Beautiful & Pointless

2011-04-12 Literary Criticism

Author : David Orr
Release : 2011-04-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 417/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful & Pointless by : David Orr

Download or read book Beautiful & Pointless written by David Orr. This book was released on 2011-04-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.

The Pointless Book

2014-10-14 Humor

Author : Alfie Deyes
Release : 2014-10-14
Genre : Humor
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 519/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Pointless Book by : Alfie Deyes

Download or read book The Pointless Book written by Alfie Deyes. This book was released on 2014-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the delight of his thriving fan base, YouTuber Alfie Deyes extends all the fun of the PointlessBlog to his first interactive activity book! Fully illustrated and packed with a host of games, activities, and pranks, the book will encourage you to connect the dots and bake a cake in a mug; people watch and turn a page with your ear; draw a finger selfie; and play the ultimate basketball challenge. The book is a “thank you” to old followers and a “welcome” to new ones in a delightfully wacky activity book format. It also includes an exclusive Pointless Book app that chronicles Alfie completing the same challenges and includes never-before-seen content!

The World's Most Pointless Animals

2021-07-20 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Philip Bunting
Release : 2021-07-20
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 39X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The World's Most Pointless Animals by : Philip Bunting

Download or read book The World's Most Pointless Animals written by Philip Bunting. This book was released on 2021-07-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World’s Most Pointless Animals is a witty, quirky, colorfully-illustrated book featuring fascinating facts about some very silly animals…who we find are perhaps not so pointless after all. From familiar animals like giraffes (who don’t have any vocal cords) through to those that surely should not even exist, such as the pink fairy armadillo (absurdly huge front claws, super tough protective shell in baby pink, particularly susceptible to stress), our planet is full of some pretty weird and wonderful animals. For example: Koalas spend up to 18 hours a day asleep! Pandas are born bright pink, deaf, and blind. Dumbo octopuses flap their big fin-like ears to move around. A Narwhal’s tusk grows through its upper lip—ouch! With hilarious text throughout and bright, contemporary illustrations, this guide to absurdly awesome animals contains funny labelled diagrams and some excellent made-up Latin names (n.b. the jellyfish’s scientific name is not actually wibblious wobblious ouchii). Carrying an important message of celebrating diversity and differences, The World’s Most Pointless Animals inspires a drive to conserve our amazing planet and the creatures we’re lucky enough to share it with. Quirky Creatures is a series dedicated to seeking out the weird and wonderful denizens of the natural world and explaining why they are so strange, from the ridiculous to the truly terrifying. Also available in this series is The World's Most Ridiculous Animals and The World's Most Atrocious Animals.

Point-Less

2020-03

Author : Sarah M Zerwin
Release : 2020-03
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 510/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Point-Less by : Sarah M Zerwin

Download or read book Point-Less written by Sarah M Zerwin. This book was released on 2020-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exploration of moving away from traditional letter or number grades as an assessment and as a result producing more thoughtful students whose learning is more authentic"--

Survival of the Beautiful

2013-01-01 Art

Author : David Rothenberg
Release : 2013-01-01
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 566/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Survival of the Beautiful by : David Rothenberg

Download or read book Survival of the Beautiful written by David Rothenberg. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain that, a process that has more to do with aesthetic taste than adaptive fitness. Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from Darwin's observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, philosopher and musician David Rothenberg probes why animals, humans included, have an innate appreciation for beauty - and why nature is, indeed, beautiful.

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