The beloved fashion and lifestyle illustrator celebrates the best, most important joys of all--the little pleasures--in this guide full of ideas and inspiration for tapping into your own happiness and creativity. This delicious book begins with an invitation to discover joy every day, just as Kerrie Hess does. Her fabulously creative life has turned her into one of the most eagerly-watched influencers on Instagram. Kerrie's secret is that she's discovered the little things that make her heart sing, and now she wants to help you do the same. From the very first sparkling words to the charming illustrations of macarons, peonies, teacups, and jewelry to the images of strong, chic women who grace its pages, this book is a love letter and guide to what makes us truly happy. Weaving through pleasures, including relaxation, creative pursuits, time with family and friends--in person or virtually--as well as fashion, beauty, home, and travel, Kerrie shares her favorite joy-givers and her tips for bringing sparkling moments into each day. Brimming with Kerrie's signature original watercolor illustrations and photo vignettes, and beautifully evocative text written with Paris Dreaming author Katrina Lawrence, this book is an unquestionable object of desire. Garance Doré's Live Love Style meets Inès de la Fressange's Parisian Chic, with plenty of powerful prettiness and personality that is all Kerrie's, and that will help every reader discover her own sources of inspiration and daily delight.
A divine sparkly gift book for teenage girls packed with info and tips on the ups and downs of growing up. Who said growing up was easy? Don’t stress! GIRL SECRETS has great real-life tips for dealing with the tricky bits - and making the most of the fun parts - of being a girl and growing up. GIRL SECRETS is a fully illustrated gift book for teenage girls about the ups and downs of growing up. Bright, positive and approachable, Girl Secrets is gorgeous to look at, as it's filled with Kerrie Hess's beautiful magazine-style illustrations. It also carries important messages for young girls - promoting strong self-esteem and a healthy body image, and packed with info and tips on friendships, body image, beauty and fashion for young girls.
Hosting the ultimate girls'party at your place only takes a few key ingredients . . . A little planning, some fun invitations, activities to make you laugh, a cook-off that your tastebuds will adore, and a girly movie to top it all off. From the classic sleepover to a fashion swap party, from makeovers and serious pampering to a book blub tea party, your party can be themed around anything you really love. Why not channel your inner ghoul, and throw a haunted house party? Fake blood and silly scary music necessary! And for those with a wiggle in their toes, or a passion for Singstar, it's hard to beat a music and dance party, where you can out-sing and out-dance the High School Musical crew. So gather up your squishy cushions, warm blankets, your favourite rom coms and yummy treats, get your best friends over and let the fun begin . . .
Humorous guide to different 'species' of humans. Divides humans into societal species, coupled species and occupational species, and discusses the characteristics of members of each. Provides information about their habitat, pastimes, clothes, hairstyling, attitudes and distinctive phrases.
Happy Endings is the ultimate book and movie guide for every possible situation. Sometimes it's hard to keep on smiling (and looking fabulous!), because some days things just don't seem to go a gal's way. Any of these sound familiar? bull; Your boss is making your life a living hell - watch Working Girl. bull; You just can't seem to find Mr Right - read Pride and Prejudice. bull; A 'friend' is out to ruin your life - watch Mean Girls. bull; Your family is driving you mad - read All Families Are Psychotic. bull; You need a long holiday somewhere glamorous but you've got no cash - watch Lost in Translation. See, there is a way out of all the doom and gloom - after all, that's why books and movies were invented! Simply pick a story to suit your mood. Then grab a big bowl of popcorn and an even bigger glass of wine, and lose yourself in another world, where life's problems are solved in a few hours and nice girls like us always get their guy . . . sigh!
The vast majority of the world’s population lives on or near the coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped resource that can be used to mitigate planetary disaster and foster environmental stewardship. Repeated waves of scientific fact and information are not inciting action, nor apparently producing enough momentum to change voting behaviour towards a progressive environmental politics. A critical coastal policy, underpinned by a deeper understanding of environmental communication, can offer something new to this status quo. Environmental Communication and Critical Coastal Policy argues that more science and ‘better’ communication has been largely responsible for the lacklustre response by citizens to environmental challenges. Foxwell-Norton asserts that the inclusion of a range of local meanings and cultural frameworks with which experts could engage would better incite participation in, and awareness of, local environmental issues. The value and possible role of ‘geo-community media’ (mainstream, alternative and social media) is examined here to illustrate and support the key argument that meaningful local engagement is a powerful tool in coastal management processes. This is a valuable resource for postgraduates, researchers and academics across environmental science and management, policy studies, communication studies and cultural studies.
This book uses the EM (expectation maximization) algorithm to simultaneously estimate the missing data and unknown parameter(s) associated with a data set. The parameters describe the component distributions of the mixture; the distributions may be continuous or discrete. The editors provide a complete account of the applications, mathematical structure and statistical analysis of finite mixture distributions along with MCMC computational methods, together with a range of detailed discussions covering the applications of the methods and features chapters from the leading experts on the subject. The applications are drawn from scientific discipline, including biostatistics, computer science, ecology and finance. This area of statistics is important to a range of disciplines, and its methodology attracts interest from researchers in the fields in which it can be applied.
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