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Ernest Callenbach (1929–2012)

Autor/a de Ecotopia : The notebooks and reports of William Weston

25+ obres 1,827 Membres 39 Ressenyes 3 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Ernest Callenbach was born on April 3, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in English in 1949 and a master's degree in English in 1953 from the University of Chicago. Two years later, after studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, he became an assistant editor for the University of California Press. He mostra'n més founded Film Quarterly in 1958 and edited it for 33 years. He also edited books on film for the university. He wrote several books including Ecotopia, Ecotopia Emerging, and Living Cheaply with Style. He died of cancer on April 16, 2012 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Ernest Callenbach

Ecotopia Emerging (1981) 218 exemplars
Ecology: A Pocket Guide (1998) 75 exemplars
Humphrey: The Wayward Whale (1986) 49 exemplars
Publisher's Lunch (1989) 14 exemplars
The Complete Ecotopia (2021) 10 exemplars
A Citizen Legislature (1985) 8 exemplars
Film Quarterly 3 exemplars
Film Quarterly: Winter 1958 (1958) — Editor — 2 exemplars

Obres associades

Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias (1994) — Col·laborador — 147 exemplars
The Utopia Reader (1999) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions111 exemplars
Constructing Nature: Readings from the American Experience (1996) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
Streetopia (1712) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
New American Review 8 (1970) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars

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Story: 5 / 10
Characters: 6
Setting: 10
Prose: 7.5
 
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MXMLLN | Hi ha 28 ressenyes més | Jan 12, 2024 |
Ich habe ein Buch bei BookCrossing.com registriert!
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/13651585

Kaum zu glauben, dass das Buch schon über 40 Jahre alt, aber wie aktuell es dabei ist. Etwas zu viel Hippie-Kultur, aber absolut lesenswert.
 
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Stonerrockfan | Hi ha 28 ressenyes més | Oct 8, 2023 |
I'm of two minds about this book. On the one hand, it's an interesting and insightful set of ideas about what an independent Cascadia might look like, and the values of the culture that would grow there. On the other hand, as a book it's more than a little pulpy and chauvinistic - a relic of its time for sure. Callenbach's vision of a utopian future also misses the mark pretty significantly on race, one of the places Ecotopia has diverged quite starkly from reality. Ultimately it's an interesting read about what some people might have hoped the future held for us, and a vision of what we might aspire to, wrapped in an imperfect and in some places quite flawed package.… (més)
 
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DarthFisticuffs | Hi ha 28 ressenyes més | Jul 20, 2023 |
Investigative reporter William Weston crosses the Sierra Nevada mountains and enters Ecotopia, the first American to do so since the Ecotopian secession from the U.S. in 1980
 
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aitastaes | Nov 28, 2022 |

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Obres
25
També de
5
Membres
1,827
Popularitat
#14,083
Valoració
½ 3.5
Ressenyes
39
ISBN
58
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10
Preferit
3

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