Author: Bill Novelli
Publisher: St. Martin’s Pre
Keywords: america, reinvent, revolution, igniting
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-10-03
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312355246
ISBN-13: 9780312355241
50+ is a call to arms. Its a groundbreaking look at the revolution thats going on right now among seventy-eight million American baby boomers. From age 50+ on up, Americans are refusing to rock away their retirement. Theyre starting new careers, rallying for causes close to their hearts, raising grandchildren, becoming more active in their communities, and, above all else, changing the face of aging in America. Bill Novelli, CEO of AARP, knows that with the largest generation of Americans ever recorded nearing traditional retirement age, this revolution is changing the way 50+ Americans li
Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: city, reinvent, latinos, urbanism, magical
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-07
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 185984328X
ISBN-13: 9781859843284
Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the U.S. labor movement? These are some of the provocative questions that Mike Davis explores in this fascinating account of the Latinization of the American urban landscape. As he forcefully shows, this is a demographic and cultural revolution with extraordinary implications. With Spanish-surnames increasing five times faster than the general population, salsa is becoming the predominant ethnic rhythm (and flavo
Author: Kathleen Franz
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: automobile, reinvent, consumers, tinkering
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2011-03-29
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0812221583
ISBN-13: 9780812221589
In the first decades after mass production, between 1913 and 1939, middle-class Americans not only bought cars but also enthusiastically redesigned them. By examining the ways Americans creatively adapted their automobiles, Tinkering takes a fresh look at automotive design from the bottom up, as a process that included manufacturers, engineers, advice experts, and consumers in various guises.Franz argues that automobile ownership opened new possibilities for ingenuity among consumers even as large corporations came to control innovation. Franz weaves together a variety of sources, from serial
Author: Alan Weisma
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Keywords: anniversary, world, reinvent, village, gaviotas
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-09-03
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1603580565
ISBN-13: 9781603580564
Los Llanos?the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia?are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could be made livable for his country?s growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decades later, his experiment would be one of the world?s most celebrated examples of sustainable living: a permanent village called Gaviotas.In the absence of infrastruct
Authors:Bridgett Artise, Jen Karetnick,
Publisher: Potter Craft
Keywords: recycle, wardrobe, reinvent, deconstruct, ways, vintage
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0307405273
ISBN-13: 9780307405272
Fashion designer Bridgett Artise believes in second chancesa philosophy that extends all the way to her clothing line, B. Artise Originals. Fashion gave her a second chance at happiness and success, and, in turn, she gives vintage garments that have lost their luster another chance at being fashionable. Mixing contemporary clothing with the best elements of a vintage piecelike the collar of a funky fifties housedress or the pockets of a seventies-style jacketand piecing them back together in a whole new way, she creates one-of-a-kind garments that are both trend setting and timeless. An old
Authors:Miriam Horn, Fred Kru,
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Keywords: stop, global, warming, energy, reinvent, sequel, race, earth
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-02-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0393066908
ISBN-13: 9780393066906
How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that’s not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a stirring and hopeful call to arms: We can solve global warming. And in doing so we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the twenty-first century. In these pages the reader will encounter the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it. Among them: a frontier impresario who keeps his ice h
Authors:Miriam Horn, Fred Krupp,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: stop, global, warming, energy, reinvent, sequel, race, earth
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-03-16
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0393334198
ISBN-13: 9780393334197
How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but thats not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a surprisingly hopeful message: We can solve global warming. And in doing so, we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the twenty-first century. In these pages the reader will encounter the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it. These entrepreneurs are poised to remake the wo
