Reimagining the iconography and the eroticization of Blackness in Brazil Brazilian artist Antonio Obá (born 1983) works across painting, sculpture, installation and performance to explore the construction of Black bodies in historical and political narratives. He is particularly interested in how this construction figures within his own country, frequently experimenting with Brazilian iconography. In his landscapes and portraits, Obá either underscores the absence of Black figures in local traditions or inserts Black figures into existing cultural narratives. Encompassing two decades of the artist's oeuvre, this survey offers the most substantive presentation of his work to date. Curators Diane Lima and Diana Campbell examine issues raised by Obá's multimedia oeuvre, including allusions to racial and political identity, religious subjects and the eroticization of the Black male body.

Antonio Obá

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Circle Books

The first English-language monograph on seminal Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa (born 1961), this substantial volume is also the artist's most comprehensive to date. Pessoa's sculptural work, which often mobilizes materials like human hair, leather, wax and animal blood, evokes issues related to human and animal bodies, vacillates between beauty and abjection and forges formal connections between indigenous Brazilian traditions and international postminimal art. Surveying work from throughout Pessoa's career, from her beginnings in the late 1980s through to the present, with selections from the artist's sketchbooks and archives, this volume argues for Pessoa's unique contribution to Brazilian art. Including texts by international scholars Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira and Alex Bacon, as well as an interview with Pessoa by Liz Munsell, Solange Pessoa introduces English-language readers to the artist's compelling body of work from the past three decades.

Solange Pessoa

Individual Artists

In 1969 curator, critic and former Jewish Museum director Alan Solomon interviewed Craig Kauffman, Larry Bell, James Turrell and Robert Irwin in conjunction with an exhibition he was organizing. They are the earliest in-depth interviews with each artist. Because of his untimely death they have remained in his archives and are published here for the first time. The interviews provide a rare glimpse into the early careers of these seminal artists, documenting their critical, aesthetic and intellectual concerns at a pivotal moment, allowing readers new insight into an important era of American postwar art. Solomon rose to prominence in the 1960s as a curator at the Jewish Museum in New York, where he organized a series of first solo exhibitions for the likes of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. He also curated several major international surveys, including the 1964 Venice Biennale, where Rauschenberg won the Golden Lion. In 1968 Solomon left New York to take up a position at the fledgling University of California campus in Irvine, which was home to a dynamic group of young faculty and students. There he became acquainted with Kauffman, Bell, Turrell and Irwin, who have since been recognized as canonical participants in California Light and Space art of the 1960s. With this volume his engagement with these artists, and their roles in this important art historical episode, has finally been brought to light.

The Los Angeles Tapes: Alan Solomon's Interviews with Kauffman, Bell, Turrell, and Irwin

Solomon, Alan

Jacob's ladder to a balloon,: And other poems;

Van Luik, Jacques

Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Jemen, Arabian Peninsula: This book is perfectly illustrated with over 1170 full color photos from the natural environment of the animals on 320 pages. The relation price/achievement is unbeatable!

Red Sea Reef Guide

Science & Math

Debelius, Helmut

Biological Sciences

In this unique work, Donald Tipton captures the soul of our seas. Using a powerful mix of black-and-white and colour images, he records the strange beauty found beneath the waves. His images of dolphins are particularly special. These are intimate portraits which take our understanding of these fascinating marine creatures to a new level. Donald not only sheds new light on the animals which live in the sea, he also makes you look at the whole ocean in a new, fresh way, This is an exploration of light and space, a look beneath the surface, a passport to wonderland.

Upon the Face of the Waters

Donald Tipton

An entry-level manual to scuba diving produced by the British Sub-Aqua Club. The manual covers all the topics that a new diver will need to know about. Chapters cover areas such as skills, procedures and equipment.

The Diving Manual

Sports & Outdoors

Ellerby, Deric

Water Sports

Unlike Richard Dawkins, the Revised Edition, Contemporary Creed sees no conflict between evolution and God, faith and modern science. But what sort of God creates a violent universe with a Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago and appears to do little or nothing to prevent built-in suffering and natural disasters like earthquakes, famines, disabled children and cancers?  The Christian God leaves a lot unexplained! Some writers give superficial answers whereas Morris — who helps care for his own handicapped grandson — gets to the root of difficulties and succeeds in finding credible pathways through sixty problems of Christian beliefs and ethics. He writes for believers and unbelievers: for Christians like himself who admit their doubts, and for atheists and agnostics interested in life’s big questions. His unusual format of 90% prose and 10% original poetry is entertaining, and the style straightforward everyday language, offering conclusions that are often open-ended, undogmatic. His systematic theology becomes a brief A-Z that may be read in any order for individual Bible study, or by house groups that want a provocative structure for lively discussion.

Contemporary Creed

Religion & Spirituality

Morris,John

Christian Books & Bibles

The book explores the nature of public conscience, the influence of the generation that came of age in the Progressive Era on the modern civil rights movements, the nature of women’s leadership, the dynamics of civil rights in a multi-racial context, and the way in which religion plays a role in broader social movements. These two ecumenical groups can be credited with contributing to Seattle’s relatively peaceful engagement with the civil rights movement compared to other cities in the United States during the 1960s.

Religion and the Public Conscience: Ecumenical Civil Rights Work in Seattle, 1940-1960

Walker, Randi J

"I Am With You will bring peace and consolation to all who read it." Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of WestminsterWhile Fr. John Woolley was praying, the Lord Jesus Christ put beautiful words into his mind, and told him to write them down and share them with everyone who wanted to feel His closeness, and to know His strength every day. I Am With You has been the bestselling devotional book in the UK for nearly 30 years. This edition rewritten by Fr. John Woolley especially for younger people and the young at heart, will help those searching, those in need, and those seeking to find faith. After receiving the beautiful and divinely-inspired words of this book, Fr. John chose suitable verses from the Bible in which God speaks directly to people.This is from a series of devotional books of "heart whispers" which John Woolley received from the Lord during prayer. Other companion volumes to I Am With You published by O-Books are Abide in My Love, My Burden is Light and Many Mansions.

I Am With You: For Young People And For Those Young At Heart

Children's Books

Woolley University of California, John T.

Religions

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