je.st
news
Tag: 0428
04.28: Charles Cross
2014-03-18 02:35:21| Powells Books Events Calendar
On April 5, 1994, 27-year-old Kurt Cobain took his own life, and the landscapes of music and pop culture were forever changed. Two decades have passed since Charles Cross, a Seattle-based editor and writer, lived the horror of that day on the front lines. With interviews and commentary from all corners of the pop culture universe, Here We Are Now (It Books) explores what a singular life meant and how that meaning can be measured. This event is sponsored by Music Millennium.
04.28: Augusten Burroughs
2013-03-15 02:35:55| Powells Books Events Calendar
Augusten Burroughs, bestselling author of Running with Scissors, returns with This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't (Picador), a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge the conventional notion of self-help books. If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and truly wish you were dead, if you feel like it's your destiny to be a star, if you believe life has a grudge against you, if you don't want to have sex with your spouse and don't know why, if you feel so ashamed, if you're lost in life. If you have ever wondered, "How am I supposed to survive this?" This is how.
Tags: burroughs
0428
augusten
augusten burroughs
04.28: Gar Alperovitz
2013-03-15 02:35:55| Powells Books Events Calendar
Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, and more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new movement demanding change are forming. In What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution (Chelsea Green), Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history, why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, and how we might begin. He calls for an evolution, not a revolution, out of the old system and into the new. That new system would democratize the ownership of wealth, strengthen communities in diverse ways, and be governed by policies and institutions sophisticated enough to manage a large-scale, powerful economy. For the growing group of Americans pacing at the edge of confidence in the old system or already among its detractors, What Then Must We Do? offers an elegant solution for moving from anger to strategy. This event is sponsored by Portland State University's Planning Club.
04.28: Portland Hill Walks
2013-03-15 02:35:54| Powells Books Events Calendar
Laura Foster's Portland Hill Walks: 24 Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods, Completely Revised and Expanded (Timber Press) features 24 miniature adventures stocked with stunning views, hidden stairways, leafy byways, urban forests, and places to sit, eat, and soak in the local scene. Whether you feel like meandering through old streetcar neighborhoods or climbing a lava dome, there is a hill walk for every mood. New walks take you up to Willamette Stone State Park, across the St. Johns Bridge, down to the South Waterfront (with a ride on the aerial tram), along a stream in Gresham, and up Mounts Talbert and Scott. Portland is a walking city, and Portland Hill Walks will inspire you to enjoy it to its fullest! Join author Laura Foster for a four-mile guided walk to nearby Mt. Tabor and back. Please note that this walk will take place rain or shine, will last about two and a half hours, and will feature often-steep terrain.
Tags: hill
portland
walks
0428
Sites : [1] [2]