posted
29/08/13
Book Description:
The essential guide to hair care from a seasoned professional hairstylist.
Pro Hair Care is a comprehensive guide to hair health and hairstyles that provides sound advice and shows readers how to create a wide range of looks. Sheridan Ward and Alexandra Friend describe everything from what the ingredients in shampoos and conditioners actually do to how to remedy every common hair problem.
posted
25/08/13
Book Description:
Meet the new Bernard Shaw in GBS & COMPANY. The highly acclaimed biographical drama that recreates the world of Bernard Shaw & his contemporaries, GBS & COMPANY brings to life one of the foremost intellectuals of any era & allows us to see ourselves through the timeless eyes of history. Nominated for the Barnard Hewitt Award & the George Freedley Memorial Award. “A refreshingly different approach to Shaw’s life & work.”–Dan B. Laurence. “…A lively, ingenious & versatile play by a skillful & ambitious dramatist.”–Michael Holroyd. ” … a delightful & fascinating piece of work by a man who obviously knows his Shaw as well as Shaw knew Shakespeare.”–Colin Wilson.
posted
23/08/13
Book Description:
Debra Jarvis works as a chaplain supporting patients at Seattle’s Cancer Care Alliance (the clinic founded by the world-famous Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute). In that capacity she meets daily with patients in at many points along the path of living with cancer, from diagnosis to treatment to recovery and facing death. So in one of those ironic twists of fate, Jarvis was diagnosed with breast cancer herself. It’s Not About the Hair is the account of her time with cancer. As she says, the first thing people ask when they learn you have cancer is whether you are going to lose your hair. But what they really mean to ask is whether you are going to lose your life. Debra Jarvis is able to write honestly and humorously about her experience with cancer because she has had the unique experience of having witnessed and having guided so many cases of cancer. And she brings all of that perspective and context and wisdom to the story of her own breast cancer. As an ordained minister she considers her voice to be a combination of Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid” and Martha Stewart (pre-felon, that is), a persona she labels Mr. Martha Miyagi. It’s mystical and practical. Debra Jarvis manages to channel a humor that is reminiscent of Nora Ephron. This is a cancer story that won’t give you the creeps, but it will guide you to think deeply about the serious stuff like ingrained views on health and disease, life and death, the time we have and how we want to live it.