Mission San Juan Capistrano: A Pocket History provides a succinct and engaging account of the "jewel of the missions," encompassing its people, buildings, and history. This small book covers 200 years of mission history, highlighted by 20 historical photos, maps, and drawings, plus a complete tour guide of the mission grounds. The author traces the mission's history from pre-European culture through encounters with the first explorers in 1542 and then the arrival of the Franciscan friars in 1775, accompanied by Spanish soldiers. The book explores daily life at the mission as it grew from a simple adobe chapel to a vaulted stone church. The narrative follows the great structure's fall in the earthquake of 1812, the mission's decline during Mexican secularization, and its slow but steady rebuilding over many decades from the late 19th century to the present day. 
Written in an accessible style well suited to young readers as well as adults, this short book will appeal to anyone interested in California history. The author sums up the story fittingly in these words: "The mission has been here for two hundred years, and it stands today as a monument to the people who have lived in the San Juan valley since time immemorial."

Mission San Juan Capistrano: A Pocket History

Harry Kelsey

Liber Apertus Press

Mission San Luis Rey: A Pocket History engages readers with a quick and complete overview of the "king" of the California missions. The narrative encompasses 200 years of mission history, and features a complete tour guide of the mission buildings and grounds. The story begins with the native Luiseño people, their encounters with Spanish explorers, and the arrival of the Franciscan friars establishing Mission San Luis Rey in 1798. The author documents the building of the mission compound, culminating in the completion of the impressive church -- called "a palace" by one foreign visitor soon after its completion. The routines of daily life at the mission and its surrounding lands soon give way to decline and then abandonment due to secularization. The book concludes with the restoration and reconstruction of the mission over the past century, leaving the whole mission quadrangle today looking almost as it did when the Luiseños first completed it almost 200 years ago.
 Written in an accessible style well suited to young readers as well as adults, this short book will appeal to anyone interested in early California history. The text is enhanced by 23 historic photos, maps and illustrations, bringing the story to life.

Mission San Luis Rey: A Pocket History

Newly revised and updated, this book provides the first complete story of one of California’s most important historical and archaeological sites. It explores the story of the Mission and its people starting with the pre-European era, followed by the arrival of the Spanish and the start of the mission era, through secularization, decay, and then rebuilding. The book features over 70 historic photos, maps, and drawings, many previously unpublished.This is the engaging story of what is arguably the finest mission church in California, retaining most of the features that it had when it was finished nearly two centuries ago. As the author notes, “There are not half a dozen buildings in the state with that sort of history.”

Mission San Luis Rey: An Illustrated History

History

Kelsey, Harry

Americas

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo brought the first European explorers to the west coast of the United States 475 years ago. This compact book traces Cabrillo's historic voyage north from Mexico in 1542, sent into unknown and unmapped waters in search of the Spice Islands and a fabled river said to flow from the Rocky Mountains into the Pacific Ocean. He failed to reach his goals, but in the process he and his crew became the first Europeans to encounter the peoples and lands of present day California, from San Diego and the Channel Islands north as far as Point Reyes and Point Arena.
In this updated edition, historian Harry Kelsey cuts through the myths that have shrouded Cabrillo and his voyage, and presents the truth of his discoveries. The story culminates with his death due to a tragic accident while his fleet was wintering in California, cutting his life short before he could return to Spain and report on the new lands he had encountered. 
Written in an accessible style suited to all readers, this short book will appeal to anyone interested in European explorers or California history. The text is complemented by twenty maps and illustrations, which bring the story to life.

Discovering Cabrillo

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

General Printing is a comprehensive guide to letterpress printing. With 300 photos and 140 illustrations, it offers detailed step-by-step visual instruction. Key topics include: handsetting type, taking proofs, mitering rules, locking up a form, adding packing and make-ready, feeding a platen press, advanced composition, design, typography, and tricks of the trade. "The best all-around introductory book for traditional letterpress printing, this manual is profusely illustrated with detailed and useful photographs and should occupy a prominent place on the shelf of every letterpress printer. It will serve as the next best thing to an apprenticeship at the feet of a master printer, and is certain to be used as a handy reference throughout your printing journey." --David S. Rose, Introduction to Letterpress Printing

General Printing: An Illustrated Guide to Letterpress Printing

Arts & Photography

Glen U. Cleeton

Charles W. Pitkin

Raymond L. Cornwell

Graphic Design

"Considered the bible of scouting techniques" according to the Los Angeles Times, Football Scouting Methods explains the basic scouting strategies and insights of author Steve Belichick. He was widely viewed as the ablest football scout of his time and coached at the U.S. Naval Academy for 33 years; his son is New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, a three-time Super Bowl winner. When Steve Belichick died in November 2005, the New York Times headline described him as "Coach Who Wrote the Book on Scouting," and cited Houston Texans General Manager Charley Casserly calling Football Scouting Methods "the best book on scouting he had ever read." In recent years this title has been one of the top ten most sought out-of-print books; used copies have been quite scarce. This reissue edition makes the original 1962 text available once again in exact facsimile. The book explains how to scout opponents, recognize defenses, analyze offenses, discover "tip-offs," compose a useful report, self-scout, and conduct postgame analysis.

Football Scouting Methods

Sports & Outdoors

Belichick, Steve

Football (American)

Originally issued as two volumes in 1927 and 1930, this is one of the very few books on theatres produced during the era when movie palaces were being built all across the country. It contains chapters on many design and operational aspects of theatres of the period, and is 368 pages, with 113 theatres, 275 photographs, 278 plans and illustrations. This high quality 2009 reprint, sponsored by Theatre Historical Society of America, is a single hard-bound volume in the original large format and using heavy acid-free paper. The cover features gold-stamped text and blue cloth binding. In addition to the alphabetical index, there are cross reference indexes by theatre name, location and architect, as well as a list of corrections and clarifications to the original edition. 
Theatres featured include: 
175th Street Theatre Alabama Theatre Annex Theatre Apollo Theatre Belasco Theatre Bellevue Theatre Biltmore Theatre Boulevard Theatre Capitol Theatre Carlton Theatre Carolina Theatre Carthay Circle Theatre Cathaum Theatre Central Theatre Chicago Opera House Theatre Cinema Art Theatre Clairidge Theatre Colonel Drake Theatre Corona Theatre Eastman Theatre El Capitan Theatre Electric Theatre Embassy Theatre Erlen Theatre Fisher Theatre Florida Theatre Forty-Sixth Street Theatre Fox Theatre Fox Wilshire Theatre Granada Theatre Grand Theatre Grauman s Chinese Theatre Grauman s Egyptian Theatre Guild Theatre Harris Theatre Hollywood Bowl Hollywood Theatre Imperial Theatre Inwood Theatre Jersey Theatre Keith Albee Theatre Keith s Georgia Theatre Kimo Theatre Kings Theatre Kirby Theatre La Trianon Theatre Lafayette Theatre Lincoln Theatre Lobero Theatre Loew s Coney Island Theatre Loew s Theatre Majestic Theatre Majestic Theatre Mansfield Theatre Martin Beck Theatre Maute Theatre Mayan Theatre Metropolitan Theatre Midland Theatre Midway Theatre Minneapolis Theatre Missouri Theatre Music Box Theatre Neptune Theatre Oriental Theatre Orpheum Theatre Palace Theatre Pantages Theatre Paradise Theatre Paragon Theatre Paramount Theatre Pasadena Community Playhouse Pickwick Theatre Pitkin Theatre Players Playhouse Theatre Playhouse, The Ritz Theatre Riverside Theatre Roosevelt Theatre Roxy Theatre Royale Theatre Sanford Theatre Selwyn Theatre St. George Theatre Stadium Theatre State Theatre Tampa Theatre Texas Theatre United Artists Theatre Uptown Theatre Warner Brothers Theatre Wilson Theatre Wiltern Theatre Wyatt Park Square Theatre Ziegfeld Theatre

American Theatres of Today

R.F. Sexton and B.F. Betts

The first and most authoritative history of wood type in the United States is now reissued in paperback. This book tells the complete story of wood type, beginning with the history of wood as a printing material, the development of decorated letters and large letters, and the invention of machinery for mass-producing wood letters. The 19th-century heyday of wood type is explored in great detail, including all aspects of design, manufacture, and marketing, and the evolution of styles. Many related trades interacted with wood type production; the book examines the influence of lithography, letterpress, metal-plate and wood engraving, sign painting and calligraphy, poster printing, and type-founding. Long out of print, the book is still regarded by scholars and designers as an invaluable resource for a rich legacy of typographic art. More than 600 specimens of wood type are classified and annotated, as are more than 100 specimens of complete fonts. This reissue includes a new foreword by David Shields, Design Curator of the Rob Roy Kelly Wood Type Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, discussing the renewed interest in the subject since the mid-1990s as well as ongoing research into the history of wood type.

American Wood Type: 1828-1900 - Notes on the Evolution of Decorated and Large Types

Kelly, Rob Roy

This book engages readers with a quick and complete overview of the “king” of the California missions. The narrative encompasses 200 years of mission history, and features a complete tour guide of the mission buildings and grounds—plus over two dozen historic photos, maps and illustrations, bringing the story to life. Written in an accessible style well suited to young readers as well as adults, this short book will appeal to anyone interested in early California history.

In this memoir Mario Belotti recounts his journey starting as the son of a poor sharecropper, growing up in a large family, in a farmhouse without water or electricity, in an Italian town that could offer only a third-grade education. Thanks to a twist of fate with a horse named Nino, his family escaped the sharecropper trap, and moved to towns where he could continue his education. With luck, determination, and help, he was able to complete elementary and secondary education, obtain a visa to the U.S., complete a bachelor's degree in business, a master's degree in accounting, and a Ph.D. in economics. Along the way he worked as a quasi-cowboy, kitchen helper, pizza maker, and restaurant chef, among other jobs. After finishing his Ph.D., he became a university professor, U.S. citizen, economic consultant, speaker, and investor. This memoir also recounts how Mario met his future wife Rose on the boat from Italy to the U.S., their marriage a few years later, and life together for fifty-seven years since, with three children and seven grandchildren.

It Was All for the Love of a Horse

Belotti, Mario

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Mission San Juan Capistrano: A Pocket History

Mission San Luis Rey: A Pocket History

Mission San Luis Rey: An Illustrated History

Discovering Cabrillo

General Printing: An Illustrated Guide to Letterpress Printing

Football Scouting Methods

American Theatres of Today

American Wood Type: 1828-1900 - Notes on the Evolution of Decorated and Large Types

Mission San Luis Rey: A Pocket History

It Was All for the Love of a Horse