Bøger om År 2000 til 2100

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)

In 2003, 1st Platoon, Charlie Company 1-41 IN arrived on the sands of Iraq. They would prove to be one of the most lethal combat forces in the early Iraq invasion. This is the untold story of their bravery, their heroism, and the spirit of brotherhood and freedom that saw them through the storm. Two years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. stood on the cusp of battle, prepared to deliver freedom to the people of Iraq. 1st Platoon Charlie Company 1-41 Mechanized Infantry would lead the charge. Their platoon leader, LTC Stephen A. Thorpe now writes this compelling memoir on behalf of the soldiers who served beside him with honor and integrity. After almost a year's worth of combat training, they were ready to roll-but were they ready for what they would encounter in the Persian Gulf? An honest, first-person look at life on an overseas tour, Crimson Mist shows all the intensity of focus, joy, and sorrow of being a soldier-along with moments of boredom, laughter, and time-killing shenanigans. With great humility and an astounding love for the people who served beside him, LTC Thorpe presents this story that belongs not only to him-but to the soldiers that made the first charge toward Iraqi freedom, and the families and friends who shoulder their burden. Perfect for history buffs and fans of military memoirs, Crimson Mist contains all the heroism, suspense, and humor of the best soldier stories.

This edited volume aims to fill the gap in the research, juxtaposition, and focused discussions in the existing literature on art archives in Asia. Most of the archives included in the book are independent and initiated by individuals, folk groups, or non-profit organizations. In this book, one can trace the dynamics and self-generative capacity in this particular historical and cultural milieu through these ¿alternative¿ archives and through the practices of artists and curators who apply their specific understanding of archive to their works. Many chapters resonate with each other in that they capture the experiences shared by many places in Asia. Those experiences could have resulted from the encounter with the Western idea of archive, the influence of the colonial experience, or a memory crisis triggered by the rapid transformation of media, and may serve as a basis for producing archive theories in/from Asia. The book provides an opportunity for the archives in Asia and those who work around them to recognize one another, understand what their colleagues in archival work do, how they do it and what else there is for them to do.

Veteran war reporters – writer Hollie McKay and photographer Jake Simkin – walk you through the fall of the U.S. and the rise of the Taliban, drawing you into the minds of the new regime and into the hearts of the Afghanistan people.Overnight, Afghanistan dramatically transformed. One chapter – a twenty-year epoch heralded by the attacks of September 11, the U.S. invasion, and propping up an ailing government – shuttered on August 15, 2021. Another entirely new chapter flipped open under the stringent ruling of the Taliban. Officially termed the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, it’s a government that triggers immense fear among the population, having reigned with an iron fist pre-9/11 and waged a brutal insurgency from the mountaintops that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Afghans and foreigners.  “Afghanistan: The End of the U.S. Footprint and the Rise of the Taliban Rule” is a chilling, bloody, yet beautiful visual expedition through one of the most magical yet wounded parcels of the planet. It is a place where poppies grow wild and men in the mountains cradle guns like children. It’s a place where kites fly high, and everyone has a war story, even though most never chose to go to war.Welcome to Afghanistan after the cataclysmic fall. The band-aid over the bullet wound has been ripped off, and “Afghanistan” will guide you into the maze of dust, debris, and delicacy the way no journalistic endeavor has done before.

This volume launches a series of three Russian Air Power books from Harpia Publishing. The first two volumes present all types of military aircraft and air-launched weapons currently operated by Russia, while the third volume is devoted to the assets of Russia's air arms, including their use in armed conflicts.

Rewilding the Urban Frontier argues that the urban rivers of the United States might be one of the best opportunities for rewilding in the Anthropocene—that is, creating self-sustaining ecosystems capable of adapting to the rapid and cascading changes caused by human impacts.

The 2024 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships. For over 45 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, this latest volume combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery, and much more, maintaining the impressive standards of scholarship and research with which Warship has become synonymous. Detailed and accurate information is the hallmark of all the articles, which are fully supported by plans, data tables, and stunning photographs. This year's Warship includes features on Imperial Japan's Matsu and Tachibana destroyer classes, the Italian CRDA midget submarines, France's 1960s missile frigates Suffren and Duquesne, and Germany's sailing raider of World War I, Seeadler.

An analysis of the China Race-the global competition for leadership and world order between the US-led West and the People's Republic of China.

Thirty-five contemporary artists create their own version of Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe.Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) is generally cited as the first modern painting. The entry slide in art history lectures about modernism, the work remains among the “most audacious painting[s] ever seen in France,” as Ross King described it in The Judgement of Paris (2006).As Manet did with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, the most provocative painters today collapse the historical and the contemporary onto one plane. Jeffrey Deitch invited a group of these influential artists to create their own versions, combined here with historical responses to Manet’s painting. The slim volume features these often biting and satirical works alongside essays discussing Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe’s enduring influence on contemporary figurative painting.

"A major monograph of the American realist artist, descendant of one of America's most revered artistic families, and painter of dark and uneasy subjects. This book traces a persistent vein of intriguing, often disconcerting, imagery over the career of renowned artist Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), famous for his hyperrealist paintings of farm animals and Maine lighthouses. The focus in this volume is on the chilling thread that runs through his work, present but not overwhelming, and ever-evolving with his style and subjects. Whether he is introducing curious characters or surveying strange landscapes, Wyeth is at home with uneasy subjects and a master of the unsettled mood. Like his father, Andrew Wyeth, and grandfather N. C. Wyeth before him, Jamie Wyeth splits his time between the Brandywine River Valley of Pennsylvania and Delaware and the mid-coast of Maine. In these two locales Wyeth has passed through many "obsessions," as he calls his favored subjects: farm tools brimming with the potential for violence, eccentric portraits and unnerving figure studies, haunted places, and possessed plants and animals. In addition to the main essay, contributors explore the creation of similarly unsettling moods in film, dance, sound artistry, and classical music" --

Recipient of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Award for Lifetime Achievement and the AIA Gold Medal, Antoine Predock was an icon of American architecture. This book is the comprehensive consideration of his life’s work.A trailblazing original, Predock was his own tour de force. In his work, steel, glass, and concrete were combined with natural materials to celebrate modern life. Initially considered a regionalist architect—one who had captured the power of the desert—he went on to re-establish the importance of place in architecture in the tradition of Frank Lloyd Wright, Luis Barragan, and Louis Kahn. He made experience—what Kahn would have called spiritual experience—once again important in architecture.As critic for Time magazine, writing of Predock’s work, Kurt Andersen observed: “[it is] tough and sensual, fabulously imagined, altogether persuasive.”  Featuring the wide range of Predock’s designed and built structures, including houses, schools, hotels, parks, theaters, nature centers, and more, this is an all-encompassing career/life “memoirograph.” It charts the architect’s journey from his beginnings, to his early days as a professional starting his own studio with the groundbreaking La Luz Community project, up to the present day, including the landmark Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The chronological presentation includes Predock’s travel, travel sketches, and kinesthetic pursuits, encapsulating a life in architecture. Rich and multifaceted, like the work itself, this book showcases 3,500 photographs and features more than twenty gatefolds, which open to express the full scope of this modern master.

Deeply committed to social justice, artist Tomashi Jackson creates vibrant prints, paintings, videos, textiles, and sculptures that powerfully explore systemic inequities found throughout US history. This is the first book to present the evolution of Jackson’s work.Over the course of her career, Jackson has closely investigated specific histories related to cities, lands, and individuals in the United States, with the purpose of revealing how systemic racism and civil rights advocacy have informed America’s approach to housing, education, transportation, voter disenfranchisement, police brutality, migration, and agriculture. Inspired by Josef Albers’s research on the relativity of color, she employs image layering and the effects of light and perception toward illuminating underrecognized patterns of activism, resistance, oppression, and societal advances.This volume offers an opportunity to look comprehensively at overarching themes and developments in her process by gathering bodies of work in a variety of media created over time and in different locations. Jackson’s engaging and nuanced approach to US history situates her as one of the most relevant artists practicing today.

Enter the world of OSGEMEOS, the Brazilian twins driving international graffiti culture.Contemporary art is sometimes considered an austere matter: ascetic in palette, serious in tone, a subject for sober contemplation. That stereotype is exploded—ecstatically, and in full color—by the work of OSGEMEOS, trailblazing twin Brazilian artists with a practice as firmly rooted in the rule-breaking world of urban graffiti as it is in the elevated spheres of museum and gallery. Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo first wielded their spray cans (and spun their discs, and breakdanced with friends) in the São Paulo hip-hop scene of the 1980s and ’90s, drawing from that vibrant milieu the lesson that art is at its best, and most meaningful, when everyone is invited to the party.Combining historical and contemporary elements of Brazilian society with graffiti, hip-hop, and youth culture, OSGEMEOS: Endless Story extends an invitation into the artists’ expansive body of work, which embraces murals, paintings, sculpture, installations, and video, all using a symbolic visual language often inspired by dreams.Renowned for their spindly yellow characters—seen dancing, writing graffiti, interacting with their urban settings, and stretching high across buildings and train cars worldwide—OSGEMEOS creates works that invite readers into a surreal, chimerical world filled with motifs that signal access to another realm or the deep psyche. This fantasy world, which they call Tritrez, is the apex of their vision: a land of wonder that reflects the diverse nature of Brazil itself.OSGEMEOS: Endless Story, the artists’ first major English-language monograph, will be accompanied by their first US survey exhibition and their largest US show to date, on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, from May 2024 to July 2025. The book is given a third dimension through Hirshhorn Eye (Hi) technology: readers can activate, via smartphone, videos of the artists and the exhibition’s curators discussing the works in both book and show.

"The autobiography of Catherine Meeks, describing her journey from the sharecropping fields of her father to the academy and beyond"--

"Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find himself in the midst of another one. The country he loves and defended for twenty-eight years seems to be unraveling in front of his eyes. Raised to believe in a vision of America that values fairness, honesty, and respect for others, Cummings is increasingly engulfed by the fear and anger sweeping through his beloved country as he tries to hold onto hope about America's future. David Finkel, known for his unique, in-depth reporting, spent fifteen years immersed in Brent Cummings's world to create this intimate, acutely observed, and beautifully written portrait of a man's life, community, thoughts and feelings as America becomes ever more divided. Cummings was one of the unforgettable figures in Finkel's The Good Soldiers, a book about which The New York Times stated, "Finkel has made art out of a defining moment in history. You will be able to take this book down from the shelf years from now and say, 'This is what happened. This is what it felt like."--

"A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York-and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat-from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map"--

Don't miss the new novel from the Kindle bestselling author of The Little Venice Bookshop!***¿¿A Greek island holiday. A fake-dating pact. A chance at true love?¿¿

”Jeg elsker denne bog. Den er så velskrevet og fik mig til at grine højt. Kan anbefales til alle Richard Osman-fans.” – GoodreadsDa Alice og hendes mand flytter fra storbyens stress og jag i London til Cotswolds, er det en mulighed for at komme ned i gear og bygge rede inden fødslen af deres første barn. Men den landlige idyl krakelerer, da der i den tilsyneladende så fredelige landsby bliver begået et mord.Sammen med sine nye veninder fra fødselsforberedelsesholdet springer Alice ud som amatørdetektiv, og jagten på morderen går ind.Det bliver alt andet end en rolig barsel …Pressen skriver: ”Virkelig herlig.”– Netgalley”Detektiver på barsel er en sjov cosy crime og en underholdende tilføjelse til genren. Jeg vil elske at vende tilbage til Penton og følge Alice og hendes venner.”– Netgalley”Det er en virkelig hyggelig krimi, og jeg var godt underholdt.”– Netgalley”Det er egentlig slet ikke den type bog, jeg normalt læser, men jeg elskede den og grinede højlydt undervejs.”– Netgalley

To undersøgende journalister - Kim Hundevadt og John Hansen har sat fokus på Danmarks største udenrigspolitiske krise siden Anden Verdenskrig.De har som journalister på Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten oplevet det dramatiske forløb indefra - og de fortæller for første gang historien om, hvad der egentlig skete - og hvorfor. De to forfattere kaster lys over nye politiske skel og overraskende alliancer som følge af sagen - og sætter hele debatten i et nuanceret perspektiv. Og giver samtidig et bud på, hvordan vi kommer videre.Hvilken rolle spillede Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, oppositionen, de danske imamer, de arabiske regeringer og de radikale islamister i Mellemøsten? Og hvad lå der egentlig bag beslutningen om at bede danske tegnere tegne profeten Muhammed ""som du ser ham""?Kim Hundevadt og John Hansen har skrevet en medrivende og overraskende fortælling, der går meget længere end blot at samle artikler og udsagn sammen. Bogen indeholder afgørende nyt, selv for alle, der troede, at de vidste det meste - og den giver os for første gang muligheden for at være med helt fra start, fra dét redaktionsmøde, hvor ideen om tegningerne blev født.

Das Buch ist gefüllt mit wunderschönen Geschichten rund um die Weihnachtszeit, die den Leser und die Leserinnen zum Schmunzeln, hoffentlich zum Lachen und auch immer wieder zum Nachdenken bringen werden. Von daher sind die Erzählungen genauso unterhaltend, farbenfroh und emotional wie die Weihnachtszeit selbst. Betreten Sie den bunten Kosmos kurioser Ereignisse, in dem unter anderem von drei lustigen Trollen in den Wäldern Norwegens und dem Weihnachtsmann, der sich mit seinen Engeln beim Ausliefern der Geschenke in die Hölle verirrt, die Rede ist. Erfahren Sie, was Ihnen in der Titelgeschichte ein Schneemann über den Staub der Sterne zu erzählen hat.

Eigentlich will Lena mit ihrer besten Freundin nur ein paar entspannte Tage in Italien verbringen. Dann passiert das Unglaubliche: Ein Mord in der Ferienanlage, in der die beiden Frauen mit ihren Teenagern untergebracht sind. Doch wer ist der Mörder und hat der attraktive Mann, den Lena am Strand kennengelernt hat, vielleicht doch mehr zu verbergen als sie denkt?

Feinde aus Tradition. Verbündete aus Notwendigkeit.Xi Lei bekommt die größte Chance ihrer bisherigen Jägerinnen-Karriere: Die Suche nach dem Vampir, der für den Tod eines ganzen Dorfes im Himalaya verantwortlich ist. Die Spur führt sie nach New Orleans, wo Vampirkönig Damien Moreau unterdessen fieberhaft nach einem Weg sucht, seinen Jahrzehnte alten Deal mit der lokalen Jägerkoordinatorin für nichtig zu erklären. Leis Erscheinen kommt ihm da gerade recht.Die beiden gehen einen prekären Handel ein, der sie über die Grenzen New Orleans hinweg in ein Netz aus Intrigen und Korruption führt. Aber können sie einander wirklich vertrauen?

On the rich history of video art and its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical practices.The New Television delves into the rich history of video art, reexamining the pivotal Open Circuits conference held at MoMA in 1974 and exploring its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical practices. Open Circuits was an important event in establishing video art in American museums and articulated a range of conflicting teloses for the medium, some which materialized (like local cable television) and others that remain unrealized. The conference proceedings were published in 1977 as The New Television: A Public/Private Art, and the radical design of the book reflected the conference’s utopian aims. This two-part publication includes a facsimile of the long-out-of-print conference proceedings and new essays and discussions by over a dozen scholars and artists. The new scholarly texts and previously unpublished archival documents in The New Television illuminate the network of institutional histories of video art, consider global televisual contexts and alternative critical approaches, and examine contemporary video art and its continued relevance from new perspectives.

"This book demonstrates that populism's threat to democracy is less severe than often feared. The comprehensive, systematic analysis of contemporary Latin America and Europe over the last four decades and of the U.S. under Trump shows that populist chief executives destroy democracy only under special, restrictive conditions"--