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Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs: Late 1930s
ISBN: 9780764324857 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of a comprehensive series by Schiffer Publishing on fashions from the Sears catalogs, this latest time capsule travels back to the late 1930s. More than 350 photos reveal what the everyday trends and styles for the modern man, woman, and child were. Pleats, embroidery, shirring, and fur were among some of the big fashion "must-haves." The cut of the clothes, especially for women, were intended to give a slim and trim look. Skirts and dresses almost always have that so-important flaring hemline. For men, suits were styled in the Clean-Cut, very popular Sports Back, and Classic styles....
Part of a comprehensive series by Schiffer Publishing on fashions from the Sears catalogs, this latest time capsule travels back to the late 1930s. Mo...
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141,86 zł |
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Beautylicious!: The Black Girl's Guide to the Fabulous Life
ISBN: 9780767911108 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Plenty of successful guides have been published for hip girls in general, but now the trendsetting black reader has a book of her own. Dedicated to chic sisters everywhere, Beautylicious shimmers with wit and soul an irresistible new recipe for loving, playing, and beautifying with verve. Chapters include:
Soul Power: Sizzle with radiance from the inside out Queen Me: Treats to perk you up when the blues have got you down Superfly: How to heat up your wardrobe without scorching your self-confidence Fit and Fine: A toned body plus a healthy mind equals a sensational... Plenty of successful guides have been published for hip girls in general, but now the trendsetting black reader has a book of her own. Dedicated to ch...
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78,06 zł |
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Beauty Junkies: In Search of the Thinnest Thighs, Perkiest Breasts, Smoothest Faces, Whitest Teeth, and Skinniest, Most Perfect Toes i
ISBN: 9780767914116 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A star writer for the New York Times Styles section captures the follies, frauds, and fanaticism that fuel the American pursuit of youth and beauty in a wickedly revealing excursion into the burgeoning business of cosmetic enhancement.
Americans are aging faster and getting fatter than any other population on the planet. At the same time, our popular notions of perfect beauty have become so strict it seems even Barbie wouldn t have a chance of making it into the local beauty pageant. Aging may be a natural fact of life, but for a growing number of Americans its hallmarks... A star writer for the New York Times Styles section captures the follies, frauds, and fanaticism that fuel the American pursuit of youth and be...
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82,39 zł |
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Beauty Secrets of the Bible
ISBN: 9780785221784 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every woman can accentuate her God-given beauty using the hidden treasures of the ancient Scriptures. Ginger Garrett reveals how every woman can accent her God-given beauty using the hidden treasures of the ancient Scriptures-where every scent and every act of beautification had spiritual and emotional significance. Every woman can accentuate her God-given beauty using the hidden treasures of the ancient Scriptures. Ginger Garrett rev... |
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73,68 zł |
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Organizing for the Spirit: Making the Details of Your Life Meaningful and Manageable
ISBN: 9780787967598 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Does that sound impossible? In Organizing for the Spirit, organizing expert Sunny Schlenger demonstrates how the -stuff- of our lives--the objects that fill our homes and offices, as well as how we manage our time (whether we are productive or procrastinating)--offers clues to what we really value in life. With simple and practical exercises, Sunny guides you through a step-by-step process to take stock of your life, clearly identify what really matters, and then use that clarity about values and priorities as a guide to organize both your physical environment and your time. The...
Does that sound impossible? In Organizing for the Spirit, organizing expert Sunny Schlenger demonstrates how the -stuff- of our lives--the obje...
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54,55 zł |
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Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing
ISBN: 9780801882647 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its prominence in both daily life and the economy, clothing has been largely overlooked in the rich historiography of Renaissance Italy. In Dressing Renaissance Florence, however, Carole Collier Frick provides the first in-depth study of the Renaissance fashion... As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing a... |
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152,88 zł |
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Fashion
ISBN: 9780802085900 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does a country dress itself? From Montreal's 'Retail Mile, ' to Ontario's millinery trade, to how war and television can effect the garment industry or whether tailoring can make a cultural impact, Alexandra Palmer gathers together some of the top curators, designers, fashion writers, historians, and artists in the country to create a truly dynamic and thought-provoking collection of essays. Controversial and unconventional, Fashion: A Canadian Perspective challenges readers to consider aspects of Canadian identity in terms of what its citizenship has chosen to wear for... How does a country dress itself? From Montreal's 'Retail Mile, ' to Ontario's millinery trade, to how war and television can effect the garment ind... |
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202,29 zł |
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Food, the Body and the Self
ISBN: 9780803976481 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the sociocultural and personal meanings of food and eating, Deborah Lupton explores the relationship between food and embodiment, the emotions and subjectivity. She includes discussion of the intertwining of food, meaning and culture in the context of childhood and the family, as well as: the gendered social construction of foodstuffs; food tastes, dislikes and preferences; the dining-out experience; spirituality; and the civilized' body. She draws on diverse sources, including representations of food and eating in film, literature,...
In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the sociocultural and personal meanings of food and eating, Deborah Lupton explores the relatio...
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264,54 zł |
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Self-Advocacy: The Ultimate Teen Guide
ISBN: 9780810856462 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Young people come to realize, sometimes painfully early, that it isn't always possible to depend on adults to make sure they are treated safely, fairly, and legally. When teens are faced with situations that are unfair, immoral, illegal, and unjust, they do not need to be victims. They can learn to speak up for themselves effectively to improve their own lives and the lives of others. The skill of self-advocacy rarely comes naturally for teens. Self-Advocacy: The Ultimate Teen Guide offers a set of skills for young people to sort through and acquire and encourages them to speak up about what...
Young people come to realize, sometimes painfully early, that it isn't always possible to depend on adults to make sure they are treated safely, fairl...
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449,49 zł |
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Hair!: Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness
ISBN: 9780812991581 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hair Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness is a social history of one of humanity's most irksome problems: male pattern baldness.
Throughout the centuries, Man (not his real name) has tried everything to hide, treat and repair baldness, as well as a host of nostrums designed to coax hair growth from the scalp (or, at least, money from the wallets of unsuspecting baldies). Yet we stand on the brink of a truly historic epoch: Two drugs are now federally approved remedies for baldness and more are on the way while surgical techniques continue to improve, and even hairpieces are becoming... Hair Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness is a social history of one of humanity's most irksome problems: male pattern baldness.
Throughout t... |
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65,05 zł |
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Virtual Vintage: The Insider's Guide to Buying and Selling Fashion Online
ISBN: 9780812992007 / Angielski / Miękka / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vintage clothing has never been more chic, with everyone from celebrity trendsetters to style-conscious professionals searching for wearable treasures from the past. Virtual Vintage is the first and only guide that helps both the novice and the fashion connoisseur evaluate and confidently participate in the thriving vintage marketplace that exists online. No other book explains how to get it, sell it, fix it, or wear it with flair. Authors Linda Lindroth and Deborah Newell Tornello equip readers from head to toe with
- more than 100 chic sites--rated and evaluated - instructions on... Vintage clothing has never been more chic, with everyone from celebrity trendsetters to style-conscious professionals searching for wearable treasures...
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91,07 zł |
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On Fashion
ISBN: 9780813520339 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until recently, fashion was considered the "F-word" in intellectual circles, dismissed as unworthy of serious attention. Yet no area of life, no individual moment, stands outside fashion's discourses. Intuitively, we all know that clothing is a language, incessesantly communicating messages about its wearer. But who speaks this language, to whom it is addressed, what does it mean, and how are its meanings established and tranformed? On Fashion explores the ways our material, political, psychological, sexual, even intellectual lives are woven into fashion's fabric. This stimulating collection...
Until recently, fashion was considered the "F-word" in intellectual circles, dismissed as unworthy of serious attention. Yet no area of life, no indiv...
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174,72 zł |
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Rise Of Fashion : A Reader
ISBN: 9780816643929 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing more than a century before "Vogue, no less a figure than G.W.F. Hegel reviewed the fashion of his day and found it wanting because, in becoming outmoded so quickly, it drew attention away from the timeless beauty of the human form. And Hegel is not unique among philosophers in his interest in fashion's role; for more than 250 years, social thinkers have considered fashion--its transitive nature, the conformity it inspires, the vast range of its influence--as a defining feature of modern life. In "The Rise of Fashion, Daniel Leonhard Purdy brings together key writings from the...
Writing more than a century before "Vogue, no less a figure than G.W.F. Hegel reviewed the fashion of his day and found it wanting because, in becomin...
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321,59 zł |
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The Rise of Fashion: A Reader
ISBN: 9780816643936 / Angielski / Miękka / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing more than a century before "Vogue, no less a figure than G.W.F. Hegel reviewed the fashion of his day and found it wanting because, in becoming outmoded so quickly, it drew attention away from the timeless beauty of the human form. And Hegel is not unique among philosophers in his interest in fashion's role; for more than 250 years, social thinkers have considered fashion--its transitive nature, the conformity it inspires, the vast range of its influence--as a defining feature of modern life. In "The Rise of Fashion, Daniel Leonhard Purdy brings together key writings from the...
Writing more than a century before "Vogue, no less a figure than G.W.F. Hegel reviewed the fashion of his day and found it wanting because, in becomin...
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124,44 zł |
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Handbook of Perfumes & Flavors
ISBN: 9780820603346 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique, comprehensive source book provides a thorough guide to the compounding of basic floral perfumes for cosmetics, soaps, disinfectants, deodorants, and flavors for food. Regardless of scientific and technical education or experience in this field, this book will assist those involved in compounding perfume and flavor for all aspects of their application in the chemical industry. Contents: Forewords vPreface ixExplanatory Notes x I. Odors 1Introduction 1Historical Classification of Odors 4Subjective Classification of Odors 12General Classification of Odorous Substances 13 II. Natural...
This unique, comprehensive source book provides a thorough guide to the compounding of basic floral perfumes for cosmetics, soaps, disinfectants, deod...
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801,38 zł |
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Bennett's Cosmetic Formulary
ISBN: 9780820603407 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By popular demand the world-renowned Harry Bennett just before his death, compiled a new collection of cosmetic preparations. A valuable source for the industrial chemists looking to develop new products or for self-starters looking to start their own business. CONTENTS: Hair Products, Bath preparations, Face and hand cleaners, Face and eye make-up, Creams and lotions, Mouth preparations, Perfumes, Colognes and Powders, Shaving preparations, Sunscreen products, Baby preparations, Base formulas.
By popular demand the world-renowned Harry Bennett just before his death, compiled a new collection of cosmetic preparations. A valuable source for th...
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801,38 zł |
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Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
ISBN: 9780822317838 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the production and authentification of identity, Clothing and Difference shows how the body and its adornment have been used to construct and contest social and individual identities in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, and other African societies during both colonial and post-colonial...
This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously...
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440,90 zł |
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Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
ISBN: 9780822317913 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the production and authentification of identity, Clothing and Difference shows how the body and its adornment have been used to construct and contest social and individual identities in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, and other African societies during both colonial and post-colonial...
This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously...
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114,06 zł |
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Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
ISBN: 9780822321118 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do physicians who have taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her body? This text explores such questions, offering a cultural history of the connections between beauty of the body and happiness of mind.
Why do physicians who have taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed a...
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160,80 zł |
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Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo
ISBN: 9780822328810 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Three Faces of Beauty" offers a unique approach to understanding globalization and cultural change based on a comparative, ethnographic study of a nearly universal institution: the beauty salon. Susan Ossman traces the images and words of the beauty industry as they developed historically between Paris, Cairo, and Casablanca and then vividly demonstrates how such images are embodied today in salons located in each city.
By examining how images from fashion magazines, film, and advertising are enacted in beauty salons, Ossman demonstrates how embodiment is able to display and rework... "Three Faces of Beauty" offers a unique approach to understanding globalization and cultural change based on a comparative, ethnographic study of a ne...
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430,52 zł |
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