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An indispensable resource for those interested in the scourge of mass murder and genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries, this book analyzes modern and contemporary controversies and issues to help readers to understand genocide in all its complexity.This vital reference work looks at current areas of debate in genocide studies to provide insights into what a genocide is, why genocides occur, and what the consequences are once a genocide is recognized as such. It also illuminates how and why rational people can view the same set of circumstances as genocide or not, and how it might be possible in the future to alleviate or even prevent genocide. Dozens of accomplished scholars provide perceptive insights into the controversies and issues that dominate genocide discussions.The book is organized into five parts. The first considers how genocide is defined, while the second covers the pre-1945 period as it includes such controversial topics as the American Indian Wars, Australian Aborigines, Irish Potato Famine, Armenian Genocide, Ukrainian Starvation, and Holocaust. A Cold War section examines genocidal violence in Cambodia, East Timor, and Guatemala and against the Kurds; a post-Cold War period section covers Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur, and the Rohingya in Myanmar. The final part concerns such issues as genocide prevention, humanitarian intervention, and the role of military personnel as perpetrators of genocide.

"A New York Times diplomatic correspondent reflects on returning to his family's homeland and unraveling their complicated past. Wong, whose father immigrated from China in 1967, grew up in Washington, D.C., knowing little about his family's lives in China and how his father made the decision to come to America. Stationed in Beijing for the Times from 2008 to 2016, the author, an expert journalist, learned more about his father's convoluted life journey, which is the primary focus of this fascinating, ambitiously textured narrative. His father's parents were Cantonese merchants who "moved effortlessly between Hong Kong, with all its trappings of imperial Britain, and the subtropical countryside of neighboring Guangdong Province in China." The author's father endured Japanese occupation and saw his older brother, Sam, depart to America on the eve of the communist takeover. He ventured north to Beijing Agricultural University and embraced the ideals of the new communist leadership. Promised a career at the air force academy in Harbin as the Korean War broke out, he was rerouted to the remote region of Xinjiang, where he spent "six years in hard postings...in places most Chinese citizens feared going." With the Great Leap Forward, widespread famine emerged, and he began to question the party's leadership and to plot his journey to join Sam in America. First, he went to Hong Kong, "a significant step away from the bleak future that awaited...if he stayed under the Communist system." The author chronicles his other visits to China--e.g., his 2023 trip to Beijing accompanying Secretary of State Antony Blinken--and he closes with an account of his time in Hong Kong in 2019, as violent protests were breaking out just before the stringent antidemocratic National Security Law was passed. Throughout, Wong capably interweaves intimate details with broader truths. A well-written, multilayered work of poignant familial memories and personal reflection."--Provided by publisher.

You Can Do Better: 12 Ways to be a Better You, is a unique children's motivational chapter book. This book helps your child be the best person they can be.

Two of the most important voices in art history discuss their intellectual foundations, the changing role of criticism, and the possibilities for artistic practice today.In Exit Interview, the prominent art critics and historians Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh discuss their intellectual foundations and the projects they've worked on together, from October magazine to Art Since 1900. Through three engaging conversations, Foster engages Buchloh on his early influences and aspirations, his formative years in Berlin, London, and Dusseldorf, and his career in North America, while exploring the impact of other art historians and critics. Buchloh candidly addresses his successes, critical significance, and unexplored avenues in art history, providing a unique window into his motivations and experiences. With a powerful postface by Buchloh, Exit Interview builds from biography and anecdote to important reflection on one’s critical life as a whole.

A layman's guide to understanding the medical science of knee pain

A deeply reported work of narrative nonfiction that takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most consequential decisions of our time--the closure of Rikers Island--and what it could mean for the future of prison reform and restorative justice. For nearly a century, Rikers Island has stood on a 416-acre strip of land in the East River, housing an average daily population of 10,000 prisoners (the majority of whom are awaiting arraignment and trial), employing about the same number of corrections officers and civilian workers, and costing just over $800 million per year to operate. It is the largest correctional and mental facility in New York City. It also one of the most controversial and notorious jails in America. Which is why, when Mayor Bill De Blasio announced in 2017 that Rikers would be closed within the next decade, replaced with new buildings designed to reflect new outlooks on mass incarceration and prisoner rehabilitation, the decision--which seemed to be a step towards a more humane, more understanding future as terms like abolition and "Defund the Police" were becoming common conversation--sounded like an unalloyed good to many, including Architectural Digest writer Eva Fedderly, who was leading the magazine's coverage of the closure. But, as she dug deeper and spoke to more people in the different populations surrounding and participating directly in the debate, she discovered that the consensus was hardly universal. Many told her that new jails wouldn't solve anything--but what could were more programs outside of jails, more equity, and alternative ways to deal with crime. People needed to be given the tools to succeed. Only then, could violence, racism, and crime in America subside. So why was no one listening? In These Walls, Fedderly takes readers behind the scenes and through the layers of the Rikers decision and what it will really mean for reformists, justice architects, abolitionists, city government officials, prison guards, and most wrenchingly, the incarcerated themselves. The result is a compelling blend of on-the-ground reporting and sweeping social and architectural history, perfect for readers of Locking Up Our Own and American Prison that captures the texture of this centuries-old debate and challenges our long-held beliefs about what constitutes justice and power.

How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.

Author Foxx Nolte gives readers a glimpse behind the curtain of the most magical place on earth. Millions of people a year visit Walt Disney World, but few would consider it to be a place with any real history. But hidden just below the surface, past the blanket of pixie dust, is a story as vivid and bizarre as any. It is a history of corporate politics, urban planning, crazy ambitions, and failed schemes. The Hidden History of Walt Disney World takes you on a journey that stretches from "Old Florida" to the events that made Walt Disney World what it is today. There's birds made of citrus, horizontal elevators, a ghost town, and tennis ball factories. And that's just the start. Whether you've visited one or one hundred times, your vacation will never be the same again. Yep, the castle is fake. But the stories are not.

How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art? What makes artists' work transnational or national in character, and how will their visibility be impacted by either label? Art and the Politics of Visibility questions these dynamics, asking how the dissemination of visual culture on a global scale affects art and its institutions. Taking Shanghai-based artist Yang Fudong's practice as a point of departure, this volume focuses on how politically charged images produced in contemporary art, cinema, literature, news media and fashion become widely consumed or marginalised. Through case studies of artists including Titus Kaphar, Sara Maple, Shirin Neshat, J.M. Coetzee, Barbara Walker and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the book illuminates the relationship between visibility, politics and identity in contemporary visual culture.

Art is produced, circulated, consumed and disseminated within an economic system - it depends on money for its creation, for the livelihood of its makers, and for its distribution. In this sense, art can be understood as an enterprising activity. However, profit-making is rarely the primary goal of artists, and indeed the entanglement of art with enterprise generates significant aesthetic, conceptual, philosophical and ethical challenges for contemporary art practice. Social enterprise has emerged from this complex terrain with the promise of an alternative model of economic organisation in the arts. Grace McQuilten and Anthony White argue that artists can, and have, engaged critically in the commercial market, by way of this model. Art as Enterprise brings a fresh perspective to the debate about the roles of contemporary art in consumer capitalist society.

Shortlisted for the Architects Sweden Critic's Award 2023Architecture and Retrenchment explores the 'neoliberal turn' in architecture, through the rise and fall of the Swedish welfare state.There are few better case studies of architecture's role in the retrenchment and dismantling of the welfare state than Sweden, the birthplace of the world-famous "Swedish Model" and now home to Europe's fastest-growing inequality. Through eight in-depth architectural case studies, Helena Mattsson analyzes how neoliberalism has created conditions for a new built environment which was once closely integral to the welfare system, examining how new architectural strategies and techniques were developed in order to protect the agency of architecture in a newly re-organised society, and revealing the role of architecture in creating new types of segregation, discrimination, and social stratification.With close feminist analysis running throughout - and drawing from oral histories, witness seminars, and participatory workshops - Architecture and Retrenchment provides an original interpretation of how architecture, space, aesthetics, and politics converged at the end of the twentieth century.

The book tells the untold story of the Conservative Party's involvement in terms of stance and policy in the destruction of selective state education from 1945 up to the present day.Close consideration is paid to their attitudes and prejudices towards education, both in power and in opposition. Legh examines the Party's responses to the pressure for comprehensive schooling and egalitarianism from the Labour Party and the British left. In doing so, Legh defies current historiography to demonstrate that the Party were not passive actors in the advancement of comprehensive schooling.The lively narrative is moved along by the author's critical examination of the Education Ministers throughout this period: Florence Horsbrugh and David Eccles serving under Churchill and Eden and also Quintin Hogg and Geoffrey Lloyd under Macmillan, as well as Edward Boyle and Margaret Thatcher under Edward Heath.Legh's detailed research utilises a range of government documents, personal papers, parliamentary debates and newspapers to provide this crucial re-assessment of the Conservative Party and selective education, and in doing so questions over-simplistic generalisations about wholescale support for selective education policy. It reveals instead questioning, compromises and disagreements within the Party and its political and ideological allies. The result is a stimulating revival of existing scholarship which will be of interest to scholars of British education and politics.

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2023A place of incarceration and liberation, political debate and historical denial, the H Block cell units of Long Kesh/Maze prison in Northern Ireland housed members of both Republican and Loyalist military groups during 'The Troubles' and are now considered 'icons' of that conflict. The H Block's dual status as an articulation of and resistance against power mean that the area is still one of the most contested sites of conflict in Europe.Based on a long-standing site-specific investigation, and drawing on a range of sources from architectural plans to photographs of street protests, H Blocks explores the material relationship between the prison as a built articulation of power and its inhabitants, highlighting the ethical and political roles that architecture can play in situations of conflict. It also addresses the afterlife of such sites after the end of conflict and how they can adapt to the changing cultural meanings of their space.The book demonstrates how the conflicted histories of the prison are configured in its design and destruction, and the inhabitation and attempted preservation of the site itself, revealing how its architecture is bound up with questions of power and resistance, embodiment and attachment, witnessing and remembering, the materiality of history and its commodification.

Lærke siger, at hun har en hund derhjemme. Den vil Alberte gerne se. Men da hun kommer hjem til Lærke, er der ingen hund. Lyver Lærke? Alberte bliver sur på hende."Alberte i børnehave" er en serie bøger for de mindste om at gå i børnehave. Både på dumme dage og på gode dage.Line Kyed Knudsen (f. 1971) har skrevet en lang række børne- og ungdomsbøger i forskellige genrer. Hun er uddannet Cand.merc. i Human Ressource Management, men allerede som barn drømte hun om at blive forfatter. Hun debuterede i 2003 med "Pigerne fra Nordsletten".

En serie til alle børn, der går i børnehave - på både gode og mindre gode dage! Her i det mindre Ælle-Bælle format.Alberte har en rigtig dum morgen. Der er ikke noget, der er sjovt eller rart. Hun vil ikke have, at far går, hun vil ikke spise med de andre, hun vil ikke lege med nogen. Hun vil bare hjem. Heldigvis er der andre i børnehaven, som har en god dag, og med lidt hjælp fra dem, begynder Alberte snart at hygge sig rigtig meget i børnehaven. Faktisk har hun helt glemt, at det var en dum dag.Bøgerne er gennemillustreret af Jan Solheim i en sød og sjov streg, der på fineste vis afspejler børnenes følelser over for de udfordringer, de møder, når de ikke er derhjemme. Bøgerne i serien tager hver især fat i emner, udfordringer og oplevelser, som de fleste børn, forældre og pædagoger kender fra hverdagen i børnehaven. Serien er skrevet ud fra barnets perspektiv. Alle bøgerne kan læses uafhængigt af hinanden.Andre Ælle Bælle-bøger i serien Alberte i børnehave:En dum dagJeg vil kun lege med SofiaPå turDu lyver!Fra ca. 3 år.

Ein Unbekannter. Ein wildes Pferd. Ein tödlicher Sturz.Dieser Traum verfolgt Katharina, seit sie Gut Löwenstein von ihren Großeltern geerbt hat. Alte Geheimnisse wollen mit paranormaler Hilfe aufgedeckt werden, die ein neues Licht auf die Vergangenheit des alten Hauses werfen. Was Katharina nicht weiß: Sie schwebt in großer Gefahr! Viel zu fasziniert von dem leibhaftigen Besuch aus ihren Träumen, kommt sie nicht nur ihm, sondern dummerweise auch der Person näher, die es auf sie abgesehen hat.Aber wem liegt so viel daran, die junge Frau um jeden Preis von dem Gut zu vertreiben?

An up-to-date pictorial guide to the most deadly production fighter aircraft in the world

"From Time 100 honoree Saad Mohseni, the deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan. Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan's largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, and how that effort persists even after the Taliban's return to power in 2021. In the heady early days of the American occupation, Mohseni returns to Kabul which he had last seen as a child before the Soviet invasion. Casting about for ways to be involved in the dawn of a new Afghanistan, Mohseni makes what seems like a quixotic decision to leave the comforts of a career in international banking to start a Kabul radio station with his three siblings. This unlikely venture quickly blossoms into a burgeoning television empire, bringing Mohseni and his family and employees into sometimes uncomfortable contact with everyone who has a stake in the country-from the government of Hamid Karzai to White House officials. Moreover, their radio and television networks soon become a necessary beacon for millions of Afghans, who rely on them not just for independent news but for joyful pleasures like soap operas and Afghan Star, a beloved national singing competition in a country whose previous rulers had banned (and would again ban) music. Mohseni's position at Moby affords him unique insights into this extraordinary yet troubled country, the youngest in the world outside of Sub-Saharan Africa, and his powerful account captures the spirit and resilience of the Afghan people-notably the hundreds of men and women still working in Moby's Kabul office today, who, once again under Taliban rule, create programs, report the news, and educate the public. Radio Free Afghanistan is a stunning, vibrant portrait of a nation in turmoil, poised between despair and hope"--

Beim fünften Buch des Autors geht es um einen Generationenroman.Es sind Ergriffene, von denen er schreibt: Von der Liebe, der Musik, vom Wahn einer Sekte und schließlich von der Hoffnung auf Erlösung.Alles beginnt mit dem Tod Pastor Breslauers, dessen Hausstand vom Sohn aufgelöst werden soll. Und mit einem geheimnisvollen Koffer...

***Widerspenstige Gefühle zwischen Kunst und Chaos***Die zweiundzwanzigjährige Lea arbeitet schon ihr ganzes Leben lang auf ihren großen Traum hin: Endlich als Malerin und Bildhauerin bekannt zu werden. Als sie die Zusage für ein Kunstförderprogramm in der Toskana erhält, ist sie fest entschlossen, das Stipendium als Chance für ihren großen Durchbruch zu nutzen. Gemeinsam mit anderen Geförderten ein Kunstwerk erschaffen, das alle aus den Socken haut - das sollte sie doch hinbekommen, oder?Wäre da nur nicht ihr Mitstipendiat Remo, der ihr von Anfang an das Leben schwermacht. Remo, der abgehobene italienische Bestsellerautor, mit dem sie sich ständig in die Haare bekommt. Remo, der die zugeknöpfte Lea regelmäßig aus der Reserve lockt und ihr einfach nicht aus dem Kopf geht ...

Boomer-Alarm im Fünfseenland Eine ungewollte Challenge 'Raus aus der Komfortzone' - es gibt kein Entkommen, denn die eigenen, erwachsenen Kinder sind Spielführer. Ein Wohlfühlroman mit Herz und Humor.Ferdinand Pohlmann merkt vor lauter gewissenhafter Arbeitsmoral gar nicht, wie sehr das Leben an ihm vorbeizieht. Gestresst und müde sucht er nach einem langen Tag in der Bank nur noch Ruhe, sein Sofa und den Fernseher.Seine Kinder wollen das nicht akzeptieren. Vor allem Tochter Flora, 18 Jahre alt, sieht in Ferdinand heimlich nur noch den Boomer, der sich weder für die Jugend, den Zeitgeist, noch das Leben außerhalb festgefahrener Routinen interessiert. Der beginnende Altersstarrsinn ihres Vaters ist unerträglich! Kurzerhand überredet sie ihren Bruder Raphael, 23 Jahre alt und Student in Augsburg, den Papa mal tüchtig zu fordern: Eine Challenge "Raus aus der Komfortzone" muss her! Doch der Besuch eines Escape-Games entwickelt sich für Ferdinand zum Albtraum. Er fühlt sich bedrängt, unverstanden und ignoriert gekonnt die weiteren Spielaufforderungen seiner Kinder. Aber als seine Frau Vera die Taschen packt und ihn verlässt, begreift er, dass es so nicht weitergeht. Notgedrungen freundet Ferdi sich mit der Challenge an. 5 Wörter der aktuellen Jugendsprache ganz beiläufig im Abteilungsmeeting einstreuen? Kann doch wohl nicht so schwer sein.Das Abenteuer beginnt - und auch das Unvorstellbare: Mit jeder neuen Herausforderung verändert Papa sich. Challenge accepted.Von wegen Boomer ist witzig, geistreich und lebensklug. Eine wendungsreiche Komödie mit Tiefgang und der Erkenntnis, dass die kleinsten Interventionen die größte Wirkung zeigen. Spannend geschrieben, viel zu schnell vorbei. Absolute Kaufempfehlung. (Leserstimme)

Ein Roman über Verlust, Freundschaft und die Kraft der Kunst. Eine Liebeserklärung an die Musik und den Mut, niemals aufzugeben.Kunststudentin Alex brennt für Heavy Metal und ihren Traum, von der Malerei zu leben. Mit ihrer besten Freundin wohnt sie in einer wilden WG, auf Konzerten feiern sie die Nächte durch. Als ihre alleinstehende Mutter bei einem Unfall schwer verletzt wird, gerät alles aus den Fugen. Alex wird aufgerieben zwischen dem anspruchsvollen Studium, Geldnöten und der Sorge um ihre Mutter. Ihre Kreativität und sie selbst bleiben auf der Strecke.Fünfzehn Jahre später führt Alex ein geregeltes Leben mit Partner, Hund und einem Job, den sie hasst. Ein erneuter Schicksalsschlag rüttelt sie auf. Es muss sich etwas ändern! Ist der richtige Zeitpunkt gekommen, ihren Kinderwunsch zu verwirklichen?Oder traut sich Alex, noch einmal als Künstlerin neu anzufangen - und womöglich alles zu verlieren?

Pour ce nouveau rendez-vous fantastique, votre guide sera la Plume de Lola.Au fil des pages, vous découvrirez qui se cache derrière cette auteure en parcourant des lieux féeriques issus de son univers !

Glaube, Gerechtigkeit und Liebe, aber auch Gefräßigkeit und Arschkriecherei - bestimmte Aspekte des menschlichen Charakters überschreiten die Grenzen von Zeit, Raum und Sprache.Mehr als zweitausend Jahre nach seinem erstmaligen Erscheinen präsentiert Navid Linnemann eine zeitgenössische Nacherzählung von Theophrastus' Satire "Charaktere". Anhand von 15 neuen Interpretationen des antiken Werks erkundet er das Menschsein in seinen besten und schlechtesten Seiten.Ob stärker oder schwächer ausgeprägt, diese Eigenschaften sind in uns allen vorhanden. In diesen Geschichten werden Sie daher bestimmte Personen wiedererkennen - vielleicht sogar sich selbst.