Author: David Perrett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0230364845
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In our daily lives, in our memories and fantasies, our mental worlds overflow with faces. But what do we really know about this most remarkable feature of the human body? Why do we have faces at all, and brains that are good at reading them? What do our looks say – and not say – about our personalities? And perhaps the most compelling question of all: Why are we attracted to some faces more than others? In Your Face is an engaging and authoritative tour of the science of facial beauty and face perception. David Perrett, the pre-eminent scholar in the field, reveals and interprets the most remarkable findings and in the process demolishes many popular myths, setting the record straight on what neuroscience and evolutionary psychology are teaching us about beauty. The record is more surprising and often more unsettling than you might think.
In Your Face
Author: David Perrett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0230364845
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In our daily lives, in our memories and fantasies, our mental worlds overflow with faces. But what do we really know about this most remarkable feature of the human body? Why do we have faces at all, and brains that are good at reading them? What do our looks say – and not say – about our personalities? And perhaps the most compelling question of all: Why are we attracted to some faces more than others? In Your Face is an engaging and authoritative tour of the science of facial beauty and face perception. David Perrett, the pre-eminent scholar in the field, reveals and interprets the most remarkable findings and in the process demolishes many popular myths, setting the record straight on what neuroscience and evolutionary psychology are teaching us about beauty. The record is more surprising and often more unsettling than you might think.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0230364845
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In our daily lives, in our memories and fantasies, our mental worlds overflow with faces. But what do we really know about this most remarkable feature of the human body? Why do we have faces at all, and brains that are good at reading them? What do our looks say – and not say – about our personalities? And perhaps the most compelling question of all: Why are we attracted to some faces more than others? In Your Face is an engaging and authoritative tour of the science of facial beauty and face perception. David Perrett, the pre-eminent scholar in the field, reveals and interprets the most remarkable findings and in the process demolishes many popular myths, setting the record straight on what neuroscience and evolutionary psychology are teaching us about beauty. The record is more surprising and often more unsettling than you might think.
In Your Face
Author: Dr. Bryan Mendelson
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1742738346
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
World-renowned aesthetic plastic surgeon Dr Bryan Mendelson guides us through the fascinating history of facial surgery. From his patients’ own stories, learn what it’s like when what’s on the outside doesn’t match who we are on the inside. Travel back through the millennia to see how the communal societies of our simian ancestors transformed the pre-human face into the expressive features we have today. Learn why the face is so important and how it has evolved into an essential—instinctive and immediate—tool of communication. Revisit the birth of reconstructive surgery in 6th century BCE India, and follow developments through the lunchtime face lifts of 1920s France, to the discovery of the fascia (the fibrous support layer beneath the skin), and Mendelson’s own role in changing the face of aesthetic plastic surgery forever. Full of fascinating historical detail told from a unique professional perspective, In Your Face provides real insight into why we’re so invested in appearance and the lengths we’re prepared to go to change the way we look.
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1742738346
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
World-renowned aesthetic plastic surgeon Dr Bryan Mendelson guides us through the fascinating history of facial surgery. From his patients’ own stories, learn what it’s like when what’s on the outside doesn’t match who we are on the inside. Travel back through the millennia to see how the communal societies of our simian ancestors transformed the pre-human face into the expressive features we have today. Learn why the face is so important and how it has evolved into an essential—instinctive and immediate—tool of communication. Revisit the birth of reconstructive surgery in 6th century BCE India, and follow developments through the lunchtime face lifts of 1920s France, to the discovery of the fascia (the fibrous support layer beneath the skin), and Mendelson’s own role in changing the face of aesthetic plastic surgery forever. Full of fascinating historical detail told from a unique professional perspective, In Your Face provides real insight into why we’re so invested in appearance and the lengths we’re prepared to go to change the way we look.
The In-Your-Face Basketball Book
Author: Chuck Wielgus
Publisher: Wynwood
ISBN: 9780922066155
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Describes the way basketball is played at playgrounds around the country, defines basketball slang terms, and demonstrates common offensive and defensive moves
Publisher: Wynwood
ISBN: 9780922066155
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Describes the way basketball is played at playgrounds around the country, defines basketball slang terms, and demonstrates common offensive and defensive moves
If I Had Your Face
Author: Frances Cha
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593129474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania “Powerful and provocative . . . a novel about female strength, spirit, resilience—and the solace that friendship can sometimes provide.”—The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • Esquire • Bustle • BBC • New York Post • InStyle Kyuri is an achingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a Seoul “room salon,” an exclusive underground bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake threatens her livelihood. Kyuri’s roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds herself in a precarious relationship with the heir to one of the country’s biggest conglomerates. Down the hall in their building lives Ara, a hairstylist whose two preoccupations sustain her: an obsession with a boy-band pop star, and a best friend who is saving up for the extreme plastic surgery that she hopes will change her life. And Wonna, one floor below, is a newlywed trying to have a baby that she and her husband have no idea how they can afford to raise in Korea’s brutal economy. Together, their stories tell a gripping tale at once unfamiliar and unmistakably universal, in which their tentative friendships may turn out to be the thing that ultimately saves them.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593129474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania “Powerful and provocative . . . a novel about female strength, spirit, resilience—and the solace that friendship can sometimes provide.”—The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • Esquire • Bustle • BBC • New York Post • InStyle Kyuri is an achingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a Seoul “room salon,” an exclusive underground bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake threatens her livelihood. Kyuri’s roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds herself in a precarious relationship with the heir to one of the country’s biggest conglomerates. Down the hall in their building lives Ara, a hairstylist whose two preoccupations sustain her: an obsession with a boy-band pop star, and a best friend who is saving up for the extreme plastic surgery that she hopes will change her life. And Wonna, one floor below, is a newlywed trying to have a baby that she and her husband have no idea how they can afford to raise in Korea’s brutal economy. Together, their stories tell a gripping tale at once unfamiliar and unmistakably universal, in which their tentative friendships may turn out to be the thing that ultimately saves them.
In Your Face
Author: Natasha Bakht
Publisher: Delve Books
ISBN: 9781552215494
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Muslim women who cover their faces with a veil arouse visceral reactions in people who, despite exposure to diverse ways of living, seem to have fixed notions of how women ought to live the good life. This book analyzes niqab bans in Canada and draws on interviews with niqab-wearing women to reveal their complex identities and motivations.
Publisher: Delve Books
ISBN: 9781552215494
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Muslim women who cover their faces with a veil arouse visceral reactions in people who, despite exposure to diverse ways of living, seem to have fixed notions of how women ought to live the good life. This book analyzes niqab bans in Canada and draws on interviews with niqab-wearing women to reveal their complex identities and motivations.
Your Face in Mine
Author: Jess Row
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594633843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A widely praised young writer delivers a daring, ambitious novel about identity and race in the age of globalization. One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn't recognize calls out to him. To Kelly’s shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly’s closest friends in high school—and, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, white and Jewish. Martin then tells an astonishing story: after years of immersing himself in black culture, he’s had a plastic surgeon perform “racial reassignment surgery”: altering his hair, skin, and physiognomy to allow him to pass as African American. Unknown to his family or childhood friends, Martin has been living a new life ever since. Now, however, Martin feels he can no longer keep his identity a secret; he wants Kelly to help him ignite a controversy that will help sell racial reassignment surgery to the world. Inventive and thought-provoking, Your Face in Mine is a brilliant novel about cultural and racial alienation and the nature of belonging in a world where identity can be a stigma or a lucrative brand.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594633843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A widely praised young writer delivers a daring, ambitious novel about identity and race in the age of globalization. One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn't recognize calls out to him. To Kelly’s shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly’s closest friends in high school—and, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, white and Jewish. Martin then tells an astonishing story: after years of immersing himself in black culture, he’s had a plastic surgeon perform “racial reassignment surgery”: altering his hair, skin, and physiognomy to allow him to pass as African American. Unknown to his family or childhood friends, Martin has been living a new life ever since. Now, however, Martin feels he can no longer keep his identity a secret; he wants Kelly to help him ignite a controversy that will help sell racial reassignment surgery to the world. Inventive and thought-provoking, Your Face in Mine is a brilliant novel about cultural and racial alienation and the nature of belonging in a world where identity can be a stigma or a lucrative brand.
I Saw Your Face
Author: Kwame Senu Neville Dawes
Publisher: Dial
ISBN: 9780803718944
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A poem and portraits of children illustrate the shared beauty and heritage of people of African descent living throughout the world.
Publisher: Dial
ISBN: 9780803718944
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A poem and portraits of children illustrate the shared beauty and heritage of people of African descent living throughout the world.
Your Face Tells All
Author: Erik Kanto
Publisher: Your Face Tells All
ISBN: 1929956134
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Featuring 52 Hollywood celebrity faces to illustrate the secrets of face reading, this intriguing book reveals all the basics of mysterious physiognomy. By looking at a person's facial features, the reader gets a lot of information: personality, qualities, sexuality, popularity, health, life expectancy, etc. It will answer the many questions we all have as to why certain things in life work and others do not, and why our relationships sometimes succeed, sometimes don't. Original.
Publisher: Your Face Tells All
ISBN: 1929956134
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Featuring 52 Hollywood celebrity faces to illustrate the secrets of face reading, this intriguing book reveals all the basics of mysterious physiognomy. By looking at a person's facial features, the reader gets a lot of information: personality, qualities, sexuality, popularity, health, life expectancy, etc. It will answer the many questions we all have as to why certain things in life work and others do not, and why our relationships sometimes succeed, sometimes don't. Original.
Designing Your Face
Author: Way Bandy
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Beauty of Your Face
Author: Sahar Mustafah
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393542041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2020 Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, The Beauty of Your Face is “a story of outsiders coming together in surprising and uplifting ways” (New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice). The Beauty of Your Face tells a uniquely American story in powerful, evocative prose. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter—radicalized by the online alt-right—attacks the school. As Afaf listens to his terrifying progress, we are swept back through her memories, and into a profound and “moving” (Bustle) exploration of one woman’s life in a nation at odds with its ideals.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393542041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2020 Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, The Beauty of Your Face is “a story of outsiders coming together in surprising and uplifting ways” (New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice). The Beauty of Your Face tells a uniquely American story in powerful, evocative prose. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter—radicalized by the online alt-right—attacks the school. As Afaf listens to his terrifying progress, we are swept back through her memories, and into a profound and “moving” (Bustle) exploration of one woman’s life in a nation at odds with its ideals.