Art Movements

In 2015, an aspiring young journalist named Shiori Ito charged prominent reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi with rape. After meeting up for drinks and networking, Ito remembers regaining consciousness in a hotel room while being assaulted. But when she went to the police, Ito was told that her case was a “black box”—untouchable and unprosecutable. Upon publication in 2017, Ito’s searing account foregrounded the #MeToo movement in Japan and became the center of an urgent cultural and legal shift around recognizing sexual assault and gender-based violence.

Time and time again, great thinkers like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have credited their success to mental models: simple representations of how the world works that can be applied in a wide array of contexts. Mastering a small number of these concepts enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others don’t, and better anticipate outcomes. The Great Mental Models introduces the most powerful models that anyone can use right away to improve decision making and productivity. In this volume, Shane Parrish introduces the universal concepts that underpin better thinking

Louis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance driver, a Paris expat, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist as famous in the 1920s as Hemingway or Fitzgerald. But he cashed in his literary success to finance a wild agrarian dream in his native Ohio. The ideas he planted at his utopian experimental farm, Malabar, would inspire America's first generation of organic farmers and popularize the tenets of environmentalism years before Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

Greetings from the abyss of dystopia! Prepare for an unforgettable journey through eerie realms and against a menacing, immortal enemy with "The Silent Shadows." The zombie apocalypse is here. Fear is your constant companion, and survival your only goal. Enter the silent, pulsating world of "The Silent Shadows," where survival becomes a stealthy art. The heart of this riveting book is the knowledge that silence is your strongest ally. In the early chapters, you'll venture into understanding the Zombie Threat and the essential framework for quiet survival - Art of Stealth. Discover the ...

This visionary book reimagines robots not as copies of human movement, but as creators of entirely new forms of motion. From flying, gliding, swimming, and wall-crawling, to swarming, shape-shifting, and moving matter without touch, robots will revolutionize how we live, work, create, and dream. Exploring industries, cities, sports, and the arts, the book shows how dynamic motion will transform architecture, rescue missions, manufacturing, entertainment, and everyday life.

Art has been a staple in most cultures across the world, firmly having rooted itself as a means of communicating one’s understanding of themselves and the world around them. A great number of people in the world develop a natural passion for the act of creation, irrespective of talent. However, most of those who pursue the arts start off self-taught, and when they get to the point where they can take classes, there is a mix of bad habits and misunderstood techniques that they have to unlearn in order to improve.

This intriguing short story, about a 5-10 minute read, is much different than my usual stories about women of the wild west. The Overbeck family lived a comfortable life in the town of Cambridge City, Indiana. There are no murders, no cattle rustling, no Harvey Girls, no scandals. Yet the Overbeck sisters were every bit as daring as any women in the west. In the era in which they lived, they were pushing the envelope in every direction.

In a fast-changing world of bells and whistles and endless notifications, it has become increasingly challenging to maintain focus and adhere to our goals, but with sheer willpower, we can overcome all the noise. With concise, practical, and objective guidance, The Art of Self-Control will liberate you from the bondages of distraction, mental debilitation, and rash compulsions.

Claude Monet is considered one of the most influential artists of all time. He is a founder of the French Impressionist art movement, and today his paintings sell for millions of dollars. While Monet was alive, however, his work was often criticized, and he struggled financially. This book unveils a true portrait of the artist!

Have you wanted to be the one in control for a change? Are you often the one that is seen as expendable, or easily controlled? If you are ready to live your life in control of yourself and how those around you see you once and for all, keep reading. Despite this fact that many manipulators are simply born that way, you too can learn the skills utilized by the dark manipulators in the world. By opening your world to dark psychology, you begin to understand the actions of those around you and how they can be used to better yourself for a change.

Claude Monet has been the icon for the impressionist movement. His family life wasn’t perfect, but despite all 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.

In this scintillating combination of critical race theory, social commentary, veganism, and gender analysis, media studies scholar Aph Ko offers a compelling vision of a reimagined social justice movement. Through a subtle and extended examination of Jordan Peele’s hit 2017 movie Get Out, Ko shows the many ways that white supremacist notions of animality and race exist through the consumption and exploitation of flesh. She demonstrates how a critical historical and social understanding of anti-blackness can provide the pathway to genuine liberation.

We are all victims of manipulation in one way or another. From our normal day-to-day interactions, the media, societal influences, or even in our jobs, dark psychology tactics are everywhere. You would be surprised that it is not always “evil” people who use them, but we also use them in pursuing the things we want in life. In fact, some alpha males use these exact tactics in getting what they desire.

Are you struggling to understand people’s intentions and would like to know how to interpret unconscious and non-verbal signals? Would you like to spot what others think of you by the way you make use of your body? Have you ever wanted to be more persuasive, or to learn how to influence others? Then this audiobook will open your eyes to the world of human behaviour and the ground-breaking techniques of dark psychology, teaching you how to interpret and even use at your advantage body posture, gestures, facial expressions, use of space and physical behaviour.

Traditionally, when we get sick, health care professionals ask, "What's the matter with you?" But around the world, teams of doctors, nurses, therapists, and social workers have started to flip the script, asking "What matters to you?" Instead of solely pharmaceutical prescriptions, they offer 'social prescriptions'-referrals to community activities and resources, like photography classes, gardening groups, and volunteering gigs.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could read people’s minds? What if you could win people over effortlessly with your natural charisma, and always know what to say to someone based on their personality type? Knowing how to navigate social situations can seem like a challenge, if you are unequipped with the proper tools. But with the right knowledge, you can not only unlock your own inner charisma, but become a master of human psychology!

What if you could train your body to move with precision, power, and effortless flow—like a weapon honed for success? Kaizenesis is the key to transforming your movement, energy, and vitality, and it’s the missing link in your self-development journey. Once reserved only for elite martial artists, these techniques are now yours to command. With Kaizenesis, you’ll learn to tap into a deep well of inner power, turning your energy into a constant, unstoppable force. Train anytime. Anywhere. Your energy becomes a force that fuels not just you, but those around you. This isn’t just about...

Manipulation is a wide-extending marvel, present in pretty much every element of our public activity. It is a perplexing and persuading activity equipped toward obstruction in the basic leadership procedure of someone else, for the most part without his confirmation. This tricky marvel is found someplace in the hazy area between those persuading activities, and this dark spot presents fundamental troubles in portraying manipulation and estimating its effect.

The people you hang around and associate with most makes up a huge factor of who you are and how you feel. This is why, it's important to make sure you know who you're dealing with. Dark NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and manipulation are real things that toxic people use to get what they want. It's time you start living life on your terms and picking up on the negative energy that may surround you.

Born in London, in 1889, Charlie Chaplin grew up in dire poverty. Both his parents were in show business, but severe alcoholism cut short his father's flourishing career, and his beloved mother first lost her voice, then lost her mind to syphilis. Charlie, at age seven, was committed to the Hanwell School for Orphans and Destitute Children. How then did this poor, lonely child become such an extraordinary comedian, known and celebrated worldwide? Chaplin cut his teeth in British music halls, but it was America that made him.