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Author: Rick J. Delanty
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Published: 2021-04-30
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ISBN-13: 9780578872346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis portfolio of oil and acrylic paintings by award-winning California landscape painter Rick J. Delanty is accompanied by inspirational short essays, each focusing on the theme of beauty. Personal anecdotes from the artist's life experience of over 40 years as a professional fine artist give the reader insight into the artist's creative process. Hardcover, 120 pages.
Author: Patrick Bringley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-10-29
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1982163313
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--
Author: Anthony J. Ciorra
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1587682400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn invitation to embrace a spirituality of beauty. Grounded in the foundational writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar, it explores the ability of beauty to introduce components of prayer, joy, and spirituality into our lives today.
Author: Geoffrey Jones
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-02-25
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0191609617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how today's global giants grew. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built brands which shaped perceptions of beauty, and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty, and its association with a handful of cities, notably Paris and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into China, Russia, and India, but at the same time, these brands are having to respond to a far greater diversity of cultures and lifestyles as new markets are opened up worldwide. In the twenty first century, beauty is again being re-imagined anew.
Author: Dan Rather
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1616209941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do.” —Dan Rather “A tonic for our times . . . Rather's writing shows why he has won the admiration of a new generation. In these essays, he gives voice to the marginalized and rips off the journalistic shield of objectivity to ring the alarm bell when he witnesses actions he fears undermine the principles of American democracy. That, undoubtedly, is patriotic. And it takes courage.” —USA Today At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on—and writing passionately about—what it means to be an American. Now, with this collection of original essays, he reminds us of the principles upon which the United States was founded. Looking at the freedoms that define us, from the vote to the press; the values that have transformed us, from empathy to inclusion to service; the institutions that sustain us, such as public education; and the traits that helped form our young country, such as the audacity to take on daunting challenges in science and medicine, Rather brings to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world’s biggest stories. As a living witness to historical change, he offers up an intimate view of history, tracing where we have been in order to help us chart a way forward and heal our bitter divisions. With a fundamental sense of hope, What Unites Us is the book to inspire conversation and listening, and to remind us all how we are, finally, one.
Author: Wendy Farley
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2020-10-13
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ISBN-13: 9780664266813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemplative disciplines, such as centering prayer and meditation, have been part of Christian life for centuries. They seem hard to practice now, not simply because our distracted and hyperstimulated age makes them difficult but also because they can appear irrelevant to the needs of a fractured and ugly historical moment. Yet these practices are more essential now than ever, claims Wendy Farley. These practices essentially awaken and attune us to the beauty both of the created order and of human relationships. Farley helps readers discover being made for both kinds of beauty, with contemplative disciplines immersing us in it. Tying these disciplines with contemplation allows us to engage with the struggle for justice in an unjust society. Beguiled by Beauty includes practical advice for readers to learn several contemplative-meditation practices.
Author: Naomi Wolf
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 006196994X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."
Author: Jean Maalouf
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2013-08-20
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1483647218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New Creation Our very survival is at stake. We must change. The references and values on which we used to depend are becoming relativized and questionable, and the true sense of integrity, responsibility, and purpose now seems outdated. Instead, we seem to have chosen the path of shortsighted success and gratification, convenient arrangements, and sometimes the one-sided fanaticism and fundamentalism. No wonder we find ourselves in such a deep spiritual crisis that makes all other crises possible, probable, and even certain and extremely dangerous. Change Your World: Awakening to the Power of Truth Beauty Simplicity - Change is an invitation to faithfully recapture the basics, deeply rediscover the very reason for our existence, and carefully reassess our references and values. Truth will make us free. Beauty will save the world. Simplicity will help redefine our priorities. Change will transform us and will transform our world into a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). This is a profoundly political book; it describes, in an original and engaging way, how to live and govern from our highest and most sacred consciousness. Therefore, do not expect politics as usual, politically correct, well-calculated, and feeling good spirituality talks. Expect rather as it is articulation, straightforward approaches, and unequivocal descriptions of the new creation values. Our survival depends on our ability to be truly human and in alignment with our most sacred consciousnessthe mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). Isnt contemplation the highest form of activity, as Aristotle suggested? Masterfully, Dr. Maalouf uncovers the simple truths of a happy, healthy, and meaningful life, and discloses the secret of the fullness of life. A contemplative approach to life is indispensable for grasping and living the essence of what it means to be truly human.
Author: Christine Adams
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781443878241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFemale beauty systems everywhere are complex, integrating markers of class, status, power, and sexuality to perform the fundamental function of sorting individuals into categories of â oemoreâ or â oelessâ desirable. Heirs to the tradition of courtly love, modern western female beauty systems tend to share the norm of man as pursuer, woman as pursued, having developed around the trope of the madly-desiring poet or knight supplicating his aloof and lovely lady for her favor. The apparent longevity of the courtly love tradition raises the question of whether the way in which it structures male desire in reaction to female beauty is part of a â oeuniversalâ tendency, an evolutionary adaptation, despite clear evidence that female beauty systems are also, in fact, socially constructed, and reflect enormous ambivalence about the power and performance of beauty. Although modern western female beauty systems are routinely demystified and contested today, the purveyors of culture that support themâ "institutional, intellectual, artistic, commercial, and popularâ "continue as they always have to construe women as objects of male desire. Still, within this basic structure, the systems have varied greatly across time and space, with women using beauty as a form of social capital in widely differing ways. Moreover, as individuals have begun to experience their bodies as malleable and endlessly transformable, rather than unruly and unyielding, many have begun to experience beauty less as a given and more as a project. The nine essays collected here examine a number of different Western female beauty systems over the centuries, considering how women have complied with, contributed to, profited or suffered from, and resisted them.
Author: Jean Maalouf
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-06
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1477115188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Most Efficient and Least Expensive Health Care Plan There Is Have you ever heard of a universal coverage offered by a health care provider that does not cost you a dime? Impossible, you said! Here is one. This book will tell you how relevant and efficient such a plan is, how it works, and how it can heal body-mind-soul, patients and doctors, old and young, men and women, individuals and groups, nations and the entire universe. No drugs, surgery, or magical herbs are necessary. The one thing needed is to follow God s prescription. We may not be able to be in full control of our circumstances, but here are guidelines that enable us to have a healthier and happier life: Finding meaning in life Adopting healthy beliefs Listening to God s word Developing good nutrition and exercise programs Detoxifying Controlling stress Strengthening your immune system to resist physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual viruses Living up to your own potential Helping yourself by helping others Receiving and enjoying God s gifts Glorifying God in your body Making right choices Simplifying Living by timeless principles Experiencing the healing power of laughter, sleep, leisure, and success Celebrating life Understanding Our Spiritual DNA And much more In these pages of uncommon common sense, sensitivity, and profound understanding, Dr. Maalouf, by inviting us to dig to the root causes of our loneliness, depersonalized culture, and general physical, mental, and spiritual malaise, helps us to rediscover the secret of living the fullness of life. You are invited to try this plan at no cost to you except your willingness, enthusiasm, and commitment. Since no one else can do it for you, please choose to make this plan your way of life and you will see the difference it will make.
