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![]() At the same time, his concept of a global takfiri threat as a new phenomenon in asymmetric warfare may be exaggerated. He succinctly and accurately explains how these antagonists conduct a protracted fight, one centered on provoking a disproportionate military response that alienates the local population while al-Qaeda and its allies intimidate and isolate those people from America and its allies, with the goal of “bleeding the United States to exhaustion and bankruptcy” (p. ![]() Also fundamentally sound is Kilcullen’s argument that al-Qaeda and its ilk establish a base in a poorly administered or battle-torn area incur the wrath of the United States and its allies by exporting terrorism and violence and then provoke a response that angers the locals, thus producing more allies for the takfiri cause. He offers an effective and relevant synthesis of theories of conflict in the contemporary security environment to explain how the takfiris (al-Qaeda and its Islamic jihadist terrorist allies and sympathizers) rely on what he terms the “accidental guerrilla syndrome” in fighting the United States (p. Oxford University Press, 2009, 384 pp.ĭespite some limitations, David Kilcullen’s The Accidental Guerrilla is a valuable addition to counterinsurgency (COIN) literature. ![]() The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Book One, ‘She Makes an Errant Path through the City’, inaugurates the radical possibility of the ghetto, found in forms of experimentation in which young black women engaged with one another, with intimate arrangements, and with the limits of the law. The twenty chapters that comprise Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments are divided into three books. By weaving together this cast of characters, Hartman is able to produce a narrative of rebellious practices that took shape in ghetto streets, rented rooms, and dance halls. Wells, Gladys Bentley, and Jackie Mabley – and even occupy space in the official historical accounts of the period. Other characters have names – such as Ida B. Some of these women lack names – Girl #1 ‘wanders through the streets of Philadelphia’s Seventh Ward and New York’s Tenderloin’, and ‘the Chorus’ refers to ‘all the unnamed women of the city trying to find a way to live and in search of beauty’ (p. And yet, in finding new ways to live against, under, and despite these modes of control, Hartman’s young black female visionaries enacted their freedom as a rejoinder to anti-blackness. These conditions constituted a pervasive climate of anti-blackness. ![]() They consistently found new ways to live, new ways to be alive, in the face of economic exclusion, material deprivation, racial enclosure, and social dispossession thrust upon black intimate life. Hartman’s book uncovers revolutionary potential in the everyday practices that animated the lives of these women. ![]()
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Final Crisis by Geoff Johns6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. ![]() ![]() Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. ![]()
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Mitchell albala6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() An in-depth review of variation, movement, and active negative space, with illustrations that diagram the action in each example. ![]() ![]() A full chapter details this special practice, which helps maintain harmony by organizing colors into a limited number of groups.Ĭomposition. How does the picture format-horizontal, vertical, or square-affect the composition? What are the pros and cons of each?Ĭolor Grouping. Explore this special type of compositional study, which identifies the underlying shapes and patterns of a composition. What are the three aspects of color contrast that guide a painting's strategy? ![]() Written by celebrated landscape artist, instructor, and author Mitchell Albala, this richly informative and beautifully illustrated volume leads you step by step through his approach to the genre, from establishing a composition using basic shapes to applying time-tested color strategies, with all-new lessons, practical exercises, and special topics, including: The Landscape Painter's Workbook is the definitive hands-on guide to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting. ![]()
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Mr ambrose pov storm and silence6/26/2023 ![]() Mystified and annoyed, I stomped over to the desk and grabbed it. Turning my head, I saw that another metal cylinder hand arrived on my desk. “Didn’t you hear me? I said why is the door lock-”Ī soft plink interrupted me. “What’s the matter? Why is the door locked?” “Hey!” With my free hand, I pounded against the heavy wood. A very unladylike word escaped my lips as I stumbled back, the file clutched to my chest. I reached for the doorknob, turned it – and almost ran head-long into a closed door. In no time at all I had discovered the required document and transported it to the door. Hurriedly, I stood up and marched to the shelves of files. Now that I knew it was true, I ought to feel nothing but deep satisfaction. After all, the fact that last night’s more… intimate occurrences had just been a dream had been what I had been trying to convince myself all the time. So, at a guess I’d say he wasn’t pining with passionate love for me. ![]() ![]() This will be deducted from your wages at the end of the month.Īll right. I jumped and grabbed the thing, pulling out the message. Two minutes later, a small metal container shot out of the pneumatic tube and landed with a ‘pink’ next to me on the desk. He didn’t leave me a lot of time for wondering, or for damning. ![]() A chair scraped across the door in the neighbouring room. There was a moment of silence, then a faint jingling as of coins or keys – then the footsteps turned, and retreated back to where they had come from. ![]()
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Technology of the gods david childress6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Was it hidden in the underground passages of King Solomon's temple and later discovered by the Knights Templar? Was it taken through Egypt to Ethiopia as many Coptic Christians believe? Childress looks into hidden history, astonishing ancient technology, and a 3,000-year-old mystery that continues to fascinate millions of people today. Featured in such popular movies as Raiders of the Lost Ark by Lucas and Spielberg, the Ark of the Covenant is probably the most mysterious object in the Old Testament-what was it? The Ark of the Covenant suddenly disappears from the Bible record and what happened to it is not mentioned. ![]() This object made by Moses at Mount Sinai-part wooden-metal box and part golden statue-had the power to create "lightning" to kill people, and also to fly and lead people through the wilderness. Описание: David Childress, popular author and star of the History Channel's show Ancient Aliens, takes us on an incredible journey in search of the truth about (and science behind) the fantastic Biblical artifact known as the Ark of the Covenant. ![]() Название: Ark of God: The Incredible Power of the Ark of the Covenant ![]()
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![]() ![]() Indeed, I am not sure whether I ought to call it a room at all for it was just a loft where they kept hay and straw and oats for the horses.Īnd when little Diamond–but stop: I must tell you that his father, who was a coachman, had named him after a favourite horse, and his mother had had no objection:–when little Diamond, then, lay there in bed, he could hear the horses under him munching away in the dark, or moving sleepily in their dreams. Still, this room was not very cold, except when the north wind blew stronger than usual: the room I have to do with now was always cold, except in summer, when the sun took the matter into his own hands. ![]() And then let them settle between them which was the sharper! I know that when you pulled it out again the wind would be after it like a cat after a mouse, and you would know soon enough you were not at the back of the north wind. For one side of the room was built only of boards, and the boards were so old that you might run a penknife through into the north wind. He lived in a low room over a coach-house and that was not by any means at the back of the north wind, as his mother very well knew. I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and drowned themselves. I HAVE been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. Author of “Dealings with Fairies,” “Ranald Bannerman,” etc., etc. ![]()
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A prodigal summer6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() |3 Contributor biographical information |u ![]() |a Appalachian Region, Southern |v Fiction. |a Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud. ![]() |a New York : |b HarperCollins Publishers, |c �2000. |a Prodigal summer : |b a novel / |c Barbara Kingsolver. |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d IXA |d BAKER |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d RIOSL |d BNO |d MCLSW |d LMR |d BDX |d P4I |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d DEBBG |d OCLCF |d OCLCO |d KB6 |d OCLCO |d MQ9 |d HEV ![]()
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The first tycoon cornelius vanderbilt6/25/2023 ![]() He was an unschooled fistfighter who came to command the respect of New Yorks social elite. ![]() He was a visionary who pioneered business models. Vanderbilt, Stiles shows, embraced the philosophy of the Jacksonian Democrats and withstood attacks by his conservative enemies for being too competitive. It is a sweeping, fast-moving epic, and a complex portrait of the great man. ![]() In The First Tycoon, Stiles offers the first complete, authoritative biography of this titan, and the first comprehensive account of the Commodores personal life. Stiles elegantly argues, Vanderbilt did more than perhaps any other individual to create the economic world we live in today. We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporationin fact, as T. Lincoln consulted him on steamship strategy during the Civil War Jay Gould was first his uneasy ally and then sworn enemy and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States, was his spiritual counselor. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washingtons presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nations largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. ![]() ![]() A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.įounder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius ∼ommodore Vanderbilt is an American icon. ![]()
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Tides of Torment by Elle Beaumont6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() News from the sea worsens, and knowing the Creaturae is behind the death and mayhem, Travion sets out to hunt the mysterious force wielding the book. Unsure of what to expect, she prepares for the worst, only to discover Travion is, in fact, alive. While their reunion is a fiery one, it is short-lived. But when she catches wind of the attack on Midniva and the possibility her king has perished, Sereia urges her ship and crew back to her home port. A face he never thought he would see again. Lady Sereia Ferox is the captain of a pirate ship, who left behind her life of luxury in search of freedom and adventure long ago. In an attempt to soothe the riled citizens, Travion hosts a celebration to prove to them that Midniva isn't broken. Now, he's seeking to restore his realm, but there are rumors of atrocious beasts rising from the ocean. Together they must save the middle realm. Two months have passed since Travion, ruler of Midniva, nearly met his demise during an attack on his kingdom. ![]() |