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The source of tremendous power and focus of incredible devotion, throughout history notions of beauty have been integral to social life. Each age has had its own standards: a gleaming white brow during the Renaissance, the black eyebrows considered charming in the early eighteenth century, and the thin lips thought desirable by Victorians.

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Taking the concept of beauty seriously, this encyclopedia examines how humanity has sought and continues to seek what is "beautiful" in a variety of cultural contexts, giving readers an understanding of how to look at beauty both intellectually and critically.

Is beauty ever more than "skin deep"

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Society is fixated on looks and celebrities, but how we look has deep ramifications for ordinary people too. This book explains how social inequality pertains to prejudice and discrimination against people based on their physical appearance. It discusses the pressures to be attractive and the methods by which we strive to alter our appearance.

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Brings together the views of architects, artists, critics, historians, and philosophers to explore how beauty can again become an integral part of discussions about architecture.

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Beauty, Virtue, Power, and Success in Venezuela 18502015 examines how Venezuelan women have learned to exercise and perform to societal expectations of beauty in four historical moments: 18501890, 19101950, 19601990, and 20002015.

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Bebop music is more than a jazz movement that seemed to have burst suddenly upon the jazz sceneit is an outgrowth of the sociocultural environment dating from the 1920s through the 1940s.

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Radical new translation of the Jean Anouilh classic

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When the Archbishop of Canterbury died, Henry II forced his companion and political lieutenant, Thomas Becket, to take his place. Becket told his king: 'If I become archbishop I shall cease to be your friend.' Becket, who with Henry had fought the Church for the good of the State, now felt responsible for the honour of God.

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Death is indisputably central to Beckett's writing and reception. This collection of research considers a number of Beckett's poems, novels, plays and short stories through considerations of mortality and death. It includes chapters that explore the theme of deathliness in relation to Beckett's work as a whole, through three main approaches.

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The word 'decay' is often used by critics in general reference to Beckett's thematic emphasis and philosophical outlook. This book explores the concept of decay as providing the fundamental core of Beckett's work, examining the theme of decay in terms of physical, mental and linguistic deterioration.

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What is the relation between Beckett's work and the ethical Is Beckett's work profoundly ethical in its implications, as both humanist and deconstructionist readings have insisted in their different ways This collection of essays seeks to map out this debate in Beckett criticism.

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A collection of research by some of the leading international scholars on Beckett and phenomenology - both comparing and contrasting his work with key figures in phenomenology and analysing phenomenological themes and their dramatization in Beckett's work. It examines the phenomenal in Beckett's literary worlds.

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Samuel Beckett is a canonical, if challenging, giant of 20th century literature. This monograph is based on an analysis of the notebooks and transcriptions compiled by Beckett from 1929-1940, which shed important insight into Beckett's working methods, original sources and literary development.

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A genuinely ground-breaking study of Beckett's notes on his reading during the interwar years, now available in paperback for the first time.

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