Author: Phoebe Baker Hyde
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738214655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"The Beauty Experiment" is a fascinating memoir of one woman's journey to reclaim her sense of self-worth--and ultimately redefine what beauty means--through a yearlong extreme "make-under."
The Beauty Experiment
Author: Phoebe Baker Hyde
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738214655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"The Beauty Experiment" is a fascinating memoir of one woman's journey to reclaim her sense of self-worth--and ultimately redefine what beauty means--through a yearlong extreme "make-under."
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738214655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"The Beauty Experiment" is a fascinating memoir of one woman's journey to reclaim her sense of self-worth--and ultimately redefine what beauty means--through a yearlong extreme "make-under."
The Beauty Experiment
Author: Phoebe Baker Hyde
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738215430
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
I looked at my reflection and despaired. As an exhausted young mother I felt ugly and saw that a new dress or face cream would never help. I was at risk of passing on a habit of feeling miserable about my looks to my baby girl -- if nothing changed. Soon afterward Phoebe Baker Hyde made a vow: to give up new clothes, makeup, haircuts, and jewelry in hopes of revealing something she had always paid lip service to but never quite believed in her inner beauty. The Beauty Experiment chronicles Hyde's quest for self-acceptance in nothing but her own skin. In thoughtful, exquisite prose, Hyde holds up a mirror to all women and shows how perfectionism can keep us from achieving what we really want: happiness, confidence, and serenity.
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738215430
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
I looked at my reflection and despaired. As an exhausted young mother I felt ugly and saw that a new dress or face cream would never help. I was at risk of passing on a habit of feeling miserable about my looks to my baby girl -- if nothing changed. Soon afterward Phoebe Baker Hyde made a vow: to give up new clothes, makeup, haircuts, and jewelry in hopes of revealing something she had always paid lip service to but never quite believed in her inner beauty. The Beauty Experiment chronicles Hyde's quest for self-acceptance in nothing but her own skin. In thoughtful, exquisite prose, Hyde holds up a mirror to all women and shows how perfectionism can keep us from achieving what we really want: happiness, confidence, and serenity.
Experiments in Skin
Author: Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478013133
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In Experiments in Skin Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the ongoing influence of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty. Framing skin as the site around which these ideas have been formed, Tu foregrounds the histories of militarism in the production of US biomedical knowledge and commercial cosmetics. She uncovers the efforts of wartime scientists in the US Military Dermatology Research Program to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' skin. These dermatologists sought relief for white soldiers while denying that African American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians were also vulnerable to harm. Their experiments led to the development of pharmaceutical cosmetics, now used by women in Ho Chi Minh City to tend to their skin, and to grapple with the damage caused by the war's lingering toxicity. In showing how the US military laid the foundations for contemporary Vietnamese consumption of cosmetics and practices of beauty, Tu shows how the intersecting histories of militarism, biomedicine, race, and aesthetics become materially and metaphorically visible on skin.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478013133
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In Experiments in Skin Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the ongoing influence of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty. Framing skin as the site around which these ideas have been formed, Tu foregrounds the histories of militarism in the production of US biomedical knowledge and commercial cosmetics. She uncovers the efforts of wartime scientists in the US Military Dermatology Research Program to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' skin. These dermatologists sought relief for white soldiers while denying that African American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians were also vulnerable to harm. Their experiments led to the development of pharmaceutical cosmetics, now used by women in Ho Chi Minh City to tend to their skin, and to grapple with the damage caused by the war's lingering toxicity. In showing how the US military laid the foundations for contemporary Vietnamese consumption of cosmetics and practices of beauty, Tu shows how the intersecting histories of militarism, biomedicine, race, and aesthetics become materially and metaphorically visible on skin.
Project Mc2: The Pretty Brilliant Experiment Book
Author: Jade Hemsworth
Publisher: Imprint
ISBN: 1250103681
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Pick up S.T.E.A.M. with experiments in science, chemistry, technology, engineering and more! Inspired by Netflix’s original series, Project Mc2 (TM), The Pretty Brilliant Experiment book has over 20 experiments introduced by our favorite Nov8 (that’s Innovate) agents: McKeyla McAlister, Adrienne Attoms, Bryden Bandweth, and Camryn Coyle. Learn about electricity, chemical reactions, physics, and biology while crafting an hour glass, creating crystals, and making ice cream! Then record your own observations after reading the scientific analysis accompanying each activity. The ingredients are affordable and easy-to-find, and each DIY experiment can be completed safely at home with parents and friends. Based on a NETFLIX original series. PROJECT Mc2 copyright © by MGA, LLC. All rights reserved. Experiments provided by Marguerite and Zoltan Benko. An Imprint Book
Publisher: Imprint
ISBN: 1250103681
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Pick up S.T.E.A.M. with experiments in science, chemistry, technology, engineering and more! Inspired by Netflix’s original series, Project Mc2 (TM), The Pretty Brilliant Experiment book has over 20 experiments introduced by our favorite Nov8 (that’s Innovate) agents: McKeyla McAlister, Adrienne Attoms, Bryden Bandweth, and Camryn Coyle. Learn about electricity, chemical reactions, physics, and biology while crafting an hour glass, creating crystals, and making ice cream! Then record your own observations after reading the scientific analysis accompanying each activity. The ingredients are affordable and easy-to-find, and each DIY experiment can be completed safely at home with parents and friends. Based on a NETFLIX original series. PROJECT Mc2 copyright © by MGA, LLC. All rights reserved. Experiments provided by Marguerite and Zoltan Benko. An Imprint Book
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Author: Saidiya Hartman
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393357627
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the black family. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship that were indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives recreates the experience of young urban black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them—domestic service, second-class citizenship, and respectable poverty—and whose intimate revolution was apprehended as crime and pathology. For the first time, young black women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and insurgent desires.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393357627
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the black family. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship that were indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives recreates the experience of young urban black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them—domestic service, second-class citizenship, and respectable poverty—and whose intimate revolution was apprehended as crime and pathology. For the first time, young black women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and insurgent desires.
The Utopia Experiment
Author: Dylan Evans
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 144726133X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. Imagine you have survived an apocalypse. Civilization as you knew it is no more. What will life be like and how will you cope? In 2006, Dylan Evans set out to answer these questions. He left his job in a high-tech robotics lab, moved to the Scottish Highlands and founded a community called The Utopia Experiment. There, together with an eclectic assortment of volunteers, he tried to live out a scenario of global collapse, free from modern technology and comforts. Within a year, Evans found himself detained in a psychiatric hospital, shattered and depressed, trying to figure out what had gone wrong. In The Utopia Experiment he tells his own extraordinary story: his frenzied early enthusiasm for this unusual project, the many challenges of post-apocalyptic living, his descent into madness and his gradual recovery. In the process, he learns some hard lessons about himself and about life, and comes to see the modern world he abandoned in a new light. 'A gripping, slow-motion car crash. You can't take your eyes off it' Julian Baggini, Financial Times 'It radiates an intense intelligence and a candour that is never less than touching and, sometimes, downright heartrending' Daily Mail 'Extraordinary . . . both frightening and compelling' GQ
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 144726133X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. Imagine you have survived an apocalypse. Civilization as you knew it is no more. What will life be like and how will you cope? In 2006, Dylan Evans set out to answer these questions. He left his job in a high-tech robotics lab, moved to the Scottish Highlands and founded a community called The Utopia Experiment. There, together with an eclectic assortment of volunteers, he tried to live out a scenario of global collapse, free from modern technology and comforts. Within a year, Evans found himself detained in a psychiatric hospital, shattered and depressed, trying to figure out what had gone wrong. In The Utopia Experiment he tells his own extraordinary story: his frenzied early enthusiasm for this unusual project, the many challenges of post-apocalyptic living, his descent into madness and his gradual recovery. In the process, he learns some hard lessons about himself and about life, and comes to see the modern world he abandoned in a new light. 'A gripping, slow-motion car crash. You can't take your eyes off it' Julian Baggini, Financial Times 'It radiates an intense intelligence and a candour that is never less than touching and, sometimes, downright heartrending' Daily Mail 'Extraordinary . . . both frightening and compelling' GQ
The American Experiment
Author: David M. Rubenstein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982165804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TV’s The David Rubenstein Show—American icons and historians on the ever-evolving American experiment, featuring Ken Burns, Madeleine Albright, Wynton Marsalis, Billie Jean King, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and many more. In this lively collection of conversations—the third in a series from David Rubenstein—some of our nations’ greatest minds explore the inspiring story of America as a grand experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas. -Jill Lepore on the promise of America -Madeleine Albright on the American immigrant -Ken Burns on war -Henry Louis Gates Jr. on reconstruction -Elaine Weiss on suffrage -John Meacham on civil rights -Walter Isaacson on innovation -David McCullough on the Wright Brothers -John Barry on pandemics and public health -Wynton Marsalis on music -Billie Jean King on sports -Rita Moreno on film Exploring the diverse make-up of our country’s DNA through interviews with Pulitzer Prize–winning historians, diplomats, music legends, and sports giants, The American Experiment captures the dynamic arc of a young country reinventing itself in real-time. Through these enlightening conversations, the American spirit comes alive, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is—and what it can be.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982165804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TV’s The David Rubenstein Show—American icons and historians on the ever-evolving American experiment, featuring Ken Burns, Madeleine Albright, Wynton Marsalis, Billie Jean King, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and many more. In this lively collection of conversations—the third in a series from David Rubenstein—some of our nations’ greatest minds explore the inspiring story of America as a grand experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas. -Jill Lepore on the promise of America -Madeleine Albright on the American immigrant -Ken Burns on war -Henry Louis Gates Jr. on reconstruction -Elaine Weiss on suffrage -John Meacham on civil rights -Walter Isaacson on innovation -David McCullough on the Wright Brothers -John Barry on pandemics and public health -Wynton Marsalis on music -Billie Jean King on sports -Rita Moreno on film Exploring the diverse make-up of our country’s DNA through interviews with Pulitzer Prize–winning historians, diplomats, music legends, and sports giants, The American Experiment captures the dynamic arc of a young country reinventing itself in real-time. Through these enlightening conversations, the American spirit comes alive, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is—and what it can be.
A Silly Science Experiment
Author: Timothy Roland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545004008
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Guy is about to become a TV star--if he can successfully perform his experiment on THE SUPER SCIENCE SHOW. Unfortunately, his partner is the crabby Zoe, he has to climb a tall ladder (he's afraid of heights), and he must avoid Tank (who wants the show to flop). Will Guy's TV experiment succeed? Or will he end up as a fallen star?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545004008
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Guy is about to become a TV star--if he can successfully perform his experiment on THE SUPER SCIENCE SHOW. Unfortunately, his partner is the crabby Zoe, he has to climb a tall ladder (he's afraid of heights), and he must avoid Tank (who wants the show to flop). Will Guy's TV experiment succeed? Or will he end up as a fallen star?
The Self-Love Experiment
Author: Shannon Kaiser
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143130692
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Put a stop to self-sabotage and overcome your fears so that you can gain the confidence you need to reach your goals and become your own best friend. Too many people seem to believe that they are not allowed to put themselves first or go after their own dreams out of fear of being selfish or sacrificing others' needs. The Self-Love Experiment rectifies this problem. Whether you want to achieve weight loss, land your dream job, find your soul mate, or get out of debt, it all comes back to self-love and accepting yourself first. Shannon Kaiser learned the secrets to loving herself, finding purpose, and living a passion-filled life after recovering from eating disorders, drug addictions, corporate burnout, and depression. Shannon walks you through her own personal experiment, a simple plan that compassionately guides you through the process of removing fear-based thoughts, so you can fall in love with life. If you want to change your outcome in life, you have to change your daily habits and perspective. Shannon takes you on this great journey into self-love and true self-acceptance.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143130692
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Put a stop to self-sabotage and overcome your fears so that you can gain the confidence you need to reach your goals and become your own best friend. Too many people seem to believe that they are not allowed to put themselves first or go after their own dreams out of fear of being selfish or sacrificing others' needs. The Self-Love Experiment rectifies this problem. Whether you want to achieve weight loss, land your dream job, find your soul mate, or get out of debt, it all comes back to self-love and accepting yourself first. Shannon Kaiser learned the secrets to loving herself, finding purpose, and living a passion-filled life after recovering from eating disorders, drug addictions, corporate burnout, and depression. Shannon walks you through her own personal experiment, a simple plan that compassionately guides you through the process of removing fear-based thoughts, so you can fall in love with life. If you want to change your outcome in life, you have to change your daily habits and perspective. Shannon takes you on this great journey into self-love and true self-acceptance.
Experiment in Survival
Author: George Sigler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971110007
Category : Survival
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lieutenants George Sigler and Charlie Gore left San Francisco in a rubber inflatable boat with absolutely no water and only 6 pounds of food to test survival concepts while crossing the Pacific Ocean. This is the story of two men who believed that they could save lives of future castaways if they took a scientific approach to the problems of survival at sea. Caught in a raging storm, their raft was carried vertically up the side of a rouge wave that towered above them. They were totally helpless as the wave broke, throwing their raft stern over bow. The pilots-turned-seamen found themselves in 59-degree water fighting for their lives. Unable to right their raft and on the verge of becoming hypothermic, they took the drastic step of deflating the raft in order to pull it upright. Days of boredom were punctuated by moments of sheer excitement as whales surrounded their raft, and a Great White shark took all too much interest in them. They fought off an attack by dorado which were determined to sink them by biting through the bottom of the raft.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971110007
Category : Survival
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lieutenants George Sigler and Charlie Gore left San Francisco in a rubber inflatable boat with absolutely no water and only 6 pounds of food to test survival concepts while crossing the Pacific Ocean. This is the story of two men who believed that they could save lives of future castaways if they took a scientific approach to the problems of survival at sea. Caught in a raging storm, their raft was carried vertically up the side of a rouge wave that towered above them. They were totally helpless as the wave broke, throwing their raft stern over bow. The pilots-turned-seamen found themselves in 59-degree water fighting for their lives. Unable to right their raft and on the verge of becoming hypothermic, they took the drastic step of deflating the raft in order to pull it upright. Days of boredom were punctuated by moments of sheer excitement as whales surrounded their raft, and a Great White shark took all too much interest in them. They fought off an attack by dorado which were determined to sink them by biting through the bottom of the raft.