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French Silk
Sandra Brown
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Claire Laurent is a vibrant beauty and the founder of French Silk, a succesful lingerie company. But a TV evangelist has attacked French Silk as sinful and vows to ruin the company. When the preacher is killed, Claire becomes the prime suspect. Now nothing can save Claire unless she reveals a shocking truth that she has sworn to take to the grave.
Customer Reviews:
Don't Listen to the Abridged Version.......2007-08-19
The abridged audio book is terrible. Loretta Swit's reading is awful - especially the southern accents. It was hard to listen to. I am giving it 2 stars, because I can only hope that the book is so much better and fills in all the big gaps. Why Cassidy ever found Claire attractive is not apparent in the audio version. She always is lying to him. What is attractive about that? I like Sandra Brown's books, but will only listen to unabridged versions in the future. (This one did not come in an unabridged version - that I could find...) Also no more with Loretta Swit as the reader.
Murder and mayhem in the Big Easy.......2006-11-15
Charismatic televangelist Jackson Wilde has targeted Claire Laurent and her lingerie catalog as tools of the devil. When Wilde turns up dead, Claire is the prime suspect, much to New Orleans District Attorney Robert Cassidy's plight, as he's falling for the alluring woman who just might be a murderer. This is foreign territory for a tough as nail prosecutor who never mixes business with pleasure.
While it looks like Claire might have done it (and she's without an alibi), there are a host of others out there with motive to kill not so squeaky clean preacher, including his latest wife and son, who are having a hot affair. But as Robert uncovers yet another lie that Claire has told him, will be able to forgive her?
Featuring a spunky heroine with a backbone, sexy hero, plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing and lots of steamy love scenes, this is Brown at the top of her game, and one of her most sensual and enduring stories. A definite must read!
French Silk.......2006-09-17
Reading this book was almost like watching chocolate pour over a wide expanse, it was smooth reading and very attention grabbing.
What A Story!.......2006-06-15
I am not really a romance/mystery reader, but I was bored and thought I'd give it a whirl. I usually like the drama-filled stories. I can now say that I have been inducted into the reading world of romance/mystery with thanks to Sandra Brown. This was the most exciting, well-written suspense novel I have ever read. I thought I had it figured out well before the middle of the book. But as I neared the end, all of my instincts were snuffed out, considering how I'm a pretty good judge of character. If you're looking for a good suspense, this will satisfy your search.
A real page turner..........2006-06-08
Talk about suspense! Just when you think you know "whodoneit," another suspect comes to mind. This is a real page turner with strong characters who are well defined. I enjoy Ms. Brown's books and this is one of her earlier ones, but absolutely worth purchasing and reading. I could not put it down.
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In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age.
The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory right around the Communist revolution in 1949, those who were youths during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, and those who have come of age in the Deng era. Exploring attitudes toward work, marriage, society, and culture, she convincingly connects the changing meanings of the modern in official discourse to the stories women tell about themselves and what they make of their lives.
One of the first studies to take up theoretically sophisticated issues about gender, modernity, and power based on a solid ethnographic ground, this much-needed cross-generational study will be a model for future anthropological work around the world.
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Jargon PoMo Fluff.......2003-05-29
But lacking substance and a forcefully argued coherent thesis. Journalistic and useful ethnography, but without much substance.
Too much useless jargon & outdated theoretical framework.......2003-01-23
Rofel, a feminist herself, justifies her own subjectivity by framing her research subjects' testimonies within her politically-charged gender/modernity framework. She does not propose a coherent thesis, but merely attempts to debunk the modernity paradigm that other scholars have done decades ago. There is too much social science jargon that doesn't serve to legitimize her research but only serves to mask the inadequecies of her method and her ill-conceived theories and biased interpretations.
Case studies.......1999-12-12
It was not a bad book if in politics you like to read about one area and one factory. If you like this it is a very good book; however, I do not like this kind of politics I like the bigger picture and to get a better overall understanding of the country or even city. This book through only gave me an understanding of the dinamics of one factory and I do not think that is effective for a whole book. Another major problem with the book was that it seemed like two books that where writen at different times and then put together in other words she wrote her disertation and then whent back got some more stuff and turned it into a book withou trying to make it flow better. So I did not really like this book.
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Ottoman Silk Textiles of the Royal Museum of Art And History in Brussels
Daniel De Jonghe
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At one time America's silk industry was the largest in the world. Silk was late to be industrialized, well after cotton and wool. Nonetheless, nineteenth-century American entrepreneurs rapidly built a silk industry with levels of production once unimaginable.
American Silk, 1830-1930 traces the evolution of the American silk industry through three compelling and very different case studies: the Nonotuck Silk Company of Northampton, Massachusetts; the Haskell Silk Company of Westbrook, Maine; and the Mallinson Silk Company of New York and Pennsylvania. The mills specialized in different products, from sewing-machine twist and embroidery threads to mass-produced plain silks and high fashion fabrics.
The case studies span the development of the U.S. silk industry from its beginnings in the 1830s to its decline in the 1930s. Starting in the 1920s with the growth of rayon, the first of the synthetic imitators, the market share for silk shrank, and silk gradually returned to being a luxury at the top of the hierarchy of fabrics. But, for a time, American technological innovations and entrepreneurs succeeded in bringing the pleasure and aesthetic of silk within the reach of more people than ever before.
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American Silk - New Family History.......2007-07-25
I went right to the middle section of this book to read about The Haskell Silk Mills in Westbrook, Maine. Why? Because my Great Grandfather Edwin Haskell was the founder. Excellent research by the author and her obvious love of the subject matter gave us, the Haskell descendants, an incredible look at the success and subsequent failure of this local business. I learned much more about my forebears and the operation of the mills than I had picked up anecdotally all these many years. If you have an interest in the textile industry in New England or in fact, anywhere. This is a wonderful read about the days before the synthetics came to town.
Ben Haskell
Brewer, ME
A key college-level title .......2007-04-11
Co-authored by a former costume curator, a professor of math and science history, and a costume curator, three top authors create a high-quality scholarly analysis of an industry in AMERICAN SILK 1830-1930: ENTREPRENEURS AND ARTIFACTS. At one time America's silk industry was the largest in the world, so even though it hasn't nearly the stature today, it's an essential piece of American and business history. Here three case studies of silk company production mills span the heyday of the silk industry era and cover the technological and social issues surrounding silk. A key college-level title for any holding serious about American and American business history.
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The mysterious circumstances surrounding Jim Thompson's disappearance in Malaysia sparked off what was to become a seven-year investigation. The subsequent media attention generated by the search triggered a number of theories, some proving to have rather sinister connotations.
In this intriguing book, the author seeks to evaluate most, if not all, of the speculative, and partially substantiated opinions which have been formed over the years.
Communist conspiracy, suicide or simple misadventure? Only after reading this amazing story are we in a position to decide.
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This book considers the economic, social and political importance of the silk trade in Safavid Iran. It focuses on four aspects of this trade: the role of silk in Iranian commercial policy, the interaction between agents of the state and foreign merchants, the routes along which silk was transported and, critically, the economic and social difficulties that contributed to the collapse of the regime in the 1720s. This represents a major contribution to the current debates on the social and economic history of the premodern world.
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In the name of Iran.......2006-07-23
This book is with regard to eco-dynamic of Safavid period, how economic varibles are altering Safavid Kings with Holland, Dutch, and Russia. This book is less about politics, it is more focus on economic of Safavid period and shaping Iran's politics.
The author of the book brought forward Western econmic phiolisphers such as Mann to discuss economic fluctuation in Safavid peroid.
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Producing Culture and Capital is a major theoretical contribution to the anthropological literature on capitalism, as well as a rich case study of kinship and gender relations in northern Italy.
Drawing on ethnographic and archival research on thirty-eight firms in northern Italy's silk industry, Sylvia Yanagisako illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. She shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification, and the reproduction and division of firms. In doing so, Yanagisako addresses two gaps in Marx's and Weber's theories of capitalism: the absence of an adequate cultural theory of capitalist motivation and the absence of attention to kinship and gender. By demonstrating that kinship and gender are crucial in structuring capitalist action, this study reveals these two gaps to be different facets of the same omission. A process-oriented approach to class formation and class subjectivity enables the author to incorporate the material and ideological struggles within families into an analysis of class-making and self-making.
Yanagisako concludes that both "provincial" and "global" capitalist orientations and strategies operate in an industry that has always been integrated into regional and international relations of production and distribution. Her approach to culture and capitalism as mutually constituted processes offers an alternative to both universal models of capitalism as a mode of production and essentialist models of distinctive "cultures of capitalism."
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Interesting book.......2007-03-10
Although I'm Italian and interested in the fashion/textile industry, I wasn't aware of the historical backgrounds of the most prestigeous Italian families who started textile businesses early in the Century. The author did an awesome job in gathering all the information the book contains. This book will help you get an idea of: where the major Italian textile firms are located around the lake Como; what are the families' styles and traditions beyond the businesses; and, ultimately, which are their characteristics. Simply intersting and amusing book.
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The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, however, as a result of declining markets for kimono, they find their livelihood and pride harder to sustain. This book is a poignant exploration of a vanishing world. Tamara Hareven integrates historical research with intensive life history interviews to reveal the relationships among family, work, and community in this highly specialized occupation.
Hareven uses her knowledge of textile workers' lives in the United States and Western Europe to show how striking similarities in weavers' experiences transcend cultural differences. These very rich personal testimonies, taken over a decade and a half, provide insight into how these men and women have juggled family and work roles and coped with insecurities. Readers can learn firsthand how weavers perceive their craft and how they interpret their lives and view the world around them. With rare immediacy, The Silk Weavers of Kyoto captures a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.
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This first edition text examines the remarkable histories of the societies and peoples who fostered Eurasian trade and communication in the almost two millennia before 1500 C.E. A study in the early history of “globalization,” the commercial and cultural exchanges explored in this volume provide students not only with a greater knowledge of the past, but also a deeper understanding of our world today.
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Jacques Anquetil
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ASIN: 208013616X
Release Date: 1996-05-15 |
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A book combining both excellent information and beauty.......1999-03-09
For anyone interested in silk textiles, or historic European costumes and furnishings, this book is a must. Well researched, it provides an excellent description of the history of the silk textile industry from its early days, with particular emphasis on the French silk industry. The photographs are superb and serve to clearly illustrate points in the text. The quality of the photos is such that one can see weave details; you can almost 'feel' the textiles. I highly recommend the book.
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