Drift, Volume 11: Los Angeles

Drift, Volume 11: Los Angeles PDF Author: Various
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999881262
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
After water, coffee is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It's a versatile backdrop for the everyday as well as the intersection to some of life's most memorable moments. It can be a morning ritual, a comforting companion to a book, an excuse for a first date, and often helps us see the world afresh when we travel. Drift Volume 11 washes up on the sunny coast of Southern California, home to one of America's most vibrant cities. Whether it's specialty Colombian coffee in the 'surfurbia' of Redondo Beach, or Cantonese-inspired drinks in Chinatown, L.A. has something for everyone.

Drift, Volume 9

Drift, Volume 9 PDF Author: Adam Goldberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999881248
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
After water, coffee is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It sits in the background of some of life's most important moments: hanging out with friends, that tentative first date, an exhilarating business meeting. Drift, a stunning magazine, is all about coffee, about capturing those moments. Drift Volume 9 takes a multi-faceted look at the coffee culture of Bali. Once a hideaway haunt for yogis and surfers, this tropical destination in the world's largest archipelago nation has become a hotspot for a wide range of visitors, from coffee purveyors to nomadic techies and itinerant bon vivants.

The Killings At Badger's Drift

The Killings At Badger's Drift PDF Author: Caroline Graham
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 0755376064
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
font size="+1"'Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie' The Sunday Times/font size A book that will glue you from beginning to end. If you love Agatha Christie, you'll adore Caroline Graham, with characters who charm and murderers who terrorise. Named by the CWAs as one of 'The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time', The Killings at Badger's Drift is the first spectacular novel in the Midsomer Murders series, the novel that inspired the ITV hit drama, now featuring an exclusive foreword by John Nettles who played best-loved TV detective and star of Midsomer Murders, DCI Tom Barnaby. The village of Badger's Drift is the essence of tranquillity. But when resident and well-loved spinster Miss Simpson takes a stroll in the nearby woods, she stumbles across something she was never meant to see, and there's only one way to keep her quiet. Miss Simpson's death is not suspicious, say the villagers. But Miss Lucy Bellringer refuses to rest: her friend has been murdered. She is sure of it. She calls on Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby to investigate, and it isn't long until the previously unseen seamy side of Badger's Drift is brought to light. But as old rivalries, past loves and new scandals surface, the next murder is not far away. Praise for Caroline Graham's novels: 'One to savour' Val McDermid 'A mystery of which Agatha Christie would have been proud. . . A beautifully written crime novel' The Times 'Tension builds, bitchery flares, resentment seethes . . . lots of atmosphere' Mail on Sunday 'A witty, well-plotted, absolute joy of a book' Yorkshire Post 'Swift, tense and highly alarming' TLS 'Lots of excellent character sketches . . . and the dialogue is lively and convincing' Independent 'Read her and you'll be astonished . . . very sexy, very hip and very funny' Scotsman

Eden by Design

Eden by Design PDF Author: Greg Hise
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520224159
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
"Eden by Design is a compelling and fascinating description of a possible Los Angeles that never came to be. Greg Hise and William Deverell have resurrected the Olmsted Brothers' 1930 plan for Los Angeles County, and then, in a wonderful introduction, put the plan in context so that to read it now is to see not only what seemed dangerous and possible in 1930 but also how and why one route to the present was chosen over others. In their hands, the plan acts like a ghost of Los Angeles, reminding us about a vanished past, lost possibilities, and the secrets that our present masks."—Richard White, author of The Organic Machine "The Report is not only a vital document in the history of Los Angeles . . . but a lost classic of a neglected golden age of city planning and landscape architecture. . . . It embodies a truly regional perspective; an ecological perspective; a long-range vision; an integration of design with finance and administration; and a truly grand interpretation of public space. It deserves to be known to every serious student of the American planning tradition."—Robert Fishman, author of Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia "An essential document for understanding the history of the West's largest city. Los Angeles had the opportunity to become an extraordinarily beautiful environment, a Paris in the desert. The editors make clear why, sadly, it did not; but also they hold out hope that portions of this brilliant but neglected plan might still be recovered."—Donald Worster, author of Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas "A welcome addition to the literature of American urban planning history."—Roger Montgomery, Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

Drift, Volume 10: Manhattan

Drift, Volume 10: Manhattan PDF Author: Various
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999881255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Drift, Volume 10 shines a spotlight on York City's most famous borough: Manhattan. Whether it's cappuccino at Caffe Reggio, charcoal-roasted coffee at Kopitiam, or a long black at Little Collins, there's a story in every cup. From Harlem all the way down to the Financial District, this issue hits the pavement and follows the threads that stitch Manhattan's quilted coffee culture.

Then We Came to the End

Then We Came to the End PDF Author: Joshua Ferris
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780759572287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
The National Book Award finalist and debut novel by the bestselling author of The Dinner Party: "A readymade classic of the office-novel genre. . . . A truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness." --Seattle Times No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells a true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment--the one we pretend is normal five days a week.

Bulletin

Bulletin PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1166

Book Description

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