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  Redeeming Vision - A Christian...

  Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt

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  Christianity Today 2024 Award of Merit (Culture and the Arts) 
   
  The Gospel Coalition 2023 Book Award (Arts & Culture) 
   
  We are formed by the images we view. From classical art to advertisements and from news photos to social media, the images we look at mold our ideas of race, gender, and class. They shape how we love God and our neighbor. 
   
  This practical guide helps us look closely at and understand how a wide variety of images make meaning as aesthetic and cultural objects. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt teaches us how to learn from art rather than critique it and how to respond to images in Christian ways, allowing them to positively transform us and how we love. 
   
  The book includes twenty-three images, most in full color, that range from classical European paintings to Central African sculpture, from Chinese ink painting to political propaganda, and from stark anthropological photographs to unconventional installations.

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  Metaverse for Beginners - Guide...

  Eisuke Nakamoto, Academy...

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  What exactly is the Metaverse?And how can we make money with it?If you want to know more, then keep reading…If you’ve not heard, Metaverse is the future! It’s planned to be the next big thing in Crypto, and in fact many leaders claim it's going to be the next stage of the Internet and possibly even bigger than the internet itself.You don’t believe that?Well, Facebook (one of the biggest companies in the world) have so much trust in it that they’ve changed their business name to “Meta”! to reflect the investment being made in the Metaverse.“Facebook is spending Billions of dollars a year already on the metaverse” (The Guardian 28 Oct 2021).WOW! That’s conviction!Plus, Bloomberg recently projected the market size of the metaverse to reach $800 billion in 2024!So the big question is…How can you get ahead and monetize the Metaverse?This book gives you the answers.In this Metaverse book, you will discover:A Full understanding of the MetaverseVirtual Reality in the MetaverseHow Augmented Reality works in the MetaverseThe investment of NFT’s in the MetaverseAvoid Risks and Challenges in the MetaverseThe Future of the MetaverseTOP METAVERSE INVESTMENTS TO SKYROCKET!Plus much more we can't list here!If you are looking for:Information on Crypto Currency InvestingA Better Understanding of DeFi and the Future of FinanceNFT Books for BeginnersBooks on the Metaverse for BeginnersThen this is just the book you’re looking for.THIS IS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND UP TO DATE BOOK ON THE METAVERSEFind out which companies will provide a money-printing bonanza!

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  Upward Bound Soaring to New...

  B.Sc. Colin Bruno

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  Upward Bound, Soaring to New Heights in the Vertical Metropolis: Challenges of High-Density Living, Megacities and Public Health, The Social Impact of Vertical Cities 
  Are you ready to delve into the intricacies of urbanization and confront the challenges inherent in the rise of megacities? The dynamics of high-density living, exploring its impact on public health, social structures, and the environment. 
     
  • How does urbanization affect my daily life and the world around me?   
  • What are the challenges and opportunities posed by the growth of megacities?   
  • Is there a comprehensive guide to navigating the complexities of city living?Meet the Author: The Urban Explorer 
  Embark on a journey with our seasoned urban explorer, who intimately understands the complexities of city life. Drawing from firsthand experiences in bustling metropolises, they offer practical solutions for thriving amidst congestion, pollution, and the pursuit of sustainability.What to Expect: 
     
  • Examine the multifaceted impact of urbanization on society, the economy, and the environment.   
  • Gain insights into the challenges posed by megacities, from traffic congestion to housing shortages.   
  • Discover strategies for sustainable living in rapidly developing urban landscapes.   
  • Explore the cultural and social dynamics shaping the fabric of megacities.   
  • Investigate innovative solutions for urban challenges and community resilience.   
  • Access practical tips for navigating urban environments, from transportation to recreation.   
  • Learn from global case studies of successful urban development projects.   
  • Empower yourself to make informed choices for a sustainable urban lifestyle.

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  Monet and Picasso - The Painters...

  Kelly Mass

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  This is a compilation of 2 different titles, which are about the following topics: 
  1: Claude Monet has been the icon for the impressionist movement. Painting vague strokes of color and contrast, water, and flowers were typical. Other aspects of the art weren’t as clear but were just as important, nonetheless. Claude Monet certainly faced many struggles as he tried to build his passion for painting into a career. His family life wasn’t perfect either, but despite of all these obstacles, the French genius painter has left us a legacy and a new perspective on realism and technique in their purest forms. 
  In this guide, we’ll go over his youth, his style, his methods, his most famous paintings, and many of the reasons why he made the decisions he made. Embark on a journey by diving into the world of art in the French countryside in the 19th century. Find out what made this painter so unique and beloved by so many. 
  2: Picasso’s work is famous. His art is intricate yet bizarre. Many people have stood still over the wonders and simplicity of cubism and surrealism and have either been disgusted or amazed by it. 
   Picasso’s personal life was filled with struggles, but some of those were likely self-imposed. From records, we learn that he had multiple marriages, stepfamilies, and was extremely abusive in several of his relationships, dominating the women he slept with in kinky, sadistic ways. His children weren’t any better off, creating substance abuse and suicidal headlines. Despite of the dysfunctionality in his personal and family life, his artwork reflected something new and fresh. His concepts of color, contrast, and composition have inspired many.

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  Sounds of Other Shores - The...

  Andrew J. Eisenberg

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  Sounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic appropriation in the Swahili taarab music of the Kenyan coast. Swahili taarab, a form of sung poetry that emerged as East Africa's first mass-mediated popular music in the 1930s, is a famously cosmopolitan form, rich in audible influences from across the Indian Ocean. But the variants of the genre that emerged in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa during the twentieth century feature particularly dramatic, even flamboyant, appropriations of Indian and Arab sonic gestures and styles. Combining oral history, interpretive ethnography, and musical analysis, Sounds of Other Shores explores how Swahili-speaking Muslims in twentieth-century Mombasa derived pleasure and meaning from acts of transoceanic musical appropriation, arguing that these acts served as ways of reflecting on and mediating the complexities and contradictions associated with being "Swahili" in colonial and postcolonial Kenya. The result is a musical anthropology of Kenyan Swahili subjectivity that reframes longstanding questions about Swahili identity while contributing to broader discussions about identity and citizenship in Africa and the Indian Ocean world.

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  Fleetwood Mac's Tusk

  Rob Trucks

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  After Rumours became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significant cash in the long run) and then handed the reins to their guitarist and resident perfectionist Lindsey Buckingham. “You know,” Buckingham said, “we had this ridiculous success with Rumours. We were poised to do another album, and I guess because the axiom ‘If it works, run it into the ground’ was prevalent then, we were probably poised to do Rumours II. I don’t know how you do that, but somehow my light bulb that went off was, ‘Let’s just not do that. Let’s very pointedly not do that.’ ”Here, Rob Trucks talks to Lindsey Buckingham, as well as members of Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, and the USC Trojan marching band in order to chart both the story and the impact of an album born of personal obsession and a stubborn unwillingness to compromise.

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