Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia, Paperback - S. Heijin Lee

DescriptionHow transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to Asia Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodi...

At the start of the twenty-first century challenges to the global hegemony of U.S. culture are more apparent than ever. Two of the contenders vying...

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the ...

Publisher: Sam ManicomAuthor(s): Sam ManicomIllustration(s): 16 Colour photographs, 54 line art drawingsNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2007D...

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Publisher: Cool Springs PressAuthor(s): Teri SpeightIllustration(s): 125+ color photosNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 209 x 2...

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In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic id...

Reducere. A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of models and bottles to reveal how beautiful young wome...

Reducere. Many know of Shambhala, the Tibetan Buddhist legendary land of spiritual bliss popularized by the film, Shangri-La. But few may know of the role Sh...

Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawai'ian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of e...

If you are not saved or are not sure you are, then read the following verses and pray for salvation.For all have sinned, and come short of the glor...

Masterly travel writing covering the emergent countries of central Asia.

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Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, showing how US wartime efforts to allevia...

Reducere. An incredible journey of a Buddhist Thai girl with a Christian schooling background and her attempt to marry a westernised Sikh boy of Indian desce...

Reducere. This third novel in the popular Hobbs series tells the inspiring story of how a community of close friends deals with the pandemic. It's midwinter ...

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Publisher: Brown Dog BooksIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 149 x 209 x 27Cover type...

Reducere. A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is translated f...

** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found hims...

Reducere. From Paris to L.A., London to Bergen, Sao Paulo to Vienna, and many more, no one has quite captured the strangeness, heroism, frustration or surrea...

Reducere. Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead--an age that claims mastery over the world but als...

Reducere. Nicholas Roerich was fond of saying, "Blessed be the obstacles--through them we grow." He was well qualified to know, for obstacles were a constant...

Reducere. A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and s...

Reducere. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Scholastic is re-releasing the ten original Magic School Bus titles in paperback. With updated scientific inform...

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Reducere. USA Today bestselling author Caroline Linden's third novel in her Scandalous series brings together a feisty heiress, a notorious rake, and a shock...

This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. It explores ho...

From a leading political thinker, this book is both an invaluable playbook for meeting our current moment and a stirring reflection on the future o...

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Kipling's The Eyes of Asia takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul of four soldiers of the Indian Army who fo...

A unique survey of seven great Asian empires, powerful forces on the world stage during a thousand years of history and that continue to resonate i...

Kajri Jain examines how the monumental statues erected in India following its economic reforms in the 1990s became a favored religious and politica...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 24 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Tables, black and white; 24 Illustrations, black and whiteNumb...

Contributor(s): Author: Sarah Jane DowningThe broader Regency period 1795-1820 stands alone as an incredible moment in fashion history unlike anyth...

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Reducere. A beautifully packaged edition of one of Garc a M rquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Lui...

A powerful debut novel that blends Hawaiian myth with the broken American dream

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A mirthful and merciless skewering of the Trump administration from the senior statesman of political cartooning, Garry Trudeau.

Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): 20 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 488Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 303 x 237 x 38Cover typ...

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A powerful debut novel that delicately blends Hawaiian myth with the broken American dream, this is an engrossing family saga and a story of exile ...

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In recent years, the beauty industry has shifted the conversation towards the individual in a way it hasn't done before. While people, and women in...