2008, ISBN: 9780679743774

Hardcover

Pantheon, 2008-10-07. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 9x6x1. A light bump to upper rear cover. The dustjacket is in Very Good+ condition. In her most original, provocative, … More...

Pantheon, 2008-10-07. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 9x6x1. A light bump to upper rear cover. The dustjacket is in Very Good+ condition. In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several years to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a deeper understanding of what it means to be human in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation.Williams begins in Ravenna, Italy, where “jeweled ceilings became lavish tales” through the art of mosaic. She discovers that mosaic is not just an art form but a form of integration, and when she returns to the American Southwest, her physical and spiritual home, and observes a clan of prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, she apprehends an ecological mosaic created by a remarkable species in the sagebrush steppes of the Colorado Plateau. And, finally, Williams travels to a small village in Rwanda, where, along with fellow artists, she joins survivors of the 1994 genocide and builds a memorial literally from the rubble of war, an act that becomes a spark for social change and healing.A singular meditation on how the natural and human worlds both collide and connect in violence and beauty, this is a work of uncommon perceptions that dares to find intersections between arrogance and empathy, tumult and peace, constructing a narrative of hopeful acts by taking that which is broken and creating something whole., Pantheon, 2008-10-07, 4, E. P. Dutton , 1971. Hardcover. Good/Good . A short tear and some edgewear to dustjacket. A vivid account of the adventures of a British expedition invited by the Brazilian government to study an area of central Brazil about to be opened up to the onslaught of Western civilization. Although writing for a popular audience, Smith avoids shallowness and reveals a deep sensitivity for nature, for the Indians, and for the caboclos who have been lured to a land already owned by others. He considers the destruction of what was there as poignantly inevitable but makes a plea, apparently in vain, for an intelligent and far-sighted approach to the development that must replace it. Perhaps the greatest treasure of all are the photographs: of flowers, insects, trees, and snakes, but also of men, women, and children, of poor and rich, of the happy and the sad., E. P. Dutton, 1971, 2.5, Rock music-from social pariah to powerful engine of industry.1964, on the brink of the British Invasion, the music business in America shunned rock and roll. There was no rock press, no such thing as artist management -- literally no rock-and-roll business. Rock's cultural influence & business potential have been grasped by a rare assortment of ambitious, farsighted musicians, businessmen. Jon Landau took calls from legendary producer Jerry Wexler in his Brandeis dorm room, going on to orchestrate Bruce Springsteen's career. Albert Grossman's cold-eyed assessment of the financial power at his clients' fingertips - first rock manager to blaze the trail - David Geffen transformed into a superhighway. Dylan's uncanny ability to keep his manipulation of the business separate from his art, reputation prefigured the savvy -- increasingly cynical -- professionalism of groups like the Eagles.Today the industry will gross over $20 billion. How did this change happen? --- The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-On Collision of Rock and Commerce Author Fred Goodman-Ed.-illustrated, reprint-Publisher-Vintage Books, 1998, over sized soft cover-about 5.1 x 1.2 x 8 in-- ISBN 0679743774, 9780679743774 --431 pages - Subjects- Music / Business Aspects / Genres & Styles / Rock / History & Criticism -Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City- see pictures maybe this will do it! -At least you know what you're getting into- City- Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it in - transit.-The Mansion on the Hill 4249 Music 3, Vintage, March 31, 1998, 2.5<