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  Geographical Locations - Sand...

  Mike Blake

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  Geographical Locations: Sand GrainsA medium short poem.Apart from the obvious location of where you find yourself in the World,also the location you are seeking to find.*****MORE POEMS BY THE AUTHOR: **To see more Poems by the same Author please follow the link below: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00SG40RM8To contact the Author: Please add me Mike Miko on Facebook & then message me, thanks. https://www.facebook.com/mike.cco1I will then contact the Author your behalf. or on Twitter: miko_1_dollarInstagram:  wild_poetrys  //  wild.poetry.websTikTok: @Wild_Poetryswww.wild-poetry.comNew Poets Corner: https://www.facebook.com/New.Poets.Corner

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  Radical Cartography - How...

  William Rankin

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  A thought-provoking exploration of how maps shape our understanding of the world 
  Cartographer and historian William Rankin argues that it's time to reimagine what a map can be and how it can be used. Maps are not neutral visualizations of facts. They are innately political, defining how the world is divided, what becomes visible and what stays hidden, and whose voices are heard. What matters isn't just the topics or the data, but how maps make arguments about how the world works. And the consequences are enormous. A map's visual argument can change how cities are designed and how rivers flow, how wars are fought and how land claims are settled, how children learn about race and how colonialism becomes a habit of mind. Maps don't just show us information—they help construct our world.Brimming with vibrant maps, including many "radical" maps created by Rankin himself and by other cutting-edge mapmakers, Radical Cartography exposes the consequences of how maps represent boundaries, layers, people, projections, color, scale, and time. Challenging the map as a tool of the status quo, Rankin empowers listeners to embrace three unexpected values for the future of cartography: uncertainty, multiplicity, and subjectivity. Changing the tools—changing the maps—can change the questions we ask, the answers we accept, and the world we build.

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  How Documentaries Went...

  Nora Stone

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  Since the 1960s, documentary films have moved closer to the mainstream, thanks to the popularity of rockumentaries, association with the independent film movement, support from public and cable television, and the rise of streaming video services. Documentary films have become reliable earners at the US box office and ubiquitous on streaming platforms, while historically they existed on the margins of mainstream media. 
   
   
   
  The growing commercialization of documentary film has not gone unnoticed, but it has not been sufficiently explained. Streaming and the growing interest in reality TV are usually offered as explanations whenever a documentary enters the cultural conversation or breaks a box-office record, but neither of those causes grapple with the overlapping causal mechanisms that commercialized documentary film. How Documentaries Went Mainstream provides a more comprehensive and meaningful periodization of the commercialization of documentary film. Although the commercial ascension of documentary films might seem meteoric, it is the culmination of decades-long efforts that have developed and fortified the audience for documentary features. Author Nora Stone refines rough explanations of these efforts through a robust history of the market for documentary films, using knowledge of film economics and the norms of industry discourse to tell a richer story.

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  Albertus - The Biography of a...

  Simon Garfield

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  A compact and charming history of the beloved handcrafted font by the New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type. 
   
   
   
  Albertus, first carved on a bronze tablet in the 1930s by German Jewish refugee Berthold Wolpe, has proved to be one of the most enduring handcrafted typefaces in the world. It is at once modern and timeless, authoritative and whimsical—renowned as the typeface of London Street signs, David Bowie albums, and Star Wars movie posters. In this unique celebration, bestselling author Simon Garfield charts the story of the creation of Albertus, its innumerable and vibrant uses, and the erratic brilliance of its designer, as recounted by Wolpe's children. Through his exploration of this singular font, Garfield grapples with one of the most fundamental artistic questions: what makes great art not only survive but flourish in each new age and medium?

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  Let The Music Play - How R&B...

  Steven Vass

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  Let the Music Play: How R&B Fell in Love with 80s Synths is the overlooked story of how R&B, disco and funk were transformed by the explosion of music tech in the era of ghetto blasters and Ronald Reagan. It traces how pioneers like Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock inspired a new generation of black musicians and producers to reinvent music with a whole new set of rules. 
  It shows how artists and producers used synths and other new music tech to reinvent R&B, concentrating on the period from 1978-86. Covering a wide range of artists, genres and scenes, including disco, LA/Solar Records, Minneapolis/Prince, boogie, New York electro/post-disco, Britfunk, Jam & Lewis, movie/promo influence and mid-80s pop. As well as covering big stars like Prince, Sade and Janet Jackson, it looks at many great artists who are often forgotten, such as Skyy, Loose Ends, Imagination, Colonel Abrams, Princess, Gwen Guthrie, Lillo Thomas, Zapp, Jonzun Crew and Yarbrough & Peoples.

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  LOVE UPON KNIVES - A Novel of...

  ANNA GOGOLEVA

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  St. Petersburg, 1795. The glittering capital of Catherine the Great—a city of palatial wealth and abject poverty, where a single misstep can cost a life and a single glance can change a destiny.
   
  Katya is nineteen years old, a floor-washer in the Winter Palace. Orphaned, illiterate, with nothing but her mother's river-pearl necklace and hands raw from lye, she expects nothing from life but more of the same: endless floors, endless servitude, endless invisibility.
   
  Until the night a fortune-teller comes to the servants' hall.
   
  The cards speak of a tower struck by lightning, a moon shrouded in deceit, and two lovers destined to walk on knives. Katya laughs—until she looks up and sees him standing in the doorway.
   
  Baron Karl von Kleist is the Prussian envoy to the Russian court: brilliant, cultured, married to a woman he does not love. He has spent twenty years building a career, a reputation, a life of cold calculation. He has never once looked at a servant as anything but furniture.
   
  But when his eyes meet Katya's across a candlelit room, something cracks inside him. Something he cannot name. Something he cannot control.
   
  What begins as a stolen glance becomes a secret meeting in a moonlit garden. A kiss on a callused hand becomes a duel in a snow-covered forest. A forbidden love becomes a desperate flight across borders—and a choice that will cost them everything.
   
  But in a world where nobles scheme and empresses watch, where Counts hunger for revenge and the Secret Chancellery hunts for spies, can a German baron and a Russian peasant build a life together? Can love survive the weight of empire?
   
  Based on the timeless themes of passion, sacrifice, and the eternal power of the human heart, Love Upon Knives is a sweeping historical romance that asks the oldest question of all:
   
  How far would you go for the one you love?

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