, all juSt ICat'Tling. and ir's a far cry from the "pun 'em out with forceps/slap 'cm on tbe bottom" days The Experience of Childbirth, Sheila Kitzinger, 1972, $2.95 from: Penguin Books 72 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10011 Natllrebirth-You, Your Baby and Your Body, Danae Brook, 1976, $3.95 from: Pantheon Books 201 East 50th New York, NY 10022 Pregnancy After 30 Workbook, Gail Sforza Brewer, 1978, $8.95 from: Rodale Press 33 East Minor Emmaus, PA 18049 I didn't read this [ill after Skye was born, but I wish I'd read it first. It's an excellent, excellent primer that is useful for anyone, not just the"clderly primapara" (as the medical profession terms anyone having a first child past age 30). It is chock full of information on what happens in your body and the baby's and how to deal with it. Especially good sections on nutrition and post-natal feelings/problems- an area so many of the books leave out entirely as if the birth were an ending rather than a beginning. Birth Book, Raven Lang, 1972, $6 from: Genesis Press P.O. Box 11457 Palo Alto, CA 94306 This was the first book I read on homebirth years ago, the pictures and stories giving me a sense of what birth was really like. It feels a little on the hippie side now (full of accounts of births under redwood trees and in tipis), but it was a pioneer when it first came out. And so was the Santa Cruz Birth Center- s()me of the earliest lay midwives to operate openly in the present resurgence of a time-honored skill. , COMMUNITY Community Technology, Karl Hess, 1979, 107 pp., $2.95 from: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. 10 E. 53rd St. New York, NY 10022 More and more neighborhoods arc starting to act at times other than crises. Communities are organizing a.round positive goals to create the type of place they want to live. Karl Hess, in Community Technology, outlines the possibilities when people participate in everything from neighborhood energy and food production to weekly town meetings and local newsletters. Drawing upon his experiences in an urban D.C. neighborhood and a rural West Virginia town, Hess constantly urges us to take more responsibility for our lives and community. The ideas, many of which were expressed before in Neighborhood Power, are worth repeatmg. -PC Fallen Arches No Mac Committee Vineyard Haven, MA 02568 Citizens groups arou nd the country working to keep fa~t food franchises ou): of their neighborhoods have taken heart over the round one victory against the Big Mac on Martha's Vineyard, where the health board rejected McDonald's proposed site on January 2. Information from Big Mac- Tbe Unauthorized Story of McDonald's, by Max Boas and Steve Chain, 1976, from E. P. Dutton (currently out of print but available through libraries); an independent study of the quality of fast foods by the Nutrition Institute of America published in the April 1977 issue of Ctlveat Emptor, 620 Freeman St., Orange, NJ 07050: and the economic study by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 1717 28th St. N.W., WashingtOn, DC 20009. were especially helpful in making the community aware of the negative impacts of franchise fast foods. For more details, see the February and March 1979 Earrhwarch section of New Age j ournal,· 32 Station St., Brookline, MA 02147. - 1'B May 1979 RAI Page 15 PLACE The Willamette Valley, William Bowen, 1978,120 pp., $17.50 hardcover from: University of Washington Press Seattle, WA 98105 11 .813 white settlers lived in the Willamerce Valley of Oregon in 1850. The .settlement patterns of these people plus such facts as place of origin, age, sex, kinship, crops, livestock are detailed in a series of maps contained in The Willamette Valley . These maps, along with a text that includes fascinating excerpts from diaries, letters and private papers of the settlers, reconstruct the lifestyle of ] 850 Oregon with insights into the motivation and interactions of its inhabitants. And what were the people like? Well, one federal appointee to the Oregon Territorial Courts noted, " . .. They were a very honest dass ... and not very fond of work. . . . They cared very little about luxuries; were very independent. and their lives were generally very good." A solid book for understanding the common frontier experience without the usual romanticizing - PC Native People and Nukes The Skagit System Cooperative was formed in 1976 by members of three Indian tribes to protect their.traditional fishing places. The Skagit, one of the key rivers within the tribe's fishing management area, is faaing a future which includes plans for constructing twin nuclear reactors and two dams. The cooperative was recently granted intervenor status for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings. Additio nal information is available from : Andy Fernando Skagit System Cooperative Box 368, Reservation Rd. La Conner, WA 98257 - PC
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