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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Pulitzer Prize–winning dance critic teaches us to appreciate-and enact-grace in every dimension, from the physical to the emotional. We are naturally drawn to smooth, harmonious movement. Both social and physical graces have been taught since the dawn of civilization. Yet grace seems forgotten in our pushy, hectic modern world. Sarah L. Kaufman argues that we bring it back. She celebrates grace in the way bodies move, exploring how to stand,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear perspectives when she finds herself torn between the refinements and excesses of a divided Naples.
"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Life
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Eating the Sun and Lost in Translation, a gorgeously illustrated love letter to everything that is beautiful, and a manifesto for those who are struggling to remember or recognize what beauty is People are increasingly baffled as to what they can call beautiful, what they should call beautiful, and whether or not they are able to apply beautiful to themselves or to the things around them. Our outdated...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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The Bluest Eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for its blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Japanese Design, Asian art expert and author Patricia J. Graham explains how Japanese aesthetics based in fine craftsmanship and simplicity developed. Her unusual, full-color presentation reveals this design aesthetic in an absorbing way, using a combination of insightful explanations and more than 160 stunning photographs Focusing upon ten elements of Japanese design, Graham explores how visual qualities, the cultural parameters and the Japanese...
Author
Publisher
Continuum
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"The Good, the True and the Beautiful asks questions about who we are and what makes life worthwhile. Michael Boylan offers an introduction to philosophy, exploring issues to do with ethics, knowledge and aesthetics and how they relate to our everyday lives. He proposes an understanding of the good, the true and the beautiful that seeks to answer many of the questions that have traditionally occupied philosophers. Using thought experiments to engage...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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'Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects. April recommended reading by the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Goodreads, Jezebel, and Next Big Idea Club One of Curbed’s best architecture, design, and urbanism books of the spring A most anticipated book of 2023 by The Millions Katy Kelleher has spent much...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Eco's life. With humor and erudition, one of the great contemporary thinkers takes on the roots of Western culture, the origin of language, the nature of beauty and ugliness, the imperfections of art, and the lure of mysteries"--
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Publisher
Lemniscaat USA
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A man who lives in a house on top of a mountain freely shares the happiness of a beautiful landscape painting with the people of the village, until one day a stranger tells him how much his painting is worth.
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