Beauty Philosophy

In this book, Harding explores the proposition that tools are "extensions of the body", and that there's no absolute boundary between the "natural" and the "artificial". Crossing over the line between the self and the not-self, Harding realized that there is no definite frontier where you can say you stop and the rest of the world begins. The Meaning and Beauty of the Artificial takes you on a wide-ranging safari through the animal kingdom and then into the human world, where you see "man and machine" with new eyes.

“To understand the radiance of the poetry world you have to look at Anne.” —Eileen Myles, author of A Working Life From “one of the most important and irreducible living American poets” (Poetry Foundation) comes a powerful and prophetic collection of epic scope and vision Mesopotopia...

Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves from film to fairytale, from foot binding to feminism, and from the golden ratio to glam rock. Summer Brennan considers this most provocative of fashion accessories as a nexus of desire and struggle, sex and society, violence and self expression, setting out to understand what it means to be a woman by walking a few hundred years in her shoes.

Desde o garbo e a elegância nos primeiros anos da República até a atual banalização das cirurgias plásticas, História da beleza no Brasil trata das transformações ligadas aos padrões estéticos e aos cuidados com o corpo, mas também do martírio causado pela feiura e da tumultuada luta para driblar o envelhecimento, a solidão e o fracasso.

Do you want to learn how to navigate this chaotic life without wasting it? Would you like to learn how to slow down and savor the deeper meaning of life? Are you looking for a practical guide on how to apply stoicism to your day-to-day life? If your answer is yes, then keep reading because you’re about to find what you’re looking for. The world we live in nowadays is so frantic and full of distractions, it seems like time is one of the things we all could use more of, isn’t it?

What does it mean to be beautiful? Bernadette Fisers has spent a career in fashion, hair and makeup, travelling the world to work on famous faces - so she knows better than most that beauty is much more than skin deep. Anyone can be beautiful, and it starts simply with loving yourself. In this wise little audiobook, she shares a lifetime’s worth of tips for creating the kind of inner and outer beauty that makes you glow - simple truths like kindness, authenticity, acceptance and generosity that shine through and make life richer and more joyful.

How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In 10 short chapters of lyrical prose - each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery - Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science.