Download or read book The Joy of Baldness written by Richard Sandomir and published by SP Books. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bald written by Simon Critchley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and expansive collection of essays from one of the world's best-known popular philosophers The moderator of the New York Times’ Stone column and the author of numerous books on everything from Greek tragedy to David Bowie, Simon Critchley has been a strong voice in popular philosophy for more than a decade. This volume brings together thirty†‘five essays, originally published in the Times, on a wide range of topics, from the dimensions of Plato’s academy and the mysteries of Eleusis to Philip K. Dick, Mormonism, money, and the joy and pain of Liverpool Football Club fans. In an engaging and jargon†‘free style, Critchley writes with honesty about the state of world as he offers philosophically informed and insightful considerations of happiness, violence, and faith. Stripped of inaccessible academic armatures, these short pieces bring philosophy out of the ivory tower and demonstrate an exciting new way to think in public.
Download or read book Bald Men Never Have a Bad Hair Day written by Dave Beswick and published by Ama Publishing (FL). This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bald Men Never Have a Bad Hair Day" is the second in the "Bald Men" series promoting acceptance and making the most of what you don't have. Wit and wisdom in chapters from Conversation with God, Tales from the Top, The Bald Path-A Smooth Road in a Rocky World, to Bald Trivia II, can bring joy and insight to all.
Download or read book It s Only Hair written by Christine Mager Wevik and published by . This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had the nightmare where you're bald? Where you discover that there is not even one hair left on your head, it's smooth and shiny like a pretty, new car? The one where you look like a Martian, or some poor shlub on a sitcom who just lost their hair from a bad perm or a practical joke gone bad? Oh, wait. That's not a nightmare-that's real! You ARE bald (or going bald). Maybe you still have some hair left, in which case, you think you look like a newly-hatched buzzard chick (and where's that shell ). Regardless of the cause or degree of your hair loss, It's Only Hair is a humorous self-help book that covers it all. This book deals with the clinical aspects, such as causes and treatments of all types of hair loss including alopecia, chemotherapy-related hair loss, and male and female pattern baldness, but more importantly, the psychological impact it has on bald and balding individuals. Written by a true Alopecian, Christine Mager Wevik, It's Only Hair has a personal, insightful, and uplifting, if not brazenly honest approach to coping with The Shiny Head Syndrome: humor. Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1883) Look-we all know how endorphins work....okay, maybe we don't. We just know that laughing feels good, and we forget that we have a choice in how we feel. Choose happiness-it's more fun!
Download or read book The Bald Princess Discovers Her Superpower written by Rachel Rose Gray and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moonbeam Children's Books Awards Winner! There has never been a princess like Princess Joy. She is just an ordinary kid who discovers that she has a super power that can help change the world of Darkness around her. Oh, and she happens to be bald. This book is meant to help children understand that no matter how we look on the outside, we all possess a special power: one that comes from within. With the purchase of every book, you help a child. For more information, visit www.baldprincessjoy.org
Download or read book Hair Story written by Ayana D. Byrd and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As far as neatly and efficiently chronicling African Americans and the importance of their hair, Hair Story gets to the root of things.” —Philadelphiaweekly.com Hair Story is a historical and anecdotal exploration of Black Americans’ tangled hair roots. A chronological look at the culture and politics behind the ever-changing state of Black hair from fifteenth-century Africa to the present-day United States, it ties the personal to the political and the popular. Read about: Why Black American slaves used items like axle grease and eel skin to straighten their hair. How a Mexican chemist straightened Black hair using his formula for turning sheep’s wool into a minklike fur. How the Afro evolved from militant style to mainstream fashion trend. What prompted the creation of the Jheri curl and the popular style’s fall from grace. The story behind Bo Derek’s controversial cornrows and the range of reactions they garnered. Major figures in the history of Black hair are presented, from early hair-care entrepreneurs Annie Turnbo Malone and Madam C. J. Walker to unintended hair heroes like Angela Davis and Bob Marley. Celebrities, stylists, and cultural critics weigh in on the burgeoning sociopolitical issues surrounding Black hair, from the historically loaded terms “good” and “bad” hair, to Black hair in the workplace, to mainstream society’s misrepresentation and misunderstanding of kinky locks. Hair Story is the book that Black Americans can use as a benchmark for tracing a unique aspect of their history, and it’s a book that people of all races will celebrate as the reference guide for understanding Black hair. “A comprehensive and colorful look at a very touchy subject.” —Essence
Download or read book Stumbling on Happiness written by Daniel Gilbert and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it. Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had expected. Why? As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Just as memory plays tricks on us when we try to look backward in time, so does imagination play tricks when we try to look forward. Using cutting-edge research, much of it original, Gilbert shakes, cajoles, persuades, tricks and jokes us into accepting the fact that happiness is not really what or where we thought it was. Among the unexpected questions he poses: Why are conjoined twins no less happy than the general population? When you go out to eat, is it better to order your favourite dish every time, or to try something new? If Ingrid Bergman hadn’t gotten on the plane at the end of Casablanca, would she and Bogey have been better off? Smart, witty, accessible and laugh-out-loud funny, Stumbling on Happiness brilliantly describes all that science has to tell us about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely we are to enjoy it when we get there.
Download or read book Me My Hair and I written by Elizabeth Benedict and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] splendid collection . . . By turns wry, tender, pointed, and laugh-out-loud funny.” —Publishers Weekly “Untangles the many truths about hair, and the lives we lead underneath it.” —Pamela Druckerman, author of Bringing Up Bébé Ask a woman about her hair, and she just might tell you the story of her life. Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair, and you could get a history of the world. Surprising, insightful, frequently funny, and always forthright, the essays in Me, My Hair, and I are reflections and revelations about every aspect of women’s lives from family, race, religion, and motherhood to culture, health, politics, and sexuality. They take place in African American kitchens, at Hindu Bengali weddings, and inside Hasidic Jewish homes. The conversation is intimate and global at once. Layered into these reminiscences are tributes to influences throughout history: Jackie Kennedy, Lena Horne, Farrah Fawcett, the Grateful Dead, and Botticelli’s Venus. The long and the short of it is that our hair is our glory—and our nemesis, our history, our self-esteem, our joy, our mortality. Every woman knows that many things in life matter more than hair, but few bring as much pleasure as a really great hairdo.
Download or read book Hair Like a Fox written by Danny Roddy and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While it is often stated with great confidence that pattern baldness is the result of defective genes and "male" androgenic hormones (e.g., testosterone, DHT), the theory is physiologically unsound. In fact, after 60 years of research the "genetic-androgen" doctrine has produced a single FDA-approved "therapy" that works less than 50% the time and can result in permanent chemical castration. ...Standing on the shoulders of giants (e.g., Otto Warburg, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Gilbert Ling, Ray Peat and others), Hair Like a Fox sets up an alternative "bioenergetic model" of pattern hair loss with a focus on the smallest unit of life, the cell. This same context elucidates simple yet effective therapies for halting and perhaps reversing pattern hair loss in a way that harmonizes with our unique physiology"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book The Joy written by Sandra R. Jolla and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding joy in the midst of turbulent times is not always easy. When you get disappointing news, how do you turn tragedy to triumph? How do you make the bitter sweet? How do you transition from chaos to calm? The author makes her journey with cancer a faith walk filled with excitement and joy as she embarks upon one of the most challenging times of her life. I learned that even though I had mapped out a plan, God had a different plan for my life. This is my story of how I chose to make my journey with Cancer a JOYFUL walk. Sandra
Download or read book Hair Love written by Matthew A. Cherry and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Oscar winning short film! It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this story of self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters. Zuri knows her hair is beautiful, but it has a mind of its own! It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Mum always does Zuri's hair just the way she likes it - so when Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion, he has a lot to learn. But he LOVES his Zuri, and he'll do anything to make her - and her hair - happy. Tender and empowering, Hair Love is an ode to loving your natural hair - and a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere.
Download or read book Hair Story written by Ayana Byrd and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the culture and politics behind the ever-changing state of black hair - from 15th century Africa to present-day US - this fascinating book is an entertaining look at the intersection of the personal, political and popular aspects of hair styles, tracing a unique aspect of black American history. An entertaining and concise survey... A book that successfully balances popular appeal with historical accuracy' - Publishers Weekly 'Impressive work of cultural history' - Book Page 'Comprehensive and colourful' - Essence'
Download or read book To Joy My Freedom written by Tera W. Hunter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta—the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south—in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers’ domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Hunter weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post–Civil War south. Through anecdote and data, analysis and interpretation, she manages to penetrate African-American life and labor and to reveal the centrality of women at the inception—and at the heart—of the new south.
Download or read book The Joy of Cancer written by Anup Kumar and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical reminiscences of Anup Kumar, an Indian cancer patient and his experiences on fighting cancer.
Download or read book The Hair Trunk Or the Ideal Commonwealth written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Zeticula. This book was released on 2014 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a dozen young men find themselves at the end of their university years facing the awful prospect that they must now support themselves. They decide to found an Ideal Commonwealth, in the Navigator Islands - Samoa (where, by a wonderful coincidence, a decade later, Stevenson himself eventually settled and where he died and is buried). Here - they reason - work and money, dreary offices and dreary jobs, will not be known or needed. But capital is required to start even an Ideal Commonwealth. One of their number knows of a real, glowing, gaudy, old-high treasure - gold and jewels in a trunk in a family castle in the Scottish Highlands, theirs for the stealing, and ...Robert Louis Stevenson began writing this comic novel in April or May 1877, when he was twenty-six, and left it unfinished - after 30,000 words, in nine chapters - two years later. It shows a side of him whom most readers have never known existed: a satirical Stevenson making great fun, in a manner worthy of his contemporaries Gilbert and Sullivan, of the events and passions, the personalities and the predicaments, of his day. Previously published only in a French translation, it now takes its rightful place among his memorable early works of fiction. Transcribed, introduced, and annotated by the noted scholar Roger G. Swearingen from Stevenson's unpublished manuscript (now in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California), this edition reveals glimpses of the author's developing literary skills and of his complex and often madcap personal temperament. The extensive and illustrated annotations are fascinating in themselves, not least for the references to the contemporary late-Victorian scene.
Download or read book Stop Hair Loss written by Paavo O. Airola and published by Health Plus Publishers. This book was released on 1984-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cancer with Joy written by Joy Huber and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIC examples of how she handled cancer with joy to help others from diagnosis through treatment and a powerful new brand (“Cancer with Joy”) quickly exploded! This inspiring & informative book transforms how the newly diagnosed & those who love them handle cancer. It is a priceless collection of stories from Joy and others, 100 useful resources to save time, money, energy & strength and more. “Cancer with Joy” also details timely information on what the new healthcare reform bill means for those diagnosed with cancer who have insurance & who are uninsured. “Cancer with Joy” takes the fear out of cancer helping the newly diagnosed through treatment with resources, support and encouragement. In the middle of the word encouragement is “courage,” and Joy offers that along with hope. “Cancer with Joy” is the essential resource for newly diagnosed cancer patients and their caregivers. Everyone diagnosed with cancer asks, “How will I handle this?” Reading “Cancer with Joy” is the answer. “Cancer with Joy” also offers bonuses at a companion web site including additional pictures, video and music!
