About this product: California Native Plants for the Garden is a comprehensive resource that features more than 500 of the best California native plants for gardening in Mediterranean-climate areas of the world. Authored by three of the state's leading native-plant horticulturists and illustrated with 450 color photos, this reference book also includes chapters on landscape design, installation, and maintenance. Detailed lists of recommended native plants for a variety of situations and appendices with information on places to see native plants and where to buy them are also provided.
About this product: Experience California as seen through the eyes of forty-one writers spanning two centuries, from early adventurers to contemporary poets.
Edited by Sunset magazine's Peter Fish,California's Best features fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including Tobias Wolff's short story Desert Breakdown, Joan Didion's essay Notes from a Native Daughter, and a selection from Amy Tan'sJoy Luck Club.
Excerpts from the works of Wallace Stegner, Jack London, John Muir, Mark Twain, and many others incorporate voices from the past. Contemporary writers include Robert Hass, Daniel Duane, Anne Lamott, and Tom McNeal.
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Features works by: Virginia Hamilton Adair Gertrude Atherton Mary Austin Herb Caen J. Smeaton Chase Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clapp Ina Coolbrith Richard H. Dana Joan Didion Harriet Doerr Daniel Duane Dana Gioia Mary Edith Griswold Ron Hansen Bret Harte Robert Hass Helen Hunt Jackson Robinson Jeffers Clarence King Anne Lamott Jack London William Lewis Manly Wilma McDaniel Tom McNeal Joaquin Miller Max Miller Walter Mosley John Muir Charles Nordhoff Frank Norris Jenny Price Gary Snyder Gary Soto Wallace Stegner John Steinbeck George Sterling Robert Louis Stevenson Amy Tan Mark Twain Judy Van der Veer Tobias Wolff
About this product: The most comprehensive -- and easiest to use -- guide to California residential property management available.
Every California landlord and residential property manager needs The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights & Responsibilities. The definitive guide for over 20 years, it clearly and comprehensively covers everything you need to know about:
security deposits
leases and rental agreements
inspections
liability
lead paint
discrimination
rent control
satellite dishes
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The 13th edition includes up-to-date landlord-tenant laws and forms, including new rules for terminating a tenancy. It also has updated rent control charts for 15 cities. All forms included as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.
Also available: California Landlord's Law Book: Evictions (20080202)
About this product: California has always been our Shangri-la–the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden State’s premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, this is the story of a place at once quintessentially American and utterly unique.
Arguing that America’s most populous state has always been blessed with both spectacular natural beauty and astonishing human diversity, Starr unfolds a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph.
For generations, California’s native peoples basked in the abundance of a climate and topography eminently suited to human habitation. By the time the Spanish arrived in the early sixteenth century, there were scores of autonomous tribes were thriving in the region. Though conquest was rapid, nearly two centuries passed before Spain exerted control over upper California through the chain of missions that stand to this day.
The discovery of gold in January 1848 changed everything. With population increasing exponentially as get-rich-quick dreamers converged from all over the world, California reinvented itself overnight. Starr deftly traces the successive waves of innovation and calamity that have broken over the state since then–the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons and the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world’s entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the heroic irrigation and transportation projects that have altered the face of the region; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace.
Kevin Starr has devoted his career to the history of his beloved state, but he has never lost his sense of wonder over California’s sheer abundance and peerless variety. This one-volume distillation of a lifetime’s work gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state.
About this product: Introducing Great Escapes: Selective guides for travelers who want to find quick trips and getaways within a specific locale. They take away the drudgery of sifting through online and printed travel info by listing only the most worthwhile events, activities, and places to stay and eat.
Great Escapes: Northern California provides at-a-glance trip ideas to major destinations such as San Francisco and Lake Tahoe and lesser-known areas such as the Gold Rush towns of the Sierra foothills and the isolated beaches of the Sonoma coast. Activities range from catching the sunset from the best spot on Monterey Peninsula to hiking to a Sierra Nevada lookout point. Carefully-chosen places to stay all have unique charm or historical significance, and dining options range from Michelin-starred restaurants to local favorites. 30 black & white photos, 1 map.
About this product: Plants native to Southern California are uniquely beautiful and thrive on their own with minimal water, pruning or trimming, fertilizers, and soil amendments. This book proves that creating environmentally sensitive design does not mean putting in extraordinary effort or sacrificing beauty. Includes detailed descriptions and growing information for some of the region's most interesting, attractive plants and has easy-to-use tri-cut flip pages.
About this product: Lonely Planet knows California. This 5th edition guarantees adventures across the Golden State, whether you're tasting small-batch pinots in Sonoma, reliving the Gold Rush or cruising the last leg of Route 66 on the ultimate beach-bound road trip.
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In This Guide:
Expanded Outdoors chapter covering 21 activities to get you closer to nature New Food chapter showcases California's best drinks and delicacies Green Index directs you to sustainable listings
About this product: Ready to evict a problem tenant? Get the highly praised, step-by-step guide to evictions in California.
Sooner or later, every landlord is faced with handling an eviction. Don't get caught spending thousands in attorney fees when The California Landlord's Law Book: Evictions will guide you through the process every step of the way -- without breaking the bank.
Read up on the different legal grounds for eviction in plain English, plus get all the forms and step-by-step instructions needed to perform a successful eviction, both as tear-outs and on CD-ROM. Learn how to legally:
prepare and serve 3-, 30-, 60- or 90-day notices
file an unlawful detainer complaint in court
win by default if the tenant doesn't respond
handle a contested case
represent yourself in court
deal with eviction-delaying tactics
collect the unpaid rent after you win
Still the only step-by-step guide through the California eviction process, the 13th edition reflects current law and provides the latest information, forms and instructions for a quick and legal eviction.
List of Forms
Termination Notices Three-Day Notice to Pay Rent or Quit 30-Day Notice of Termination of Tenancy 60-Day Notice of Termination of Tenancy 90-Day Notice of Termination of Tenancy Three-Day Notice to Perform Covenant or Quit Three-Day Notice to Quit
Filing and Serving Your Unlawful Detainer Complaint Summons -- Unlawful Detainer Complaint -- Unlawful Detainer Civil Case Cover Sheet Proof of Service of Summons Civil Case Cover Sheet Addendum and Statement of Location Application and Order to Serve Summons by Posting for Unlawful Detainer Prejudgment Claim of Right to Possession Blank Pleading Paper
Taking a Default Judgment Request for Entry of Default Writ of Execution Application for Issuance of Writ of Possession or Sale (Los Angeles only) Declaration in Support of Default Judgment for Rent, Damages, and Costs (3-, 30-, 60- or 90-Day Notice) Declaration in Support of Default Judgment for Damages and Costs (Violation of Lease) Declaration in Support of Default Judgment Judgment -- Unlawful Detainer
Contested Cases Stipulation for Entry of Judgment Request/Counter-Request to Set Case for Trial -- Unlawful Detainer Notice of Motion for Summary Judgment; Plaintiff's Declaration; and Points and Authorities Order Granting Motion for Summary Judgment Judgment Following Granting of Motion for Summary Judgment Judgment -- Unlawful Detainer Attachment
Collecting Your Money Judgment Application and Order for Appearance and Examination Questionnaire for Judgment -- Debtor Examination Application for Earnings Withholding Order (Wage Garnishment) Acknowledgment of Satisfaction of Judgment
About this product: A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we know today first burst into prominence. Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, and cultural forces in California in these pivotal years. In a powerful blend of telling events, colorful personalities, and insightful analyses, Starr examines such issues as the overnight creation of the postwar California suburb, the rise of Los Angeles as Super City, the reluctant emergence of San Diego as one of the largest cities in the nation, and the decline of political centrism. He explores the Silent Generation and the emergent Boomer youth cult, the Beats and the Hollywood "Rat Pack," the pervasive influence of Zen Buddhism and other Asian traditions in art and design, the rise of the University of California and the emergence of California itself as a utopia of higher education, the cooling of West Coast jazz, freeway and water projects of heroic magnitude, outdoor life and the beginnings of the environmental movement. More broadly, he shows how California not only became the most populous state in the Union, but in fact evolved into a mega-state en route to becoming the global commonwealth it is today. Golden Dreams continues an epic series that has been widely recognized for its signal contribution to the history of American culture in California. It is a book that transcends its stated subject to offer a wealth of insight into the growth of the Sun Belt and the West and indeed the dramatic transformation of America itself in these pivotal years following the Second World War.
Acclaim for AMERICANS AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM series
"[T]aken together, these books constitute as comprehensive a social, political, ethnographic, cultural and philosophical history as any state is ever likely to achieve. It was conceived in dazzling ambition and masterfully executed. The author's scholarship and erudition animate each volume without once falling into the trap of self-regard. It is, in sum, an achievement made even more remarkable by the fact that it is wonderfully readable." --Los Angeles Times
"Starr bids fair to become the foremost chronicler of that often fabulous region, imposing upon the dramatic elements of California history a novelist's imagination and a cosmopolitan and sophisticated intelligence." --Philadelphia Inquirer
"An impressive book...The grasp is sure, the learning awesome. The prose...has a drive that carries cities and industries and people and decades headlong toward their manifest destiny." --The New York Times
"A delightful and extremely thorough chronicle of a state that is almost a mythical kingdom. Nobody who is interested in any of the intellectual currents of American history, or of the roots of twentieth (perhaps even twenty-first) century thought, can fail to enjoy this." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"For ambition, narrative drive and breadth of research across the disciplines from culture through politics and demography to agronomy and water management, no recent project of American historical writing comes close to Kevin Starr's mammoth, multi-volume 'Americans and the California Dream'.... It is a magnificent accomplishment." --David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"This is ebullient, nuanced, interdisciplinary history of the grandest kind, drawing parallels and distinctions where perhaps no one ever thought to see them before. Starr's a born storyteller as well, mining a rich seam of anecdotal coal to animate the complex, enigmatic figures of California history.... Starr is an undervalued and irreplaceable public treasure." --David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle
About this product: "Comprehensive and lively, Hotel California offers a front-row seat on the wild ride—fueled by drugs, sex, and lots of cash—that took Southern California singer-songwriters from hot tubs and local bars to sold-out stadiums,private jets, and the bestselling album of all time." —Alan Light, author of The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys
"Through hundreds of interviews conducted over the last dozen years, Hoskyns methodically chips away at the era's artifice and ego-driven mythologizing, revealing a creative landscape that was less stardust and golden than it was green with greed and white with cocaine residue." —Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles Times Book Review
This book is a remarkable look at one of the most dramatic, creative, and revolutionary settings in American popular culture: the Los Angeles popular music scene from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Drawing on extraordinarily candid firsthand interviews Barney Hoskyns has conducted over more than three decades, Hotel California takes you on an intimate tour—from the Sunset Strip to Laurel Canyon—of the creative and personal lives of the legendary songwriters, superstars, and producers who made the music that everyone listened to. You'll read things you've never read before about such fascinating, complex people as Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey, Mama Cass Elliot, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, David Geffen, and many others. Packed with riveting anecdotes and sharp musical insights, Hotel California captures the amazing results of brilliant creative collaboration and the dark side of fame, wealth, and unbridled ambition. It is a story of rise and fall like none other, and you won't be able to put it down.
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