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I Do: 100 Years of Wedding Fashion
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Caroline Cox, Baroness
Filled with entrancing text and lavish photos, this guide offers a captivating review of glamorous bridal gowns over the last century. Also includes gowns of the rich and famous from the Edwardian era to Hollywood movie-stars. 350 illustrations.
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A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington's Army
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Starting with the decision by patriot leaders to create a corps of officers who were gentlemen and a body of soldiers who were not, Caroline Cox examines the great gap that existed in the conditions of service of soldiers and officers in the Continental army. She looks particularly at disparities between soldiers' and officers' living conditions, ...
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Lingerie
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Caroline Cox
This visual celebration of erotic fashion boasts 200 color shots of sexy ladies' undergarments. A cornucopia of panties, stockings, slips, peignoirs, and camisoles awaits curious readers.
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Seduction: A Celebration of Sensual Style
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Caroline Cox, Baroness
"Seduction" is the first book to explore the sensual style of the seductress, from Marie Antoinette and Madame de Pompadour in pre-revolutionary France, through the screen queens of 1930s Hollywood, such as Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich, to the contemporary sex sirens of today, Madonna and Jennifer Lopez. In chronological, themed chapters, ...
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Stiletto
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Caroline Cox, Baroness
Stiletto spells sex. Nothing else creates an erotically taut, arched foot or an overall come-hither silhouette quite like the stiletto heel.This exquisite book uncovers the compelling lure of the needle heel. A highly charged symbol, the stiletto suggests a multitude of contradictions - it can be elegant, vulgar, submissive, aggressive, ...
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This Immoral Trade: Slavery in the 21st Century
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Caroline Cox, Baroness, Dr. John Marks
Slavery remains rampant worldwide, despite celebrations surrounding the bicentennial of its abolition in Britain. At least 27 million men, women, and children remain illegally enslaved today, ranging from prostitutes in London to indentured workers in Burma. Based on her compelling firsthand report to the British House of Lords, this high-profile ...
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The Englishness of English Dress
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Christopher Breward (Editor), Becky E Conekin (Editor), Caroline Cox, Baroness (Editor)
Is there a peculiarly English 'look' and if so how does one define it? From the 'traditional' dress of the Victorian rural working class through to the contemporary collections of Vivienne Westwood and a younger generation of London-based designers, notions of Englishness, either real or imagined, have always been at play in considerations of ...
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A Woman in the White House?
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Lori Cox Han (Editor), Caroline Heldman (Editor)
From the political rumor mill to pop culture, all signs suggest that the United States is finally ready for a woman in the White House. But is the vision of an imminent Madam President truly in line with today's political reality? "Rethinking Madam President" offers a critical assessment of the inroads made by female candidates into the previously ...
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The Handbag: An Illustrated History
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Caroline Cox, Baroness
The handbag has never been more important in fashion than it is today. Whether Prada, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, or Chanel, the It bag of the season is a much-coveted designer item that indicates supreme style cachet--and for which the fashion-minded do not hesitate to spend. In this lush volume, filled with a range of rich historical and ...
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Good hair days : a history of British hairstyling
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Caroline Cox
From bobs to beehives, dyes to dreadlocks, the history and technology of British hairstyling.
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Hair & Fashion
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Caroline Cox, Baroness, Lee Widdows
Hair and Fashion considers both the historical development of this relationship and its contemporary significance, focusing on key moments from the 1920s bob to the long-haired hippie look of the 1960s and the more contemporary Hoxton Fin. The role of colour for hair and its cultural meanings have become increasingly important in the twenty-first ...
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Cox's Book of Modern Saints and Martyrs
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Caroline Cox, Catherine Butcher
The classic "Fox's Book of Martyrs" has long been regarded as a source of spiritual inspiration with its stories of those prepared to die for their faith. This contemporary version gives an equally inspiring account of living saints, enlightening the dark side of stories of martyrdom, as well as celebrating the faith of Christians from around the ...
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Opening Up North America
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Caroline Cox, Baroness, Keneth Albala
Interesting topics include: African Americans in the fur trade; Beaver hats; Captivity narratives; Father Jean de Brebeuf learns the Huron language; Flintlock muskets; Native women and the fur trade; Richard Hakluyt and the voyages; St. Elmo's fire.
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This Immoral Trade: What Can We Do?
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Caroline Cox
Slavery remains rampant worldwide, despite the celebrations surrounding the bicentenary of its abolition in Britain. At least 27m men, women and children are enslaved today, ranging from prostitutes in London to indentured workers in Burma. This popularly written, but carefully researched, volume includes a chapter on different forms of ...
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The 'West', Islam and Islamism is Ideological Islam Compatible With Liberal Democracy?
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Caroline Cox
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West, Islam & Islamism: is Ideological Islam Compatible With Liberal Democracy? (Civil Society)
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Caroline Cox; John Marks
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Dessous
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Vintage Shoes: Collecting and Wearing Twentieth-Century Designer Footwear
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Caroline Cox, Baroness, Christian Louboutin (Foreword by)
"Vintage Shoes: Collecting and Wearing Twentieth-Century Designer Footwear" is the ultimate guide to the most exemplary women's shoes from the turn of the twentieth century through the present day. Accompanied by detailed text, this beautiful book offers breathtaking images, stunning fashion photography, and exquisite period footwear designs from ...
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Sociology, an Introduction for Nurses, Midwives, and Health Visitors
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The Fight to Survive: A Young Girl, Diabetes, and the Discovery of Insulin
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In 1919, when 11-year-old Elizabeth Evan Hughes was first diagnosed with what we now know is Type 1 or juvenile diabetes, the medical community considered it a death sentence. In "The Fight to Survive," Caroline Cox weaves the heart-wrenching story of Hughes' role in a medical discovery that stopped the disease in its tracks--only weeks before her ...
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The insolence of office : education and the civil servants.
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Caroline Cox, John Marks
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A Sociology of Medical Practice
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How to be Adored
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Caroline Cox
Glamour isn't just about having the right handbag - it's about having the right personality too and many of the world's most adorable women have been gorgeous inside as well as out. A glamorous woman has a magnetism few men can resist, yet all of us can attain it - even those without classically natural beauty. Many beautiful women lack glamour ...
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Bags: An Illustrated History
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Handbags have never been more important in fashion: the 'must-have' bag of the season is a much-lusted-after designer item that can make or break a fashion house. For women, the handbag is an intimate extension of the body, a kind of mobile home for all the items indispensable for daily life, and at the same time an indicator of her fashionability ...
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Choosing a state school : how to find the best education for your child
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Caroline Cox, John Marks, Robert Balchin
The 1980s are witnessing the greatest change to the structure of education in Britain for over 40 years. As a result, parents now have far more say in how and where their children are educated. This guide, which has been designed to help parents choose the proper primary or secondary schools for their children, takes into account the latest ...
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