The Bumpy Road A Memoir Of Culture Clash Including Woodstock Mental Hospitals And Living In Mexico

Author : Don Karp
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304022862
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bumpy Road, A Memoir of Culture Clash Including Woodstock, Mental Hospitals, and Living in Mexico written by Don Karp and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading The Bumpy Road promotes self-examination and encourages transformation. Everyone lives a personal "hero's journey." The Bumpy Road shows how culture clash is a muse for creative transformation. It tells the story of childhood followed by adolescent confusion. A boy struggles to become a man by buying into institutions that did not work for him--a marriage to a woman, whose entire self-concept was tied to "the relationship," and as a science student in academia where success is about publish or perish: lies, back-stabbing, and the old boys' club. The 60's culture came and personal chaos ensued. Relying on mental institutions to correct the evils of the aforementioned institutions created new problems instead. But the human spirit is resilient. The Bumpy Road details how the habit of going to the hospital for help was broken, and a new artistic identity replaced the old one. Primed for seizing cultural diversity opportunities, new struggles and successes were encountered in Mexico.

Author : Mark Lyons
Publisher : New Door Books
ISBN 13 : 9780999550151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homing written by Mark Lyons and published by New Door Books. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this heart-twisting memoir, a teen boy is the object of his mother's deep sexual urges. Does it cross the line into abuse? Is he responsible for her frequent retreats to mental hospitals? Can he ever forgive her? The son needs most of a lifetime to unravel, then free himself from, the mysteries of her demise.Fourteen-year-old Mark Lyons awakens to his mother screaming at his father, threatening to tell the children her darkest secrets, including her sexual obsession with her son. The "Black Dog" soon drives her to mental hospitals, electroshock therapy, and addiction. Some days Mark is banished from home to avoid setting her off. He finds sanctuary in the greasy garage of his friend Richie and in training his pigeons to circle home to their roost. At seventeen Mark flees his home, but he never really escapes. As an adult he contends with guilt and rage and a profound fear of loving. Decades later, after circling back home time and again to reclaim his childhood, he finds a way toward peace and forgiveness.In addition to its depiction of a teen trying to make sense of his crumbling world, HOMING paints a brilliant portrait of Southern California in the late 1950s. If you have never cruised in a rebuilt '49 Studee to the Long Beach Pike, leaped over the dikes of orange groves while firing greenies at the kids from the next block, or worked alongside Mexican farmworkers, this book will take you there.

Author : Eric Schlosser
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547750331
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fast Food Nation written by Eric Schlosser and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.

Author : Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691220557
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mushroom at the End of the World written by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction."--Publisher's description.

Author : John Sergeant Wise
Publisher : Boston New York, Houghton, Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of an Era written by John Sergeant Wise and published by Boston New York, Houghton, Mifflin. This book was released on 1899 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Miles Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671725823
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miles written by Miles Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-09-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miles discusses his life and music from playing trumpet in high school to the new instruments and sounds from the Caribbean.

Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
ISBN 13 : 9781555953614
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corcoran Gallery of Art written by Corcoran Gallery of Art and published by Lucia Marquand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

Author : Ellen Wiley Todd
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520074712
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The "new Woman" Revised written by Ellen Wiley Todd and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters--Kenneth Hayes Miller, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, and Isabel Bishop--placed their images of modern "new women." Bargain stores, cheap movie theaters, pinball arcades, and radical political organizations were the backdrop for the women shoppers, office and store workers, and consumers of mass culture portrayed by these artists. Ellen Wiley Todd deftly interprets the painters' complex images as they were refracted through the gender ideology of the period. This is a work of skillful interdisciplinary scholarship, combining recent insights from feminist art history, gender studies, and social and cultural theory. Drawing on a range of visual and verbal representations as well as biographical and critical texts, Todd balances the historical context surrounding the painters with nuanced analyses of how each artist's image of womanhood contributed to the continual redefining of the "new woman's" relationships to men, family, work, feminism, and sexuality.

Author : James Campion
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493062387
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Take a Sad Song written by James Campion and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Take a Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of "Hey Jude," James Campion dives deeply into the song's origins, recording, visual presentation, impact, and eventual influence, while also discovering what makes "Hey Jude" a classic musical expression of personal comfort and societal unity conceived by a master songwriter, Paul McCartney. Within its melodic brilliance and lyrical touchstones of empathy and nostalgia resides McCartney's personal and professional relationship with his childhood friend and songwriting partner, John Lennon, and their simultaneous pursuit of the women who would complete them. There are also clues to the growing turmoil within the Beatles and their splintering generation scarred by war, assassination, and virulent protest. Campion's journey into the song includes the insights of academic experts and professors in the field of musicology, sociology, philosophy, psychology, and history. Campion also reveals commentary from noted Beatles authors, biographers, music historians, and journalists and, finally, a peek into the craft of songwriting from a host of talented composers across several generations. Take a Sad Song is a tribute to how a song can define, inspire, and affect us in ways we do not always fully comprehend, as well as a celebration of a truly amazing track in the Beatles canon that reveals one band's genius and underscores its lasting voice in our cultural and musical landscape.

Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595587667
Total Pages : 867 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working written by Studs Terkel and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this book provides a “brilliant” and enduring portrait of people’s feelings about their working lives. This edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist Adam Cohen (Forbes). “Splendid . . . Important . . . Rich and fascinating . . . The people we meet are not digits in a poll but real people with real names who share their anecdotes, adventures, and aspirations with us.” —Business Week “The talk in Working is good talk—earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.” —The Washington Post