san francisco (calif.)

When Angel leaves her life of prostitution for the love of Michael, she soon begins to believe that she is not worthy of his love.

The story of two generations of the Leong family living in the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown in an uneasy tension.

Follows five drug addicts as they spend two years in various drug treatment centers in California, struggling to overcome their addictions.

Assesses the cultural and musical practices of the late 1960s in San Francisco, drawing from a wealth of primary source material to investigate the development and disintegration of the countercultural sensibility in the Haight-Ashbury district, and looking at how the movement perceived itself in relation to the "outside" world.

San Francisco police lieutenant Abe Glitsky, demoted to payroll after suffering a gunshot wound, and attorney Dismas Hardy search for the real killer of Glitsky's father's best friend when a friend of Hardy is railroaded by the police department.

Discusses how the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 led to a greater scientific study of earthquakes in an attempt to understand the movements of the earth, and explains plate tectonics theory, the creation of the San Andreas Fault, and the social and political shifts caused by the disaster.

A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture.

A young Chinese-American girl and her family move their belongings from their home in Chinatown to the safety of Golden Gate Park during the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

Chronicles over thirty years of social and political street art in San Francisco's Mission District, including nearly five hundred photographs.

Draws from research and eyewitness accounts to reexamine the earthquake that struck San Francisco on April 18, 1906, measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale,and to discuss the fires, plagues, crimes, and other horrors that added to the devastation.