My Life as a Spy, Woodhead Leslie

Автор: Woodhead Lindy
Название: War Paint
ISBN: 1844089045 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844089048
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: War Paint is the story of two remarkable women - Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein. Between them they left an extraordinary legacy which touches the lives of virtually all women today: the creation of the modern cosmetics and beauty industry. War Paint will trace the humble beginnings of both Arden and Rubinstein and examine the forces and influences that drove them.

The book will also look at the period in which they lived, without which their phenomenal achievement cannot be truly appreciated. The similarities between the two are intriguing: dedicated to beauty, neither were great beauties themselves. They were both diminutive in size, if not in the size of their ego.

They were both born into genteel poverty and were motivated by money and the creation of their businesses, to the exclusion of almost everything else. They were both avid social climbers and desperately thrifty. They also hated each other.

This is the story of an industry, of a social movement and of a great rivalry. Gripping, glamorous and totally absorbing, this is social history at its best.

Автор: Woodhead, Patrick
Название: Forbidden Temple, The
ISBN: 1848090773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848090774
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: When the Chinese secret police get wind of them, Luca and Bill find themselves embroiled in an age-old struggle, not for their lives but to protect the precious secret that Geltang hides, and the legacy of Tibet itself.

Автор: Woodhead, Patrick
Название: Secret chamber, the
ISBN: 1848090781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848090781
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: People have been disappearing in what the explorer Stanley called the black heart of Africa - the impenetrable forests of northern Congo.