May 2012 | Lime San Francisco

The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself, With a New Preface Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It seems we are all doomed to repeat history whether we learn from the past or not. I started reading The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 a few days before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. As a native Northern Californian who has experienced many earthquakes including the Loma Prieta...

San Francisco: Meet My Sister, Tess/The Landlord Takes a Bride/Grace in Action/An Unbreakable Hope (Heartsong Novella Collection) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is an excellent read and I could recommend it to anyone, the stories are good and very well written.4 romances in the same book I had to get it and haven't regretted it for a moment. I never seem to be able to get enough books to read and therefore books I don't really like, I soon get to really...

San Francisco's Potrero Hill (Images of America) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"San Francisco's Potrero Hill" is one of a series of books giving an exactly 128-page photographic history of a specific neighborhood of the city. After reading eight of these books, I have to say the Potrero Hill edition has the tightest writing, the most detailed captions, and the widest scope of the...

The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have just started reading the book and am enjoying it already. The pictures are fasinating and I do believe I will really enjoy this selection.Click Here to see more reviews about: The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920Click here for more information about...

Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you are at all interested in the new role of cities in the global economy or San Francisco politics, this is the book to have. The most informative book on San Franicisco politics to date. Theoretically sophisticated and a readable case study at the same timeClick Here to see more reviews about: Left...

Cycling the San Francisco Bay Area: 30 Rides to Historic Sites and Scenic Places (Active Travel Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a fantastic book with all kinds of easily accessed information and has given me some of the best days I have spent in my 30 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. I think anyone who likes history and biking will find this book a valuable resource and a new friend!Click Here to see more reviews...

After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I received this book along with another one called: "Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco",by Gladys Hansen.Both books are wonderful to read together because the book by Hansen describes what happened during and after the 1906 Fire (and/or 1906 Earthquake), and this...

San Francisco Art Deco (Images of America) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is an absolutely fabulous book from cover to cover. The author did a superb job and I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in Art Deco Architecture.Click Here to see more reviews about: San Francisco Art Deco (Images of America)The famed period of architecture, design, and style known...

San Francisco's Treasure Island (CA) (Images of America) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Golden Gate Exposition was only two years in the history of Treasure Island while the Navy was there 36 years. This book is 60% on the Expo and less than 30% on the years the Navy was there. In my opinion, I would have liked to have had the book be more in proportion to the actual years of the Expo...

Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (American Crossroads) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Even though the United States was still a young country during the nineteenth century - where Shah begins his interweaving of public health, race, and citizenship - a strong enough sense of identity had been established to create a milieu of xenophobia with regard to non-Western cultures. In setting...

Sleepless in San Francisco Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read a lot of Ryan's books, but really loved this one. The main character reminded me of someone... read it and see.Click Here to see more reviews about: Sleepless in San FranciscoWhen young Noah Richardson sends an e-mail to the producers of the home renovation TV show, 'Dream Away," he has no idea...

City of Souls: San Francisco's Necropolis at Colma Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I grew up in Colma. This is a wonderful story of Colma and the cemeteryes in the city of Colma.I recommend this to any San Francisco native of the age 50 +.It is great for the history of S.F.Click Here to see more reviews about: City of Souls: San Francisco's Necropolis at ColmaClick here for more information...

San Francisco Invites the World: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a wonderful book about the 1915 World's Fair told mostly though photographs, although with enough writing to help the reader understand the context around the building of the fair, in San Francisco, and abroad. It's not an exhaustive examination of the period or the fair, but if you're interested...

San Francisco: Architecture of the San Francisco Bay Area: History and Guide Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Any book that claims to be a guide to the architecture of the San Francisco Bay Area has to be either thick as a brick (a la White & Willensky's guide to NYC) or carefully (and subjectively) selective. This book is an example of the latter. While I like the color photography, the essays and the broad...

San Francisco: A Natural History (Images of America) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Reading this book was like pulling a well-loved but worn teddy out of the chest. I recalled hiking the city's hills, creeks and dunes in the fifties, flying kites up on Bernal Heights and sliding down Twin Peaks on cardboard. ...and thought about what's been lost. If that was the sum, it would be an...

Time Off The Leisure Guide to San Francisco Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a social worker in San Francisco running vocational training programs, the first thing we do is try to get our unemployed clients to perceive their situations in the most positive light possible - not always an easy task. The generous stack of books that the author herself presented to our organization...

Frommer's San Francisco 2008 (Frommer's Complete) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)After reading the book from cover to cover, I feel like I am now an expert on San Francisco! We have been there before, but are looking forward to exploring (next month)areas of SF that we haven't been to yet. The in depth reporting, and mapping, of all areas of the city will make it a breeze to get...