Review ...most readable pattern drafting book... simplest line drawings possible, but executed with concise purpose. -- Whole Earth Catalog (The Epilog) Product Description Solve the mysteries of pattern drafting with this instructional book. Simple and easy step-by-step instructions with clear...
Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts: And Whatever the Heck Else We Could
Praise for the author's tiny structures "For ingenuity, thrift, and charm, Mr. Diedricksens tiny structures are hard to beat. New York Times Praise for Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts "Using salvaged materials and power tools, Diedricksen...
Millennium Whole Earth Catalog - by Trumble, Ben "[Anne] Rice, under the pen names Ann Rampling and A. N. Roquelaure, is a writer of erotica....[these books] are written in the form of a sadomasochistic folk tale, haunting and provocative. Pleasure and pain are wed inextricably in the life of...
True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
In 1981, three years before the publication of Neuromancer, Vernor Vinges critically acclaimed novella True Names invented the concept of cyberspace, introducing fictionally the idea of a global network of computers. In forums as diverse as Wired, The Whole Earth Catalog, Artificial Intelligence...
Country Wisdom & Know-How: A Practical Guide to Living off the Land
Reminiscent in both spirit and design of the beloved Whole Earth Catalog, Country Wisdom & Know-How is an unprecedented collection of information on nearly 200 individual topics of country and self-sustained living. Compiled from the information in Storey Publishing's landmark series of...
Reminiscent in both spirit and design of the beloved Whole Earth Catalog, Country Wisdom & Know-How is an unprecedented collection of information on nearly 200 individual topics of country and self-sustained living. Compiled from the information in Storey Publishing's landmark series of...
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
Worldchanging is poised to be the Whole Earth Catalog for this millennium. Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for building a better future lie all around us, Worldchanging is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to...
The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living: Advice and Information on Just About Everything You Need to Know to Live on Planet
A farmer's almanac, Whole Earth Catalog, and scouting handbook all rolled into one. Contains information on a wider range of topics than other books of its kind.
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"According to Joseph Campbell, there is only one story in the world, retold in many guises....[he] strips away the masks and shows the Hero to be a cultural code: the universal algorithm for transcending mundane consciousness and plugging into the main starry dynamo of the Mind."...
At the first Hackers' Conference in 1984, Stewart Brand—former Merry Prankster, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation—made his often-quoted claim that "information wants to be free." Radical Software, which is...
The Subgenius Psychlopaedia of Slack: The Bobliographon
Meet “Bob.” Lord of the SubGenius. Scientific Shaman. Big Brother Au-Go-Go. He sits comfortably at the apex of the pyramid of worldly knowledge, twiddling his thumbs. His word, according to followers, is The Word, and that word is Slack. Beyond science, reason — and orgasm —...
Whole Green Catalog: 1000 Best Things for You and the Earth (Paperback)
As interest in living a sustainable life has exploded, so has the green marketplace. It has become difficult to distinguish companies that provide truly eco-friendly products and services from those that "greenwash." Now, from the company that founded Organic Gardening when eating close to...
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Amazon.com The second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning," A Pattern Language offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural...
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
In this unique, provocative work of cultural history, Turner teases apart the visions, myths, and rhetoric that have swept us into cyberspace. This concentration on the ethos of our digital enthrallment rather than on technology revolves around gifted entrepreneur and networker Stewart Brand....
The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community (Hardcover)
Amazon.com The term "online community" has been sucked dry of meaning in recent years, but there was a time when it connoted exciting possibilities and radical change. One early experiment, the WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), united smart, independent, left-leaning folks from all...
BERKELEY, Calif. SOMETIMES a book, or an idea, can be obscure and widely influential at the same time. That’s the case with “Ecotopia,” a 1970s cult novel, originally self-published by its author, Ernest Callenbach, that has seeped into the American groundwater without becoming...
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Brand founder of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly, launches a populist attack on rarefied architectural conventions. A hippy elder statesman (once one of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters), Brand argues that a building can ``grow'' and should be treated as a ``Darwinian...
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to...
Page and Brin are just two of the approximately 30,000 Burning Man devotees - burners, as they're known - who gather every year to help build and enjoy the art-filled collective on an ancient, dried-out lake bed known as Black Rock City (which, for the week it exists, is the third most populous...
Many Texans think the state should secede from the Union and return to its glory days as an independent republic. A few years ago there was an armed standoff between independentstas and the state. They were put on trial in the Brewster County Courthouse about a mile from where I live. Some of my...
“An excellent compilation of sewing techniques and the tricks of the trade of the fashion industry.”—Library Journal. “A great find.”—Whole Earth Catalog. “Recommended for both beginning and intermediate-level sewers.”—1400 Best How-To Books,...
Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth
The Whole Earth Catalog for the next generation. Experts suggest that by 2005, 40 percent of American homes will buy organic, yet a large majority have only a limited knowledge of how to actually make informed, green choices. Green Living, from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine offers a...
Reviews of 1000+ publications on self-sufficiency and practical homemade tools. "The best" says Whole Earth Catalog. CD format makes it easy to find what you're looking for. (Requires a Mac or IBM computer with a CD ROM drive - book no longer in print.)
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
"Bursting with ... wise guidance .... the sole inspiration for ... an endeavor we thought was out of the question." -- The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog The TLH is more than a book. Its a map . . Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always thought provoking... -- In2Print Magazine, Fall...
The Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living (
Includes products ranging from simple energy-saving devices like compact flourescent lights to home-scale energy-harvesting systems that utilize the sun, wind, and water to make electricity for people living "off-the-grid." Chapters on Independent Living, Land, Shelter, Harvesting Energy,...
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoffs landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCsthe culture being counter and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. Its a brilliant evocation of Stanford,...
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) [Hardcover]
"A wise old owl of a book, one to curl up with in an inglenook on a rainy day.... Alexander may be the closest thing home design has to a Zen master."--The New York Times "A classic. A must read!"--T. Colbert, University of Houston "The design student's bible for...
How Buildings Work : The Natural Order of Architecture (Hardcover)
With its homespun drawings and offerings of architectural wisdom for lay readers, this book is like a Whole Earth Catalog building course. In this update of his 1980 edition, however, Allen (architecture, Yale) manages to explain with brevity and common sense "how buildings work." In the...
When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance & Planetary Survival
When Technology Fails is a practical "how to" manual that helps people to prepare for and deal with disruptions in the normal course of life. In today's world of terrorist acts and super storms, it is an invaluable reference covering a wide variety of subjects such as emergency...
How to Love Your Flute: A Guide to Flutes and Flute Playing, or How to Play the Flute, Choose One, and Care for It, Plus
Review Comprehensive and concise... A highly readable and inspirational guide for flutists of every age and ability. -- Jeanne Baxtresser, first flute, Toronto Symphony Orchestra For those who play, it's an affirmation to continue. For those who've never played, Shepard provides a good...
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
Book Description Worldchanging is poised to be the Whole Earth Catalog for this millennium. Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for building a better future lie all around us, Worldchanging is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the...
When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency by Matthew Stein,
When Technology Fails is the first to offer, under one cover, basic instructions and recommended resources for the wide range of skills and technologies necessary for self-reliant living and achieving mastery of all kinds of emergency conditions. A user-friendly "bible" in the tradition of...
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