Manhattan, the coldest night of the year -- six best friends rush to attend a celebration. Blown by wind and snow, the women arrive flushed, each caught in midadventure.... Tonight's the night of nights -- to rejoice in a new lover, leave an unfaithful husband, or decide to have a baby on one's own. These "six in the city" profes-sional women fight for their female choices. Sparks and zingers fly across the table....Love lives, secrets, and friendships go up in candle flame. Who will win -- the romantics or the realists? How can working women triumph in such trying times? While the cell phones chime and the biological clocks rewind, the friends enact a timeless ceremony. Here is our urban "friends-as-family" generation -- Beautiful Bodies is a dazzling comedy of manners in the grand tradition of Dorothy Parker and Mary McCarthy.
Blending social history and personal experiences, an exploration of how people try to control their bodies with food reveals the struggle everyone experiences with their own bodies.--
Beautiful Bodies is a masterful and compelling work of living, breathing history.
Photographs that are neither digitally augmented nor airbrushed show what women really look like after giving birth and encourage new mothers to embrace their bodies as they are.
a celebration of beautiful bodies from different women shot over a 6 year period.
In this book, they offer an action plan for readers to combat that mindset, and instead learn how the body can be "an instrument, not an ornament," with practical, actionable steps to take when consuming media, exercising, practicing self ...
The writer and actress explore her childhood and youth, which was largely defined by her father's struggle with hoarding.
Explains the composition and workings of the bodies of plants, animals, and humans.
With 65 illustrations, a broad range of human experience can be enriched with color. Take a journey through this humble collection of life.
This is Dr. Northrup's only children's book, co-written by New York Times best-selling author Kristina Tracy, and colorfully and elegantly illustrated by Aurelie Blanz.
Take a step into a visual bliss and be swept away by an ocean of intricate imagery. This photo book contains a vast selection of the best images to ignite your imagination and show you the brilliant world of visual imagery in all its glory.