Skin Rules

Skin Rules is a concise and practical instruction manual from a renowned Fifth Avenue dermatologist on how to attain beautiful skin, a taut and sculpted body, and a much younger appearance. Actors, models, and newscasters go to Dr. Jaliman for her cutting-edge technology and the latest in skin care, as well as for her reputation for being the "last stop" doctor, the one who fixes what others can't. Skin Rules has something for everyone, no matter where they live or how much money they have to spend. This small, invaluable guide supplies the same advice Dr. Jaliman gives to her celebrity patients, from lasers to remove sun damage and turn back the clock to suggestions for simple products and habits anyone can adopt for a small outlay of time and money. In Skin Rules readers will learn: • about the one ingredient that should NEVER be in sunscreens, but often is • how to use inexpensive Aquaphor to heal wounds and prevent scarring • which drugstore products really work for acne and wrinkles

What if you could achieve glowing skin in just six weeks? Sounds unbelievable, but it's true! In Skin Rules, Dr Jaishree Sharad, one of India's top cosmetic dermatologists, gives you a revolutionary six-week plan to healthy, blemish-free skin. From the basics-identifying your skin type, acquainting yourself with the fine print on labels-to home remedies, choosing the right make-up and the latest advancements in skincare treatments, this book has the answers to all your skin woes. You'd be amazed at what a short, six-week routine can do for your skin. So what are you waiting for?

In The Skin Commandments: 10 Rules to Healthy, Beautiful Skin, Dr. Tony Nakhla simplifies complex principles of modern dermatologic theory and provides ten practical steps, or "commandments," to help you achieve and maintain healthy, beautiful skin regardless of your age. By incorporating advanced cosmetic enhancements with practical wellness and nutritional tips, The Skin Commandments encompasses the entire spectrum of integrative skin-care therapy like no other book. Readers will learn how to: reduce signs of aging prevent and detect skin cancer choose the best skin-care products and advanced treatments eat foods that are good for your skin maintain internal and external hydration achieve beautiful skin by living a healthy lifestyleThis essential guide reveals all the right steps to optimal skin care. Everyone wants healthy, beautiful skin-follow The Skin Commandments, and you can have it.Tony Nakhla, DO, FAOCD is a board-certified dermatologist, skin-cancer surgeon, cosmetic surgeon, and osteopathic physician with extensive training in traditional and holistic medicine as well as nutrition. Affectionately known as America's Dermatologist, Dr. Nakhla is medical director and founder of OC Skin Institute - Dermatology Centers in Orange County, California, a national center of excellence in skin health and beauty."A talented dermatologist on the cutting edge of cosmetic skin care."-David Matlock, MD, MBA, E! Entertainment's Dr. 90210, celebrity cosmetic surgeon" An emerging star in the field of anti-aging and cosmetic enhancements."-Craig Ziering, DO, ABC's Extreme Makeover, Medical Director, Ziering Hair Restoration Worldwide" Dr. Nakhla's nutritional tips are clear and practical . . . an ideal guide for anyone seeking simple tips to achieve beautiful skin through healthy living."-Andrew Abraham, MD, MBA, Founder/CEO of Orgain, Inc., organic nutritional expert"If there's one dermatologist in the world that can truly see beyond the skin, it's Dr. Tony Nakhla. . . . The Skin Commandments is a doctrine, by one of today's most brilliant, visionary and caring dermatologists, for all of the things we can control to have the healthiest and most beautiful skin possible."Marco Borges, Exercise Physiologist, Author of Power Moves: The 4 Motions to Transform Your Body for Life"A wonderful source for all things beauty." NewBeauty Magazine

In spite of the existence of statistics and numerical data on various aspects of African American life, including housing, earnings, assets, unemployment, household violence, teen pregnancy and encounters with the criminal justice system, social science literature on how racism affects the everyday interactions of African American families is limited. How does racism come home to and affect African American families? If a father in an African American family is denied employment on the basis of his race or a wife is demeaned at work by racist slurs, how is their family life affected? Given the lack of social science literature responding to these questions, this volume turns to an alternative source in order to address them: literature. Engaging with novels written by African American authors, it explores their rich depictions of African American family life, showing how these can contribute to our sociological knowledge and making the case for the novel as an object and source of social research. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of the sociology of the family, race and ethnicity, cultural studies and literature.

Human hair is the subject of a wide range of scientific investigations. Its chemical and physical properties are of importance to the cosmetics industry, forensic scientists, and to biomedical researchers. This updated and enlarged fourth edition continues the tradition of its predecessor as being the definitive monograph on the subject. It now contains new information on various topics including: chemical hair damage, the cause of dandruff, skin and eye irritation, hair straightening, and others. Chemical and Physical Behavior of Human Hair is a teaching guide and reference volume for cosmetic chemists and other scientists in the hair products industry, academic researchers studying hair and hair growth, textile scientists, and forensic specialists.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one’s own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life. As always both accessible and iconoclastic, Taleb challenges long-held beliefs about the values of those who spearhead military interventions, make financial investments, and propagate religious faiths. Among his insights: • For social justice, focus on symmetry and risk sharing. You cannot make profits and transfer the risks to others, as bankers and large corporations do. You cannot get rich without owning your own risk and paying for your own losses. Forcing skin in the game corrects this asymmetry better than thousands of laws and regulations. • Ethical rules aren’t universal. You’re part of a group larger than you, but it’s still smaller than humanity in general. • Minorities, not majorities, run the world. The world is not run by consensus but by stubborn minorities imposing their tastes and ethics on others. • You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. “Educated philistines” have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets. • Beware of complicated solutions (that someone was paid to find). A simple barbell can build muscle better than expensive new machines. • True religion is commitment, not just faith. How much you believe in something is manifested only by what you’re willing to risk for it. The phrase “skin in the game” is one we have often heard but rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it’s also an astonishingly rich worldview that, as Taleb shows in this book, applies to all aspects of our lives. As Taleb says, “The symmetry of skin in the game is a simple rule that’s necessary for fairness and justice, and the ultimate BS-buster,” and “Never trust anyone who doesn’t have skin in the game. Without it, fools and crooks will benefit, and their mistakes will never come back to haunt them.”