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The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics

The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics

The growth of the service economy widespread acceptance of cosmetic technologies expansion of global media and the intensification of scrutiny of appearance brought about by the internet have heightened the power of beauty ideals in everyday life. A range of interdisciplinary contributions by an international roster of established and emerging scholars will introduce students to the emergence of debates about beauty including work in history sociology communications anthropology gender studies disability studies ethnic studies cultural studies philosophy and psychology. The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics is an essential reference work for students and researchers interested in the politics of appearance. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into six parts: Theorizing Beauty Politics Competing Definitions of Beauty Beauty Activism and Social Change Body Work Beauty and Labor Beauty and the Lifecourse The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics is essential reading for students in Women and Gender Studies Sociology Media Studies Communications Philosophy and Psychology.

GBP 39.99
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Brand Beauty Unleashed The Value of Aesthetics in Marketing

Brand Beauty Unleashed The Value of Aesthetics in Marketing

This book presents an in-depth careful study of our understanding of the concept of beauty in everyday objects and its impact on markets and brands. Moving beyond artistic notions of beauty it demonstrates how beauty is an asset that can be leveraged in the marketplace. Traditionally beauty has been examined in relation to its influence on painting sculpture literature music and architecture. However its value and power in the marketplace is understudied. Álvarez del Blanco provides a systematic analysis of beauty in commonplace objects and brands drawing on cutting-edge research at the intersection of marketing and neurosciences. Through examining the neuroscientific evidence for how the brain processes beauty the author articulates the implications this may have on marketing and brand management. He also offers a glimpse of how beauty may evolve and its marketing implications for firm strategy in the coming decades. Written by a recognized authority in marketing and brand strategy Brand Beauty Unleashed gives students with an interest in marketing consumer behavior branding and neuromarketing an exciting new perspective on this intangible asset. | Brand Beauty Unleashed The Value of Aesthetics in Marketing

GBP 36.99
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A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia

A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia

This book develops an original theory of performative beauty. Philosophical aesthetics has largely neglected one’s own actions as a potential experience of the beautiful. Throughout the book the author uses his own experiences of Argentine tango as a case study; one important incentive for social dancing is to have pleasurable and beautiful experiences. This book begins by investigating the methodological causes for why beauty in modernity has been seen to result only from contemplating external objects. It then builds a theory of performative beauty that incorporates findings from new phenomenology neuroaesthetics enactivism and somaesthetics and that reassesses existing inquiries of beauty. The result is an account that identifies kinaesthetic awareness as the point of emergence of both theory and practice of creation (poiesis) and perception (aisthesis) and of moving (agency) and being moved (reception). Performative beauty is the pleasure of being moved by the dance where the dancer feels both as a creative improvisor and as an integrated part of the activity itself. A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty—Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics dance studies performance studies and related fields of artistic research. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia

GBP 120.00
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Kinetic Beauty The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport

Kinetic Beauty The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport

Sport aesthetics is an important but often marginalized field in the philosophy of sport. Kinetic Beauty offers a comprehensive principled pluralist introduction to the philosophical aesthetics of sport. The book tackles a wide variety of issues in the philosophical aesthetics of sport proposing a five-level analysis that coordinates extant scholarship on the same conceptual map reveals gaps in the literature and motivates a fresh perspective on stubborn debates and novel topics in the field (for example the aesthetic experience of athletes aesthetic biases in sport the paradox of sport fiction and whether dance can be sport). This is an excellent resource for professors and students in the philosophy of sport sport aesthetics general aesthetics and the philosophy of art. It is also a fascinating read for those working in kinesiology sport studies philosophy art and aesthetics. | Kinetic Beauty The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport

GBP 18.99
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Venus in the Dark Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

Venus in the Dark Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

In this second edition of the remarkable and now classic cultural history of black women’s beauty Venus in the Dark Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the Hottentot Venus and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by black women in contemporary photography film literature music and dance. In 1810 Sara Baartman was taken from South Africa to Europe where she was put on display at circuses salons museums and universities as the Hottentot Venus. The subsequent legacy of representations of black women’s sexuality—from Josephine Baker to Serena Williams to hip-hop and dancehall videos—refer back to her iconic image. Via a new preface Hobson argues for the continuing influence of Baartman’s legacy as her image still reverberates through the contemporary marketization of black women’s bodies from popular music and pornography to advertising. A brand new chapter explores how historical echoes from previous eras map onto highly visible bodies in the twenty-first century. It analyzes fetishistic spectacles of the black booty with particular emphasis on the role of Beyoncé Knowles in the popularization of the bootylicious body and the counter-aesthetic the singer has gone on to advance for black women’s bodies and beauty politics. By studying the imagery of the Hottentot Venus from the nineteenth century to now readers are invited to confront the racial and sexual objectification and embodied resistance that make up a significant part of black women’s experience. | Venus in the Dark Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

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The Aesthetics of Science Beauty Imagination and Understanding

The Aesthetics of Science Beauty Imagination and Understanding

This volume builds on two recent developments in philosophy on the relationship between art and science: the notion of representation and the role of values in theory choice and the development of scientific theories. Its aim is to address questions regarding scientific creativity and imagination the status of scientific performances—such as thought experiments and visual aids—and the role of aesthetic considerations in the context of discovery and justification of scientific theories. Several contributions focus on the concept of beauty as employed by practising scientists the aesthetic factors at play in science and their role in decision making. Other essays address the question of scientific creativity and how aesthetic judgment resolves the problem of theory choice by employing aesthetic criteria and incorporating insights from both objectivism and subjectivism. The volume also features original perspectives on the role of the sublime in science and sheds light on the empirical work studying the experience of the sublime in science and its relation to the experience of understanding. The Aesthetics of Science tackles these topics from a variety of novel and thought-provoking angles. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in philosophy of science and aesthetics as well as other subdisciplines such as epistemology and philosophy of mathematics. | The Aesthetics of Science Beauty Imagination and Understanding

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Radical Orthodoxy in a Pluralistic World Desire Beauty and the Divine

Radical Orthodoxy in a Pluralistic World Desire Beauty and the Divine

Radical Orthodoxy remains an important movement within Christian theology but does it relate effectively with an increasingly pluralist and secular Western society? Can it authentically communicate the beauty and desire of the divine to such a diverse collection of theological accounts of meaning? This book re-assesses the viability of the social model given by John Milbank before attempting an out-narration of this vision with a more convincing account of the link between the example of the Trinitarian divine and the created world. It also touches on areas such as interreligious dialogue particularly between Christianity and Islam as well as social issues such as marginalisation integration and community relations in order to chart a practical way forward for the living of a Christian life within contemporary plurality. This is a vital resource for any Theology academic with an interest in Radical Orthodoxy and conservative post-modern Christian theology. It will also appeal to scholars involved in Islamic Studies and studying interreligious dialogues. | Radical Orthodoxy in a Pluralistic World Desire Beauty and the Divine

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Anselm of Canterbury The Beauty of Theology

Anselm of Canterbury The Beauty of Theology

Anselm is a major figure in theological philosophical and historical studies. This book provides a fresh approach to the study of this great figure; one which provides critical interaction with current critical thinking whilst arguing in favour of the idea of theological unity in Anselm's corpus. Exploring the Proslogion but also more 'minor' works David Hogg interacts with the theological content of Anselm's writings: showing how Anselm's ontological argument fits into the wider context of his theology; comparing the holistic approach of Anselm's thought with that of other medieval personages and fitting him into the wider medieval context; and revealing how Anselm's theology integrates the atonement and questions of predestination the fall of the Devil and free will and other issues. The book concludes with an assessment of the impact of Anselm's theology during his own time and the continuing effect his thinking has had on succeeding centuries of theological development. | Anselm of Canterbury The Beauty of Theology

GBP 175.00
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Color Theory for the Make-up Artist Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects

Color Theory for the Make-up Artist Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects

Color Theory for the Make-up Artist: Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects (Second Edition) analyzes and explains traditional color theory for fine artists and applies it to make-up artistry. This beautifully illustrated guide begins with the basics of color theory – why we see color how to categorize and identify color and relationships between colors – and relates these concepts to beauty and special effects make-up. The book provides a wealth of information including how to mix flesh tones by using only primary colors how these colors in paints and make-up are sourced and created the reason for variations in skin colors and undertones and how to identify and match these using make-up while choosing flattering colors for the eyes lips and cheeks. Colors found inside the body are explained for special effects make-up like why we bruise bleed or appear sick. Ideas and techniques are also described for painting prosthetics in addition to using color as inspiration in make-up designs. The book also discusses how lighting affects color on film television theater and photography sets and how to properly light a workspace for successful applications. The second edition features: A brand-new chapter on color inspiration in make-up and design Additional and updated diagrams More real-life application photos and demonstrations including new examples of tattoo covering and prosthetic painting using optical mixtures airbrush and stippling Expanded discussion on undertones skin variations color correction pigments colored gels and more Filled with stunning photography and practical information Color Theory for the Make-up Artist provides guidance and inspiration for both professionals and beginners who wish to train their eye further to understand and recognize distinctions in color. | Color Theory for the Make-up Artist Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects

GBP 34.99
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An Essay on Critical Appreciation

An Essay on Critical Appreciation

First published in 1938 An Essay on Critical Appreciation aims to provide a language suited for the explication on beauty. This explication is not based merely on emotion but is motivated by contemplation and discrimination. By virtue of being rendered in a discourse an appreciation can claim to be critical or discriminating and ‘beauty’ can be said to have characteristics. The search of such a language takes the author through the contemplation on the meaning of ‘beauty’ entertaining contrary views and reaching at an understanding of the aesthetic situation. This book will be of interest to students of English literature philosophy and art.

GBP 115.00
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A Place of Springs

A Place of Springs

In this book Grace Jantzen constructs a Quaker spirituality of beauty as a theological-philosophical response to a world preoccupied with death and violence. Having mapped the foundations of western cultural violence in the Greco-Roman period and the Judea-Christian tradition in Foundations of Violence and Violence to Eternity she now offers her alternative vision. This vision is an original and creative feminist reading of the Quaker tradition considering George Fox and the writings of Quaker women exploring the themes of inner light and beauty as alternatives to violence and the obstacles to building such an alternative world. After showing how seventeenth-century Quakers offered a different option for modernity she maps the philosophical and ethical implications of engaging with the world through beauty and its transforming power. Written for everyone interested in contemporary spirtuality it explains how Quaker ideas can provide a way to transform our violent world into one that celebrates life rather than death peace rather than violence. This work is the second of two posthumous publications to complete Grace M. Jantzen’s Death and the Displacement of Beauty collection which began with Foundations of Violence (Routledge 2004). | A Place of Springs

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Natural Materials

Natural Materials

Most museums collections contain a wide variety of natural materials and a diverse range of knowledge is necessary to keep so many types of objects at their best. This book studies the composition structure and properties of natural materials such as wood paper amber coral and feathers and discusses the potential hazards they face as well as the appropriate conservation techniques to use for each. Providing plenty of detail in an easily accessible format Natural Materials is a useful resource for students professionals and collectors alike.

GBP 31.99
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The Aesthetic View of Moral Education

The Aesthetic View of Moral Education

The Aesthetic View of Moral Education is the result of in-depth interdisciplinary research in education and aesthetic studies. This book advocates the use of aesthetic ideas and methods to transform moral education activities which are often trapped in a state of forced indoctrination. This book aims to address the problems of moral education in China and share certain commonalities in the exploration of educational theory. The aesthetic view of moral education is a new and practical philosophy of education. The author's theory of moral education as the appreciation of beauty the creation of beauty and the theory of the attainment of the ultimate realm of moral education provide an in-depth analysis of the functions of aesthetic education for moral cultivation. The author also offers unique interpretations of the aesthetic transformation of the process of moral education itself and the pursuit of the realm of moral life and education. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of education and philosophy East Asian studies and readers interested in China's cultural traditions.

GBP 130.00
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Marine Transboundary Conservation and Protected Areas

Marine Transboundary Conservation and Protected Areas

The marine environment does not naturally respect arbitrary international boundaries. The establishment and management of transboundary marine protected areas therefore presents major governance challenges. This book analyses a series of marine transboundary conservation initiatives embedded in varying contextual situations to examine the underlying reasons for their success or failure. Utilising an adapted ‘pathways of influence’ framework it provides insights into the development of marine transboundary conservation initiatives looking at the effectiveness of international rules international norms and discourse market forces and direct access to policy making. Examples come from a wide range of jurisdictions including territorial seas continental shelves exclusive economic zones and areas beyond national jurisdiction. Case studies include initiatives in the Coral Triangle West Africa Central America the Wadden Sea the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. In addition the authors assess the potential for developing wider international cooperation as a result of relationships forged though involvement within these marine transboundary conservation initiatives. | Marine Transboundary Conservation and Protected Areas

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Tourism Climate Change and Sustainability

Tourism Climate Change and Sustainability

This book addresses many of the key themes that are seen as challenges to achieve sustainability and to mitigate climate change impacts in the near future in the tourism sector. In particular it focuses on the economic drivers for growth in tourism as they relate to sustainable development low-carbon travel and climate change impacts. A major feature is the integration of climate change and sustainability challenges rather than treating them separately or with sustainability as an add-on. The first group of chapters addresses conceptual issues concerning the relationships between sustainability climate change and tourism. The second section considers regional national and international responses and initiatives including those of agencies such as UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves and the UK’s South West Tourism. The third part provides a range of investigative research including topics such as air travel and coral reef tourism and case studies from locations such as southern Africa Scandinavia and the Pacific islands. Other research dimensions discussed in the book are drawn from Brazil Hawaii England Australia and New Zealand. Overall the book focuses on some of the most crucial challenges facing tourism in developed and developing countries. | Tourism Climate Change and Sustainability

GBP 42.99
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Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphology

Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphology

The world's coastlines represent a myriad of dynamic and constantly changing environments. Heavily settled and intensely used areas they are of enormous importance to humans and understanding how they are shaped and change is crucial to our future. Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphologybegins by discussing coastal systems and shows how these systems link to the processes examined in detail throughout the book. These include the morphodynamic paradigm tides waves and sediment transport. Later chapters explore fluvial deltas estuaries beaches and barriers coastal sand dunes and geologically-influenced coasts such as cliffs coral reefs and atolls. A new chapter addresses the forward-facing aspect of coastal morphodynamics including the ways in which coasts respond to rapid climate changes such as present day global warming. Also new to this second edition is a chapter on future coasts which considers the wider effects of coastal change on other important aspects of coastal systems including ecology management socio-cultural activities built and natural heritage and archaeology. Case studies using examples from around the world illustrate theory in practice and bring the subject to life. Each chapter starts by outlining the 'aims' and questions at the end allow you to track your progress.

GBP 180.00
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Female Masochism in Film Sexuality Ethics and Aesthetics

Female Masochism in Film Sexuality Ethics and Aesthetics

Theoretically and representationally responses to heterosexual female masochism have ranged from neglect in theories that focus predominantly or only upon masochistic sexuality within male subjects to condemnation from feminists who regard it as an inverted expression of patriarchal control rather than a legitimate form of female desire. It has commonly been understood as a passive form of sexuality thus ignoring the potential for activity and agency that the masochistic position may involve which underpins the crucial argument that female masochism can be conceived as enquiring ethical activity. Taking as its subject the works of Jane Campion Catherine Breillat Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier as well as the films Secretary (Steven Shainberg) Dans Ma Peau (Marina de Van) Red Road (Andrea Arnold 2006) Amer (Hélène Cattat and Bruno Forzani) and Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh) Female Masochism in Film avoids these reductive and simplistic approaches by focusing on the ambivalences and intricacies of this type of sexuality and subjectivity. Using the philosophical writings of Kristeva Irigaray Lacan Scarry and Bataille McPhee argues that masochism cannot and should not be considered aside from its ethical and intersubjective implications and furthermore that the aesthetic tendencies emerging across these films - obscenity extremity confrontation and a transgressive ambiguous form of beauty - are strongly related to these implications. Ultimately this complex and novel work calls upon the spectator and the theorist to reconsider normative ideas about desire corporeality fantasy and suffering. | Female Masochism in Film Sexuality Ethics and Aesthetics

GBP 38.99
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Japanese Gardens Symbolism and Design

Japanese Gardens Symbolism and Design

The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich symbolism yet most discussions on this kind of garden rarely provide more than a superficial overview. This book takes a thorough look at the process of designing a Japanese garden placing it in a historical and philosophical context. Goto and Naka both academic experts in Japanese garden history and design explore: The themes and usage of the Japanese garden Common garden types such as tea and Zen gardens Key maintenance techniques and issues. Featuring beautiful full-colour images and a glossary of essential Japanese terms this book will dramatically transform your understanding of the Japanese garden as a cultural treasure. | Japanese Gardens Symbolism and Design

GBP 175.00
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Simone Weil: Basic Writings

Simone Weil: Basic Writings

Simone Weil is one of the most profound and thought-provoking thinkers of the 20th century. A teacher factory and farm labourer a political activist at home and abroad a loving friend daughter and sister—all these manifest a life devoted to the good in its many forms. Her writings explore the good open to us and the various routes to it spanning philosophy politics science and spirituality. While she saw her vocation primarily as a philosopher—examining questions concerning human faculties action and thought the limits of language and our need of mediation suffering and beauty for contact with reality—her startlingly original thought is often obscured by her having been too readily categorized as a Christian mystic. Simone Weil: Basic Writings is an expertly edited anthology of Weil’s most important writings presenting her philosophy as it relates to the architecture of human nature politics work necessity beauty goodness and God. Working from the definitive French edition of Weil’s complete writings D. K. Levy and Marina Barabas have translated the essays anew or for the first time adding important notes and references absent from existing English language editions of Weil’s work. Following an extensive introduction that gives an overview of Weil's life and thought each part opens with a short preface situating the selected essays within Weil’s oeuvre. Simone Weil: Basic Writings provides an excellent entry point to Weil’s philosophy as well as a reference for students and scholars of Weil's thought in philosophy and related disciplines.

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Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics An Advanced Language and Culture Course

Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics An Advanced Language and Culture Course

Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics is a textbook to teach those who wish to achieve an advanced or native proficiency and cultural competence in modern Chinese as well as to experience the beauty of Classical Chinese literature. Collecting representative works containing vibrant views of Chinese culture from different dynasties this book is focused on how the grammatical patterns vocabulary and idioms that are found in Classical Chinese are relevant in the modern adaptation of the language and how the accumulated traditional values and beliefs found there still shape the thinking and lifestyle of modern society. Online resources including audio answer keys and instructor aids will be part of the teaching package. | Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics An Advanced Language and Culture Course

GBP 35.99
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Fine Resolution Remote Sensing of Species in Terrestrial and Coastal Ecosystems

Fine Resolution Remote Sensing of Species in Terrestrial and Coastal Ecosystems

Detailed and accurate information on the spatial distribution of individual species over large spatial extents and over multiple time periods is critical for rapid response and effective management of environmental change. The twenty first century has witnessed a rapid development in both fine resolution sensors and statistical theories and techniques. These innovations hold great potential for improved accuracy of species mapping using remote sensing. Fine Resolution Remote Sensing of Species in Terrestrial and Coastal Ecosystems is a collection of eight cutting-edge studies of fine spatial resolution remote sensing including species mapping of biogenic and coral reefs seagrasses salt and freshwater marshes and grasslands. The studies illustrate the power of fine resolution imagery for species identification as well as the value of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery as an ideal source of high-quality reference data at the species level. The studies also highlight the benefit of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data for species identification and how this varies depending on the species of interest as well as the nature of the context in which the species is found. The broad range of applications explored in the book demonstrates the major contribution of remote sensing to species-level terrestrial and coastal ecosystem studies as well as the potential for future advances. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Remote Sensing.

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