Search Results for 'Women'

Facing Beauty: Painted Women & Cosmetic Art by Aileen Ribeir...

"A beautiful woman is a temptation built over a sewer.” From a 14th-century handbook for Dominican preachers, this is one of many startling quotations in Aileen Ribeiro’s absorbing new book. Worth getting just for the lus [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

The Women's Book of Healing

Women are naturally healers. Throughout time, they have performed curative roles as mothers, midwives, caregivers, and wisewomen, but modern medicine has suppressed this important tradition. Ancient women healers knew that the body is mor [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

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Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his po [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Women and health

Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova. Women is a riotous and un [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Book Review - For Women and Finding The Right Man - For Wome...

“The urge to find a mate is deeply rooted into human biology. But there’s more to the selection process than simple lust or ticking biological reproduction clocks. The finding of just the right partner to go through life with [...]

Posted On : Jun, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Travel book reviews - Paris and her Remarkable Women; and Br...

Review: Nova Scotia is often lumped together in guidebooks with its neighbours, Canada's other Maritime provinces: New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador. Orkin makes a compelling case for Canada's second [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Book gives women scoop on how men think in business

What Men Don’t Tell Women about Business: Opening up the Heavily Guarded Alpha Male Playbook (John Wiley & Sons) would appear to be another eye-rolling self-help business book that tries to teach women how to understand men in bus [...]

Posted On : May, 05 2008 | Comments : 0

Candidate Clinton Scrutinized by Women

For the last week reporters, pundits, bloggers and political operatives have turned all their forensic powers on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s so-called crying moment — the moment in a New Hampshire cafe when her eyes welled with tea [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2008 | Comments : 0

Women's book club to focus on Christians

When one thinks of Christian literature, Bible studies and theology often come to mind. Some area women know there's much more.A new women's Christian book club, formed by the Women's Ministry Council at First Baptist Church, is geared for [...]