Why have mighty powers that proved capable of crushing the strongest of opponents failed to defeat the humblest of military rivals in some of the world’s poorest and weakest regions? How do the weak defeat the strong?Īzar Gat is the Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security and Head of the International MA Program in Security and Diplomacy at Tel Aviv University. Guerrilla warfare has earned a reputation of near invincibility, driving great powers out of their former colonial empires during the twentieth century and frustrating military interventions during the twenty-first century, even where the asymmetry in regular force capability is the starkest. Why Counter-Insurgency Fails Professor Azar Gat
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I have to admit that, when I saw this latest volume, I didn’t stop to consider at all, and bought it straight away. OK, I was critical of the last 2 of the author’s books in the series, and said that I would think hard about buying any further volumes. I do appreciate how balanced Lewis-Stempel's view of foxes is: you can love and loathe them at the same time, and most important thing is to understand that foxes do not act out from malice. Lewis-Stempel only scratched the surface here, and if a reader has not read on the subject previously, it will most likely leave them wanting more. I feel like Lucy Jones's Foxes Unearthed handled the discussion of hunting better, because it is able to focus on all sides of the issue as it is much longer and more detailed account of foxes in Britain. While these things are briefly discussed, much more is focused on the hunting. On this occasion, I would have preferred if Lewis-Stempel had focused on the wild life of the fox their nature, habitat etc. However, it is relatively short and focuses a lot on the issue of hunting foxes. It's beautifully produced, with stunning illustrations and gorgeous cover art and design. The Wild Life of the Fox is interesting addition to the natural history of foxes in Britain category. Hằng’s heartbreaking memories of the day her brother was mistakenly taken by Americans at the end of the war, her harrowing journey to America, and the family she left behind are all tempered by LeeRoy’s quiet patience and exasperated affection. When they find Hằng’s brother and he remembers nothing about Vietnam, Hằng and LeeRoy settle in at the ranch next door. But their chemistry works: Hằng sees through LeeRoy’s cowboy airs, and LeeRoy understands Hằng’s clever English pronunciations, cobbled together from Vietnamese syllables. They make an odd pair, a white boy from Austin and a determined Vietnamese refugee on a mission. After some helpful meddling from a couple at a rest stop, LeeRoy finds himself driving Hằng on her search instead. On that same day in 1981, an 18-year-old aspiring cowboy named LeeRoy is traveling to Amarillo to pursue his rodeo dreams. The day after Hằng arrives in Texas from a refugee camp, she heads toward Amarillo to find her little brother. She graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in English in 2003, and has continued to work as a cartoonist and writer. Schrag graduated from high school in 1998. The comics describe Schrag's experiences with family life, going to concerts, drug-taking, high school crushes, and coming out as bisexual and later as lesbian. Schrag then published three more graphic novels based on her next three years of school: Definition, Potential, and Likewise. While attending Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California, Schrag self-published her first comic series, Awkward, depicting events from her first year, originally selling copies to friends and family. Schrag accepts the label of ‘dyke comic book artist’. Her novel Adam provoked controversy with its theme of a heterosexual teenage boy becoming drawn into the LGBTQ community of New York. Ariel Schrag (born December 29, 1979) is an American cartoonist and television writer who achieved critical recognition at an early age for her autobiographical comics. The 2011 novel named Gabriel’s Inferno is our personal favorite of Reynard’s work. Accordingly, there are romance stories that focus heavily on this aspect of life, so we will in turn focus on these stories and give our picks for the best angst romance books.Ĭanadian novelist Sylvain Reynard has yet to disappoint her loyal fans, of which we are proud to say we are part. Am I doing the right thing? Are we right for each other? What if love doesn’t exist, but I’m just being led on? and so on and so forth. After all, falling in love is a period of much anxiety. As such, we can agree that this kind of feeling is very much present in romance novels. Angst is defined as a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general. But for some reason, I just didn't believe he'd go all in and make The Island what it is - an officially sanctioned story about a person (nameless) who somehow (never explained) ends up inside a world that works by the rules of Minecraft. Joe comics, a straight-faced guide to surviving the zombie apocalypse). Brooks has done all kinds of things in his career (novels, nonfiction, G.I. I think it's important to say that, because right up until I opened it, I kinda didn't believe that's what it was going to be. It's a novel, set in the Minecraft universe. Not a guide to playing Minecraft (although, in a weird way, it kind of is). The video game Minecraft.Īnd not a nonfiction book about the creation of Minecraft and its impact on society. The Island, the new book by Max Brooks (yeah, the guy who wrote World War Z, the very good zombie book that got turned into that not-very-good Brad Pitt movie) is about Minecraft. Okay, let's get this out of the way right from the start. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Minecraft the Island Author Max Brooks With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native and Rolling Stone writer Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Urban planners, land speculators, neo-pastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists-all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. "Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. Goin' to Detroit, Michigan - The town of Detroit exists no longer - DIY city - Not for us the tame enjoyment - How to shrink a major American city - Detroit is dynamite - Motor City breakdown - Comeback! - Austerity 101 - Murder city - Politics - Let us paint your factory magenta - Fabulous ruin. Includes Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-302) and index. Detroit City is the place to be : the afterlife of an American metropolis / Mark Binelli.ĭetroit (Mich.) - History - 20th century. They form cohesive, ethereal images that convey the dignity of the African American individual and family – imagery mostly missing in America’s visual history. The portraits embody Family: mother, father, brother, sister. The I Was Here project began in 2016 as a set of emblematic Ancestor Spirit Portraits created by photographing contemporary African Americans as archetypal Ancestor Spirits. New Upcoming Exhibit! - The I Was Here Project This year the Ali Center is asking participants to submit photographs that illustrate the unique ways in which incarceration affects women prisoners.Īnyone, professional or amateur, around the world can enter, and cash prizes will be given out to the selected winners. The Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky is honored to announce its ninth annual “Shining a Light” International Photography Contest and subsequent exhibition. Shining a Light 2023 opens in March! This year's theme: Women and Prison This is nonsense, of course: polar bears hunting beluga whales from rocks has nothing to do with climate change or desperately hungry bears. This time National Geographic’s ‘Hostile Planet’ series laughably claims a fat polar bear that’s caught a beluga calf off the coast of Western Hudson Bay has been saved from starvation! The message: here is a prime example of climate change pushing a species to its limit. So if the footage was filmed any time since 2017, the claim of accelerating sea ice loss in this region and bears on land for longer than ever is pure fantasy. There is scientific literature documenting such behaviour in Canada’s far north in the 1980s, which I included in the blog post I wrote about this phenomenon a few months ago (after National Geographic published a similar scare-story), which I have reposted below.Īnd from the sounds of it, there was no mention in the BBC special that freeze-up along western Hudson Bay was early again this year: for the third year in a row. More climate change hyperbole from Attenborough’s seemingly never-ending litany of nonsense that’s easily refuted. ‘This extraordinary behaviour has only been recorded here, in this remote corner of North America, and only in the last few years.’ More specifically, the Daily Mail (30 November 2019) this morning quoted the documentary, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, as saying: Polar bears leaping on the backs of belugas off Seal River, in western Hudson Bay, is being falsely promoted by the BBC’s new “Seven Worlds: One Planet” TV special as an unprecedented effect of climate change. Molly Harper cooks up laughter and thrills in Undead Sublet After overworked Chicago chef Tess flips out (can everyone hear that arugula talking, or is it just me?), she rents a quiet house in Half-Moon Hollow for a month of R & R. When Noelle, a Guardian, meets vampire Grayson, who has roamed for three centuries, she awakens an aching hunger in him that only her touch can relieve. But the electric passion behind the camera is what’s out of this world. Under the covers, these lovers come alive! Katie MacAlister conjures supernatural sparks in Shades of Gray A TV crew is filming a paranormal reality show on the grounds of an imposing old Czech Republic estate. |