"In twelth-century France, fifteen-year-old Eloise, newly and unhappily married to the rough, ambitious, much older but devoted Robert of Rochefort, finds it difficult to adjust to her new life and unwisely falls in love with the young troubadour who comes to sing at her husband's castle. A medieval tale of doomed love, evoking the richness and texture, mystery and wonder of life in the 12th century."--

In the year 2056, five years after the influenza pandemic killed nearly half the world's population. Tharon Trace is about to turn twelve, that uncertain age between child and teenager, if she lives that long. When she and her two best friends, Kaid Walker and Helm Harris, witness a murder, they are abducted and swept into a web of conspiracy and danger. They must escape and warn someone about the threats they overheard, but who can they trust? Deputy Dana Donovan has resolved to stop waiting for the man she loves to love her. It is time she gets a life outside her job. Before she can figure out how to find the life she's been missing, she must find the missing children. She teams up with Tom Trace, Tharon's father, whose skill at tracking puts them fast on the children's trail. Will they be fast enough to rescue the children before the killers find them again?

In contemporary societies privatization has long ceased to be just an economic concept; rather, it must increasingly be made to refer to the ongoing shrinking of the public space under the impact of the representation of individual lives and images, which cuts across all discourses, genres and media to become one of the primary means of production of culture. This volume is intended to cover such an historical, social and intellectual ground, where self-representation comes to the fore. Targeting mostly an academic readership but certainly also of interest to the general educated public, it collects a wide range of essays dealing with diverse modes of life writing and portraying from a variety of perspectives and focusing on different historical periods and media. It thus offers itself as a major contribution to a better understanding of the world we live in: its past legacy and present configuration.

This collection explores emerging areas in the history of economics and provides a valuable insight into contemporary research in the field. The papers focus on four areas:* Science and Economics. Authors investigate how science is perceived and how its history is related, details early history of probability and examine 'cyberpunk' - a science fic