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"On Beauty and Measure features renowned philosopher John Sallis' commentaries on Plato's dialogues the Symposium and the Statesman. Drawn from two lecture courses delivered by Sallis, they represent his longest and most sustained engagement to date with either work. Brilliantly original, Sallis's close readings of Plato's dialogues are grounded in the original passages and also illuminate the overarching themes that drive the dialogues"--

Elaine Scarry teaches in the English department at Harvard University, where she is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value. She is the author of The Body in Pain, Resisting Representation, Dreaming by the Book, and many articles on war and social contract. Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us...

On Beauty and Measure features renowned philosopher John Sallis' commentaries on Plato's dialogues the Symposium and the Statesman. Drawn from two lecture courses delivered by Sallis, they represent his longest and most sustained engagement to date with either work. Brilliantly original, Sallis's close readings of Plato's dialogues are grounded in the original passages and also illuminate the overarching themes that drive the dialogues.

As the source of all beauty, God created Mary for His Son and us but also as the perfect example of true beauty, which comes from grace and virtue. Preteens will learn about Mary's life, virtues, and devotions while developing character-building qualities and discovering ways to enhance their beauty with modesty. In addition, the young ladies will learn how to establish a holy self-love, which leads to a beautiful life, giving glory to God.

No one said saving the world would be easy. But nothing could have prepared Charisse for the sacrifices she would have to make. When Char travels through time to put an end to the dystopian future Darcus has created, she never expects the two lives most in danger would be her best friend's kids. Or that they would have put themselves in such peril knowingly. And yet, here they are. Now, with the help of old friends, an underground rebellion called...

"One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye--forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye,...

Beauty Looks Down On Me is a collection of by turns sad and funny stories about the thwarted expectations of the young as they grow older. HeeKyung's characters are misfits who by virtue of their bodies or their lack of social status are left to dream of momentous changes that will never come. Unsatisfied with work, with family, with friends, they lose themselves in diets, books, and blogs. Heekyung's collection humorously but humanely depicts the...

There is nothing more intimate than the breathtaking union that blossoms between the human heart and God... this beautiful exchange of loving looks that allows hearts themselves to communicate and to be woven together in a single life of love. This is God's ultimate and all-encompassing desire: to enfold each one of his precious children within the tenderness of his cradling embrace, and, within this embrace, to make all of us one with each other...

"A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet's migration...

Women are beautiful. They all love children, which means they are sensitive and have lots of maternal nurturing instincts. Women are strong and wonderful. They are stronger than men in many many ways. Remember how they labor for love. They are all romantic. These poems have a lot of feeling invested in them. I found out since I was a kid that women need to be appreciated. I need to sing about women and how beautiful they have been created. I can say...