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Product Description: Leading celebrity makeup artist Gary Cockerill is best known for his glamorous and sexy makeup style. Here, in his first makeup book, Gary shares his professional expertise to demonstrate how cosmetics can make every woman look radiant and feel confident in her appearance, whatever her age, shape, or color...read more
By Gary Cockerill, Vikki Grant (photographer) and Zia Mattocks

Hardcover:

9781250070678 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, October 13, 2015), cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Leading celebrity makeup artist Gary Cockerill is best known for his glamorous and sexy makeup style.

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Hardcover:

9781848724471 | 2 revised edition (Routledge, December 16, 2014), cover price $155.00
9780415351836 | Routledge, August 1, 2005, cover price $165.00

Paperback:

9781848724488 | 2 edition (Routledge, December 16, 2014), cover price $39.95
9780415351829 | Routledge, August 1, 2005, cover price $36.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203698563 | Routledge, May 31, 2005, cover price $27.50

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Product Description: A scholar and bride-to-be spends a year without mirrors to get a better view of what really mattersWhen Kjerstin Gruys became engaged, she was thrilled—until it was time to shop for a wedding dress. Having overcome an eating disorder years before, Gruys found herself struggling to maintain a positive self-image; so she decided to refocus her attention...read more

Hardcover:

9780399160172 | Avery Pub Group, May 2, 2013, cover price $26.00

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9781583335482 | Avery Pub Group, July 1, 2014, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A scholar and bride-to-be spends a year without mirrors to get a better view of what really mattersWhen Kjerstin Gruys became engaged, she was thrilled—until it was time to shop for a wedding dress.

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Product Description: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications...read more
By Louise I. Gerdes (editor)

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9780737763119 | Greenhaven Pr, June 30, 2013, cover price $33.80 | About this edition: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications.

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9780737763102 | Greenhaven Pr, June 30, 2013, cover price $48.80 | About this edition: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications.

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Product Description: "Longtemps, la vue du nu féminin fut réservée aux visiteurs de musées, aux amateurs de gravures, de photographies licencieuses. L'évolution des mœurs aidant, chacun peut à présent, par l'album, le magazine, l'écran, la plage, s'en repaître à satiété...read more

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9782350880518 | Isd, November 16, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: "Longtemps, la vue du nu féminin fut réservée aux visiteurs de musées, aux amateurs de gravures, de photographies licencieuses.

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Product Description: When it comes to iconic personas, two of the most classic are the debutante and the bombshell. But in today's world, sometimes women want to be both. On the surface, Jackie and Marilyn were polar opposites, but they had more in common than just JFK...read more

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9781592406777 | Reprint edition (Avery Pub Group, November 1, 2011), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: When it comes to iconic personas, two of the most classic are the debutante and the bombshell.

Hardcover:

9780300124866, titled "Facing Beauty: Painted Women & Cosmetic Art" | Yale Univ Pr, November 29, 2011, cover price $65.00

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Product Description:        Let’s face it: everyone’s getting older. But millions of women, raised to believe that success and happiness are based on their intelligence and accomplishments, face an unexpected challenge: the physical realities of aging...read more

Hardcover:

9781401925406 | Hay House Inc, February 15, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition:        Let’s face it: everyone’s getting older.

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Product Description: Practices of cosmetic surgery have grown exponentially in recent years in both over-developed and developing worlds. What comprises cosmetic surgery has also changed, with a plethora of new procedures and an extraordinary rise of non-surgical operations...read more
By Meredith Jones (editor)

Hardcover:

9780754676997 | 1 edition (Ashgate Pub Co, August 3, 2009), cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Practices of cosmetic surgery have grown exponentially in recent years in both over-developed and developing worlds.

Miscellaneous:

9780754693994 | Ashgate Pub Co, August 1, 2009, cover price $99.95

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By Ophira Edut (editor)

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9781580051088 | 2 exp upd edition (Seal Pr, December 1, 2003), cover price $18.00

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Product Description: In Venus in Exile renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Disdained by avant-garde artists, feminists, and activists, beauty and its major symbols of art—the female subject and ornament—became modernist taboos...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780684857817 | Free Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Demonstrates how the modernist avant-garde eliminated traditional symbols of beauty in its art and replaced them with the abstract form, and reflects on changing trends in the attutude toward beauty.

Paperback:

9780226772400 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 2002), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In Venus in Exile renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty.

Miscellaneous:

9780743218801 | Free Pr, October 24, 2001, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime.

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A look at the iconographical uses of womanhood from classical times to the present day, in the mass media and in the fine arts interprets the reasons behind the conventions and assesses their effects on ideas about women (view table of contents)

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9780689116452 | Atheneum, November 1, 1985, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A look at the iconographical uses of womanhood from classical times to the present day, in the mass media and in the fine arts interprets the reasons behind the conventions and assesses their effects on ideas about women

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9780520227330 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $33.95

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A collection of personal, multicultural reflections by women presents a series of essays that reflect on their views of society's standard of beauty and of female identity, with works by Nomy Lamm, Lisa Jervis, and other writers of the new feminist generation. Original. (view table of contents)
By Ophira Edut (editor) and Rebecca Walker (foreword by)

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9781580050432 | Reprint edition (Seal Pr, September 1, 2000), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of personal, multicultural reflections by women presents a series of essays that reflect on their views of society's standard of beauty and of female identity, with works by Nomy Lamm, Lisa Jervis, and other writers of the new feminist generation.

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Product Description: For Jacob Burckhardt, wrting "The Civilisation of the Renaissance" in Italy in 1860, artistic purpose and commitment to beauty were defining characteristics of Italian Renaissance culture. Burckhardt's analysis has been widely accepted but little has been done to define the Renaissance concept of beauty...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Francis Ames-Lewis (editor)

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9781859284254 | Scolar Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Presents 12 edited versions of papers prepared for the annual conference of the Association of Art Historians (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 1996), plus three additional papers.

Paperback:

9780754600619 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, October 1, 1999, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: For Jacob Burckhardt, wrting "The Civilisation of the Renaissance" in Italy in 1860, artistic purpose and commitment to beauty were defining characteristics of Italian Renaissance culture.

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A collection of personal multicultural reflections by women who offer their views on society's standard of beauty and of female identity
By Ophira Edut (editor)

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9781580050166 | Seal Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of personal multicultural reflections by women who offer their views on society's standard of beauty and of female identity

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Product Description: Pre-Raphaelitism was the first avant-garde movement in Britain. It shocked its first audience, and as it modulated into Aestheticism it continued to disturb the British public. This interdisciplinary study traces the sources of this critical reaction to the representation of the body in painting and poetry from the work of Millais and Morris to that of Rossetti and Burne-Jones...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780198182573 | Clarendon Pr, April 23, 1998, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: Pre-Raphaelitism was the first avant-garde movement in Britain.

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Examines the changes in women's attitudes over the past twenty-five years about self-esteem, appearance, and sexuality, exploring the possiblity of a future free from the twin obsessions of the power of beauty and the beauty of power. Reprint. $40,000 ad/promo. NYT.

Paperback:

9780060928421 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1997, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Examines the changes in women's attitudes about self-esteem, appearance, and sexuality over the past twenty-five years

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An examination of the changes in women's attitudes about self-esteem, appearance, and sexuality over the past twenty-five years journeys from the fashion runways of Paris to the two-parent nursery, from the diaphragm to the WonderBra. 150,000 first printing. $175,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Hardcover:

9780060171407 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1996, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Examines the changes in women's attitudes about self-esteem, appearance, and sexuality over the past twenty-five years

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Product Description: “We've needed a book like Many Mirrors for a long time. In the veritable explosion of new scholarship on the human body, this book stands out in its focus on empirical research. Many Mirrors will move . . . the Anthropology of the Body a giant step forward...read more
By Nicole Sault (editor)

Hardcover:

9780813520797 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: “We've needed a book like Many Mirrors for a long time.

Paperback:

9780813520803 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: “We've needed a book like Many Mirrors for a long time.

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Product Description: For a woman in the Western world, there's no escaping beauty. She has it or she doesn't. If she doesn't, she may hope to gain it. If she already has it, she will certainly lose it. But what is "it"? Not a singular thing, Francette Pacteau tells us, but a generic term for an unspecifiable number of disparate experiences...read more

Hardcover:

9780674859876 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $64.50 | About this edition: For a woman in the Western world, there's no escaping beauty.

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Product Description: Christian women are bombarded every day with messages of what it means to be beautiful--and therefore valuable and successful. This book is more than mere philosophy about our view of beauty today. It offers practical information to enable you to separate help from hype, savvy from silliness...read more

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9781561791781 | Focus on the Family Pub, September 1, 1993, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Christian women are bombarded every day with messages of what it means to be beautiful--and therefore valuable and successful.

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Product Description: "Physical Appearance and Gender" examines social and clinical psychology research to explain the effects of physical appearance on person perception. A theoretical framework is presented, with implications for future research, social change, and psychotherapy.

Hardcover:

9780791408230 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $56.50 | About this edition: "Physical Appearance and Gender" examines social and clinical psychology research to explain the effects of physical appearance on person perception.

Paperback:

9780791408247 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $31.95

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The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the ideals of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in Mende culture. In this eloquent and moving book, Sylvia Ardyn Boone describes the Society, its rituals and organization, and the mask worn by its members. Her book is an evocative account of Mende life and philosophy as well as a unique contribution to the study of African art, one based on African conceptions about the person and the human body.

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9780300035766 | Yale Univ Pr, July 1, 1986, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the ideals of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in Mende culture.

Paperback:

9780300048612 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 1990), cover price $32.00

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