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Hair to Dye For

A Hair Colorist's Secrets Revealed

By: Penny Baptista

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Hair to Dye For

A Hair Colorist's Secrets Revealed

By: Penny Baptista

How many times have you spent $50, $100, or even $200 to have your hair colored and styled, walked out of the salon, and wanted to put a bag over your head? In Hair to Dye For: A Hair Colorists Secrets Revealed author Penny Baptista provides an easy-to-understand and concise guide to coloring your own hair. Hair coloring is a billion-dollar industry and one of the most popular salon services. As a color specialist and stylist for more than twenty years, Baptista has compiled this guide to help consumers save money and achieve the salon look at home. The guide discusses Different types of color Levels of color Developers, toners, and alternative colors Application techniques Organic color methods Hair color corrections Product knowledge An educational tool with step-by-step instructions, Hair to Dye For: A Hair Colorists Secrets Revealed provides practical and helpful information for coloring hair to produce beautiful results.

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0595524834

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Stray Feathers

Reflections on the Structure, Behaviour and Evolution of Birds

By: Leo Joseph,Penny Olsen AM

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Stray Feathers

Reflections on the Structure, Behaviour and Evolution of Birds

By: Leo Joseph,Penny Olsen AM

Stray Feathers showcases some of the remarkable adaptations of Australian birds. A brief introduction describes how evolution shapes form and function, followed by a series of vignettes illustrating the wondrous variety of forms and functions shaped by evolution. For example, did you know that Barn Owls can hunt in absolute darkness and that cuckoos commence incubation before their egg is laid? Sections include anatomy and physiology; the senses; giving voice; tongues talking; plumage; getting around; finding and handling food; optimising foraging and feeding; reducing competition; using ‘tools’; communicating; quality vs quantity; courtship; nests; parental care; chicks; and living together. The book is superbly illustrated with black and white drawings of a range of birds, making it a worthy addition to the bookshelves of bird lovers everywhere.

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287

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643103457

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9780643103450

Giotto to Dürer

Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery

By: Jill Dunkerton,Susan Foister,Dillian Gordon,Nicholas Penny

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Giotto to Dürer

Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery

By: Jill Dunkerton,Susan Foister,Dillian Gordon,Nicholas Penny

This book provides a survey of European painting between 1260 and 1510, in both northern and southern Europe, based largely on the National Gallery collection ... some 70 of the finest and best known paintings in the Gallery are examined in detail"--Cover.

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414

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Yale University Press

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0300050828

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9780300050820

A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong

The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855–1856

By: Benjamin Penny

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A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong

The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855–1856

By: Benjamin Penny

In August 1855, 16-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost 40 years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept diaries. In the first four volumes of these diaries, collected here by Benjamin Penny, the teenage Alabaster recorded his thoughts and observations, told himself anecdotes, and exploded in outbursts of anger and frustration. He was young and enthusiastic, and the everyday sights, sounds and smells of Hong Kong were novel to him. He describes how the Chinese people around him ironed clothes, dried flour and threshed rice; how they gambled, prepared their food and made bean curd; and what opera, new year festivities and the birthday of the Heavenly Empress were like. Like many a young Victorian, he was also a keen observer of natural history, fascinated by fireflies and ants, corals and sea slugs, and the volcanic origins of the landscape. Alabaster’s diaries are a unique, vibrant and riveting record of life in the young British colony on the cusp of the Second Opium War. With A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong, Penny sheds new light on the history of the region.

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234

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ANU Press

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1760465925

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9781760465926

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies

By: Penny Gay

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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies

By: Penny Gay

Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139469770

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9781139469777

Hair to Dye For

A Hair Colorist's Secrets Revealed

By: Penny Baptista

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A Hair Colorist's Secrets Revealed

By: Penny Baptista

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Hair to Dye For

Hair to Dye For

Stray Feathers

Stray Feathers

Giotto to Dürer

Giotto to Dürer

A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong

A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies

Hair to Dye For

Hair to Dye For

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