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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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