Posts from the ‘Technology’ Category

New Books

• How to grow more vegetables than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine : a primer on the life-giving biointensive method of organic horticulture / by John Jeavons
• Fear and loathing in Las Vegas and other American stories / Hunter S. Thompson ; illustrated by Ralph Steadman
  First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer's account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on […]
• Found in translation : design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985 / Wendy Kaplan, editor ; Wendy Kaplan and Staci Steinberger, curators ; essays by Keith Eggener, Jennifer Josten, Wendy Kaplan, Jesse Lerner, Cristina López Uribe, Ana Elena Mallet, Mary Ellen Miller, Susan Morgan, James Oles, Megan E. O'Neil, Staci Steinberger, Bobbye Tigerman, Jennifer A. Watts, Phoebe S. K. Young ; contributions by Abbey Chamberlain Brach, Ellen Dooley, Clarissa M. Esguerra, Miranda Saylor
  The histories of Mexico and the United States have been intertwined since the 18th century, when both were colonies of European empires. America's fascination with Mexican culture emerged in the 19th century and continues to this day. In turn, Mexico looked to the U.S. as a model of modernity, its highways and high-rises emblematic of "The American […]
• Laura Aguilar : show and tell / edited by Rebecca Epstein ; exhibition curated by Sybil Venegas
• Ezili's mirrors : imagining Black queer genders / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley