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Awakening Beauty: An Illustrated Look at Mankind's Love and Hatred of Beauty

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I saw this book and was intrigued by all of the famous people on the cover, like Howard Stern, Pamela Anderson, Jon Benet Ramsey, Bill Gates, Monica Lewinsky, and many others. So, I decided to buy it. It is one of those books that honestly, you don't want to put it down. Trying to not pick this book up and re-read a section you have read a dozen times before is like trying to avoid Krispy Kreme doughnuts when it is that time of the month. This book changed my life! I feel like for the first time I understand what I see on television, what I read in magazines and what all of it has to do with me and the way I look. After reading this book I even understand Howard Stern and Tom Leykis! The book should be required reading in every college in America. If I had read this book when I was 18, I would have saved myself years of misery and heartache. My friends and I have talked about the book so much that we thought about teaching a learning annex class on it. The photos are way cool, like the one of the wives and girlfriends of professional athletes, the photos of the celebrities without their makeup, the photos of the world's richest men, and the murderers. I wonder how the author got all of these really neat photos. This book is a guilty pleasure. I highly recommend it. If you have a face and a body you owe it to yourself to not only read it, but study it.

Written by a former holder of a medical psychology fellowship in plastic surgery, Awakening Beauty: An Illustrated Look At Mankind's Love And Hatred Of Beauty is an unparalleled study that spares nothing in its examination of what beauty is and how its perception is intertwined with modern American culture for good or ill. Exploring the bright and seamy sides of beauty pageants, plastic surgery, trophy wives, wardrobe, maekup, and much more, Awakening Beauty combines black-and-white photographs with a no-holds-barred critical examination of tough questions about subjective values.