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"Professional matchmaker and relationship coach, who is responsible for hundreds of women and men finding their marriage partners, gives advice on successful dating, finding love, keeping the spark in marriage, leaving failing relationships, and healing after divorce. She draws from experiences of her several marriages and tells stories of the singles she has matched"--
From Ophelia DeVore in the 1940's and today's Tyra Banks, Grace Jones, and Naomi Campbell, Black and Beautiful highlights more than sixty years of the Black fashion model's triumphs and struggles. Barbara Summers, a Ford Model for seventeen years, interviewed dozens of models and selected more than 250 photos for this landmark publication. Celebrating the strength and style of these fascinating women and their groundbreaking careers, this book is a gorgeous tribute to the beauty of Black women everywhere.
With wit and charm, Summers reveals the lives of working-class, middle-class, and upscale African American families. The 24 stories in Nouvelle Soul followcharacters wrestling with love and loss, friendship, change, and affirmation.10,000 print.
"Professional matchmaker and relationship coach, who is responsible for hundreds of women and men finding their marriage partners, gives advice on successful dating, finding love, keeping the spark in marriage, leaving failing relationships, and healing after divorce. She draws from experiences of her several marriages and tells stories of the singles she has matched"--
The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.
Black models are living proof that beauty is more than skin deep.Skin Deep brings readers face to face with some of the most beautiful women in the world: Black models. For the past 50 years they have redefined beauty, fashion, and style in dramatic ways. Each era would exalt its star models: Dorothea Towles, Helen Williams, Naomi Sims, Beverly Johnson, Iman, Naomi Campbell, and Tyra Banks, among them. Less well known are the many other talented, elegant women who enjoyed careers as well. At every level of achievement, however, they all confronted challenges testing their courage, endurance, and integrity.How they succeeded - and sometimes failed - is thecompelling essence of Skin Deep.Only ...
From Ophelia DeVore in the 1940s to today's Tyra Banks, Grace Jones, and Naomi Campbell, this fascinating book highlights more than 60 years of the Black fashion model's triumphs and struggles. Barbara Summers, a Ford model for 17 years, interviewed dozens of models and selected more than 250 photos for this landmark publication. Celebrating the strength and style of these fascinating women and their groundbreaking careers, this book is a gorgeous tribute to the beauty of Black women everywhere. It includes oral remembrances, antique advertisements, fantasy high-fashion spreads, and working-girl composite shots. A comprehensive record of the dramatic achievements of these fascinating women in the fashion and beauty industries.
This encyclopedia for Amish genealogists is certainly the most definitive, comprehensive, and scholarly work on Amish genealogy that has ever been attempted. It is easy to understand why it required years of meticulous record-keeping to cover so many families (144 different surnames up to 1850). Covers all known Amish in the first settlements in America and shows their lineage for several generations. (955pp. index. hardcover. Pequea Bruderschaft Library, revised edition 2007.)
Contains stories about sixteen African Americans who became successful in a wide range of activities.
Risk behaviour and risk management in business life influence a wide range of fields in which only a very limited amount of research has been undertaken. These topics have often been treated as if they were theoretically and practically isolated from other fields, the so called risk archipelago problem. What is actually needed is another focus, in which the problem of risk is treated as a central theme. The demand for interdisciplinary research means that there is a need for crossing scientific boundaries. In approaching risk problems from a holistic perspective there is also a parallel need for linking the scientific and the business worlds. Researchers must work closely together in concret...