When Cadina Wilson joins the postal service, she instantly becomes entangled in a volatile workplace of romances, power plays, and personal crises: Freeman Souls battles an alcohol addiction and shows interest in the criminally-active Velour Patterns, Lexington VanGuard schemes for supervisory control, Denise Tucker clashes with her manipulative boss, Michael Davenport, and James Richards fights for child custody while falling in love. As Cadina is pulled deeper into their unstable lives, ...

When Cadina Wilson joins the postal service, she instantly becomes entangled in a volatile workplace of romances, power plays, and personal crises: Freeman Souls battles an alcohol addiction and shows interest in the criminally-active Velour Patterns, Lexington VanGuard schemes for supervisory control, Denise Tucker clashes with her manipulative boss, Michael Davenport, and James Richards fights for child custody while falling in love. As Cadina is pulled deeper into their unstable lives, ...

McNeil's consequential plus enlightening tale channels the colorful world within the postal environment. Making up this vividly essential yarn are six intriguing stories that provide a different yet necessary spin on postal-related issues: Freeman Souls' alcoholism plight, coupled with struggling to choose between his floundering relationship with his fiancée or a seductively gorgeous and extremely aggressive co-worker. James Richards' ultimate decision to gain custody of his daughter from...

Fashion Writing and Criticism provides students with the tools to critique fashion with skill and style. Explaining the history and theory of criticism, this innovative text demonstrates how the tradition of criticism has developed and how this knowledge can be applied to fashion, enabling students to acquire the methods and proper vocabulary to be active critics themselves.Integrating history and theory, this innovative book explains the development of fashion writing, th...

We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class sleeping experiences and hotels recommend exclusive suites where you are never disturbed. Luxury is a rapidly changing global industry that makes the headlines daily in our newspapers and on the internet. More than ever, luxury is a pervasive presence in the cultural and economic life of the West - and increasingly too in the emerging super-economies of Asia and Latin America. Yet luxury is hardly a ...

Fashion is all around us, and so too is fashion journalism. Discussions of fashion proliferate in an ever-increasing range of media, from newspapers and magazines to tweets and TV programs. Fashion Journalism: History, Theory and Practice is an accessible, comprehensive guide to writing about fashion in any form, whether in style blogging, magazine interviews, news reportage or art reviews.Exploring what sets fashion journalism apart from other forms of journalistic writin...

Examining recent research and practice on reminiscence, life review and life story work, this book offers critical accounts of the rapidly growing and extensive global literature, and highlights the continuing relevance and effectiveness of these therapeutic methods.The book includes examples of international practical projects, involving people of all ages, life circumstances, and levels of physical and cognitive functioning. Contributions from contemporary practitioners and resea...

Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits, more austere garments produced in darker fabrics also reflected the ascendancy of a puritan middle class as well as a more practical approach to dress. With the rise of print culture and reading publics, fashions were more quickly disseminated and debated than ever, and the appetite for fashion per...

Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new focus in recent years on research in the area of costume has connected this practice in vital and new ways with theories of the body and embodiment, design practices, artistic and other forms of collaboration. Costume, like fashion and dress, is now viewed as an area of dynamic social significance and not simply as passive reflector of a pre-conce...

Die Sherlock Holmes Box 17 beinhaltet die Hörspiele "Gottes Mühlen", "Der zehnte Earl", "Die Spuren auf der Treppe" und "Mr. Marburys Hände"

Im Savoy begegnet Watson zufällig seiner alten Bekannten Kitty, die inzwischen in Adelskreise eingeheiratet hat. Das neue Leben als Ehefrau eines Earls missfällt ihr jedoch aufgrund von alarmierenden Heimlichkeiten ihres Gatten, denen sie gerne auf den Grund gehen würde. Watson überredet Sherlock Holmes, sich auf dem berühmten Anwesen des Earls einmal genauer umzusehen...

Die Sherlock Holmes Box 16 beinhaltet die Hörspiele "Geheimsache Styles Court", "Der Mann im Speisewagen", "Die vierte Flasche" und "Das Musikzimmer".