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Picture of Dorian Gray, The
A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden." As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment.".
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The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
Diana West sees a US filled with middle-age guys playing air guitar and thinks "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism." She sees Moms Who Mosh and wonders "Is there a single adult left anywhere?" But, the grown-ups are all gone. The disease that killed them was incubated in the sixties to a rock-and-roll score, took hold in the seventies with the help of multicultralism and left us with a nation of eternal adolescents who can't decide between "good" and "bad", a generation who can't say "no". From the inability to nix a sixteen year-old's request for Marilyn Manson concert tickets to offering adolescents parentally-funded motel rooms on prom night to rationalizing murderous acts of Islamic suicide bombers with platitudes of cultural equivalence, West sees us on a slippery slope that's lead to a time when America has forgotten its place in the world. In The Death of the Grown-Up Diana West serves up a provocative critique of our dangerously indecisive world leavened with humor and shot through with insight. .
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The Sibling Society
Poet and storyteller Robert Bly takes the baby boomers to task in this highly charged exposure of midlifers' values. Having become jaded by the abuses of authority, the boomers of North America have torn down the traditional hierarchy within their families and within their communities. What's left is a "cultural flatness," says Bly, where adults cling to self-absorbed adolescent values, television talk shows have more clout than elders, children are spiritually abandoned to fend for themselves, and in the place of community we have built shopping malls. As always, Bly relies on mythology, legends, and poetry to illustrate the morals of his stories. Ultimately this is a hopeful piece of work, nudging midlifers to take on the responsibilities (and therefore the rewards) of adulthood. .
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Age-Defying Beauty Secrets (PB)
Discover the fountain of youth in your own home From beauty-industry expert Diane Irons comes the ultimate collection of tips and tricks for defying your age. Whether you’re looking to simply combat graying hair or considering something more dramatic, Age-Defying Beauty Secrets is an invaluable resource for the woman who wants to look great and feel even better--and do it all without breaking the bank. --Learn how aging celebrities keep looking great --Take off the years with foods and supplements --Discover wrinkle-fighting skin-care solutions --Concoct your own age-defying beauty bargains --Find flattering fashion over 40 --Stay positive and healthy at any age .
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Rejuvenezca: La Guia Maxima del Antienvejecimiento para la Mujer
Y ahora... Un plan completo para la mujer que desea rejuvenecer Si tiene cuarenta y tantos o cincuenta y tantos años de edad, para usted la palabra "envejecer" no tiene el mismo significado que tenía para su mamá o abuela. ¡Qué va! Las mujeres de hoy en día contamos con un arsenal de avances médicos, descubrimientos que paran el reloj en seco. Sin lugar a dudas, usted --igual que millones de mujeres modernas-- puede conservar un aspecto juvenil durante muchos más años que generaciones anteriores. Lo único que necesita es saber cómo hacerlo. Y es precisamente eso lo que aprenderá con este libro. En Rejuvenezca, los expertos revelan cómo usted puede: Tonificar su cuerpo aunque sea una mujer de mediana edad Borrar arrugas y líneas finas Actualizar su maquillaje para crear un look nuevo y más fresco Revertir el envejecimiento con suplementos Vestir con caché y quitarse años Reavivar el fuego de su vida íntimaTambién aprenderá cómo hacer pequeños cambios en su estilo de vida para prevenir o aliviar muchos de los males que pueden atacar a las mujeres maduras, entre ellos: Sofocos (bochornos, calentones) Osteoporosis Problemas de la memoria Colesterol alto Depresión Diabetes Problemas para dormir bien Afecciones inmunitarias Artritis Cáncer de mamaY mucho más... ADEMÁS, ¡leerá las historias personales de mujeres que lograron rejuvenecer! De Prevention en Español magazine, la revista de salud más renombrada del país .
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