Painting has played a significant role in modern Vietnam. Postage stamps, billboards, and annual national exhibitions attest to its fundamental place in a country where painters may be hailed as national heroes and include among their number fervent nationalists, propagandists, even dissidents. As Vietnamese painting has gained prominence in the contemporary transnational art circuits of Southeast Asia, many artists have become millionaires, yet Vietnamese painting is generally overlooked in art history surveys of the region. Nora Taylor sets out here to change that. Painters in Hanoi engages with twentieth-century Vietnam through its artists and their works, providing a new angle on a country most often portrayed through the lens of war and politics. Drawing on interviews with artists, cultural officers, curators, art critics, and others in Hanoi, Taylor surveys the impact artists have had on intellectual life in Vietnam. The book shows them within their own complex community, one fraught with tensions, politicking, and favoritism, yet also a sense of belonging. It describes their education, the role of the government in the arts, the rise and fall of individual artists, their influence as active players in the politics of place and gender, the audience for their work, and how tourism and the international art market have influenced it.
A rollicking, unforgettable romance about two strangers finding love despite their best efforts as they embark on a sweeping matchmaking tour through Việt Nam, perfect for readers of Carley Fortune and Abby Jimenez. What’s a few weeks to a lifetime of promise? Evie Lang’s life is in shambles. On the heels of losing her beloved aunt, she's unceremoniously fired from her poetry professorship by her secret boyfriend. Lacking income and inspiration, she's stuck in Ohio with no idea how to move forward—until hope arrives in a surprising letter. Auntie Hảo left Evie the deed to her San Francisco row house, a place full of Evie’s happiest memories. The catch? To inherit, she must go on a pre-arranged matchmaking tour in Việt Nam. The last thing Evie wants is to spend time with a group of strangers looking for love. But she can't resist the chance to finally visit her family’s native home. A world away, Adam Quyền has a chip on his shoulder. He’s working around the clock as CMO for his sister’s elite matchmaking business, a job complicated by her insistence that he knows nothing about love. He’s desperate to prove himself, so when she challenges him to join the inaugural tour, he reluctantly agrees. Adam thinks Evie is chaotic and unpredictable. Evie thinks Adam is grumpy and uptight. But from the bustling streets of Hồ Chí Minh City to the soaring waterfalls in Đà Lạt, they keep getting thrown together, their animosity charged with attraction…and they discover that true love may be out there, if they are willing to take a leap. Two stubborn hearts, one whirlwind adventure, Adam & Evie’s Matchmaking Tour is a story of how loving (and living) bravely can lead you to the most unexpected places—and the most imperfectly perfect loves.
As global health institutions and aid donors expanded HIV treatment throughout Africa, they rapidly "scaled up" programs, projects, and organizations meant to address HIV and AIDS. Yet these efforts did not simply have biological effects: in addition to extending lives and preventing further infections, treatment scale-up initiated remarkable political and social shifts. In Lesotho, which has the world's second highest HIV prevalence, HIV treatment has had unintentional but pervasive political costs, distancing citizens from the government, fostering distrust of health programs, and disrupting the social contract. Based on ethnographic observation between 2008 and 2014, this book chillingly anticipates the political violence and instability that swept through Lesotho in 2014. This book is a recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of medicine.
Author of the popular Primal Body, Primal Mind and widely recognized Paleo expert and nutritionist Nora Gedgaudas presents a revolutionary and accessible high-fat diet for maintaining health, losing weight, and reversing some chronic diseases. Popular nutritionist Nora Gedgaudas returns with advice that may sound counterintuitive: Eat fat to burn fat. In Primal Fat Burner, she explains the benefits and science behind a ketogenic (or fat-burning) diet, which switches your metabolism from a dependence on sugar to running on healthy fats. As Gedgaudas reveals, numerous studies in recent years refute the long-promoted anti-saturated fat and anti-cholesterol agenda. Now, “with able, funny writing” (Booklist), Gedgaudas explains the science that fat isn’t always a bad thing—if you know the right kinds of fats to eat. In her comprehensible, enjoyable style, she also lays out a practical meal plan with recipes. Author of the bestselling Grain Brain, Dr. David Perlmutter writes in his foreword that Primal Fat Burner is, “Wonderfully actionable, compassionately taking the reader from ‘why’ to ‘how.’” On this diet, you efficiently and effectively metabolize fat (ketones and free fatty acids) as your primary source of fuel, rather than glucose from carbs, starches, and sugars. Because fat is so satisfying, you naturally wind up eating less—without feelings of hunger or deprivation. And natural dietary fat is ultimately the key to feeling better, looking better, thinking clearer, and living longer. Discover all this and more healthy tips in one of the most groundbreaking nutritional books in recent time.
Between 1967 and 2000, film production in Germany underwent a number of significant transformations, including the birth and death of New German Cinema as well as the emergence of a new transnational cinematic practice. In Projecting History, Nora M. Alter explores the relationship between German cinematic practice and the student protests in both East and West Germany against the backdrop of the U.S. war in Vietnam in the sixties, the outbreak of terrorism in West Germany in the seventies, West Germany's rise as a significant global power in the eighties, and German reunification in the nineties. Although a central tendency of New German Cinema in the 1970s was to reduce the nation's history to the product of individuals, the films addressed in Projecting History focus not on individual protagonists, but on complex socioeconomic structures. The films, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Harun Farocki, Alexander Kluge, Ulrike Ottinger, Wim Wenders and others, address basic problems of German history, including its overall "peculiarity" within the European context, and, in particular, the specific ways in which the National Socialist legacy continues to haunt Germans. Nora M. Alter is Associate Professor of German, Film and Media Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Florida. A specialist in twentieth-century film, comparative literature, and cultural studies, Alter has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a Howard Foundation Fellowship. She is also the author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage.
Maritime travelers and tillers of the soil: reading the landscape(s) of Batur / Kaja McGowan -- More than a picture: the instrumental quality of the shadow puppet / Jan Mrz̀ek -- Modern Indonesian ceramic art / Hilda Soemantri -- Memories of a ceramic expert / Barbara Harrisson -- Lucia Hartini, Javanese painter: against the grain, towards herself / Astri Wright -- In the image of the king: two photographs from nineteenth-century Siam / Caverlee Cary -- Whose art are we studying? writing Vietnamese art history from colonialism to the present / Nora A. Taylor -- Telling lives: narrative allegory on a Burmese silver bowl / Robert S. Wicks -- Development of Buddhist traditions in peninsular Thailand: a study based on votive tablets (seventh to eleventh centuries) / M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati -- Chinese ceramics and local cultural statements in fourteenth-century southeast Asia / John N. Miksic -- Buddhism and the Pre-Islamic archaeology of Kutei in the Mahakam Valley of east Kalimantan / E. Edwards McKinnon.
The maverick filmmaker's personal and political relationships with film Best known in the United States for his visionary short film La Jetée, Chris Marker spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague scene in the late 1950s. His distinctive style and use of still images place him among the postwar era's most influential European filmmakers. His fearless political cinema, meanwhile, provided a bold model for other activist filmmakers. Nora M. Alter investigates the core themes and motivations behind an unpredictable and transnational career that defies easy classification. A photographer, multimedia artist, writer, broadcaster, producer, and organizer, Marker cultivated an artistic dynamism and always-changing identity. ""I am an essayist,"" Marker once said, and his 1953 debut filmic essay The Statues Also Die (with Alain Resnais) exposed the European art market's complicity in atrocities in the former Belgian Congo. Ranging geographically as well as artistically, Marker's travels led to films like the classic Sans Soleil and Sunday in Peking. His decades-long struggle against global injustice involved him with Night and Fog, Le Joli Mai, Far from Vietnam, Le fond du l'air est Rouge, and Prime Time in the Camps. Insightful and revealing, Chris Marker includes interviews with the notoriously private director.
A meatball is a food that defines itself: it's literally a ball of meat. But before you start scooping clumps of ground beef into a frying pan and calling your sad dinner "meatballs," let's take a step back. Learn how to make easy meatballs yourself at home and cook them so that they're perfectly browned on the outside but still juicy in the middle. Here are some tricks and tips for perfect meatballs: The Ground Meat You can use any ground meat or mix of ground meat you like. The fans favourite is a blend of ground beef and pork. Ground lamb, turkey, chicken, veal, or buffalo are all also fair game. Breadcrumb & Milk Binder One trick to making sure meatballs are totally tender once they're cooked is to use a binder. This binder helps add moisture to the meatballs and also prevents the meat proteins from shrinking and becoming tough. Avoid Overworking the Meat Another trick to tender meatballs is not overworking the meat - mix the meat with the binder and other Ingredients just until they're combined. Roasting vs. Simmering the Meatballs You have two options: roasting them or simmering them in a sauce. Roasting is the best option if you're planning on serving the meatballs in something other than a sauce or if you're planning to freeze the meatballs for later. Roasting also gives the meatballs a little more flavour since the outside sears in the heat of the oven. If you're planning on serving the meatballs with a sauce, you can also cook the meatballs right along with the sauce. Not only does this gentle simmering make some of the most tender and most flavourful meatballs you've ever had, but the sauce also becomes richer and more savoury in the process
Painting has played a significant role in modern Vietnam. Postage stamps, billboards, and annual national exhibitions attest to its fundamental place in a country where painters may be hailed as national heroes and include among their number fervent nationalists, propagandists, even dissidents. As Vietnamese painting has gained prominence in the contemporary transnational art circuits of Southeast Asia, many artists have become millionaires, yet Vietnamese painting is generally overlooked in art history surveys of the region. Nora Taylor sets out here to change that. Painters in Hanoi engages with twentieth-century Vietnam through its artists and their works, providing a new angle on a country most often portrayed through the lens of war and politics. Drawing on interviews with artists, cultural officers, curators, art critics, and others in Hanoi, Taylor surveys the impact artists have had on intellectual life in Vietnam. The book shows them within their own complex community, one fraught with tensions, politicking, and favoritism, yet also a sense of belonging. It describes their education, the role of the government in the arts, the rise and fall of individual artists, their influence as active players in the politics of place and gender, the audience for their work, and how tourism and the international art market have influenced it.
De Calhoun Saga De Towers, het grote oude familiehuis met de prachtige tuin waarin je zo heerlijk kunt dwalen, is al generaties lang het hart van de familie Calhoun. Voor de kordate Catherine - in de wandeling C.C. genoemd - die zeer tegen de zin van hun tante Coco een garage runt. Voor de koppige, praktische Amanda, die voor alles wel een lijstje heeft. Voor Lilah, de dromer, gevoelig voor stemmingen en intuïtief. En voor Suzanna, de oudste van de vier, die er met haar twee kinderen woont. Geen van hen zou er ook maar aan denken om afstand te doen van het huis, ook al moet er nog zoveel aan gebeuren en hebben ze daar het geld helemaal niet voor. Alleen tante Coco denkt er anders over, en dat zorgt voor de nodige problemen. Te beginnen met de komst van een zekere Trenton St. James III, die zijn zinnen op de Towers heeft gezet... Deel 2 Al de hele dag rent Amanda Calhoun van hot naar her om een waslijst van klusjes af te werken. Helaas zit alles tegen, en dat terwijl ze nog een heleboel moet organiseren voor de bruiloft van haar zus Catherine. In gedachten al druk met de volgende taak, loopt ze een boetiek uit en botst tegen een grote man op. Al haar aankopen belanden op de grond. Gehurkt grist ze haar spullen bij elkaar, kordaat zijn hulp afslaand en een gesprekje in de kiem smorend. Wanneer ze opkijkt en haar blik van zijn cowboylaarzen naar zijn twinkelende ogen glijdt, gebeurt er iets wonderlijks: haar hart begint razendsnel te slaan. Snel maakt ze zich uit de voeten, alweer op weg naar het volgende karwei. Tot haar grote verbazing staat hij nog geen uur later bij haar op de stoep, met dezelfde uitdagende grijns op zijn - hinderlijk knappe - gezicht... Dit verhaal is ook verkrijgbaar in een e-bundel met de complete miniserie.
Pairando sobre a costa rochosa do Maine, As Torres, a antiga mansão das Calhoun, se erguia majestosa. Lar de intrigas e amores perdidos, lá estavam escondidas as famosas e inestimáveis esmeraldas de Bianca Calhoun, cuja morte prematura ainda exercia influência sobre suas descendentes. Suzanna e suas irmãs, netas de Bianca, estão determinadas a encontrar as joias, escondidas havia décadas em algum lugar da propriedade. O colar e os brincos eram a chave para desvendar o perigoso mistério que as ameaçava havia tanto tempo. E, para Suzanna, as pedras significavam ainda mais - eram o elo com um homem cujo passado estava enredado ao seu de um modo que mal começara a compreender.
Declan Fitzgerald est attiré par une force irrépressible vers Manet Hall, un vieux manoir auquel il souhaite rendre la splendeur d’antan. Or, très vite, il comprend que cette demeure perdue au coeur du bayou est hantée. Au milieu de ces eaux dormantes, il fait la connaissance de la sublime Angelina Simone. Est-ce une réelle rencontre ou les simples retrouvailles d’un passé séculaire ? Pour élucider le mystère des lieux et comprendre qui sont les fantômes qui s’y cachent, il devra faire preuve de courage mais aussi compter sur l’aide d’Angelina...
Alle kinderen en kleinkinderen van Daniel MacGregor krijgen te maken met de liefdevolle bemoeizucht van hun temperamentvolle stamvader. Hij wil hen namelijk net zo gelukkig zien als hij al jaren met zijn Anna is... Preston McQuinn wil rust - om te werken en om alleen te zijn met zijn sombere herinneringen. Zijn altijd even vrolijke buurvrouw Cybil Campbell is echter niet van plan hem die rust te gunnen! Dit verhaal is ook verkrijgbaar in een e-bundel met de complete miniserie.
Star incontestée de la littérature féminine, Nora Roberts a déjà conquis des millions de lecteurs dans le monde. Dans la torpeur du Sud profond, une envoûtante saga et une surprenante histoire d'amour avec pour seul témoin d'un drame passé une mystérieuse demeure... Tout près de La Nouvelle-Orléans, Manet Hall, une grande propriété au milieu des marais sur laquelle courent les rumeurs les plus folles. Certains soirs, quand la lune est voilée et que le vent se lève, des voix résonnent, des portes claquent, on jurerait entendre de lugubres plaintes. Personne ne songerait à s'y installer. Sauf Declan Fitzgerald, jeune et brillant avocat d'affaires, qui a toujours été irrésistiblement attiré par l'impressionnante bâtisse. Lui-même a du mal à s'expliquer son obsession : une force mystérieuse le ramène invariablement en ces lieux, et vers Angelina Simone, sa troublante voisine, dont il tombe passionnément amoureux. Mais, pour briser le sort qui s'acharne sur les habitants de la maison depuis des générations et espérer vivre heureux entre ses murs, Declan et Angelina devront percer le secret de Manet Hall, un secret aussi sombre et terrifiant que le bayou qui l'entoure...
Alle kinderen en kleinkinderen van Daniel MacGregor krijgen te maken met de liefdevolle bemoeizucht van hun temperamentvolle stamvader. Hij wil hen namelijk net zo gelukkig zien als hij al jaren met zijn Anna is... Als blackjack-dealer op een cruiseschip heeft Serena MacGregor wat ze wil: afwisseling en vrijheid. Aan trouwen en kinderen is ze nog lang niet toe. Beroepsgokker Justin Blade is dat al evenmin. De enige vrouw in zíjn leven is vrouwe Fortuna. Vader MacGregor besluit het lot echter een handje te helpen. Wanneer Serena en Justin elkaar ontmoeten, zijn de kaarten geschud, al is geen van beiden zich dat bewust... Dit verhaal is ook verkrijgbaar in een e-bundel met de complete miniserie.
Nesta nova trilogia sobre o mundo encantado das fadas e o poder do coração, a autora apresenta as mágicas colinas da Irlanda. Jude Murray refugia-se em Faerie Hill Cottage para se dedicar ao estudo do folclore Irlandês. Aidan Gallagher, profundo conhecedor dos mitos de seu país, volta à Irlanda após anos viajando pelo mundo. Quando encontra Jude, ele começa a partilhar as lendas de sua terra com ela, enquanto criam a sua própria história de amor.
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