The Beautiful People's Diet Book

The Beautiful People's Diet Book
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 146
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ISBN-10 : 0841502803
ISBN-13 : 9780841502802
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis The Beautiful People's Diet Book by : Luciana Avedon

All the Beauty in the World

All the Beauty in the World
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9781982163327
ISBN-13 : 1982163321
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis All the Beauty in the World by : Patrick Bringley

A best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and The Sunday Times (London). An “exquisite” (The Washington Post) “hauntingly beautiful” (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staff who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamourous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought that he’d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew. To his surprise and your delight, this temporary refuge becomes Bringley’s home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome, strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries, wears out nine pairs of company shoes, and marvels at the beautiful works in his care. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards—a gorgeous mosaic of artists, musicians, blue-collar stalwarts, immigrants, cutups, and dreamers. As his bonds with his colleagues and the art grow, he comes to understand how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world, and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually, gratefully returns. In the tradition of classic workplace memoirs like Lab Girl and Working Stiff, All the Beauty in the World is an “empathic” (The New York Times Book Review), “moving” (NPR), “consoling, and beautiful” (The Guardian) portrait of a great museum, its hidden treasures, and the people who make it tick, by one of its most intimate observers.

Beauty Pays

Beauty Pays
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9780691158174
ISBN-13 : 0691158177
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Beauty Pays by : Daniel S. Hamermesh

Demonstrates how society favors the beautiful and how better-looking people experience startling but undeniable benefits in various aspects of life. This title shows that the attractive are more likely to be employed, work more productively and profitably, negotiate loans with better terms, and have more handsome and highly educated spouses.

On Beauty and Being Just

On Beauty and Being Just
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 9781400847358
ISBN-13 : 1400847354
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis On Beauty and Being Just by : Elaine Scarry

Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms. Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. The beautiful object renders fairness, an abstract concept, concrete by making it directly available to our sensory perceptions. With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness." In so doing, it takes the individual away from the center of his or her self-preoccupation and thus prompts a distribution of attention outward toward others and, ultimately, she contends, toward ethical fairness. Scarry, author of the landmark The Body in Pain and one of our bravest and most creative thinkers, offers us here philosophical critique written with clarity and conviction as well as a passionate plea that we change the way we think about beauty.

The Atlas of Beauty

The Atlas of Beauty
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Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780399579967
ISBN-13 : 0399579966
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Atlas of Beauty by : Mihaela Noroc

Based on the author's online photography project, this stunning collection features portraits of 500 women from more than 50 countries, accompanied by revelatory captions that capture their personal stories. Since 2013 photographer Mihaela Noroc has traveled the world with her backpack and camera taking photos of everyday women to showcase the diversity of beauty all around us. The Atlas of Beauty is a collection of her photographs celebrating women from all corners of the world, revealing that beauty is everywhere, and that it comes in many different sizes and colors. Noroc's colorful and moving portraits feature women in their local communities, ranging from the Amazon rainforest to London city streets, and from markets in India to parks in Harlem, visually juxtaposing the varied physical and social worlds these women inhabit. Packaged as a gift-worthy, hardcover book, The Atlas of Beauty presents a fresh perspective on the global lives of women today.

The Beautiful People

The Beautiful People
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Publisher : eStar Books
Total Pages : 11
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ISBN-10 : 9781612102412
ISBN-13 : 1612102417
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Beautiful People by : Charles Beaumont

The barren plains of mars held a secret, a yellow metal waiting to be found.

You are Beautiful

You are Beautiful
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1402797087
ISBN-13 : 9781402797088
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis You are Beautiful by : Ken Paves

Offers tips and techniques to find a unique personal beauty, from how to blow dry hair the right way and timing the next trim to choosing the bang and how to look good when pressed for time.

Inventing Beauty

Inventing Beauty
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Publisher : Broadway
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106017885556
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Inventing Beauty by : Teresa Riordan

Examines some of the early inventions and innovations used by women in their quest for beauty including bustles and brassieres, makeup to enhance the eyes and lips, treatments for the body and hair, and ways to flatter the hips and derriere.

All People Are Beautiful

All People Are Beautiful
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Publisher : Puppy Dogs & Ice Cream
Total Pages : 36
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ISBN-10 : 1956462023
ISBN-13 : 9781956462029
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis All People Are Beautiful by : Vincent Kelly

An important book for early readers that highlights the beauty of our differences. All cultures are beautiful. All languages are beautiful. Celebrating our differences is beautiful!