Skin Trade

Author: Ann DuCille
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674810846
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Challenging the increasingly popular argument that blacks should settle down, stop whining, and get jobs, Skin Trade insists that racism remains America's premier national story and its grossest national product. From Aunt Jemima Pancakes to ethnic Barbie dolls, Ann duCille explains, corporate America peddles racial and gender stereotypes.

Skin Trade

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425227725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description
When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thinks, in the latest work in the bestselling Vampire Hunter series.

Adventures in the Skin Trade

Author: Dylan Thomas
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Thomas's unfinished novel of a Welsh boy's adventures in London is accompanied by twenty short stories.

Dark Visions

Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9780575402904
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 381

Book Description
Take three of the leading names in contemporary horror writing, commission one-third of a book's worth of stories from each, and the result is DARK VISIONS. Stephen King leads off with three stories, including "Sneakers", about a very unusual haunting, and "Dedication", one of the most powerful and unsettling of all his works. Dan Simmons pays homage to Philip K Dick with "Metastasis", one of three highly accomplished stories. And George Martin rounds off the book with the brilliant werewolf novella, "The Skin Trade". DARK VISIONS is a brilliantly original showcase from three masters of the macabre.

Skin Rules

Author: Debra Jaliman, MD
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429941545
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Skin Rules is a concise and practical instruction manual from a renowned Fifth Avenue dermatologist on how to attain beautiful skin, a taut and sculpted body, and a much younger appearance. Actors, models, and newscasters go to Dr. Jaliman for her cutting-edge technology and the latest in skin care, as well as for her reputation for being the "last stop" doctor, the one who fixes what others can't. Skin Rules has something for everyone, no matter where they live or how much money they have to spend. This small, invaluable guide supplies the same advice Dr. Jaliman gives to her celebrity patients, from lasers to remove sun damage and turn back the clock to suggestions for simple products and habits anyone can adopt for a small outlay of time and money. In Skin Rules readers will learn: • about the one ingredient that should NEVER be in sunscreens, but often is • how to use inexpensive Aquaphor to heal wounds and prevent scarring • which drugstore products really work for acne and wrinkles

Dark Visions

Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9780575045859
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Collection of seven new horror stories by Stephen King, Dan Simmons and George R R Martin.

Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade

Author: John Hawkes
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140092837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
A Western tall tale and a psychological thriller of stunning insight and depth, this is Hawkes' most ambitious work ever.

Skin Trade

Author: Mason Sabre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781088713037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366

Book Description
In a world where vampires rule and the humans are only there to feed the vampires and keep them alive, things can turn pretty nasty. They call them Blood Auctions, where vampires auction off blood slaves to the highest bidders. Fresh blood is passed amongst them all. Payton is a blood slave.Seth is a vampire, and as one of the most powerful bloodsuckers in the city, but for some reason, he's got his eye on Payton and is willing to pay anything for her.

George R.R. Martin's Skin Trade

Author: George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Avatar Press
ISBN: 9781592912339
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Randi Wade is a survivor. She followed in the footsteps of her father, became a cop, and now is working the P.I. trade. But her past still haunts her. And the vicious animal attacks that took her father's life have sprung up anew, claiming victims once again in this sleepy town. Martin's unique creative voice spins a modern-day classic horror tale of murder, werewolves, and bladed demons" --

Bruce!

Author: Bruce Vilanch
Publisher: Tarcher
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
With observations on everything from Diana Ross and the Muppets to show tunes and "Star Wars, Bruce!" shows how this regular "Hollywood Square" can be the "perp of some of the funniest, most famous, or notorious moments in recent show-biz history" ("Time").