Tag: Beauty

Nature’s Tapestry Uncovering the Beauty and Importance of Biodiversity


Free Download Juan Armando Sánchez, "Nature’s Tapestry: Uncovering the Beauty and Importance of Biodiversity"
English | ASIN : B0CKTFYYPZ | 2023 | pages | PDF | 10 MB
We cannot separate human beings from biodiversity. Our vital functions and our health are synergistic with other species. The number of microorganisms we live with is greater than the total number of cells in our bodies. So, separation from biodiversity and its loss are the greatest threats to human survival, and the current model for human development affects our very lives. We must integrate marine and terrestrial life to understand our interdependence with biodiversity. Colombia, a megadiverse country with access to two oceans, is the perfect canvas on which to illustrate this message: nature has sustainable and straightforward solutions to society’s emerging problems.

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Beauty, Disrupted A Memoir


Free Download Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir by Carré Otis, Hugo Schwyzer
English | September 20, 2011 | ISBN: 0062024450, 0062024469 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 51.6 MB
Teen runaway, supermodel, and actress Carre Otis found herself in the public eye from a very tender age. Millions of people gazed at provocative images of her in magazine and billboard ads from Guess and Calvin Klein as well as in features on the pages of Playboy and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. By the time she was twenty, they had also seen her on posters for the controversial film Wild Orchid, with Mickey Rourke. The troubled marriage to Rourke that followed soon thereafter was widely reported on in the media, as were Carre’s struggles with drugs and a particularly brutal eating disorder. But to see someone naked on the page or exposed on the screen and in tabloids doesn’t mean we know who that person really is.

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