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Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection make clear, the term ‘luxury’ is one that can be fraught with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption, commercialisation and production of luxury textiles in Italy and the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period, this volume offers a fascinating exploration of the varied and subtle ways that luxury could be interpreted and understood in the past. Beginning with the consumption of luxury textiles, it takes the reader on a journey back from the market place, to the commercialisation of rich fabrics by an in...
As the prison population grows exponentially in the U.S. today, writer Bill Harris has captured the politics of the prison system and found a revolutionary answer in his futuristic novel The Methuselah Solution. One of the storys two protagonists, Dr. Cynthia Turner, is a rising star at the Institute where she supervises the administration of a new form of alternative sentencing - an aging serum developed to replace multiple years of costly confinement with the injection of a drug that rapidly ages convicted felons to their prescribed sentence. The serum is a favorite with politicians, but the bane of powerful companies long profiting from the spiraling expansion of prison construction. The ...
Dr. Virgil Morrison is a simple man, living a simple life and quite content to do so. Unfortunately, as a psychologist, problems abound when he must deal with patients such as Mrs. Garrett, an elderly kleptomaniac; forge through Family Therapy with the unruly and obnoxious Hennmen family; and solve the mystery of the enigmatic suicidal, depressive Richard Lopez. If that weren't enough, his mother and sister have convinced him that he's not as happy as he thinks he is, so they set him up with blind date after disastrous blind date. There is also his secretary, his summer temp, his beautiful associate, the waitress at the coffee shop, the Psychological Association, his obsession with a past failed relationship, and the advice-dispensing, cigar-smoking ghostly figure of his long dead father that he has to sort through. Then, he meets and falls in love with Corrine. A woman that helps to simplify all the complications of life, love, and everyday interactions. But could the solution to one of the problems lead to the loss of the only true happiness the doctor has ever known? Dr. Virgil Morrison finds out that life, love, and everyday interactions are not so simple.
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