Author: Vicci Bentley Publisher: Ebury Press ISBN: 9780091868178 Category : Beauty, Personal Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
It is said that beauty is not only skin-deep, and that to feel really good one needs to nurture mind and soul, as well as body. Divided into three main sections, this book offers information and exercises, which combine to provide a practical guide to achieving well-being.
Author: Body Shop (Firm) Publisher: Bulfinch Press ISBN: 9780821225608 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
A popular skin and hair care store offers guidance on enjoying physical and mental well-being through a wide range of health and beauty therapies, including healing foods, natural medicines, t'ai chi, aromatherapy, and meditation. 25,000 first printing.
Author: Tim Blanks Publisher: ISBN: 9780756754488 Category : Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
Offers a complete, practical guide to achieving the harmony we crave, from the immediate physical needs of skin and hair to the yearnings of the soul. The "Mind" section examines stress, and considers the results you can expect from the various therapies -- from hypnotherapy to mediation -- that assert the power of the mind over the body. "Body" looks at physical fitness, covering everything from diet and fitness to simple, innovative solutions to skin care problems. Includes practical information on a range of therapies -- from aromatherapy to t'ai chi and yoga. "Soul" analyzes the distinct cycles of spiritual evolution, and details ways to enrich your own spiritual life through personal rituals. Illustrated.
Author: Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 9780091864118 Category : Alternative medicine Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
It is said that beauty is not only skin-deep, and that to feel really good one needs to nurture mind and soul, as well as body. Divided into three main sections, this book offers information and exercises, which combine to provide a practical guide to achieving well-being.
Author: Tara Brabazon Publisher: UNSW Press ISBN: 9780868404219 Category : Feminism Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
Ladies who Lunge: Essays on Difficult Women dances through history with the unconventional woman. Witty and refreshing, the tone, texture and feeling of the words on the page are as unconventional as the plucky women who punctuate the prose. It is a tough, determined, moving, frank and funny review of difficult women: how they got there, how we can understand their actions, and how we can learn from them.
Author: Virginia Sarah Smith Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199532087 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 470
Book Description
From pre-historic grooming rituals to New Age medicine, from ascetics to cosmetics, Clean looks at how different cultures have interpreted and striven for personal cleanliness and shows how, throughout history, this striving for purity has brought immense social benefits as well as great tragedies. Looking at human history through the lens of public baths, lavatories, laundry, teeth cleaning, cosmetics, food storage and panty liners, Virginia Smith here combines archeology, psychology, biology, and other fields to illuminate our modern obsession cleanliness. She peppers her entertaining account with engaging and often surprising details. The book reveals, for instance, that even at the earliest stages of human development, our bodies produced pleasure-giving chemical opiates when things smelled or felt clean, inducing us to bathe or at least remove dirty clothes. She describes how, during the Bronze Age, an emerging hierarchy of wealthy elites turned their love of grooming into an explosion of the cosmetic and luxury goods industry, greatly affecting the culture and economy of Eurasia and leading to advances in chemistry and medicine. Likewise, in Greece and Rome, citizens focused much of their leisure time on perfecting, bathing, or just writing about the model athletic body. Even today, our enlightened medical knowledge could not stop an onslaught of health remedies, treatments, spas, and New Age nature cures--all in the pursuit of purity. This engrossing and highly original work will introduce you to the customs and ideas of a myriad of cultures across centuries of human history, providing a marvelous new perspective on the importance of cleanliness to human civilization.
Author: Jukka Groncow Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136604928 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 269
Book Description
The sociology of consumption has concentrated unduly on the more spectacular and visual aspects of contemporary consumer behaviour, thereby constructing an unbalanced and misleading view. This collection emphasises ordinary rather than extraordinary items, routine and repetitive behaviour rather than conscious decision-making. It studies practical contexts of use rather than decisions to purchase and analyses collective identification rather than personal identity. Each essay argues one or more of these points, for the most part using new empirical material from several different national contexts. The topics analysed include shopping in Taiwan, second-home ownership in France, environmental considerations concerning food choice in Denmark, the take up of new domestic technologies in Finland and kitchen design in England. Key concepts like tradition, routine and habit are clarified and new conceptual distinctions are made, with the book defending theoretical approaches deriving from Simmel, Weber, Durkheim and Bourdieu. Ordinary Consumption promotes a distinctive approach to the understanding of the central practices of consumer society, it is a book with a controversial message, one which will be a source of debate about the appropriate agenda for future research.
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