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My Weird School #20: Mr. Louie Is Screwy! (My Weird School)
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Hippie
New York Times bestseller! Sales phenomenon! Now in an entirely new compact-sized paperback ..at a mind-blowing price.Experience the ultimate flashback with this celebration of an era. Rich in illustratiosn and filled with the history, politics, sayings, and slogans that defined an age, this tribute to the 1960's counterculture is as groovy as it gets. For those who were there, this volume will invoke the spirit of the time. Those who weren't, will wish they had been. "To turn the shiny pages of Hippie is to breathe deeply. Here they all are: Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Brian Jones...Bob Dylan and Timothy Leary."-- The New York Times. "The watershed 1960s can be gloriously re-experienced in the pages of this magnificent, oversize volume...luscious...its textural accompaniment [is] as spirited as its bounty of dynamic illustrations."-- Booklist"Illuminates the youth culture of drugs and rock 'n' roll that flowered from 1965-1972."-- BusinessWeek"Chock-full of fabulous photographs."-- High Times "Spectacularly designed...every bit as captivating, colorful and self congratulatory as the eponymous social type it describes."-- Washington Post Book World"Provocative and opinionated..."-- Philadelphia Inquirer "A fascinating walk through a cultural revolution."-- Rangefinder"Impressively detailed and lavishly illustrated. Barry Miles' impeccable credentials...give him a unique and unexpectedly erudite point of view..."-- The Austin Chronicle"An exuberant collection of photos and essays about the music, politics and fashion that rocked the world-priced for the bohemian budget."-- Time Out New York."Capture[s] the drama of the counterculture era."-- AARP. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll; peace rallies and riots in the ghettos; Flower Power, Black Power, and Gay Power; Mothers of Invention and Women's Liberation; Woodstock, Monterey Pop, and Altamont. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: it all depends on whom you ask. But without a doubt, hippies transformed society. Take a magical mystery tour through this revolutionary period. Every significant moment comes vibrantly alive once again in day-glo psychedelic images, rare portraits of writers and musicians, dynamite poster and album artwork, and photographic records of political events that shook the world. Hundreds of unforgettable quotations come from seminal figures such as Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Grace Slick, George Harrison, and Wavy Gravy. Proceeding year by year from 1965-1971, Hippie gives an unprecedented degree of shape and coherence to an age of change--from the free-loving flower children of Haight-Ashbery to the student protesters of France--that by its nature is kaleidoscopically bewildering. .
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live long in the counter-culture canon of American literature..
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The Haight-Ashbury: A History
2005 marks the 40th anniversary of San Franciscos Haight-Ashbury district The psychedelic community was probably the most widely written-about phenomenon of the 1960s apart from the Vietnam War. As unexpected as it was inevitable, the whole eventfrom public manifestation to gaudy collapsehappened in less than two years. In this acclaimed, definitive work, Charles Perry examines the history, the drama, and the energy of counter-cultures defining moment. First published by Rolling Stone Press in 1984 and now re-releasedwith a new introduction by the Grateful Deads Bob Weirto time with Haight-Ashburys 40th anniversary, this highly acclaimed work is a must-have for anyone interested in the original sex, drugs, and rock n roll lifestyle..
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The Hippie Handbook: How to Tie-Dye a T-Shirt, Flash a Peace Sign, and Other Essential Skills for the Carefree Life
Brothers and sisters! Here at last is a light-hearted, free-spirited, groovy guide to the timeless hippie skills and activities that make the world a better place, one macrame belt at a time. In illustrated, easy-to-follow instructions, author Chelsea Cain -- who grew up on an Iowa hippie commune -- provides practical and playful know-how for the hippie and hippie-at-heart. Learn how to milk a goat, build a compost pile, play "Kumbaya" on the guitar, teach a dog how to catch a Frisbee, and get your file from the FBI. Discover the finer points of caring for a fern, choosing a mantra, organizing a protest, naming your hippie baby, and making sand candles as holiday gifts. Including primers on cooking, dressing, driving, telling time, dancing, and celebrating your birthday in classic hippie style, and a righteous appendix of essential hippie books, movies, and slang, The Hippie Handbook knows the score. Right on..
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The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia (And Phraseicon) of the 1960s and 1970s
Whether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the Hippie Dictionary entertains as much as it educates. And it wasn't just about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. These were the early years of pro-ecology and anti-capitalist beliefs - beliefs that are just as timely as ever. Discover why some are dubbing the sixties and seventies 'the intellectual renaissance of the 20th century'..
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My Hippie Grandmother
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Memoirs of an Ex-Hippie: Seven Years in the Counterculture
The counterculture of the 60s and 70s has been viewed as everything from naive to hedonistic However, most of these views were formed by observing the movement from the outside "Memoirs of an Ex-Hippie" offers a vastly different perspective, one developed from within. After graduating college in 1968, Robert Roskind hit the road for seven years. Roskind's travels lead him into the heart of the counterculture--to Esalen Institute, Tassajara Hot Springs, Big Sur, Vancouver Island, the communes of Oregon and North Carolina, Altamont Pop Festival, Mt. Shasta, the Haight-Ashbury and the "motherland"--Northern California. His personal odyssey, sometimes profane and funny, sometimes profound and serious, reveals this tumultuous era as a cultural and spiritual renaissance that birthed many of the solutions to problems humanity now faces..
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Flower Children
“A work of stunning lyricism and intense originality”(Mary Gordon, author of Pearl). From an award-winning short story writer comes this spare, lively, moving novel, quickly embraced by critics and readers, portraying the strangely celebrated and unsupervised childhood of four hippie offspring in the 1970s and 80s. Based on the author’s own upbringing, Flower Children tells the story of four children growing up in rural Pennsylvania, impossibly at odds with their surroundings. In time, as the sheltered utopia their parents have created begins to collapse, the children long for structure and restraint—and all their parents have avoided..
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