Author: Jim Wallis
Publisher: Howard Books
Keywords: street, main, wall, values, rediscovering
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1439183120
ISBN-13: 9781439183120
When we start with the wrong question, no matter how good an answer we get, it won’t give us the results we want. Rather than joining the throngs who are asking, When will this economic crisis be over? Jim Wallis says the right question to ask is How will this crisis change us? The worst thing we can do now, Wallis tells us, is to go back to normal. Normal is what got us into this situation. We need a new normal, and this economic crisis is an invitation to discover what that means. Some of the principles Wallis unpacks for our new normal are . . .• Spending money we don’t have for thing
Author: Sesame Street
Publisher: Candlewick
Keywords: sesame, street, books, book, pop, walk
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0763646008
ISBN-13: 9780763646004
Author: Robert Santelli
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: street, band, springsteen, story, greetings, bruce
Number of Pages: 98
Published: 2006-09-28
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0811853489
ISBN-13: 9780811853484
Greetings from E Street celebrates the passionately loved group that has been entertaining the world for 35 years. Written with their cooperation, this fully illustrated informal biography combines rare photographs with 30 removable facsimiles of E Street memorabilia, including Bruce Springsteen’s first business card and hand-written set list, and even two fabulous posters. Longtime band intimate Robert Santelli captures the ecstatic highs and devastating lows on the E Street Band’s roller coaster ride to stardom. He follows the band from the early days in Asbury Park, New Jersey,
Author: Louise A. Gikow
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Keywords: street, life, years, celebration, sesame
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1579126383
ISBN-13: 9781579126384
The most beloved children’s show of all time is turning 40! This celebration of four decades of groundbreaking educational programming invites fans young and old behind the scenes at 123 Sesame Street. In a book as lively, energetic, and appealing as the television show it chronicles, readers are treated to an inside look at every aspect of Sesame Street. Beginning with the initial idea for the show and the creation of the pilot episode and moving through its evolution over four decades, Sesame Street provides an insider’s view of all of the delightful Muppet and human characters,
Author: Tobias Hecht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: street, brazil, northeast, children, home
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 1998-05-13
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521598699
ISBN-13: 9780521598699
Through innovative fieldwork and ethnographic writing, Hecht lays bare the received truths about the lives of Brazilian street children. This book changes the terms of the debate, asking not why there are so many homeless children in Brazil but why - given the oppressive alternative of home life in the shantytowns - there are in fact so few. Speaking in recorded sessions that participants called "radio workshops," street children asked one another questions that even the most experienced researchers would be unlikely to pose. At the center of this study are children who play, steal, sleep, dan
Authors:Sybille Prou, King Adz,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Keywords: street, graphics, art, walls, rat, getting, blek
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 050028735X
ISBN-13: 9780500287354
A unique view of the life and work of one of the most elusive yet most applauded and influential figures in the world of street art from the past twenty years.Street artist Blek le Rat is revered and acknowledged by the international graffiti community, and his work has influenced CD design, advertising, and graphics, as well as the work of urban artists around the world.From small, simple stencils to complex multimedia events, Blek’s distinctive art is showcased here for the first time, demonstrating the development of his technique and creativity over two decades, from his unique image
Author: Michael Davis
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: street, sesame, history, complete, gang
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-12-26
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0670019968
ISBN-13: 9780670019960
The story of one of the most important and beloved shows on television-how it got started, nearly failed, and was saved by ElmoWhen the first episode aired on November 10, 1969, Sesame Street revolutionized the way education was presented to children on television. It has since become the longest-running children’s show in history, and today reaches 8 million preschoolers on 350 PBS stations and airs in 120 countries. Street Gang is the compelling and often comical story of the creation and history of this media masterpiece and pop culture landmark, told with the cooperation of one of th
