Tag: Beauty

January 30, 2024

Beauty Up Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics

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Free Download Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics By Laura Miller
2006 | 271 Pages | ISBN: 0520245083 | PDF | 5 MB
This engaging introduction to Japan’s burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range of phenomenon—aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty language—to find out why Japanese women and men are paying so much attention to their bodies. Laura Miller uses social science and popular culture sources to connect breast enhancements, eyelid surgery, body hair removal, nipple bleaching, and other beauty work to larger issues of gender ideology, the culturally-constructed nature of beauty ideals, and the globalization of beauty technologies and standards. Her sophisticated treatment of this timely topic suggests that new body aesthetics are not forms of "deracializiation" but rather innovative experimentation with identity management. While recognizing that these beauty activities are potentially a form of resistance, Miller also considers the commodification of beauty, exploring how new ideals and technologies are tying consumers even more firmly to an ever-expanding beauty industry. By considering beauty in a Japanese context, Miller challenges widespread assumptions about the universality and naturalness of beauty standards.

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January 26, 2024

The Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Language

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Free Download Claudio Di Felice, "The Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Language"
English | ISBN: 900438894X | 2019 | 392 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Beauty is a central concept in the Italian cultural imagination throughout its history and in virtually all its manifestations. It particularly permeates the domains that have governed the construction of Italian identity: literature and language. The Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Language assesses this long tradition in a series of essays covering a wide chronological and thematic range, while crossing from historical linguistics to literary and cultural studies. It offers elements for reflection on cross-disciplinary approaches in the humanities, and demonstrates the power of beauty as a fundamental category beyond aesthetics.

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January 21, 2024

Whole Beauty Daily Rituals and Natural Recipes for Lifelong Beauty and Wellness

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Free Download Whole Beauty: Daily Rituals and Natural Recipes for Lifelong Beauty and Wellness By Shiva Rose
2018 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1579658520 | EPUB | 18 MB
A decade ago, after suffering from life-threatening autoimmune disorders, Hollywood actress Shiva Rose set out to discover a more holistic way to natural health and beauty. Growing her own organic herbs and flowers; mixing creams, lotions, and tonics; and following Ayurvedic practices and creating mindful rituals, she has not only healed her life but has also become a leader and entrepreneur in the world of all-natural beauty and lifestyle. Whole Beauty is her radiant next step, a practical, inspiring, stunningly beautiful guide to following a whole beauty practice at home. Here is the recipe for Rose’s iconic rose hip facial serum, as well as 40 other recipes for masks and exfoliants, hair-care products and detoxes, and even DIY deodorant and toothpaste. She explains Ayurvedic practices, such as dry brushing and oil pulling, and home-cleansing rituals, such as smudging with burning sage; shares a dozen tonics, including Celestial Nog and Summer Lover; and offers an entire chapter on the use of essential oils, both on the body and in the home. From natural beauty solutions like a Blushing Bride Chickpea Face Mask to showing how to tap into the full force of female energy, Whole Beauty is a complete guide to revitalizing your life.

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January 20, 2024

White and Faded Restoring Beauty in Your Home and Life

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Free Download White and Faded: Restoring Beauty in Your Home and Life by Janet Parrella-Van Den Berg, Liz Marie Galvan
English | September 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1400243394 | 208 pages | MOBI | 23 Mb
The only thing more beautiful than home transformation is personal transformation. Bring new life into your home and your soul through the gorgeous photography, inspiring story, and creative design ideas from Janet Parrella-Van Den Berg, founder of popular UK brand White & Faded. Journey through these hope-filled pages, and discover the hidden beauty in your own home and life.

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January 16, 2024

On Beauty of Artworks as Aesthetic True Representations of Reality

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Free Download Dan Nesher, "On Beauty of Artworks as Aesthetic True Representations of Reality"
English | ISBN: 0761872957 | 2022 | 370 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 4 MB
This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Following and reconstructing Peircean realist epistemology, Aesthetics is one of the three normative sciences, along with Logic (Theoretic) and Ethics, which are the three different modes of representing reality. Aesthetics is the mode of artistic representation of reality, and the created artworks are judged beautiful when proven as an aesthetic true representation of reality. Artists aim to represent reality truly, and hence, beautifully, in order to enhance our knowledge of it and to afford us insights on how to better conduct our life in society.

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