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The first thing you notice about Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program, 1945-1966 is its size: it's big. Contained within its 16-inch frame is the history of Arts & Architecture magazine's famed program created to inspire the building of low-cost modern homes in America. The brainchild of magazine editor John Entenza, the program drew well-known architects including Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, and Richard Neutra. Throughout the book are spectacular photographs of modernist glass- and patio-filled homes. Most of the homes were built in the Los Angeles area and make wonderful use of the surrounding scenery. A 17-foot-tall front door opens up onto a canal; streamlined Herman Miller furniture fills out a living room that overlooks a breathtaking panorama. While not all the projects were built, each received a detailed spread in the magazine, including drawings and models. Some of the architectural drawings are lovely, drawn with the movement and fluidity of a master. Included are short biographies of each architect, a provocative epilogue by photographer Julius Shulman, and the reprinted original magazine pages that announce the birth of the Case Study idea. This book is a true gem, and considering its size it's the Hope diamond. --J.P. Cohen.
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Deer running through a ghost neighborhood A boy trapped in a basement for eight years. Three young people locked in a violent sex triangle Come inside. Already caught between the ambition and alienation of life at an Ivy League school, Jon Danfield must come face to face with a revelation about his small-town past. His journey will take him away from the halls of privilege and into the heart of the monstrous forest fire threatening his childhood home. On deserted suburban streets lined with perfect houses, Danfield must confront an American dream corroded by unspeakable acts of cruelty..
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Clinical work with children - however challenging - is imbued with a peculiar excitement which arises out of the therapists necessary immersion in the kaleidoscopic flow of symbolic images that inform the child's play, dreams, fantasies, modellings, paintings, singing and dancing. In The Symbolic Impetus Jungian child psychiatrist Charles Stewart describes the symbolic process at each stage from infancy onwards. In addition he shows how particular symbols can facilitate the healing of blocks that may arise in each stage of psychological development. The book is in two parts. In Part I each of the chapters describes a new phase of the symbolic process as it emerges in typical fantasies that accompany a stage of normal development. In Part II each chapter is devoted to the exposition of the particular healing role played by symbols at different stages of development in psychotherapy with infants, children, adolescents and adults. Charles Stewart provides an unusually coherent narrative that makes an important contribution not just to the Jungian understanding of child development and psychotherapy but to the field of depth psychology in general..
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In Ryan Seacrest is Famous, Dave Housley lovingly skewers pop culture--and our obsession with it--in all its benign yet bizarre, addictive and addled glory. With a keen wit and knowing eye for detail, he offers serious fiction with pop sensibility. Ryan Seacrest is Famous will delight fans of Road House and On the Road alike..
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Sharlene Miller is a small town girl dreaming of Hollywood fame and fortune In her relentless quest for success, she becomes a groupie, a porn star, a television starlet and finally, the cultural icon Sierra—but fame always has its price. Struggling with demons both real and imagined, addicted to drugs and abandoned by her fans, Sierra finds herself moving through coma-induced hallucinations, fairy tale porn films, down rabbit holes of drugs and alcohol, and finally through the looking glass of Hollywood itself.

Drawing from A Star is Born, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Alice in Wonderland, The E! True Hollywood Story, and the lives of Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield, Dorothy Stratten, Sharon Tate, Krysti Lynn, and Savannah, Hollywoodland: An American Fairy Tale revises popular culture’s archetypal narratives to create the definitive Hollywood starlet—Sierra..
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The 1920s in America was a decade of rebellion, reform, and reaction as traditional Victorian values came under attack from all sides. Black leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, feminists like Alice Paul, politicians like Robert La Follette, and social scientists like Franz Boas and Margaret Mead all assaulted fundamental inequalities inherited from the nineteenth century. A host of scientific breakthroughs eroded the foundations of the older world view, and cultural innovations like jazz challenged the nineteenth-century morality of most middle class Americans and also provoked spirited defenses of tradition by extremists like the Ku Klux Klan.
In this wide-ranging and vividly written book, Stanley Coben introduces a new hypothesis about the reasons for the tumultuous cultural changes during the 1920s. He begins with the Victorian concept of "character," the word which assured Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that men were men, women were wives and mothers, and homes were sanctuaries. (Harriet Beecher Stowe and her sister Catherine wrote that "She who is the mother and housekeeper in a large family is the sovereign of an empire.") Coben doesn't spare us the seamy underside of the Victorian ideal either, such as the racism revealed by the Oxford professor who declared to an approving American audience in 1882 that "the best remedy for whatever is amiss in America would be if every Irishman should kill a negro and be hanged for it." Nor does he hesitate to describe the failures of those who rebelled against tradition, like the early supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment, or the farmer-labor-progressive presidential coalition of 1924. Rebellion Against Victorianism is particularly enlightening on cultural matters, showing how artforms of the '20s--like jazz or the novels of Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis--were part of the rebellion. The book includes a fascinating chapter-length discussion of the Ku Klux Klan which reveals that the Klan in the 1920s was in no way a Southern, fringe group--in fact, the K.K.K. had more members in Connecticut than in Mississippi. The Klan's defense of Victorian "character" spoke to millions of Americans who found themselves shaken up by the cultural revolution going on around them.
In illuminating the events and personalities of this water-shed decade, Coben draws with equal confidence from the realms of culture and politics, science and society. His book brings an alternative perspective to the impetus for change in American life, demonstrating that many of the contradictions which inspired the rebellion against Victorianism still exist today. The results are sometimes startling, but always intriguing..
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