**Money. Sex. Power. Some things are always in fashion...Christine Fairbrother** is a London barrister, specialising in high profile divorces.Her fashion designer daughter, Isabelle Cissé, is about to launch her first collection Full of dreams and ambitions, she also has a fatal weakness for unsuitable men...Victoria Crabtree's position as the mistress of Massimo Rivelli, one of the world's leading manufacturers of couture fashion, ...

La economía política1 del conocimiento jurídico determina cuáles son los productos jurídicos que deben crearse, su valor, los canales para su intercambio y las formas en que deben ser usados.2 Esta economía política está constituida por dos dispositivos que se entrecruzan tanto práctica como analíticamente. Por un lado, tenemos el conjunto de normas que regulan la conducta de los operadores jurídicos; la superestructura de esta economía política.3 Este conjunto de reglas y principios artic...

“I have waited a thousand years for this moment. I have loved you and waited for you every second of every day.”Fragments of Silk is a tale a thousand years in the making. It is a story of good and evil, forgiveness and redemption as two worlds unite. Ria, the enigmatic fairy queen of Skye legend, has waited a thousand years for the last of her line to come and, through love, release her from the half-life to which others had condemned her. Alfur,...

The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this Very Short Introduction illuminates the historical background against which the silk road flourished, shedding light on the importance of old-world cultural exchange to Eurasian and world history. On ...

The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this Very Short Introduction illuminates the historical background against which the silk road flourished, shedding light on the importance of old-world cultural exchange to Eurasian and world history. On ...

Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Exotic luxuries such as cinnamon, ginger, pepper, saffron, clove, frankincense and myrrh. Through their international trade, humans were pushed to explore and then travel to the far corners of the earth. Almost from their inception, the earliest great civilizations - Egypt, Sumer and Harappa - became addicted to the luxury products of far-off lands and established long-reaching trade networks. Over time, great powers...

During the Second World War, Allied airmen bailing out over occupied Europe carried highly detailed escape maps printed on parachute silk. These maps were rustle-free, waterproof, and easy to hide, but they possessed a far more classified secondary function. British intelligence utilized the biological mechanics of mycology to turn these everyday survival tools into analog hard drives for encrypted data. Operatives embedded specific, dormant fungal spores directly into the chemical dyes us...

Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, rewriting the global order.As things stand, the rest of the world still has a choice. But the battle for tomorrow will require America and its allies to take daring risks in uncertain political terrain. Unchecked, China will reshape global flows of data to reflect its interests. It willdevelop an unriva...

Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa:Beyond Right and Wrong expands the discourse on indigenous knowledge. With several examples and case histories, the work defines, characterizes, and explains indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa, particularly in Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon. The book critically evaluates indigenous conflict management strategies with a view to determining their effectiveness in the context of the societies’ history and culture, an...

El análisis de la economía política del conocimiento jurídico pone en evidencia que el conocimiento jurídico es una forma de poder que tiene dinámicas propias e importantes implicaciones prácticas. El conjunto de normas y actividades que componen esta economía política determina cuestiones como cuáles son los objetos de estudio que se consideran valiosos en las facultades de derecho; cuáles son los contextos de producción de conocimiento jurídico que se imaginan ricos o pobres; cuál es la ...

Beneath the glittering chandeliers of the Ainsworth Museum of Fashion, a grotesque tableau unfolds. Eleanor Vance, the museum's benefactor, lies lifeless, draped in a clashing emerald green flapper dress, a sartorial sacrilege against the blood-red silk of the 1888 Worth gown she was restoring. For fashion historian Bryanna James, still raw from the loss of her grandmother, this is more than murder; it’s a desecration of history, a mockery of the very language of cloth she holds dear....

The insider's guide to charitable organizations for donors and their advisorsDo you know when to use a private foundation, a donor-advised fund, or a charitable remainder trust or other charitable vehicle? Do you know the different tax benefits, limitations, and control rules for each alternative? Do you have an appropriate investment policy for your endowed charities? Do you have a rubric for avoiding fraud? Do you know what to look for to make sure that your char...