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." ...

Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was but what it was like to live through. There are many books on the First World War but award-winning & bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring & stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world all now unknown this title explores the everyday aspects of war: not only the tragedy & horror but also the absurdity monotony & even beauty. Two of these twenty will perish two will become prisoners of war two will become celebrated heroes & two others end as physical wrecks. One of them goes mad another will never hear a shot fired. Following soldiers & sailors nurses & government workers from Britain Russia Germany Australia & South America
- & in theatres of war often neglected by major histories on the period
- Englund reconstructs their feelings impressions experiences & moods. This is a piece of anti-history: it brings this epoch-making event back to its smallest component the individual.

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



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In the struggle for women's equality there is one subject still shrouded in silence
- women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The
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This illustrated tour of the worlds most extraordinary trees provides an insight into some of the natural worlds most astonishing structures. Through 100 photographs The Beauty of Trees tells the story of our relationship with trees throughout history. Each image is supported by information about the botany of the tree along with the stories traditions & legends associated with it. From the giant sequoias of California to the bonsai of Japan the pink tulip tree of the Himalayas to the Scots pine
- & even the humble acorn
- award-standard photography & insightful text bring the majesty & mystery of the worlds trees to life.

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Although a truly gifted hairstylist Kiri Koshiba has no interest in using her talent to pursue fame & fortune unlike the three popular boys in the Scissors Project" at school. Determined to become the best makeover team in Japan they give showy makeovers to handpicked girls. As much as Kiri tries to shy away from the Scissors Project spotlight she finds herself responding to beautys call... Kiris identity as the mysterious "X" who does makeovers behind the scenes is now public knowledge as she competes against hairstylist Narumi in a one-on-one Scissors Project challenge. The hairstylist who loses will receive a haircut by the winner & must endure whatever that haircut might be..." ...

Although a truly gifted hairstylist Kiri Koshiba has no interest in using her talent to pursue fame & fortune unlike the three popular boys in the Scissors Project" at school. Determined to become the best makeover team in Japan they give showy makeovers to handpicked girls. As much as Kiri tries to shy away from the Scissors Project spotlight she finds herself responding to beautys call... Kiris friend Kanako gives a present to one of the members of the Scissors Project. Her act of kindness is interpreted as a bribe to get a makeover & they reject her out of hand for being too ugly. Kiri decides to help Kanako & give the boys a lesson in what true beauty is." ...