Caldwell Books

Dark Horse, debía editarlo todo los volumenes en castellano. Nos deja con sabor a poco.

This book is beautifully written with much love about a place and period of time needing to be characterized. Strongly recommended.

Theis large format book is primarily made up of Tillman Crane's magnificent monochrome images reproduced here with great care. Additionally the book includes several short essays. The most interesting of these is by Tillman Crane. In it he reflects on his photography and what moves him. This book is a special pleasure to own and to return to repeatedly.

Surburban Sanctuaries - A Meditative Journey
by M. Nancy Mehegan

Incisive wit, deep spirituality ...

"Suburban Sanctuaries" is a collection of 30-odd poems whose underpinning theme is the finding of the mystical and numinous in the ordinary, and the discovery of Godly and wondrous unfoldings in the commonplace stuff of everyday life. Ms. Mehegan, a talented nature photographer as well as a poet of surpassing merit, illustrates her poetry with photography that is evocative of the themes of the natural world and filled with what one can only call "visual wit." This is more than a book of poetry whose contents are to be read and savored; rather, it is a springboard for much reflective thought on the unseen, underground stream that flows through every hour of every day. I heartily recommend its reading not only to lovers of poetry and of nature, but to students of meditation as well.

I first met Elizabeth Caldwell when she volunteered to run an author spotlights section at simegen.com and participate in writing the WorldCraftrs Guild Heritage Soap Opera. Since my teens are now in their 30's, I doubt I'd have noticed this book otherwise.

And I would have been the poorer for it.

This is one of those deceptively simple books -- it is much more than it appears on the surface.

Most books about surviving the raising of teens into adults are about do's and don'ts -- about advice. About how to handle common situations.

"A Bewildered Parent's Guide" is about the process of becoming the parent of a 30 year old who used to be your teenager. This is the book to read BEFORE you read the "how to" books.

It requires as much shift-change-growth on the part of the parent as it does on the part of the teen. Every time the teen changes, the parent and the parenting-style have to shift to make room for the changes in the teen. Every time the parent changes, the teen is then forced to shift-change-become more mature.

This book describes that process without actually talking about it. This book shows us in objective language that doesn't trigger fulminating emotions what that process is -- without telling. That "show don't tell" is one of the keys to good writing we teach at the WorldCrafters Guild.

If you want to be told, choose from among any number of books on raising children. This is the best book I've seen based on showing.

"A Bewildered Parent's Guide" describes the principles, issues, and processes behind the advice you find in other books. It's the kind of book you'll use, then save to give to your kids when they have kids.

Live Long and Prosper, Jacqueline Lichtenberg

"Television After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition" by Lynn Spigel and Jan Olsson (Editors) is a scholarly collection of essays about TV culture, technology, industry, and culture. Professionals who have studied these issues in depth offer insightful analysis and criticism, and offer a range of opinions on what the future may hold. Through its consistently high-level scholarship, the book also offers the next generation of media abalysts many outstanding examples to emulate as well as suggestions on how the field of study might remain relevant.

The book is divided into four sections.

Part One is "Industry, Programs and Production Contexts". John Caldwell discusses the post-Fordist media industry's shift to producing branded content and TV's increasingly strategic relationship with the Web. Charlotte Brunsdon surveys Britain's lifestyle programs to find the social good of inclusiveness partly offset by more aggressive displays of consumerism and spectacle. Jeffrey Sconce convincingly argues that TV narratives have grown more sophisticated over time as conjecture, mythology and self-relexivity have conspired to enrich texts that in turn cultivate ever more demanding audiences. William Boddy recounts the history of interactive technologies and suggests that if the past is a guide, new technologies will merely serve to enhance the TV experience but will not revolutionize it. Lisa Parks deflates microcasting as embodied by the Oxygen network as representing a corporate scheme to more efficently market to profitable niche audiences and encourages social progressives to fight for greater TV self-expression.

Part Two is "Technology, Society and Cultural Form". William Uricchio explores how changing technologies have threatened broadcaster's control of programming flow and predicts a general shift from broadcasting to narrowcasting. Anna McCarthy's fascinating field study about TV in public spaces ultimately discovers that viewing practices are defined by capitalism's exploitation of waiting time created by differentials in power relations. Jostein Gripsrud contends that broadcasting will persist because it continues to serve elite interests in distributing cultural values and anticipates that interactive technologies will only marginally effect viewer behaviors. Anna Everett's case study of the Million Woman March touches on issues of technological self-empowerment and the mainstream media's increased reticence to cover significant social issues and events in depth.

Part Three is "Electronic Nations, Then and Now". Michael Curtin discusses the history of media production to show how national broadcasting was crucial to U.S. capitalist development in the post-World War II era but has more recently entered into an era of uneasy international competition and cooperation between East (Hong Kong) and West (Hollywood). David Morley contemplates TV's role in reinforcing the nation state and the manner in which audiences experience dis-placement through media images. Pena Ovalle analyzes the Pocho.com website's satirical treatment of popular media imagery in order to debate issues effecting the Chicano/a community and its struggle for cultural identity.

Part Four is "Television Teachers". Lynn Spigel recalls how MoMA's anxieties with consumer culture, feminity and domesticity doomed its programming attempts in the 1950s that sought to bridge the gap between hibrow art patrons and lowbrow TV audiences. John Hartley reminds us of the important role TV played in sharing differential experiences and struggles (such as the Civil Rights and Feminist movements) and contends that TV today has become a more democratic medium. Julie D'Acci proposes a new cultural studies model that stresses audience discourses and interdisciplinary study as the keys to yielding meaningful insight and analysis.

I highly recommend this sophisticated book to everyone interested in TV studies.

A great read,combination of great recipes and dynamic events from the past involving larger than life characters from the pages of history.First book I've ever seen like this,and would thoroughly recommend it.

This is a book of lesson plans for integrating Economics into US History prior to the Civil War. Nice detailed lesson plans for hands on activities. (I personally think that the NCEE lesson plan format is a bit wordy, but I guess that is so you can't screw them up)

The Captain is a perfect gentleman, and yet he it a puzzlment. Why does he only visit Linda under the cover of darkness? Where does he dissapear to during the day? What is he hiding? Read this book, and find out. Fun reading for all

Good day! I just ran across your poetry online and wanted to pass along my compliments. You are a very talented writer. I am a publisher of an online magazine of poetry. We are a small press and are currently looking for new contributors. I would love to invite you to take a look at our forum. If you feel compelled to, I would be honored to take a look at any submissions.

Yours in poetry, Amy Lyn Miller Editor