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  • The Essential June Jordan

    by June Jordan ...
    "...This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as activism, stanzas that speak truth to power and speak out against violence against women and police brutality. But Jordan also speaks on the significance of hope, mixing, as Brown puts it, 'the doom and devastation made mundane through media ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Women, Rape and Justice

    Unravelling the Rape Conundrum

    by Jan Jordan ...
    Series series Victims, Culture and Society
    Is justice possible for a woman raped in contemporary patriarchal culture? This book explores one of the major conundrums of our time: given all the feminist activism and reforms of the last 50 years, why does rape remain so prevalent and justice so elusive? In exploring these questions, Jan Jordan takes us back into the patriarchal origins of our rape culture in order to trace the connections ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • World of Glass

    The Art of Dale Chihuly

    by Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan ...
    In the children’s book World of Glass, “Greenberg and Jordan, award-winning biographers of artists and architects . . . have another hit on their hands in this gorgeous work on American glass artist Dale Chihuly” (Booklist).His crew calls him Maestro. Thousands of fans call him a magician. Over the past five decades, Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) has created some of the most innovative and popular works ... Read more

    $13.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy

    by Jan Jordan ...
    Series series Victims, Culture and Society
    In Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy, Jan Jordan asks why, despite decades of feminist activism, does rape culture remain so endemic within contemporary society. She argues that, in order to understand the global pandemic of sexual violence, we must view rape culture as a consequence of the social divisiveness that emerges from the logic of patriarchy. In advancing this argument, Jordan ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop

    by Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan ...
    “IN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY will be world famous for 15 minutes.”The Campbell’s Soup Cans. The Marilyns. The Electric Chairs. The Flowers. The work created by Andy Warhol elevated everyday images to art, ensuring Warhol a fame that has far outlasted the 15 minutes he predicted for everyone else. His very name is synonymous with the 1960s American art movement known as Pop.But Warhol’s oeuvre was the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Vincent Van Gogh

    Portrait of an Artist

    by Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan ...
    Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist was named a Robert F. Sibert Honor book by the ALA. This is the enthralling biography of the nineteenth-century Dutch painter known for pioneering new techniques and styles in masterpieces such as Starry Night and Vase with Sunflowers. The book cites detailed primary sources and includes a glossary of artists and terms, a biographical time line, notes, a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Meet Cindy Sherman

    Artist, Photographer, Chameleon

    by Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan ...
    How does someone become a ground-breaking artist?Does it start when you're very little and discover that you like to play dress up? Does it happen when you're ten years old and someone gives you a Polaroid camera for Christmas? Maybe it begins in college, when you're finally on your own to discover the world as you see it for the first time.Looking at the life of legendary photographer Cindy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sex Work and the New Zealand Model

    Decriminalisation and Social Change

    by Cherida Fraser, Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith, Shannon Mower, Michael Roguski, Fairleigh Gilmour, Carisa Showden, Chanel Hati, Annah Pickering, Catherine Healy, Jan Jordan ...
    More than 15 years have passed since the law regarding sex workers in New Zealand has changed. As a model it has been endorsed as best practice by international organisations, leading scholars and sex worker-led organisations. Yet in some corners, speculation is ongoing regarding its impacts on the ground.Written by an international group of experts, this groundbreaking collection provides the ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Becoming a Self-Reliant Leader

    How Grit and Disciplined Duty Forge Indomitable Teams

    by Jan Rutherford, Jacquie Jordan ...
    Discover the ultimate prescriptive handbook on what it takes to design and lead energized and effective teams in an increasingly complex and uncertain global landscape.Becoming a Self-Reliant Leader was crafted from author Jan Rutherford’s Crucible® Expedition wilderness experiences. This insightful, practical guide explores each step of the Crucible journey and how its lessons can be applied to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ballet for Martha

    Making Appalachian Spring

    by Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan ...
    Illustrated by Brian Floca ...
    A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performanceMartha Graham : trailblazing choreographerAaron Copland : distinguished American composerIsamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsmanAward-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan tell the story behind the scenes of the collaboration that created APPALACHIAN SPRING, from its inception ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On Islam

    by Abraham Kuyper, Jordan Ballor, Melvin Flikkema ...
    Translated by Jan van Vliet ...
    Series series Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology
    At the beginning of the twentieth century, famed theologian Abraham Kuyper toured the Mediterranean world and encountered Islam for the first time. Part travelogue, part cultural critique, On Islam presents a European imperialist seeing firsthand the damage that colonialism had caused and the value of a religion he had never truly understood. Here, Kuyper's doctrine of common grace shines as he ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

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    Ballet for Martha

    Making Appalachian Spring

    by Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan ...
    Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker, The Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz ...

    Unabridged

    45 min

    In 1944 the modern American ballet Appalachian Spring premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The collaborators behind the performance anxiously awaited the critical response to their artistic achievement: would the world understand what they had done?In Ballet for Martha, the journey to this stage and the success shared among choreographer Martha Graham, composer Aaron Copland ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook