Author: Linda Lee Chaikin
Publisher: Zondervan
Keywords: silk, house, written
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-02-13
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0310263018
ISBN-13: 9780310263012

A royal wedding masks the unfolding of Catherine de Medici’s murderous plot against the Huguenots. Will any of the Huguenot princes survive? Life and death rest with two people ... Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet, couturiere from a celebrated silk-making family, has come back to the Louvre Palais to create the royal wedding gown. Recruited into the evil Queen Mother’s ring of women spies, she must use her wits to preserve her honor---and the lives of her fellow Huguenots. Marquis Fabien de Vendome has also returned from a buccaneering venture against Spain. The Queen Mother plans

Authors:Catherine Silk, John Silk,
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: racism, americans, fiction, film, african, culture, anti, american, popular, portrayals
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1990-05
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0719030706
ISBN-13: 9780719030703

From Uncle Remus to the novels of Alice Walker, the ideological battle over the deep-seated racism of American society has been played out in the realm of popular culture. Covering the period from the American Civil War to the present day, this study traces the development of racism and the struggle against it in fiction and film. The text emphasizes the ways in which racist and anti-racist popular culture both respond to developments in racist ideas and help to shape or oppose them. Novels and films are examined in the light of major economic and political experiences, motivations and preoccu

Author: Struan Reid
Publisher: Formac
Keywords: routes, spice, silk, series, trade, inventions
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0921921306
ISBN-13: 9780921921301

The history of humankind is built on a series of technological innovations and inventions-from the horsebit and the wheel to the microchip and the computer. Over the centuries, the exchange of these technologies has inspired new developments and improvements. It is through trade that much of this exchange has taken place. Across Asia, the paths of the Silk and Spice Routes brought together many different peoples to trade and so gather knowledge of each other’s science and inventions. In this way, some of the most fundamental technologies, including writing, weaving and agriculture, have

Author: Alvin J. Silk
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: marketing
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1422104605
ISBN-13: 9781422104606

In "The Practice of Management", Peter F. Drucker wrote, "There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer!. [Therefore], any business enterprise has two - and only these two - basic functions: marketing and innovation. They are the entrepreneurial functions. Marketing is the distinguishing, the unique function of the business."This book explores what marketing is and how an enterprise can differentiate itself from others in attracting and retaining customers. In general terms, marketing refers to what an organization must do to create and exchange value with custom

Author: Jasmine Taylor
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: silk
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2009-04-09
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 1438934068
ISBN-13: 9781438934068

Author: Caitlin R. Kierna
Publisher: Roc
Keywords: silk
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0451456688
ISBN-13: 9780451456687

To the residents of her small southern city, second-hand store owner Spyder Baxter is crazy. But her friends and followers know better. Something lives within Spyder’s brain. Something powerful. Something wonderful. Something dangerous. Pray it never escapes.

Author: Ann Rinaldi
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Keywords: dress, silk, last
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-10-04
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440228611
ISBN-13: 9780440228615

High-spirited, beautiful Susan Chilmark, fourteen, vows to do something meaningful to support the Confederacy during the Civil War.  Despite the wishes of her mother, Susan and her best friend, Connie, collect silk dresses from all the ladies of Richmond to make a balloon that will be used to spy on the Yankees.But the issues behind the war aren’t as obvious as Susan thinks.  When she meets her dashing, scandalous older brother and discovers why he was banished from the family, Susan unlocks a Pandora’s box of secrets that forces her to rethink and challenge the very system she