5/31/2023 0 Comments Albers color theory![]() ![]() The paid version is for those who want a more in-depth understanding of color theory, and it includes the full text, the complete set of Albers’s color studies and a large selection of video content. In the spirit of the interactive component of the book, the app makes it very easy to save newly created color studies and share them across social networks. The former includes a feature that allows users to make their own color studies using Albers’s templates and a collection of 250 color swatches. ![]() A basic version is free on the Apple app store, with a more comprehensive version available for $9.99. This beautifully designed digital version interweaves intuitive text with interactive media that nicely illustrate Albers’s theories. In order to give a larger audience access to Albers’s work, Yale produced the app in time for the book’s 50th anniversary. ![]() The complete edition was re-released in 2009 by Yale University Press after being out of print for many years, but with a hefty price tag-it lists at $250. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Adam hochschild american midnight![]() ![]() ![]() Adam Hochschild brings to life this troubled period, which stretched from 1917 to 1921, through the interwoven tales of a colorful cast of characters: some well-known, among them the sphinxlike Woodrow Wilson and the ambitious young bureaucrat J. This was America during and after the Great War: a brief but appalling era blighted by torture, censorship, and killings. An astonishing 250,000 people joined a nationwide vigilante group-sponsored by the Department of Justice. Well over a thousand men and women were jailed solely for what they had written or said, even in private. Angry mobs burned Black churches to the ground and chased down pacifists and immigrants. ![]() From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory new account of a pivotal but neglected period in American history: World War I and its stormy aftermath, when bloodshed and repression on the home front nearly doomed American democracy. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Sunflower sisters book review![]() Her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door, and both live in fear of LeBaron, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father. ![]() In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. ![]() Georgeanna "Georgey" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. ![]() |