Before Beauty

Author : Brittany Fichter
Publisher : Brittany Fichter
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Before Beauty by Brittany Fichter Pdf

Can the accursed prince and broken beauty move beyond their hatred for one another, not only to break the curse and save their kingdom...but to find love as well? Prince Everard’s father forged him into a warrior. Upon the king’s death, however, Everard loses himself in his pain and brings a dark curse upon himself and the great Fortress that has long guarded the people of Destin. The prince's sin doesn’t solely affect those of his citadel, however. Isabelle, the daughter of a local merchant, has suffered the prince’s hasty temper before, and it changed her life forever. So when Everard’s curse cuts off his people’s source of protection, and he demands that she, a crippled commoner, help him break it, her shock and horror are rivaled only by her indigantation and even stronger desire to protect her family. All the while, Destin’s enemy crouches at the foot of the Fortress’s mountain, waiting for the right moment to capture the stronghold that has stood for a thousand years. Can Everard and Isabelle move past their brokenness to save Destin together? Or will they and their beloved kingdom remain under darkness forever? If you want the magic of Narnia and the romance of fairy tales, read this clean fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast today to escape into the Becoming Beauty Trilogy, as well as the Classical Kingdoms Collection, a series of fairy tale retellings with magical mystery, clean, passionate romance, and heroic happily-ever-afters. Author's Note: Before Beauty is an introduction to both series, but it can be read as a stand-alone as well.

Author : Virginia Smith
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780800732332

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Age Before Beauty by Virginia Smith Pdf

Allie Harrod decides to start her own business so she can stay home with her new baby, but her problems mount as she fails to make money, her husband shows too much interest in an attractive co-worker, and her mother-in-law comes to stay.

Author : ReGina Welling,Erin Lynn
Publisher : Willow Hill Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Middle Age Before Beauty by ReGina Welling,Erin Lynn Pdf

Mag and Clara Balefire are back for another humorous mystery novel featuring witches and other paranormal characters. In this caper, there’s a dead body, a country club pool that has more than chlorine in it, a scheme to get Mag back to her true age, and you can be sure that Hagatha Crow will stir up trouble. If you like a fun paranormal mystery with a heaping dollop of sarcasm and wit, you'll love this humorous magical story full of chaos and intrigue. Books in this series: Murder Above the Fold Murder on the Backswing Murder Below the Waterline Haunted by Murder Middle Age Before Beauty

Author : Brittany Fichter
Publisher : Classical Kingdoms Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949710149

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Before Beauty by Brittany Fichter Pdf

Before Beauty is a clean fairy tale retelling of Beauty and the Beast, targeted at young adult audiences. While it's the first book in the Becoming Beauty Trilogy and the Classical Kingdoms Collection fairy tale world, Before Beauty can be read as a stand-alone novel. This book is a full-length novel and includes clean romance, magical mystery, and heroic happily-ever-afters.

Author : Martha Laham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781538138052

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Made Up by Martha Laham Pdf

Made Up exposes the multibillion-dollar beauty industry that promotes unrealistic beauty standards through a market basket of advertising tricks, techniques, and technologies. Cosmetics magnate Charles Revson, a founder of Revlon, was quoted as saying, "In the factory, we make cosmetics. In the store, we sell hope." This pioneering entrepreneur, who built an empire on the foundation of nail polish, captured the unvarnished truth about the beauty business in a single metaphor: hope in a jar. Made Up: How the Beauty Industry Manipulates Consumers, Preys on Women’s Insecurities, and Promotes Unattainable Beauty Standards is a thorough examination of innovative, and often controversial, advertising practices used by beauty companies to persuade consumers, mainly women, to buy discretionary goods like cosmetics and scents. These approaches are clearly working: the average American woman will spend around $300,000 on facial products alone during her lifetime. This revealing book traces the evolution of the global beauty industry, discovers what makes beauty consumers tick, explores the persistence and pervasiveness of the feminine beauty ideal, and investigates the myth-making power of beauty advertising. It also examines stereotypical portrayals of women in beauty ads, looks at celebrity beauty endorsements, and dissects the “looks industry.” Made Upuncovers the reality behind an Elysian world of fantasy and romance created by beauty brands that won’t tell women the truth about beauty.

Author : James Perrin Warren
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820330815

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John Burroughs and the Place of Nature by James Perrin Warren Pdf

This study situates John Burroughs, together with John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, as one of a trinity of thinkers who, between the Civil War and World War I, defined and secured a place for nature in mainstream American culture. Though not as well known today, Burroughs was the most popular American nature writer of his time. Prolific and consistent, he published scores of essays in influential large-circulation magazines and was often compared to Thoreau. Unlike Thoreau, however, whose reputation grew posthumously, Burroughs wasa celebrity during his lifetime: he wrote more than thirty books, enjoyed a continual high level of visibility, and saw his work taught widely in public schools. James Perrin Warren shows how Burroughs helped guide urban and suburban middle-class readers “back to nature” during a time of intense industrialization and urbanization. Warren discusses Burroughs’s connections not only to Muir and Roosevelt but also to his forebears Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. By tracing the complex philosophical, creative, and temperamental lineage of these six giants, Warren shows how, in their friendships and rivalries, Burroughs, Muir, and Roosevelt made the high literary romanticism of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman relevant to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Americans. At the same time, Warren offers insights into the rise of the nature essay as a genre, the role of popular magazines as shapers and conveyors of public values, and the dynamism of place in terms of such opposed concepts as retreat and engagement, nature and culture, and wilderness and civilization. Because Warren draws on Burroughs’s personal, critical, and philosophical writings as well as his better-known narrative essays, readers will come away with a more informed sense of Burroughs as a literary naturalist and a major early practitioner of ecocriticism. John Burroughs and the Place of Nature helps extend the map of America’s cultural landscape during the period 1870-1920 by recovering an unfairly neglected practitioner of one of his era’s most effective forces for change: nature writing.

Author : Alex Kuczynski
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780385515092

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Beauty Junkies by Alex Kuczynski Pdf

A star writer for the New York Times Styles section captures the follies, frauds, and fanaticism that fuel the American pursuit of youth and beauty in a wickedly revealing excursion into the burgeoning business of cosmetic enhancement. Americans are aging faster and getting fatter than any other population on the planet. At the same time, our popular notions of perfect beauty have become so strict it seems even Barbie wouldn’t have a chance of making it into the local beauty pageant. Aging may be a natural fact of life, but for a growing number of Americans its hallmarks—wrinkles, love handles, jiggling flesh—are seen as obstacles to be conquered on the path to lasting, flawless beauty. In Beauty Junkies Alex Kuczynski, whose sly wit and fearless reporting in the Times has won her fans across the country, delivers a fresh and irresistible look at America's increasingly desperate pursuit of ultimate beauty by any means necessary. From a group of high-maintenance New York City women who devote themselves to preserving their looks twenty-four hours a day, to a “surgery safari” in South Africa complete with “after” photographs of magically rejuvenated patients posing with wild animals, to a podiatrist's office in Manhattan where a “foot face-lift” provides women with the right fit for their $700 Jimmy Choos, Kuczynski portrays the all-American quest for self-transformation in all its extremes. In New York, lawyers become Botox junkies in an effort to remain poker-faced. In Los Angeles, women of an uncertain age nip and tuck their most private areas, so that every inch of their bodies is as taut as their lifted faces. Across the country, young women graduating from high school receive gifts of breast implants – from their parents. As medicine and technology stretch the boundaries of biology, Kuczynski asks whether cosmetic surgery might even be part of human evolution, a kind of cosmetic survival of the fittest – or firmest? With incomparable portraits of obsessive patients and the equally obsessed doctors who cater to their dreams, Beauty Junkies examines the hype, the hope, and the questionable ethics surrounding the advent of each new miraculous technique. Lively and entertaining, thought-provoking and disturbing, Beauty Junkies is destined to be one of the most talked-about books of the season.

Author : William Glennon
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0871290537

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Beauty and the Beast by William Glennon Pdf

Author : Hannah Terrell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781257053353

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Radiant Beauty by Hannah Terrell Pdf

Author : A House of Publishing Anthology
Publisher : Manda Publishers
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789395174480

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Locked hearts by A House of Publishing Anthology Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Alie James LLC
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Secrets to Healthy Aging & Ageless Beauty by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780195053999

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A Dictionary of American Proverbs by Wolfgang Mieder Pdf

Americans have a gift for coining proverbs. "A picture is worth a thousand words" was not, as you might imagine, the product of ancient Chinese wisdom -- it was actually minted by advertising executive Fred Barnard in a 1921 advertisement for Printer's Ink magazine. After all, Americans are first and foremost a practical people and proverbs can be loosely defined as pithy statements that are generally accepted as true and useful. The next logical step would be to gather all of this wisdom together for a truly American celebration of shrewd advice.A Dictionary of American Proverbs is the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written ones. Listed alphabetically according to their most significant key word, it features over 15,000 entries including uniquely American proverbs that have never before been recorded, as well as thousands of traditional proverbs that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American literature. Based on the fieldwork conducted over thirty years by the American Dialect Society, this volume is complete with historical references to the earliest written sources, and supplies variants and recorded geographical distribution after each proverb.Many surprised await the reader in this vast treasure trove of wit and wisdom. Collected here are nuggets of popular wisdom on all aspects of American life: weather, agriculture, travel, money, business, food, neighbors, friends, manners, government, politics, law, health, education, religion, music, song, and dance. And, to further enhance browsing pleasure, the editors have provided a detailed guide to the use of the work. While it's true that many of our best known proverbs have been supplied by the ever-present "Anonymous," many more can be attributed to some very famous Americans, like Ernest Hemingway, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Alva Edison, Abigail Adams, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to name but a few offered in this fascinating collection.Who wouldn't want to know the origin of "the opera ain't over till the fat lady sings?" This uniquely American proverb and many more are gathered together in A Dictionary of American Proverbs. A great resource for students and scholars of literature, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and cultural history, this endlessly intriguing volume is also a delightful companion for anyone with an interest in American culture.

Author : Mark Kingwell,Patrick Turmel
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554587230

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Rites of Way by Mark Kingwell,Patrick Turmel Pdf

There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanescent and multidimensional concept that too often escapes scrutiny. The essays in Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space open up multiple dimensions of the concept from architectural, political, philosophical, and technological points of view. There is some historical analysis here, but the contributors are more focused on the future of public space under conditions of growing urbanization and democratic confusion. The added interest offered by non-academic work—visual art, fiction, poetry, and drama—is in part an admission that this is a topic too important to be left only to theorists. It also makes an implicit argument for the crucial role that art, not just public art, plays in a thriving public realm. Throughout this work contributors are guided by the conviction, not pious but steely, that healthy public space is one of the best, living parts of a just society. The paths of desire we follow in public trace and speak our convictions and needs, our interests and foibles. They are the vectors and walkways of the social, the public dimension of life lying at the heart of all politics.

Author : Margo Berman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0742541371

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Street-smart Advertising by Margo Berman Pdf

Even the most creative minds need stimulation. Inspiration can come from examples of exceptional work, exercises designed to motivate, or time to reflect. The more inventive pieces the mind takes in, the more resources it has to draw from. Street Smart Advertising: How to Win the Battle of the Buzz contains countless examples designed to jump-start the right side of the brain. Margo Berman's book is packed with memorable uses of new media, exciting on-strategy marketing, creative online work, and insightful quotes by giants in the advertising industry. She offers innovative techniques to gen.

Author : John Burroughs
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368340209

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Birds and Poets; With Other Papers by John Burroughs Pdf

Reproduction of the original.