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Microencapsulated α‐Tocopherol and Moringa Extract for Improved Skin Protection: Insights From Human Skin Assessment in Cosmetic Formulations
1 Introduction Cosmetic formulations are often enriched with functional ingredients designed to enhance protection and restore the integrity of the epidermal and dermal barriers [1]. Common functional ingredients include antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agents, which help to combat oxidative stress, improve hydration, and reduce irritation [2, 3]. These ingredients synergistically support skin health, promote tissue repair, and maintain a balanced skin barrier function.
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Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn And the Story of American City Life Holt Paperbacks, 352 pp. CLR [rating:4.0] Keeping Manhattan at Bay When, in one of his early stories, Thomas Wolfe told us “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” we native New Yorkers were more than ready to accept his judgment.
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The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia Penguin, 448 pp. CLR [rating:5] Show us not the aim without the way.
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All Whom I Have Loved Schocken Books, 256 pp.
Moringa oleifera L. Screening: SFE-CO2 Optimisation and Chemical Composition of Seed, Leaf, and Root Extracts as Potential Cosmetic Ingredients
This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessArticle by Júlia C. Kessler 1,2,3,4, Yaidelin A. Manrique 1,2, Isabel M. Martins 1,2,*, Alírio E. Rodrigues 1,2, Maria Filomena Barreiro 3,4 and Madalena M.
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Art Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for music. Because he headed the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra, she went often to rehearsals and concerts as a child, and when conductors and soloists were invited to Sunday luncheons at the Rosenbaum’s regularly, she was enthralled by their artistic talk and liberated manners. Among those she encountered and admired then were Otto Klemperer.
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Best Books Our book reviewers select the best books of 2011. Fiction The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka (Knopf) In exquisitely lyrical, incantatory sentences, Otsuka weaves together voices of Japanese women who arrived in the early 20th century to the United States as picture brides.
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The Lake of Dreams: A Novel Viking Adult, 400 pp. CLR [rating:3] Championing A Hidden Dream If anything can be said with certainty about our fickle reading public, it is that they will warmly welcome a finely-wrought family tale. It would seem that we all relish revelations of the darkest secrets in the early histories of our kinfolk. So it came as little surprise in 2006 when a young unknown, Kim Edwards, swept us up altogether with her debut family novel.
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The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures Viking, 272 pp. CLR [rating:4] Pigments and Pentimenti: What’s Behind It All?
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel Pamela Dorman Books, 288 pp. CLR [rating:4] The Singularity of Fate This book is a hypnotic journey taking us to a familiar territory in our lives, the place adult readers have already been to: adolescence. A startling achievement in a first novel, the work seems to have already touched a chord since it has taken Italy and Europe by storm and sold copies in the millions. It was undertaken by a young Italian physicist at age 27, who tells a haunting story.
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Best Books Our annual selection of noteworthy books. Fiction All the Living by C.E. Morgan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) “Every now and then, a writer comes along that makes you sit up and scent the talent. C.E. Morgan is one of those. Her debut novel, All the Living, is a meditation on love and living, set in the hardscrabble soil of a tobacco farm. It’s also a damn good read.
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Churchill Viking Adult, 160 pp. CLR [rating:5] WHAT IF …Winston Churchill, The Statesman Of The Century, Were Alive Today…? How often is there the temptation to contemplate our greatest figures as re-introduced into history? To see them transplanted into another period and confronted with the challenges of this age? Just how might they have handled our dilemmas?
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The Bolter Knopf, 320 pp. CLR [rating:4] Dame Alysoun Had Nothing on Idina Sackville Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue She’d been respectable throughout her life. Married in church, husbands she had five, Not counting other company in youth; But thereof there’s no need to speak, in truth. __ In company well could she laugh and chat. The remedies of love she knew, perchance, For of that art she’d learned the old, old dance.
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Kids’ stuff, perhaps, but Robert Louis Stevenson’s bit about the world being full of a number of things and how we could all be as happy as kings leaps to mind. Those lines had resonance for me! Just out of Columbia as the 1950’s commenced, and equipped with a Master’s Degree, how could I doubt the poet? I read, read, read in preparation for my calling, a pursuit I imagined as my route to happiness. So I charged into post-war New York City’s publishing industry, the hub of its world.
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All Our Worldly Goods Chatto & Windus, 192 pp. CLR [rating:4.5] In Memory of Lost Things How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly-forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within a few short years risen to a second round of best-sellerdom with three newly-discovered novels is a truly remarkable craftsman? Irene Nemirovsky first came to our attention in 2004, sixty years after her demise at the hands of the Nazis in Auschwitz, when a novel of hers was found “buried” within her journal entries.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society The Dial Press, 288 pp. CLR [rating:5] Novel Letters Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in February of this year and thus missed her own miracle—best-sellerdom for a first book written by an already “mature” librarian, former bookseller, and unpublished, aspiring writer. The good news, however, is that her opus is engaging, ingenious and ahead of the publishing game.
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The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia Penguin, 448 pp. CLR [rating:5] ON HORROR’S HEAD HORRORS ACCUMULATE Time was, and not so long ago, when peoples all over the world anticipated great results from the Russian Revolution of 1917. The overthrow of the Tsar and the creation of a new nation, first of devout Marxist and then Leninist thinkers, was thought to promise a coming salvation. Those revolutionaries were deemed creators of a new world, and not only for Russia.
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The Man Who Made Lists Putnam Adult, 304 pp. CLR [rating:5] Words, words, words… Peter Mark Roget was that eclectic genius who succeeded in revolutionizing the use of our language. And with the publication of his Thesaurus, his name literally became a household word for just about anybody who has ever attempted its proper use in speech or print. Despite this, his person and his long innovative life have remained relatively obscure to most of us.
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They done ‘er in! And you’ll have to admit, that takes some doing for a writer who departed our tear-filled vale close to two hundred years ago! Even so, such is the case for this defenseless lady, an English spinster born so long ago in the village of Seventon in Hampshire. And she’s the very novelist who that toughest of modern critics, Edmund Wilson, deemed virtually untouchable.
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Fire in the Blood Knopf, 160 pp. CLR [rating:4] Proust Redux By the time Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française burst upon the French literary world in 2004, the Russian-French author was forgotten. Despite her pre-World War II Parisian success with her dazzling first novel, David Golder, and following it, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, Dogs and Wolves and The Courilof Afffair, her name together with her person had pretty much faded away. Suite Française changed all that.
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Music And in recreating social history, what a star-studded cast he lines up to perform for us! We find retold the lives and careers of preeminents like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington , Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and many more. The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty Random House, 309 pp.
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The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life Random House, 433 pp. CLR [rating:5] CON MAN PAR EXCELLENCE! Admirers of a haunting gem of a novel called, ALI & NINO, a work that seemed to materialize from nowhere when it was reprinted in 1999, were excited to learn that finally, finally! there is definitive information about its mysterious author. Ever since Tom Reiss’ biography of his elusive figure was announced, devotees have eagerly awaited his book.
Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay
Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, 240 pp. CLR [rating:3.5] Hats Off to the City of Naples: An Underestimated Work of Art If you should choose to stroll about though the lanes and byways of this ancient city under the guidance of Benjamin Taylor, you’ll find yourself literally sauntering through history. His pace is leisurely, yet it includes exposures to its many conquerors and evidence of conquests over the centuries.
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Art Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for music. Because he headed the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra, she went often to rehearsals and concerts as a child, and when conductors and soloists were invited to Sunday luncheons at the Rosenbaum’s regularly, she was enthralled by their artistic talk and liberated manners. Among those she encountered and admired then were Otto Klemperer.
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Best Books Our book reviewers select the best books of 2011. Like this: Like Loading... Published on August 16, 2021 Fiction The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka (Knopf) In exquisitely lyrical, incantatory sentences, Otsuka weaves together voices of Japanese women who arrived in the early 20th century to the United States as picture brides.
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Fiction Reviews If anything can be said with certainty about our fickle reading public, it is that they will warmly welcome a finely-wrought family tale. It would seem that we all relish revelations of the darkest secrets in the early histories of our kinfolk. So it came as little surprise in 2006 when a young unknown, Kim Edwards, swept us up altogether with her debut family novel. Like this: Like Loading...
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Art Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s greatest 19th century artists, Winslow Homer — a painting which had literally appeared out of nowhere one day in Southern Ireland, abandoned next to a dump heap! The work had been miraculously rescued by a local fisherman. Like this: Like Loading... Published on July 24, 2020 The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures by Philip Mould Viking, 272 pp.
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Fiction Reviews A startling achievement in a first novel, the work seems to have already touched a chord since it has taken Italy and Europe by storm and sold copies in the millions. It was undertaken by a young Italian physicist at age 27, who tells a haunting story. Better yet, he’s a natural, adept with characterization, knowing how to captivate and hold his readers. Like this: Like Loading...
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Best Books Our annual selection of noteworthy books. Like this: Like Loading... Published on June 20, 2020 Fiction All the Living by C.E. Morgan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) “Every now and then, a writer comes along that makes you sit up and scent the talent. C.E. Morgan is one of those. Her debut novel, All the Living, is a meditation on love and living, set in the hardscrabble soil of a tobacco farm. It’s also a damn good read.
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Churchill by Paul Johnson Viking Adult, 160 pp. CLR [rating:5] WHAT IF …Winston Churchill, The Statesman Of The Century, Were Alive Today…? How often is there the temptation to contemplate our greatest figures as re-introduced into history? To see them transplanted into another period and confronted with the challenges of this age? Just how might they have handled our dilemmas?
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Biography She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania, drug use; but also gives us access to a fearless beauty with gifts of intelligence, wit, and extraordinary powers to attract the opposite sex. Then too, she reveals that her antics as combined with her endowments were nevertheless insufficient in her hunt for love and lasting affection. Like this: Like Loading... Published on June 5, 2020 The Bolter by Frances Osborne Knopf, 320 pp.
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Non-Fiction Reviews For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit in delivery which touched every aspect of my days and later still, my evenings as well. They themselves attracted, fascinated even more than daily procedures of the research itself. I had hardly met an assembly of such varied sorts in my Bronx world before. Among them were not just New Yorkers but some who’d come from other sections of our vast country.
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Fiction Reviews How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within a few short years risen to a second round of best-sellerdom with three newly-discovered novels is a truly remarkable craftsman? Irene Nemirovsky first came to our attention in 2004, sixty years after her demise at the hands of the Nazis in Auschwitz, when a novel of hers was found “buried” within her journal entries. Like this: Like Loading...
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History Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories of suffering are here collected, so utterly specific in their brutal details, a strong stomach will be required. Yet, it is worth the pain since one cannot emerge doubting: the epoch is surely one of history’s most vicious; and its revelation of the Twentieth Century’s brutality is dumbfounding. Like this: Like Loading...
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Dial Press, 288 pp. CLR [rating:5] Novel Letters Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in February of this year and thus missed her own miracle—best-sellerdom for a first book written by an already “mature” librarian, former bookseller, and unpublished, aspiring writer. The good news, however, is that her opus is engaging, ingenious and ahead of the publishing game.
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Biography By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the slow progress of human knowledge” was “the imperfections of language, both as an instrument of thought and a medium of communication.” It was on that June morning that Dugald Stewart implanted in his disciple a mission which was to occupy him for the rest of his life. Like this: Like Loading... Published on May 11, 2020 The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall Putnam Adult, 304 pp.
Murdering Miss Austen
Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, 240 pp. CLR [rating:3.5] Hats Off to the City of Naples: An Underestimated Work of Art If you should choose to stroll about though the lanes and byways of this ancient city under the guidance of Benjamin Taylor, you’ll find yourself literally sauntering through history. His pace is leisurely, yet it includes exposures to its many conquerors and evidence of conquests over the centuries.
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky, Translated by Sandra Smith Knopf, 160 pp. CLR [rating:4] Proust Redux By the time Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française burst upon the French literary world in 2004, the Russian-French author was forgotten. Despite her pre-World War II Parisian success with her dazzling first novel, David Golder, and following it, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, Dogs and Wolves and The Courilof Afffair, her name together with her person had pretty much faded away.
The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey Gotham, 400 pp. CLR [rating:4] Tell Me What You See Oh, no—the cry is almost involuntary—not another Beatles book! What more could anyone possibly say? The lads from Liverpool have been by far the most chronicled musical entity of our time.
The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life – by Tom Reiss
The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss Random House, 433 pp. CLR [rating:5] CON MAN PAR EXCELLENCE! Admirers of a haunting gem of a novel called, ALI & NINO, a work that seemed to materialize from nowhere when it was reprinted in 1999, were excited to learn that finally, finally! there is definitive information about its mysterious author. Ever since Tom Reiss’ biography of his elusive figure was announced, devotees have eagerly awaited his book.
Book Review: Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor
Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, 240 pp. CLR [rating:3.5] Hats Off to the City of Naples: An Underestimated Work of Art If you should choose to stroll about though the lanes and byways of this ancient city under the guidance of Benjamin Taylor, you’ll find yourself literally sauntering through history. His pace is leisurely, yet it includes exposures to its many conquerors and evidence of conquests over the centuries.
All Whom I Have Loved by Aharon Appelfeld
All Whom I Have Loved by Aharon Appelfeld, translated from the Hebrew by Aloma Halter Schocken Books, 256 pp.
Rookie " Invisible Ink
Rookie is an online magazine and book series for teenagers. Each month, a different editorial theme drives the writing, photography, and artwork that we publish. Learn more about us here , and find out how to submit your work here ! October's theme is SPIRIT. For details on how to send us your work, please read our Submit page. ✴ Where Everything Is Clear We walk down the sandy steps of the walkway. Beyond the shoreline is a school of dolphins leaping through the salty air.
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