Chez Vicalle


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A young male university graduate contracts an unusual marriage which results in a set of dizygotic twins and the ownership of an unusual home and life style.




Chez Vicalle Too


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Chez Vicalle Too was inspired by the genius of Emile Durkheim who wrote: "All social realities--VALUES and PROCESSES--are created by humans. The social and ideational world represents NO entity without humans. Such a world is the REFLECTION of the socialization experienced by EACH individual in his or her cognitive development." The surreal quality of Chez Vicalle Too was inspired by Marcel Duchamp and Edward Gorey. Readers of Chez Vicalle Too are encouraged to read A. S. Byatt's novella Morpho Eugenia and view the movie Angels and Insects which was based upon the novella.




Beyond Chez Vicalle: the Volunteer


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A young Kuban Kazachka named Marina Orlova, must find a way to survive after wandering into World War I, and later the Russian Civil War. When a motion picture maker is hospitalized in a small Wisconsin town, hes asked to make a movie about events that took place in Imperial Russia during World War I and the Russian Civil War. The crux of the action begins when a young Kuban Kazak maiden named Marina Orlova wanders into the midst of World War I on the Armenian front. There, she suffers a serious leg wound, and struggles to recover. With the Russians advancing on Sivas, Turkey, Maria becomes a truck driver for a Red Cross unit helping the Imperial Army evacuate the wounded from the Persian front. Eventually, Maria is injured again, this time quite seriously. As she moves from hospital to hospital, she witnesses the developing Russian Civil War, and in Kazan, by a fluke of battle, becomes a soldier in the White Army. Join Maria as she finds the courage to navigate through a key period of world history, traveling from Kazan to Omsk, to Irkutsk, to Mukden and beyond in Beyond Chez Vicalle: The Volunteer.




Chez Vicalle Also


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This is the third volume in the Chez Vicalle series. The original story line continues, but this volume is built around an idiosyncratic motion picture maker who has decided to bring to the screen a classic work of that author (1879-1958) who Jack Woodford (1893-1971) once described "As the greatest writer of fantasy still undiscovered by the Wise Men of the West." He noted further that that writer was "probably the least commercial writer in the United States of his time and was a marvelous model for any writer because of his adeptness in using the exact phrase."




Beyond Chez Vicalle: the Volunteer


Book Description

A young Kuban Kazachka named Marina Orlova, must find a way to survive after wandering into World War I, and later the Russian Civil War. When a motion picture maker is hospitalized in a small Wisconsin town, hes asked to make a movie about events that took place in Imperial Russia during World War I and the Russian Civil War. The crux of the action begins when a young Kuban Kazak maiden named Marina Orlova wanders into the midst of World War I on the Armenian front. There, she suffers a serious leg wound, and struggles to recover. With the Russians advancing on Sivas, Turkey, Maria becomes a truck driver for a Red Cross unit helping the Imperial Army evacuate the wounded from the Persian front. Eventually, Maria is injured again, this time quite seriously. As she moves from hospital to hospital, she witnesses the developing Russian Civil War, and in Kazan, by a fluke of battle, becomes a soldier in the White Army. Join Maria as she finds the courage to navigate through a key period of world history, traveling from Kazan to Omsk, to Irkutsk, to Mukden and beyond in Beyond Chez Vicalle: The Volunteer.







Policyholder's Guide to the Law of Insurance Coverage


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Annotation The first comprehensive guide to insurance law written from the corporate policyholder's perspective, Policyholder's Guide to the Law of Insurance Coverage provides expert guidance through the labyrinth of legal issues surrounding insuring instruments and underlying claims, plus practical strategies and legal arguments to help you secure coverage for contested claims. Policyholder's Guide addresses virtually every insurance-related legal issue you are likely to encounter in the regular course of business, as well as those issues unique to specialized industries or unusual situations including: Liability policies -- Special liability policies -- First-party policies -- Specialty first-party property policies -- Environmental -- Marine and aviation -- Toxic tort -- Copyright claims issues Litigation in insurance coverage disputes. Policyholder's Guide gives you in-depth analysis of the latest court decisions plus current policy language and cutting-edge legal arguments thatyou may use to advance your case. You also get hundreds of case citations, footnotes, cross-references, checklists and other useful aids to make legal research easy.




500 Years of New Words


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If you ever use words and find yourself wondering where they came from, who wrote them first, and why they became necessary, then you will savour 500 Years of New Words, a new volume that takes you on an exciting journey through the English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade of the twenty-first century. The entries are arranged not alphabetically but in chronological order based on the earliest known year that each word was printed or written down.







Women and Autobiography


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An overview of women's autobiography, providing historical background and contemporary criticism along with selections from a range of autobiographies by women. It seeks to provide a broad introduction to the major questions dominating autobiographical scholarship today.