This text examines the Pacific War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, from the perspective of those who fought the wars and lived through them. The relationship between history and memory informs the book, and each war is relocated in the historical and cultural experiences of Asian countries.
A richly crafted tribute to the avant-garde artist and designer Sonia Delaunay, whose boundary-breaking approach is echoed in the volume’s interdisciplinarity and its inspired design Described as “the most significant contribution to Sonia Delaunay studies in a decade,” this catalogue sets a new standard for the study of this pioneering avant-garde artist, designer, and entrepreneur (1885–1979). Eschewing traditional chronological structures to better showcase groundbreaking research unifying the artist’s timeless oeuvre across mediums, this publication demonstrates Delaunay’s innate versatility and willingness to create without material limitation using her unique language of light and color. Textiles, fashion, interiors, book art, and more are highlighted across 26 chapters by leading international scholars to give new insight into Delaunay’s strategies of self-promotion, entrepreneurial endeavors, legacy-building efforts, and vast network of collaborators. These in-depth analyses, including previously underinvestigated material such as film, mosaics, tapestries, and interior design, offer a comprehensive perspective on Delaunay’s lifelong effort to unite art with life by harnessing the energy of technological advancement and the beauty of artisanal craftsmanship. Finally, an appendix provides a unique personal note—an epilogue by Patrick Raynaud, the last living member of Delaunay’s atelier—is a touching firsthand account of the artist’s working practices toward the end of her life. The design, by award-winning book creator Irma Boom, embraces Sonia Delaunay’s own approach to layout and typography, rendering a book that unites past and present to become a work of art in its own right. Distributed for the Bard Graduate Center Exhibition Schedule: Bard Graduate Center, New York (February 23–July 7, 2024)
Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion changes that would dramatically transform China's economy, society, and position in the world. Three decades later, we are living with the results. China has become the second largest economy and the workshop of the world. And while it is essentially a market economy ("socialism with Chinese characteristics"), Deng and his successors ensured the continuation of CCP rule by severely repressing the democratic movement and maintaining an iron grip on power. When Deng died at the age of 92 in 1997, he had set China on the path it is following to this day. Alexander Pantsov and Steven Levine's new biography of Deng Xiaoping does what no other biography has done: based on newly discovered documents, it covers his entire life, from his childhood and student years to the post-Tiananmen era. Thanks to unprecedented access to Russian archives containing massive files on the Chinese Communist Party, the authors present a wealth of new material on Deng dating back to the 1920s. In a long and extraordinary life, Deng navigated one epic crisis after another. Born in 1904, Deng, like many Asian revolutionary leaders, spent part of the 1920s in Paris, where he joined the CCP in its early years. He then studied in the USSR just as Stalin was establishing firm control over the Soviet communist party. He played an increasingly important role in the troubled decades of the 1930s and 1940s that were marked by civil war and the Japanese invasion. He was commissar of a communist-dominated area in the early 1930s, loyal henchman to Mao during the Long March, regional military commander in the anti-Japanese war, and finally a key leader in the 1946-49 revolution. During Mao's quarter century rule, Deng oscillated between the heights and the depths of power. He was purged during the Cultural Revolution, only to reemerge after Mao's death to become China's paramount leader until his own death in 1997. This objective, balanced, and unprecedentedly rich biography changes our understanding of one of the most important figures in modern history.
Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion changes that would dramatically transform China's economy, society, and position in the world. Three decades later, we are living with the results. China has become the second largest economy and the workshop of the world. And while it is essentially a market economy ("socialism with Chinese characteristics"), Deng and his successors ensured the continuation of CCP rule by severely repressing the democratic movement and maintaining an iron grip on power. When Deng died at the age of 92 in 1997, he had set China on the path it is following to this day. Alexander Pantsov and Steven Levine's new biography of Deng Xiaoping does what no other biography has done: based on newly discovered documents, it covers his entire life, from his childhood and student years to the post-Tiananmen era. Thanks to unprecedented access to Russian archives containing massive files on the Chinese Communist Party, the authors present a wealth of new material on Deng dating back to the 1920s. In a long and extraordinary life, Deng navigated one epic crisis after another. Born in 1904, Deng, like many Asian revolutionary leaders, spent part of the 1920s in Paris, where he joined the CCP in its early years. He then studied in the USSR just as Stalin was establishing firm control over the Soviet communist party. He played an increasingly important role in the troubled decades of the 1930s and 1940s that were marked by civil war and the Japanese invasion. He was commissar of a communist-dominated area in the early 1930s, loyal henchman to Mao during the Long March, regional military commander in the anti-Japanese war, and finally a key leader in the 1946-49 revolution. During Mao's quarter century rule, Deng oscillated between the heights and the depths of power. He was purged during the Cultural Revolution, only to reemerge after Mao's death to become China's paramount leader until his own death in 1997. This objective, balanced, and unprecedentedly rich biography changes our understanding of one of the most important figures in modern history.
"China's Bitter Victory" is a comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Striving for a holistic understanding of China's wartime experience, the contributors examine developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country. More than just a history of battles and conferences, the book portrays the significant impact of the war on every dimension of Chinese life, including politics, the economy, culture, legal affairs, and science. For within the overriding struggle for national survival, the competition for political goals continued. China ultimately triumphed, but at a price of between 15 and 20 million lives and vast destruction of property and resources. And China's bitter victory brought new trials for the Chinese people in the form of civil war and revolution. This book tells the story of China during a crucial period pregnant with consequences not only for China but also for Asia and the world as well. Addressed to students, scholars, and general readers, the book aims to fill a gap in the existing literature on modern Chinese history and on World War II.
This "comprehensive, judicious, and finely detailed" (Roderick MacFarquhar, The New York Review of Books) biography of Mao Zedong traces how he created a totalitarian government even more destructive and extreme than Stalin's, while transforming China from an impoverished nation to a leading world power. Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important in the history of modern China. A complex figure, he was both a champion of the poor and a brutal tyrant, a poet and a despot. In this major new biography, the authors draw upon extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to reveal surprising details about Mao's rise to power, his leadership in China, and the true nature of his relationship with Stalin. Mao brought his country from poverty and economic backwardness into the modern age and onto the world stage. But he was also responsible for an unprecedented loss of life during the disastrous Great Leap Forward and the bloody Cultural Revolution. He lived and behaved as China's last emperor. Mao is the full story of Mao's life and rule told as never before.
"China's Bitter Victory" is a comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Striving for a holistic understanding of China's wartime experience, the contributors examine developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country. More than just a history of battles and conferences, the book portrays the significant impact of the war on every dimension of Chinese life, including politics, the economy, culture, legal affairs, and science. For within the overriding struggle for national survival, the competition for political goals continued. China ultimately triumphed, but at a price of between 15 and 20 million lives and vast destruction of property and resources. And China's bitter victory brought new trials for the Chinese people in the form of civil war and revolution. This book tells the story of China during a crucial period pregnant with consequences not only for China but also for Asia and the world as well. Addressed to students, scholars, and general readers, the book aims to fill a gap in the existing literature on modern Chinese history and on World War II.
Strong school leadership is critical for shaping engaging learning environments, supporting high-quality teachers and teaching, and influencing student outcomes. Developing Expert Principals offers a comprehensive research synthesis to understand the elements of high-quality programs and learning experiences that have been associated with positive outcomes ranging from principals’ preparedness and practices to staff retention and student achievement. This book also offers vivid examples of high-quality programs and examines the extent to which principals have opportunities to participate in effective learning experiences. It examines the policies that drive both the development of high-quality programs and access to them, highlighting successful examples across the country. With practical recommendations throughout, this book is a key resource for educational leaders, faculty and scholars of educational leadership, developers of leadership preparation and training, and policymakers who seek to create a learning system that will better serve principals, the staff they support, and, ultimately, all children. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.
Strong school leadership is critical for shaping engaging learning environments, supporting high-quality teachers and teaching, and influencing student outcomes. Developing Expert Principals offers a comprehensive research synthesis to understand the elements of high-quality programs and learning experiences that have been associated with positive outcomes ranging from principals’ preparedness and practices to staff retention and student achievement. This book also offers vivid examples of high-quality programs and examines the extent to which principals have opportunities to participate in effective learning experiences. It examines the policies that drive both the development of high-quality programs and access to them, highlighting successful examples across the country. With practical recommendations throughout, this book is a key resource for educational leaders, faculty and scholars of educational leadership, developers of leadership preparation and training, and policymakers who seek to create a learning system that will better serve principals, the staff they support, and, ultimately, all children. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.
"Extremely informative. . . deserves a wide readership, both inside and outside police departments." ?Publishers Weekly "An imaginative and insightful account of the day-to-day life of the black police officer in a large urban environment. A must read for all police officers, white as well as black." ?Marvin Blue President, Guardians Association New York City Police Department ". . . well written and achieves its purpose. It will be of interest to specialists and students of race relations, urban problems, and criminal justice issues."br>?Library Journal This book is about the world of black police in New York City: who they are, how they work with the department, how they are recruited by whites, how they are treated in turn by their fellow blacks, and how they operate day by day in the richest as well as the poorest parts of the city. Leinen provides direct quotations from police, citizens, city administrators, and street hustlers, as well as detailed assessments of encounters in the everyday relations between police and the public.
Walt Disney's vision for an art school located before the gates of Los Angeles became a reality: Opened 50 years ago, the California Institute of the Arts had long been in crisis, before Steven D. Lavine led it to financial prosperity and international acclaim. Today, CalArts is the cradle of many Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winners, of Mellon and Guggenheim Fellows – a hotspot of American creativity. In personal conversations with Jörn Jacob Rohwer, Lavine tells his life story for the first time, talking about cultural politics, philanthropy, the avant-garde and Los Angeles at the centre of his life. Spurred on by self-doubts and a desire to learn from failure, he proves to be a sensitive thinker, visionary and transatlantic mediator between the worlds of art, politics and education.
Stiven Spilberg - odin iz samykh vydajuschikhsja rezhisserov v istorii kinematografa. Razmenjavshij vosmoj desjatok, neobyknovenno odarennyj i talantlivyj, on vse esche sozdaet na ekrane istorii, zatragivajuschie kazhdogo. Ego vklad v razvitie mirovogo kinematografa nevozmozhno pereotsenit: CHELJUSTI, INDIANA DZHONS, INOPLANETJANIN, PARK JURSKOGO PERIODA, SPISOK SHINDLERA, VOJNA MIROV - kazhdyj novyj film mastera srazu stanovilsja sensatsiej, sobiravshej v kinoteatrakh milliony, chto sdelalo Spilberga samym kassovym rezhisserom v istorii. A tysjachi detej, smotrevshikh filmy mastera v kinoteatrakh, spustja mnogo let prishli v kinematograf rabotat i teper sozdajut svoi istorii. Za svoju mnogoletnjuju dejatelnost on poluchil samye vazhnye i prestizhnye nagrady: imennaja zvezda na Allee Slavy v Gollivude, zvanie pochetnogo Rytsarja-Komandora ordena Britanskoj imperii "za neotsenimyj vklad v razvitie britanskoj kinopromyshlennosti", Orden Korony stepeni Komandora v Belgii, Prezidentskaja medal Svobody v SSHA - eto lish malaja chast togo, chego udostoilsja Stiven Spilberg za svoi filmy.
V etom sbornike Stiven King sobral povesti i rasskazy, kotorye legli v osnovu izvestnykh gollivudskikh filmov. Pisatel takzhe dobavil svoi kommentarii, deljas vpechatlenijami o kazhdoj kartine i razmyshljaja, udalos li rezhisseram peredat dukh ego proizvedenij ili, mozhet, dazhe prevzojti ikh. Sjurrealistichnaja i zhestokaja "Mjasorubka", originalnye i pugajuschie "Deti kukuruzy", zagadochnye i intellektualnye "Serdtsa v Atlantide", uvlekatelnyj i realistichnyj "Pobeg iz Shoushenka" i klassicheskij "uzhastik""1408". Pjat istorij, pjat ekranizatsij s luchshimi akterami - ot Morgana Frimena i Tima Robbinsa do Entoni Khopkinsa i Dzhona Kjusaka. Vy smotreli eti filmy? Vozmozhno, teper samoe vremja perechitat literaturnye proizvedenija, po kotorym oni byli snjaty!..
V etom sbornike Stiven King sobral povesti i rasskazy, kotorye legli v osnovu izvestnykh gollivudskikh filmov. Pisatel takzhe dobavil svoi kommentarii, deljas vpechatlenijami o kazhdoj kartine i razmyshljaja, udalos li rezhisseram peredat dukh ego proizvedenij ili, mozhet, dazhe prevzojti ikh.Sjurrealistichnaja i zhestokaja "Mjasorubka", originalnye i pugajuschie "Deti kukuruzy", zagadochnye i intellektualnye "Serdtsa v Atlantide", uvlekatelnyj i realistichnyj "Pobeg iz Shoushenka" i klassicheskij "uzhastik""1408".Pjat istorij, pjat ekranizatsij s luchshimi akterami - ot Morgana Frimena i Tima Robbinsa do Entoni Khopkinsa i Dzhona Kjusaka.Vy smotreli eti filmy? Vozmozhno, teper samoe vremja perechitat literaturnye proizvedenija, po kotorym oni byli snjaty!..
Stiven Khoking - chelovek-legenda, anglijskij fizik-teoretik i populjarizator nauki, izvestnyj svoimi rabotami v oblasti chernykh dyr, odin iz osnovopolozhnikov kvantovoj kosmologii. Leonard Mlodinov - amerikanskij fizik-teoretik i matematik, stsenarist i pisatel.Vysshij zamyselV etoj knige avtory izlagajut aktualnye nauchnye gipotezy o tajnakh mirozdanija. Kogda i kak voznikla Vselennaja? Pochemu my nakhodimsja tam, gde nakhodimsja? Pochemu na mesto zloveschego nichto prishlo nechto? Kakova priroda realnosti? Pochemu Vselennaja nastroena imenno tem tonchajshim obrazom, kotoryj pozvoljaet suschestvovat cheloveku? Udivitelnaja kniga, dajuschaja novye neozhidannye otvety na glavnye voprosy bytija.Chernye dyry i molodye vselennyeVpervye lektsija pod nazvaniem "Chernye dyry i molodye vselennye" byla prochitana v Kalifornijskom universitete v Berkli. Dopolnennaja razmyshlenijami Stivena Khokinga na etu i smezhnye temy, ona stala chastju nastojaschego sbornika, sostavlennogo iz 13 esse i razvernutogo intervju.Na etikh stranitsakh Khoking tolkuet naibolee verojatnye modeli ustrojstva Vselennoj. On rassuzhdaet o voobrazhaemom vremeni, o tom, kakim obrazom chernye dyry mogut dat zhizn molodym vselennym, i o popytkakh uchenykh, nachatykh Albertom Ejnshtejnom, najti edinuju teoriju polja, kotoraja smogla by sdelat makrokosmos predskazuemym.Kratchajshaja istorija vremeni"Kratchajshaja istorija vremeni" - bolshe, chem prostrannyj kommentarij k slozhnym ponjatijam i teorijam, opisannym v legendarnoj "Kratkoj istorii vremeni". Avtory, mnogoe pomenjavshie v astrofizike, spustja 17 let novym vzgljadom smotrjat na izvechnye voprosy: o prirode prostranstva i vremeni, roli Boga v sotvorenii mira, o proshlom i buduschem Vselennoj. Kniga delaet ponjatnymi slozhnejshie golovolomki i ostrye protivorechija, kotorye siljatsja razreshit na perednem krae nauki o Vselennoj.
Glavnyj v mire po chjornym dyram. Stiven Khoking - britanskij fizik-teoretik, kosmolog, pisatel. Ego neverojatnaja populjarnost vyrvalas za granitsy nauchnogo mira - on stal nastojaschej zvezdoj pop-kultury. Redchajshij sluchaj dlja uchjonogo! O ego zhizni i nauchnykh teorijakh stavili spektakli, snimali khudozhestvennye i dokumentalnye filmy. Stiven igral samogo sebja v komedijakh i nauchno-fantasticheskikh serialakh. I dazhe stal geroem multikov! Khoking byl ne tolko odnim iz samykh blestjaschikh i znamenitykh uchjonykh nashego stoletija, no i chelovekom s prevoskhodnym chuvstvom jumora. On smejalsja nad svoimi nedugami. Tjazhjolaja progressirujuschaja bolezn lishila ego vozmozhnosti dvigatsja - bolshuju chast zhizni Stiven byl prikovan k invalidnoj koljaske. No eto ne meshalo emu zanimatsja slozhnejshimi vychislenijami i pisat nauchno-populjarnye knigi pro Vselennuju, kotorye stali nastojaschimi bestsellerami.
Stiven Pol Dzhobs (1955-2011), amerikanskij predprinimatel i promyshlennyj dizajner, s detskikh let mechtal izmenit okruzhajuschij nas mir, ostavit svoj, ni s chim ne sravnimyj sled. On schital sebja chelovekom iskljuchitelnym. "Nazvanie dlja novoj produktsii tak srazu ne podberesh". Ironija tut, kstati, ni pri chem. Novaja produktsija - eto chelovek, a novyj chelovek, eto, ponjatno, sam Dzhobs - odin iz osnovatelej znamenitoj korporatsii "Apple" i kinostudii "Pixar". Genialnyj dizajner, ubezhdennyj vegetarianets, poklonnik vostochnykh uchenij, neistovyj trudogolik, egoist - desjatki kompleksov v techenie zhizni meshali Dzhobsu. "On byl slishkom zanjat dlja togo, chtoby spuskat za soboj vodu v tualete". Zato teper my zhivem v mire, napolnennom tekhnicheskimi porozhdenijami samykh neverojatnykh ego fantazij. Pri etom, mozhet, glavnoe, chto Dzhobs ostavil v nashem mire, - mif o sebe, mif, im zhe samim sozdannyj. Popytku razobratsja v etom predprinjali izvestnyj pisatel Gennadij Prashkevich (Novosibirsk, Rossija) i professionalnyj matematik, pisatel Sergej Solovev (Tuluza, Frantsija). Chem zhil Stiven Dzhobs? Kak on zhil? Chto privelo ego k tragicheskoj prezhdevremennoj gibeli? Da, on izmenil nash mir. No v kakuju storonu - v luchshuju ili v khudshuju? Samoe vremja zadumatsja i nad etim.
Stiven Pol Dzhobs, amerikanskij predprinimatel i promyshlennyj dizajner, s detskikh let mechtal izmenit okruzhajuschij nas mir, ostavit svoj, ni s chim ne sravnimyj sled. On schital sebja chelovekom iskljuchitelnym. "Nazvanie dlja novoj produktsii tak srazu ne podberesh". Ironija tut, kstati, ni pri chem. Novaja produktsija - eto chelovek, a novyj chelovek, eto, ponjatno, sam Dzhobs - odin iz osnovatelej znamenitoj korporatsii "Apple" i kinostudii "Pixar". Genialnyj dizajner, ubezhdennyj vegetarianets, poklonnik vostochnykh uchenij, neistovyj trudogolik, egoist - desjatki kompleksov v techenie zhizni meshali Dzhobsu. "On byl slishkom zanjat dlja togo, chtoby spuskat za soboj vodu v tualete". Zato teper my zhivem v mire, napolnennom tekhnicheskimi porozhdenijami samykh neverojatnykh ego fantazij. Pri etom, mozhet, glavnoe, chto Dzhobs ostavil v nashem mire, - mif o sebe, mif, im zhe samim sozdannyj. Popytku razobratsja v etom predprinjali izvestnyj pisatel Gennadij Prashkevich (Novosibirsk, Rossija) i professionalnyj matematik, pisatel Sergej Solovev (Tuluza, Frantsija). Chem zhil Stiven Dzhobs? Kak on zhil? Chto privelo ego k tragicheskoj prezhdevremennoj gibeli? Da, on izmenil nash mir. No v kakuju storonu - v luchshuju ili v khudshuju? Samoe vremja zadumatsja i nad etim.
U svojij novij knizi vidomij amerikanskij fizik-teoretik i populjarizator nauki Leonard Mlodinov zgaduje pro spilnu robotu z vidatnim britanskim uchenim nashogo chasu Stivenom Gokingom (1942-2018). Chitach poznajomitsja z naukovim i osobistim zhittjam Gokinga, v tomu chisli tim, jak vidatnij uchenij desjatilittjami dolav nedugu, vid jakoji mig pomerti sche v molodomu vitsi, ale popri tse vizhiv i zrobiv neotsinennij vnesok u teoretichnu fiziku, zaproponuvav revoljutsijni ideji v sferi kosmologiji. Avtor u populjarnij formi namagajetsja pojasniti dejaki tajemnitsi pokhodzhennja Vsesvitu, osoblivosti chornikh dir i znachennja tsikh ta inshikh idej dlja nashikh ujavlen pro svit, v jakomu mi zhivemo. Vikladennja naukovo-populjarnikh idej suchasnoji teoretichnoji fiziki ta kosmologiji peremezhovujutsja iz zarisovkami z dijalnosti Stivena Gokinga, jakij popri vazhku formu invalidnosti zumiv prozhiti tsikave ta jaskrave zhittja, piznav kokhannja, dosjag triumfu i zaznav rozcharuvan.Dlja shirokogo kola chitachiv, jaki tsikavljatsja suchasnoju naukoju.PerekladachJaroslav Vojtko
Bill Gejts, Stiv Voznjak, Marvin Minskij i drugie geroi kompjuternoj revoljutsii 1980-kh godov rasskazyvajut o tom, kak borolis s suschestvujuschimi porjadkami, formirovali novye i borolis s zakonom za pravo svobodnogo dostupa k informatsii. Stiven Levi pogovoril s tremja pokolenijami byvshikh khakerov, chtoby vy iz pervykh ust uznali: * Kak sozdavalis pervye personalnye kompjutery? * Pochemu izvestnye izobretateli brosali universitety? * Mozhno li schitat khakerov kiberprestupnikami? * Kakie "khakerskie" tsennosti obedinjali i prodolzhajut obedinjat gikov po vsej planete? * Zachem krupnejshie tekhnologicheskie kompanii po sej den nanimajut na rabotu professionalnykh khakerov? * Pochemu set, kakuju my ee znaem, nevozmozhna bez khakerskoj kultury? I mnogoe drugoe ob istokakh kompjuternoj industrii i rozhdenii tekhnologicheskikh gigantov epokhi tsifrovizatsii, naprimer, Apple i Microsoft.
