Survival of the Beautiful
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: David Rothenberg
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-01 - Publisher: A&C Black

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'The peacock's tail makes me sick!' said Charles Darwin. That's because the theory of evolution as adaptation can't explain why nature is so beautiful. It took
Survival of the Prettiest
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Nancy Etcoff
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-02 - Publisher: Anchor

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A provocative and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, skewering the myth that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior. In Sur
Something Beautiful Happened
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Yvette Manessis Corporon
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-12 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother's stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family -- a tailor
Relicts of a Beautiful Sea
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Christopher Norment
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-29 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes c
The Evolution of Beauty
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Richard O. Prum
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-09 - Publisher: Anchor

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A FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL A major reimagining of h