Robert J. Burdette's lively 1877 humor collection turns everyday life into a stage for wit, irony, and affectionate satire. From mock-serious prefaces and newspaper-style sketches to comic essays on family life, writing, and American manners, the volume delights in the absurdities of ordinary experience. Its title piece, "The Rise and Fall of the Mustache," imagines Adam as a bewildered, overworked father, burdened less by Eden than by boys, weeds, sleepless nights, and the endless questio...

*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'This visionary and deeply evocative debut carves a radiant love story out of the bleakest of landscapes.' Waterstones - Best Books to Look Out For in 2021'An Outstanding novel' Guardian'A lyrical, poetic novel' Independent**'Epic in its scale' Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf'A rare marvel' Ocean V...

Forget extreme makeovers! Robert Jones, makeup artist extraordinaire, outlines step-by-step how even the ugliest duckling can become a swan-with makeup alone! In hundreds of awe-inspiring before-and-after photos, Robert makes it easy for any woman to achieve true beauty.Unlike most makeup books that focus on celebrities or the already-glamorous, Makeup Makeovers shows every woman how to be her most beautiful. No matter what your age, skin tone, or profile, Robert can show you simple techni...

This book is for all the brides and fans of Makeup Makeovers who want more specific tips on bridal makeup.A complete guide to wedding beauty by a well-known makeup artist and beauty consultant. The author travels all over the country every month speaking to real women just like you. If you have always wanted to learn from a makeup artist that knows how to make a bride look her most beautiful then this is the book for you.This stunning book is a full-color guide to applying ...

Create timeless looks that will give you confidence and make you radiant with internationally-renowned makeup artist Robert Jones in Makeup Makeovers in 5, 10, 15, and 20 Minutes. This step-by-step guide to realistic, everyday makeup for the woman on the go contains makeup techniques for every occasion, starting with the five-minute morning-makeup for work, more refined style for important meetings that can be done in the office, quick and stylish looks for after-work drinks, hot ...

Robert Jones' tips are very practical and accessible. Looking Younger, a follow-up to Robert Jones' successful Makeup Makeovers and Makeup Makeovers: Weddings, provides unique techniques for taking the years off and looking stunning at any age. Readers learn how to expertly cover and camouflage wrinkles, sagging eyelids, and dull skintones while practical and easy tips help them customize their makeup application to play up their best features and minimize their worst. They'll learn which ...

Create timeless looks that will give you confidence and make you radiant with internationally-renowned makeup artist Robert Jones in Makeup Makeovers in 5, 10, 15, and 20 Minutes. This step-by-step guide to realistic, everyday makeup for the woman on the go contains makeup techniques for every occasion, starting with the five-minute morning-makeup for work, more refined style for important meetings that can be done in the office, quick and stylish looks for after-work drinks, hot ...

The Assassin's Rejection: Bound by Duty, Torn by DesireI was trained to kill without hesitation, to follow orders without question. But some orders… some people… don’t leave room for loyalty.I never expected to face her again—the one I should have never wanted. She’s fire and defiance wrapped in beauty, a challenge I can’t ignore, even as the world around us demands I stay cold, controlled, untouchable. Every glance, every brush of her presence reminds me of what I lost, wh...

This book gives its reader the background behind a personal journey through asthma, on to cancer, then back to a condition that I had never experienced before - TRUE HEALTH. It then provides the reader with the methodology for making changes that can be permanent in providing health that is open to anyone. It is an approach to health that incorporates a lifestyle change. That lifestyle change is based on the science of nutrition. Further, this second edition provides the evidence for dispu...

Excerpt: "I shall not pretend to say any thing here concerning the origin of Fireworks; those who are willing to be better informed of that point, may have recourse to the treatise of M. F***, on that subject, who has handled this point in a most elaborate manner; and perhaps it may be no displeasing surprise to the reader, to find that, while he imagines himself only concerned about an invention which, he could not have thought to have subsisted above 422 years, he is carried gradually ba...

Crowned in Shadows, Torn by LoveIn a kingdom ruled by strength, loyalty is a weapon—and love is a liability. I should have been untouchable. Alpha by blood, heir to two dominions, and destined to command. But destiny has a cruel way of testing even the strongest hearts.He was everything I never knew I needed: fierce, unwavering, the fire that could burn away fear. And I was supposed to claim him. But the world we inherited was unyielding, and the choices we made left nothin...

This book began out of a desire to see newly qualified clinicians and psychologists in training, finding approaches to therapy that, perhaps, they have not had the opportunity to engage with within their training. Although training programs for Clinical Psychologists within the United Kingdom are held in high esteem it is my experience that face to face work with clients is, to a large degree, led by the experience and methodologies employed by supervising clinicians. Psychology training a...