These models are the stars of the biggest advertising campaigns around. They adorn huge billboards. Some are insured for seven figure sums. Some are classed as supermodels. They regularly work with the biggest brands, from diamond companies to the most well-known toilet cleaners, but you've never seen their faces, until now - each model is shown peeling a banana alongside a full face portrait.
Migraine headaches are familiar and generally treatableailments. Less understood are migraine auras or scotoma, visualdistortions—sometimes accompanied by headache and sometimesnot—that make it difficult, sometimes impossible, to see clearly.Migraine auras can be frightening, disorienting, evenincapacitating. Richard Grossinger, who has suffered from themhimself, here presents a helpful guide to the subject that maps theterrain, describes the various forms migraine auras can take,charts his personal experiences with them, and offers informedsuggestions for homeopathic and other treatments.
Click on the Google Preview image above to read some pages ofthis book! The classic Photofile series brings together the best work oftheworld's greatest photographers in an attractive format andat areasonable price. Handsome and collectible, each bookcontains aselection of the photographer's most important andrepresentativeimages in duotone or color, plus an introduction and abibliography.
Bollywood movies are glorious, colorful spectacles of romance,action, drama, song, and dance. The biggest film industry in theworld, Bollywood puts out some nine hundred movies a year, whichare watched by passionate fans around the globe. Stephen Alter--awriter who grew up in India and has inside access toBollywood--acts as translator and tour guide in this firsthand lookinto the world of Bombay films. Following the making of a Bollywoodversion of Othello, he explores the enormous popularity of Hindimovies and reveals the actors, directors, musicians, and feats ofartifice that make them so compelling and unique. From the blessingceremony performed each time a movie starts shooting to the secretsbehind the song- and-dance extravaganzas, Fantasies of a BollywoodLove-Thief is a beguiling introduction to the rituals and cultureof a moviemaking industry so similar to and yet utterly differentfrom our own.