California Business

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance) A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one...

J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields". The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world.

Claus Spreckels (1828-1908) emigrated from his homeland of Germany to the United States with only seventy-five cents in his pocket, built a sugar empire, and became one of the richest Americans in history. Migrating to San Francisco after the gold rush, Spreckels built the largest sugar beet factory of its kind in the United States. When Spreckels gave America its first sugar cube, he became the “Sugar King.” The indomitable Spreckels was a colorful and complicated character on both sides of the Pacific.

This handbook is addressed to anyone seeking up to $5 million to fund a limited partnership where you do not want to specify which properties will be purchased and/or sold. This form of real estate partnership is known as a blind pool. Just as in a blind pool real estate investment trust (REIT), investors in private placements do not know which properties the partnership will purchase.

Are you ready to embark on a rearding journey into the world of real estate? Look no further – our comprehensive guide is your key to acing the California Real Estate Exam with confidence and success. Designed by industry experts and tailored to the unique demands of the California market, this guide is your ultimate companion for achieving your dream of becoming a licensed real estate professional.

This is a comprehensive guide for creating a medical marijuana dispensary or delivery service, growing medical marijuana, and complying with California Law. All material is relevant prior to implementation of MedicalMarijuana Regulation and Safety (MMRSA) in 2018. This guidebook provides detailed directions on how to open and operate a California medical marijuana dispensary and collective delivery services. It also provides information on how to legally grow medical marijuana and conform as a medical marijuana patient.

Starting Your Nonprofit: California is a concise adaptation of Starting Your Nonprofit: A Workbook to Guide You Through a Million Exciting Tasks. Laser focused on California 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, this powerful audiobook will guide you through the 11 steps to get your nonprofit up and running. Follow these steps and I guarantee you will gain the knowledge needed to confidently launch your organization.

In Outlast, Tao Master Arthur Levitan brings new life to ancient Tao philosophies. Master Levitan illuminates the fundamentals of Taoism through personal stories of hardship and perseverance. Outlast will equip you with the wisdom to not only weather the storm but to come out the other side with your character intact and the strength to move forward.