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Search Amazon Search: Books Keywords: Search Powell's Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality by J. Ruth Gendler In this wide-ranging and deeply felt book, artist and writer J. Ruth Gendler invites us to reclaim and celebrate the often misunderstood quality of beauty as one of the most profound and essential forces in our lives. Drawing upon observations from art and mythology, science and nature, contemporary culture and personal experience, the author looks at her subject in its most generous implications -- not simply as a reflection of surface and image, but as a pathway to wholeness, integrity, coherence, and ultimately, to love. Written with curiosity, courage, a discerning eye and a lyrical sensibility, and illustrated with evocative line drawings by the author, Notes on the Need for Beauty displays the strong personal voice that has made her previous book, The Book of Qualities so beloved. It is a work to savor and to share. Read Dr. Dolhenty's Review of this Book Read an Excerpt from this Book - "A Meditation on Love" Read an Excerpt from this Book - "Aphrodite's Gift" Order at Amazon Books

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