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Discover the incredible combat machines that have graced the skies,
land, and sea of the world's most famous conflicts. A fascinating
account of the history and development of dozens of legendary
military vehicles -- from the German Tiger tanks of the Second
World War and the nuclear-powered submarine to the high-tech
fighter jets of today and the military technology of the future --
Visual History of World Military Machines details the facts and
figures of these incredible machines. Featuring complete breakdowns
of the technology that makes these tanks, choppers, and battleships
the best of the best, this guide spans the last 100 years of
warfare and how it's evolved. Filled with informative and
fascinating articles written by leading historians, scholars, and
other military history experts, as well as high-quality photography
and illustrations, this action-packed book is a must-have for any
history buff!
You want to do hard things.
"But you don't know where to start."
" "
You are changing the world around you.
"But you are tired and burned out. "
You feel called to do the extraordinary for God.
"But you feel stuck in the ordinary."
"Do Hard Things "inspired thousands of young people around the
world to make the most of the teen years. Now Alex and Brett Harris
are back and ready to tackle the questions that "Do Hard Things
"inspired: "How do I get started? What do I do when I get
discouraged? What's the best way to inspire others?" Filled with
stories and insights from Alex, Brett, and other real-life
rebelutionaries, "Start Here" is a powerful and practical guide to
doing hard things, right where you are.
Are you ready to take the next step and blast past mediocrity for
the glory of God?
START HERE.
The American South has become a nexus of film production in the
United States. By 2016, more major features were being shot in
Georgia than in California. Commissioned by the High Museum in
Atlanta as part of their Picturing the South series, Alex Harris
explored cinematic representations of the South by visiting and
photographing the making of over 40 independent fiction films
across the region. Using a documentary approach to capture scenes
that unfolded on or around the set, Harris' images tell the story
of a new South while also hinting at more universal aspects of life
- the ways in which we are all actors in our own lives, creating
our sets, practicing our lines, refining our characters, playing
ourselves. These photographs also tell a story about our
increasingly visual culture and explore the rapidly evolving world
of independent filmmaking, one that is little known to audiences
outside the film festival circuit.
The surprising message of Do Hard Things will resonate with young
people who sense that they are being lulled into mediocrity by the
consumer, "me"-obsessed values of pop culture. This book is the
must-have manifesto for teens who are ready to attempt more and
believe more for their lives, starting now. Do Hard Things weaves
persuasive arguments from historical and contemporary sources with
personal story and biblical principles to expose the negative
effects of "the myth of adolescence," redefine the teen years as
the launching pad of life, and motivate young people to reach for
their true potential.
This hefty volume contains hundreds of biographical sketches of men
who had lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, at some time from
its early settlement down to about 1870. The sketches vary in
length from a few lines to a few pages, but most provide s
The eye is sovereign in every art but music. Reading, writing and
painting are all but soundless deeds of sight."" These are the
words of Reynolds Price (1933-2011), one America's greatest
writers. In his novels, short stories, poems and plays - forty-one
books in all - Price renders with keenness, clarity and profound
eloquence the experience of life, both the visible and invisible,
the outward and the interior. What is not well known is that Price
was also a visionary collector. In his modest North Carolina house,
nestled among southern pines and hardwoods, Price - confined to a
wheelchair for the last three decades of his life - curated and
arranged his books, photographs, paintings, sculptures, masks,
religious icons, and objects he collected, purchased, or was given
over the years, creating a visual environment that directly
reflected his life, his experiences, his passions and
preoccupations. After his death in 2011, Price's family invited
acclaimed photographer, Alex Harris to photograph the house. In
this remarkably intimate and revealing book, Harris and his wife,
writer Margaret Sartor, pair sixty of Harris's color photographs
with excerpts from Price's fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and
interviews. As longtime neighbors and friends who spent time in his
house over many years, they show the ways in which the art and
memorabilia Price collected inspired his writing and illuminates
connections between the visible world he constructed and the
creations of his mind. As we turn the pages of this book, it is as
if Reynolds Price himself takes us on a guided tour of his home.
And as we walk through his rooms, he reveals his private world,
recounts significant episodes in his life, and speaks with wisdom
and humor about the people, ideas, and beliefs most important to
him. As readers we follow, we listen, and we see. Reynolds Price's
connection to his house - where he lived and worked for over four
decades - offers insight into our own lives and loves, teaches us
about the importance of place, shows how to be fully engaged in the
world, how to strive to live a meaningful life.
Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham,
North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the
frontier-like boomtown on the map. As an itinerant portraitist
working primarily in North Carolina and Virginia during the rise of
Jim Crow, Mangum welcomed into his temporary studios a clientele
that was both racially and economically diverse. After his death in
1922, his glass plate negatives remained stored in his darkroom, a
tobacco barn, for fifty years. Slated for demolition in the 1970s,
the barn was saved at the last moment-and with it, this surprising
and unparalleled document of life at the turn of the twentieth
century, a turbulent time in the history of the American South.
Hugh Mangum's multiple-image, glass plate negatives reveal the
open-door policy of his studio to show us lives marked both by
notable affluence and hard work, all imbued with a strong sense of
individuality, self-creation, and often joy. Seen and experienced
in the present, the portraits hint at unexpected relationships and
histories and also confirm how historical photographs have the
power to subvert familiar narratives. Mangum's photographs are not
only images; they are objects that have survived a history of their
own and exist within the larger political and cultural history of
the American South, demonstrating the unpredictable alchemy that
often characterizes the best art-its ability over time to evolve
with and absorb life and meaning beyond the intentions or
expectations of the artist.
"Old and on Their Own is a tribute to the strength of the human spirit and the will of elderly people to survive." — Washington Post
Long recognized for his work with young people, the prominent child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles explores the lives of the elderly in Old and on Their Own. Dr. Coles introduces us to eleven men and women over the age of 75 living on their own. These older Americans share their thoughts, memories, aspirations, and worries, and tell us what it means to be old. Their stories are full of humor and hope, told with courage and dignity. The photographic essay by Alex Harris and Thomas Roma provides an important visual dimension to this book. Harris photographed in Durham, North Carolina, and Roma in his native Brooklyn. Whether rural or urban, black or white, rich or poor, these elderly people emerge as strong and inspiring individuals who deserve our respect and admiration, and who show us how to live our later years to the fullest. - "I have more ideas and plans now than I've ever had — last things to do before I take my last breath! The trouble is doing them all, even getting near to doing them all: that's the big challenge." — from Old and on Their Own
- Featured on National Public Radio
Dr. Robert Coles has spent his life doing documentary work. He teaches at Duke University and the University of North Carolina and is the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University. Alex Harris is a photographer and professor at Duke University. Thomas Roma's work has been widely exhibited and published. He is professor of photography at the Columbia University School of Arts.
"How do you write about third generation Snopeses who have moved to
Memphis and joined an encounter group?" asked Walter Percy in his
book Signposts in a Strange Land. A New Life answers this question,
combining the stories of eleven of the best new writers of southern
fiction with contemporary work from extraordinary southern
photographers. These short stories and surprising images portray
the South not as we might imagine or remember it, but as it is
lived--in condos and malls, on golf courses and interstates, in
family rooms and bedrooms, and in the hearts and minds of southern
people. This volume brings together recent southern stories by
Richard Barusch, Bobbie Ann Mason, Lee Smith, Robert Olen Butler,
and Mary Ward Brown, among others, coupled with photographic
essays. These revealing pictures and stories cover a broad
geographical and emotional territory and give us a revealing
portrait of the new look and feel of the contemporary South.
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