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The 57 bus First edition. by Slater, Dashka

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David Brower : the making of the environmental movement 1st ed. by Turner, Tom, 1942-

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Sophisticated giant : the life and legacy of Dexter Gordon by Gordon, Maxine

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Soul on bikes : the East Bay Dragons MC and the Black biker set by Levingston, Tobie Gene, 1934-

Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus by Gabbard, Krin

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Writings on landscape, culture, and society by Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903

Contents: “…Elliott : A Park for Washington Heights : August 1860 -- Park : Parks : An Encyclopedic View : 1861 -- To Mary Perkins Olmsted : After Bull Run : July 1861 -- From Report on the Demoralization of the Volunteers : Anatomy of a Rout : September 1861 -- To the Editor of the New-York Times : "To sever these sinews" : November 1861 -- To George Frederic Magoun : "For the Army of a common country" : February 1862 -- To James Reed Spalding : A Plan for the Slaves at Port Royal : February 1862 -- To Abraham Lincoln : "The duty of government to these negroes" : March 1862 -- Argument Addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury and Afterwards to the Secretary of War, After the Former Had Asked Me to Take Charge of the Negro Population of the Sea Islands : "A just alternative to slavery" : April 1862 -- Labors of the Sanitary Commission : Hospital Transports : May 1862 -- To John Foster Jenkins : "The sick are coming in very rapidly" : May 1862 -- To Henry Whitney Bellows : "More appalling things than were ever imagined" : June 1862 -- To Mary Perkins Olmsted : "A terrible week's work" : June 1862 -- To Mary Perkins Olmsted : A Wartime Sketch : July 1862 -- To Henry Whitney Bellows : A Call for Reinforcements : July 1862 -- To Charles Loring Brace : "Our most urgent want" : August 1862 -- To Mary Perkins Olmsted : "Our many sided work" : September 1862 -- To Oliver Wolcott Gibbs : The Union League Club : November 1862 -- To Henry Whitney Bellows : The Women's Council : November 1862 -- To Charles Janeway Stillé : The Emancipation Proclamation : February 1863 -- Journey in the West (Nashville to Murfreesboro with Rosencrans) : A Visit with General Rosencrans : March 1863 -- Journey in the West (Louisville toward Cairo) : Southern Illinoisans : March 1863 -- To John Olmsted : "A visit to the army" : April 1863 -- To Charles Eliot Norton : "Extermination of the Rebels" : April 1863 -- Prospectus for a Weekly Journal : Founding "The Nation" : June 1863 -- To Edwin Lawrence Godkin : After Gettysburg : July 1863 -- To Ignaz Anton Pilat : Tropical Landscapes : September-October 1863 -- To Mary Perkins Olmsted : First Impressions at Mariposa : October 1863 -- From Preface to the Plan for Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California : A California Cemetery : May 1865 -- Preliminary Report upon the Yosemite and Big Tree Grove : "The greatest glory of nature" : August 1865 -- From Preliminary Report in Regard to a Plan of Public Pleasure Grounds for the City of San Francisco : A Park for San Francisco : March 1866 -- From Report upon a Projected Improvement of the Estate of the College of California, at Berkeley, near Oakland : Situating a College : June 1866 -- From The Pioneer Condition and the Drift of Civilization in America : Frontier Society : 1866 -- To Edward Miner Gallaudet : A Plan for Gallaudet : July 1866 -- To Richard Grant White : Additions to Central Park : July 1866 -- To Frederick Newman Knapp : Notes for a Boys' School Principal : October 1866 -- From A Few Things to Be Thought of Before Proceeding to Plan Buildings for the National Agricultural Colleges : "Our farmers' sons and daughters" : December 1866 --…”