The first scholarly exhibition catalogue of the work of Eugene Speicher (1883-1962), one of the foremost American realists of his generation, who was closely associated with George Bellows, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, and Rockwell Kent.Called “America’s greatest living painter” by Esquire magazine in 1936, Speicher (1883–1962) was one of the foremost realists of his generation, closely associated with George Bellows, Robert Henri, and Leon Kroll. The exhibition catalogue examines Speicher’s oeuvre, including his artistic development, subject matter, choice of models, influences, and the critical reception of his work. The catalogue contains three essays. The primary essay by curator Valerie Ann Leeds consists of a general assessment and critical review of Speicher’s career and his place in the art world of his day. Another essay authored by Tom Wolf explores Speicher and his relationship to Woodstock. A third essay, by Daniel Belasco, surveys Speicher’s drawings. The catalogue is the first to present a significant body of Speicher’s work in color.

Along His Own Lines: A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art)

Arts & Photography

Leeds, Valerie Ann

Pasti, Sara J.

Wolf, Tom

Belasco, Daniel

Individual Artists

State University of New York Press

The spirited Oakland neighborhood of Rockridge has been spotlighted in the national media twice in recent years. Hard-hit by a disastrous fire and named a top livable neighborhood by a national magazine, the north Oakland neighborhood has had a diverse and eventful history. Early booms in commerce and population pushed Oakland city boundaries east and north through farmland, toward the university town of Berkeley, and the neighborhood of Rockridge was formed. Shaped by its farms, homes, streetcars, interurban trains, shops, markets, movie houses, a quarry, and Oakland’s first reservoir, Rockridge’s story is one of hard labor in the quarry and the practice of the fine arts, of ethnic markets and the short-lived grand estates of mining tycoons, of the taming of wild creeks and the subdivision of open spaces. The town witnessed experiments in planned development, the effect of freeways and rapid transit, changes brought by the Depression and World War II, the transformation of College Avenue, and trends in home building that today allow the landscape to reveal Rockridge’s history.

Rockridge (CA) (Images of America)

Wolf, Robin

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

The fires that have made national news every summer of the twenty-first century have been a wakeup call to citizens of the West. We are all potential victims of fire unless we establish a new way of living with its threat. This timely new book by an environmental journalist with advanced degrees in forestry offers readers a partnership role not just with firefighters but with fire itself. Designed to help westerners understand the Wildfire Danger Zone in the Rocky Mountain states, it focuses closely on New Mexico and Colorado, going beyond technical questions to larger life-style issues.
Beginning with discussions of the general properties of wildfire, the ways residents can minimize property damage, and lessons for how to avoid conflagrations such as those that have devastated the mountain communities of Los Alamos and Durango, In Fire's Way proposes the formation of partnerships at the local, state, and federal levels to manage fire for the health of local ecosystems. Fire management is inevitably controversial. Proposals for reducing combustibility by increasing logging are as offensive to some citizens as increased government regulations are to others. Prescribed and controlled burns are essential but frightening, especially since the Cerro Grande fire of 2000, a prescribed burn that got away from its crew.
As the rural West attracts more suburbanites who expect government agencies to keep them safe, ranchers and farmers are increasingly vocal in their opposition to federal regulations. This book offers the first review of proven methods to create cooperation among these diverse westerners to reduce the dangers of wildfire.

In Fire's Way: A Practical Guide to Life in the Wildfire Danger Zone

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

University of New Mexico Press

First edition, First Printing, Like New but not crisp.

Colorado's Sangre De Cristo Mountains

Business & Money

Univ Pr of Colorado

Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains draws on the latest scientific findings to show that the battered, beautiful Sangres need us as much as we need them. Focusing on forest ecology, environmental writer Tom Wolf shows how fire, insects, disease, humans, and other disturbances have formed the magnificent, diverse forests we know today.

Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains

University Press of Colorado

Arthur Carhart (1892 -1978), America's first champion of wilderness, the first Forest Service landscape architect, and the most popular conservation writer of mid-century America, won none of the titan status of his contemporary Aldo Leopold. A political maverick, he refused to side with any major advocacy group and none has made him its saint. Carhart was a grassroots thinker in a top-down era.Arthur Carhart, the first biography of this Republican environmentalist and major American thinker, writer, and activist, reveals the currency of his ideas. Tom Wolf elucidates Carhart 's vision of conservation as "a job for all of us," with citizens, municipal authorities, and national leaders all responsible for the environmental effects of their decisions. Carhart loved the local and decried interest groups - from stockmens' associations to wilderness lobbies - as cliques attempting blanket control. He pressured land management agencies to base decisions on local ecology and local partnerships. A lifelong wilderness advocate who proposed the first wilderness preserve at Trappers Lake, Colorado, in 1919, Carhart chose to oppose the Wilderness Act, heartsick at its compromises with lobbies.Because he shifted his stance and changed his views in response to new information, Carhart is not an easy subject for a biography. Wolf traces Carhart's twists and turns to show a man whose voice was distinctive and contrary, who spoke from a passionate concern for the land and couldn't be counted on for anything else. Readers of American history and outdoor writing will enjoy this portrait of a historic era in conservation politics and the man who so often eschewed politics in favor of the land and people he loved.

Arthur Carhart: Wilderness Prophet

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

God created us for a purpose-filled life. How old must a child be before he/she can begin to understand his/her God-given purpose? Most of us can remember playing games as children about being, teachers, doctors, preachers, parents, actors, athletes and so on. Children are imaginative, adventurous, often fearless, and bold about discovering, “What I want to be when I grow up.” So often, when children get older, they lose their focus and childlike zeal as the events of life take over the outcomes of life. This book is so important, because it takes the concepts of Identity and Destiny, 7 Steps to a Purpose-Filled Life, and transforms it into an adventure story, complete with all of the assessments and exercises and it becomes a work that is understood by children. It is written to help children identify the skills and gifts that God has placed within them so that they might learn at a young age, and begin to direct their education, hobbies, and relationships in the direction that is most pleasing to God, and most fulfilling to them. Proverb 22:6 says that we are to train a child in the way he/she should go, and when they are older, they will not turn away from it. (paraphrase.) In the original language, it is emphasized that we are to train our children according to their individual inclination, or God-given bent. Parents are uniquely equipped to understand their children’s passions, strengths and talents. As children grow, their personalities begin to shine. This book is written to equip parents and children’s minister, coaches, and children’s counselors; to discover the deep desires and strengths of children. It is best suited to 4th and 5th grade students, but 2nd and 3rd grade students are able to understand and gain insights from it as well.

Identity and Destiny for Amazing Kids

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wolf, Pam

Hodge, Libby

Psychology & Counseling

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"La Guadalupana" is a book for non-Catholics (especially Jews) and Catholics alike. Priest abuse scandals are not unique to the Roman Catholic Church. But Our Lady of Guadalupe is. And She provides a kind and loving solution to the problem by convincing Pope John Paul II to ordain celibate women and celibate, openly gay men as priests.Readers of any persuasion who love Francis I, the current Pope, will welcome this book. We know that John Paul II was a saint with a special devotion to the Patroness of the Americas, Our Lady of Guadalupe. However, he had a serious flaw: he failed to deal promptly and effectively with the Church's abuse scandal. "La Guadalupana" imagines what would have happened if Our Lady of Guadalupe had brought her gentle, patient sense of humor to bear on a man as courageous and as stubborn as John Paul. It is set in the tiny Catholic village of Guadalupe, near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. Stretching from 1956 to 2000, it tells the coming-of-age story of two young women, Maria Mondragon and Maria Barela, who eventually become the first women ordained priests in the Church.Our Lady of Guadalupe appears to these hopelessly ugly girls on their Confirmation Day in 1956. She promises them anything they want in return for their commitment to remain celibate until their ordination. The desperate girls take the deal. They trade their pledge for the beauty, brains, and bravery required to navigate a Church hierarchy traditionally hostile to women.True to their vow, in spite of all temptations, the girls thrive in a small-town high school setting of cars and guns and sports. Then the Marias leave Guadalupe after high school to become nuns. But they leave having been convicted of attempted murder and mayhem committed in a graphically described battle between the people of Guadalupe and the thugs working for a wealthy Anglo landowner, Malcolm Fortune. Exploiting the tangled history of Spanish land grants and crypto-Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition, Fortune gains title to the common lands (the ejido) of Guadalupe. He plans to develop and market downstream on the Rio Grande the ejido's valuable water that flows from the melting glaciers high above Guadalupe in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.Fortune is profoundly Catholic and openly gay. Like everyone else in Guadalupe, he is aware that the local priests are abusing both boys and girls. He takes as his penance for his silence the task of raising the billions of dollars needed to settle the Church's priest abuse lawsuits. His ally in this effort is the conservative Catholic lay organization Opus Dei.As the year 2000 approaches, La Guadalupana brings the Marias back to their hometown to face their enemies. She also brings Pope John Paul to a town where another pitched battle is occurring over the rights to the ejido.It is in this dramatic setting where the Pope and the Marias must settle the Church's problems in the best way available: by relying on La Guadalupana's divine joke--Her way of bringing a happy ending to the mismatch of an immortal soul embedded in mortal flesh.

La Guadalupana: A Comic Novel

Literature & Fiction

Women's Fiction

The spirited Oakland neighborhood of Rockridge has been spotlighted in the national media twice in recent years. Hard-hit by a disastrous fire and named a top livable neighborhood by a national magazine, the north Oakland neighborhood has had a diverse and eventful history. Early booms in commerce and population pushed Oakland city boundaries east and north through farmland, toward the university town of Berkeley, and the neighborhood of Rockridge was formed. Shaped by its farms, homes, streetcars, interurban trains, shops, markets, movie houses, a quarry, and Oakland's first reservoir, Rockridge's story is one of hard labor in the quarry and the practice of the fine arts, of ethnic markets and the short-lived grand estates of mining tycoons, of the taming of wild creeks and the subdivision of open spaces. The town witnessed experiments in planned development, the effect of freeways and rapid transit, changes brought by the Depression and World War II, the transformation of College Avenue, and trends in home building that today allow the landscape to reveal Rockridge's history.

Rockridge

History

Americas

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

Hard cover book on Yasuo Kuniyoshi's paintings by Tom Wolf.

Yasuo Kuniyoshi's Women (The Essential Paintings)

Pomegranate

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