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The Nylon Books of Beauty |
 What’s Pretty? Nylon magazine has put together their favorite products, styles and inspiration in this one-of-a-kind beauty book. There are no cheap versus pricey guides, no dos and donts, and ABSOLUTELY no how-tos. This is beauty Nylon style, which celebrates the individual, from the girl rocking the perfectly painted red lips to the girl whose only beauty statement is the color of her constantly changing Manic-Panicked hair- and everyone in between. Inside you’ll find counter culture (beauty products), high notes (scents), private icons (inspirations), making faces (face charts of outrageous and elaborate looks) and mane attraction (hair). Plus photos, illustrations and entertaining text- very Nylon and very, well.., pretty.
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 Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink? Why can’t we remember one song while listening to another and why does the line at the supermarket always slow down the moment we join it? In this brilliant and accessible book, renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert describes the illusions of foresight that cause each of us to misconceive our tomorrows and misestimate our satisfactions. Bringing to life to latest scientific research in psychology and behavioral economics, Gilbert reveals what scientists have discovered about the uniquely human ability to imagine the future and about our capacity to predict how much we will like it when we get there. With penetrating insight, Gilbert explains why we seem to know so little about the hearts and minds of people we are about to become.
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 Somali-born author Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the most controversial women on earth. For years, she has been forced to live in hiding; her life has been threatened numerous times; an anti-Koran script that she wrote provoked the assassination of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, with whom she made the movie Submission; and a dispute over her citizenship indirectly brought down the Dutch government. Infidel is the eagerly awaited story of the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes reviled -- political superstar and champion of free speech. With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, Hirsi Ali recounts the evolution of her beliefs, her ironclad will, and her extraordinary resolve to fight injustice done in the name of religion. Even though she is under constant threat -- demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from her family and clan -- she refuses to be silenced.
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 Dancer, actress and director Leni Riefenstahl is known internationally for two of the films she made for her protector and patron Adolf Hitler, Triumph of the Will and Olympia. Riefenstahl’s demanding and obsessive style introduced unusual angles, new approaches to tracking shots, and highly symbolic montages. Despite her lifelong claim to be an apolitical artist, Riefenstahl’s monumental and nationalistic visions of Germany served to idealize the cause of one of the world’s most violent and racist regimes. Riefenstahl ardently cast herself as a passionate young director who caved to the pressure to serve an all-powerful Führer, so focused on reinventing the cinema that she didn’t recognize the goals of the Third Reich until too late. With refreshing distance and detailed research, Trimborn presents the story of a stubborn and intimidating filmmaker who refused to be held accountable for her role in the Holocaust but continued to inspire countless photographers and filmmakers with her artistry.
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