Summary: The free-spirited UglyDolls confront what it means to be different, struggle with their desire to be loved, and ultimately discover that you don't have to be perfect to be amazing because who you truly are is what matters most.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UgMackenzie, Sarah
Summary: "Sly as a fox and swift as a bird, Lou Alice is determined to leave each day a little more beautiful than she found it. But when she moves away from her little house, no one in town notices she's gone. No one, that is, except a little girl, who sets out to carry on Lou Alice's work. But doing so is not enough. Can the girl find a way of her own to make the world a little more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Contains two works by ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, including "Poetics," a critique of the literature of his time with reference to the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; and "Rhetoric," a discussion of the role of language in achieving precision and clarity of thought.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Library 1981
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 808.5 ARICole, K. C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 COLFlynn, Sarah Wassner
Summary: "Information about why certain people, animals and things are considered "cute" and the scientific background, for children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 152 FLYDutton, Denis.
Summary: The Dinka have a connoisseur's appreciation of the patterns and colours of the markings on their cattle. The Japanese tea ceremony is regarded as a performance art. Some cultures produce carving but no drawing; others specialize in poetry. Yet despite the rich variety of artistic expression to be found across many cultures, we all share a deep sense of aesthetic pleasure. The need to create art...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 DuttonBayley, Stephen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 BayleyChayka, Kyle
Summary: "From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. From coffee shops to rental apartments to social media posts the world round, a sleek and deceptively simple aesthetic has come to predominate. It's in the neon signs and exposed brick of an Internet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Summary: An exploration of glamour, a potent cultural force that influences where people choose to live, which careers to pursue, where to invest, and how to vote, offers empowerment to be smarter about engaging with the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 111.85 POSRothfeld, Becca
Summary: "A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent. In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2024
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Summary: Five meditations on the role of beauty in human life and its direct connection with the sacred--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 844.914 CHEJager, Mark
Summary: Ancient sages spoke of secret music, purposely hidden from the ears of most mortals. Researchers say the enlightened philosopher, Pythagoras, could hear this music. He perceived it, even while in the immediate presence of those who couldn't. Pythagoras and others believed that all things were making music. Pythagoras reportedly believed that people couldn't hear it because they were entangled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zosma Publication 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil JagerBurke, Jill
Summary: "Plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics, and discover how, for centuries, women have turned to make-up as a rich source of creativity, community and resistance. The Renaissance was an era obsessed with appearances. And beauty culture from the time has left traces that give us a window into an overlooked realm of history - revealing everything from 16th-century women's body anxieties to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Summary: This accessible handbook from design guru Rob Forbes uncovers the beauty in the commonplace and reveals how visual thinking can enrich our lives. In friendly text complemented by photographs taken on his travels around the world, Forbes explains how to appreciate the design elements that surround us in the built environment. Linking broad concepts such as composition and materiality to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 715 FORSontag, Susan
Summary: With the publication of her first book, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses ... In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether writing about camp sensibility, the films of Jean-Luc...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.54 WILWilliams, Terry Tempest.
Summary: The naturalist author of Refuge and An Unspoken Hunger reflects on what it means to be human, the interconnection between the natural and human worlds, and how they combine to produce both tumult and peace, ugliness and beauty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008