Oakland

Oakland is a city in California on the Eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. As of the 2000 census, the city's population was 399,484.

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Sports teams in Oakland include the American football team, the Oakland Raiders, the baseball team, the Oakland Athletics, and the NBA basketball team, the Golden State Warriors.
The main airport serving Oakland is Metropolitan Oakland International Airport.

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Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to And Living in the San Francisco Bay Area: Including San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, And Palo Alto (Newcomer's Handboks)

By Sabrina Crawford

First Books Inc
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Extensively updated and revised for 2006, this 504-page new edition maintains its strong focus on San Francisco, but expands greatly its coverage of the entire region, especially Silicon Valley. Of the 174 pages devoted exclusively to discussion of neighborhoods and communities, 52% describe San Francisco neighborhoods and North Bay communities, while 48% focus on the East Bay, Peninsula, and South Bay towns. This edition also includes a new, detailed map of San Jose designed to accompany the in-depth treatment of each of its neighborhoods, reflect the importance of the city, and complement the more broadly focused South Bay area map.

From Santa Rosa to San Francisco to Vallejo, from Walnut Creek to Oakland to Newark, and from San Bruno to San Jose to Los Gatos, this Newcomer's Handbook® provides its readers with the most up-to-date information on housing styles, costs, and trends; redevelopment; and all the other niceties of Bay Area life, including education! and childcare, transportation, cultural life, and much more.

Blues City: A Walk in Oakland (Crown Journeys)

By Ishmael Reed

Crown
Released: 2003-10-21
Hardcover (192 pages)

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Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . .

Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills and lakes and a bay—and architecture that mirrors its history as a Spanish mission, Gold Rush outpost, and home of the West’s most devious robber barons. It’s also a city of artists and blue-collar workers, the birthplace of the Black Panthers, neighbor to Berkeley, and home to a vibrant and volatile stew of immigrants and refugees.

In Blues City, Ishmael Reed, one of our most brilliant essayists, takes us on a tour of Oakland, exploring its fascinating history, its beautiful hills and waterfronts, and its odd cultural juxtapositions. He takes us into a year in the life of this amazing city, to black cowboy parades and Indian powwows, to Black Panther reunions and Gay Pride concerts, to a Japanese jazz club where a Lakota musician plays Coltrane’s “Naima.” Reed provides a fascinating tour of an un-tamed, unruly western outpost set against the backdrop of political intrigues, ethnic rivalries, and a gentrification-obsessed mayor, opening our eyes not only to a singular city, but to a newly emerging America.

Dorothea Lange's Ireland

By Dorothea Lange & Gerry Mullins

Roberts Rinehart Publishers
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As she demonstrated so indelibly in her photographs of Dust Bowl refugees, the great documentary photographer understood, above all else, the relationship between people and land. Inspired by a book analyzing the social and economic traditions of rural Ireland, Lange traveled to the country in 1954 with her son, writer Daniel Dixon, to record these soulful images of farmers, peasants and schoolchildren. Gerry Mullins' rediscovery of these photographs, most of them published here for the first time, is a major find; his and Dixon's appreciation set Lange's work in context without letting the words get in the way.

Free San Francisco: The Ultimate Free Fun Guide to the Bay Area (Corley Free Fun Guides)

By Robert Stock

CorleyGuide
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WHO DOESN'T LIKE TO HAVE FUN? We all deserve to have some R & R but with today s economy and gas prices, stretching the dollar to squeeze fun into our budget can seem daunting. Enter Free San Francisco: The Ultimate Free Fun Guide (TM) to the Bay Area. Whether you're visiting the City by the Bay or you're lucky enough to live here, our guide to 400+ FREE fun things to do in the Bay Area gives you the fun you need in your life. Get the dynamic details on only in San Francisco events such as faux nuns handing out Easter treats, celebrity crab cracking or a cable car bell ringing contest. There's plenty of family-friendly fun, too, from free days at the San Francisco Zoo to the perfect place to fly a kite. Whether the FREE fun is in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose, Marin, the Peninsula or Wine Country, you'll get the inside scoop about FREE museums, outdoor films, festivals, concerts, art walks, tours, gardens, historic places and more! Plus we include the occasional Deal & Steal-- fun that's so close to being FREE it might as well be. Free San Francisco helps you navigate the Bay Area with info on rapid transit from BART to Muni. Our hip pocket guide is easy to carry around while you hop SF's cable cars! Driving? You'll appreciate the trademark Thomas Guide® Page & Grid TM map coordinates to each Free San Francisco venue and event, plus parking tips. We note kid-friendly, historic or wheelchair accessible fun, too, without funky icons to scratch your head over. Get a copy of Free San Francisco today and start enjoying hundreds of fun things to do for FREE!

Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000

W. W. Norton & Company
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"Everything worth photographing is in California."—Edward Weston

A stunning visual history that celebrates 150 years of California's greatest photographers. From rare daguerreotypes of gold prospectors to Edward Weston's intimate portraiture, from glamour shots of Hollywood starlets to Dorothea Lange's arresting Dust Bowl imagery, Capturing Light offers a rich, extensive survey of the master photographers who have shaped the consciousness of a state—and a nation—for more than a century and a half. This lush book's 200 color plates reflect the pioneer spirit and avant-garde sensibility of California, including works from such greats as Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Oscar Maurer, and Carrie Mae Weems. Capturing Light also offers an illuminating series of essays by scholars who elucidate and in some cases prophesy how California's photographers have forever changed the medium of photography and affected a nation's conscience and aesthetic sensibility. Capturing Light is an essential work for any lover of photography and for those who seek the essence of California. An exhibition based on the book begins at the Oakland Museum in March 2001. 200 color plates.

Oakland

Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to And Living in the San Francisco Bay Area: Including San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, And Palo Alto (Newcomer's Handboks)

Blues City: A Walk in Oakland (Crown Journeys)

Dorothea Lange's Ireland

Free San Francisco: The Ultimate Free Fun Guide to the Bay Area (Corley Free Fun Guides)

Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000

Rand McNally Oakland/Berkeley Richmond: Local: California (Rand McNally Folded Map: Cities)

Rand McNally Oakland & Macomb Counties, Michigan Street Guide (Rand McNally Oakland & Macomb Counties Street Guides)

Oakland Welcomes the World

Through These Doors: Discovering Oakland at Preservation Park

The Last Resort