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.

Dedicated to the National Holiday of Monaco celebrated each year on November 19th, this travel-guide is for those who want to know the Principality inside and out. Get a glimpse of Cote d'Azur (Monaco), the place where the outrageously wealthy live a lifestyle beyond imagination. From the Oscar winning Grace Kelly, the Grimaldi family, Ferrari races of 1960's, to the modern reality of Monaco, including state-of-art gambling at Monte Carlo, landing on Palais Princier in a helicopter, taking a race with Formula-One, lodging at Metropol or Hotel De Paris, meeting the holy expert "Nose" at...

Nestling in the south of Germany and surrounded with Alpine ring, Bavaria is a blessed land of picture-book scenery. The skies over Bavaria so often resemble the Bavarian flag - a symphony of blue and white, bathing the state in sunshine even when the clouds cover the rest of the country. This is due to the Foehn, a downwind from the Alps that blows away even the caravan of the thickest clouds. Enchanting medieval towns with postcard houses, the world's favorite Neuschwanstein Castle that upstages the Nature itself, sophisticated art and craft of making signature violins, endearing Bavarian...

This travel guide leads you straight to the core of the bounteous allure Berlin has to offer. With the fresh knowledge about this truly fascinating city, cultural and intellectual Powerhouse, you'll find what every visitor needs to explore and to revere. With composite photographs and graphics involving the travelers jaguar and baby jaguar, "Amazing Berlin" shows you the city inside and out.

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...