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Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in the 1790s balloon corsets were all the rage, designed to make the wearer appear pregnant. Women of the eighteenth century applied blood from a black cat's tail to problem skin, while doctors in the 1880s promoted woolen underwear to keep colds at bay. Beautification and the pursuit of health may seem all-consuming today, but their history is long and fantastically varied. Ranging across the last four hundred years, Margarette Lincoln examines women's health and beauty in fascinating detail.

Actionreicher Cold-Case-Thriller mit cooler Frauen-Power. Old Bones – Das neunte Opfer ist der 4. Thriller der Bestseller-Autoren Preston & Child um FBI Agentin Corrie Swanson und Archäologin Nora Kelly. Ein Leichenfund in einer Höhle beschert FBI-Agentin Corrie Swanson ihren neuen Fall: Die beiden Toten gehören zu einer Gruppe von neun Wanderern, die 2008 auf ungeklärte Weise ums Leben kamen. Von einer winterlichen Rucksacktour in den Bergen von New Mexico kehrte keiner der neun zurück – doch man fand damals trotz intensiver Suche nur sechs Leichen.

On August 8, 2020, 40-year-old Stephanie Lincoln seemingly had the perfect life. She just had the wedding of her dreams, owned a successful business, and was traveling the country in an RV with her husband and 3 dogs. An innocent choice to go on a short hike in the Olympic National Forest became the catalyst for disaster. On that day, Stephanie officially became a missing person and the battle for her life ensued.

Seeds of the Cosmos is an epic fantasy that follows four elemental queens, each tied to the forces of nature, who guide humanity’s rise and navigate their own complex relationships.

Big Nate's scout troop is fundraising and while door-to-door selling isn't really Nate's thing, there's nothing like a Grand Prize to get him motivated. Especially when the prize is an awesomely cool customised skateboard (and following an incident with a poodle and a bridge Nate is in need of a new set of wheels). Nate HAS to win the prize but to do that he must out-sell Artur – the luckiest boy at school.

When you’ve got a head the size of Big Nate’s then losing is not an option. But Nate’s school P.S. 38 gets beaten by arch-rivals Jefferson Middle School at EVERYTHING. Whether it’s sports, maths or a snowball fight in the park, P.S. 38 just can’t ever seem to win. So when their school springs a leak and they have to join forces with Jefferson for a while, Nate and his friends are mortified. What degrading loses must they face now?

From the award-winning author of Dead Souls and Poe comes a bone-chilling novel where a mysterious island holds the terrifying answers to a woman’s past and future. In 1939, on a remote Pacific island, botanical researcher Irene Greer plunges off a waterfall to her death, convinced the spirits...

Having travelled back in time to Victorian-era New York City to save her siblings, Constance Greene confronts Manhattan’s most dangerous serial killer, Dr. Leng, but she is betrayed and left incandescent with rage. Agent Pendergast is determined to assist Constance, who is now on a fanatical quest for vengeance. And Diogenes, Pendergast's brother, also takes a trip out of his own time, offering to help the duo for unexplained reasons of his own.

We are at a watershed moment in our understanding of the mind, after which psychology will change. We are coming to understand that what s important is not what you think but what you can think. The Operating Manual is an intellectual, emotional, and neurological road map to the integration you don’t yet have.

In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found—and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands—lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Is it suicide or… sacrifice?

Graduation was on the horizon, and Jonathan and his friends were eager to leave their small world behind. But when a member of their close-knit group mysteriously disappears, a chilling unease settles in. As 'Missing Person' posters saturate the town's streets and the sheriff is without clues, Jonathan and his friends decide to escape to a remote cabin in the woods to get away from the sympathetic looks of their classmates and the anxiety of it all. But their troubles will not be so easily left behind.

Fantastic universes and personal dramas collide as a group of friends blur the line between real life and fiction with delightfully disastrous results from the acclaimed author of the “timeless and original” (The New York Times) The Body Scout. Perennially single, socially awkward, and...

Una recopilación de citas republicanas para conmemorar los 150 años de su fallecimiento. Abraham Lincoln es una figura fundamental de la historia universal. Su lucha política y ética contra la esclavitud, su papel esencial en la victoria de la Unión en la Guerra de Secesión y su trágica muerte a manos de John Wilkes Booth, un actor simpatizante de los secesionistas, lo han convertido en un referente de visión política e integridad moral.

Operating Manual for Enlightenment: Recreating Your Mind explores how we see and learn to see the world. It takes you on your own journey into what you consider reality and asks how you can make it better. This journey enters those areas you take for granted: thoughts, sensations, emotions, sense of place, and purpose. The book’s aim is not to explain, but to prepare you for change. Change that you must carry out yourself. Instant Enlightenment will tell you why you must focus on this journey, for your own sake and for the benefit of us all.

Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a once-in-a-lifetime proposal: to lead a team in search of the so-called "Lost Camp" of the tragic Donner Party. This was a group of pioneers who earned a terrible place in American history when they became snow-bound in the California mountains in 1847, their fate unknown until the first skeletonized survivors stumbled out of the wilderness, raving about starvation, murder-and cannibalism. Benton tells Kelly he has stumbled upon an amazing find: the diary of one of the victims.

Licenciée de l'Institut archéologique de Santa Fe, Nora Kelly accepte la proposition pour le moins inattendue du milliardaire Lucas Tappan : diriger des fouilles sur le site de Roswell, où un ovni se serait écrasé en 1947 ! En fait de vaisseau, Nora met au jour les corps de deux inconnus abattus d'une balle en pleine tête. Détail étrange : deux disques d'argent sont retrouvés auprès des cadavres. Aussi fait-elle appel à la jeune agente du FBI Corrie Swanson.

L'agente dell'FBI Aloysius Pendergast ha sempre fatto di tutto per tenere lontano dai guai la collega Constance Greene. Ma stavolta potrebbe essere molto difficile proteggere quella donna straordinaria ed enigmatica. Durante l'ultimo caso, a Savannah, il trio Pendergast, Coldmoon e Greene ha trovato una macchina che consente di viaggiare nel tempo e Greene l'ha usata per catapultarsi nella New York di fine Ottocento, a Five Points, il peggiore dei bassifondi di tutta la città dove lei stessa, quasi un secolo e mezzo prima, ancora bambina, si aggirava infreddolita e vestita di stracci.

Her body may still crave his, but US Soccer player Lauren Vorski knows better than to lust after Pete Kendrick. They may have had a smoking hot fling, but then he turned out to be her new head coach and had the nerve to cut her from the World Cup team. Now, her only mission is to prove how wrong he was about her by making the roster for the upcoming Olympics. If only she could stop thinking about how hot their time together was....

Soccer star Lauren Vorski's body still tingles for Pete Kendrick, but he's not just any ex—he's her ex-coach, and he axed her from the World Cup. Now, she's gunning for Olympic glory to prove him wrong. Too bad their scorching affair keeps messing with her focus.

Erika Parker-Ward is living the dream—her professional soccer career is on the rise, and she's got her sights set on making the World Cup team for the US. But all of that could be over in a blink now that Erika's been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Her plan? Keep the diagnosis hush hush by paying for private medical care, but the cost is threatening to bury her alive.