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Art Works

How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together

By: Ken Grossinger

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Art Works

How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together

By: Ken Grossinger

Named one of The Progressive magazine's Favorite Books of the Year An inside look at the organizers and artists on the front lines of political mobilization and social change “Ken [Grossinger] is one of the smartest strategists I know.” —John Sweeney, AFL-CIO president, 1995–2009 An artist’s mural of George Floyd becomes an emblem of a renewed movement for racial equality. A documentary film injects fuel into a popular mobilization to oust a Central American dictator. Freedom songs course through the American civil rights movement. When artists and organizers combine forces, new forms of political mobilization follow—which shape lasting social change. And yet few people appreciate how much deliberate strategy often propels this vital social change work. Behind the scenes, artists, organizers, political activists, and philanthropists have worked together to hone powerful strategies for achieving the world we want and the world we need. In Art Works, noted movement leader Ken Grossinger chronicles these efforts for the first time, distilling lessons and insights from grassroots leaders and luminaries such as Ai Weiwei, Courtland Cox, Jackson Browne, Shepard Fairey, Jane Fonda, Elizabeth Alexander, Bill McKibben, JR, Jose Antonio Vargas, and more. Drawing from historical and present-day examples—including Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, the Hip Hop Caucus, the Legacy Museum, and the Art for Justice Fund—Grossinger offers a rich tapestry of tactics and successes that speak directly to the challenges and needs of today’s activists and of these political times.

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The New Press

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1620978008

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9781620978009

Art Works

How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together

By: Ken Grossinger

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Ingemar Johansson

Swedish Heavyweight Boxing Champion

By: Ken Brooks

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Ingemar Johansson

Swedish Heavyweight Boxing Champion

By: Ken Brooks

Ingemar Johansson's right hand--dubbed "The Hammer of Thor"--was the most fearsome in boxing, and Johansson's three fights with Floyd Patterson rank among the sport's classic rivalries. Yet most fans know little about the Swedish playboy who won the world heavyweight championship with a shocking third round knockout of Patterson and held it for six days short of a year (1959-1960). During his reign, the raffish "Ingo" hit fashionable nightspots on two continents, romanced Elizabeth Taylor, and refused to kowtow to the mobsters who controlled boxing. This first-ever biography of Johansson chronicles his fistic triumphs as a Goteborg teen prodigy, his humiliating disqualification for "cowardice" at the 1952 Olympics, his storybook romances with Birgit Lundgren and Edna Alsterlund and his post-career life and tragic early dementia.

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271

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McFarland

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0786498471

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9780786498475

The Sequential Dynamics of Narrative

Energies at the Margins of Fiction

By: Ken Ireland

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The Sequential Dynamics of Narrative

Energies at the Margins of Fiction

By: Ken Ireland

Building on critical theories of narrative, this study analyses temporal and continuity relations in fiction

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344

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838638635

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9780838638637

Going the Distance

By: Ken Norton,Marshall Terrill,Mike Fitzgerald

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Going the Distance

By: Ken Norton,Marshall Terrill,Mike Fitzgerald

The 1970s ushered in boxing's greatest class of heavyweight fighters. The fight game has never before or since seen such a talented and charismatic group. Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, and Ken Norton have been hailed as "Champions Forever, " as the world heavyweight title was passed among them throughout the decade. On March 31, 1973, Norton broke Ali's jaw in the process of winning a 12-round decision over "The Greatest." Going the Distance traces the incredible path of Norton's life, from Jacksonville, Illinois, to Northeast Missouri State University, to the U.S. Marines, to his historic bout with Ali in San Diego, California, and on to his life today. The book includes exclusive personal photos from Norton's collection, as well as a chronology of Norton's 49 professional fights.

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1582612250

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9781582612256

The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky

By: Ken Dornstein

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The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky

By: Ken Dornstein

The "hugely satisfying" story (The Boston Globe) of one man’s search for the truth about his brother—and himself. David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, with dreams of becoming a great writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, a terrorist bomb ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. Almost a decade later, Ken Dornstein set out to solve the riddle of his older brother’s life, using the notebooks and manuscripts that David left behind. In the process, he also began to create a new life of his own.

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Vintage

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0307386910

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9780307386915

Always Magic in the Air

The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era

By: Ken Emerson

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Always Magic in the Air

The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era

By: Ken Emerson

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beguiling and enduring entries in the Great American Songbook. Always Magic in the Air is the first thorough history of these renowned songwriters-tunesmiths who melded black, white, and Latino sounds, integrated audiences before America desegregated its schools, and brought a new social consciousness to pop music.

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Penguin

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1101156929

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9781101156926

Body, Mime and Soul

When Actions Speak Louder than Words

By: Ken Alcorn

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Body, Mime and Soul

When Actions Speak Louder than Words

By: Ken Alcorn

Ken Alcorn can convey more in a set of gestures and physical movements than most can communicate in a multitude of words. -Erin Campbell, The Student Magazine, Wake Forest University The most amazing quality of Alcorn's show is that he said nothing. As a mime, he relied on the basics of human perception and, without saying a word, brought an energy and electricity to the stage that would normally require lots of extras. -Juan Carlos Coto and Tony Fins, The Miami Hurricane, The University of Miami Ken's wife, Beth Atkinson-Alcorn saved my life. Then we got to know Ken as he put his talents to use at our radio station in between the "calls of the children" with lost lunches, school awards and athletic competitions, juvenile detention rescues, and college graduations. This is real life. And it takes a real life to not only navigate it, but guide four newbies into the varied ups and downs that only excellence demands. -Dr. Laurel T. Hughes-Massey, Issues of Conscience: Journals on the Science and Sale of Life Delve into the life of a man who did not speak for a career, but who found his voice in the middle of an empty stage, on the pages of notebooks, within the harmonies of a piano, the lines of poetry and lyrics, paint on canvases, and voice-overs for national radio. Alcorn postponed those particular self expressions, to redirect creative energies into guiding his children into finding their own unique voices. Sometimes pretty tough love. Read the humorous and poignant stories of this godly husband to a brilliant surgeon who, as mime and actor turned full time father recounts the winding journey from the spotlight to diapers and beyond. Where did this fully committed decision lead him in almost three decades that has yet to see its final glory? You will be inspired to walk the same paths with Ken Alcorn. His finest review? Four voices that say, "I love you, Dad!" Leaving him absolutely speechless.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1643009885

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9781643009889

It's Been Staring You in the Face

By: Ken Obe

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It's Been Staring You in the Face

By: Ken Obe

It's Here Have you noticed the times we are living in? An era of grave uncertainty and fear, where terrorism, global and social anarchy, religious conflicts, hypocrisy and decline in faith have become the norm. A world now void of a robust answer to peace and harmony, as our planet reels and spins off its axis into cosmic oblivion. The question on everyone's lips, 'is there a simple antidote to our global predicament?' Within the ruins lies a simple and shocking secret code, cleverly hidden behind biblical texts, which seems to have mysteriously revealed itself at an extraordinary time in our history, carrying with it one colossal implication: a new world… The question now is, what would you do if you accidentally stumbled upon what could be the greatest find for our world, would you keep it to yourself or would you share it?

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1456791656

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Book's by Ken Grossinger

Art Works

Art Works

Art Works

Art Works

Ingemar Johansson

Ingemar Johansson

The Sequential Dynamics of Narrative

The Sequential Dynamics of Narrative

Going the Distance

Going the Distance

The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky

The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky

Always Magic in the Air

Always Magic in the Air

Body, Mime and Soul

Body, Mime and Soul

It's Been Staring You in the Face

It's Been Staring You in the Face

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