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The San Francisco Bay Area is currently the jewel in the crown of capitalism-the tech capital of the world and a gusher of wealth from the Silicon Gold Rush. It has been generating jobs, spawning new innovation, and spreading ideas that are changing lives everywhere. It boasts of being the Left Coast, the Greenest City, and the best place for workers in the USA. So what could be wrong? It may seem that the Bay Area has the best of it in Trump'...

Brings together the research and statistics in a graphic form that gives shape and meaning to these numbers. This title shows a new California in the making, as it maps the economic, social, and political trends of a state struggling to maintain its leadership and to continue to offer its citizens the promise of prosperity.

This book tells how the Bay area got its green grove. Its most cherished environmentsÂ--Muir Woods, the Napa Valley, Point Reyes, the Carquinez StraitsÂ--have engendered some of the fiercest and most defining environmental battles in this region, and they make up the story recounted here.

NEW IN PAPERBACKDespite a population of 7 million people, the San Francisco Bay Area is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. The Country in the City tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place. "Walker delivers a deeply loving paean to this place where he grew up and has lived and worked and been a political activist all of his life." -San Francisco ChronicleRichard A. W...

Contrary to popular myth, the original purpose of dim mak was not the training of assassins. It was an intensive study of the medical arts that incorporated the martial arts, and its ultimate goal was to heal, not to destroy. True to the intent of the ancient Chinese masters, here is an undiluted, holistic study of dim mak as both a martial and a healing art. Included are a historical overview of dim mak and Traditional Chinese Medicine, discu...

A sweeping analysis of California's agrarian history from 1850 to the present