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Fixed oils play a large part in most all commercial beauty treatments. Power of the Seed is an engaging, illustrated guide book that shows the reader the meaning and uses of fatty acids, omega oils, trans-fats, saturated and unsaturated oils. It also offers instruction on how to use these oils to create topical skin care, cosmetics and massage oils. Susan M. Parker presents advice and in-depth information on the different types, sources, uses and structures of these precious oils. Over 90 rare and common oils are discussed, along with suggestions for creating new recipes.
“I think Ralph fell in love with the uphillness in me. I could keep up with him on windy passes and minor climbing peaks. But I never stayed with him on the downhill. He was always too fast. He’d wait patiently for me at the bottom of a black diamond run, at the end of a long, winding mountain road, or at the foot of a crag. He was happy when I could get to the bottom of anything. I wasn’t with him the day he had the accident that left him a C-4 quadriplegic. Perhaps it’s the uphillness in me that is keeping me with him now. It’s all uphill from here. No more downhills to carve through gracefully or sail down safely; only up, up, up.” —from the Introduction Suzy Parker and her ...
This book is a study of earnings management, aimed at scholars and professionals in accounting, finance, economics, and law. The authors address research questions including: Why are earnings so important that firms feel compelled to manipulate them? What set of circumstances will induce earnings management? How will the interaction among management, boards of directors, investors, employees, suppliers, customers and regulators affect earnings management? How to design empirical research addressing earnings management? What are the limitations and strengths of current empirical models?
Includes furniture and property list, costumes and set design.
Miss Makey and the Magic Bin By: Mandi Figlioli Miss Makey is not your ordinary teacher. When she brings in her magic bin, the students begin to think she might be going crazy. Soon, however, the classroom comes alive with creative energy as Miss Makey’s class discovers all they can make using leftover materials and their own imaginations. Follow along with Miss Makey’s class as they learn the inventive magic of turning trash into treasure. The delightfully illustrated pages of Miss Makey and the Magic Bin are based on real-life classroom adventures and student inventions.
Eleven-year-old Susan Parker must keep vigil during a family tragedy that plunges her tomboy innocence into the murk of family dysfunctionwith Evangelicals as her only lifeguards. Tender to the bone, Walking in the Deep End is an earnest and engaging memoir, written with honesty, spunk, and humor. Buffeted by currents of suicide, bulimia, religious hypocrisy, and romantic heartbreak, Parker finds courage and hope in her search for truth and identity. Walking in the Deep End draws you into her compelling and, at times, uncanny experience of authentic spirituality.
London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two decades, the city’s tumult will reach new heights: as population expansion places different classes in dangerous proximity and ideas of political and social reform linger in the air, London begins to undergo enormous infrastructure change that will alter it forever. It is the London of this period that editors Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford pinpoint in this book, which chooses one broad musical category—voice—and engages with it through essays on music of the streets, theaters, opera houses, and concert halls; on ...
When Jane Austen died in 1817, she left behind 120 pages of manuscript that would eventually be published as Sanditon. Praised by some critics and condemned by others, this final effort by the great English writer has for the most part been overlooked in favor of the novels that were published during her lifetime and shortly after her death. For the first time, an entire book is devoted to examining this fragment to establish it as Jane Austen's potential masterpiece. With a new setting and a greater range of characters than found in earlier works, this novel composed during the last months of her short life, if completed, would at the same time have continued her series of magnificent novels and created new possibilities for novels to come.
Another extraordinary Spenser novel from the beloved New York Times-bestselling author. On location in Boston, bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of the rape and murder of a young woman. From the start the case seems fishy, so the Boston PD calls on Spenser to investigate. The situation doesn't look good for Jumbo, whose appetites for food, booze, and sex are as outsized as his name. He was the studio's biggest star, but he's become their biggest liability. In the course of the investigation, Spenser encounters Jumbo's bodyguard: a young, former football-playing Native American named Zebulon Sixkill. Sixkill acts tough, but Spenser sees something more within the young man. Despite the odd circumstances, the two forge an unlikely alliance, with Spenser serving as mentor for Sixkill. As the case grows darker and secrets about both Jumbo and the dead girl come to light, it's Spenser--with Sixkill at his side--who must put things right.