The source of tremendous power & the focus of incredible devotion throughout history notions of beauty have been integral to social life & culture. Each age has had its own standards: a gleaming white brow during the Renaissance the black eyebrows considered charming in the early eighteenth century & the thin lips thought desirable by Victorians. Beauty has ensured good marriages enabled social mobility & offered fame & notoriety & has led women
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- to remarkable lengths in cultivating it from the dangerous quantities of lead applied by Elizabeth I to the women of the 1940s & 50s who employed face powder lipstick & mascara to look their best during the privations of war & austerity creating a chic appearance to which many still aspire.

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These are two popular titles in the Young Reading" series with audio CDs inserted into wallets inside the back cover making the books & CDs easy to store together. " The Young Reading" series is developed with experts at Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence & ability. The packaging also allows potential purchasers to view the inside of the book." ...

This is a wonderful picture book retelling the classic fairytale. The simple & engaging text is accompanied by colourful illustrations by Victor Tavares. It is perfect for sharing with young children. Theres a fairy hiding in the Beasts garden which children might not spot on the first reading but theres lots of fun to be had looking for her when re-reading the story. ...

True love blossoms & wins through in this innovative pop-up adaptation of a beloved fairy tale. Once again bestselling pop-up & paper engineer Robert Sabuda has created amazing paper structures that will lead readers through the magical story of this age-old story. With artful renditions of the magnificent castle a life-like Beast & an enchanting closing scene ~ just to name a few ~ this three-dimensional retelling of a classic tale with surprises throughout is certain to become a favourite in every familys library. ...

This simplified retelling of the classic story Beauty & the Beast" is part of " Read It Yourself" a series of graded readers designed to give young children a confident & successful start to reading. This book is a Level Two title suitable for beginner readers who can read short simple sentences with help." ...

Looking for the ultimate secret to health & beauty? Don't look in your medicine cabinet. Look here. Celebrity nutritionist & beauty expert Kimberly Snyder helps dozens of Hollywood's Alist stars get redcarpet ready-and now you're getting the star treatment. Kim used to struggle with coarse hair breakouts & stubborn belly fat until she traveled the world learning ageold beauty secrets. She discovered that what you eat is the ultimate beauty product & she's developed a powerful program that rids the body of toxins so you can look & feel your very best. With just a few simple diet changes you will: Get a youthful radiant glow Banish acne splotchy skin & wrinkles Grow lustrous hair & strong nails Get rid of the bloat melt away fat & never count calories again! ...

Take nothing but photographs leave nothing but footprints." This is the unspoken rule of urban explorers who sometimes risk their safety police records & even their lives to explore abandoned buildings sewers & storm drains transit tunnels utility tunnels high-security areas of inhabited buildings & even catacombs such as those in Chenobyl Rome Odessa & Naples. Although these urban explorers usually work solo or in small teams they collectively put forth a ground cry against a modern culture that embraces the new polished uniform & mundane. Beauty in Decay features the best in full-color panoramic photographs from urban exploration or Urbex around the world. Overgrown industrial complexes disused lunatic asylums abandoned palaces & forgotten monasteries are showcased & paired with clear-sighted poetic text. Just who decides which doors are closed in our world & whose interests do they serve? Do we wish to be kept in the dark permanently safe free from either harm or adventure? For all of us there is a deep attraction to be found in opening these doors. They open a rift in our collected experiences & throw new light on the boundaries we've all been forced to accept. There is only one way to find out what's hidden behind these barriers. Sit back hold on & surrender to your imagination as we unlock the door to an extraordinary unseen world of beauty in decay. What's the Story with Urban Exploration? It's easy to describe what an Urban Explorer does; they infiltrate into abandoned buildings & industrial sites & explore them often taking photographs along the way. They don't steal vandalise or even leave graffiti behind them. In fact their code of honour is reminiscent of the rambler's way: Take only pictures leave only footprints. It is on the other hand not so easy to describe the whys & wherefores. Think back to your childhood for a moment & it all begins to make sense. Do you remember the terrifying yet seductive draw of the archetypal haunted house? Every neighbourhood & every childhood has one. At the very point we cross the border from childhood into adolescence we cross real physical borders too. It's the moment in our lives when we test the boundaries. We finally pluck up the courage to break into the haunted house & take a look around. You can probably remember your own experiences of this. & there will be at least one. The Urban Explorer feels that we in the comfortable & over-protected 'first world' are living in an enforced & extended state of childhood. They have remembered that they are capable of having unmediated experiences of reality & they welcome the fear that may (or may not) come with those experiences. The fear itself is the gateway to go through. It's the gateway that leads for many to 'wonderland'. This is the world through the looking glass that in some dark corner of every soul we are all looking for. The strange thing then is not that Urban Explorers exist; it's that the rest of us have forgotten that we are Urban Explorers too." ...

Overgrown industrial complexes disused asylums abandoned palaces & monasteries feature in this latest incendiary book from Carpet Bombing Culture. Beauty in Decay
- The Art of Urban Exploration broke new ground in depicting the global phenomenon of Urban Exploration (Urbex) when it published in 2010. Author Romany WG has again tirelessly tracked down dozens of new locations to amaze viewers of Beauty in Decay II a further peek behind the Urbex curtain. Urban explorers find the beauty layers of history multi-hued peeling paint antique objects ancient initials in the dust & the other physical manifestations of memory that abandoned impermanent urban spaces manifest. For Beauty in Decay Romany WG has gone behind the lens to give us a further peak behind the Urbex curtain. This time the HDR is paired down & the spectacle ramped up.
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The Beauty in the Beast is a delightful portrait of some of the UKs best-loved wild animals & birds & the colourful enthusiasts who champion their causes. Meet the water vole-woman from Shropshire the owl-man from Somerset & Gordon the dancing toad-fancier. These & many other fabulously engaging characters carry a deep knowledge of their chosen species within a distinctly quirky shell. Other animals making an appearance include otters bats dolphins dragonflies foxes & adders. Hugh Warwick animal enthusiast & hedgehog fanatic writes a series of affectionate & lively homages to the animals of the British Isles composed of fieldwork & interviews with the people who love & conserve them. ...

This book is the latest in the popular Cozy" series that offers 30 unique recipes for luxurious scrubs & masks. It



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