The Natural Glamour: The Ayurveda Beauty BookAyurveda is the science of health and healing from ancient India. In this ancient wisdom, health covers diverse aspects of existence like physical, mental, social and spiritual for the complete well being of an individual, as well as of society. The author has emphasized on enhancing your beauty, glamour and radiance with very simple and natural methods of Ayurveda. A person's appearance depends largely on her/his health and 'inner environment' of the body. In this book, there are methods given to purify your inner environment and beautify your external appearance with diverse treatments feasible easily at home. There are very simple and fascinating methods like diverse oil treatments, oil baths of individual parts of the body, bath of gods, inner lubrication and for the first time the yogic dance. Your thought process affects immediately your appearance and radiance. Thus, the book also deals with the spiritual aspects of beauty. "All men, women and children want to look healthy and beautiful. The books on beauty are generally written for women or they are considered for women. Men, particularly in the West are usually conditioned not to beautify themselves. However in Indian tradition, during various ceremonies before marriage, man and woman are given similar Ayurvedic beauty treatments with external methods." After all, women also like their men with smooth skin, pleasant smell and radiating looks.This book was first published in German in 2003Dr. Verma was educated in France and trained in the USA. With a doctorate degree in Reproduction biology from Panjab University and another in Neurobiology from Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, Dr. Verma studied Ayurveda with scriptural tradition from Professor Priya Vrat Sharma of the Benares Hindu University. An authority on Ayurveda and yoga, Dr. Verma has written 19 books on diverse themes in these fields. Her books have been translated into different languages of the world. Two of her best sellers are__ Ayurveda, A Way of Life and The Kamasutra for Women. She is the founder of Patanjali Yogadarshana Society and Charaka School of Ayurveda and is the Academic director of Charaka Ayurvedic and Yogic Academy and Cultural Centre (CAYACC). Find more about the author, her books and contributions at the back pages of this book and at www.ayurvedavv.com

Dazzling Makeup Tips for Date Night, Club Night, and Beyond Maximize the glam, access your inner diva, grab the glitter, and get excited about makeup! With stunning photos, featuring stars like Jennette McCurdy, Ariana Grande, Brandy, and Willa Ford, and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, Melanie Mills shows you the makeup techniques for creating fun, trendsetting looks inspired by rock ’n’ roll vixens and fairy tale characters. She inspires you to experiment with stunning makeup for all occasions, from a party or a night out with friends to a special date or anytime you want to amplify your look. Melanie offers advice on makeup for any skin tone, and shows you how to master color combinations, taking you through a rainbow of shades to inspire you to break out of your everyday color palette. These looks are stunning, sometimes wild, and guaranteed to make a statement!

The purpose of this book is to help you attain roop or a natural glow and maintain a youthful appearance with various external applications, through nutrition and lifestyle, and inner purification of the body. A dull complexion, rough skin and pimples can be treated with external applications only to a very limited extent. You need to go to the root of the problem and eradicate it. Your external appearance is nothing but the reflection of your internal state. Everyone, men, women and children want to look healthy and beautiful. The books on beauty are generally written for women or they are considered exclusively for women. Men, particularly in the West are usually conditioned not to beautify themselves. However, in Indian tradition, during various ceremonies before marriage, man and woman are given similar Ayurvedic beauty treatments. The book provides Ayurvedic and yogic wisdom to enhance your health and to obtain a radiant look. In Ayurveda health covers diverse aspects of existence like physical, mental, social and spiritual for the complete well being of an individual and society. The book emphasizes on enhancing your beauty, glamour and radiance with simple and natural methods. A person's appearance depends largely on her/his health and 'inner environment' of the body. In this book, there are methods given to purify your inner environment and beautify your external appearance with diverse treatments feasible easily at home. There are simple and fascinating methods like diverse oil treatments, oil baths of individual parts of the body, bath of gods, inner lubrication and for the first time - the yogic dance. Your thought process affects immediately your appearance and radiance. Thus, the book also deals with the spiritual aspects of beauty. This book was first published in German in 2003 and 2012 in Spanish. The book is written by renowned scientist Dr. Vinod Verma who had also studied Ayurveda for 23 years from legendry Professor Acharya Priya Vrat Sharma of Banares Hindu University. Dr. Verma has written 23 books besides numerous articles on various themes of yoga, Ayurveda and Women's health.

A journey through texts on, about, or reflecting our experience of the natural world.

“To me, an object that was once the height of elegance but is now a bit battered has far more allure than something brand new.” Pearl Lowe in The Daily Telegraph Pearl Lowe has a passion for vintage finds with character—jewel-toned velvet sofas, hand-dyed lace curtains, gleaming lacquer cabinets—and these are the essential ingredients of Faded Glamour, a gloriously decadent and perfectly lived-in decorating style. With evocative photography, Pearl’s beautiful Georgian home is revealed, showcasing her trademark blend of grandly romantic and cool rock ’n’ roll interiors. Take a tour through the colorful living rooms, intimate bedrooms, and plush bathrooms of her creative friends’ unique homes. There are hand-painted peacocks and an emerald silk bedspread in the charming house of a renowned British fashion designer; bright contemporary paintings on the perfectly rustic plaster walls of Hauser and Wirth in Somerset; a rainbow staircase and vivid embroidered wall hangings in the home of an eclectic jewelry designer, and so much more.

Cities are often thought to be separate from nature, but recent trends in ecocriticism demand that we consider them as part of the total environment. This new collection of essays sharpens the focus on the nature of cities by exploring the facets of an urban ecocriticism, by reminding city dwellers of their place in ecosystems, and by emphasizing the importance of this connection in understanding urban life and culture. The editorsÑboth raised in small towns but now living in major urban areasÑare especially concerned with the sociopolitical construction of all environments, both natural and manmade. Following an opening interview with Andrew Ross exploring the general parameters of urban ecocriticism, they present essays that explore urban nature writing, city parks, urban "wilderness," ecofeminism and the city, and urban space. The volume includes contributions on topics as wide-ranging as the urban poetry of English writers from Donne to Gay, the manufactured wildness of a gambling casino, and the marketing of cosmetics to urban women by idealizing Third World "naturalness." These essays seek to reconceive nature and its cultural representations in ways that contribute to understanding the contemporary cityscape. They explore the theoretical issues that arise when one attempts to adopt and adapt an environmental perspective for analyzing urban life. The Nature of Cities offers the ecological component often missing from cultural analyses of the city and the urban perspective often lacking in environmental approaches to contemporary culture. By bridging the historical gap between environmentalism, cultural studies, and urban experience, the book makes a statement of lasting importance to the development of the ecocritical movement. CONTENTS Part 1ÑThe Nature of Cities 1. Urban Ecocriticism: An Introduction, Michael Bennett & David Teague 2. The Social Claim on Urban Ecology, Andrew Ross (interviewed by Michael Bennett) Part 2ÑUrban Nature Writing 3. London Here and Now: Walking, Streets, and Urban Environments in English Poetry from Donne to Gay, Gary Roberts 4. "All Things Natural Are Strange": Audre Lorde, Urban Nature, and Cultural Place, Kathleen R. Wallace 5. Inculcating Wildness: Ecocomposition, Nature Writing, and the Regreening of the American Suburb, Terrell Dixon Part 3ÑCity Parks 6. Writers and Dilettantes: Central Park and the Literary Origins of Antebellum Urban Nature, Adam W. Sweeting 7. Postindustrial Park or Bourgeois Playground? Preservation and Urban Restructuring at Seattle's Gas Works Park, Richard Heyman Part 4ÑUrban "Wilderness" 8. Boyz in the Woods: Urban Wilderness in American Cinema, Andrew Light 9. Central High and the Suburban Landscape: The Ecology of White Flight, David Teague 10. Manufacturing the Ghetto: Anti-urbanism and the Spatialization of Race, Michael Bennett Part 5ÑEcofeminism and the City 11. An Ecofeminist Perspective on the Urban Environment, Catherine Villanueva Gardner 12. "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman": The Political Economy of Contemporary Cosmetics Discourse, Laura L. Sullivan Part 6ÑTheorizing Urban Space 13. Darwin's City, or Life Underground: Evolution, Progress, and the Shapes of Things to Come, Joanne Gottlieb 14. Nature in the Apartment: Humans, Pets, and the Value of Incommensurability, David R. Shumway 15. Cosmology in the Casino: Simulacra of Nature in the Interiorized Wilderness, Michael P. Branch