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Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty
Robert Lacey · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing, no-holds-barred portrait of the legendary Eileen Ford - the entrepreneur who transformed the business of modeling and helped invent the celebrity supermodel.Working with her husband, Jerry, Eileen Ford created the twentieth century's largest and most successful modeling... |
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Understanding Street Culture: Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool
Jonathan Ilan · Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover
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How do poverty, youth and crime relate to the concept of being cool? Jonathan Ilan presents a unique, theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world its origins, functions, manifestations and appeal examining both its bearing on criminal lifestyles and on the cultivation... |
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Belief without Borders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious
Linda A Mercadante · Oxford University Press
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover
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Named A Best Spiritual Book of the Year by Spirituality & PracticeThe last twenty years have seen a dramatic increase in "nones": people who do not claim any religious affiliation. These "nones" now outnumber even the largest Protestant denominations in America.... |
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Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love
Linda Carroll · New World Library
Format: Paperback
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In Love Cycles, veteran couples therapist Linda Carroll presents a groundbreaking model of the five natural stages of romantic relationships - the Merge, Doubt and Denial, Disillusionment, Decision, and Wholehearted Love - and a guide for navigating through them toward lasting love.... |
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The Power of Positive Praying
John R. Bisagno · B&H Books; 50 Anv edition
Format: Print book
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Jesus was our model and teacher in prayer. By His life and His lips our Lord's constant fellowship with the Father pointed to the necessity of ours. But Jesus didn’t pray merely as an example to us. For thirty-three years, He lived as a man, tempted in all points like as are we. He prayed... |
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Afterland: Poems
Mai Der Vang · Graywolf
Pages: 96
Format: Print book
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The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn ForchéWhen I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter whatthe current gives. When we reach the camp, there will be thousands like us.If I make it onto the plane, you must follow me to the roadsand... |
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Eat Like a Gilmore: The Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of Gilmore Girls
Kristi Carlson · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The infamous appetites of the Gilmore Girls are given their due in this fun, unofficial cookbook inspired by the show. Fans will eat up the delicious recipes honoring the chefs who fuel the science-defying metabolisms of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. Whether you're a diehard fan or new to the scene,... |
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DK Essential Managers: Project Management
DK · DK; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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DK Essential Managers Project Management is the visual guide that gives you all the know-how you need to be a more effective manager. Now newly updated with an all-new graphic approach to explaining key techniques and skills, the best-selling DK Essential Managers Project Management features... |
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Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why it Matters
Mark Edmundson · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Why write? Why write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their lives might be changed by what they're reading? Why write, when the world wants to be informed, not enlightened; to be entertained, not inspired? Writing is backbreaking, mindbreaking, lonely... |
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Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
Barbara Oakley · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Mindshift reveals how we can overcome stereotypes and preconceived ideas about what is possible for us to learn and become. At a time when we are constantly being asked to retrain and reinvent ourselves to adapt to new technologies and changing industries, this book shows us how we can uncover... |
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Developing for Apple Watch: Your App on Their Wrists
Jeff Kelley · Pragmatic Bookshelf
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
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The Apple Watch offers the closest connection yet between your app and users. But you can't just port your existing iPhone app to the watch; instead, you'll write a WatchKit Extension. Learn which of your app's features should come to the watch, how to make your UI look great... |
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The Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs
M L Bierbrier · American University In Cairo Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Little is known of the everyday lives of ordinary people in ancient Egypt, but excavations at the village of Deir el-Medina have provided a unique opportunity to reconstruct the daily life of one particular group-the workmen who built the tombs of the pharaohs in the nearby Valley of the Kings.The... |
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The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War
Edward L Widmer · Oxford University Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Between 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining, conflict in American history. The works were startling in their range and direction, some... |
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