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Author: Ashley Beach Publisher: LifeRich Publishing ISBN: 1489730095 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 227
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Two sisters torn apart by a curse. A prince on a quest to save his realm. Erianna was banished by the Snow Queen at a very young age because of a curse that turned her into a beast every full moon. She must find a way to break the curse by her 21st birthday or she will remain a beast forever. After years of isolation, she finds herself in the abandoned garden of a young girl who looks a lot like the sister she was forced to leave behind. Knowing she will be in grave danger if the Snow Queen discovers she is in her kingdom, Erianna makes her way back into the forest where she has an unexpected encounter with Gabriel, a dashing prince from the spring realm. Gabriel has been sent to the winter realm to discover why his realm is losing its power. He encounters the mysterious woman, Erianna, on his quest to find answers, and through an unfortunate understanding, ends up with a poisonous arrow in his arm. Both Erianna and Gabriel have only until the winter solstice moon rises to break the curse and stop the poison from reaching his heart, or all will be lost. Can Erianna break the curse and find a way to restore her relationship with her sister? Can Gabriel find the answers he needs to restore his realm to its former glory and keep his heart from turning to ice? Follow them on this journey as they discover strength in their afflictions and the powerful faith that will restore even the thorniest of hearts and bring beauty back to the winter realm.
Author: Ashley Beach Publisher: LifeRich Publishing ISBN: 1489730095 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 227
Book Description
Two sisters torn apart by a curse. A prince on a quest to save his realm. Erianna was banished by the Snow Queen at a very young age because of a curse that turned her into a beast every full moon. She must find a way to break the curse by her 21st birthday or she will remain a beast forever. After years of isolation, she finds herself in the abandoned garden of a young girl who looks a lot like the sister she was forced to leave behind. Knowing she will be in grave danger if the Snow Queen discovers she is in her kingdom, Erianna makes her way back into the forest where she has an unexpected encounter with Gabriel, a dashing prince from the spring realm. Gabriel has been sent to the winter realm to discover why his realm is losing its power. He encounters the mysterious woman, Erianna, on his quest to find answers, and through an unfortunate understanding, ends up with a poisonous arrow in his arm. Both Erianna and Gabriel have only until the winter solstice moon rises to break the curse and stop the poison from reaching his heart, or all will be lost. Can Erianna break the curse and find a way to restore her relationship with her sister? Can Gabriel find the answers he needs to restore his realm to its former glory and keep his heart from turning to ice? Follow them on this journey as they discover strength in their afflictions and the powerful faith that will restore even the thorniest of hearts and bring beauty back to the winter realm.
Author: Elizabeth Prettejohn Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192801600 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 225
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What do we mean when we call a work of art `beautiful`? How do perceptions of beauty change with the passage of time? Elizabeth Prettejohn explores these crucial questions, showing the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art. She charts the story of western art, from eighteenth-century Germany to the late 20th century, from Kauffman to Whistler, Ingres to Rossetti, Cézanne to Jackson Pollock.
Author: Ronald Schenk Publisher: Bucknell University Press ISBN: 9780838752142 Category : Aesthetics Languages : en Pages : 188
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The problem explored in The Soul of Beauty is the split in modern consciousness between the world of perception and appearance on the one hand, and the world of action and meaning on the other. We see in one way and find truth in another. The work presents this dualism as a problem in the modern sense of beauty. The intent of the book is the recovery of beauty as that which brings together such contemporary splits as perception and action, appearance and meaning, matter and spirit, subject and object. Beauty is imaged in two paradigms. The first presents beauty as a matter of appearance which holds meaning - beauty as truth. The second holds that beauty is subjective experience, which in its modern sense is divorced from knowledge and practical action - beauty as relative experience. The paradigms are formed through an imaginative and historical exploration of the tradition of beauty in Western consciousness. The prototype of the first paradigm - beauty as appearance - is seen in the goddess Aphrodite, who reflects the Greek sense of divinity in form itself. This paradigm is then founded upon the tradition of Plato in the Phaedrus and the Symposium, Plotinus, Dionysius, and Ficino. The major elements of this paradigm are depicted in beauty as: (1) source in a hierarchical universe, (2) universal mediator, (3) object of love, (4) human perception, (5) human knowledge, (6) light, and (7) unity, goodness, and being. The suggestion is made that the paradigm of beauty as appearance is relevant for psychology as a study of soul because it brings together perception and meaning. The paradigm of beauty as a subjective experience focuses historically upon beauty as a spiritual, conceptual (proportion), methodological (linear perspective), and subjective phenomenon. In the tradition of proportion and subjectivism, knowledge is gained through perception that occurs via an organizing system, such as mathematics, or a concept, such as proportion, rather than through the direct perception of appearance. Meaning is separated from perception, and the organizing system or concept, not appearance, becomes the ground of knowledge. It is suggested that this paradigm, reflected in scientific and conceptual psychology, is problematic for psychology as a study of soul. Instead, psychology conducts its endeavors in the service of identification with the divine, control over the physical world, and certainty of consciousness. The final portion of the work examines the recovery of beauty as appearance in contemporary psychology through the notion of "image" in Jung's later thought and the phenomenon of psychotherapy. The work concludes with a presentation of psychology as an aesthetic enterprise bringing together meaning and appearance, spirit and matter, art and science, subject and object.
Author: Gretel Van Wieren Publisher: Georgetown University Press ISBN: 1589019970 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 220
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Ecological restoration integrates the science and art of repairing ecosystems damaged by human activities. Despite relatively little attention from environmental ethicists, restoration projects continue to gain significance, drawing on citizen volunteers and large amounts of public funds, providing an important model of responding to ecological crisis. Projects range from the massive, multi-billion dollar Kissimmee River project; restoring 25,000 acres of Everglades' wetlands; to the $30 million effort to restore selected wetlands in industrial Brownfield sites in Chicago's south side Lake Calumet area; to the reintroduction of tall grass prairie ecosystems in various communities in the Midwest. Restored to Earth provides the first comprehensive examination of the religious and ethical dimensions and significance of contemporary restoration practice, an ethical framework that advances the field of environmental ethics in a more positive, action-oriented, experience-based direction. Van Wieren brings together insights and examples from restoration ecology, environmental ethics, religious studies, and conservation and Christian thought, as well as her own personal experiences in ecological restoration, to propose a new restoration ethic grounded in the concrete, hands-on experience of humans working as partners with the land.