Books about San Francisco
San Francisco Nonfiction Public
Created and curated by mouse
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Counterpoints by Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Chris Carlsson, 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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Infinite City by Rebecca Solnit
4 stars
What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining …
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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
3 stars
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
5 stars
An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.
A People’s Guide …
