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Why were some, but not all the Arab mass social protests of 2011
accompanied by relatively quick and nonviolent outcomes in the
direction of regime change, democracy, and social transformation?
Why was a democratic transition limited to Tunisia, and why did
region-wide democratization not occur? After the Arab Uprisings
offers an explanatory framework to answer these central questions,
based on four key themes: state and regime type, civil society,
gender relations and women's mobilizations, and external influence.
Applying these to seven cases: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain,
Libya, Syria, and Yemen, Valentine M. Moghadam and Shamiran Mako
highlight the salience of domestic and external factors and forces,
uniquely presenting women's legal status, social positions, and
organizational capacity, along with the presence or absence of
external intervention, as key elements in explaining the divergent
outcomes of the Arab Spring uprisings, and extending the analysis
to the present day.
The latest in a series of county-by-county surveys of English
gardens by this eminent writer on the English landscape. Profusely
illustrated.
Ever since she was little, Nunnally has always wanted to be one of
the graceful, capable receptionists of the Hall. As only top-rate
mages are accepted to the position, she enrolls in the kingdom’s
magic academy to hone her skills, where she feels out of place amid
a classroom of nobles—including a genuine prince. She decides
that despite being a commoner, she’s going to be the top of her
class...but for some reason she just can’t beat the one person
she’d most like to—the snobbish boy in the seat next to her,
Alweiss Rockman...!
If you’ve ever struggled with self-confidence concerning your
art, or been overwhelmed by which brushes you need or how to blend
paint, look no further than the gorgeous projects offered in
No-Fail Watercolor. Through over 25 activities that are as lovely
as they are accessible, Mako sheds light on the secrets to making
dazzling watercolor paintings and guides you step by step through
practicing and polishing your budding skills. Learn to
differentiate between monochromatic, complementary and analogous
colors in the Color Harmony chapter; build your understanding of
different mediums and textures with techniques like Painting with a
Sponge or Softening and Blending; and take a tour through exquisite
landscapes with projects like Cloudy Sunset Sky, Enchanted Forest
or Ocean Cave. Prepare to be challenged in the most fun way and to
embrace simple but effective methods that will soon have you
mastering watercolor. Above all, No-Fail Watercolor will remind you
to let go of rigidity, to revel in the moment and to discover
yourself along the way—because therein lies the true meaning of
art.
To this day, mention the name “Andy Warhol” to almost anyone
and you’ll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn
Monroe. But although Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol’s name
and dominated the public’s image of him, his life and work and
worldwide influences are infinitely more complex and multi-faceted
than that. And Phillip Romero, MD is just the person to explain
exactly what that impact was and is and from whence it derives. In
Andy Warhol’s Brain, esteemed psychiatrist Phillip Romero takes
on Andy Warhol in all his depth and dimensions. The book is
essentially a return to renowned psychiatrist Phillip Romero’s
scheduled interview with his friend Warhol that never happened, as
it was scheduled for the day after Andy’s untimely death. The
book is both homage to Warhol for his inspiring friendship with the
author and a platform for Romero to explore his thesis, “Art for
Survival.” Romero here presents the extraordinary results of an
agreement between the approaches to a topic of different academic
subjects: in this case science and the humanities. It
offers a unique and exceptional advance in thinking about artistry
and intellect. Doctor Romero’s work as a family/child
psychiatrist led him to formulate the concept of “Creative
Intelligence,” which he defines as the effortful attention of the
individual “mind” to recruit both these attributes to change
oneself, to evolve social systems, and to sustain the environment
to improve the quality and duration of human life. Romero found
himself deep into researching the brain-mind/art-culture continuum
of Creative Intelligence, and in doing so, his friend Andy Warhol
presented a perfect example of the concept. This book is an
effort to integrate the life and art of Andy Warhol with the
brain-mind/art-culture system that informs the evolution of human
civilization. The struggle between Creative Intelligence and
adversity exists within each human being. Romero uses Warhol’s
life as a mirror to inspire the reader’s Creative Intelligence in
reinventing themselves through the complex and challenging times we
live in. In this groundbreaking work that comes from the
unique perspective of a world-class psychiatrist and practicing
artist himself, Romero explains that for individuals,
creativity protects us from our painful pasts and inspires us to
create a better present for a more secure future. Creative
Intelligence harnesses our inborn resilience and creativity. It is
an ongoing mind-body process of effortful attention: remembering,
reflecting, reframing, reimagining, reinventing, and reconnecting
with oneself and the world.
It’s Nunnally’s first day at her dream job as a receptionist of
the Hall. With a staff to serve as her weapon and a new, powerful
uniform for protection, things are off to a great start...only for
everything to immediately descend into chaos when searching for
someone who went missing in the woods leads Nunnally’s party to
run into a magical beast only ever sighted once in history. To make
matters worse, she teleports them away from it straight into...the
Rockmann estate?!
Why were some, but not all the Arab mass social protests of 2011
accompanied by relatively quick and nonviolent outcomes in the
direction of regime change, democracy, and social transformation?
Why was a democratic transition limited to Tunisia, and why did
region-wide democratization not occur? After the Arab Uprisings
offers an explanatory framework to answer these central questions,
based on four key themes: state and regime type, civil society,
gender relations and women's mobilizations, and external influence.
Applying these to seven cases: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain,
Libya, Syria, and Yemen, Valentine M. Moghadam and Shamiran Mako
highlight the salience of domestic and external factors and forces,
uniquely presenting women's legal status, social positions, and
organizational capacity, along with the presence or absence of
external intervention, as key elements in explaining the divergent
outcomes of the Arab Spring uprisings, and extending the analysis
to the present day.
This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter
pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War
became the stuff of legend. Five days before Christmas 1943, a
badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime
Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his
crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter
pulled up on the bomber's tail - the German pilot was an ace, a man
able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger.
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in
the skies that day - the American - 2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown
and the German - 2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler. A Higher Call
follows both Charlie and Franz's harrowing missions and gives a
dramatic account of the moment when they would stare across the
frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the
American 8th Air Force would later classify as 'top secret'. It was
an act that Franz could never mention or else face a firing squad.
It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for
forty years until, as old men, they would seek out one another and
reunite.
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly
over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second
Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on
this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls
up on the bomber's tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler--and
he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a
trigger...
What happened next would defy imagination and later be called "the
most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II."
The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between
them as "top secret." It was an act that Franz could never mention
for fear of facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would
haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men,
they would search the world for each other, a last mission that
could change their lives forever.
INCLUDES PHOTOS
World-renowned photographer Christopher Makos brings to light an
entirely new dimension of artist Andy Warhol's early life and
career. Featuring bold, never-before-seen images of Warhol's early
foray into modeling when he first moved to New York City, Andy
Modeling Portfolio Makos offers us an intimate look at a household
name before he became well-known. The electric collaboration
between these confidants is showcased in photographs that will
captivate readers with their stunning amount of personality and
dynamicity. This work reveals not only the close relationship
between Makos and Warhol as artists and friends, but a new
dimension to Warhol in his more formative years, trying to forge a
name and a career for himself.
A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by
Warhol and Mapplethorpe, presented side by side and in depth for
the first time Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Robert Mapplethorpe
(1946-1989) are well known for significant work in portraiture and
self-portraiture that challenged gender roles and notions of
femininity, masculinity, and androgyny. This exciting and original
book is the first to consider the two artists together, examining
the powerful portraits they created during the vibrant and
tumultuous era bookended by the Stonewall riots and the AIDS
crisis. Several important bodies of work are featured, including
Warhol's Ladies and Gentlemen series of drag queen portraits and
his collaboration with Christopher Makos on Altered Image, in which
Warhol was photographed in makeup and wigs, and Mapplethorpe's
photographs of Patti Smith and of female body builder Lisa Lyon.
These are explored alongside numerous other paintings, photographs,
and films that demonstrate the artists' engagement with gender,
identity, beauty, performance, and sexuality, including their own
self-portraits and portraits of one another. Essays trace the
convergences and divergences of Warhol and Mapplethorpe's work, and
examine the historical context of the artists' projects as well as
their lasting impact on contemporary art and queer culture.
Firsthand accounts by the artists' collaborators and subjects
reveal details into the making and exhibition of some of the works
presented here. With an illustrated timeline highlighting key
moments in the artists' careers, and more than 90 color plates of
their arresting pictures, this book provides a fascinating study of
two of the most compelling figures in 20th-century art. Published
in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Exhibition
Schedule: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (10/17/15-1/24/16)
A triple bill of sci-fi cops. The first film, 'Robocop', is set in
the near future and Detroit's soaring crime rate is unsuccessfully
policed by a corporation which plans to build a new city, if its
workers can go about unmolested. When its new 'enforcement droid'
proves unworkable, a murdered cop (Peter Weller) is wired into a
computer-controlled titanium body and set to the task at hand.
Unimpressed, 'Robocop' seeks vengeance on all sides in this violent
but often funny tale. In the second film, 'Robocop 2', a new model,
Robocop 2 (Tom Noonan), is built while Robocop 1 still patrols the
streets of Detroit. Robocop 2 is given a maniac's 'soul', thereby
setting the stage for a showdown between the two computer
constables. Finally, in 'Robocop 3' Robocop is befriended by a
young girl whose parents have been killed, and after his partner is
killed by the head of a private security firm, he joins a group of
rebels to fight back against the evil businessmen. There is a
notable fight sequence between a plastic-like robot Ninja and the
sluggish metal Robocop, which, together with the rebels hiding out
in the derelict General Motors Factory, constitutes a thinly veiled
critique of the Japanese car industry from the heart of Detroit -
the original motor city.
***SOON TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM*** 'This is aerial drama at
its best. Fast, powerful, and moving.' Erik Larson Devotion tells
the gripping story of the US Navy's most famous aviator duo - Tom
Hudner, a white New Englander, and Jesse Brown, a black
sharecropper's son from Mississippi. Against all odds, Jesse beat
back racism to become the Navy's first black aviator. Against all
expectations, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighter planes for his
country. While much of America remained divided by segregation, the
two became wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32 and went on to fight
side-by-side in the Korean War. Adam Makos follows Tom and Jesse's
dramatic journey to the war's climatic battle at the Chosin
Reservoir, where they fought to save an entire division of trapped
Marines. It was here that one of them was faced with an unthinkable
choice - and discovered how far they would go to save a friend.
'Gripping' Wall Street Journal ________________________ At first,
gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd
Armored Division - 'Spearhead' - thought their tanks were
invincible. Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so
murderous it could shoot through one Sherman and into the next.
Soon a pattern emerged: the lead tank always gets hit. After seeing
his friends cut down breaching the West Wall and holding the line
in the Battle of the Bulge, Clarence and his crew are given a
weapon with the power to avenge their fallen brothers: the
Pershing, a state-of-the-art 'super tank', one of twenty in the
European theatre. But with it comes a harrowing new responsibility:
now they will spearhead every attack and, in doing so, will lead
the US Army into its largest urban battle of the war, the fight for
Cologne, the 'Fortress City' of Germany... 'Spearhead shimmers in
eclipsing moments of valor, luck and compassion.' Washington Times
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber
struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a
21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their
first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the
bomber's tail--a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German
pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber in the
squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and
later be called "the most incredible encounter between enemies in
World War II." This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives
collided in the skies that day--the American--2nd Lieutenant
Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to
captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a
former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in
World War II. "A Higher Call" follows both Charlie and Franz's
harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over
the flaming wreckage of his buddies' planes, flak bursts so close
they would light his cockpit, and packs of enemy fighters that
would circle his plane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in
the desert, a crash alone at sea, and the spectacle of 1,000
bombers each with eleven guns, waiting for his attack. Ultimately,
Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one
another. What happened between them, the American 8th Air Force
would later classify as "top secret." It was an act that Franz
could never mention or else face a firing squad. It was the
encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years
until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last
mission that could change their lives forever.
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