A fictionalization of Guerre's story, an expository depiction of the battle of Saint-Quentin and the reconquest of the British Calais, the two Dianas refer to women near and dear to Henry the Second: the king's mistress Diane de Portier, and the illegitimate daughter Diana de Castro. The first volume shapes the romance between Diana de Castro and the Count Gabriel Montgommery - with trials and tribulations. The second volume focuses on the Catholic/Protestant conflicts under the reigns of Francis II (married to Mary of Scots) and Charles IX. This effort converts Dumas Pere's novel (The Two...

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, entities, places, events and incidents either are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental. However, citations of intestacy statutes relate to the existing laws. This novel evolves set of social norms and discords around the posthumus reproduction with cryoprezerved embryo, that embrace, or at least tolerate, an amazing array of family forms. Sewn of debates, trials, and tribunals it ends with an accident that builds a starry fortune.

A premier Nose, a French perfumery titan, and a handsome bachelor in his forty years, Mantel Lamarck is dreadfully afraid of women, fortune-hunters. He's smart, successful, and inevitably does not need business shares or compromises. Able to identify 800 different perfumes from a single squirt, Mantel does not smell fragrances with his nose: he does it with his brain. After serving in the perfumery industry for twenty years and having saved millions to spare, Mantel Lamarck finally acquires a meaning in his life and tranquility following his biggest compromise -- a merger of the traditional...

Law is neither panacea nor justice. An element of calculation, it answers the -how- question, whereas justice answers the -why- question. Law is anything but simple. It is a piecemeal doctrinal construction, each part more readily explained by the circumstances of its addition than by its relation to a coherent whole. An up to date analysis of the court-visited 36 cases, this monograph depicts the challenges, and outcomes of surgical negligence claims in the States, by covering a range of malpractice determinants: plaintiff's reasonableness, surgeon's state of mind, res ipsa loquitur, strict...

Current effort invites you to a world of tranquil indulgence, a true joie de vivre with a variety of tea and tisanes: gongfu, tea-roses, clove, chamomile, lavender, safflower, alfalfa, verveine, jasmine, thyme, mint, cinnamon, annatto, lovage, or berries. For most of us, a cup of tea is not only a rustic pleasure. There is a dizzying number of tastes from which to choose. And every tea, whether a delicate Japanese green, Welsh te-bach, or Indian Darjeeling black, tells a 'story in a cup' about the land that nurtured it, and the tea-making skills that transformed it. Extending from and beyond...

Having a deontological thrust in common, most torts scholars can be divided into three groups: (1) those who believe the purpose of the tort law is to reduce the combined costs of precautions, accidents, and litigation; (2) those who believe the purpose of moral enterprise is to achieve some form of corrective justice between plaintiff and defendant; and (3) those who mix these two approaches. Written by a medical doctor with a law degree, this book has two sections. The first presents updated knowledge of parathyroids, covering the calcium-phosphorus homeostasis, clinical manifestation and...

Packed with differential-diagnostic guidance, this compact reference offers a practical and organized approach to evaluating a wide range and power specimens of striated and smooth muscles of head and neck, heart, diaphragm, urogenital tract, and extremities. Diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, risk classifications, and prognosis for different subtypes of neoplasia are followed by the briefs of court-visited prima facie suits for the negligent management of these tumors. Patho-histology and electronic microscopy of 85 tissue cuts from benign and malignant tumors are provided, giving to...