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"We are pleased to follow up with the artist's second oversized monograph, 'Coney Island'. In 2010, Liao began photographing Coney Island during a period of transition, for both the place and the artist. A new incarnation of Luna Park opened to the public, the municipal government actively engaged in redevelopment, and the area visibly transformed. At the same time, Liao's approach to picture making changed as he experimented with new strategies and techniques. He started the project working with traditional transparency film. Although he had always used digital technology to transform the film images into a finished image, he slowly introduced digital picture-making technology to the process of recording the scenes. The resulting large-scale prints have a visual sweep often associated with cinema, encompassing the viewer and providing a strong sense of place"--Publisher's description.
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The train ride
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The anonymous hero whose brutal adventure is the horror at the heart of The Train Ride is a sailor; he has a vile hangover; he is due back on his ship in a few hours. Equipped with a fistful of dirty magazines, he stumbles onto the train. Half-asleep, bored, jaded, he thumbs through the girlie magazines, his appetite both inflamed and frustrated. What could he possibly do on a train? He looks around - and sees a frail little girl with braided blonde hair. It is here that the author begins his tale with a protagonist who is both villain and victim, both abominably sub-human and upsettingly familiar. His personality, his crime, and his desperate attempt to escape, combine to pose a moral problem not unlike that found in The Collector--Adapted from dust jacket flaps.
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This collection contains the papers of Gloria Molina, who was a Los Angeles County Supervisor of the First Supervisorial District from 1991 to 2014. This collection is mainly comprised of records created and accumulated during her years on the Board of Supervisors. These materials -- including correspondence, agenda, motions, reports, press clippings, notes, ephemera, site plans, photographs, audiovisual and electronic resources -- document a wide range of activities performed by Molina and her staff, such as project planning, legislation, lawsuits, redistricting, campaigning, and budget planning.
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The train from Pittsburgh
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"To Tom Bridges, the train that is speeding east from Pittsburgh becomes the symbol of his crisis. All the threads of Tom's life connect during the twenty-four hours before he must meet that train. He must face the challenge involved in his promise to a man who is on the train and who has placed his faith and his future in Tom's uncertain hands. He must search his conscience for the answer to another man's strange request. And he must choose between his fascinating, cruel wife and the mistress with whom he might find peace. For Tom Bridges, who has somehow, in the years since the war, strayed from his convictions and lost the capacity for courage and for love that is more than passion, these crucial hours are the summation of all that he has been and all that he has known"--From dust jacket flap.
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Andrew Jackson, Washington, D.C., letter to Rachel Jackson, Nashville, Tennessee :
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Jackson relates that he is glad to hear the church is finished. He discusses his activities in Washington, D.C., with mentions of parties attended, social events, gift received, enemies, and fellow boarders at "the Oneals," including fellow Tennessee senator John Eaton.
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The Ely Collection consists of the papers of United States Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Justice Walter R. Ely, Jr., past President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and prominent Los Angeles attorney. Roughly one-third of the collection consists of over 2000 U.S. Circuit Court case files for the period 1971-1984, including private internal memoranda between Ely and such prominent fellow justices as Anthony Kennedy (now on the Supreme Court) and Shirley Hufstedler. Included are many cases with both local significance and larger regional or national impact, with a random check finding topics such as offshore drilling, censorship ("The Beard"), race relations and education (Los Angeles NAACP vs. California Department of Education), immigration (numerous INS cases), labor relations (Teamsters; NLRB cases), feminism (NOW), and financial fraud (Equity Funding; Bernard Cornfeld), with private comments by the justices not only on the cases but also on Supreme Court behavior, personnel, etc. In addition, there is material on the Committee on Standards of Judicial Administration, the Criminal Justice Act of 1964, and the Bankruptcy Appeals Panel in the early 1980s. Before being appointed to the bench, Walter Ely was a prominent and politically active lawyer in Los Angeles. There is extensive documentation of his involvement with the Los Angeles County Bar Association, of which he was president in 1962, the California Conference of State Bar Delegates, and the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, not to mention his own personal practice. He was also an active Democrat, and there is material on California politics for 1956-1964, especially the election campaigns of Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, Attorney General Stanley Mosk, Richard Richards, and others in 1962.
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