Author: James IngramPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Spa-di-da!
Author: Suzanne WeynPublisher:
ISBN: 9781416909743
Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Katie and Emma can't afford to take their mom to the spa, they come up with a creative plan: Why not make a spa day at home -- at the fabulous Spa-di-da? Together with Mom, they give themselves facials, do each other's manicures and pedicures, and make their hair shine. It's a girls' day in, and they have a wonderful time. Spa-di-da makes the perfect present for everyone!
The Saxon Chronicle
Author: James IngramThe Prince’s Body
Author: Valeria FinucciPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674967062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Defining the proper female body, seeking elective surgery for beauty, enjoying lavish spa treatments, and combating impotence might seem like today’s celebrity infatuations. However, these preoccupations were very much alive in the early modern period. Valeria Finucci recounts the story of a well-known patron of arts and music in Renaissance Italy, Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua (1562–1612), to examine the culture, fears, and captivations of his times. Using four notorious moments in Vincenzo’s life, Finucci explores changing concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. The first was Vincenzo’s inability to consummate his earliest marriage and subsequent medical inquiry, which elucidates new concepts of female anatomy. Second, Vincenzo’s interactions with Bolognese doctor Gaspare Tagliacozzi, the “father of plastic surgery,” illuminate contemporary fascinations with elective procedures. Vincenzo’s use of thermal spas explores the proliferation of holistic, noninvasive therapies to manage pain, detoxify, and rehabilitate what the medicine of the time could not address. And finally, Vincenzo’s search for a cure for impotence later in life analyzes masculinity and aging. By examining letters, doctors’ advice, reports, receipts, and travelogues, together with (and against) medical, herbal, theological, even legal publications of the period, Finucci describes an early modern cultural history of the pathology of human reproduction, the physiology of aging, and the science of rejuvenation as they affected a prince with a large ego and an even larger purse. In doing so, she deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions.
Who's who in the West
Author: The Saxon Chronicle, with an English Translation, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Saxon chronicle
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Author: Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385051150
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar
Author: Joseph BosworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages
Author: Velazquez de la CadenaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
ITALY Major Banks, Financial & Insurance Companies Directory
Author: Publisher: Business Information Agency
ISBN: 1418775495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Author: Noah Webster