Professional Services for Men: Hair Coloring and Restoration
Author: Milady
Professional Service for Men: Hair Coloring and Hair Restoration explores the exciting areas of hair restoration and hair coloring. In Section 1, Hair Restoration, you will find an overview of the various hair restoration options available. In addition, you will find suggestions for selling and marketing nonsurgical hair replacement services to your clients and detailed information on how to measure, clean, apply, cut, style, color, permanent wave, and care for a hairpiece or wig. In Section 2, you will learn the fundamentals about haircoloring and lightening, including information about the structure of hair, color theory, haircoloring products, and haircolor terminology. You will also learn how to perform key tasks such as the haircoloring consultation and the patch, strand, and metallic salts and coating dyes tests. In addition, you will learn the basics about coloring gray hair, reconditioning damaged hair, removing coatings from hair, and coloring mustaches and beards. Finally, you will find a summary of the safety precautions that must be taken to ensure a successful and safe haircoloring or lightening service.
Table of Contents:
Preface.Section 1: Men's Nonsurgical Hair Replacements.
Section 2: Haircoloring and Lightening.
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Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease
Author: Rudolph E Tanzi
Working from the intriguing hypothesis that Alzheimer's dementia is the result of a renegade protein-beta amyloid-Tanzi and others set out to find the gene responsible for its production. Decoding Darkness takes us deep into the minds and far-flung labs of many a prominent researcher, offering an intimate view of the high stakes of molecular genetics, the revolution that propels it, the obstacles that threaten to derail it, and the families whose lives are so dependent upon it. Tanzi and Parson ultimately reveal that Alzheimer's, like heart disease, may be effectively treated-even prevented.
Economist
So infectious is [Tanzi's] enthusiasm that, like children at a pantomime, readers happily cheer or hiss at his peculiar-sounding chemicals-especially his villain, A-beta.
New England Journal of Medicine
The story is invigorating, the progress is fantastic, and the writing is lively.
Publishers Weekly
At the turn of the 21st century, Alzheimer's is the fourth leading cause of death of Americans. Twenty years ago, Tanzi, now a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Genetics and Aging Unit, worked in a study examining the genetics of Huntington's disease, and while doing so he developed a method for locating disease genes and their proteins., Starting in the 1980s Tanzi applied these methods to the search for the cause or causes of Alzheimer's, a neurogenerative disease similar to Huntington's. In this fascinating story--part mystery, part scientific treatise, and part autobiography--Tanzi recounts every step along the way of the search. His own research rests on the hypothesis that deposits of the gummy protein amyloid form millions of plaques that settle between brain cells in the cerebral cortex as the result of a genetic mutation, and he chronicles the search for the gene that contains this mutation. Tanzi's tale (told with the help of science journalist Parson) is not just another sterile account of scientific discovery, as he weaves into his narrative the poignant stories of Alzheimer's families with whom he has worked and patiently guides readers through his own process of discovery and its implications for the future of Alzheimer's patients. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
Library Journal
Following Daniel Pollen's Hannah's Heirs (LJ 6/93; updated in 1996), this engrossing book is the second major account of the race to uncover the genetics behind Alzheimer's disease as told by one of its main players. Tanzi (neurology, Harvard Medical Sch.) and science journalist Parson discuss his research and the work of others that led to recent genetic discoveries associated with early-onset and late-onset Alzheimer's disease. The personal animosities and lab rivalries described here are reminiscent of the road to discovering the double helix, though Decoding Darkness lacks the crispness and clarity of James Watson's book. Tanzi and Parson also introduce a parallel thread that traces the progression of the disease in a single family, lending human interest to the subject. Written for the informed lay reader, this book will be better appreciated if the reader has some background in molecular genetics. More information on Alzheimer's is available in the "Resources" section. [Both Pollen and Tanzi are profiled in Charles Pierce's excellent Hard To Forget: An Alzheimer's Story (LJ 4/15/00).--Ed.] --Leila Fernandez, Steacie Science Lib., York Univ., Toronto, Ont. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
Booknews
Chronicles the struggle to find causes and a possible cure for Alzheimer's disease, centering on the search for the gene responsible for the production of a renegade protein, beta amyloid. Offers a portrait of the high stakes of molecular genetics, the revolution that propels it, the obstacles that threaten to derail it, and the families whose lives depend on it. Tanzi teaches neurology at Harvard Medical School and directs the Massachusetts General Hospital's Genetics and Aging Unit. Parson is a science journalist. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Internet Book Watch
Decoding Darkness charts the search for the genetic causes of Alzheimer's disease, detailing the studies which have taken place and the promising theory which could help promote new drugs in the battle against Alzheimer's. Lay readers and medical personnel alike will find this a fascinating medical detective treatise which probes molecular clues to illness and therapeutic applications.
Newsday
...in all the best ways, a human account of one of the most important scientific missions of our time.
Nature
...recommended reading for anyone interested in Alzheimer's disease.
What People Are Saying
Matt Ridley
With the human genome mapped, the heroic age of gene-hunting is over...Rudy Tanzi was one of [its] heroes. (Matt Ridley, author of Genome)
