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David Bailey's name is synonymous with the Swinging Sixties, when fashion photography became big business, and the man behind the camera could become as famous as the celebrities who posed for him. And Bailey was the most famous--the East End boy who became best friends with the Beatles and the Stones, the husband of actress Catherine Deneuve, and lover of model Jean Shrimpton--chronicling them all in a series of unmistakable, unforgettable shots. David Bailey: Birth of the Cool delves into the photographer's archive and reproduces some of his earliest work (the 1959 wedding of a neighbor's daughter was one of his first professional gigs), previously unpublished documentary film stills, and the spectacular images of quintessential '60s mannequins Shrimpton and Penelope Tree introducing mod fashion to Vogue magazine readers. The result is a treasure-trove of images from one of the most exciting periods in the 20th century, when the cult of youth, fame, and glamour was worshipped and--in this case--most beautifully recorded. --Amazon.co.uk
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A gorgeous and ultra-hip look at the man who recorded the swinging London scene of the 1960s and helped define British cool
Before the age of Tony Blair's Cool Britannia, there was David Bailey--Cockney arbiter of the UK's "Birth of the Cool." When Mary Quant designed the first thigh-skimming mini-dress, when Jean Shrimpton burst on the scene, and when The Beatles took the world by storm, David Bailey had arrived ahead of time to record the scene with his camera. This young photographer emerged from London's tough East End and rose to become England's most famous fashion and celebrity photographer. He lived with Jean Shrimpton, was friends with Mick Jagger, married Catherine Deneuve, and was the inspiration for Michelangelo Antonioni's cinema classic Blow-Up. Now, David Bailey--Birth of the Cool tells the story of his meteoric rise to the top; collects his photographs of the most celebrated models and movie stars, aristocrats, and rock stars of the 1960s; and defines an era for all time.
Complete with Bailey's most famous photographs of Penelope Tree, Michael Caine, and the Rolling Stones, David Bailey--Birth of the Cool features his photographs of the Kray Brothers, the most notorious and glamorous criminals in 1960s London as well as private and unpublished documentary photography. David Bailey--Birth of the Cool is a must for the fashion conscious, photography fans, rock and roll aficionados, and all those interested in Anglo chic.
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One of my favorite books documenting the sixties!!!.......2004-07-11
David Bailey was the hippest photographer during the sixties!! He took pictures of sooo many great icons. Anywhere from Models(Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy, Penelope Tree), Movie Stars(Peter Sellers, Catherine Deneuve, Micheal Caine, Terrence Stamp, Julie Christie), Bands(The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who), Designers and Artists...Mary Quant...Andy Warhol...even notorious gangsters..The Kray Twins!!!! Great Book!!! One of the coolest I own!!! Buy it!! If you're not sixties obsessed, you will be after flipping through this book!!! I'm not kidding.....
Goodbye Baby, and Amen.......2002-12-27
In this collection of greatest hits by Swinging London plankholder David Bailey, we get:
Celebrities of the time, including pop artists, pop intellectuals, TV presenters, English film stars, and the emerging British rock glitterati. Of these last Mick Jagger appears the most frequently, evolving from A Portrait Of A Famous Person Taken By David Bailey to the most notorious man in show business by the end of the decade. A close second is fading golden boy Brian Jones. Among the more conventional celebs are Terence Stamp, Michael Caine, and Peter Sellers. Stamp is so young and unformed here that it is hard to recognize him at first; Caine is reduced to a pipe & black frame glasses Everyman; and Sellers' portrait looks like a Roman bust.
Documentary pictures of potato-nosed East Enders, including plenty of studio portraits of crime bosses the Kray brothers. Bailey won their respect for having come from the East End himself and achieving success. But, one photo shows the Kray twins with Bailey sitting in between, visibly hoping not to get bumped off.
Lots of images of the original super-model, Jean Shrimpton, mostly from Vogue layouts but also plenty from other photo dates as well. There is also a generous helping of photographs of model Penelope Tree, whose face Bailey aptly described as "an Egyptian Jiminy Cricket." We also see lots of other perfectly turned out Vogue models.
There are some exotic shots of Nepal and some snaps from his military service in Singapore, but the focus is in the main on early Sixties London. Though the book is not arranged chronologically, one can see his technical development, as he incorporates other photographers' ideas like askew framing, daylight flash, and tent lighting. There is a color section, but gorgeously inky b/w is the star here. Many of the subjects have been shorn of the celebrity that no doubt added to their portraits' impact, but that's no barrier to enjoying this big collection.
The Look.......2002-02-19
Bailey birthed the look and this book is chock a block full of it. It's a visual feast with very littly written clutter. A pity that there just wasn't a bit more...
Trip Back in Time.......2002-01-19
If your'e looking for a book to take a trip back to the late 50's through the 60's this is a good way to get there. The fashion and ad shots of Jean Shrimpton and other models of that era are a kick. Anyone into nostalgia of those times will find this book interesting, David Bailey seemed to be ahead of his time in his style and his photos are thought provoking as well as great pieces of art. He had some great friends (male and female) that became his subjects. I wish there was a book #2 to follow--this book made me want to see more of his work!
Classic Mod Iconography from the Swinging Sixties.......2000-11-04
This exciting book combines portraits and fashion photography to show the revolution of casual coolness that David Bailey brought to both fields. Filled with classic poses of Jean Shrimpton, Penelope Tree, Catherine Deneuve, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones that you will remember, the book is strengthened by many images you have never seen before. Breaking the previous rules for portraits and fashion, Bailey takes us into a hip, exciting world that offers unlimited promise through "spontaneity of gesture."
David Bailey was the classic outsider, looking in. Born to a working class family in London's East End, no career could have been more unlikely. Being a rock musician was the most that young East Enders of that period could hope for. However, his background gave him a fresh perspective that brought originality and life to his work that we all enjoy. His career rose rapidly, being sought after by Vogue within a year of becoming a professional photographer. In fact, he was on contract to Vogue before meeting Jean Shrimpton, with whom he became so closely identified (both for their personal relationship and their work together).
Some of these innovations work better than others. For example, he loved to pose a group with each person tilting in a different plane and then to put the image on the diagonal. Those tend to work quite well. On the other hand, he also liked to cut off the tops of heads (like Alex Katz paintings), and those often make the portraits much less interesting than if you got the whole head. He loved grainy, black-and-white images. These can be a bit too grainy.
The essay by Martin Harrison is a helpful introduction to Bailey's work, and adds considerable value. I encourage you to read and study it in connection with the photographs.
The book contains scenes that Bailey shot of the East End, that heighten the contrast between his former life and his new one. You will also see his first professional work (a wedding) and his first published work (a Sunday Pictorial in 1960). Bailey rose to prominence very quickly, based both on his talent and his eye for the potential of then-unknown, 18-year-old model Jean Shrimpton, who was to become a fashion icon of the period.
Here are some of my favorite photographs in the book:
Jean Shrimpton (Town - 1963; Sunday Mirror - 1964; Queen - January 1964; Queen - February 12, 1964; Vogue - June 1965)
Catherine Deneuve (his later wife) (Brittany - 1966, Vogue - April 1, 1967)
Joy Weston (Sunday Pictorial - 1960)
Franco Zeffirelli (Vogue - 1961)
Scouts (London, 1960)
Sarah Miles (American Vogue - August 1, 1964)
Robert Shaw (Vogue - September 15, 1963)
Marianne Faithfull (September 1964)
Peter Ustinov (Vogue - December 1965)
Shirley MacLaine (Vogue - December 1965)
The Rolling Stones (September 1964)
Mick Jagger (Contact Sheet -- April 1968)
Sue Murray (Vogue - March 15, 1967 and September 1, 1967)
Raquel Welch (Goodbye Baby & Amen, June 1968)
Afer you have finished enjoying this exciting collection and insightful essay, I suggest that you ask yourself where unnecessary formalism is restraining progress in something you do. For example, some churchs still have such formal services that while many are reassured by the familiarity this provides, their hearts are not still touched by it. Having identified this stall, how can you break through to open the doors to informality that will be constructive? Asking people what they are missing from their experiences is a good place to start. Going back to my example of worship, perhaps worship is too much unlike daily life. How can we integrate the two so that we worship as we live?
Be cool!
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In preparation for over two years, this landmark publication presents the music of the Miles Davis Nonet in concert score format, restored from as many of the original composer/arrangers' autograph parts as still exist. Includes an extensive introduction, notes on the restoration process, bios of the composers and arrangers, and note-for-note transcriptions of these classic jazz tunes: Birth of the Cool Theme Boplicity (Be Bop Lives) Budo Deception Godchild Israel Jeru Joost at the Roost Moon Dreams Move Rock Salt a/k/a Rocker Rouge Venus De Milo.
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I'm prejudiced.......2002-08-21
I edited this folio. For years, musicians had to transcribe this important music so it could be played, and hoped that the original materials would turn up. The wait is now over.
All of the original parts known to exist of this legendary music were utilized to create corrected, clear, edited scores in concert. There are several pages of notes, including bios, a history of the music and the ensemble, and information on the restoration of this music. Also included is a composition that was never recorded.
Both the estates of Miles Davis and Gerry Mulligan made this music available to me to prepare this folio, and Keith Mardak, CEO of Hal Leonard, deserves credit for making this music available.
For me, this was a challenge and a labor of love. A more detailed article on the editing process will be published by the Journal of the Institute of Jazz Studies in the near future.
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For every parent who has cleaned crayon masterpieces off walls, rescued stuffed animals from toilets, and invented thousands of ways to disguise spinach, here's the essential guide to meeting the day-to-day challenges of raising a toddler while keeping your sense of humor and even temper. Packed with parent-tested, child-tested solutions to everyday problems, this lighthearted, reassuring handbook offers insight and advice for such issues as:
- Resolving sibling disputes
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For parents of all kinds of kids, including the Tattler, the Fibber, the Hitter, the Whiner, the Sulker, and other lovable terrors in need of a little discipline and a lot of tender, loving care, No More Tantrums has the answers. Diane Mason, Gayle Jensen, and Carolyn Ryzewicz have a long list of credits in journalistic, entrepreneurial, and educational endeavors, but they view their greatest accomplishment as raising six terrific kids.
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Lewis MacAdams says it bluntly in his book's preface: "Anybody trying to define 'cool' quickly comes up against cool's quicksilver nature. As soon as anything is cool, its cool starts to vaporize." With that, he still manages to weave a complex ode to all forms of cool in The Birth of Cool, a book that swings through the highs and lows of bebop and beat without ever losing its intrinsic coolness. MacAdams's background as a poet and film historian enables him to smoothly blend personal histories, public awareness, and political context into a fascinating exploration of the many facets of cool. He begins with the individuals who created bebop: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Billy Eckstine, and Thelonious Monk. Relatively minor incidents, like Gillespie stabbing Cab Calloway in the butt with a carpet cutter, are played against a larger framework of astonishing new works that Parker and Gillespie created and the enormous cultural changes brought about by these few folks. As the story moves forward into the 1950s, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Arshile Gorky and the beginnings of modern art are examined. Pollock's comment that "technique is just a means of arriving at a statement" seems like something that could have come from any of the artists, musicians, or writers covered in this book. The early years of the Beats get surprisingly little coverage, beginning with William S. Burroughs being "born weird" and ending with the accidental death of Joan Vollmer. The lives of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady are returned to in later chapters that cover the introduction and adoption of Zen and the final blending of bebop and Beat into one inseparable cultural unit.
With numerous photos and pleasantly glossy paper, The Birth of Cool is a dense book that is both entertaining and depressing. MacAdams has managed an homage to cool that temporarily conquers that "quicksilver nature" and gives us a lasting look at a nearly indefinable era. --Jill Lightner
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Miles Davis and Juliette Greco, Jackson Pollock and Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando and Bob Dylan and William Burroughs. What do all these people have in common? Fame, of course, and undeniable talent. But most of all, they were cool. Birth of the Cool is a stunningly illustrated, brilliantly written cultural history of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s -- the decades in which cool was born. From intimate interviews with cool icons like poet Allen Ginsberg, bop saxophonist Jackie McLean, and Living Theatre cofounder Judith Malina, award-winning journalist and poet Lewis MacAdams extracts the essence of cool. Taking us inside the most influential and experimental art movements of the twentieth century -- from the Harlem jazz joints where Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker invented bebop to the back room at Max's Kansas City when Andy Warhol was holding court to backstage at the Newport Folk Festival the night Bob Dylan went electric, from Surrealism to the Black Mountain School to Zen -- MacAdams traces the evolution of cool from the very fringes of society to the mainstream. Born of World War II, raised on atomic-age paranoia, cast out of the culture by the realities of racism and the insanity of the Cold War, cool is now, perversely, as conventional as you can get. Allen Ginsberg suited up for Gap ads. Volvo appropriated a phrase from Jack Kerouac's On the Road for its TV commercials. How one became the other is a terrific story, and it is presented here in a gorgeous package, rich with the coolest photographs of the black-and-white era from Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, and many others. Drawing a direct line between Lester Young wearing his pork-pie hat and his crepe-sole shoes staring out his hotel window at Birdland to the author's three-year-old daughter saying "cool" while watching a Scooby-Doo cartoon at the cusp of a new millennium, Birth of the Cool is a cool book about a hot subject...maybe even the coolest book ever.
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Slapdash in details but generally on the money thematically.......2004-12-31
Reviews of this book on this site have characterized it as sloppy, uninformed, and even erroneous in certain historical details. I would have to agree that the book is breezy at times, and at its worst is slapdash in its treatment of what is probably one of the most important cultural phenomena of the past fifty to sixty years, i.e., the development and growth of the idea of "cool" as a form of cultural currency. Despite the misgivings, though, I think this book's themes are right on the money. Read in conjunction with other more attentive books about the phenomenon in question (and/or the historical period), this book can be a door-opener or a good supplement, depending on your point of view.
Don't Bother Me With Facts, Can't You See I'm Creating?.......2003-11-20
I do not trust Lewis MacAdams. In a book brimming with details, he gets too many wrong. What's worse, because he's cool, he doesn't care. Asked by radio journalist Paul DeRienzo if he'd watched Ken Burns's monumental documentary Jazz, MacAdams confessed, "I haven't watched the bebop section because I was afraid I'd see something that showed that I said something wrong." This preference for ignorance over knowledge typifies what the author himself conceived as "a coffee-table book."
The slipshod approach begins on the first page of his Preface, where MacAdams discusses the namesake of this book, Miles Davis's seminal 1949-1950 jazz recording sessions. MacAdams maintains this music "wed the sophistication of Duke Ellington with the break-neck tempos of bebop. It melded the blues with the intellectual advances of the black avant-garde." Impressive, huh? Except it's not true.
What set these landmark recordings apart was their deliberate avoidance of both the hysteria of bop and the earthiness of blues. Instead, thoughtful, restrained solos were meticulously couched within unhurried, impressionistic orchestrations (even on "Israel," the album's only 12-bar blues). And as for the "intellectual advances of the black avant-garde," that's just plain silly. Most of the musicians, arrangers, and composers involved were white.
MacAdams also misidentifies Denzil Best as the drummer on Birth of the Cool, and adds the scurrilous misinformation that Best OD'ed on heroin. Frederick J. Spencer, M.D., in his book Jazz and Death, reports Denzil Best suffered from a bone disease and died in hospital after fracturing his skull in a fall. Yet because OD'ing on heroin better suits MacAdams's histrionic purpose, he concocts a seamier demise.
MacAdams takes similarly erring aim at saxophonist Lester Young, whose "Fu Manchu mustache and trademark porkpie hat were pieces of a mask that hid many things." Sax Rohmer's fictional fiend is usually depicted with mustaches extending down each side of his face, right? Yet in the dozens of photographs or album art I've seen of Lester Young, there are no such extensions; his neatly trimmed mustache always terminates at the corners of his mouth. Unable to cite even one of the "many things" that were allegedly hidden by Lester's "mask," MacAdams deviously lengthens Lester's mustache to make him appear more mysterious, like a schoolboy with a crayon defacing Mona Lisa.
But wait, he's not done. "To most of the world," writes MacAdams, "Young appeared unruffled and fastidious." MacAdams does not reveal how he divines what most of the world perceived, nor does he explain his implication that said image was deceptive. To the contrary, the full-page photo of Young in this book shows a calm, immaculately groomed, nattily attired gentleman. Apparently when mere facts do not satisfy his narrative needs, MacAdams exercises poetic license and makes things up.
For all-around erroneousness, however, nothing compares with MacAdams's assault on organized crime. First he jumbles the birth name of Salvatore Lucania with that legendary hoodlum's Americanized moniker Charles ("Lucky") Luciano and emerges with Charles Lucania, which is wrong on both counts. Then MacAdams contends the gangster was deported to Sicily "in the late '30s," which also is false.
Undeterred, MacAdams identifies the man who toppled Luciano, Thomas Dewey, as New York State Attorney General. Actually, Dewey was appointed special prosecutor in 1935 and elected New York County D.A. in 1937; he was never State A.G.
Still not satisfied, MacAdams asserts that after a gubernatorial pardon, "Lucky returned to the States." In reality, Luciano never left, confined since his 1936 conviction to prison for 30-50 years. In 1946, he was pardoned expressly for the purpose of deportation FROM the United States, sailed aboard the dilapidated Liberty ship SS Laura Keene, and never returned. The nearest he ever got was Cuba, which at least is closer than MacAdams gets to the truth.
Lewis MacAdams's inattention to detail bothers me. I know, I know, don't sweat the small stuff. But if you can't trust somebody on little things, how can you rely on him for the Big Picture? What makes me nervous is that the errors above are just the ones I caught. In his haste to publish this book, how many other mistakes did he make?
Maybe I'm old fashioned. Perhaps nowadays it's cool to mangle history, situate people where they weren't, misspell names, misrepresent statistics, misstate events, even defame the dead. Sure, what the hell, untruth is fine, as long as you're cool about it. And by that yardstick, Lewis MacAdams is cool, man, cool.
Shallow and somewhat bland..........2002-08-18
I was hoping for some kind of in-depth discussion of cool and its history in the 20th century, but this is more a high-school textbook treatment of cool.
So-and-so was cool and this is why he was cool. And then so-and-so was cool and this why she was cool. On and on. A few interesting spots, and a quick introduction to some of the major figures in jazz and art, but little more.
Shallow and somewhat bland..........2002-08-18
I was hoping for some kind of in-depth discussion of cool and its history in the 20th century, but this is more a high-school textbook treatment of cool.
So-and-so was cool and this is why he was cool. And then so-and-so was cool and this why she was cool. On and on. A few interesting spots, and a quick introduction to some of the major figures in jazz and art, but little more.
Cool is.......2002-04-01
This is a pretty engrossing book - if you think you know about "cool" check it out. Lewis puts together stuff in a
very original manner and helps one to get a perspective
on what cool is.
The section on DT Suzuki and cool caught my attention.
The chapter was called "The Bodhisattvas of Cool." Did you know that Siddartha means , "He who accomplishes his goals."
The layout of the book is cool and the type changes so things stay cool.
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The Birth of Cool: Dress Culture of the African Diaspora (Materializing Culture)
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From the zoot suit and Black dandy through to Rastafarianism and beyond, Black style has had a profound influence on the history of dress in the twentieth century. Yet despite this high profile, the dress styles worn by men and women of the African diaspora have received scant attention, even though the culture itself has been widely documented from historical, sociological and political perspectives.Focusing on counter- and sub-cultural contexts, this book investigates the role of dress in the creation and assertion of Black identity. From the home-dressmaking of Jamaican women, through to the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary streetstyles such as Hip Hop and Raggamuffin, Black Britons, African Americans and Jamaicans have been at the forefront of establishing a variety of Black identities. In their search for a self-image that expresses their diaspora experience, members of these groups have embraced the cultural shapers of modernity and postmodernity in their dress.Drawing on materials from the United States, Britain and Jamaica, this book fills a gap in both the history of Black culture and the history of dress, which has until recently focused on high fashion in Europe. Because dress can both initiate and confirm change, it provides an especially useful tool for analyzing identity and resistance.
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Birth Of The Cool
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Description: Birth of the Cool presents art that developed in subtle deviation from the familiar movements of 20th century American painting through retaining their main characteristics as points of reference. The accentuation of the surface, the breaking up of illusionistic space, the opening up of the painting's format to new dimensions in space and time are the lasting constants of American painting. The American tradition in painting is a tradition that is both sensual and severe, intellectual and emotional and above all open to modern society.
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Birth of the Cool?.......2000-04-24
Miles Davis gave us "Birth of the cool" at the time of the 'triumph of American painting', but the connection to 'cool' becomes stretched beyond this timely coincidence. The name of Miles Davis is the greatest presence of black art in a book about visual art not music. The title sounds good, the art inside is arguably among the best of this century, and the discussion within the interviews is engaging - but it is difficult to connect them to "Cool". And the picture of Andy Warhol with Miles Davis doesn't help. Yes, it is "cool" that most of my favorite artists are represented within these covers, but I don't think that was the point. But don't let the awkward title dissuade you. The artists collected for the text do represent the greatness of individuals, not movements or styles, in the 20th century. These individuals represent an emergence of a new "individualist" movement in this century. The author is on to something but it is not yet cool enough to be Jello. Oldsters such as Pollock, O'Keefe, and Newman and the persistent such as Celmins, Katz, and Morley are combined with artists such as Prince, Taaffe, Williams and Wool who were born years after Miles' cool album was cut. But they all belong together because of their uniqueness, specific individual focus and inquisitiveness. Each is at the head of individual directions that may become movements some day. Their work is beautiful and thoughtful, and in some cases a spiced with a bit of mischief. Cool? Hot? Within the interviews, even the artists themselves cannot come to an agreement about that. But the book is cool because it does contain words and images from 15 of the hottest individual contributors to the latest directions art has taken in the 20th century.
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Miles Davis's seminal recording, known as Birth of the Cool, is the starting point for this colorful, multi-disciplinary journey through 1950s West Coast America.
1950s West Coast style exuded "cool": from the smooth, hypnotic strains of a Miles Davis riff through Richard Neutra's elegant, modernist residences to the hard-edged paintings of Helen Lundeberg and Karl Benjamin. This richly illustrated volume casts a fresh eye on Fifties West Coast style with illuminating commentary from a variety of perspectives. Designed to echo the period it celebrates, this catalog explores modernist innovations in art, architecture, design, film and music. Prominent cultural critics write on an array of topics: Thomas Hine about the culture of cool; Elizabeth Smith on domestic aspects of the period's architecture; Francis Colpitt on hard-edged abstract painting; Dave Hickey on jazz, and Bruce Jenkins on the crossover between animation and experimental film. The result is a multi-faceted exploration of the 1950s West Coast zeitgeist in all its color, creativity, and cool.
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Title: Born to fly: searching for sound advice on raising children who reach their potential? Seek and ye shall find--right here.(cool stuff)(Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: The Wisdom and Science of Gentle Choices in Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting)(Having Twins and More: A Parent's Guide to Multiple Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Childhood, third edition)(The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from Preconception through Birth, second edition)(Calm Birth: New Method for Conscious Childbirth)(The Black Woman's Guide to Breastfeeding: The Definitive Guide to Nursing for African-American Mothers)(Spilled Milk: Breastfeeding Adventures and Advice from Less-Than-Perfect Moms)(The Baby Sleep Book: The Complete Guide to a Good Night's Rest for the Whole Family)(Adventures in Gentle Discipline: A Parent-to-Parent Guide)(Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves)(Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America)(A Stolen Life)(A Drug-Free Approach to Asperger Syndrome and Autism: Homeopathic Care for Exceptional Kids)(Coyote Wisdom: The Power of Story in Healing)(With The Birth of Hathor)(Born Yogis)(At Work in Life's Garden: Writers on the Spiritual Adventure of Parenting)(Beyond the Great Mountains: A Visual Poem about China)(For You Are a Kenyan Child)(100 Games from Around the World)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
Author: Melissa Chianta
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Mothering (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
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