Striking Beauty

Striking Beauty
Title Striking Beauty PDF eBook
Author Barry Allen
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 269
Release 2015-08-04
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0231539347

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The first book to focus on the intersection of Western philosophy and the Asian martial arts, Striking Beauty comparatively studies the historical and philosophical traditions of martial arts practice and their ethical value in the modern world. Expanding Western philosophy's global outlook, the book forces a theoretical reckoning with the concerns of Chinese philosophy and the aesthetic and technical dimensions of martial arts practice. Striking Beauty explains the relationship between Asian martial arts and the Chinese philosophical traditions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, in addition to Sunzi's Art of War. It connects martial arts practice to the Western concepts of mind-body dualism and materialism, sports aesthetics, and the ethics of violence. The work ameliorates Western philosophy's hostility toward the body, emphasizing the pleasure of watching and engaging in martial arts, along with their beauty and the ethical problem of their violence.

A Taste for the Beautiful

A Taste for the Beautiful
Title A Taste for the Beautiful PDF eBook
Author Michael J. Ryan
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 212
Release 2019-06-25
Genre Nature
ISBN 0691191395

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"In A Taste for the Beautiful, Michael Ryan, one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, tells the remarkable story of how he and other scientists have taken up where Darwin left off, transforming our understanding of sexual selection and shedding new light on animal and human behavior. Drawing on cutting-edge science, Ryan explores the key questions: Why do animals perceive certain traits as beautiful and others not? Do animals have an inherent sexual aesthetic and, if so, where is it rooted? Ryan argues that the answers lie in the brain--particularly of females, who act as biological puppeteers, spurring the development of beautiful traits in males."--Back cover

Beauty for the World

Beauty for the World
Title Beauty for the World PDF eBook
Author Han Shin
Publisher iUniverse
Pages 246
Release 2006-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0595400221

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A Message of Hope: Rosario is an Ugly Duckling who overcomes the obstacles in her life to rise to the pinnacle of success. It is a story of her life in finding answers to life's question in a Universal Truth of Love and to turn tragedy into triumph of finding Beauty of God hidden from within. Born to a child mother in Manila and molested by her stepfather in America, Rosario learns from her friend, Matthew, to tap the well of Love within herself. As a "Beauty for the World" she uses her influence as an international beauty queen, Miss Universe, to help unfortunate children around the world, sharing with them the message of Universal Love that has helped her to reach for the stars!

Bulletin

Bulletin
Title Bulletin PDF eBook
Author Canada. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher
Pages 1050
Release 1927
Genre
ISBN

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pt. III, Of ideas of beauty

pt. III, Of ideas of beauty
Title pt. III, Of ideas of beauty PDF eBook
Author John Ruskin
Publisher
Pages 244
Release 1876
Genre Aesthetics
ISBN

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Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets

Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
Title Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets PDF eBook
Author Roger Lonsdale
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 2220
Release 2006-02-16
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0191515876

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Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memorable biography of the enigmatic Richard Savage (1744), the friend of his own early years in London. Roger Lonsdale's Introduction describes the origins, composition, and textual history of the Lives, and assesses Johnson's assumptions and aims as biographer and critic. The commentary provides a detailed literary and historical context, investigating Johnson's sources, relating the Lives to his own earlier writings and conversation, and to the critical opinions of his contemporaries, as well as illustrating their early reception. This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905). This is volume two of four.

Physiography and Quaternary Geology of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado

Physiography and Quaternary Geology of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Title Physiography and Quaternary Geology of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado PDF eBook
Author Wallace Walter Atwood
Publisher
Pages 222
Release 1932
Genre Geology
ISBN

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