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From Czernowitz to China and Beyond is the personal account of an extraordinary woman born of Jewish parents in 1890 in Czernowitz, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She describes her life in Czernowitz as a child, China in 1910 at age 20, New York in 1912 and Shanghai again in 1924. Ethel Liebman Wiesinger tells of being married to a German entrepreneur in pre-revolutionary China and how politics affected her life. Her husband Otto Wiesinger, a lifelong German, fought in Tsingtau, China during WWI and later sought to import arms to support warlord Chang Tso-lin. In the 1930s, they had an Asian arts store in San Francisco that went bankrupt during the Great Depression. In 1938 Otto returned to Nazi Germany to support Hitler. Now on her own, Ethel opened the Beverly Hills Hotel Gift Shop and knew many celebrities. After retirement she lived in Charlevoix, Michigan, until her death in 1984. Additional stories of the family's life in the 20th century are written by her daughters. Edith Gilbert: My Shanghai - At Age Seven Margot Smith: Growing Up In Beverly Hills

Live music artist. I have the passion of the pen to draw the moment. I started drawing music and people around the Bay Area in the late eighties. Thousands of local and well-known bands in around San Francisco, California, along the coast to British Columbia and over to Europe in Berlin, Paris and beyond have been caught by my pen. I take a moment to hear the music dance through me while the hand goes to the paper and logs the moment. Always on the hunt for the next draw in restaurant café or just where I am. My late husband, Allen Cohen, was a well-known poet and the editor, founder of the San Francisco Oracle. I illustrated two of Allen's books of poems: The Book of Hats and Like a Radiant White Dove both published by Regent Press. My work is in many private collections and has appeared in Beatitude Magazine, Relix Magazine and Split Shift and in various CD's of the musician's that I have drawn. I Draw the Line in the Night Feeling the taste of the moment Eyes on me and I use to close book And leave the room No More I sit and draw, I'm in our living room Enjoying you When a person is in a social environment that requires one to be very quiet, and if this person needs to be busy all the time, pen and paper is a best friend.

For two decades famed artist Andrew Wyeth forged a special relationship with neighbors Helen and George Sipala. The couple was a special part of Andrew''s world and their home, Painter''s Folly, became a home-away-from-home refuge for Andrew and also a studio. Andrew included the couple in many of his special events, from art openings in New York City to a movie preview with Charlton Heston. Helen and George hosted Christmas parties for Andrew and Andrew invited the couple to spend time with him in Maine during summers.Besides being a friend, hostess and model for Andrew, Helen was a confident of the painter. Helen and Andrew spent many hours discussing painting, family, religion and other sensitive subjects.Andrew suggested that Helen keep a diary of their meetings and talks. He hoped Helen "was writing all this down." If Helen was to share their relationship, Andrew wanted her to not make his stories "sweet" but to "put an edge to it."Beyond the MARRIAGE Bed is the sweet and not too sweet chronicle of the relationship among Andrew Wyeth and Helen and George Sipala.

Christopher Bernard, "one of [our] best-kept lyric secrets" (Ivan Arguelles), offers a magnificent new collection of poems to help inspire us through this age of emergency as we face a pandemic, a crisis of democracy, and a world racing toward environmental disaster. "A vibrant and focused collection" (Marvin R. Hiemstra); poems "lyrical, funny, haunting, provocative, and sometimes maddening . . . adventurous, entertaining, and full of life" (Jane Tompkins). "With humor, grace, and human insight, Bernard leads us toward our ever-nearing future" (Keith Ekiss).

Revolutionary Hillbilly is a history book, an organizer''s notebook, and an autobiography. These are stories of unity against poverty and racism. Hy Thurman is a hillbilly and a revolutionary organizer. As a co-founder of the Young Patriots Organization, Thurman helped organize poor white communities in alliance with the Illinois Black Panther Party and Young Lords Organization during the Sixties. He is an educator who got his schooling in the fields of Tennessee, his PhD on the streets of Chicago, and his hunger for justice in the back of a patrol car.  Revolutionary Hillbilly is unique because it is a first person chronicle of the unfolding of landmark events of the 1960''s. Hy Thurman''s book provides an insiders view of how coalitions can form and the group dynamics that can keep these movements vibrant. It is an invaluable resource for historians and activists alike.

ABOUT THE BOOK"An electronic extension of the count┬¡less traveling salesmen and medicine men who crisscrossed America during its expansion, the ''faceless'' deejay ... the pop propagandist who is the Amer┬¡ican Dream - or a nightmare of a Knight Mercantile."The Deejays is the first fut story of the tribal chieftains who manipulate-pos┬¡sibly create -popula taste with every spin of their timetable. It is also the history of the countrywide radio stations and the re┬¡cording companies and their role in the extravaganza. The immense growth of radio in the United States since the Depression can be traced directly through the evolution of the deeiay who played records, interspersed with announcements of time, weather, and news, and most importantly peddled merchandise. In the beginning, they often spieled for dubious patent medicines or cut-rate clothing and furniture stores. Later, as national advertisers saw the possibilities for big profits from a small in┬¡vestment in air time, they began buying into the recorded music programs on the air nearly twenty-four hours a day from radio stations across country. At first, stations were reluctant to shell out cash just to play records. Recording firms, band leaders, and top singers feared an adverse effect on sales. The opposite happened, with every promoter eventually battling to get his discs released first on top shows, paving the way for huge incomes for major deejays, and the payola scandals that rocked the country late in 1959 when adoring fans saw many of their idols toppled in disgrace. The individual stories of the deejays are fascinating. Many of the diskers are quoted directly, talking frankly and irreverently about their jobs and bosses, tunes and trends, frustrations and triumph. Just how powerful they were, especially in their influence on younger listeners, is a question Arnold Passman explores in depth. Look┬¡ing to the future, he concludes that the day of the mass audience is over and that, increasingly, broadcasters will follow the read of such listener-supportecl stations as KPFK, Los Angeles; KPFA, Berkeley; and WBAI, New York, in appealing to a selective audience through true community service programming. 

A blood-curdling howl for women to awaken, Janine Canan’s poignant and disturbing compendium on the condition of 21st century woman portrays the women we love, hate, pity and are — exposing our tortured relationship to the feminine in an increasingly maled and motherless wasteland of pathological masculinity. Both lamentation and hymn, You Guys is ultimately a tribute to the indomitable potential of Women and  the eternal beauty  of Life.

The author/artist writes: The first drawing published in this book was January 13, 2020. Life was filled with adventure. I draw nearly every day. I organize my drawings by calendar date and file in thick folders that I make. When the folder is full with about forty drawings, I start another. These drawings from January 13 until March 16, 2020 are an accurate log created with pen, paint, papers, and musings of my life in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.

A book of recollections about the 2016 Burning Man Arts Festival consisting of poems, stories and conversations with real and imaginary beings. It's about getting there, being there and leaving there - and about a certain fox that appeared in the nearby hills while the author hiked.

Meditations on Love and Catastrophe at The Liars' Cafe is a formally innovative novel that began as a series of linked prose poems generated through automatic writing and turned into the story of a romance between two young intellectuals in the opening years of the new millennium. It is part dream vision, part prose poem, part series of dialogues about love, nature, politics, the nature of good and evil, and the purpose of human life, and part the story of the two young lovers as they struggle to understand themselves, each other, and the chaotic world of the early twenty-first century.

Beau veut aller à Moscou.Beau est gourmand. Il adore manger. Alors Beau réfléchit: "À Moscou on parle russe."S’il veut bien manger à Moscou, il doit savoir dire poulet, saumon, thon, fromage, souris, crevette, boeuf Stroganoff et pierogis!

One of a series of bi-lingual books for young children based on the adventures of Beau the Cat who likes to travel and likes to eat. He has to learn a series of differrent languages - French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, English - in order to be able to order his favorite foods when he travels. Designed as a supplemental text for beginning language students. The two languages appear on one page accompanied by charming pictures of Beau the Cat in various states of excitement and repose.

Tales of creative, daring older women have existed for generations. An ancient Athabascan legend tells of two elderly women abandoned by their migrating tribe. Overcoming the terrors of starvation and death, the women survived by depending upon their learned but previously unused skills in hunting, fishing, and shelter-building.Like the legend, the stories in this book remind us: we tell our stories to make sense of our experiences and to point the way to others. This wonderful collection of first-person accounts will encourage you, regardless of age or gender, to think about how you want to live as you grow older. Fortunately, unlike the ancient Athabascans, we live in a time of longer lives and expanding opportunities for women although, obviously, many barriers persist.In this book, you'll see women of different races, classes, and sexual orientations face various challenges and choices as they age. A loving daughter recounts how her mother moved beyond a "bare and unadorned" Mississippi upbringing. A California Chicana counters her mother's denial of her Mexican heritage. A bisexual polyamorist rejects a life like her mother's. There are (relatively) young elders - the writer/teacher/poet grappling with her legacy - and older ones - the nonagenarian New Englander investing (monetarily) in the future. And there are women who refuse to succumb to disabilities - like the retired history professor, with rheumatoid arthritis, now writing poetry. All are embracing new adventures and changing what it means to be an "older woman."

And above all, Pete Najarian, of whose "e;Wash Me On Home, Mama"e; one wants to cry, Perfect! One puts down the book with rinsed eyes and clear heart. How does it happen? Formally the novel is simple: a few pages at a time devoted to the inner moments of a handful of characters living loosely together in a sort of commune, a line to indicate forward movement drawn lightly by an italicized paragraph between each section. The sensation is strangely and liberatingly of space, created by rhythm perhaps, the timing of one quality of thought and being and then another. This is not the device familiar as "e;multiple points of view mutually commented upon, criticizing, and reducing one another. Something new is happening here. The completeness and validity of each heart and mind opens world on world moving in free relations to each other. Yes, here, in this book, is the dance. These characters are given to us below the level of their self-conceptualizing. There is no surface to cut through or interpret: these characters have simply to be known, not outguessed: they are seen and shown without the defenses, self-deceptions, self-fantasizing that comprise ego and what we are accustomed to think of as personality. The mail girl eating her peanut butter sandwich in the box during the rain, a man's sudden terror at nightfall walking his dogs, the secret pleasure of manure in the garden, the kitchen before anyone's awake, the girl putting in her earrings before she sets out for her abortion, the dream of fresh bread-it is not only the precision of the moments, the transparency of language (one is wholly unaware also of Najarian himself), but that a spring is touched where everything is still pristine, significant, free, even the terrible (the political prisoner overseas, the failed commune, the broken loves, the unhappy child, the polluted bay), for all its modesty and even, judging from Najarian's covering paragraph, fiction takes a new turn in the little volume. Qualities we have come to think essential to the novel are unimportant if present at all, and what we have given up as impossible-space, light, air, time, joy-flower, not in the text but in the reader. The invocations to home and the sea that keep the beat are appropriate, for a locus of perception has been found where the heart is at home. This is quiet and consummate art, to be read like a piece of music slowly and luxuriously and then over again. (Harriet Adams Transue, associate professor and Director of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Toledo. For The American Book Review, 1981)

The Tao Te Ching is a principal text of the ancient Spiritual tradition of Chinese Taoism. It is a compilation of 81 wisdom sayings attributed to Lao Tzu, the old boy/philosopher/Master, written down over two-thousand years ago and which has since undergone hundreds of translations, commentaries, adaptations and applications. Tao Te Ching maxims originally were wise counsel given by Taoist sages to feudal rulers on how to harmoniously and peacefully live their lives, order their states and govern their peoples at a time period in Chinese history of pervasive socio-political conflict and upheaval. The wisdom sayings have become universally meaningful and perennially relevant guidelines for enlightened leadership, Spiritual awakening and Soulful living.The present work is an original rendering of the Tao Te Ching, the title of which is typically translated as The Way Virtue/Power Classic but is here rendered as Spirit Soul Passages. The Ultimate Reality of Tao is interpreted as Spirit and its Virtuosity/Te is interpreted as our embodied Spirit, inner Spirit-nature or Human Soul. The textual maxims and their Soul-journeying commentaries and meditations are considered as some passages we human beings can make on our Soul-journeying from being ego-identified to identifying with/as Spirit and Soul and which are relevant, meaningful and useful for some dynamic-kinetic energetic aspects of Soul-work, Soul-making and the enSouling process throughout our human life course, life cycle and life span.

This is author J. Lea Koretsky’s fifteenth book. The anthology contains three novellas about post office crimes. The first novella MURDERS AT BISHOP describes numerous truck rollovers on Interstate 50 and a series of heists of stamp coin on Highway 395. The second novella THE DEAD is about the murders of the Packard vehicle test group who evaluate structural efficacy of early cars. UNDIFFERENTIATED portrays murders of post office appraisers on a train traveling through Vermillion, Ohio.