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Make your own anime with this unique introductory guide to Japanese
animation. You'll learn every stage of the animation process from
scripting and storyboarding to preparing and distributing your
film. Everything is clearly explained with step-by-step tutorials
and packed with color screengrabs, stills and artwork illustrating
every technique and process, including: * Hand-painting characters
and backgrounds on to separate cel layers * Working with 3D
graphics * Using digital pen-and-tone techniques Apply the core
style elements and visual language of anime to your own work and
learn to: * Simplify characters without losing their impact *
Create exaggerated facial expressions * Use shadows and shading for
dramatic effects * Add lip syncing and speed lines to convey
movement
The award of a military decoration or medal does not define valor,
it only recognizes it. Many acts of unbelievable courage and
self-sacrifice occur on the battlefield, but are often obscured in
the fog of battle, to remain unrecognized and unheralded. The men
and women in these stories did incredible things and although in
many cases there was the official awarding of medals, including
several Medals of Honor, their stories remain unknown and untold.
This book is a modest attempt to correct that oversight.
Men and women who serve in the armed forces are subject to a
different legal code than those they protect. Throughout American
history, some have-through action or failure to act or by
circumstances-found themselves facing prosecution by the United
States military. One measure of a nation's sense of justice is how
it treats those who surrender some of their rights to defend the
rights of fellow citizens. Beginning with the first court-martial
(predating the nation itself) of an American Indian and continuing
to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the War on Terror,
this book examines the proceedings of 15 courts-martial that raised
such important legal questions as: When does advocacy become
treason? Who bears ultimate responsibility when troops act
illegally? What are the limits in protesting injustice? The
defendants include such familiar names as Paul Revere, Jackie
Robinson and William Calley, as well as lesser-knowns like PFC
Robert Garwood, a Vietnam War deserter. The authors examine such
overlooked cases as the Somers Mutiny, the trial of the San
Patricios and the Port Chicago Mutiny. These trials demonstrate
that guaranteeing military justice-especially in the midst of armed
conflict-is both a challenge and a necessity in a free society.
Only the very best officers are given command of U.S. Navy ships,
and only the elite of these are selected for command of aircraft
carriers. The USS America was the third of four Kitty Hawk-class
super-carriers. Commissioned in 1965 and decommissioned in 1996,
she served in many conflicts, cruising three times to Vietnam, and
once each to Libya, the Persian Gulf and Bosnia. This book profiles
the 23 men who commanded the America and her crew of 5,000 during
31 years of service. Most of them were combat veterans who served
during World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Mayaguez Rescue Operations,
Lebanon, Haiti, Libya, Bosnia, and Desert Storm. Four were Naval
Academy graduates; seven were test pilots; one became Inspector
General of the Navy; one wore both Navy wings and submariner
dolphins; and one was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for nearly six
years. Two retired as admirals - one of these was Chief of Naval
Operations - five as vice admirals, and 11 as rear admirals. Each
profile gives a full career account based on official biographies,
published memoirs, and interviews with the commanding officers or
their families.
We acquire concepts such as "atom," "force," "integer," and
"democracy" long after we are born; these concepts are not part of
the initial cognitive state of human beings. Other concepts like
"object," "cause," or "agent" may be present early in infancy-if
not innately. Processes of change occur throughout our conceptual
development, which prompts two key questions: Which human concepts
constitute innate, core knowledge? How do humans acquire new
concepts, and how do these concepts change in development? Core
Knowledge and Conceptual Change provides a unique theoretical and
empirical introduction to the study of conceptual development,
documenting key advances in case studies, including ground-breaking
science on human representations of language, objects, number,
events, color, space, time, beliefs, and desires. Additionally, it
explores how humans engage in moral reasoning and causal
explanation: Are humans born good and tainted by an imperfect
world, or do we need to teach children to be moral? Could a concept
like "freedom" be woven into the human soul, or is it a historical
invention, constructed over generations of humans? Written by an
eminent list of contributors renowned in child development and
cognitive science, this book delves widely, and deeply, into the
cognitive tools available at birth that are repurposed, combined,
and transformed to complex, abstract adult conceptual
representations, and should be of interest to developmental
psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and students of cognitive
science.
Did you know that Alan Alda, Hawkeye of M*A*S*H, was an Army
gunnery officer in the Korean War? Or that gourmet cook Julia Child
served with the OSS -- the predecessor of the CIA-in World War II?
Or that Yankee Hall of Famer Yogi Berra participated in the D-Day
landing at Normandy? These, and hundreds more fascinating facts
make The Military Hall of Fame a fun-filled book that makes history
come alive in an unexpected way.
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