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Book Color Your Future

    Book Details:
  • Author : Taylor Hartman
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0684865718
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Color Your Future written by Taylor Hartman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Future Was Color

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Nathan
  • Publisher : Catapult
  • Release : 2024-06-04
  • ISBN : 1640096256
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book The Future Was Color written by Patrick Nathan and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling novel about the inextricable link between the personal and the political set against the decadence of Hollywood and postwar Los Angeles As a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack writing monster movies in 1950s Hollywood, George Curtis must navigate the McCarthy-era studio system filled with possible communists and spies, the life of closeted men along Sunset Boulevard, and the inability of the era to cleave love from persecution and guilt. But when Madeline, a famous actress, offers George a writing residency at her estate in Malibu to work on the political writing he cares most deeply about, his world is blown open. Soon Madeline is carrying George like an ornament into a class of postwar L.A. society ordinarily hidden from men like him. What this lifestyle hides behind, aside from the monsters on the screen, are the monsters dwelling closer to home: this bacchanalia covers a gnawing hole shelled wide by the horror of the war they thought they’d left behind and the glimpse of an atomic future. It’s here that George understands he can never escape his past as György, the queer Jew who fled Budapest before the war and landed in New York, all alone, a decade prior. Spanning from sun-drenched Los Angeles to the hidden corners of working-class New York to a virtuosic climax in the Las Vegas desert, The Future Was Color is an immaculately written exploration of postwar American decadence, reinventing the self through art, and the psychosis that lingers in a world that’s seen the bomb.

Book Seeing a Color Blind Future

Download or read book Seeing a Color Blind Future written by Patricia J. Williams and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC) Patricia J. Williams asks how we might achieve a world where "color doesn't matter"--where whiteness is not equated with normalcy and blackness with exoticism and danger. Drawing on her own experience, Williams delineates the great divide between "the poles of other people's imagination and the nice calm center of oneself where dignity resides," and discusses how it might be bridged as a first step toward resolving racism. Williams offers us a new starting point--"a sensible and sustained consideration"--from which we might begin to deal honestly with the legacy and current realities of our prejudices.

Book What Color is Your Parachute  for Teens

Download or read book What Color is Your Parachute for Teens written by Carol Christen and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents advice for teenagers on landing a dream job.

Book Seeing a Colour blind Future

Download or read book Seeing a Colour blind Future written by Patricia J. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of lectures which focussed on the small, constant aggressions of racism.

Book My Life in Color  Guided Journal

Download or read book My Life in Color Guided Journal written by Brittany Watson Jepsen and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life in Color offers a unique way to create a vibrant self-portrait. Conceived by Brittany Watson Jepsen, founder of the beloved blog The House That Lars Built, this guided journal is divided into eight color-themed chapters that are filled with thought-provoking prompts. Uncover your passions in the red section, ponder your personal growth in the green section, and think about what calms and centers you in the blue section. This hardcover journal has a removable jacket and exposed binding that shows off its multicolored signatures. It lies perfectly flat and features space to gather mementos and organize them by color. Within these pages, the random aspects of your life--your memories, current obsessions, and dreams for the future--will fall into harmony, because everything is beautiful when it is arranged in rainbow order! Inspired by Craft the Rainbow, also by Brittany Watson Jepsen, My Life in Color is part of a vibrant collection of journals, including one hardcover and one paperback notebook.

Book The Future Was Here

Download or read book The Future Was Here written by Jimmy Maher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the often-overlooked history and technological innovations of the world's first true multimedia computer. Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Commodore products); and the boring, beige adult box used for business (exemplified by products from IBM). The game machines became fascinating technical and artistic platforms that were of limited real-world utility. The IBM products were all utility, with little emphasis on aesthetics and no emphasis on fun. Into this bifurcated computing environment came the Commodore Amiga 1000. This personal computer featured a palette of 4,096 colors, unprecedented animation capabilities, four-channel stereo sound, the capacity to run multiple applications simultaneously, a graphical user interface, and powerful processing potential. It was, Jimmy Maher writes in The Future Was Here, the world's first true multimedia personal computer. Maher argues that the Amiga's capacity to store and display color photographs, manipulate video (giving amateurs access to professional tools), and use recordings of real-world sound were the seeds of the digital media future: digital cameras, Photoshop, MP3 players, and even YouTube, Flickr, and the blogosphere. He examines different facets of the platform—from Deluxe Paint to AmigaOS to Cinemaware—in each chapter, creating a portrait of the platform and the communities of practice that surrounded it. Of course, Maher acknowledges, the Amiga was not perfect: the DOS component of the operating systems was clunky and ill-matched, for example, and crashes often accompanied multitasking attempts. And Commodore went bankrupt in 1994. But for a few years, the Amiga's technical qualities were harnessed by engineers, programmers, artists, and others to push back boundaries and transform the culture of computing.

Book The Color of Wealth

Download or read book The Color of Wealth written by Barbara Robles and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2006-06-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why do people of color have so little wealth? The Color of Wealth lays bare a dirty secret: for centuries, people of color have been barred by laws and by discrimination from participating in government wealth-building programs that benefit white Americans. This accessible book—published in conjunction with one of the country's leading economics education organizations—makes the case that until government policy tackles disparities in wealth, not just income, the United States will never have racial or economic justice. Written by five leading experts on the racial wealth divide who recount the asset-building histories of Native Americans, Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans, this book is a uniquely comprehensive multicultural history of American wealth. With its focus on public policies—how, for example, many post–World War II GI Bill programs helped whites only—The Color of Wealth is the first book to demonstrate the decisive influence of government on Americans' net worth.

Book The Color of Autism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Toni Flowers
  • Publisher : Future Horizons
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9781885477576
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book The Color of Autism written by Toni Flowers and published by Future Horizons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author has been voted Teacher of the Year by the Autism Society of America"--The title page.

Book The Republic of Color

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Rossi
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-08-30
  • ISBN : 022665172X
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book The Republic of Color written by Michael Rossi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republic of Color delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to unearth its origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial transformation of turn-of-the-century America. For a nation in the grip of profound economic, cultural, and demographic crises, the standardization of color became a means of social reform—a way of sculpting the American population into one more amenable to the needs of the emerging industrial order. Delineating color was also a way to characterize the vagaries of human nature, and to create ideal structures through which those humans would act in a newly modern American republic. Michael Rossi’s compelling history goes far beyond the culture of the visual to show readers how the control and regulation of color shaped the social contours of modern America—and redefined the way we see the world.

Book What Color Is Your Parachute  for Retirement  Second Edition

Download or read book What Color Is Your Parachute for Retirement Second Edition written by John E. Nelson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan Now for the Life You Want Today’s economic realities have reset our expectations of what retirement is, yet there’s still the promise for what it can be: a life stage filled with more freedom and potential than ever before. Given the new normal, how do you plan for a future filled with prosperity, health, and happiness? As a companion to What Color Is Your Parachute?, the world’s best-selling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement offers both a holistic, big-picture look at these years as well as practical tools and exercises to help you build a life full of security, vitality, and community. This second edition contains updates throughout, including a section on Social Security, an in-depth exercise on values and how they inform your retirement map, and the one-of-a-kind resource for organizing the sea of information on finances and mental and physical health: the Retirement Well-Being Profile. More than a guide on where to live, how to stay active, or which investments to choose, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement helps you develop a detailed picture of your ideal retirement, so that—whether you’re planning retirement or are there already—you can take a comprehensive approach to make the most of these vital years.

Book The Color of Christ

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward J. Blum
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2012-09-21
  • ISBN : 0807837377
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book The Color of Christ written by Edward J. Blum and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions--from witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to South Park, Mormon revelations to Indian reservations--to show how Americans remade the Son of God visually time and again into a sacred symbol of their greatest aspirations, deepest terrors, and mightiest strivings for racial power and justice. The Color of Christ uncovers how, in a country founded by Puritans who destroyed depictions of Jesus, Americans came to believe in the whiteness of Christ. Some envisioned a white Christ who would sanctify the exploitation of Native Americans and African Americans and bless imperial expansion. Many others gazed at a messiah, not necessarily white, who was willing and able to confront white supremacy. The color of Christ still symbolizes America's most combustible divisions, revealing the power and malleability of race and religion from colonial times to the presidency of Barack Obama.

Book Werner s nomenclature of colours  with additions by P  Syme

Download or read book Werner s nomenclature of colours with additions by P Syme written by Patrick Syme and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diverse Futures

Download or read book Diverse Futures written by Joy Sanchez-Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color examines the contributions of late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century US and Canadian science fiction authors of color. By looking at the intersections among science fiction authors of multiple races and ethnicities, Joy Sanchez-Taylor seeks to explain how these authors of color are juxtaposing tropes of science fiction with specific cultural references to comment on issues of inclusiveness in Eurowestern cultures. The central argument of this work is that these authors are challenging science fiction's history of Eurocentric representation through the depiction of communities of color in fantastic or futuristic settings, specifically by using cognitive estrangement and the inclusion of non-Eurowestern cultural beliefs and practices to comment on the alienation of racially dominated groups. By exploring science fiction tropes--such as first contact, genetic modification, post-apocalyptic landscapes, and advanced technologies in the works of Octavia E. Butler, Ted Chiang, Sabrina Vourvoulias, and many others--Sanchez-Taylor demonstrates how authors of various races and ethnicities write science fiction that pays homage to the genre while also creating a more diverse and inclusive portrait of the future.

Book What Color is Your Parachute

Download or read book What Color is Your Parachute written by Richard Nelson Bolles and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Editor   Publisher

Download or read book Editor Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 2200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The future of the universe astrophysics

Download or read book The future of the universe astrophysics written by Fulvio Gagliardi and published by Elison Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of us are wondering: how is the universe we live in, how long has it existed and above all how long will it last? Many, on the other hand, prefer not to think about it so much, the answer does not exist and in any case it does not interest us, what surrounds us seems to have always existed and it is not worth asking these questions. However, man has always asked himself these questions since ancient times and many philosophers have filled pages and pages with hypotheses on the possible end of the world. Today we have been able to understand how the universe has evolved up to our days, but the very first moments of its existence remain obscure and above all what could have been before its birth, if there was a before. It is not yet known how the universe could evolve in the future, how it could end and what could exist after its end. In this paper the author tries to give some possible answers and, in order to be able to easily delve into the complex laws that govern the genesis and evolution of the cosmos, at the beginning of this text the theory of relativity is briefly illustrated, that of quanta and the most recent string and loop gravity theories.