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In your darkness, the stars heard you, and they never forgot about you.

Karate girl, Michi, creatively outsmarts a bully. Then the Impulsiveness monster takes hold, making her act more and more wildly. Will Impulsiveness make her do something she will regret? Can karate's Dojo Kun help?

This illuminating book examines and refines the commonplace "wisdom" about cyber conflict-its effects, character, and implications for national and individual security in the 21st century."Cyber warfare" evokes different images to different people. This book deals with the technological aspects denoted by "cyber" and also with the information operations connected to social media's role in digital struggle.The author discusses numerous mythologies about cyber warfare, including its presumptively instantaneous speed, that it makes distance and location irrelevant, and that victims of cyber attacks deserve blame for not defending adequately against attacks. The author outlines why several widespread beliefs about cyber weapons need modification and suggests more nuanced and contextualized conclusions about how cyber domain hostility impacts conflict in the modern world.After distinguishing between the nature of warfare and the character of wars, chapters will probe the widespread assumptions about cyber weapons themselves. The second half of the book explores the role of social media and the consequences of the digital realm being a battlespace in 21st-century conflicts. The book also considers how trends in computing and cyber conflict impact security affairs as well as the practicality of people's relationships with institutions and trends, ranging from democracy to the Internet of Things.

Military robots are affecting both the decision to go to war and the means by which wars are conducted. This book covers the history of military robotics, analyzes their current employment, and examines the ramifications of their future utilization.Robotic systems are the future of military conflicts: their development is already revolutionizing the nature of human conflict-and eroding the standards of acceptable behavior in wartime. Written by a professor who teaches strategy and leadership for the U.S. Air Force, one of the global leaders in the development and utilization of military robots, this book both addresses the history of military robotics and discusses the troubling future ramifications of this game-changing technology.Organized both chronologically and thematically, the book's chapters describe the development and evolution of unmanned warfare; clarify the past, current, and future capabilities of military robotics; and offer a detailed and convincing argument that limits should be placed upon their development before it is too late. This standout work presents an eye-opening analysis that military personnel, civil servants, and academic instructors who teach military history, social policy, and ethics can ill afford to ignore, and will also provide the general public with information that will correct misconceptions about military robotics derived through popular culture and the news media.

This book is a valuable resource for understanding the character, development, and consequences of fascist dictatorships.Approximately 60 million lives were taken during World War II. This book serves to explore the ultimate cause of it-fascism-and to educate readers on the history and motivation behind this complex political movement.This historical exploration includes many helpful educational tools, including a timeline, an encyclopedia, and excerpts from primary source documents. Using primary document sources, the author provides a direct account of the origin and evolution of fascism. This text analyzes the rise of fascism in Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain from 1919 through 1945. Readers in high school and college will not only learn the facts surrounding World War II but also understand the cultural environment and events that led up to the devastation of the Holocaust. This text is crucial for educating students about the beginnings and extension of the fascist movement in Europe in the early 20th century.

This Book examines an interplay between discourses on the city that stress theneed for rational-functional order and art¿s imaginative deviations from the topdownstructures of urban life. Moving between theory and praxis, the booksituates the city as both a concept and physical construct through which lives andpossibilities are shaped or defined. In response, certain modalities of art createspontaneous, non-rational and playful interludes that risk escape from the urbanapparatus and a hyper-valorisation of rational order. A three-part framework isused to discuss this push-pull dynamic and to assess the strategies of shock,performative embodiment and intervention that emerged in post-war artmovements and in contemporary performance and participatory art practices.The book examines how the disturbances introduced by artists throw the cityconstruct into sharp relief, making it visible and activating momentary encounters where new modes of expression can emerge.This Book offers a new approach to interdisciplinary studies of art and urbanity.The book aims to delineate how the city¿as concept and construct¿is madevisible through artistic practice and in turn challenged or interrogated. Students,researchers and professionals with an interest in the interaction between art andurban studies will discover a new perspective on how urban conditions and issueshave been addressed through artistic practice. The book contributes to anevolving discourse in the urban humanities through an exposition of the city¿sdefault construct that is made visible or reimagined through visual art in publicspaces.

"The story of NATO/ISAF Senior Airfield Authority and Air Force Command at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, 2006-2007"--

WIDE LOAD [ BRED LAST ] A House MovedTonia Carless Robin Serjeant paula roushJames Benedict Brown Matthew HynamThe book is a photographic archive and text of a house move in Northern Sweden. It considers the historic, cultural, technical and material significance of wholesale house moving (husflyttningar) in the region, through a single, historic house move in Umeå, 2021. The main frame of analysis is the spatial politics of un-building. It is an investigation of the vernacular mobility of shifting built and occupied forms in relation to ahistoric and future context of urban reconfiguration, a proposed architecture of de-growth in Northern Sweden. The visual work explores context through the form of the book itself. It is also a potential model that constructs and translates analysis of the space. It is a collaborative architectural work to document the house move and other spatial productions, models, drawings and collage of the space beneath and between the ground and house, image projections, exhibitions and events, as public exchange.Paperback edition for the opening of Smedjan UmArtsUmeå University SwedenJune 16 &17 2023Funded by UmArts A Small Visionary Project Award

This is "an alphabet book that highlights and celebrates queer history in the United States from A to Z, presenting bold ideas for big thinkers in every letter. A is for abundant, always, ally, and alive. F is for family, friendship, fluid, and free. O is for optimists, opportunity, open, and outspoken"--

An inspiring memoir of promises kept, overcoming obstacles, and what it means to sacrifice for others, written by a Special Warfare Operator with the US Air Force.When Israel "DT" Del Toro, Jr.'s Humvee rolled over a roadside improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, he had one thought as he lost consciousness: I have to keep the promise I made to my dad. DT was orphaned at the age of fourteen, and on the night before his father died, he repeated the promise his dad had required of him: "Take care of your brothers and sisters."Throughout his childhood and into adulthood, DT indeed looked after his younger brother and sisters, even to his own detriment and sacrifice. When he enlisted in the Air Force, progressing in ranks as a skilled marksman calling airstrikes, his promise extended to his brothers and sisters in the Air Force-his fellow soldiers and brothers-in-arms.When DT was injured in action, he lay in a coma for three months with third-degree burns on 80 percent of his body. He nearly died three times, and doctors predicted-if he survived-he would forever breathe with a respirator and never walk again. DT pushed through every limit to his full recovery, and he became the first 100 percent disabled veteran to reenlist in the Air Force.DT's promise to his dad extends now to his fellow wounded warriors throughout the world as he advocates for awareness and affecting change in public policy for wounded, injured, and ill soldiers. He is a patriot who has kept his promise and changed the world with the spirit of his heart, soul, body, and mind.

"The story of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, who became an international hero for his courage and selflessness. Ever since he was a young boy growing up on the streets of Staten Island, New York, Michael Ollis wanted to be a soldier. Inspired by his father, who fought in Vietnam, Mike's deep desire to serve was cemented on the day his beloved city was attacked. From 9/11 onward, Mike's one and only mission was to save lives. After two tense combat deployments, Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis earned the US Army's coveted Ranger tab and set his sights on the perilous mountains of eastern Afghanistan. On August 28, 2013, Mike was suddenly caught in the middle of a massive and unprecedented Taliban assault on a coalition military base. Rather than retreat to his bunker, Mike decided to fight. He then encountered a Polish army officer who needed his help. Despite being surrounded by enemy fighters while running low on ammunition, Mike promised the foreign soldier that no matter what, he would have his back. For his final act of bravery, Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis would not only receive the Distinguished Service Cross from his own country, but the highest honor that Poland can bestow upon an allied soldier. As an American warrior, Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis had all of our backs. This vivid and visceral account of Mike's selfless 24-year journey will motivate us to "live like Mike" by always putting family, friends and country first"--

"A group portrait of young Afghans who came of age during the two decades following 9/11"--

A bold new account of the state of globalization today—and what its collapse might mean for the world economy

From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen—by entirely legal means

An exploration of how China’s Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and how it has catalyzed a new era of infrastructural geopolitics

Der etwas andere Krimi, in dem es zwischen Deutschen und Schweizern ganz schön »menschelt«...Eigentlich wollte Dr. Selma Schwarz dem sozialen Dichtestress der Grossstadt entfliehen. Eigentlich wollte sie Mord und Totschlag den Rücken kehren. Eigentlich suchte sie die Ruhe und Abgeschiedenheit eines Schweizer Dorfes am Rande der Alpen. Eigentlich wollte sie in einem Tiny House dem einfachen Leben frönen, um dort zu entschleunigen. Eigentlich...Das Dörfchen Winken belehrte sie eines Besseren. Ausser ihrer eigenen Mitte fand sie dort, wo alles so idyllisch wirkte, einiges mehr. Denn Menschen sind nicht immer, was sie scheinen. Und selten etwas besseres.Der etwas andere Krimi, in dem Leute verschwinden, und mysteriöse Todesfälle Rätsel aufgeben. Wo Deutsche auf Schweizer treffen, pfiffige Pathologen sich mit kantigen Kriminologen messen. Wo vielseitig empfängliche Dorfobere mit sturen Weltverbesserern zu kämpfen haben. Und ein kleiner Junge mit seinem Hund die Herzen im Sturm erobert, während eine skurrile Alte ständig pupsend durchs Bild läuft...in einem ganz normalen Dorf mit Menschen wie du und ich.

The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own'When it comes to spinning light and shadow on the complexities of living, loving and language, Xiaolu Guo is one of the most valuable writers in the world' DEBORAH LEVYThe world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your family and everything you have tried to call your own. Yet beauty may also appear. In the autumn of 2019 Xiaolu travelled to New York to take up her position as a visiting professor for a year, leaving her child and partner behind in London. The encounter with American culture and people threatens her sense of identity and throws her into a crisis - of meaning, desire, obligation and selfhood.This is a memoir about separation - by continents, by language, and from people. It's about being an outsider and the desperate longing to connect. Xiaolu uses her exploration of language (one of the meanings of the word 'radical' is the graphic component, or root, of Chinese characters), and her own life, to create this unique text. At once a memoir, a dictionary, and an ardent love letter, it is an expression of her fascination with Western culture and her nostalgia for Eastern landscapes, and an attempt to describe the space in between. An archive of an artist's search for creative freedom, it is above all else an intimate account of her efforts to carve out a life of her own.'Radical in angle of attack, smart and brave' IAIN SINCLAIR, author of The Gold Machine

Als Maler, Architekturdoktor, ökologischer Aktivist und Philosoph ist Friedensreich Hundertwasser einer der faszinierendsten Künstler unserer Zeit. Sein Streben nach einem Einklang zwischen Mensch und Natur spiegelt sich in seiner Rolle als Vorreiter in den Bereichen Grüne Architektur, Stadtbegrünung und Umweltschutz. Seine Bauwerke in aller Welt zeigen sein Konzept eines menschen- und naturgerechteren Bauens: bewaldete Dächer, Baummieter, organische Formen anstelle des Rastersystems, Vielfalt anstelle von Monotonie. Als Querdenker und Förderer der menschlichen Kreativität und Selbstbestimmung wollte er die Menschen für das Schöne öffnen und zum eigenen schöpferischen Denken und Handeln animieren. ¿ In diesem Buch finden sich neben zahlreichen Abbildungen verschiedener Hundertwasser Architekturprojekte auch Zitate aus Texten von Hundertwasser, die zum Nachdenken anregen.

Das Buch enthält eine Reihe kleinerer Beiträge, die bei der Arbeit am "Wörterbuch Palästinensisch-Deutsch" entstanden sind:Deteriorative mit Femininendung bei MaskulinaDas Wort zalameMaskuline Formen bei FemininaLeitworte einer Genitivverbindung mit Suffixschlagen ¿ eine Ohrfeige herunterhauenReste von innerem PassivBerufsbezeichnungen auf -¿iDoppelsetzungenNomen ohne Artikel mit determiniertem AttributFeigensortenPassivbildung von intransitiven VerbenDer VII. StammSpezifizierender GenitivAnzahlenWörter, die nichts bedeutenwala besser ¿ alsDer Typ fäl¿nPlurale nach fi¿l¿n/fül¿nVerbalsubstantive auf fäal¿nVerbalsubstantive zu Stamm V und Q,IIVerbalsubstantive zu Q,IDer Morphemtyp if¿alN-ErweiterungenAssimilation von ¿ und y an den ArtikelAusrufeInterjektionenZurufe an Tiere und TierlauteSporadische Lautwechsel zwischen den Liquiden l, r und dem Nasal nLustige WörterLustige WendungenMerkwürdige Wörter und anderes BemerkenswertesArabische Dialektwörterbücher

Der 17-Jährige Levi Phan liebt nichts mehr, als seine Nase in Bücher zu stecken, tiefgründiger und aggressiver Rap-Musik in jeglicher Sprache zu lauschen, TV-Shows zu schauen, die er ohne Untertitel erst gar nicht verstehen würde, und in der Schule so unsichtbar wie möglich zu sein. Kurz gesagt: Er führt das gewöhnliche Leben eines Teenagers. Wäre da nur nicht dieses unbeschreibliche Gefühl in seinem Bauch, das sich nur bemerkbar macht, wenn seine Augen auf Jayson Young treffen.Dieses plötzlich auftretende Zittern in seiner Stimme. Diese Nervosität. Die Angst. Wieso benimmt er sich so, als wäre er noch nie einer Person desselben Geschlechts begegnet?Eine zufällige Begegnung löst in Levi das Gefühlschaos seines Lebens aus und auf einmal stellt der 17-Jährige seine komplette Sexualität in Frage.Und das alles wegen ein paar brauner Augen.

A notable absence, a muting, making invisible. Redaction extends beyond the simple black squares as incomplete redactions - stamps marked with 'deleted' covering the text- white squares, and handmade notations. Each black square signifies absence. It serves as a reminder for enforced forgetfulness. Uncovering the secret behind the mask and discovering the text underneath seems like a daring task, but is the redacted information really gone? What is visible in cultural spaces, and what is invisible? In attempts to appeal to the public, what is redacted? We accept any theme that explores the theme of CENSORSHIP. Potential topics include: Relationship between ethics and empathy flexibility of ethics meaning-makingCultural taboos and disgust Repatriation in cultural institutionsMemorialization (death and mourning)Right to privacy, what is private (public vs. private spheres)Invisible labor preparatory unpaid co-curation internsSalary transparency Invisible illness/disability and accessibilityUnderrepresented narratives and communities HouselessnessQueer and Trans, Political radicalsRegulated behaviors in cultural institutionsTainted Funding and/or DonorsDestruction of material culture/art (intentional) Politics/news; muted movements GatekeepingBody-mind politics + a(sexuality)