The interrelated demographic, economic, religious, and cultural transformations that England experienced in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were most pronounced in larger towns in the south and east, such as Colchester in Essex. The effects produced by these changes led to an effort at social and sexual regulation by the town’s more prosperous residents, in order to control and modify the negative impact on the local population, especially the poor. This book provides an in-depth portrait of an urban setting, discussing both wrongdoers themselves and the motivations of the craftsmen and tradesmen – the «middling sorts» – who enforced local standards of conduct.

The Middling Sort and the Politics of Social Reformation: Colchester, 1570-1640 (Renaissance and Baroque)

Smith, Richard Dean

Religion & Spirituality

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Captain Noon is in his last year at college. He sleeps till noon, he dreams of being a pilot. Time and opportunities slip away in procrastination. The narrator, his father, recalls his own father's instructions, "play for keeps," and the head of his high school "hoe-out your row." Get on with it. Finish what you do. A distant cousin Nora put off life and never got around to it. A thorn in the side of members of the family, Nora lives alone and has a stroke. She is the family historian collecting clippings about members of the family in her Death Bible. The comfortable Berkeley liberals, a man in an electric wheelchair takes a 'pitch' in the rain, a pitcher for the Giants, neighbors, Berkeley's contraband dog hair, and the fancy of the Triple Z Squadron, the Triple Z Airlines in peacetime, fill out the story. Thomas De Quincey says: "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think of robbing, and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Captain Noon! Captain Noon! a Year in the Life Captain Icarus Noon of the Triple Z Squadron: Procrastination Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

iUniverse

A detailed history of the managed health care movement as recorded by Dr. Smith provides insight into the current turmoil in the medical profession. Relating physician behavior to the social psychology of mass movement gives us an understanding of the initial acceptance of the negative effects of managed care.

The Rise and Fall of Managed Care: A comprehensive History of a Mass Medical Movement

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Wyndham Hall Pr

Rise and Fall of Managed Care: History of the Mass Medical Movement

Nova Science Pub Inc

Trust in a Medical Setting

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Nova Novinka

Once a player masters the basics of pool, mental aspects become paramount. Even expert players are plagued by the game's mental demands. I look at the game from the point of view of the player striving to improve his/her game faced with the importance of the mental aspects of playing before spectators, competitive and performance stress, as well as strange and mystical occurrences within the confines of the green abyss of a pool table. I explore and interpret ways these mental and metaphysical aspects of the game operate in all players.

Pool: It's Mental, It's Physical, It's Mystical

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

FriesenPress

Jean Kendrick, a champion billiard player taught by DeadSTRoke, a grandmaster at billiards, was unable to win on the Women's Professional Billiard Tour: something held her back, and she returned to Rispah Junction. A young charismatic player, Corky, arrives with a beautiful young prostitute, Floppsie. The denizens of the poolroom don't trust Corky who is captivated by Jean. The denizens and Dr. Marek Kendrick try to find the cause of DeadSTRoke's death twelve years prior to beginning of the story. During Tournament Week, Corky and Floppsie mysteriously vanish. Jean's brother Dr. Marek, a physician in practice with Jean's and Marek's father, tries to explain the disappearance of Corky and Floppsie.

Midnight at Deadstroke Billiard Club and Rispah Cafe

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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