Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was about four in the afternoon when a young girl came into the salon of the little hotel at C -- in Switzerland, and drew her chair up to the fire. "You are soaked through," said an elderly lady, who was herself trying to get roasted. "You ought to lose no time in changing your clothes." "I have not anything to change," said the young girl, laughing. "Oh, I shall soon be dry!" "Have you lost all your luggage?" asked the lady,...

A new collection of fantasies and true stories from the market leader in erotic fiction Swinging, dogging, group sex, cross-dressing, spanking, female domination, corporal punishment, and extreme fetishes ... "Nexus Confessions "explores the length and breadth of erotic obsession, real experience, and sexual fantasy. Collected by the world's leading publisher of fetish fi ction, this is the fourth in a series of six volumes of true stories and shameful confessions, never-before told or published.

When James Graham, carpenter, enlisted, it was with the assurance that if he lost his life his grateful country would provide for his widow. He did lose it, and Mrs. Graham received, in exchange for a husband and his small earnings, the sum of $12 a month. But when you own your own very little house, with a dooryard for chickens (and such stray dogs and cats as quarter themselves upon you), and enough grass for a cow, and a friendly neighbor to remember your potato-barrel, why, you can get along-somehow. In Lizzie Graham's case nobody knew just how, because she was not one of the confidential...

Performance Research is a specialist journal that promotes a dynamic interchange between scholarship and practice in an expanding field of performance. Interdisciplinary in vision and international in scope, its emphasis is on research in contemporary performance arts within changing cultures. 4 issues per year.

First published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In order to stimulate the progress in smart textiles, emerging developments need to be identified and selectively strengthened. Hence, this issue reports on a three-dimensional roadmap on smart textiles. It aims at contributing to set future actions in research, education and technology development. Research activities and technological developments are mapped, barriers and drivers of technological, strategic and societal and economical origins are identified. Finally, recommendations are phrased on how to overcome barriers and to progress in the field of smart textiles.