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World's Best Kept Beauty Secrets: What Really Works In Beauty, Diet & Fashion
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World's Best Kept Beauty Secrets: What Really Works In Beauty, Diet & FashionWorld's Best Kept Beauty Secrets: What Really Works In Beauty, Diet & Fashion

After rummaging through the first few pages, I knew I wasn't leaving the bookstore without this! Want to know how supermodels attack cellulite? They rub their morning coffee grounds into their problem areas; logic being, since caffeine is the largest ingredient in expensive cellulite creams, this is an inexpensive alternative. Got a big, angry red zit right before a date? Rub some Visine on it- it gets the red out of more than your eyes.
 
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Figure Drawing with Virtual Models
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Figure Drawing with Virtual ModelsFigure Drawing with Virtual Models

Artists have aspired for centuries to master the technique of drawing the human figure. Live models have been studied in intricate detail in order to create lifelike renderings. Today, advances in technology make it possible for artists to use virtual models, eliminating limitations that surround live models. Poser Figure Artist from e frontier offers artists an incredible program that makes it easier than ever to conquer the art of the human form. Figure Drawing with Virtual Models is your guide to getting the most out of Poser Figure Artist.
 
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Travel Photography: Perfect Photos Every Time
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Travel Photography: Perfect Photos Every TimeTravel Photography: Perfect Photos Every Time

Blue Pixel was founded with one mission: to have leading digital photographers teach their craft from an unbiased, real-world perspective. Each of the contributing photographers for the Blue Pixel Guide to Travel Photography have from 20 to 40 years of photography experience (photojournalism, commercial, teaching).
 
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Classic Beadweaving: New Needle Techniques & Original Designs
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Classic Beadweaving: New Needle Techniques & Original DesignsClassic Beadweaving: New Needle Techniques & Original Designs

This is the latest book I have purchased by Ann Benson. She is one of the best instructions and illustrations for beading techniques I have encountered. I have many of her books, and have purchased many of her kits offered on her website. Her choice of colors are subtle in a time when everything is so bold. Her style is more European. I can't reccommend this book more highly.
 
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Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison
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Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic ComparisonDimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison

The book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in the author’s ground-breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing, and adds for the first time a diachronic dimension. In it he gives a linguistic analysis of register in four widely differing languages: English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali. Striking similarities as well as differences emerge, allowing to predict for the first time cross-linguistic universals of register variation.
 
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