The Docks
Author:   Bill Sharpsteen
Publisher:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520261938


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   05 January 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Bill Sharpsteen
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780520261938


ISBN 10:   0520261933
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   05 January 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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Wildly enlightening ... Skillfully teases out the port's role within the global economy and how every American depends upon the people who make it work. --Zyzzyva Provides an engrossing tour of the place where your easy chair, your children's toys and the shirt on your back most likely came ashore. --Wall Street Journal A fine-grained view of how the world's trade is kept flowing. --Onearth Beautifully illuminating. --Santa Barbara News-Press


Wildly enlightening ... Skillfully teases out the port's role within the global economy and how every American depends upon the people who make it work. --Zyzzyva Provides an engrossing tour of the place where your easy chair, your children's toys and the shirt on your back most likely came ashore. --Wall Street Journal A fine-grained view of how the world's trade is kept flowing. --Onearth Beautifully illuminating. --Santa Barbara News-Press An excellent and entertaining book. --Bookloons Reviews


Provides an engrossing tour of the place where your easy chair, your children's toys and the shirt on your back most likely came ashore. --Wall Street Journal


Wildly enlightening ... Skillfully teases out the port's role within the global economy and how every American depends upon the people who make it work. --Zyzzyva Provides an engrossing tour of the place where your easy chair, your children's toys and the shirt on your back most likely came ashore. --Wall Street Journal A fine-grained view of how the world's trade is kept flowing. --Onearth Beautifully illuminating. --Santa Barbara News-Press An excellent and entertaining book. --Bookloons Reviews


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Bill Sharpsteen is a writer and photographer based in Los Angeles. He is the author of Dirty Water: One Man's Fight to Clean Up One of the World's Most Polluted Bays (UC Press), and his articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, and The Washington Post. He is also an award-winning documentary producer.

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