The Lure of the Beach: A Global History

Shipwrecked: Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach

The Foghorn’s Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast

The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

The Coasts of California: A California Field Atlas

<h4>Daniela Blei holds a PhD in modern European history. She is an editor of scholarly books in San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in Smithsonian, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere.</h4>

Daniela Blei

Going Coastal: On Some Recent Books About the Ecology and History of Beaches

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

A Tale of Blue Cities

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Daniela Blei holds a PhD in modern European history. She is an editor of scholarly books in San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in Smithsonian, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere.