Download or read book Spirituacities and other Meanderings from a Hippie Soul written by R. H. Mederos and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirituacities is a book of poetry for those seeking freedom from the constraints of every day life, finding peace within and a longing to connect with self through nature, meditation, yoga and grounding. If you have a need to disconnect from the pressures of society and every day stresses, this book allows entry to focus on the inner world that is you.

Download or read book Vegan Hippie Sol written by Dominique Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experienced Chef Dominique Williamson grew up in the deep south eating classic soul food such as biscuits and gravy, creamed corn, sweet mouthwatering cornbread, and tons of other classics. After going plant based Chef Dom thought she would have to give all of her favorite dishes up until she found a way to veganize everything. Chef Dom has spent countless hours, days, and nights experimenting in the kitchen and coming up with different ways to incorporate her southern roots with her plant-based diet. The outcome? A handful of recipes have now been designed and put on paper for all of the vegan hippies out there. Chef Dom's first cookbook VEGAN HIPPIE SOL features smokin' sausage biscuits and gravy, BBQ pulled "pork' ' sandwich, philly cheez steaks, coconut creamed corn, sweet agave banana cornbread, and more. These recipes come from deep within and from generations back and most importantly a healthier alternative to childhood favorites. Grab your apron and let's get ready to cook!

Download or read book Runaway Youth written by Deborah Klein Walker and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wave written by Susan Casey and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting and rollicking tour-de-force about the terrifying power of nature's most deadly phenomena — colossal waves — and the scientists and super surfers who are obsessed with them. The New York Times bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth probes the dramatic convergence of baffling gargantuan waves that pummel oil rigs and sink massive ships, the extreme surfers willing to stare down death in order to ride them, and the marine scientists trying to unlock the physics of these waves, the climate changes that are provoking them, and what chaos they might wreak. Susan Casey explores the phenomenon of monster waves and how they have become an obsession for extreme surfers like Laird Hamilton — who serves as the author's guide as she takes the reader into the intense, white-knuckle world of 100-foot waves.

Download or read book What Happened to the Hippies written by Stewart L. Rogers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peaceniks. Stoners. Tree huggers. Freaks. For many, the hippies of the 1960s and early 1970s were immoral, drug-crazed kids too spoiled to work and too selfish to embrace the American way of life. But who were these longhaired dissenters bent on peace, love and equality? What did they believe? What did they want? Are their values still relevant today? Bringing together the personal accounts and perspectives of 54 "old hippies," this book illustrates how their lives and outlooks have changed over the past five decades. Their collective narrative invites readers to reach their own conclusions about the often misunderstood movement of ordinary young people who faced an era of escalating war, civil turmoil and political assassinations with faith in humanity and a belief in the power of ideas.

Download or read book Local Music Scenes and Globalization written by Thomas Burkhalter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians working towards a new understanding of musical creativity and music culture in a country that is dominated by mass-mediated pop music, and propaganda. Burkhalter studies the generation of musicians born at the beginning of the Civil War in the Lebanese capital, an urban and cosmopolitan center with a long tradition of cultural activities and exchanges with the Arab world, Europe, the US, and the former Soviet Union. These Lebanese rappers, rockers, death-metal, jazz, and electro-acoustic musicians and free improvisers choose local and transnational forms to express their connection to the broader musical, cultural, social, and political environment. Burkhalter explores how these musicians organize their own small concerts for ‘insider’ audiences, set up music labels, and network with like-minded musicians in Europe, the US, and the Arab world. Several key tracks are analyzed with methods from ethnomusicology, and popular music studies, and contextualized through interviews with the musicians. Discussing key references from belly dance culture (1960s), psychedelic rock in Beirut (1970s), the noises of the Lebanese Civil war (1975-1990), and transnational Pop-Avant-Gardes and World Music 2.0 networks, this book contributes to the study of localization and globalization processes in music in an increasingly digitalized and transnational world. At the core, this music from Beirut challenges "ethnocentric" perceptions of "locality" in music. It attacks both "Orientalist" readings of the Arab world, the Middle East, and Lebanon, and the focus on musical "difference" in Euro-American music and culture markets. On theoretical grounds, this music is a small, but passionate attempt to re-shape the world into a place where "modernity" is not "euro-modernity" or "euro-american modernity," but where possible new configurations of modernity exist next to each other.

Download or read book Into the Second Springtime written by June Marie W. Saxton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viet Nam, the hippie movement, Roe v. Wade, inflation, OPEC crisis, Watergate...the perceived loss of America's innocence provides the national stage for Into the Second Springtime. Meet Wesley Gallagher, a precocious young man who is prone to making mischief and scheming shenanigans. You'll laugh at Wesley's perceptions of the world and fall in love with the strong and steady influences in his life. With stormy issues facing the nation, you'll cheer at the bright beacons of light guiding Wesley, quietly instilling values that create a healthy and substantial anchor in this tender coming-of-age novel. Written with unpretentious messages of charity, forgiveness, hope, humor, love and respect, you will cheer Hurrah! for America again.

Download or read book Big Rock Beat written by Greg Kihn and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1967, the summer of love, ten years after legendary B movie director Landis Woodley's cult horror classic Cadaver. Now Woodley is shooting a rock-and-roll movie, complete with beach bunnies, hot rods, monsters, and rock bands. And as usual, money is tight. Producer Sol Kravitz introduces Woodley to Tijuana financier Hector Diablo, who invests a huge amount of money in the movie with the proviso that James Dean's death car, which he has rebuilt and named The Impresser, has a starring role. But something else is attached to this movie. Something that's not in the script. Sol is the first to die. Then others. And payback's a bitch. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Cows Before the Moonwalk written by d.j.java and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the tumultuous sixties in a small town was both frustrating and a blessing. This book attempts to describe the confusion of a young girl who could not understand why everyone didn’t just give peace and love a chance. The sadness of the Vietnam War, the meanness of kids in school, the perceptions people had of her made her both hopeful and cynical. Her mission to promote peace, love, and understanding creates an amusing, tearful, and interesting endeavor for the reader.

Download or read book Game Sound written by Karen Collins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the many complex aspects of game audio, from the perspectives of both sound design and music composition. A distinguishing feature of video games is their interactivity, and sound plays an important role in this: a player's actions can trigger dialogue, sound effects, ambient sound, and music. And yet game sound has been neglected in the growing literature on game studies. This book fills that gap, introducing readers to the many complex aspects of game audio, from its development in early games to theoretical discussions of immersion and realism. In Game Sound, Karen Collins draws on a range of sources—including composers, sound designers, voice-over actors and other industry professionals, Internet articles, fan sites, industry conferences, magazines, patent documents, and, of course, the games themselves—to offer a broad overview of the history, theory, and production practice of video game audio. Game Sound has two underlying themes: how and why games are different from or similar to film or other linear audiovisual media; and technology and the constraints it has placed on the production of game audio. Collins focuses first on the historical development of game audio, from penny arcades through the rise of home games and the recent rapid developments in the industry. She then examines the production process for a contemporary game at a large game company, discussing the roles of composers, sound designers, voice talent, and audio programmers; considers the growing presence of licensed intellectual property (particularly popular music and films) in games; and explores the function of audio in games in theoretical terms. Finally, she discusses the difficulties posed by nonlinearity and interactivity for the composer of game music.

Download or read book Unrequited Time written by James McCurrach and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James C. McCurrach was born in Brooklyn, New York and was the namesake of a self made business success story. He had a privileged upbringing that included a succession of private schools culminating in a B.A. from Brown University in Providence, R.I. He traveled a circuitous route as an adult - a journey that included tennis, a Vice Presidency at the former Bankers Trust Company in New York City as well as the principal in a New York restaurant. After many personal hurdles, he finally succeeded in his original goal of a teaching career. Additionally, his work assisting foreign students in the English language resulted in the publication of two English textbooks for English beginners in Japan and Korea. He is a former squash racquets champion with numerous top ten rankings in various age categories. He resides in San Francisco with his partner of 29 years. This Memoir is dedicated to P. Justin Jacobs for his loyalty, support and continuing encouragement A troubled youth in search of direction finds himself groping to find his place despite numerous obstacles centering about his Father looking for a duplicate. Such are some of the problems facing James C. McCurrach Jr. as he passes through his early childhood years and the social upheavals encountered on the path to a new century. All of this is complicated by his growing uncertainty of his sexual proclivities at a time when homosexuality was ridiculed and considered a deviancy beyond the pale. At the same time, his Fathers' influence was a constant presence that would lead to a series of disasters, both socially and financially. Despite trying to throw off his Father's yoke, there remained a continuing need to please him and establish some sort of positive approval resulting in a series of tumultuous relationships and career moves. His Mom had always told the youngster that he would be a late bloomer and indeed that prediction would come to pass as in his later years the teaching profession would provide the purpose and rewards that had long eluded him.

Download or read book Calling Me Home written by Bob Kealing and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 19, 1973, Gram Parsons became yet another rock-and-roll casualty in an era of excess, a time when young men wore their dangerous habits like badges of honor. Unfortunately, his many musical accomplishments have been overshadowed by a morbid fascination with his drug overdose in the Joshua Tree desert at the age of twenty-six. Known as the father of country rock, Parsons played with the International Submarine Band, The Byrds, and the Flying Burrito Brothers. In the late 1960s and early 70s, he was a key confidante of Keith Richards. In 1972, he gave Emmylou Harris her first big break. When Tom Petty re-formed his Florida garage band Mudcrutch, he invoked the name of Gram Parsons as an inspiration. Musicians as diverse as Elvis Costello, Dwight Yoakam, Ryan Adams, Patty Griffin, and Steve Earle have also paid homage to alt-country's patron saint. In Calling Me Home, Kealing traces the entire arc of Parsons's career, emphasizing his Southern roots. Drawing on dozens of new interviews as well as rare letters and photographs provided by Parsons's family and legendary photojournalist Ted Polumbaum, Kealing has uncovered facts that even the most stalwart Parsons fans will find revealing. Travelling from Parsons' boyhood home in Waycross, Georgia, to the southern folk mecca of Coconut Grove, Florida, from the birthplace of outlaw country in Austin, Texas, to the Ryman auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee Kealing celebrates Parsons's timeless and transformative musical legacy.

Download or read book Funkstreet written by John J. Buonani and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His writing can be likened by the beats of psychedelic punk. Expressionistic poetry and expressionistic visual art. This book showcases both of John J Buonani's works. He is a self-taught painter and writer who renders stream of consciousness. His art is in numerous ways bursting with emotional energy.

Download or read book Last Woman Standing written by Amy Gentry and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 2019 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Amy Gentry's follow-up to her acclaimed debut, Good As Gone, two assaulted women make a pact to kill each other's tormentor. But in the fallout, their paranoia grows until neither is sure whom she can trust. At what cost will their vengeance come?"--

Download or read book The Complete Book of Pop Music Wit Wisdom written by Tony Rufo and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People relate to popular music, and this book helps you use popular music to draw readers into the Gospel. The material in this book will provide insight that ties popular song lyrics to Scripture in such a way that non-believers will be drawn to the relevance and power of God's Word. The author, Tony Rufo, is a communications/ministry executive, marketing consultant, writer, and broadcaster who has over 20 years of experience working in the Christian and general markets. His published works include media and music articles, book reviews, radio and television commercials and scripts, and evangelistic essays. True Tunes Newsfeatured his article, "The Gospel According to John, Paul, George, and Ringo—Good Time Rock 'n Roll or Religion for the Undiscerning?" which was the inspiration for this book. He also authored the "Media Mix" column for the semimonthly Horizon Internationalmagazine, which included installments on popular music and the Beatles. Tony lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his family. Features: Alphabetically arranged topic guide Excerpts from 200 songs from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s to today Profiles of the artists and the culture during the time-period of the song's release A great resource for relevant cultural anecdotes!

Download or read book Surferboy written by Kevin McAleer and published by PalmArtPress. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve wants to be a surfer – one of those demi-gods who walk on water. But for a kid from the San Fernando Valley who's scared of the ocean this is no easy task. Through his encounters with tough Malibu locals, shady surfboard designers, haole-hating Hawaiians, uptight surf stars, sex-hungry surf groupies and stoned big-wave riders, Steve learns the humorous as well as the darker side of surfing. With finely honed irony and a lightness of touch, Kevin McAleer tells a story of friendship, coming of age in the 1970s, and the fascination of surfing – while also imparting a wealth of knowledge that can compete with any how-to book on the sport (including an extensive surf glossary as appendix).

Download or read book Furniture Makes the Room written by Barb Blair and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen before-and-after furniture projects to create statement pieces—and tips on how to build a room around them: “As useful as it is beautiful.” —Justina Blakeney, New York Times–bestselling author of Jungalow Knack Studio founder Barb Blair is famous for her knack with furniture—spotting classic pieces and transforming them into modern showstoppers. In this inspiring book, Blair goes beyond the nuts and bolts of furniture refinishing to show how to style rooms with each customized piece. For instance, she transforms a well-worn coffee table with a painted ombré design, and then reveals how to incorporate it into a bright and sunny den, a cozy reading nook, and a cheerful bedroom. With instructions for fifteen before-and-after furniture projects—dressers, tables, beds, armoire, and more—in Blair’s signature bold style, a “toolbox” section detailing her favorite techniques and materials, and photos of dozens of inspiring interiors, Furniture Makes the Room unlocks the secrets to decorating livable rooms around statement pieces.