“A powerful exposé of Parisian haute couture” – Book of the Week, Times Higher Education Fashion is one of the most powerful industries in the world, accounting for 6% of global consumption and growing steadily. Since the 1980s and the birth of the neoliberal economy, it has emerged as the glittering face of capitalism, bringing together prestige, power and beauty and occupying a central place in media and consumer fantasies. Yet the fashion industry, which claims to offer highly desirable job opportunities, relies significantly on job instability, not just in outsourced garment production but at the very heart of its creative production of luxury. Based on an in-depth investigation involving stylists, models, designers, hairdressers, make-up artists, photographers and interns, anthropologist Giulia Mensitieri goes behind fashion's glamorous facade to explore the lived realities of working in the industry. This challenging book lays bare the working conditions of 'the most beautiful job in the world,' showing that exploitation isn't confined to sweatshops abroad or sexual harassment of models, but exists at the very heart of the powerful symbolic and economic centre of fashion.

I'll begin this "story" of 30 years of work in this field by giving its definition. In my view, to be a hair stylist represents the manner through Which You Can Express your own understandings about beauty through "playing with hair" - based on the structures being who ... Which you play with! To work is one of the Necessary human activities have developed to survive or to the satisfaction That you are not making shade on the Earth for nothing and enjoy its effects. I enjoyed it! For 30 years I am living the satisfaction of a job well-done. If someone would ask me what would I do if I had to start all over again, I think my answer Would be "the same thing". Why? Because we, the human Beings are bent upon HAVING A Certain Meaning during our Earthly Lives. We all come on this world for a well-defined reason, it's just That Some of us discover it, others don't! Each with His Own perception. Any person, looked upon from the outside, has a Certain Way, BUT HIS true face is the one from the inside. Why? Because the most beautiful aspects come from there. The beauty of the soul is unique Because the soul is part of the divine creation-it's an undeniable fact! And ... all people are beautiful. You just have to discover Their beauty! Through my line of work, I am, as a matter of fact, the creator of exterior beauty! I personalise and harmonise a person's interior, HIS / HER way of beeing With Their wishes, and place Them on the exterior, and my work result Becomes supreme beauty. Knowing how to do this is nor easy, neither difficult! It's all up to how much you want to and how much you have learned in the field. The Beginning of my profession, "my golden bracelet" - was like a game. And if you know how to play you never get old...''

'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL 'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPH A lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that moves from the Punjab of the Raj to 1930s Paris and the cataclysm of the Second World War On a sweltering day in 2007, Italian writer Livia Manera Sambuy encounters a photograph of Princess Amrit Kaur in a Mumbai museum. The picture is arresting, gorgeous - but the caption will change Livia's life forever. It claims that the Punjabi princess sold her jewels in occupied Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp where she died within a year. It's a sensational story - and for Livia, the beginning of a compulsive search for the truth as she delves into the history of the British Raj, the diamonds and sapphires of the twentieth-century aristocracy, and the lives of extraordinary figures: bankers, jewellers, explorers and spies. Past and present converge when Livia travels to meet Bubbles, the princess's daughter, now in her eighties. Striving to reconnect Bubbles with the elusive woman who abandoned her in 1933, Livia unearths a strange and complicated family history; one that diverges unexpectedly from the story that she set out to uncover. Filled with glamour and terror, beauty and sorrow, In Search of Amrit Kaur is an engrossing detective story, a kaleidoscopic history lesson, and a moving portrait of mothers, lovers and daughters across the century, seeking personal freedom. * WINNER OF THE CAPALBIO PIAZZA MAGENTA LITERARY PRIZE 2023 *

‘Making It’ as a Contract Researcher examines the contemporary experience of research employment in universities from the perspective of a significant yet often invisible group: temporary or contract researchers, who make up a substantial, and ever-growing, proportion of the academic research workforce. A critical, pragmatic and international account of the contemporary research career, this book explores the question of what it means to ‘make it’ as a contract researcher in academia, and how individuals and organisations in higher education might seek to do things differently. Providing the reader with practical and realistic strategies for improving the experience of being a contract researcher and achieving and sustaining an academic research career, this book guides the reader on a range of topics, including: Charging fairly for your work Building a publication track record Finding the next contract Sustaining your network Feeling like you belong Moving beyond contract research. Using a combination of current research, interviews and reflective writing, the book is written specifically for and by contract researchers in academia, offering unique and extremely valuable advice for all new and current contract researchers, including PhD students, early career researchers, and any party interested in pursuing a research career in academia. The ‘Insider Guides to Success in Academia’ offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules of the game – the things you need to know but usually aren’t told by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development units, or supervisors – and will address a practical topic that is key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone looking to launch or maintain their career in academia.

Penguins are a fascination for tens of thousands of tourists who invest time and money to meet them personally in their own habitat, where humans are visitors and penguins are the true inhabitants. Antarctica is more than we can imagine; it is more than the seventh continent. It is more than a place of extremes - the coldest, windiest, driest, and least inhabited place on earth, unknown, mountainous, and heroic. It is a place that offers us the opportunity to connect with ourselves, to see and get to know ourselves, to reflect, and to change. Through reading this book, you will learn about tourism in Antarctica, its regulations, and the penguins. But you will also witness the author’s transformation through contact with nature there. By carefully observing how his beloved penguins live, he comes to realize that the laws of nature are wiser than human laws. That is why he personifies these birds, placing them at the center of his narrative. He considers them the true inhabitants of Antarctica on the same level as humans, and this leads him to reflect on the deeper meaning of life. From the very first encounter, he loves them as if they were his own children and, like children, he decides to protect them. He feels summoned by them, feels their call to action. And this will change his life forever. Before leaving Antarctica, he decides to share his reflections with those who have already be there or plan to visit. He believes that readers of his book, once they set foot on Antarctic soil and experience the same sensations, will also become Protectors of the Penguins

This text presents and addresses the philosophical movement of antiphilosophy working thru the texts of Christian thinkers such as Pascal and Kierkegaard. The author as influenced by Alain Badiou, portrays these Christian thinkers as of a subjective dimension negating the possibility of an objective quest for truth. The claim here is that antiphilosophy is abundant in the eyes of these two thinkers who frame the thought event as represented by Christianity, ultimately resigning itself to more or less the opposite of philosophy itself. Readers will discover why philosophical reason should never be convinced by that which denies its very authority. Subjecting faith to the perils of philosophical analysis, confronting the philosophical tradition with the truth of the Christian faith, and occupying the space between the two: such are the challenges facing an antiphilosophy of Christianity. This text will appeal to researchers and students working in continental philosophy, philosophy of religion and those in religious studies who want to investigate the links between Christianity and antiphilosophy.

A man who had taken aphrodisiac and shared a Spring Festival Gala with her, he could not give up that night, she wanted to die a few times ...