[PDF] A California State Of Mind eBook

Author : Mark Baldassare
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520929548

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Mark Baldassare, one of California's leading public opinion experts, gives an authoritative and highly informative view of the state during its recent years of prosperity and more recent economic insecurity. Based on findings of the most comprehensive public opinion survey in the state, this book examines the beliefs, concerns, and public policy preferences of Californians during the 1990s, focusing in particular on Californians' deep and ongoing distrust of government and the way this distrust has shaped the recent political climate. A California State of Mind combines an incisive analysis of long-term trends—such as population growth and changing demography—with up-to-date discussions of how the recent electricity crisis and the September 11 terrorist attacks have affected residents' distrust of government, making this book a key source for Californians as they consider the future. A joint publication with the Public Policy Institute of California

Author : Constance Lewallen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520270614

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"There is not a trace of the provincial nor the apologetic in the tone of the State of Mind texts. Rather there is a justified claim for the sophisticated originality of this Californian art—sophisticated because the authors have convincingly argued that the artists, for the most part, had many conscious connections and familiarity with art from the rest of the country and Europe, yet were driven by a desire to be independent and different." —Moira Roth, editor and contributor, The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America 1970-1980 "State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 is an essential overview of the rich and complex moment when California assumed its role as a leading center for the making and exhibition of the kind of adventurous and progressive art that immediately fascinated the world, and over the years has come to define a generation and a region. An unmatched source of hard-to-find primary images combined with thought-provoking critical essays, this book can easily function as a standard text on this subject.” —David Ross, former director of SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and currently Chairman of the MFA program in Art Practice at The School of Visual Arts

Author : Marlene Perez
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152062106

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When a gorgeous new student's prediction that a teacher will be murdered comes true, seventeen-year-old Daisy is determined to solve the crime, but when all signs point to the killer being a werewolf, she fears she is in over her head.

Author : Nancy French
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 2009-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1599953420

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A columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, Nancy French blends her hilarious fish-out-of-water tale with humorous observations about the South's obsession with everything from church attendance to the blue-state notion that red staters think as slowly as they speak.

Author : Fernando Chacon Gomez
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN :

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History and first 100 years of Texas State University system.

Author : Louise Sandhaus
Publisher :
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781938922619

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According to the cliche, California is the place where anything goes and everyone does their own thing. Maybe that's because everyone knows that in California there's no terra firma: earthquakes, mudslides, fires, and the occasional civil uprising cause constant upheaval and change. It is also legendary as fertile ground for creativity, freedom, and social consciousness, where the status quo undergoes constant renovation. This book is the first to capture the enormous body of distinctive and visually ecstatic graphic design that emanated from this great state throughout most of the twentieth century. Edited and designed by graphic designer Louise Sandhaus, this raucous gathering of smart, offbeat, groundbreaking graphic design from the Left Coast will amaze readers with its breadth and richness.

Author : John O'Kane
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2013-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781626464001

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This book is a reminiscence that celebrates Venice, California's heyday as an alternative community and what survives from it in the present. Many wonder how much longer this city's creative state of mind can persist as gentrification threatens to transform this legendary bohemian Mecca into merely another beach resort for the propertied. The author discusses these threats, but finds in the consciousness of remaining alternative residents a spirit of resistance to these pressures.

Author : Brad Herzog
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2001-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0743417828

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Brad Herzog, a disillusioned Generation X-er crosses America in a Winnebago to seek out the states of mind of Americans today. He turns a literal search for places on the map into a figurative examination of places of the heart. He reports on the state of towns and villages, presenting the small town as microcosm and the hamlet as allegory.