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“wendy oliver”

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  • Rooted Jazz Dance

    Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Lindsay Guarino, Wendy Oliver, Carlos R. A. Jones ...
    National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book AwardUNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance EducationAn African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro-American aesthetics and values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were systemically erased and remain widely marginalized and untaught, and the devaluation ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Palliative Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    From Diagnosis to Bereavement

    Edited by David Oliver, Gian Domenico Borasio, Wendy Johnston ...
    Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or motor neurone disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that can cause profound suffering for both the patient and their family. Whilst new treatments for ALS are being developed, these are not curative and offer only the potential to slow its progression. Palliative care must therefore be integral to the clinical approach to the disease. Palliative ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Dance and Gender

    An Evidence-Based Approach

    Edited by Wendy Oliver, Doug Risner ...
    Driven by exacting methods and hard data, this volume reveals gender dynamics within the dance world in the twenty-first century. It provides concrete evidence about how gender impacts the daily lives of dancers, choreographers, directors, educators, and students through surveys, interviews, analyses of data from institutional sources, and action research studies. Dancers, dance artists, and dance ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Women Making Art

    Women in the Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts Since 1960, Second Edition

    Edited by Deborah J. Johnson, Wendy Oliver ...
    This important interdisciplinary book is a unique and timely contribution to the field of women in the arts. Each chapter is devoted to a single artist and a single ground-breaking work that altered the course of its art form in a full array of genres, including dance, music, installation, photography, architecture, poetry, literature, theater, film, performance art, and popular culture. These ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Journeys into Possibility

    Tales from the Pikes Peak Writers

    by Alicia Cay, A.R. Benson, Robert Spiller, Jean Alfieri, DJ Davis, Barbara Preslier, Bowen Gillings, Bill Bush, John Arthur Neal, Steven J. Anderson, Jeff Schmoyer, CS Simpson, KK Quinn, Wendy Oliver, Kelley J P Lindberg, Marlene Fabian Stiles, Veronica R. Calisto, Jessica Mehring, Bailey Finn, J MacFarlane, C Dilts, Pikes Peak Writers, Kathie Scrimgeour, Deborah L. Brewer, Kim Olgren ...
    Are you ready to go on a journey to a place you have never been before? What would you like to do? Maybe a swim with dolphins, meet strange new creatures, or see John Dillinger behind bars? You could take a trip through time, visit a new planet, or hop on a train worn with memories. The possibilities are just a page away.So, strap in and get comfortable as we travel into the imaginative realm of ... Read more

    $8.44 CAD

  • What You Really Want to Know About Life with Dementia

    Real stories and expert advice for family, friends and people with dementia

    by Karen Harrison Dening, Hilda Hayo, Christine Reddall, Wendy Mitchell, Tom Dening, Zena Aldridge, Rachel Thompson, John Keady ...
    Selected for Reading Well for Dementia 2024: endorsed by health experts, charities and people affected by dementia.A family-led vision of what carers of people with dementia need and want to know. Supporting families and carers in their day-to-day life with dementia, this unique resource combines real stories from families with expert responses and advice for specific issues and concerns.This ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Engaging Bodies

    The Politics and Poetics of Corporeality

    by Ann Cooper Albright ...
    Winner of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics (2014)For twenty-five years, Ann Cooper Albright has been exploring the intersection of cultural representation and somatic identity in dance. For Albright, dancing is a physical inquiry, a way of experiencing and participating in the world, and her writing reflects an interdisciplinary approach to seeing and thinking about dance. In her ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Listen to Jazz

    by Ted Gioia ...
    An Economist Best Book of the YearAn acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz.**“Mr. Gioia could not have done a better job. Through him, jazz might even find new devotees.” ―**EconomistIn How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premie... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The End of Love

    A Sociology of Negative Relations

    by Eva Illouz ...
    Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our spine at the mere thought of him or her. Yet, a culture that has so much to say about love is virtually silent on the no less mysterious moments ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Long List Anthology

    More Stories from the Hugo Award Nomination List

    by Ken Liu, Annie Bellet, David Steffen ...
    Series Book 1 - Long List Anthology Series
    The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious speculative fiction literary awards. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much ... Read more

    $5.63 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moving to Higher Ground

    How Jazz Can Change Your Life

    by Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward ...
    “In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Explaining Creativity

    The Science of Human Innovation

    by R. Keith Sawyer ...
    In the last 50 years, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have increasingly turned to studying creativity, so we now know more about it than ever before. However, until about a decade ago, creativity researchers focused only on highly valued activities, such as creating masterpieces in art and making highly significant discoveries in science. In Explaining Creativity, R. Keith Sawyer ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD