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This title is with an introduction by A. S. Byatt. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the w…
Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the wise old Abbess, Imber Court is a haven for lost s…
When a hippie commune invades Black River Falls, private investigator and lawyer Sam McCain finds himself in the middle of the controversy and a murder.
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Sylvie is dying in a hospital bed while her mother and doctors watch her life slipping away. One of her doctors suggests she visit the alternative community of Stonewylde, hidden in a remote corner of Dorset, where the clean air and green lifestyle might restore her, or give her…
Sylvie is dying. A victim of crippling allergies, poisoned by the pollution and chemicals of modern life, Sylvie is trapped in a hospital bed while her mother and doctors watch her life slipping away. But one of them offers her a chance. There's an alternative community - Stonew…
Sylvie is dying in a hospital bed while her mother and doctors watch her life slipping away. One of her doctors suggests she visit the alternative community of Stonewylde, hidden in a remote corner of Dorset, where the clean air and green lifestyle might restore her, or give her…
"The Survival of a Counterculture is a lively, engaging look into the ways communards, or people who live in communes, maintain, modify, use, and otherwise live with their convictions while they attempt to get through the problems of everyday life. Communal families shape their …
The Rainbow Family of Living Light is an intentional society devoted to achieving world peace through spiritual healing. A loose association of spiritual seekers that explicitly rejects all forms of leadership and imposed authority, it represents an interesting example of an ana…
"In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a large portion of the population had become disenchanted with the American way of life that they did not feel they belonged to. While some openly revolted in the streets, others took to turning away from the mainstream and headed toward a n…
Annotation "Focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area and hinterlands, with a deep history and rich legacy of cooperative schemes, West of Eden uses interviews and historical research to present vivid portraits of the rural communes of Mendocino and Sonoma, the Black Panther house…
"In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a large portion of the population had become disenchanted with the American way of life that they did not feel they belonged to. While some openly revolted in the streets, others took to turning away from the mainstream and headed toward a n…
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government-the commune-arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came …
Sleepwalking into a new world reveals how the development of the autonomous city-state took place, which would in the end make possible the robust civic adventure of the renaissance