Natural Beauty

Author: Karen Gilbert
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN: 1782492984
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 458

Book Description
Packed with pampering recipes to create your own beauty essentials for face, body, and hair. Most of us use a huge variety of beauty products on our skin and hair every day - from shower gel and shampoo to moisturizer and hand cream - but the majority of these products contain a variety of chemicals. In Natural Beauty, natural skincare and fragrance expert Karen Gilbert shows you how to make your own lotions and potions at home, using readily available, natural ingredients and easy-to-follow methods. For the face, there are moisturizers, masks and cleansers; for the body choose from scrubs and shower gels, soaps and body lotions. And when you need some extra-special pampering, try the recipes for lip balms, massage bars, bath oils and eye gels. So try your hand at making a neroli hydrating spritz or a macadamia and jojoba moisturizer, a mango and lime body butter or lemon and tea tree foot balm, bergamot and grapefruit wake-up wash or cocoa butter lip balm - the hardest part is choosing which of the pampering projects to try first! Each recipe has clear step-by-step photographs to guide you, and there are numerous variations to try.

The Little Pocket Book of Meditation

Author: Stephanie Brookes
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN: 1782495215
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
An easy-to-follow guide to the stress-busting, tension-taming practice of meditation. Trying to find a work/life balance can be exhausting, which means we are always looking for ways to release tension and relax. Meditation is the perfect solution! People often worry that to meditate properly they need to sit for hours in cold and empty rooms, but in The Little Pocket Book of Meditation Stephanie Brookes sweeps aside these out-dated stereotypes. Writing in a down-to-earth, accessible style, Stephanie shows us how to incorporate simple meditation techniques into our busy, non-stop lives. Over the years she has created bespoke meditation routines and developed a large inventory of meditations to suit a wide range of situations, including meditations for self-healing, meditations for relationships and meditations on the go. Packed with engaging insights on the benefits of meditation, this book will show you how even a short meditation can reduce stress, ease tension and set you on the path to inner peace.

The Little Pocket Book of Crystal Healing

Author: Philip Permutt
Publisher: CICO Books
ISBN: 9781782494706
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Get in touch with the natural healing energy of crystals and transform your life forever. Get in touch with the natural healing energy of crystals and transform your life forever. "The ultimate go-to guide for finding out more about your favorite gems." - Soul & Spirit Crystal healing and therapies have a long history, dating back 5,000 years, and have often been used to gently soothe, and even cure, illnesses. Split into four chapters, The Little Pocket Book of Crystal Healing will take you on an explorative journey of crystals and their properties. The first chapter, "Preparing for Crystal Work", will take you through cleaning, cleansing, and preparing your materials, allowing you to attune yourself to the varying energies and tendencies of different crystals. Chapter 2, "Working with Crystals", will then teach you how to get the most out of your crystal, whether you are simply holding quartz or meditating with topaz. Next is the "Crystal Finder", which is a chapter dedicated to the huge range of crystals and their properties, so that you can find exactly the right one to suit your needs. Finally, chapter 4, "Crystal Remedies", explores different techniques to soothe and heal both emotional and physical ailments. In The Little Pocket Book of Crystal Healing, you’ll find everything you need to know to get in touch with your inner crystal healer

The Little Pocket Book of Happiness

Author: Lois Blyth
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN: 1782495231
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
Swap worry and anxiety for joy and contentment and choose to live in a happier way. Happiness is like the answer to a riddle. The more we want it and the more we seek it, the more elusive it becomes. And yet, when we are least conscious of looking for it, it can envelop us in a warm sense of contentment and belonging, making a single moment precious and valuable beyond measure. A feeling of happiness has the power to light up our whole being. Scientists will tell us that happiness has the power to heal and to extend life. It is the ingredient we all seek to make our lives complete. Like the air we breathe, we are not conscious that we need it, until it disappears. Happiness makes us feel glad to be alive. The Little Pocket Book of Happiness offers you a more joyous approach to living and thinking; a shift in approach that may reframe your view of the world; simple things you can do to reconsider your life – consciously – so that you can decide whether now is the time when you can be happier. It includes strategies to warm the heart and open the mind to the extraordinary power of happiness. It shares the experiences of others and provides the closest we might have to a happiness 'formula'. The good news is, happiness is within everyone's grasp.

The Book of Stones

Author: Robert Simmons
Publisher:
ISBN: 1583949089
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 593

Book Description
Published in association with North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California.

Thing of Beauty

Author: Stephen Fried
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451676409
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508

Book Description
The inspiration behind the Emmy Award–winning HBO film Gia with Angelina Jolie, this “vivid…exhaustive” (The New York Times Book Review) account of the iconic and tragic life, career, and legacy of supermodel Gia Carangi features a new afterword by the author. At seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father’s Philadelphia luncheonette. Within a year, she was one of the world’s top models, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at Studio 54, and redefining the fashion industry’s standard of beauty. But behind the glitz and fame, Gia was a young woman in pain, desperate for her mother’s approval and facing a drug addiction that quickly spun out of control. With dizzying speed, she went from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to using drugs on the streets of New York and Atlantic City before finally being blackballed from modeling. At twenty-six, Gia once again made history as one of the first famous women to die of AIDS. This “chilling tale” (The Boston Globe), based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, lovers, and fashionistas (the term author Stephen Fried coined for her industry colleagues), is comprehensively explored in this unputdownable biography that will introduce Gia to a new generation. It is also a powerful exploration of our society’s views of beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.

The Gift of Healing Herbs

Author: Robin Rose Bennett
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583947620
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 593

Book Description
Discover the many ways you can use plant medicine to boost your physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing—with over 180 recipes and step-by-step instructions for herbal teas and other natural remedies. “ . . . contains far more than simple directives found in most herb books . . . Spiritual insights are richly interwoven with excellent herbal remedies.” —Rosemary Gladstar, author of Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide With more than 180 easy-to-follow recipes and written by a well-respected urban herbalist, The Gift of Healing Herbs explores herbology as the “people’s medicine”—freely available to all—and as a powerful yet gentle way to heal the body, mind, heart, and soul. You will learn about: • The true nature of health and the causes of illness • The physical systems of the body and the common and not-so-common herbs for tonifying them • Recipes for teas, brews, and how to incorporate herbs into your daily life • The relationship between our body systems and the elements of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water Filled with personal stories, case histories, prayers, meditations, and more, The Gift of Healing Herbs is equal parts inspiration and instruction drawn from the author’s decades spent teaching and practicing herbal medicine in a spiritual, earth-based, non-dogmatic style. Bennett explores how one’s personal story turns into one’s embodied physicality—ultimately revealing unique paths of healing for each reader.

What's in Your Pocket?

Author: Heather L. Montgomery
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1623541220
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Charles Darwin, George Washington Carver, and Jane Goodall were once curious kids with pockets full of treasures! When you find something strange and wonderful, do you put it in your pocket? Meet nine scientists who, as kids, explored the great outdoors and collected "treasures": seedpods, fossils, worms, and more. Observing, sorting, and classifying their finds taught these kids scientific skills--and sometimes led to groundbreaking discoveries. Author Heather Montgomery has all the science flair of a new Bill Nye. Book includes the Heather's tips for responsible collecting.

The Bookseller

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1802

Book Description

Little Bee

Author: Chris Cleave
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416589643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Millions of people have read, discussed, debated, cried, and cheered with Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee girl whose violent and courageous journey puts a stunning face on the worldwide refugee crisis. “Little Bee will blow you away.” —The Washington Post The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide in this page-turning #1 New York Times bestseller, book club favorite, and “affecting story of human triumph” (The New York Times Book Review) from Chris Cleave, author of Gold and Everyone Brave Is Forgiven. We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn’t. And it’s what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you’ll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don’t tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.