The Summer of the Beautician

The Summer of the Beautician
Author: Viviana Meroni
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2001-03-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595176496

A pen-palling experience. A life in Milan, a mix between London and Milan.

The Beauty and the Sorrow

The Beauty and the Sorrow
Author: Peter Englund
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307739287

An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund’s collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.

All the Beauty in the World

All the Beauty in the World
Author: Patrick Bringley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2024-10-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1982163313

"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--

The Line of Beauty

The Line of Beauty
Author: Alan Hollinghurst
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2008-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 159691808X

Winner of the Man Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Century by The New York Times Book Review International Bestseller From acclaimed author Alan Hollinghurst, a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, who is highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black man who works as a clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this is a major work by one of our finest writers.

Be Your Own Beautician

Be Your Own Beautician
Author: Parvesh Handa
Publisher: Pustak Mahal
Total Pages: 12
Release: 2007-04-27
Genre:
ISBN: 8122309739

Those blessed with healthy skin, attractive features, youthful charm and glamorous body are fortunate. This book will tell you exactly how to make and present the best of yourself, how to look radiant from head to feet with the help of natural beauty aids and herbal ingredients. This book describes useful tips for both men and women in detail, to bring out your beauty and explains various questions to the readers: - If you have chosen the right cosmetics to bring out your beauty? - How to shape your face, eyes and lips to look their loveliest? - If you know how to give your type of skin lasting attraction? - If your hair is alluring and does your hairstyle enhance your personality? - If you know the secrets of successful figure control?

Be Your Own Beautician

Be Your Own Beautician
Author: A Reejhsinghani
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1976
Genre: Beauty, Personal
ISBN: 9788122200324

The book provides lots of great information on beauty, health, diet, exercise, problem skin, ageing, corrective make up and hair care that is well organized into different sections. The way the various parts and sections are presented makes the information easy to understand and follow. A. Reejhsinghani provides a detailed table of information on home made cosmetics from natural ingredients, where she describes each type, the positives and negatives as well as a 7-day diet plan to gain or lose weight. The book has a host of great facts and details that can be referred to for years to come. In short, the information that is presented will age well. Every woman has the potential to look good and feel great well into the middle age and beyond. Author A.Reejhsinghani tries to provide an easy way to realize that potential. This book combines her own expertise with age-old tips, in a well-rounded approach to shedding both the inner and outer signs of aging. This book has all the answers to looking younger, feeling younger and acting younger with different workshops that include slimming plans, exercises, makeup, beauty tips etc.

Food Justice Now!

Food Justice Now!
Author: Joshua Sbicca
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452957436

A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates The United States is a nation of foodies and food activists, many of them progressives, and yet their overwhelming concern for what they consume often hinders their engagement with social justice more broadly. Food Justice Now! charts a path from food activism to social justice activism that integrates the two. It calls on the food-focused to broaden and deepen their commitment to the struggle against structural inequalities both within and beyond the food system. In an engrossing, historically grounded, and ethnographically rich narrative, Joshua Sbicca argues that food justice is more than just a myopic focus on food, allowing scholars and activists alike to investigate the causes behind inequities and evaluate and implement political strategies to overcome them. Focusing on carceral, labor, and immigration crises, Sbicca tells the stories of three California-based food movement organizations, showing that when activists use food to confront neoliberal capitalism and institutional racism, they can creatively expand how to practice and achieve food justice. Sbicca sets his central argument in opposition to apolitical and individual solutions, discussing national food movement campaigns and the need for economically and racially just food policies—a matter of vital public concern with deep implications for building collective power across a diversity of interests.

Rebel McKenzie

Rebel McKenzie
Author: Candice Ransom
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1423178106

Rebel McKenzie wants to spend her summer attending the Ice Age Kids' Dig and Safari, a camp where kids discover prehistoric bones, right alongside real paleontologists. But digs cost money, and Rebel is broker than four o'clock. When she finds out her annoying neighbor Bambi Lovering won five hundred dollars by playing a ukulele behind her head in a beauty contest, Rebel decides to win the Frog Level Volunteer Fire Department's beauty pageant. Rebel may not be a typical pageant contestant, but how hard can it be? Rebel's dramatic reading about life is the Pleistocene era is sure to blow away the competition. It turns out that winning a beauty pageant is harder than it looks. By the end of the summer, Rebel has learned a thing or two about her true calling that will surprise everyone -- most of all, herself.