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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.

In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. Elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Now Boy, Snow, and Bird...

Ever since Einstein’s study of Brownian motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective. But most people still shun disorder–or suffer guilt over the mess they can’t avoid. No longer!
With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the hidden benefits of mess, A PERFECT MESS overturns the accepted wisdom that tight schedules, organization, neatness, and consistency...

"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...

Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.

"The great outdoors comes alive in this inspiring new project book that captures the beauty of nature in Appliques quilts and home decorating projects from designer Debbie Field."--Back cover.

"An aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painter"-- "Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by The Guardian | The Millions An aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painter In Maylis de Kerangal’s Painting Time, we are introduced to the burgeoning young artist Paula Karst, who is enrolled at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels....

Although noted as "The Land Downunder," this grandiose island can exhibit a hustle and bustle for those earning the city life. Visitors can stroll along Sydney Harbor and enjoy the aesthetic Sydney Opera House. Or for those more adventurous types, the Great Barrier Reef with its 350 species of coral and 1,500 types of fish is a wonderland of oceanic beauty. But for those pushing the envelop don't forget Australia's famous outback. Although water is...

This course shows you how to turn designs from Photoshop into a fully functioning website using Dreamweaver. Learn how to slice mockups, apply HTML and CSS, test code, and more. Turn your design from Photoshop into a fully functioning website using Dreamweaver. This course shows how to create mockups, optimize web graphics, and design a site. Sue Jenkins demonstrates how to design a mockup in Photoshop, work with the Photoshop Extractor, use Bootstrap...