Download or read book Second Skin written by Jessica Wollman and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty is only skin deep. Popularity goes much deeper. . . . Appearances can be deceiving. Sam Klein’s found that out firsthand. All she wanted was to be popular. But sometimes what we want is the absolute worst thing for us. Sam discovers that Kylie, It-girl of Woodlawn High, owes her popular status not to her expensive clothes, highlighted hair, and spot on the cheerleading squad but to a magical second skin. Nobody can actually see it—but they can feel it. And if you’re wearing the skin, you feel incredible. Invincible. Popularity is yours. So Sam stole the skin from Kylie. Now she’s the most popular girl at school, while Kylie’s social life takes a serious hit. Sam can barely recognize herself. Her old geek clique is history—but are her new friends really people she can count on? The skin is clinging tighter to her each day . . . can Sam get it off before it’s too late?

Download or read book Second Skin written by John Hawkes and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1964 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 59-year-old American acquires a new family on a tropical island, while looking back on his "naked history" with his old family and its talent for death.

Download or read book Second Skin written by Anne Anlin Cheng and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What does a black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? Josephine Baker emerges in this untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the making of Euro-American Modernism. Instead of seeing her nude performances as a Primitivist given, Cheng argues that Baker's skin was central to debates about and desire for "pure surface" that crystalized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, and philosophy. Taking the reader across the Atlantic - through real stages and imagined houses; banana plantations and ocean lines; metallic bodies and radiant cities-this study tracks the ardent and protean conversa-tion between the making of a Modernist style and the staging of a new black visuality. In this account, Baker and the Modernists known to have adored and objectified her in fact share a common dream: the fantasy of remaking and wearing the skin of the other"--

Download or read book We Other written by Sue Bentley and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jess Morgan's life has always been chaotic. When a startling new reality cannot be denied, it's clear that everything she believed about herself is a lie. She is linked to a world where humans-'hot-bloods'-are disposable entertainment. Life on a rundown estate-her single mum's alcoholism and violent boyfriend-become the least of Jess's worries.

Download or read book Second Skin written by India Flint and published by Murdoch Books. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost from the moment of our birth, clothing acts as our second skin, yet we rarely consider where our clothes come from, or the effects they might have on the environment. This beautifully photographed is about easily achievable ways to care for the planet by living a little simpler regarding cloth and clothing. Get a handle on how cloth consumption affects nature on a larger scale. Look at what textiles are really made from, and examine their properties with an emphasis on those derived from natural sources. In no time you'll have the tools to make informed choices regarding clothing--including deciding how much clothing a person really needs. Second Skin also covers how to mend and maintain clothing, re-purpose fashion, dye clothing, and when all else fails, what it takes to patch, piece, and felt.

Download or read book Second Skin written by Eric Van Lustbader and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action novel featuring Nicholas Linnear, an Anglo-Japanese hero. He heads an international company which has developed a new cellular phone that can transmit the speaker's picture and which the Japanese underworld tries to steal. By the author of The Ninja.

Download or read book Second Skins written by Jay Prosser and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, it's a force of its own that makes it impossible to forget that stories of identity inhabit autobiographical bodies. In this stunning first extensive study of transsexual autobiography, Jay Prosser examines the exchanges between body and narrative that constitute the phenomenon of transsexuality. Showing how transsexuality's somatic transitions are spurred and enabled by the formal transitions of narrative, Prosser uncovers a narrative tradition for transsexual bodies. Sex change is a plot--and thus appropriately transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors. In reading the transssexual plot through transsexuals' own recounting, Prosser not only gives us a new and more accurate rendition of transsexuality. His book suggests transsexuality, with its extraordinary conjunctions of body and narrative, as an identity story that transitions across the body/language divide that currently stalls poststucturalist thought. The form and approach of Second Skins works to cross other important and parallel divides. In addition to analyzing transsexual textual accounts, the book includes some 30 photographic portraits of transsexuals-- poignant attempts by transsexuals to present themselves unmediated to the world except by the camera. And the author does not shy from exposure himself. Interjecting the personal into his theoretical discussion and close textual work throughout the book, Prosser reads and writes his own body, his purpose in that stylistic crossing to stake out transsexuality--and hence this very book--as his own body's narrative.

Download or read book Second Skin written by M. Damon Baker and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced To Fight For My Survival Within A Computer-Generated Fantasy Gone Wrong... With a cruel twist of fate, my world was shattered and I'd lost everything. In a last-ditch effort to salvage my life, I stepped inside a virtual reality chamber, desperate to find some sense of purpose; looking for something, anything, that might motivate me to live again. But when I emerged in the virtual world of Second Skin, I quickly discovered that things had gone wrong--terribly wrong. I was suddenly trapped in a strange place where nothing was what it seemed; unable to determine what was real... unsure of anything, including myself. Hunted and alone in this harsh land, how will I survive? And even more importantly, who the hell am I? Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of graphic violence and deals with mature themes. Reviews: ★★★★★ "The characters, the settings, the arcs, everything about this book was amazing! I love the MC and I cannot wait to see more!" ★★★★★ "I was hooked by the end of the first chapter! Loved every second of this book!" ★★★★★ "Take a little Larry Dixon and Mercedes Lackey and sprinkle liberally with some Terry Brooks and mix well and that is the feast that this author serves you." ★★★★★ "One of the best litrpg's I have read in a while, and just a good fantasy book."

Download or read book Tell Me Lies written by J.P. Pomare and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INCLUDES A SNEAK PEEK OF THE LAST GUESTS 'There's no doubt about it: Pomare is a master of the carefully constructed, impeccably paced psycho-thriller.' - The Australian Psychologist Margot Scott has a picture-perfect life: a nice house in the suburbs, a husband, two children and a successful career. On a warm spring morning Margot approaches one of her clients on a busy train platform. He is looking down at his phone, with his duffel bag in hand as the train approaches. That's when she slams into his back and he falls in front of the train. Margot's clients all lie to her, but one lie cost her family and freedom. A fast-paced psychological thriller for fans of The Silent Patient. 'one of our freshest talents' - NZ Listener

Download or read book Second Skin written by Patrice Farameh and published by Daab Media. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexier than nudeness is a body suggestively wrapped in satin and lace - women have known it for centuries and men will be eager to confirm. Once kept demurely concealed, lingerie now pervades every fashion category, inspiring designs for day looks, loungewear, evening clothes, and accessories. This book lusciously invites the reader to enter the world of contemporary lingerie design, seductively unveiling all that the heart desires with countless photographs of corsets, garter belts, brassieres, negligees and many more stunning accessories beyond the purely practical.

Download or read book The second skin written by Marilyn J. Horn and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Nowhere Child written by Christian White and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A nervy, soulful, genuinely surprising it-could-happen-to-you thriller — a book to make you peer over your shoulder for days afterwards.”—A.J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White’s internationally bestselling debut thriller of psychological suspense about a woman uncovering devastating secrets about her family—and her very identity... Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-six years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed international lines to steal a toddler. On April 3rd, 1990, Jack and Molly Went’s daughter Sammy disappeared from the inside their Kentucky home. Already estranged since the girl’s birth, the couple drifted further apart as time passed. Jack did his best to raise and protect his other daughter and son while Molly found solace in her faith. The Church of the Light Within, a Pentecostal fundamentalist group who handle poisonous snakes as part of their worship, provided that faith. Without Sammy, the Wents eventually fell apart. Now, with proof that she and Sammy are in fact the same person, Kim travels to America to reunite with a family she never knew she had. And to solve the mystery of her abduction—a mystery that will take her deep into the dark heart of religious fanaticism where she must fight for her life against those determined to save her soul...

Download or read book Antioxidants and the Skin written by Roger L. McMullen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly illustrated book brings together many concepts related to skin care and antioxidant usage in one convenient text. The second edition now contains the latest antioxidants being marketed, and an analysis of risks and benefits associated.

Download or read book Legion Skin Deep written by Brandon Sanderson and published by Dragonsteel, LLC. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now also available in the complete collection Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Stephen Leeds is back in a new, double-length novella that Library Journal says has "the pulse of a thriller and the hook of a fascinating hero balancing on the edge of psychosis." It's not his own genius that Stephen Leeds gets hired for. Clients want to tap into the imaginary experts that populate his mind—and it's getting a bit crowded in there. Now Stephen and his internal team of "aspects" have been hired to track down a stolen corpse—but it's not the corpse that's important, it's what the corpse knows. The biotechnology company he worked for believes he encoded top-secret information in his DNA before he died, and if it falls into the wrong hands, that will mean disaster. Meanwhile, Stephen's uneasy peace with his own hallucinations is beginning to fray at the edges, as he strives to understand how one of them could possibly have used Stephen's hand to shoot a real gun during the previous case. And some of those hallucinations think they know better than Stephen just how many aspects his mind should make room for. How long will he be able to hold himself together?

Download or read book Sacred Skin written by Tom Vater and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred tattoos, called 'sak yant' in Thailand, have been around Southeast Asia for centuries and afford protection from accident, misfortune, and crime. Young women get tattooed with love charms in order to attract partners, while adolescent men use the protective power of their yants in fights with rival youth gangs. For most though, the tattoos serve as reminders to follow a moral code that endorses positive behavior. During the application of a sak yant, the tattoo master establishes a series of life 'rules' that need to be closely adhered to, starting with Buddhism's first five precepts. Failure to observe the master's instructions will cause the sak yant to lose their power. Beautifully photographed these are tattoos that are the essence and 'key' to individual identity, a philosophy for living, the translation of soul to skin, as complex as the leaves of an autobiography, the story of a life.

Download or read book Floating City written by Eric Van Lustbader and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking to destroy the Torch, an evil tool used for wanton destruction by the bloodthirsty leader of Vietnam's Floating City, Nicholas Linnear must confront his own personal demons in order to reach his target.

Download or read book Second Skin written by Richard Dungworth and published by BBC Children's Books. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the Doctor on his travels and influence his adventures with your decisions. Will you explore the alien planet or get back in the T.A.R.D.I.S and travel to somewhere new? Choose a direction and let the adventure begin...