Beauty and Sublimity
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in neuroscientific and related research treating aesthetic response. This book integrates this research with insights from philosophical aesthetics to propose new answers to longstanding questions about b...
Sublimity
Sublimity addresses the nature of the sublime experience itself, and the function that experience has played, and continues to play, within aesthetic discourse. The book both updates and revises existing treatments of the sublime in the eighteenth...
Beasts And Beauty
You think you know these stories, don't you? You are wrong. You don't know them at all. Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life . . . and death. A prince has a surprising awakening . . . A beauty fights like a beast . . . A boy refuses to become prey . . . A path to happiness is lost . . . then found again. New York Times bestselling author Soman Chainani respins old stories into fresh fairy tales for a new era and creates a world like no other. These stories know you. They understand you. They reflect you. They are tales for our times. So read on, if you dare.
Privacy and Publicity
Privacy and Publicity
Beastly Beauty
*'A dreamy, sublimely written tale.' -- Publishers Weekly, starred review From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gender-swapped retelling of Beauty and the Beast that will forever change how you think about beauty, power, and what it really means to follow your heart. What makes a girl 'beastly?' Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, anything, too badly? That's the problem Arabella faces when she makes her debut in society. Her parents want her to be sweet and compliant so she can marry well, but try as she might, Arabella can't extinguish the fire burning inside her -- the source of her deepest wishes, her wildest dreams. When an attempt to suppress her emotions tragically backfires, a mysterious figure punishes Arabella with a curse, dooming her and everyone she cares about, trapping them in the castle. As the years pass, Arabella abandons hope. The curse is
Beastly Beauty
From New York Times bestselling, Carnegie-award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gender-swapped retelling of Beauty and the Beast that will forever change how you think about beauty, power, and what it really means to follow your heart.“Absolutely enthralling storytelling...the romantic chemistry and witty banter of the lead characters is most enjoyable” - Joy Court, LoveReading (Book of the Month) What makes a girl 'beastly?' Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, anything, too badly? That's the problem Arabella faces when she makes her debut in society. Her parents want her to be sweet and compliant so she can marry well, but try as she might, Arabella can't extinguish the fire burning inside her - the source of her deepest wishes, her wildest dreams. When an attempt to suppress her emotions tragically backfires, a mysterious figure punishes Arabella with a curse, dooming her and everyone she
Utility, Publicity, and Law
Utility, Publicity, and Law
Negative Publicity
British photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black have assembled photographs and documents that confront the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible mechanisms of state control. From George W. Bush's 2001 d...
Truth and Beauty
Follow Andrew Klavan to a deeper, richer understanding of the words of Jesus. Andrew Klavan believed what he read in the Gospels, but he often¿struggled to understand what Jesus really meant. So he began a journey of wrestling with the beautiful a...
Beauty and Art
What do we mean when we call a work of art `beautiful`? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been called beautiful, and why? Fundamental and intriguing questions to artists and art lovers, but on...
Anthropology and Beauty
Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics and creativity in recent years. The volume incorporates current work on perception and generative p...
Virtue and Beauty
This beautifully illustrated and exquisitely designed volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Inc...
Truth and Beauty
From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award. When Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college they began a friendship that would define their lives....
Beauty And Curve
Beauty moves in curves in these four erotic stories from Deeper.com. Halle falls for the trap of hot and toxic sex in Resumed. Savannah takes advantage of her husbands permission to fill her needs elsewhere in Whatever She Wants. La Sirena misses the feeling of thick throbbing cock and turns to her wife for guidance in Being Shared guest appearance by Maitland Ward. Finally, Mona demands that her lover find a way to fuck her at a conservative Sunday brunch with their respective spouses. Pressured, he suggests wife swapping in Make It Happen. All women give something to grab on as they move loosely in their curves.Studio: Deeper
Beauty and Light
As a female Sufi teacher, Cemalnur Sargut commands a loyal and active worldwide following, especially in Turkey. This volume represents the first text in English translation that brings together some of her major discourses and teachings as presen...
Truth and Beauty
Sunday Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's first work of nonfiction, chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed author, Lucy Grealy.When Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college they began a friendship that would ...
Love and Beauty
Building on concepts developed in his previously published New Theory of Beauty, Guy Sircello constructs a bold and provocative theory of love in which the objects of love are the qualities that "bear" beauty and the pleasure of all love...
Mathematics And Beauty
In this innovative book, Nathalie Sinclair makes a compelling case for the inclusion of the aesthetic in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Using a provocative set of philosophical, psychological, mathematical, technological, and educationa...
Beauty and Misogyny
The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it. Jeffreys argues that beauty practices are not related to individual female...
Beauty and Sadness
The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woma...
Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts Vol. 4
Mashiro is the only one of humankind left and is now expected to produce offspring with her male celestial keepers. Thanks to her human DNA, any children she has with one of her consorts are guaranteed to have extraordinary power that could save t...
Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts Vol. 2
When Mashiro awakens in a distant and confusing future, she's faced with a new reality where humans no longer exist. While she grieves her lost family, friends, and old life, she is also faced with four pushy and impatient non-human suitors. Despi...
Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts Vol. 3
Humanity as she knew it is gone, but Mashiro is slowly coming to terms with her new reality. She has even warmed slightly to her companions, the four impressive male celestials all set on being the first to procreate with her. As their relationshi...
Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts Vol. 6
SHARING HEARTS Mashiro's relationship with Alfred strengthens, much to Eve's displeasure, especially after he demonstrates his deep devotion to her. Yet in the quiet castle egos begin to clash as Mashiro's suitors vie for her attention-especially ...
Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts Vol. 5
In this isekai romance, a young woman named Mashiro is reborn in a fantasy world inhabited only by men - and suddenly finds herself with four supernatural suitors! These handsome men with fur, feathers, and horns call themselves gods. She's now th...
Voyage of the Beagle
With an Introduction by David Amigoni. Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely ca...
Secrecy and Publicity in Votes and Debates
In the spirit of Jeremy Bentham's Political Tactics, this volume offers the first comprehensive discussion of the effects of secrecy and publicity on debates and votes in committees and assemblies. The contributors - sociologists, political scient...
Religion of Nature
An eloquent case for regarding nature itself as the focus of religion-as the metaphysical ultimate deserving religious commitment. The beauty, sublimity, and wonder of nature have been justly celebrated in all of the religious traditions of the wo...
Intellectual Property, Unfair Competition and Publicity
Dealing with rights and developments at the margin of classic intellectual property, this fascinating book explores emerging types of regulations and how existing IP regimes inform and influence the judicial and legislative creation of 'substitute...
