The first collection of Mark Rothko's writings, which range the entire span of his career While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko's writings have only recently come to light, beginning with the critically acclaimed The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art. Rothko's other written works have yet to be brought together into a major publication. Writings on Art fills this significant void; it includes some 90 documents-including short essays, letters, statements, and lectures-written by Rothko over the course of his career. The texts are fully annotated, and a chronology of the artist's life and work is also included. This provocative compilation of both published and unpublished writings from 1934--69 reveals a number of things about Rothko: the importance of writing for an artist who many believed had renounced the written word; the meaning of transmission and transition that he experienced as an art teacher at the Brooklyn Jewish Center Academy; his deep concern for meditation and spirituality; and his private relationships with contemporary artists (including Newman, Motherwell, and Clyfford Still) as well as journalists and curators. As was revealed in Rothko's The Artist's Reality, what emerges from this collection is a more detailed picture of a sophisticated, deeply knowledgeable, and philosophical artist who was also a passionate and articulate writer.

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Judo, meaning "gentle way," is a modern Japanese martial art and combat sport, which originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is either to throw one's opponent to the ground and immobilize by joint-locking the elbow or by applying a choke. In Judo Foundations, Miguel Lopez sensei with his more than forty five years practicing judo nationally and internationally, is sharing his knowledge if the roots, philosophy, meaning of the judo techniques, and how to excel in judo while underscoring the importance of judo values and its essential role in society.

A collection of poems by M. Miranda Maloney "The Lost Letters of Mileva (Albert Einstein's wife) are really those of many women, mothers, artists and intellects, who have been forgotten to history. They are also Maloney's letters to Mileva, insisting, as if to a kindred soul: "There was a story here." And that story is complex, teeming with the joys of love and connection to place, but also its difficulties." -Rosa Alcala

Examining the keys to a multicultural education within a real school setting, this book is a valuable tool for teachers in today's changing world. The growing phenomenon of immigration is creating new social, cultural, and educational scenes, and teachers are approaching one of the most important challenges in the history of formal education. Schools must successfully manage the inclusion of students whose diversity can be perceived at every level, whether it be cultural, linguistic, religious, or social, and this book will aid teachers as they work with their students to develop an inclusive and productive school environment. "Examinando las claves para una educacion multicultural dentro de un entorno escolar real, este libro es una herramienta valiosa para los maestros en el mundo actual cambiante. El creciente fenomeno de la inmigracion esta configurando nuevos escenarios sociales, culturales y educativos, y los maestros estan abordando uno de los retos mas importantes de la historia de la educacion formal. Las escuelas necesitan manejar efectivamente la inclusion de estudiantes cuya diversidad puede ser percibida a todos los niveles, ya sea cultural, linguistica, religiosa o social, y este libro ayudara a los maestros mientras trabajan con su estudiantado para desarrollar un ambiente escolar inclusivo y productivo."

"Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares" traces the history of utopian representations of the Americas, first on the part of the colonizers, who idealized the New World as an earthly paradise, and later by Latin American modernizing elites, who imagined Western industrialization, cosmopolitanism and consumption as a utopian dream for their independent societies. Carlos Fuentes, Homero Aridjis, Carmen Boullosa, and Alejandro Morales utilize the literary genre of dystopian science fiction to elaborate on how globalization has resulted in the alienation of indigenous peoples and the deterioration of the ecology. This book concludes that Mexican and Chicano perspectives on the past and the future of their societies constitute a key site for the analysis of the problems of underdevelopment, social injustice, and ecological decay that plague today's world. Whereas utopian discourse was once used to justify colonization, Mexican and Chicano writers now deploy dystopian rhetoric to interrogate projects of modernization, contributing to the current debate on the global expansion of capitalism. The narratives coincide in expressing confidence in the ability of Latin American and U.S. Latino popular sectors to claim a decisive role in the implementation of enhanced measures to guarantee an ecologically sound, ethnically diverse, and just society for the future of the Americas.