Page lORAIN April 1978 GOOD THINGS House of Musical Traditions-Catalog 305 S. Washington Street Berkeley Springs, W. VA 25411 Are you into nose flutes or Bolivian CherangQs? Mandolins or Chinese Temple Gongs? These folks have avail· able by mail an amazing range of ethnic and esoteric instruments and books on difeerent musical tradition . Ecclecticism is a good antidote to cul tural imperialism and predecessor to new traditions. - TB Welcome to the Magic Theater, Dick McLeester, 1976, 124 pp., $3 from: Food for Thought Publications P.O. Box 331 Amherst, MA 01002 "A Handbook for Exploring Dreams." Here's a wonderful example of someone who had an interest, explored the resources, learned a lot, and had the good will and forethought to bring the information together in beautiful access format. There are books listed here for psychological int rprerarions of dreams, ative American and other cultures' use of dreaming, dream myths and fairy tale, and dreams as part of consciousnes -raising and political action. It is very thorough and comfonably personal. Sweet dreams. - LdeM A catalog is being pulled together of manufacturer and individuals active in cut-cost construction in the Pacific Northwe [- particularly those projects whose products reflect resource conservation and appropriate technology. The survey and eventual Ii ting is being funded by a CRTA grant lasting through cptembcr 1978. Anyone. interested in being included Or wanting further information should contact Mary Smith, Portland Community College/Rock reek campus, 17705 N.W. Springville Rd., Portland, OR 97229, phone 645446 1 (ext. 23 5). PLATE 18 - MIDDLE EASTERN DUMBEK Eureka Express P.O. Box 145 Ft. Wayne, IN 46801 Our good friend Robin Leenhouts, from the New Western Energy Show, wrote to say that she had forgotten to mention Greg Jacobs and the Eureka Express as being very important contributors to the design of the NWES set-up and the building of their trailer. (See the Feb/March RAIN. ) It also turns out that Greg's project is worthy of mention on its own account. He's putting together six railroad cars as a "traveling learning resource center offering to children, teachers and the general public opportunities to explore and learn about craft, design and problem-solving." What a wonderful idea. They're having some trouble with their funding but hopefully they'll have their workshop on the rails before too long. Check them out. -LdeM BUSINESS Consultancy for Small Businesses, Malcolm Harper, 1976, published by Intermediate Technology Development Publications (England) and available in the U.S. and Canada for $15 from: International Scholarly Book Service P.O. Box 555 Forest Grove, OR 97116 Often the hardest things to see clearly are those we're most closely associated with, and the advice of a trusted friend is an invaluable gift to a small business that can't afford the luxury of high paid consultants to review its performance. The Briarpatch Network in the San Francisco Bay Area has shown us the value of having people vi it the small businesses in its network, giving feedback and advice. This manual was put together by ITGD to summarize some five years of experiments in Kenya. Brazil, Sri Lanka and Indonesia ro develop useful economic on-the-spot consulting to small businesses in developing countries. It covers the concepts of small business operation and analysis and trouble shooting of problems, as well as providing a detailed training course for consultants to assist small business. Valuable both for selfanalysis and setting up advisory Services. -1'B Cost Accounting Concepts for Nonfinancial Executives, Joseph Simini, 1976, $12.95 from: AMACOM 135 W. 50th Street New York, NY 10020 A good primer for understanding business accounting. If you're not into business, it lets you know how business people think. If you're thinking about or are starting a business, lets you know what to worry about or not worry about. If you're into corporate accountability, gives you a beginning sense of the shell games that go on with different depreciation schedules, writeoffs, and ways of calculating profit and loss. - 1'B POLITICS Strengthening Citizen Access, 1977, $325 for private firms, $10 for nonprofit educational institutions, $5 for public interest groups from: Exploratory Project for Economic Alternatives 2000 P Street N.W. Washington, DC 20036 A fine overview of the need for and prest;:nt status of citizen participation in government. It discusses kinds of agencies such as Om budspersons, Consumer Agencies, Attorneys General and Public Interest Law firms that are institutional attempts to "represent" public interest in government decisions. It also surveys the means for shifting the cost of citizen access, procedural reforms to encourage access such as class action
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