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Fashion at the Edge - Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness by Caroline Evans
72.95 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation and decay. This seminal publication offers an unexpected discussion of cutting-edge fashion in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties ...Show more
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics by Michael Ignatieff
74.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised--should the governing Conservatives falter--to become Canada's next Prime Minister. It ne ...Show more
Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
28.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Josef Albers's Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers's singular explanation of complex color theory principles. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as ...Show more
Joan Mitchell by Roberts Sarah Et Al
103.95 AUD
Category: Art
A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond Abstract Expressionism as well as the transatlantic contexts that shaped her Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was fearless in her experimentation, creating works of unparalleled ...Show more
Odyssey: ANew Translation by Homer; Peter Green
37.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers a ...Show more
Stalin As Warlord by Alfred J. Rieber
51.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The Second World War was the defining moment in the history of the Soviet Union. With Stalin at the helm, it emerged victorious at a huge economic and human cost. But even before the fighting had ended, Stalin began to turn against the architects of success. In this original and comprehensive study, Alf ...Show more
The Complete Eightball 1-18 by Daniel Clowes
82.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist (Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and screenwriter. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influe ...Show more
The Making of the Bible - From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture by Konrad Schmid; Jens Schroter; Peter Lewis (Translator)
38.95 AUD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
"A landmark If you have time to read only one book on the Bible this year, make sure that it is this one."-Katherine J. Dell, Church Times"Excellent With a sure touch, the authors lead the reader through the geopolitical context of the Hebrew Bible and the setting and background of the New Testament, fi ...Show more
They Thought They Were Free - The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer; Richard J. Evans (Afterword by)
32.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
"When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg." That's Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were ...Show more
Uncharitable - How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential by Dan Pallotta (Introduction by)
49.95 AUD
Category: Business Economics Finance Management | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Where other texts suggest ways to optimize performance inside the existing paradigm, Uncharitable suggests that the paradigm itself is the problem and questions our fundamental canons about charity, Uncharitable goes where no other book on the nonprofit sector has dared to tread. Author Dan Pallotta arg ...Show more
Why Art? by Davis, Eleanor
24.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
What is "Art"? It's widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the concept falls under such an absurdly large umbrella and can manifest in so many different ways. Art can be self indulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil, or expressive, or any number of other things. But how ...Show more
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