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Lake Merritt is historically significant as the United States' first official wildlife refuge, designated in 1870, and has been listed as a National Historic Landmark since 1963, and on the National Register of Historic Places since 1966.Contains profiles of 15 of the most common bird species that visit Lake MerrittMore than just a bird field guide, The Birds of Lake Merritt also includes a brief history of the lake and surrounding areaThe unofficial center of Oakland, Lake Merritt attracts hundreds of visitors each day

Malcolm Margolin is also the author of The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories, and Songs and The Ohlone Way: Indian Life In the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area, which was named by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the hundred most important books of the twentieth century by a western writerReprinted numerous times, The Ohlone Way has sold over 40,000 copiesMalcolm Margolin lives in Berkeley, CA

Contains profiles of over 250 birds, including a section on rare Sierra Nevada birdsIncludes a section on birding tips and a birding checklistA brilliant addition to Heyday's list of Sierra Nevada field guides (The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, Sierra Wildflowers, et al.)Keith Hansen lives in Bolinas, California

"Eighteen pieces of journalism, essays, and opinion writing by David Harris, from the early 1970s to the present. Introduced by the author"--

"Following up his award-winning book on San Francisco's Mission District, Dick Evans turns his attention to the fifth of a square mile that attracts more tourists than the Golden Gate Bridge but where the median household income is a quarter of the citywide average-Chinatown. From delicious dim sum to wok-filled shops, from iconic red lanterns to elaborate parade floats, from inside single-room occupancy apartments to outdoor games of Chinese chess in Portsmouth Square, Evans captures a place filled with diverse residents and a unique mâelange of American and Chinese architecture, cuisine, and culture. Vibrant images are interspersed with sidebars highlighting particular people and institutions, deepening viewers' immersion into this community. Kathy Chin Leong's lucid text introduces readers to the history of the neighborhood, as well as to themes of tourism, daily life, and celebrations. At the heart of the book is a tight-knit community and a thriving neighborhood, which welcomes immigrants with supportive institutions and entices tourists to experience a wide array of Chinese traditions. Evans's photos highlight a place undergoing visible progress but, unlike other San Francisco neighborhoods that are gentrifying, maintaining its unique character and authenticity"--

A critical subject especially during an election yearDaniel Sjursen is a retired U.S. Army MajorDaniel Sjursen lives in Lawrence, Kansas

John Muir Laws' titles have sold over 200,000 copies, among them The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, The laws Guide to Drawing Birds, and The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and JournalingIncludes 31 activities that focus on engagement and experiential learningA progressive, interdisciplinary educational model with easy-to-implement rigorous learning ideas and activitiesAlso includes interviews and sidebars with students and teachers

From the Mark Twain Project comes a freshly informed look at Twain's controversial Civil War story "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed." Twenty years after Appomattox, Twain published a highly fictionalized account of his two-week stint in the Confederate Army. Ostensibly this told what he did (or, in his own words, why he "didn't do anything") in the war; but the article was criticized as disingenuous, and it did little to address a growing curiosity about the nature of his brief military service. The complex political situation in Missouri during the early months of the war and Twain's genius for transforming life into fiction have tended to obstruct historical understanding of "The Private History"; interpretations of Samuel Clemens's enthusiastic enlistment, sedulous avoidance of combat, and abandonment of the rebellion have ranged from condemnation to celebration. Aided by Twain's notes and correspondence- transcribed and published here for the first time-Benjamin Griffin of UC Berkeley's Mark Twain Project offers a new and cogent analysis, particularly of Clemens's multiple revisions of his own war experience. A necessity for any Twain bookshelf, Mark Twain's Civil War sheds light on a great writer's changeable and challenging position on the deadliest of American conflicts.

This is Bond's third Heyday book, following Running Wild and Living WildThe photos in the book are accompanied by text which tell what and where each photo was taken. The list of locations includes: Yellowstone National Park (WY), Saguaro National Park (AZ), Golden Gate Park (CA), and Pinnacles National Park (CA)Each page highlights a different color through gorgeous nature photography

It is a little-known fact that in California during World War II, Italian Americans were subjected to an 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. curfew, searches of their homes, seizure of their property, and exclusion from prohibited zones along the coast. In a collection of essays, Una Storia Segreta brings together the voices of the Italian American community and experts in the field, including personal stories by survivors and their children, letters from internment camps, news clips, photographs, and cartoons. A project of the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.

Jumping frogs, high society, San Francisco's Emperor Norton and the stray dogs that followed on his heels-nothing escaped Mark Twain's scrutiny or his acerbic wit. Bernard Taper has gathered together a heady selection of newspaper articles, correspondence, poetry, and short stories that are humorous-sometimes exasperating and controversial-but always engaging. Edward Jump, a contemporary of Twain's, offers through his lively illustrations a visual drum roll to Twain's cantankerous prose. From earthquakes, scandals, and tantalizing bonanzas to elegant ladies blowing their noses in "exquisitely modulated tones," Mark Twain has left us a vision of San Francisco that is at once fascinating and hilariously familiar.

The best brief history of San Francisco. A bestseller in its original edition (Lexikos Books) now restored, after more than a decade OP, with a new afterword by the author.