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The Art of Witnessing

Francisco de Goya’s Disasters of War

By: Michael Iarocci

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The Art of Witnessing

Francisco de Goya’s Disasters of War

By: Michael Iarocci

Widely acknowledged as a major turning point in the history of visual depictions of war, Francisco de Goya’s renowned print series The Disasters of War remains a touchstone for serious engagement with the violence of war and the questions raised by its artistic representation. The Art of Witnessing provides a new account of Goya’s print series by taking readers through the forty-seven prints he dedicated to the violence of war. Drawing on facets of Goya’s artistry rarely considered together before, the book challenges the notion that documentary realism and historical testimony were his primary aims. Michael Iarocci argues that while the depiction of war’s atrocities was central to Goya’s project, the lasting power of the print series stems from the artist’s complex moral and aesthetic meditations on the subject. Making novel contributions to longstanding debates about historical memory, testimony, and the representation of violence, The Art of Witnessing tells a new story, print by print, to highlight the ways in which Goya’s masterpiece extends far beyond conventional understandings of visual testimony.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487543794

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9781487543792

Dying to Learn

Wartime Lessons from the Western Front

By: Michael A. Hunzeker

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Dying to Learn

Wartime Lessons from the Western Front

By: Michael A. Hunzeker

In Dying to Learn, Michael Hunzeker develops a novel theory to explain how wartime militaries learn. He focuses on the Western Front, which witnessed three great-power armies struggle to cope with deadlock throughout the First World War, as the British, French, and German armies all pursued the same solutions-assault tactics, combined arms, and elastic defense in depth. By the end of the war, only the German army managed to develop and implement a set of revolutionary offensive, defensive, and combined arms doctrines that in hindsight represented the best way to fight. Hunzeker identifies three organizational variables that determine how fighting militaries generate new ideas, distinguish good ones from bad ones, and implement the best of them across the entire organization. These factors are: the degree to which leadership delegates authority on the battlefield; how effectively the organization retains control over soldier and officer training; and whether or not the military possesses an independent doctrinal assessment mechanism. Through careful study of the British, French, and German experiences in the First World War, Dying to Learn provides a model that shows how a resolute focus on analysis, command, and training can help prepare modern militaries for adapting amidst high-intensity warfare in an age of revolutionary technological change.

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Cornell University Press

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1501758470

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9781501758478

The Promise of Religious Naturalism

By: Michael S. Hogue

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The Promise of Religious Naturalism

By: Michael S. Hogue

The Promise of Religious Naturalism explores religious naturalism as a distinctly promising form of contemporary religious ethics. Examining how religious naturalism responds to the challenges of recent religious transformations and ecological peril worldwide, author Michael Hogue argues that religious naturalism is emerging as an increasingly plausible and potentially rewarding form of religious moral life. Beginning with an introduction of religious naturalism in the larger context of religious and ethical theories, the book undertakes the first extended study of the works of religious naturalists Loyal Rue, Donald Crosby, Jerome Stone, and Ursula Goodenough. Hogue pays particular attention to the ethical components of religious naturalism in relation to religious pluralism and ecological issues.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442205954

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9781442205956

Napoleon

By: Michael Broers

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Napoleon

By: Michael Broers

Like volume one of Michael Broers’s magnificent biography, The Spirit of the Age is based on the new version of Napoleon’s correspondence, made available by the Fondation Napoléon in Paris. It is the story of Napoleon’s conquest of Europe—and that of his magnificent Grande Armée—as they sweep through the length and breadth of Europe. This narrative opens with Napoleon’s as yet untested army making its way through the Bavarian Alps in the early winter of 1805 to fall upon the unsuspecting Austrians and Russians at Austerlitz. This was only the beginning of a series of spectacular victories over the Prussians and Russians over the next two years. The chronicle then follows the army into Spain, in 1808, the most ill-considered step in Napoleon’s career as ruler, and then through the most daunting triumph of all, the final defeat of Austria at Wagram, in 1809, the bloodiest battle in European history up to that time.

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Simon and Schuster

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1681777258

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The Telling Room

A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese

By: Michael Paterniti

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The Telling Room

A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese

By: Michael Paterniti

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Entertainment Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • The Christian Science Monitor In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone chamber known as “the telling room.” Containing nothing but a wooden table and two benches, this is where villagers have gathered for centuries to share their stories and secrets—usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a larger-than-life Spanish cheesemaker named Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras as he spun an odd and compelling tale about a piece of cheese. An unusual piece of cheese. Made from an old family recipe, Ambrosio’s cheese was reputed to be among the finest in the world, and was said to hold mystical qualities. Eating it, some claimed, conjured long-lost memories. But then, Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly wrong. . . . By the time the two men exited the telling room that evening, Paterniti was hooked. Soon he was fully embroiled in village life, relocating his young family to Guzmán in order to chase the truth about this cheese and explore the fairy tale–like place where the villagers conversed with farm animals, lived by an ancient Castilian code of honor, and made their wine and food by hand, from the grapes growing on a nearby hill and the flocks of sheep floating over the Meseta. What Paterniti ultimately discovers there in the highlands of Castile is nothing like the idyllic slow-food fable he first imagined. Instead, he’s sucked into the heart of an unfolding mystery, a blood feud that includes accusations of betrayal and theft, death threats, and a murder plot. As the village begins to spill its long-held secrets, Paterniti finds himself implicated in the very story he is writing. Equal parts mystery and memoir, travelogue and history, The Telling Room is an astonishing work of literary nonfiction by one of our most accomplished storytellers. A moving exploration of happiness, friendship, and betrayal, The Telling Room introduces us to Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras, an unforgettable real-life literary hero, while also holding a mirror up to the world, fully alive to the power of stories that define and sustain us. Praise for The Telling Room “Captivating . . . Paterniti’s writing sings, whether he’s talking about how food activates memory, or the joys of watching his children grow.”—NPR

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Dial Press

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081299454X

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The Weeping Woman

By: Michael Kilian

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The Weeping Woman

By: Michael Kilian

First in the historical mystery series featuring a sophisticated sleuth in Jazz Age Greenwich Village! Everyone who’s anyone in 1920s New York knows Bedford Green. Once a merciless gossip columnist, he has given up the life of sleaze and secrets and decamped for the Village—to open a gritty little art gallery showcasing the most shocking European artists imaginable. The gallery is a money pit, and Green is in debt to some of the roughest loan sharks south of 14th Street, but that doesn’t stop him from looking fabulous or having a good time. He’s happy hanging around Manhattan society—at least until his assistant starts to cry. Sloane is a modern woman, a flapper with a razor-sharp bob and a bulletproof heart, but she’s convinced that her friend Polly Swanscott is in danger. From the speakeasies of the Village to the finest cafes in Paris, Green will do his best to save Polly—and he’ll do it with a cocktail in hand . . . The Weeping Woman is the first book in the Bedford Green Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Open Road Media

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1504020111

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9781504020114

Art, Power, and Politics

Political Storytelling in Paintings, Music, and Movies

By: Michael A. Genovese

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Art, Power, and Politics

Political Storytelling in Paintings, Music, and Movies

By: Michael A. Genovese

Stories matter. Stories help us digest information, make sense of our world, understand ourselves and remember. This book takes political storytelling seriously. It examines stories as presented in paintings, music, and Films. and concludes with commentary designed to make sense of the role of political stories in our lives.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666940623

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Handbook of the River Plate Republics. Comprising Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Argentine Republic and the Republics of Uruguay and Paraguay

By: Michael George Mulhall,Edward T. Mulhall

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Handbook of the River Plate Republics. Comprising Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Argentine Republic and the Republics of Uruguay and Paraguay

By: Michael George Mulhall,Edward T. Mulhall

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385373719

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9783385373716

Sir Thomas Lawrence

By: Michael Levey

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Sir Thomas Lawrence

By: Michael Levey

Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was the most gifted and successful British portrait painter in the generation following Gainsborough and Reynolds, and his pre-eminence was publicly confirmed when he was elected President of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1820 ... This book is the first sustained study of the work of Lawrence to be published for many years ..."--Inside front cover jacket.

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Yale University Press

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0300109989

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9780300109986

The Benevolent Dictator

Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition

By: Michael Feuer

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The Benevolent Dictator

Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition

By: Michael Feuer

An unconventional philosophy for starting and building a business that exceeds your own expectations What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? The Benevolent Dictator recognizes that entrepreneurship is a gauntlet. Those who succeed are benevolent dictators—able to make the intricate process happen in days, weeks and months to win. The Benevolent Dictator gives you no-nonsense how-to advice and examples that have worked. This non-traditional, gung-ho guide is not afraid to lay out the leadership methods that can effectively get a new business off the ground, and through the requisite fast-track growth phases that produce tangible success measured by your bottom line and your wallet. Learn critical specifics on how to move from idea development to build-out, through steps for continuous improvement, and on to the big cash out Features proven tools, strategies, and tactics that will help you bottle entrepreneurial lightning over and over again As the cofounder of office retail giant OfficeMax, the author turned a $3 million investment into a $1.5 billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy. For those times when you need an iron hand, then you also need the wisdom to know when and how to use it. Whether you're a business student, aspiring entrepreneur, or a practicing executive, you need to discover the winning ways of The Benevolent Dictator.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119089743

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9781119089742

Comedy Collection

London Underground Stations; the Time Diaries; the Messiah Files; and Other Surreal, Satirical, and Comic Short Stories.

By: Michael Braham Gerstein

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Comedy Collection

London Underground Stations; the Time Diaries; the Messiah Files; and Other Surreal, Satirical, and Comic Short Stories.

By: Michael Braham Gerstein

The Comedy Collection of Michael Braham Gerstein is a variety of humorous stories and subjects. Michael’s prose shows the versatility of his imagination and the special brand of his zany humour. Ideal as a bedside companion.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1984593455

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9781984593450

DK Eyewitness Madrid

By: Michael Leapman

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DK Eyewitness Madrid

By: Michael Leapman

Now available in PDF format. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Madrid will lead you straight to the best attractions this city has to offer. The guide includes unique illustrated cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of major architectural sights, plus a city map clearly marked with attractions from the guidebook and an easy-to-use street index. DK's insider travel tips and essential local information will help you discover the best of this city in Spain, from local festivals and markets to day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets, while transportation maps and a chart showing the walking distances between sights will help you get around the city. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that brighten every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Madrid truly shows you this city as no one else can.

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Penguin

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0756670942

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9780756670948

A Profile of Jonathan Miller

By: Michael Romain

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A Profile of Jonathan Miller

By: Michael Romain

An exploration of the career of the important and prolific theatre director Jonathan Miller.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521409535

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9780521409537

The Fool of New York City

A Novel

By: Michael D. O'Brien

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The Fool of New York City

A Novel

By: Michael D. O'Brien

Set in present day Manhattan, The Fool of New York City is the tale of two souls who are considered to be "fools" and "idiots" in the eyes of most people they encounter. One is a literal giant, the other an amnesiac who believes he is the seventeenth-century Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, hundreds of years old, aging more slowly than the rest of the human race. Billy the giant briefly suffered from amnesia years ago, and he understands the anguish of those who have lost their identity. He is an apparently simple person, a failed basketball player with an enormous good heart, who takes Francisco under his wing after they meet through a seeming coincidence. Together they undertake the search to discover Francisco's true past. The quest leads them on numerous adventures and into the shrouded realm of hidden memories and the mysterious dimensions of the mind. It is a journey into the ironies and the complexities of human character and destiny.

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Ignatius Press

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1681497131

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9781681497136

The San Francisco Renaissance

Poetics and Community at Mid-Century

By: Michael Davidson

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The San Francisco Renaissance

Poetics and Community at Mid-Century

By: Michael Davidson

The San Francisco Renaissance is the first review of this major American literary movement.

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Cambridge University Press

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052142304X

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Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft

By: Jonathan Bryan Durrant,Michael David Bailey

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Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft

By: Jonathan Bryan Durrant,Michael David Bailey

Covers the history of witchcraft from 1750 B.C.E. though the modern day. Includes a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography featuring cross-referenced entries on witch hunts, witchcraft trials, and related practices around the world.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810872455

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9780810872455

Songbird

A Novel

By: Michael Polowetzky

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Songbird

A Novel

By: Michael Polowetzky

All these nasty things were going on in my own country, Mme. Castellane! elaborated the protg moments later, appalled by revelations read in La Croix about the authoritarian domestic policy long implemented by her native lands former government. One which she, like it or not, as daughter of the minister of defense, engaged to the premier was an ancillary member too. I didnt know any of this was happening. And right under my nose too! Well, if I wasnt nave, I was awesome, really awesomeuninformed!

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1524573744

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Public Characters

The Politics of Reputation and Blame

By: James M. Jasper,Michael P. Young,Elke Zuern

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Public Characters

The Politics of Reputation and Blame

By: James M. Jasper,Michael P. Young,Elke Zuern

Heroes, villains, victims, and minions are more important than ever before in our politics and culture. In the era of television, Twitter, and Facebook, groups and individuals constantly battle over their reputations. One of the best ways to gain power is to persuade others that you are competent, courageous, and benevolent, while your opponents are none of these. Thus, character work consists of more than simple claims of fact; societies build their solidarity and policies out of admiration for heroes but also outrage over villains. Recent political analysis has ignored the great characters of the past in favor of frames, heuristics, codes, and identities. In Public Characters, James M. Jasper, Michael P. Young, and Elke Zuern argue that character, reputation, and images matter in politics, and social life more generally, as they help mobilize people and their passions. First, they focus on the political construction of openly constructed and debated public characters to show how we can allocate praise and blame, identify social problems, cement identities and allegiances, develop policies, and articulate our moral intuitions through them. The authors demonstrate the nuances of characters and their interactions across a range of sources-including Shakespeare, Game of Thrones, Renaissance sculpture, modern comic books, Alexander the Great, and Bernie Madoff-all the while showing how public characters are used in political rhetoric. Finally, they complicate these characters by considering their transformations: when victims manage to become heroes and the way traditional moral characters have evolved over time to correspond with what different cultures admire, detest, or pity. This rich, detailed, and wide-ranging analysis of personal images and reputation marks a timely and crucial contribution for sociologists and political scientists concerned with the cultural dimensions of political life.

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Oxford University Press

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0190050055

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9780190050054

Manet's Modernism

Or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s

By: Michael Fried

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Manet's Modernism

Or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s

By: Michael Fried

Fried put forward a highly original, beholder-centered account of the evolution of a central tradition in French painting from Chardin to Courbet."--P. [4] of cover.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226262162

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9780226262161

Juan Muñoz: Seven Rooms

By: Juan Muñoz,Siri Hustvedt,Guillaume Kientz,Maurizio Cattelan

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Juan Muñoz: Seven Rooms

By: Juan Muñoz,Siri Hustvedt,Guillaume Kientz,Maurizio Cattelan

A comprehensive look into the fascinating life and enduring legacy of Juan Muñoz and his enigmatic installations “Walking between these figures feels like an interruption; being a spectator is itself a performance. They seem to know more than we do, about the status of being an artwork and the place of the viewer. The joke, if there is one, is on us.” —The Guardian Muñoz’s revolutionary oeuvre evokes emotional narratives through sculpture, installation, drawing, writing, and sound. Situating viewers between his work and among one another, he creates an intimacy between art and its audience. Muñoz thought deeply about art history and, in particular, the tradition of Spanish painting. Before his untimely death at the age of forty-eight, he produced an extensive, powerfully evocative body of work that uniquely explores the narrative and philosophical possibilities of art. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in 2022, this catalogue provides an expansive overview of Muñoz’s career from the 1980s onward. In an accompanying text, the art historian and curator Guillaume Kientz contextualizes Muñoz’s influences within the art-historical canon. The acclaimed writer Siri Hustvedt contributes a thoughtful response to the artist’s iconic Conversation Piece. In an imagined interview between Muñoz and himself, Maurizio Cattelan further propels the artist’s momentum and potential in the time before his death. Also featured is a never-before-published interview between Muñoz and the art historian Michael Brenson that took place in 2000.

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Simon and Schuster

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1644230895

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Dark Times

A Lockdown and a Call to Arms

By: Michael J. Lewinski

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Dark Times

A Lockdown and a Call to Arms

By: Michael J. Lewinski

Dark Times: A Lockdown and a Call to Arms is a historical political thriller that explores an American revolution that broke out during a once in a hundred years pandemic that killed more than four hundred thousand Americans. As a trained historian, he explains the dynamic involved in the complicated event which has everybody on pins and needles. He articulates the frustration and fear people experience during this pandemic. He explores the sick ideology of Antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement that is attempting to destroy the American way of life. These are Communist groups who reject the middle-class way of life. They want to do away with the nuclear family and reject hard work and initiative. He also looks at the actions Tea Party groups took to fight back against the pandemic lockdown and ridiculous mask mandate for everyone. They believed only the older and immune comprised people needed masks. As you read through this account, you will be able to feel the pain and joy the characters experience as the story unfolds. The author tells a hopeful story about America and the American people's future. He shows the ups and downs of families' lives during this very troubling period of our history. You will have a hard time putting this book down as he quickly goes from one family story to the next one. We highly recommend this tale as we are moving through the revolution we are presently experiencing.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1098081439

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9781098081430

Michaël Borremans: Fire from the Sun

By: Michael Borremans

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Michaël Borremans: Fire from the Sun

By: Michael Borremans

The first in a series of small-format publications devoted to single bodies of work, Fire from the Sun highlights Michaël Borremans’s new work, which features toddlers engaged in playful but mysterious acts with sinister overtones and insinuations of violence. Known for his ability to recall classical painting, both through technical mastery and subject matter, Borremans’s depiction of the uncanny, the perhaps secret, the bizarre, often surprises, sometimes disturbs the viewer. In this series of work, children are presented alone or in groups against a studio-like backdrop that negates time and space, while underlining the theatrical atmosphere and artifice that exists throughout Borremans’s recent work. Reminiscent of cherubs in Renaissance paintings, the toddlers appear as allegories of the human condition, their archetypal innocence contrasted with their suggested deviousness. In his accompanying essay, critic and curator Michael Bracewell takes an in-depth look into specific paintings, tackling both the highly charged subject matter and the masterly command of the medium. He writes, “The art of Michaël Borremans seems always to have been predicated on a confluence of enigma, ambiguity, and painterly poetics—accosting beauty with strangeness; making historic Romanticism subjugate to mysterious controlling forces that are neither crudely malevolent nor necessarily benign.” Published on the occasion of Borremans’s eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner in Hong Kong, this publication is available in both English-only and bilingual English/traditional Chinese editions.

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David Zwirner Books

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1941701833

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9781941701836

The Second Battle of the Marne

By: Michael S. Neiberg

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The Second Battle of the Marne

By: Michael S. Neiberg

The First Battle of the Marne produced the so-called Miracle of the Marne, when French and British forces stopped the initial German drive on Paris in 1914. Hundreds of thousands of casualties later, with opposing forces still dug into trench lines, the Germans tried again to push their way to Paris and to victory. The Second Battle of the Marne (July 15 to August 9, 1918) marks the point at which the Allied armies stopped the massive German Ludendorff Offensives and turned to offensive operations themselves. The Germans never again came as close to Paris nor resumed the offensive. The battle was one of the first large multinational battles fought by the Allies since the assumption of supreme command by French general Ferdinand Foch. It marks the only time the French, American, and British forces fought together in one battle. A superb account of the bloody events of those fateful days, this book sheds new light on a critically important 20th-century battle.

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Indiana University Press

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0253003547

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9780253003546

A Time to Every Purpose

The Four Seasons in American Culture

By: Michael Kammen

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A Time to Every Purpose

The Four Seasons in American Culture

By: Michael Kammen

In artworks from a mosaic by Marc Chagall to schoolchildren's paintings, in writings from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Annie Dillard, and in diverse print sources from family genealogical registers to seed catalogs, the four seasons appear and reappear as a theme in American culture. In this richly illustrated book, Michael Kammen traces the appeal of the four seasons motif in American popular culture and fine arts from the seventeenth century to the present. Its symbolism has evolved through the years, Kammen explains, serving as a metaphor for the human life cycle or religious faith, expressing nostalgia for rural life, and sometimes praising seasonal beauty in the diverse American landscape as the most spectacular in the world. Kammen also highlights artists' and writers' shift in attention from the glories of seasonal peaks to the dynamics of seasonal transitions as American life continued to accelerate and change through the twentieth century. Few symbols have been as pervasive, meaningful, and symptomatic in the human experience as the four seasons, and as Kammen shows, in its American context the annual cycle has been an abundant and abiding source of inspiration in the nation's cultural history.

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UNC Press Books

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1469626020

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9781469626024

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