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Style for Everybody: A Guide to Curating Your Essential Wardrobe

The go-to fashion roadmap sharing the secrets to building a capsule wardrobe for all body shapes and personal styles.We&’ve all felt that defeat: thumbing through blouse after blouse in your closet, feeling like you have absolutely nothing to wear. Or at least, nothing you feel good in. That&’s where Style for Everybody comes in. Kim Appelt is a stylist to the stars, and while her chic looks dazzle at award shows and beyond, she knows life&’s not all about being red carpet ready. Building on the fun, approachable style wisdom from her popular YouTube videos, Style for Everybody is the go-to book for creating a classic and timeless wardrobe to perfectly fit you—your body, your style, and your life.With Kim&’s guidance, you&’ll learn how to:Condense your current closet with sustainable donation suggestionsDetermine your body shape and personal styleShop with efficiency and purposeAnd the moment you&’ve been waiting for! Build a new curated wardrobe, focusing on key garments, shoes, purses, and accessories for each body type and styleWith an understanding of versatile body shapes (hourglass and rectangles are only the beginning) and fashion styles (a little preppy, full-on edgy?), Kim knows that the better you feel about yourself, the more of a positive force you can be in the world. Filled with beautiful illustrations, Style for Everybody is like having a personal stylist (and cheerleader!) in your home—and Kim&’s help and encouragement will keep coming back whenever you need a style pick-me-up.

Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training During Segregation

Styling Jim Crow focuses on the beauty education industry in racially segregated communities from World War I through the 1960s. In this study of two black beauty companies of the Jim Crow era, Julia Kirk Blackwelder looks at the industry as a locus of black entrepreneurial effort and an opportunity for young women to obtain training and income that promised social mobility within the African American community. Blackwelder demonstrates that commerce, gender norms, politics, and culture all intersected inside African American beauty schools of the Jim Crow era. The book centers on Marjorie Stewart Joyner of the Madam C. J. Walker beauty chain and James H. Jemison of the Franklin School of Beauty, two educators who worked throughout their business lives to liberate women from the clutches of racial prejudices. They stood at the helms of enterprises that brought self-reliance and pride of accomplishment to generations of African Americans. <P><P> In Blackwelder’s well-documented story and clearly argued analysis, the history of African American beauty education shows how succeeding generations of black women, in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, freed themselves from a life of service to whites and advanced into dignified economic independence though work that they and their clients valued for its intangible worth.

Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry

The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet as this innovative study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearance, it still relies on women to do much of the work. Styling Masculinity investigates how men's beauty salons have persuaded their clientele to regard them as masculine spaces. To answer this question, sociologist Kristen Barber goes inside Adonis and The Executive, two upscale men's salons in Southern California. Conducting detailed observations and extensive interviews with both customers and employees, she shows how female salon workers not only perform the physical labor of snipping, tweezing, waxing, and exfoliating, but also perform the emotional labor of pampering their clients and pumping up their masculine egos. Letting salon employees tell their own stories, Barber not only documents occasions when these workers are objectified and demeaned, but also explores how their jobs allow for creativity and confer a degree of professional dignity. In the process, she traces the vast network of economic and social relations that undergird the burgeoning male beauty industry.

Su Embarazo Semana a Semana

With millions of copies sold, Your Pregnancy Week by Week is the best-selling, doctor-authored pregnancy and childbirth guide available. A translation of the up-to-date and expanded fifth edition, Su Embarazo Semana a Semana will be the most medically current and comprehensive Spanish language guide for pregnant couples on the market. Organizing information in the medically appropriate, focused, and popular way--in weekly increments instead of monthly--each of the forty chapters of Su Embarazo Semana a Semana features: Detailed descriptions of baby’s growth and development each weekClear illustrations that show how both mother and baby are changing and growingDetailed descriptions of what readers may be experiencing each week, from average weight gain to feeling baby moveInformation about both routine and special medical tests that may be requiredTips on nutrition, overall maternal health, and how these things affect baby

Su Embarazo Semana a Semana: Tercera Edicion

La guia medica del embarazo mas completa, actualizada y confiable, completamente revisada y puesta al dia! Su embarazo semana a semana es la guia sobre el embarazo mas completa a su disposicion. Los medicos la recomendan, las parejas que esperan un bebe confian en ella, y usted y su pareja la encontraran indispensable. Con este formato de semana a semana, usted podra seguir los cambios de su bebe y comparar los detalles de su embarazo segun el mismo calendario semanal que emplea sy medico. Autorizada y facil de usar a la vez, esa edicion recientemente corregida--la primera en ocho an~os--cubre la informacion mas reciente, desde las tendencias y recomendaciones de seguridad hasta las inquietudes medicas, asi como tambien: Description detallada del desarrollo del bebe cada semana La mas reciente informacion sobre examenes y procedimientos medicos Consejos sobre nutricion, su salus y como lo que usted hace afecta el desarrollo de su bebe Ejercicios semanales seguros para ayudarla a mantenerse en forma En esta version actualizada se incluyen muchos temas nuevos, tales como el tratamiento sin medicamentos para diversos malestares del embarazo, las vacaciones antes del nacimiento del bebe, la preparacion del cuarto del bebe, consideraciones ecologicas durante el embarazo, las pautas mas recientes sobre el aumento de peso, datos sobre los bancos de sangre de cordon umbilical y mucho mas. . . . Since its publication nearly twenty-five years ago, Your Pregnancy Week by Week has sold millions of copies and become the go-to guide for expectant parents. Now, the fully revised and expanded seventh edition is available in Spanish. In Su Embarazo Semana a Semana parents-to-be will find the latest information to prepare for their baby’s birth-including more than fifty new or updated topics-addressing today’s most pressing questions and concerns. Compassionate, reassuring, and medically grounded, this guide provides everything expectant parents need to ensure a healthy, happy pregnancy, including descriptions of the fetus’s development each week, up-to-date information about medical tests and procedures, healthy weight guidelines, safe weekly exercises for expectant moms, and helpful hints for the father-to-be.

Su horóscopo chino. Búfalo

Buda convocó a los representantes del reino animal para otorgarles una recompensa; sin embargo, sólo se presentaron ante el Maestro doce especies: Rata, Búfalo, Tigre, Liebre, Dragón, Caballo, Serpiente, Cabra, Mono, Gallo, Perro y Cerdo. Buda les mostró su reconocimiento dedicándoles a cada una un año que llevaría su nombre. Conozca su signo en el horóscopo chino: la psicología, la salud, la vida sentimental, familiar y profesional, y las previsiones para el año 2018.

Su horóscopo chino. Caballo

Buda convocó a los representantes del reino animal para otorgarles una recompensa; sin embargo, sólo se presentaron ante el Maestro doce especies: Rata, Búfalo, Tigre, Liebre, Dragón, Caballo, Serpiente, Cabra, Mono, Gallo, Perro y Cerdo. Buda les mostró su reconocimiento dedicándoles a cada una un año que llevaría su nombre. Conozca su signo en el horóscopo chino: la psicología, la salud, la vida sentimental, familiar y profesional, y las previsiones para el año 2018.

Su horóscopo chino. Cabra

Buda convocó a los representantes del reino animal para otorgarles una recompensa; sin embargo, sólo se presentaron ante el Maestro doce especies: Rata, Búfalo, Tigre, Liebre, Dragón, Caballo, Serpiente, Cabra, Mono, Gallo, Perro y Cerdo. Buda les mostró su reconocimiento dedicándoles a cada una un año que llevaría su nombre. Conozca su signo en el horóscopo chino: la psicología, la salud, la vida sentimental, familiar y profesional, y las previsiones para el año 2018.

Su horóscopo chino. Cerdo

Buda convocó a los representantes del reino animal para otorgarles una recompensa; sin embargo, sólo se presentaron ante el Maestro doce especies: Rata, Búfalo, Tigre, Liebre, Dragón, Caballo, Serpiente, Cabra, Mono, Gallo, Perro y Cerdo. Buda les mostró su reconocimiento dedicándoles a cada una un año que llevaría su nombre. Conozca su signo en el horóscopo chino: la psicología, la salud, la vida sentimental, familiar y profesional, y las previsiones para el año 2018.

Su horóscopo chino. Dragón

Buda convocó a los representantes del reino animal para otorgarles una recompensa; sin embargo, sólo se presentaron ante el Maestro doce especies: Rata, Búfalo, Tigre, Liebre, Dragón, Caballo, Serpiente, Cabra, Mono, Gallo, Perro y Cerdo. Buda les mostró su reconocimiento dedicándoles a cada una un año que llevaría su nombre. Conozca su signo en el horóscopo chino: la psicología, la salud, la vida sentimental, familiar y profesional, y las previsiones para el año 2018.

Su horóscopo chino. Gallo

Buda convocó a los representantes del reino animal para otorgarles una recompensa; sin embargo, sólo se presentaron ante el Maestro doce especies: Rata, Búfalo, Tigre, Liebre, Dragón, Caballo, Serpiente, Cabra, Mono, Gallo, Perro y Cerdo. Buda les mostró su reconocimiento dedicándoles a cada una un año que llevaría su nombre. Conozca su signo en el horóscopo chino: la psicología, la salud, la vida sentimental, familiar y profesional, y las previsiones para el año 2018.

Su horóscopo chino. Liebre

Buda convocó a los representantes del reino animal para otorgarles una recompensa; sin embargo, sólo se presentaron ante el Maestro doce especies: Rata, Búfalo, Tigre, Liebre, Dragón, Caballo, Serpiente, Cabra, Mono, Gallo, Perro y Cerdo. Buda les mostró su reconocimiento dedicándoles a cada una un año que llevaría su nombre. Conozca su signo en el horóscopo chino: la psicología, la salud, la vida sentimental, familiar y profesional, y las previsiones para el año 2018.

Su horóscopo chino. Mono

Buda convocó a los representantes del reino animal para otorgarles una recompensa; sin embargo, sólo se presentaron ante el Maestro doce especies: Rata, Búfalo, Tigre, Liebre, Dragón, Caballo, Serpiente, Cabra, Mono, Gallo, Perro y Cerdo. Buda les mostró su reconocimiento dedicándoles a cada una un año que llevaría su nombre. Conozca su signo en el horóscopo chino: la psicología, la salud, la vida sentimental, familiar y profesional, y las previsiones para el año 2018.

Su horóscopo chino. Perro

Buda convocó a los representantes del reino animal para otorgarles una recompensa; sin embargo, sólo se presentaron ante el Maestro doce especies: Rata, Búfalo, Tigre, Liebre, Dragón, Caballo, Serpiente, Cabra, Mono, Gallo, Perro y Cerdo. Buda les mostró su reconocimiento dedicándoles a cada una un año que llevaría su nombre. Conozca su signo en el horóscopo chino: la psicología, la salud, la vida sentimental, familiar y profesional, y las previsiones para el año 2018.

Su horóscopo chino. Rata

Buda convocó a los representantes del reino animal para otorgarles una recompensa; sin embargo, sólo se presentaron ante el Maestro doce especies: Rata, Búfalo, Tigre, Liebre, Dragón, Caballo, Serpiente, Cabra, Mono, Gallo, Perro y Cerdo. Buda les mostró su reconocimiento dedicándoles a cada una un año que llevaría su nombre. Conozca su signo en el horóscopo chino: la psicología, la salud, la vida sentimental, familiar y profesional, y las previsiones para el año 2018.

Su horóscopo chino. Serpiente

Buda convocó a los representantes del reino animal para otorgarles una recompensa; sin embargo, sólo se presentaron ante el Maestro doce especies: Rata, Búfalo, Tigre, Liebre, Dragón, Caballo, Serpiente, Cabra, Mono, Gallo, Perro y Cerdo. Buda les mostró su reconocimiento dedicándoles a cada una un año que llevaría su nombre. Conozca su signo en el horóscopo chino: la psicología, la salud, la vida sentimental, familiar y profesional, y las previsiones para el año 2018.

Su horóscopo chino. Tigre

Buda convocó a los representantes del reino animal para otorgarles una recompensa; sin embargo, sólo se presentaron ante el Maestro doce especies: Rata, Búfalo, Tigre, Liebre, Dragón, Caballo, Serpiente, Cabra, Mono, Gallo, Perro y Cerdo. Buda les mostró su reconocimiento dedicándoles a cada una un año que llevaría su nombre. Conozca su signo en el horóscopo chino: la psicología, la salud, la vida sentimental, familiar y profesional, y las previsiones para el año 2018.

Su plan para una vida equilibrada

Su plan para una vida equilibrada provee estrategias del mundo real que lo preparan para alcanzar la vida con la que la mayoría sólo sueña.La mayoría de la gente trabaja demasiado, come la comida equivocada, duerme muy poco y no hace ejercicio. Está subida de peso, cansada y desbalanceada. El doctor Rippe entiende los desafíos de la vida diaria y ofrece estrategias prácticas en Su plan para una vida equilibrada que permite que cada persona comience a tomar decisiones sencillas y cotidianas que darán como resultado una vida de equilibrio sano. Creado por el cardiólogo y especialista en medicina orientada a cambiar el estilo de vida, el doctor James Rippe, el Índice de Vida Equilibrada es una prueba verificada científicamente para medir su éxito a base de tres componentes principales: Nutrición, Actividad y Bienestar. Evalúa dónde usted está y muestra dónde puede estar.

Subconsciousness: Automatic Behavior and the Brain

We are conscious of only a small fraction of our lives. Because the brain constantly receives an enormous quantity of information, we need to be able to do things without thinking about them—to act in “autopilot” mode. Automatic behaviors—the vast majority of our activities—occur without our conscious awareness, or subconsciously. Yet the physiological basis of subconsciousness remains poorly understood, despite its vast importance for physical and mental health.The neurodegenerative disease expert Yves Agid offers a groundbreaking and accessible account of subconsciousness and its significance. He pinpoints the basal ganglia—the ancient “basement of the brain”—as the main physiological hub of the subconscious. Agid examines its roles in the control and production of automatic behavior, including motor, intellectual, and emotional processes. He highlights the consequences for various brain pathologies, showing how malfunctions of the subconscious have clinical repercussions including not only abnormal involuntary movements, as seen in Parkinson’s disease, but also psychiatric disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorders and depression. Based on this understanding, Agid considers how seeing the basal ganglia as a therapeutic target can aid development of potential new treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders.Shedding new light on the physiological bases of our behavior and mental states, this book provides an innovative exploration of the complexities of the mind, with implications ranging from clinical applications to philosophy’s thorniest problems.

Subjective Experience: Its Fate in Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind (Psychological Issues)

Morris N. Eagle explores the understanding and role of subjective experience in the disciplines of psychology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of mind.Elaborating how different understandings of subjective experience give rise to very different theories of the nature of the mind, Eagle then explains how these shape clinical practices. In particular, Eagle addresses the strong tendency in the disciplines concerned with the nature of the mind to overlook the centrality of subjective experience in one's life, to view it with suspicion, and to reduce it to neural processes. Describing examples of research in which subjective experience is a central variable, Eagle provides an outline of a model in which the dichotomy of conscious and unconsious is supplemented by subjective experience as a continuum. This book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, psychologists and anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the importance of theories of the mind to therapeutic practice.

Subjectivity and Selfhood in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

This book is a collection of studies on topics related to subjectivity and selfhood in medieval and early modern philosophy. The individual contributions approach the theme from a number of angles varying from cognitive and moral psychology to metaphysics and epistemology. Instead of a complete overview on the historical period, the book provides detailed glimpses into some of the most important figures of the period, such as Augustine, Avicenna, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Hume. The questions addressed include the ethical problems of the location of one's true self and the proper distribution of labour between desire, passion and reason, and the psychological tasks of accounting for subjective experience and self-knowledge and determining different types of self-awareness.

Subjectivity and Selfhood in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind #16)

This book is a collection of studies on topics related to subjectivity and selfhood in medieval and early modern philosophy. The individual contributions approach the theme from a number of angles varying from cognitive and moral psychology to metaphysics and epistemology. Instead of a complete overview on the historical period, the book provides detailed glimpses into some of the most important figures of the period, such as Augustine, Avicenna, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Hume. The questions addressed include the ethical problems of the location of one's true self and the proper distribution of labour between desire, passion and reason, and the psychological tasks of accounting for subjective experience and self-knowledge and determining different types of self-awareness.

Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective (Bradford Books)

What is a self? Does it exist in reality or is it a mere social construct—or is it perhaps a neurologically induced illusion? The legitimacy of the concept of the self has been questioned by both neuroscientists and philosophers in recent years. Countering this, in Subjectivity and Selfhood, Dan Zahavi argues that the notion of self is crucial for a proper understanding of consciousness. He investigates the interrelationships of experience, self-awareness, and selfhood, proposing that none of these three notions can be understood in isolation. Any investigation of the self, Zahavi argues, must take the first-person perspective seriously and focus on the experiential givenness of the self. Subjectivity and Selfhood explores a number of phenomenological analyses pertaining to the nature of consciousness, self, and self-experience in light of contemporary discussions in consciousness research. Philosophical phenomenology—as developed by Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and others—not only addresses crucial issues often absent from current debates over consciousness but also provides a conceptual framework for understanding subjectivity. Zahavi fills the need—given the recent upsurge in theoretical and empirical interest in subjectivity—for an account of the subjective or phenomenal dimension of consciousness that is accessible to researchers and students from a variety of disciplines. His aim is to use phenomenological analyses to clarify issues of central importance to philosophy of mind, cognitive science, developmental psychology, and psychiatry. By engaging in a dialogue with other philosophical and empirical positions, says Zahavi, phenomenology can demonstrate its vitality and contemporary relevance.

Substance Abuse Counseling (Fourth Edition)

Providing an overview of substance abuse counseling, this volume emphasizes the need to treat clients from an individualized perspective, based on his or her particular behaviors, culture, gender, and mental health. Both the process of behavior change and the context in which it occurs are described in chapters on assessment and treatment planning, group work, working with families, preventing substance abuse, and the effects of drugs. Case studies illustrate the principles outlined and their practical applications. Appendixes include case history forms, initial behavior assessments, a comprehensive drinker profile, the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test, a questionnaire on drinking and drug abuse, a family drinking survey, and lists of Web sites, treatment manuals, and self-help resources.

Substance Abuse Counseling: Theory and Practice (Fifth Edition)