Beauty is powerful. Beauty is physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual. Beauty is obtainable. Skinside Out recognizes that every culture defines for itself what beauty is. Each contributor represents a different culture and cultural perspective. The book was written for those that care for women and those that women care for. It is a valuable reference for health care professionals, salon professionals, doctor moms and regular people. Skinside Out was written for you. Skinside Out is 50 topics covered in 50 chapters. The book answers questions, dispels myths and provides insight to cultural differences, old wives tales differ among Black and Hispanic grandmothers. The German family beauty secrets may be quite different from Asian family traditions. The final chapter, Chapter 51, Sex is for Women explains the science that relates beauty to sex and offers everyone another level.

Skinside Out is the first book of its kind to deeply explain the intricacies of our largest organ, skin, and how we can work with nature to have the best skin of our lives! This is the mantra of self-confessed skin nerd Robyn McAlpine. In over a decade of her extensive career, she has gathered her expertise to bring you an enthusiastic, modern, humorous and glowing perspective on matters of the skin. Her life's mission is to fix peoples skin. We all know what skin is, but do any of us realise just what skin does?Skinside Out is a book about beauty and the science of how skin works. Skin doesn't lie; it reflects our overall health in unimaginable ways. Robyn explains how we live our lives are manifestations of how our skin misbehaves, or doesn't, and how the connection between our thoughts, stresses, diet, gut health and environment affects the health of our skin.With the knowledge Robyn shares in this book, you will feel empowered to make healthy skin choices for life, with a new found love and appreciation for the humble skin cell and the skin you are in. You'll laugh, you'll learn, and your body will love you ... from the Skinside Out.

This classic book contains Ponting's well-written and witty account of Captain Scott's final Antarctic expedition of 1910-12. Fully detailed and with many of Ponting's own photographs, this moving account will make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of any admirer of Captain Scott, or anyone with an interest in travel and adventure. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

“Joyce’s Book of the Dark gives us such a blend of exciting intelligence and impressive erudition that it will surely become established as one of the most fascinating and readable Finnegans Wake studies now available.”—Margot Norris, James Joyce Literary Supplement

Originally published in 1979. Eric Sundquist takes four representative writers—James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville—and considers the way in which each grapples with the crucial issues of genealogy and authority in his works. From all four a common pattern emerges: the desire to revolt against the past is countered by the need to invoke or even repeat it. Sundquist's approach to the texts is psychoanalytic, but he does not attempt a clinical dissection of each writer; rather, he determines how personal crisis became material for engaging with larger questions of social and literary crisis.

Are you feeling adventurist? The author’s intended audiences are young adult readers and those of all ages interested in how mountain men and explorers who adventured into the western wilderness survived in the early 1800s. Actual historical events and methods are used throughout the story to accomplish tasks specific to the period. Messages of right versus wrong and family values are woven throughout the novel’s fabric and show how life can be successful, regardless of adverse situations, as long as one has a sense of self-reliance with respect for his fellow man.

Exploring the role of boundaries and limits in the writing of James Joyce Beating the Bounds examines the role of boundaries and limits in James Joyce’s later works, primarily Finnegans Wake but also Ulysses and other texts. Building on the ideas of philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Giordano Bruno, and scholar Fritz Senn, Roy Benjamin explains and reconciles Joyce’s contrary tendencies to establish and transgress limits. Benjamin begins by contrasting Joyce’s exploration of the artificial impositions of ritual and political power with the writer’s attention to natural boundaries of rivers and mountains. The next section considers sexual, spiritual, and interpersonal boundaries in the Wake. Benjamin then discusses how Joyce simultaneously affirms and undermines the limits of philosophy, geometry, and aesthetics. The final section covers Joyce’s representation of the boundaries imposed in cosmogonic myths, the collision between the bounded medieval world and the boundless world of modern science, and the drive to escape from the boundaries of place. In this detailed and original analysis, Benjamin demonstrates that in Joyce’s writing, the tendency to disintegrate into chaos is countered by an urge to impose order. Benjamin’s close readings put an abundance of subjects in conversation through the concept of limits, showing the Wake’s relevance to many different fields of thought. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles

The years between 1775 and 1815 constitute a crucial episode in the evolutionary history of Europe and America. Between the start of the American Revolution, with the first armed clashes between British regulars and American militiamen at Concord and Lexington, and the closing act of the French Revolution, with the eclipse of Napoleon's dreams of pan-European glory on the battlefield of Waterloo, America and Europe witnessed the rise and fall of radicalism, which left virtually no aspect of public and private life untouched. While the American colonies managed to wrench themselves away from their colonial parent, and while France careered down the stormy rapids of its own Revolution, Great Britain went through the turbulent process of redefining itself vis-à-vis both these emerging nations, and the world at large. But the period 1775 to 1815 offers more than the two ideological Revolutions that determined the face of modern America and Europe: feeding into and emanating from these Revolutions there were major watersheds in virtually all areas of cultural, intellectual and political life - varying from the rise of Romanticism to the birth of abolitionism, and from the beginnings of modern feminism to the creation of modern nationhood and its enduring cultural stereotypes. In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, historians and literary critics from both sides of the Atlantic analyze a broad spectrum of the watersheds and faultlines that arose in this formative era of Euro-American relations. Individually, the essays trace one or more of the transatlantic patterns of intellectual, cultural or scientific cross-pollination between the Old and the New World, between pre- and post-Revolutionary modes and mores. Collectively, the essays argue that the many revolutions that produced the national ideologies, identities and ideas of state of present-day America and Europe did not merely play a role in national debates, but that they very much belonged to an intricate network of transnational and, more particularly, transatlantic dialogues.