motels and a man who built a three-storey mountain out of hay, adobe, and old paint. Eccentric California takes an in-depth look at one very peculiar place.
Author: Kristan Lawson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466854146
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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California: the whole world knows it as the mother lode of scandal and celebrity, mayhem and miracles, a place where nearly anything can happen - and does. Giving the lowdown on the most notorious locations across the state, California Babylon redefines tourism for the 21st century by guiding you to the places you actually want to see, whether you'll admit to it or not. Packed with photographs and with easy-to-follow directions to each site, California Babylon unveils the real-life filming locations; scenes of rock-'n'-roll debauchery; homes and hotspots where the stars lived, dined, made love and died - and where they still do today. With this detailed, up-to-date guide, you can revisit some of the most shocking, puzzling, glamorous and tragic moments the world has ever known. Spend the night in the very hotel rooms where Janis Joplin, John Belushi, or Hawaii's King Kamehameha died. See the site where People's Temple leader Jim Jones whipped hundreds of followers into a frenzy. Visit the orphanage where little Norma Jeane Baker dreamed of stardom. Follow in the footsteps of serial killers. Recreate the camera angles for dozens of your favorite films, from Vertigo to Pee Wee's Big Adventure. With California Babylon's help, you can also see: *infamous crime scenes *the homes of screen legends *graves of the rich and famous *assassination sites *abandoned utopias *restaurants and bars frequented by celebrities Forget the endless malls and beaches! Wouldn't you rather see JFK's secret love-nest, the stage where Michael Jackson's hair burst into flames, or the alley that was the epicenter of prostitution in gold-rush era San Francisco? These are the guilty pleasures you'll actually write home about, and they're what make California the wacky, world-famous, and truly unbelievable place it is today.
Author: Greg Escalante
Publisher: Last Gasp
ISBN: 0867196475
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Chronologically arranged and annotated with information on size, print run and date of publishing, this work features complete prints and posters of Shag. It contains over 175 colour reproductions along with illustrated essays offering insight into the phenomenal success of his work.
