In the storytelling tradition of Studs Terkel and the photographic spirit of Mike Disfarmer, The Oxford Project tells the extraordinary true tale of a seemingly ordinary Midwestern town through the pictures and words of its residents. Equal parts art, American history, cultural anthropology, and human narrative—The Oxford Project is at once personal and universal, surprising and predictable, simple and profound.
Today the forced relocation of 120,000 innocent U.S. citizens to camps in seven states of the American West has been condemned as immoral and unconstitutional. In 1988 the federal government paid restitution to survivors and issued an apology, while official reports acknowledged that the policy arose from racism and irrational fear.
A 134-page, fully illustrated catalogue edited by Joe Earle and published by Yale University Press provides the historical, cultural, and ideological context for Serizawa's unique oeuvre in six essays written by leading Japanese and American scholars of 20th-century Japanese art and literature.
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The excesses of the Schön case—like the fantastic forgeries of previous eras—throw light onto habits and practices that have come to seem normal. The relentless rat race to produce new results quickly in order to secure the next round of funding or promotion is not without consequences.
Photographs by Denver Post photojournalist Craig F. Walker track Ian FIsher from high school graduation through basic training, assignment to Colorado's Fort Carson and a year-long deployment in Iraq.
Webdoc qui suit le parcours d'un lycéen américain de son enrôlement dans l'armée à son déploiement en Irak.
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The pay gap between executives and the average American worker has always been pretty big, and seems to have increased as the world's economy grows. But with the recent recession bringing the most desperate financial conditions the world has seen since the Great Depression, one could be excused for expecting this gap to be reduced.
PBS is a publicly funded American TV channel with an emphasis on science, the arts and history. Watch entire shows or browse their excellent, richly detailed sites.
Tackling the high cost of health care is politically bruising and difficult work around the world. Among developed countries, only the Norwegians rival our level of spending. The French wrestle with rising costs every year. The Canadians are searching for a better model, and have had their eyes on France. But for all their troubles, the French and the Canadians - two bogeymen in the American reform debate - spend much less and live longer than we Americans.
Likewise with transparency. There is no questioning the good that transparency creates in a wide range of contexts, government especially. But we should also recognize that the collateral consequence of that good need not itself be good. And if that collateral bad is busy certifying to the American public what it thinks it already knows, we should think carefully about how to avoid it.
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Of course I'm flipping out in our Editor's chat about the fact that Alejandro "The Holy Mountain" Jodorowsky collaborated with Jean "Mœbius" Giraud, H.R. Giger, and Pink Floyd to adapt Frank Herbert's Dune into a film in 1975 — a project that never took off due to funding issues — when Rob, cultured beyond American measure, casually coughs that me not knowing about it is impossible, simply because it is too awesome not to be known.
Yet, I did not know!
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I didn’t read English well, so I mainly taught myself these things by studying the pictures and diagrams. By the time I saw my first windmill on the cover of an American textbook called Using Energy, I was able to apply all this previous knowledge and set out to build my own.
Introducing a New Magazine About the Ideas Behind American Culture.
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"Julie Albright doesn't want to move away from her San Francisco neighborhood near Chinatown, even if their new apartment is just a few miles away. Moving means leaving her best friend, Ivy, and her pet rabbit, Nutmeg. Worst of all, it means leaving Dad, now that her parents are divorced."
The American Girl® brand was established in 1986 by educator & entrepreneur Pleasant T. Rowland. Mattel acquired American Girl's parent Pleasant Company in 1998. American Girl is the direct marketer of the popular collectible-quality American Girl 18'' dolls -- The marketing "hook" for their more widely distributed merchandise tie-ins -- primarily a well-regarded series of books aimed at the 4-13 year old age group.
]]>Pour aider les bibliothécaires américains à mieux cerner les conséquences de l’accord, l’ALA (American Library Association) a pris de son côté l’initiative de publier un Super Simple Summary en deux pages seulement, qui permet d’aller à l’essentiel. Sur une suggestion de Marlène lancée au détour d’un échange sur Twitter (c’est fou tout ce qui commence sur Twitter en ce moment !), je me suis attelé à une traduction en français de ce résumé, pensant qu’il pourrait s’agir d’un appoint utile pour mieux appréhender l’accord Google de ce côté-ci de l’Atlantique. Merci à Marlène d’avoir lancé cette idée, ainsi que pour sa relecture et ses corrections ! Vous pourrez trouver cette traduction sous la forme d’un document public acessible sur GoogleDoc (décidément pas moyen d’échapper à Google !). La traduction a également été déposée dans E-Lis à cette adresse.
"Here you will find hundreds of downloadable record albums. We specialize in exotica, moog, soundtracks, pop instrumentals and oddities from the fifties and sixties. In addition to our popular MP3 Collections, we have added a new feature, The Album of the Week."
"Basic Hip Digital Oddio collects records from the fifties, sixties and beyond, focusing on soundtracks, pop instrumentals and incredibly strange music." Some albums are available for streaming and some for sale (downloads, cd's).