Fugly Becomes Beauty


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It's a story of a butterfly's life journey. A story of self-acceptance, finding one's purpose, friendship, love and the never-ending cycle of life.




Fugly


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Defined as nothing but fat in the real world, Beth Soames specializes in trolling beautiful girls online until two new friendships, one online and one offline, make her question her behavior.




Ugly


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Cites examples in art, architecture, and history to consider whether ugliness is an aesthetic judgment subject to taste, considering whether an object whose appearance is related to something negative can still be considered beautiful.




Ugly Love


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From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, a heart-wrenching love story that proves attraction at first sight can be messy. When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her. Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.




Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy


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This volume represents some of the activities of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy from the academic year 1997-98. It contains nine colloquia that were hosted by eight different colleges and universities in the greater Boston area. Discussions of the works of Plato dominate this volume, with six of the nine colloquia based on Platonic texts. Appropriately, the colloquia begin with an analysis of division in the ancient atomists. Later, a study of truth in Aristotle gives a counterpoint to the Platonic interplay of drama and pedagogy or logic and rhetoric examined in papers about the "Theaetetus" and "Symposium." A presentation of Proclus's account of evil revisits some of the issues of sophistry and morality discussed in relation to Plato's "Republic" and "Euthydemus." Finally, the remaining Platonic papers are in a way not about Plato at all, but about Socrates and Xanthippe, supplementing Platonic dialogues with Xenophon and others. Underneath these discussions of ancient texts current modes of philosophy run along, providing a score of alternative interpretative schemes. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.







The Visible World


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How did painters and their public speak about art in Rembrandt's age? This book about the writings of the painter-poet Samuel van Hoogstraten, one of Rembrandt's pupils, examines a wide variety of themes from painting practice and theory from the Dutch Golden Age. It addresses the contested issue of 'Dutch realism' and its hidden symbolism, as well as Rembrandt's concern with representing emotions in order to involve the spectator. Diverse aspects of imitation and illusion come to the fore, such as the theory behind sketchy or 'rough' brushwork and the active role played by the viewer's imagination. Taking as its starting point discussions in Rembrandt's studio, this unique study provides an ambitious overview of Dutch artists' ideas on painting.




Hatch's Plotbank


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Need ideas for your next story or play? Over 4200 plots ideas, some funny, others serious, and still more unique are listed for your consideration. This is just the reference to charge up your plots and subplots. Thousands of writers of short stories, novels, screenplays, fan fiction, games, sci-fi, mysteries, and special scripts have benefited from Hatch's Plotbank to stimulate their creativity and take a manuscript to new, fun places. Some users of our previous editions said "PlotBank was my cure for writer's block...I read, I laughed...then got back to work" and "every page charges me with new, fresh ideas". One successful author told us "I always find something I can use to form the core of a scene...I hope no one else is finding these." Topics range from sitcom standards to strange, curious things from the author's very creative mind. You'll find humorous, diabolically criminal, technologically current , silly, sad, and just plain weird story topics to make your story interesting and fresh. This new third addition contains thousands more ideas and includes a very detailed, textbook-like first chapter on how to form, layer, and make plots all your own. Fun and profit await.




Sexploitation


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Michèle Alexandre’s innovative study examines how sexual profiling represses, oppresses, and hinders various aspects of life for both genders, and explores the ways in which the law and the community can help eradicate the practice of sexual profiling. Alexandre defines "sexploitation" as the perpetuation of myths and stereotypical notions regarding men and women in order to further an agenda of oppression and subordination in certain spheres of society. The most popular means through which this sexploitation is achieved is through a method Alexandre coins as "sexual profiling." She argues that sexual profiling ultimately stifles the growth of our society by creating inefficient as well as oppressive systems, and that its eradication can help increase the productivity as well as the morale of society. Alexandre opens the book by exploring in detail the various ways in which normative views of gender are constructed and perpetuated through media and societal norms. She then focuses on the ways in which recent legal opinions and developments contribute to perpetuate these restrictive and oppressive norms. Finally, Alexandre outlines a plan to help eliminate the presence of these destructive norms and attitudes from different sectors of society.




THE AMAZING SECRET IN YOUR HEART


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The Astonishing story of the movement that is changing our world from violence, hatred and war, to a new and incredible world where there is Respect, Compassion and Love. A New Heart-Centered World ! Where the Heart rules there is Cooperation, Respect, Compassion, Love Care and Forgiveness,. The heart reflects all that is good and kind in the Universe and seeks to make it a reality in our lives. Through the centuries the great visionaries and prophets have urged us to strive to possess a New Heart. Where the head rules there is greed, animosity, hatred, competition and war. The head is all about living for ourselves, and thinking only about # 1. Some courageous and forward thinking scientists and visionaries maintain that we are on the threshold of a great experience. They believe that we are moving towards a new World and a new Civilization. They call it the The Great Shift in Consciousness.