A memoir of the upstate New York getaway where the icons of the Beat Generation gathered. During the late 1960s, when peace, drugs, and free love were direct challenges to conventional society, Allen Ginsberg, treasurer of the Committee on Poetry, Inc., funded what he hoped was “a haven for comrades in distress” in rural upstate New York. First described as an uninspiring, dilapidated four–bedroom house with acres of untended land, including the graves of its first residents, East Hill Farm became home to those who sought pastoral enlightenment in the presence of Ginsberg’s brilliance and generosity. A self–declared member of a “ragtag group of urban castoffs,” including Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Herbert Huncke, and the mythic Barbara Rubin, Gordon Ball tended to a non–stop flurry of guests, chores, and emotional outbursts while also making time to sit quietly with Ginsberg and discuss poetry, Kerouac, sex, and America’s war in Vietnam. Here, in honest and vivid prose, he offers a rare intimate glimpse of the poetic pillar of the Beat Generation. “Only a masterful storyteller like Gordon Ball could turn a depressing tale of poets at rock bottom into a triumph of the human spirit . . . Ball has painstakingly traced his days as the ‘farm manager’ who tried to plant the crops, do the chores, and keep on an even keel while the rest of the tribe were literally bouncing off the walls. It led him to tremendous joy, sadness, ecstasy, and a black eye. This is a personal book that examines the period that changed America—for better or worse? You decide.” —Bill Morgan, author of I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today's eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context, investigating the relationship between fashion and the environment as far back as the early nineteenth century. Employing an expanded definition of sustainability that also considers ethical issues, Farley Gordon and Hill explore each stage of the fashion production cycle, from the cultivation of raw fibers to the shipment of the finished garment. Structured thematically, each of the six chapters is dedicated to the discussion of one major issue, from recycling and repurposing to labor practices and the treatment of animals. Including interviews with eco-fashion designers, Sustainable Fashion will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, as well as students of design, history and cultural studies.
A touching and hilarious memoir about an Orthodox Jewish boy growing up in Pittsburgh in the mid-20th Century, returning as an adult to help his family. This is a story of what love can do and what it cannot. In flashbacks, boyhood friends build their world in spite of the feared non-Jewish world surrounding them. Family love carries the "mentally retarded" Uncle Izzy, who can turn any serious moment into side-splitting laughter. Brotherly love embraces best friend Harold, who loses his way in the Sixties. This portrait of the strength of family and community will leave the reader enriched, satisfied, and grateful to have been invited in.
In 1962 a Russian space probe accidentally photographs a glass structure on the surface of the Moon. When the Americans learn of this sighting, C.I.A. agents, Steve Curtis and James Hoffman, are invited to the US Air Force facility known as Area 51. Arriving in the desert, they meet industrialist, Vigo Saltzman, who allows them to examine a crashed alien spacecraft, which he has had in his possession since 1947. Saltzman believes the newly discoverered lunar structure holds highly developed alien technology. After the moon landings have taken place, he leads a secret Apollo mission to retrieve these advanced artifacts. As the Apollo crew speed towards the Moon, Steve Curtis is sent to destroy a rocket which the Russians hope will obliterate the structure before the Americans reach the lunar surface. Will the Americans reach the structure in time and what revelations does the huge glass dome hold?
For centuries, the fashion industry has struggled to reconcile style with sustainability. In Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion, you will be transported back in time to discover the historical dimensions of today's sustainable fashion movement. An array of success stories and cautionary tales provide both inspiration and warnings for the eco-conscious designer, encouraging an innovative approach that builds on predecessors' discoveries to move the practice of fashion forward. The 1st edition, Sustainable Fashion: Past, Present and Future, emerged from the Museum at FIT's groundbreaking exhibition 'Eco-Fashion: Going Green'. This revised edition broadens perspectives even further, incorporating eye-opening examples of designers, brands and activists working for change across the world today. Likewise, a new chapter examines the globalized mainstream fashion system and historical alternatives that provide compelling inspiration for reimagining the status quo. Fascinating and timely, Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion examines progressive fashion through a historical lens, encouraging readers to question the state of the industry and demonstrating the value of historical insights in enabling and inspiring change.
Repaso is a powerful tool for review and progress in Spanish. It offers clear, concise, and well-organized grammar explanations, examples of everyday conversational usage, realia, cultural information, Spanish language and writing conventions, thematic vocabulary, and oral activities. This workbook is organized into 28 grammar chapters and seven culture chapters. The culture chapters address the language, geography, history, and literature of the Spanish-speaking world. . Repaso is an excellent resource for AP preparation"--Publisher's website.
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