Mothers of Invention

Mothers of Invention

Author: Drew Gilpin Faust

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780807855737

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Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.


Mothers and Daughters of Invention

Mothers and Daughters of Invention

Author: Autumn Stanley

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 792

ISBN-13: 9780813521978

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Stanley traces women's inventions in five vital areas of technology worldwide--agriculture, medicine, reproduction, machines, and computers.


Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All (Songbook)

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All (Songbook)

Author: Frank Zappa

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1458430596

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(Recorded Version (Guitar)). Note-for-note transcriptions with tab for all nine tracks from Zappa's classic 1975 release: Andy * Can't Afford No Shoes * Evelyn, A Modified Dog * Florentine Pogen * Inca Roads * Po-Jama People * San Ber'dino * Sofa No. 1 * Sofa No. 2. Includes an introduction by Steve Vai.


Freak Out

Freak Out

Author: Pauline Butcher

Publisher: Plexus Publishing

Published: 2023-09-11

Total Pages: 551

ISBN-13: 0859657159

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This new, completely revised and updated edition contains a wealth of new material, excerpts from the author's diaries and private letters home about life in Hollywood. In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist.The assignment would change her life forever. For three years, Pauline served as Zappa's PA, moving with him, his family and the Mothers of Invention, to a log cabin in Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills, where the 'straight' young English girl mixed with Oscar winners and rock royalty. Freak Out! is the captivating story of a naive young English girl thrust into the mad world of a musical legend as well as the most intimate portrait of Frank Zappa ever written.


Mother of Invention

Mother of Invention

Author: Caeli Wolfson Widger

Publisher: Little A

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781503950078

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Meet Silicon Valley executive Tessa Callahan, a woman passionate about the power of technology to transform women's lives. Her company's latest invention, the Seahorse Solution, includes a breakthrough procedure that safely accelerates human pregnancy from nine months to nine weeks, along with other major upgrades to a woman's experience of early maternity. The inaugural human trial of Seahorse will change the future of motherhood and it's Tessa's job to monitor the first volunteer mothers-to-be. She'll allay their doubts and soothe their anxieties. But when Tessa discovers disturbing truths behind the transformative technology she's championed, her own fear begins to rock her faith in the Seahorse Solution. With each new secret Tessa uncovers, she realizes that the endgame is too inconceivable to imagine.


Mothers of Invention

Mothers of Invention

Author: Ethlie Ann Vare

Publisher:

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780688089078

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Describes how women invent such items as Liquid Paper, chocolate chip cookies, tract houses, brassieres, computer compilers, and nonreflecting glass


Real Frank Zappa Book

Real Frank Zappa Book

Author: Frank Zappa

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0671705725

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Recounts the career of the rock music performer.


Mothers of Invention

Mothers of Invention

Author: So Mayer

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0814348548

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This collection belongs on the bookshelves of students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist and queer media studies, labor studies, filmmaking and production, and cultural studies.


Please Kill Me

Please Kill Me

Author: Legs McNeil

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9780802142641

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Now in paperback, this first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life with 50 new pages of depraved testimony. "Please Kill Me" reads like a fast-paced novel, but the tragedies it contains are all too human and all too real. photos.


Mothers of Invention

Mothers of Invention

Author: Robin Pickering-Iazzi

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780816626519

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In the Mother of Invention in their analyses of literature, painting, sculptures, film, and fashion, the contributors explore the politics of invention articulated by these women as they negotiated prevailing ideologies.