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Mother of Georgia: a statue in perspective

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).  

Helena Rubinstein by Michele Fitoussi: book review

Helena Rubinstein: the woman who invented beauty (2010, this edition 2012) is the biography of the wealthy business-woman. Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965) was born in Krakow, Poland. After emigrating to Australia in 1896, she turned being born poor, foreign, and Jewish into business strengths. She opened her first beauty institute in Melbourne in 1902, started a marketing campaign in 1904, and created visionary beauty treatments, with an emphasis on cosmetics, moisturising, sun protection, massage, hydrotherapy, hygiene, nutrition, physical exercise, and cosmetic surgery. She was known to be one of the richest women in the world, self-made, with only a handful of peers in the beauty industry: Coco Chanel, Elizabeth Arden, and Estee Lauder. This biography takes readers through different eras, countries, wars, fashions, and moral standards, from the belle epoque in Europe, 1910s London, the artistic and literary Montparnasse area of Paris, and pre-war New York...

Seriously Stupid Criminals by Synova Cantrell: book review

Seriously Stupid Criminals: True Stories of Incompetence (2017) is an exceptionally brief book on the the author’s top 20 ‘craziest’ stories about embarrassing criminal escapes. This includes, for example, #2 Criminals arrested after leaving a trail of macaroni salad for the police. It contains the bare minimum amount of information. This book will take two minutes to read. There are two good things about this e-book: (1) its cover, and (2) it's free. MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

Botanical Cafe in the garden of Georgia

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).