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Carson
Most of the rolling ranchlands between what developed into the cities of Torrance and Long Beach in Los Angeles County's South Bay region were the domain of the Dominguez family's Rancho San Pedro. Among the families that married Dominguez sisters was that of George Henry Carson, whose seven sons and eight daughters helped ingrain the Carson name throughout the region. After World War I, the area prospered, developing its own businesses and identity so that the issue of possible cityhood ended in 1968 with incorporation. The city of Carson has been home to California State University, Dominguez Hills, the Goodyear blimp, oil refineries, industrial parks, track-and-field champions, 1984 Olympic bicycling events, and some of the most extraordinary racial diversity found anywhere, with Latinos, African Americans, and Filipinos each making up more than 20 percent of the total population.
Inside Plea Bargaining
This volume investigates the skills, procedures, & routines involved in plea bargaining. It delineates specific practitioner skills, ways in which such procedures as character assessments are accomplished, & the mechanics of caseload management. Model sentencing decisions & a discourse system for negotiations are also included.
Fresh Blood
Drawing on hundreds of richly textured interviews conducted from one end of the country to the other, veteran journalist Sanford J. Ungar documents the real-life struggles and triumphs of America's newest immigrants. He finds that the self-chosen who arrive every day, most of them legally, still enrich our national character and experience and make invaluable political, economic, social, cultural, and even gastronomic contributions. "First-class journalism, a book scholars will use decades from now to find out what it 'felt like' to be an immigrant in the 90s. I do not know of a better description and analysis of contemporary immigration." -- Roger Daniels, author of Coming to America: A His...
Encyclopedia of Local History
How is local history thought about? How should it be approached? Through brief, succinct notes and essay-length entries, the Encyclopedia of Local History presents ideas to consider, sources to use, historical fields and trends to explore. It also provides commentary on a number of subjects, including the everyday topics that most local historians encounter. A handy reference tool that no public historian's desk should be without!
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
17 minutes... so much can happen to a person in 17 minutes... ones life can dramatically change during those one thousand and twenty seconds of inexorable time... In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by the Iron Butterfly was blasting away on Teresas little brown stereo when it happened... a swelteringly hot July afternoon in 1969, and for 17 year old Stark Hunter, life would never be the same... 17 minutes... and the entire decade of the 1960s is painstakingly revisited and remembered. Do you remember when it happened to you for the very first time? Fasten your seat belts... its going to be a very strange ride...
