The Movie Wizard.com presents a complete collection of Academy Award nominated and winning films of 2011. Every film and short that got an Oscar nomination is reviewed in this book. Films this year include "The King's Speech," "The Social Network," "Inception," "Salt," "Exit Through the Gift Shop," and "Toy Story 3."
The latest volume in the best-selling "Complete Academy Awards Review Guide" series, "The Complete Unofficial 86th Annual Academy Awards Review Guide" is your complete guide for every movie that received an Oscar nomination for the year 2013! This was the year of instant classics like "12 Years a Slave," "Gravity," "Frozen," and "Captain Phillips." Each movie gets reviews and graded in this book (even the short films)! Commentary has been added for each film discussing the aftermath of an award being won or not being won. Extras include Top Ten Best & Worst lists, extra editorials, and this volume also introduces a new yearly feature we're calling "The Academy's Terrible Three," which will name the Academy's worst snub, worst nomination, and worst win. Written with great enthusiasm by Kevin T. Rodriguez and presented by acclaimed movie review site iCritic, "The Complete Unofficial 86th Annual Academy Awards Review Guide" is a must own for your movie reading pleasure!
Volume 2, Bringing Order to Chaos: Combined Arms Maneuver in Large Scale Combat Operations, opens a dialogue with the Army. Are we ready for the significantly increased casualties inherent to intensive combat between large formations, the constant paralyzing stress of continual contact with a peer enemy, and the difficult nature of command and control while attempting division and corps combined arms maneuver to destroy that enemy? The chapters in this volume answer these questions for combat operations while spanning military history from 1917 through 2003. These accounts tell the challenges of intense combat, the drain of heavy casualties, the difficulty of commanding and controlling huge formations in contact, the effective use of direct and indirect fires, the need for high quality leadership, thoughtful application of sound doctrine, and logistical sustainment up to the task. No large scale combat engagement, battle, or campaign of the last one hundred years has been successful without being better than the enemy in these critical capabilities. What can we learn from the past to help us make the transition to ready to fight tonight?
The latest volume in the best-selling "Complete Academy Awards Review Guide" series, "The Complete Unofficial 84th Annual Academy Awards Review Guide" is your complete guide for every movie that received an Oscar nomination for the year 2011! This was the year of instant classics like "12 Years a Slave," "Gravity," "Frozen," and "Captain Phillips." Each movie gets reviews and graded in this book (even the short films)! Commentary has been added for each film discussing the aftermath of an award being won or not being won. Extras include Top Ten Best & Worst lists, extra editorials, and this volume also introduces a new yearly feature we're calling "The Academy's Terrible Three," which will name the Academy's worst snub, worst nomination, and worst win. Written with great enthusiasm by Kevin T. Rodriguez and presented by acclaimed movie review site The Movie Wizard.com, "The Complete Unofficial 84th Annual Academy Awards Review Guide" is a must own for your movie reading pleasure!
Every year all of the best pictures jump into a derby where they jockey for a dozen gold trophies before reaching the finish line at the Academy Awards. Here, Tom O'Neil offers an inside scoop on the year-by-year winners and losers of these top races: Academy Awards; Golden Globe; New York Film Critics Circle; Los Angeles Film Critics; National Society of Film Critics; Screen Actors Guild; Directors Guild of America; Writers Guild of America; Producers Guild of America; Independent Spirit; Sundance Film Festival; and National Board of Review. Also includes facts, stats and photos.
Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent. Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police "misconduct" in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on civil judgments and settlements annually. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed. In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, "peace keepers" have always used force to shape behavior, repress dissent, and defend the powerful. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that both makes historical sense of this legalized social pathology and maps out possible alternatives.
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