Books about San Francisco
San Francisco Nonfiction Public
Created and curated by mouse
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Counterpoints by Chris Carlsson, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Ananya Roy
Counterpoints brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance struggles from across the …
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Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute by Alice Smith, Ivy Anderson, Devon Angus
In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by the moniker Alice …
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BART: the dramatic history of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system by Michael C. Healy
When BART opened in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1972, it became a catalyst for a renaissance in modern …
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San Francisco's Natural History by Harry Fuller
This book traces the changes in the environment, the plants and animals starting with the Ohlone through the colonial period …
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People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area by Rachel Brahinsky, Alexander Tarr, Bruce Rinehart
An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.
A People’s Guide …
