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T. J. Demos

    January 1, 1966
    T. J. Demos
    SketchUp Success for Woodworkers
    Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks: Level 1+: Sid and Nim
    Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks: Level 5: Scruffbag
    Decolonizing nature : contemporary art and the politics of ecology
    John Akomfrah
    Return to the postcolony
    • Return to the postcolony

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      4.5(16)Add rating

      In the wake of failed states, growing economic and political inequality, and the ongoing US- and NATO-led wars for resources, security, and economic dominance worldwide, contemporary artists are revisiting former European colonies, considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness. With great timeliness, projects by Sven Augustijnen, Vincent Meessen, Zarina Bhimji, Renzo Martens, and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence for many African countries, inspiring a kind of “reverse migration”—a return to the postcolony, which drives an ethico-political as well as aesthetic set of imperatives: to learn to live with ghosts, and to do so more justly.

      Return to the postcolony
    • A study of the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging artists' widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe—and looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North—Decolonizing Nature offers a significant, original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. Art historian T. J. Demos, author of Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (2013), considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed.

      Decolonizing nature : contemporary art and the politics of ecology
    • Specially developed to enhance children's vocabulary alongside their decoding skills, Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks books are perfect for sharing. In this Partner Text, Josh is having an uneventful day, until he rescues a scruffy dog from the park...

      Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks: Level 5: Scruffbag
    • Specially developed to enhance children's vocabulary alongside their decoding skills, Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks books are perfect for sharing. In this book, Pip and Kit look for Nim, a lost guinea pig.

      Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks: Level 1+: Sid and Nim
    • SketchUp Success for Woodworkers

      • 120 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      With SketchUp Success for Woodworkers, any woodworker can download SketchUp and be drawing helpful, detailed woodworking plans like a pro in no time at all. An affordable, simple, and powerful 3-D design program, SketchUp can be used to create models and plans for anything a creative mind can imagine, especially simple to elaborate woodworking projects and plans. After many years of using SketchUp, David Heim, an expert woodworker and writer, has developed a simple set of rules for success that will guide you in mastering this potent program. With SketchUp Success for Woodworkers, any woodworker can download SketchUp at breakfast and be drawing detailed and useful plans by dinnertime. Easy-to-understand instructions, screen shots, and step-by-step projects make it easy to unleash the valuable benefits of SketchUp to create the models and plans that will transform your woodworking design process and elevate your woodworking output.

      SketchUp Success for Woodworkers
    • Zain and Leo both want to be Lightman. Who will win Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined these with fully-decodable books that help you match your phonics teaching and practice, while inspiring and engaging your young readers. Specially developed to enhance children's vocabulary alongside their decoding skills, these books are perfect for sharing.

      Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks: Level 1: Super Play
    • Specially developed to enhance children's vocabulary alongside their decoding skills, Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks books are perfect for sharing. In this Partner Text, the king and queen of Fondue host a competiton to find the most delicious cheese.

      Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks: Level 1: The Golden Cheeseboard
    • Six fantastic stories featuring the popular Project X characters - Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger - plus a new micro-friend, Nok the alien! Fully decodable, with small steps of phonic progression to ensure early reading success, these books are ideal for independent reading.

      Project X: Alien Adventures: Pink: Tin Cat