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  • Anaheim

    1940-2007

    de Stephen J. Faessel ...
    Series series Images of America
    After the developments that the World War II era brought to the small agricultural community of Anaheim, the major transformation arrived in 1955. Anaheim changed forever from a sleepy and proud little town into the center for entertainment and tourism in Southern California with the arrival of Disneyland. Other national and regional businesses and franchises arrived in and around this Orange ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Historic Photos of Anaheim

    de Stephen J. Faessel ...
    Series series Historic Photos
    From Anaheim Hills to The Canyon, the Platinum Triangle to Disneyland, Historic Photos of Anaheim is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives. With around 200 photographs, many of which have never been published, this beautiful coffee table book shows the historical growth from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's of ?The Forest City? in stunning black and white photography. The ... Leer más

    $27.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Early Anaheim

    de Stephen J. Faessel ...
    Series series Images of America
    As one of the largest cities in one of the nation�s most populous counties, Anaheim anchors a host of Orange County attractions, not the least of which are Disneyland, the 2002 World Champion Anaheim Angels, and the Anaheim Convention Center. But Anaheim�s early history followed the hardscrabble route, with fitful years of early cityhood steered in part by hardy immigrant German vintners who, with ... Leer más

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  • The Man Behind the Microchip

    Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

    de Leslie Berlin ...
    Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now, in The Man Behind the Microchip, Leslie Berlin captures not only this colorful individual but also the vibrant interplay of technology, business, money, politics, and ... Leer más

    $24.69 USD

  • Hawai'i

    A History of the Big Island

    de Robert F. Oaks ...
    Series series Making of America
    Although its soils are the youngest in the Hawaiian chain, the Big Island's chronicles are at times epic, tragic, and heroic, but always fascinating. Modern Hawai'i is filled with tradition and mythology, accommodating influences as diverse as its inviting landscape. Kamehameha stood tall to mold this nascent region into a unified kingdom and others fought to sustain it, while outside forces ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Quest for Flight

    John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West

    de Craig S. Harwood, Gary B. Fogel ...
    The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD

  • Consolidated Aircraft Corporation

    de Katrina Pescador, Mark Aldrich, San Diego Air and Space Museum ...
    Series series Images of America
    Founded by Reuben H. Fleet in 1923, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (later Convair) became one of the most significant aircraft manufacturers in American history. For roughly 60 years, this prolific company was synonymous with San Diego. In fact, whole sections of the city were designed to provide homes for the Convair workers and their families. These men and women were responsible for building ... Leer más

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  • Hell Creek, Montana

    America's Key to the Prehistoric Past

    de Lowell Dingus ...
    "Given its wide range, this book should attract readers of history and lovers of the American West in addition to dinosaur junkies. " - Publishers WeeklyHell Creek, Montana, is one of the most windswept, hardscrabble locales in the American West-a quiet town of ranchers, farmers, and others who seek the beauty of the open spaces. It is also the unlikely setting of some of the most fascinating ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • Going for Gold

    The History of Newmont Mining Corporation

    de Mr. Jack H. Morris ...
    Details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains the second largest gold miner in the worldJack H. Morris asserts that Newmont is the link between early gold mining and today’s technology-driven industry. We learn how the company’s founder and several early leaders grew up in gold camps and how, in 1917, the company helped finance South Africa’s largest gold company ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Hammond's Candies

    History Handmade in Denver

    de Mary "Corky" Treacy Thompsopn ...
    A history of the Denver-based candy company.In 1920, Carl T. Hammond founded his company with a commitment to quality. He single-handedly developed recipes, sold candy and handled everything else required to run the small operation. Nearly a century after that humble beginning, Hammond's Candies still clings to that original vision, creating prized confections by hand. The Mitchell Sweet, first ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Las Vegas

    A Centennial History

    de Eugene P. Moehring, Michael S. Green ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    The meteoric rise of Las Vegas from a remote Mormon outpost to an international entertainment center was never a sure thing. In its first decades, the town languished, but when Nevada legalized casino gambling in 1931, Las Vegas met its destiny. This act—combined with the growing popularity of the automobile, cheap land and electricity, and changing national attitudes toward gambling—led to the ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD

  • The City That Ate Itself

    Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit

    de Brian James Leech ...
    Series Libro 1 - Mining and Society Series
    Winner of the Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the Best Book in Mining History, 2017-2018Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana’s Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte’s ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD