As featured in VIVmag’s July/August issue, shoe designer Claudia Ciuti’s favorite book is Learning to See: Bringing the World Around You Into Your Home by Vicente Wolf (Artisan, 2002). This beautiful book offers great advice for decorating your personal space from a talented designer.
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As featured in the July/August issue of VIVmag, the Omron Pocket HJ-720ITC Pedometer not only counts overall steps, but also tracks the number of steps you take per minute — meaning that it registers aerobic steps separately. So if you go for a 10-minute power walk at lunch, the pedometer will record that independently from [...]

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Breakthroughs can come when you least expect it. In VIVmag’s July/August issue, actor Debra Winger shares how she found deep meaning in a surprising place in an excerpt from Undiscovered (Simon & Schuster, 2008), a portrait of her life in Hollywood, on and off screen.
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According to Mira Kirshenbaum, clinical director of the Chestnut Hill Institute in Boston and author of When Good People Have Affairs: Inside the Hearts & Minds of People in Two Relationships (St. Martin’s Press, 2008), research indicates 47 percent of married men are likely to get involved emotionally and/or sexually with someone else, as are [...]

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The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008) by Stephen and Rebekah Hren is a terrific guide for making changes to your home that will reduce your energy consumption on any budget. Fight global warming and reduce your energy bill with this great find, featured in the [...]

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Instructional beauty guides are a dime a dozen these days, so when the new, inspirational Things a Woman Should Know About Beauty (Prion, 2008) by Karen Homer came across our desk, we took notice. This witty handbook offers beauty advice from makeup application to hair care, with an emphasis on bringing out your own inner [...]

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Proper exfoliation is essential to ensure an even summer glow, be it au naturel or simply from a bottle. One of our favorite new products, the Exfolia Buffer Kit, contains high-tech fibers that polish skin to an ultra smooth finish — instantly. Unlike traditional exfoliation methods (which sometimes take several applications before skin appears smoother), [...]

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