Mothers of Invention

Mothers of Invention
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807855737

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
Total Pages: 792
Release: 1995
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780813521978

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
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1458430596

(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
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2023-09-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0859657159

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
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: FICTION
ISBN: 9781503950078

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:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780688089078

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
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0671705725

Recounts the career of the rock music performer.

Mothers of Invention

Mothers of Invention
Author: So Mayer
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0814348548

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
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780802142641

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.

Necessity is -

Necessity is -
Author: Billy James
Publisher: SAF Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The best Frank Zappa memoir yet, as told by the early members of the Mothers of Invention.