This work assembles a group of international scholars to address issues on marriage and the state, motivations to marry, partner selections, marriage ceremonies, religion, kinship ties and marriage, sexual interaction and marriage, and divorce.

"Four to get Ready" is the third volume of the four sequential, period, mystery/adventure novels. Each story is a complete book. The chronology a continuation and each novel is done in a style suiting the period, It's written in the first person in descriptive, visual terms, liberally laced with violence, nostalgia and considerable good humor. This third novel is set in 1948 - 1958, the style is a satire of movies of that period, Our story begins; Catherine has walked out on Tony for no apparent reason and leaves the country. In LA they take delivery of the Phoenix Corp aircraft, a C46-A,...