"Cover montage by Joel Singer. Frontispiece photo by Robert Pruzan."--Title page verso.

This book explores ideas about human physical appearance expressed in French novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the pseudoscience of physiognomy that influenced them.

Small-town reporter Kate Miller has never been a fashion do—until now.

Both elegantly written and engagingly argued, the book reveals how the rise of the gentry culture in eighteenth-century North America gave rise to a consumer economy.

Face Value by Rosemary Hammond released on Mar 25, 1990 is available now for purchase.

What is their purpose if they are completely unreliable? In this book, Alexander Todorov, one of the world's leading researchers on the subject, answers these questions as he tells the story of the modern science of first impressions.

With a new preface that explores the gaps created by time in the book's discourse, this book will be of interest to students of linguistics, gender studies, women's studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology.

In this compelling work of cultural history, O’Malley interprets a wide array of historical sources to evaluate competing ideas about monetary value and social distinctions.

Looks at the history and mythology of beauty, examines psychological attitudes toward beauty, and discusses sexual politics, ethnic identity, and stereotypes of beauty

Anger she can ill afford for she is being hunted by others for the killing of a street predator who chose the wrong prey. The only constant in this darkening world is that nothing and no one can be taken at face value.