Spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of an array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theatre, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public…

Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city. This…

Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. This title tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimate - and scandalous…

After careful research and extensive interiviews, the authors have prepared this compelling and controversial portrait of the Mormon’s organizational structure and economic empire-and the men who control both. Index.

Talks about the reformers and radicals who have struggled for alternative visions of social and economic justice. This book reflects on the momentum of LA’s progressive movement, including the 2005…

Richard P. Feynman is the undisputed master when it comes to presenting physics in a stimulating and interesting way. In his legendary lectures, Feynman succeeded in presenting physics in an…