ZZYZX - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ZZYZX write by . This book was released on 2016. ZZYZX available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies -- sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid row--but the place is not so easily distilled or visualized, either as a clichéd paradise or as its demise. There's a strange kind of harmony when it's all seen together--the sublime, the psychedelic, the self-destructive. Like all places, it's unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes. Cultures and histories coexist, the beautiful sits next to the ugly, the redemptive next to the despairing, and all under a strange and singular light, as transcendent as it is harsh. The pictures in this book begin in the desert east of Los Angeles and move west through the city, ending at the Pacific. This general westward movement alludes to a thirst for water, as well as the original expansion of America, which was born in the East and which hungrily drove itself West until reaching the Pacific, thereby fulfilling its "manifest" destiny." -- Publisher's description
Desert Oracle
Desert Oracle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desert Oracle write by Ken Layne. This book was released on 2020-12-08. Desert Oracle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.
Strange Times on Zzyzx Road
Strange Times on Zzyzx Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strange Times on Zzyzx Road write by Carlo N. Samson. This book was released on 2015-06-23. Strange Times on Zzyzx Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this work of interactive fiction (also known as branching plot or "Choose Your Own Adventure"), you and two of your friends are on a road trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. When you take an unplanned joyride down Zzyzx Road, you encounter a time warp that leads to a number of strange adventures. Depending on the choices you make, you might: Be captured by a secret organization Encounter creatures from a parallel dimension Travel to the unimaginably distant future There are 13 possible endings, and the reader is encouraged to uncover them all, in order to understand the nature of the unusual events on Zzyzx Road.
The Wikipedia Revolution
The Wikipedia Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wikipedia Revolution write by Andrew Lih. This book was released on 2009-03-17. The Wikipedia Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." --Jimmy Wales With more than 2,000,000 individual articles on everything from Aa! (a Japanese pop group) to Zzyzx, California, written by an army of volunteer contributors, Wikipedia is the #8 site on the World Wide Web. Created (and corrected) by anyone with access to a computer, this impressive assemblage of knowledge is growing at an astonishing rate of more than 30,000,000 words a month. Now for the first time, a Wikipedia insider tells the story of how it all happened -- from the first glimmer of an idea to the global phenomenon it's become. Andrew Lih has been an administrator (a trusted user who is granted access to technical features) at Wikipedia for more than four years, as well as a regular host of the weekly Wikipedia podcast. In The Wikipedia Revolution, he details the site's inception in 2001, its evolution, and its remarkable growth, while also explaining its larger cultural repercussions. Wikipedia is not just a website; it's a global community of contributors who have banded together out of a shared passion for making knowledge free. Featuring a Foreword by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and an Afterword that is itself a Wikipedia creation.
Zzyzx
Zzyzx - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zzyzx write by Anne Q. Duffield-Stoll. This book was released on 1994. Zzyzx available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
