Dreams Unreal: The Genesis of the Psychedelic Rock Poster

The music scene that sprang up across the Bay Area from 1965 to 1970 was energetic immensely creative and loudly outspoken. Bands needed theaters to play in music promoters needed to get the word out about the shows and a group of talented young artists producing dreamy free-form work needed a medium of expression. Thus was born the psychedelic rock poster one of the most explosively inventive instantly recognizable and profoundly influential aesthetic movements of the last century. A group of young visual artists provided perfectly trippy visuals to accompany soundtracks by bands like the Grateful Dead Jefferson Airplane Santana the Doors and many more. These artists--including Lee Conklin Rick Griffin Alton Kelley Bonnie Maclean Victor Moscoso Stanley Mouse Wes Wilson and others created a new artistic genre: the collectible rock concert poster. Some are household names today while others are largely forgotten but the poster art that gave visual life to the amazing music lives on in Dreams Unreal.

 

The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess

In acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Gauld's first picture book for children a little wooden robot embarks on a quest to find his missing sister-- making for a memorable contemporary bedtime story.For years the king and queen tried desperately to have a baby. Their wish was twice granted when an engineer and a witch gave them a little wooden robot and an enchanted log princess. There's just one catch every night when the log princess sleeps she transforms back into an ordinary log. She can only be woken with the magic words 'Awake little log awake.'The two are inseparable until one day when the sleeping log princess is accidentally carted off to parts unknown. Now it's up to her devoted brother to find her and return her safely to the kingdom. They need to take turns to get each other home and on the way they face a host of adventures involving the Queen of Mushrooms a magic pudding a baby in a rosebush and an old lady in a bottle. This is acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Gauld's first picture book for children inspired by a bedtime story he made up for his daughters. In his words 'I was trying to make a book inspired by three different sets of books: The books that I remember enjoying as a child the books that I watched my daughters enjoying and the books I enjoy now as an adult. I wanted the book to have its own quirky feeling but also to function like a classic bedtime story.'A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

 

The Definitive AC/DC Songbook -Updated Edition-: Songbook fr Gitarre

An updated edition of this bestselling book - 87 songs arranged for guitar tab.

 

Pitelka M: Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture Tokugawa Ieyasu and Samurai Sociability

In Spectacular Accumulation Morgan Pitelka investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (15431616) the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties between people things and politics and offers us insight into the role of material culture in the shift from medieval to early modern Japan and in shaping our knowledge of history.This innovative and eloquent history of a transitional age in Japan reframes the relationship between culture and politics. Like the collection of meibutsu or 'famous objects' exchanging hostages collecting heads and commanding massive armies were part of a strategy Pitelka calls 'spectacular accumulation' which profoundly affected the creation and character of Japan's early modern polity. Pitelka uses the notion of spectacular accumulation to contextualize the acquisition of 'art' within a larger complex of practices aimed at establishing governmental authority demonstrating military dominance reifying hierarchy and advertising wealth. He avoids the artificial distinction between cultural history and political history arguing that the famed cultural efflorescence of these years was not subsidiary to the landscape of political conflict but constitutive of it. Employing a wide range of thoroughly researched visual and material evidence including letters diaries historical chronicles and art Pitelka links the increasing violence of civil and international war to the increasing importance of samurai social rituals and cultural practices. Moving from the Ashikaga palaces of Kyoto to the tea utensil collections of Ieyasu from the exchange of military hostages to the gift-giving rituals of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi Spectacular Accumulation traces Japanese military rulers' power plays over famous artworks as well as objectified human bodies.

 

Florence Nightingale (History Maker Bios)

 

The Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter

Born in a two-room tar-paper-covered house in the far north of Greenland Marie Ahnighito Peary was destined to have an exciting childhood. Her parents the famous explorer Robert E. Peary and Josephine Peary had shocked Victorian society by starting their family so far away from 'civilization.' Fair-skinned children were so rare in the far North that the local Inuit called Marie 'Snow Baby.' Map time line bibliography index. A Booklist Editors' Choice Book    A Booklist Top 10 Biography for YouthAn Orbis Pictus Award Recommended TitleA Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice BookA James Madison Book Award Honor Book

 

The Story of Saint Patrick's Day

In about 200 words this little book presents the story of Saint Patrick's Day in a way that is simple enough for a toddler to understand. Vibrant illustrations are paired with the text and help create the connection between the story of the life of Saint Patrick and the way the holiday is celebrated today. Parents can use this book to introduce little ones to the meaning behind Saint Patrick's Day. Ages 2-5.

 

Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin

In December 1942 Freidl Dicker-Brandeis packed her suitcase for the last time. What did she fill it with? Art supplies. Brushes paints and paper were her luggage when she was forced by Nazi soldiers to move to the Terezin concentration camp. An artist and art instructor Freidl used her limited supplies to bring a world of beauty and fantasy to children in the campmost of whom would die tragically at Auschwitz. This story reveals how flashes of kindness can bring joy and relieflike fireflies in the dark. The story is enhanced with photographs and reproductions of the amazing artwork completed by Freidl Dicker-Brandeis her students and her colleagues during their time at Terezin.

 

Ariel Sharon (Biography)

Looks at the life of Ariel Sharon from his time as a soldier through his work as a politician and prime minister of Israel.

 

The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

A Newbery Honor-winning biography of the men whose experiments brought about the Age of Flight. This engaging narrative account of Orville and Wilbur Wright two men with little formal schooling but a knack for solving problems follows their interest from a young age in the developing field of aeronautics. Russell Freedmans writing brings the brothers personalities to life enhancing the record of events with excerpts from the brothers writing and correspondence and accounts of those who knew them.Chronicling their lives from their early mechanical work on toys and bicycles through the development of several flyers The Wright Brothers follows the siblings through their achievementsnot only the first powered sustained controlled airplane flight but the numerous improvements and enhancements that followed their revolutionary airplane business and the long legacy of that first brief flight. Illustrated with numerous historical photographsmany taken by the Wright brothers themselvesthis is a concise extremely reader-friendly introduction to these important American inventors. Includes a note on the Wright brothers photographs as well as recommendation for further reading and learning.