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Trust Me Once
by Jan Coffey May McGoldrickFrom USA Today Bestselling Author Jan Coffey comes a riveting tale of betrayal and murder. A woman runs through the glittering streets of Newport with killers on her trail. She needs help. She needs someone she can trust... Attorney Sarah Rand thought she had left danger behind—until she returned home to discover she had been declared dead. The murder victim was wrongly identified as Sarah, but the real target was her best friend. Now, with everyone believing she's dead, Sarah is on the run, hunted by killers who won't stop until they finish the job. Desperate for answers, Sarah uncovers a web of lies that ties her to a high-profile crime. Her boss, a respected judge, has been arrested for the murder. A Senator, a dying professor, and a powerful security expert are hiding secrets that could cost her everything. With time running out, Sarah must rely on a mysterious Hollywood celebrity with dark secrets of his own. But in a world of deception and betrayal, the biggest question remains… who can Sarah trust to stay alive?
Dearest Millie: A REGENCY NOVELLA (PENNINGTON FAMILY)
by Jan Coffey May McGoldrickA PENNINGTON FAMILY NOVELLA Lady Millie, youngest of the Pennington family, has always lived in the shadow of her talented and powerful siblings. She's been the rock of stability and order for her sisters and brothers. Her future looks bright until fate deals her a tragic hand. Dermot McKendry is a former surgeon in the Royal Navy who has returned to his home in the Highlands to open a hospital. As disorganized as he is passionate, he is a man with wounds and a secret past he has worked a lifetime to hide. Providence brings them together, but their future may lie beyond redemption. Dearest Millie is a poignant tale of two lovers, life's calamities, and the healing power of the human heart.
Geheime Gelübde: Pennington Familie Serie (Pennington Familie Serie)
by Jan Coffey May McGoldrickGeheime Gelübde USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Vorgeschichte zur Schottischen Traum-Trilogie VORGESCHICHTE ZUR PENNINGTON-FAMILIENSERIE ZU SCHÜTZEN Auf einer verzweifelten Reise nach Amerika verspricht Rebecca Neville der sterbenden Frau des Earl of Stanmore, ihren neugeborenen Sohn James aufzuziehen und zu versorgen. In der Neuen Welt angekommen, beginnt Rebecca ihr neues Leben als Mutter... ZU SCHÜTZEN Zehn Jahre später erfährt der Earl of Stanmore vom Schicksal seiner Familie. Er schickt seinen jungen Erben in die Kolonien, damit er ihn als Adligen des Königreichs aufziehen kann. Rebecca hat nicht die Absicht, ihr Gelübde zu brechen und kehrt mit James nach England zurück, um sich einer Zukunft ohne ihren geliebten Schützling zu stellen. Aber sie muss sich auch ihrer turbulenten Vergangenheit stellen... ZU LIEBEN Auf den ersten Blick lässt der furchteinflößende Stanmore Rebecca zurückschrecken. Doch hinter seiner kalten, attraktiven Fassade und der scheinbaren Gleichgültigkeit gegenüber der Notlage seines Sohnes brodeln die Gefühle. Denn hinter Stanmore und seinen Motiven steckt mehr, als es den Anschein hat. Der rätselhafte Lord muss sein eigenes Versprechen einhalten, und seine Leidenschaft für Rebecca lässt sich nicht leugnen... Über The Promise... "McGoldricks Begabung für die Charakterisierung reicht von der mutigen Heldin und dem verwundeten Helden des Buches bis hin zu einer faszinierenden Reihe von Nebenfiguren, darunter ein teuflischer Schurke und eine wunderbar intrigante Mätresse. Dieser lebendige georgianische Historienroman ist perfekt für Leser, die eine schöne Mischung aus Geschichte und Leidenschaft mögen."
Wie Man Einen Herzog Ablehnt: SERIE DER FAMILIE PENNINGTON (SERIE DER FAMILIE PENNINGTON)
by Jan Coffey May McGoldrickEINE NOVELLE EINE NOVELLE DER FAMILIE PENNINGTON Lady Taylor Fleming ist eine Erbin, der ein Verehrer auf den Fersen ist. Ihr Schritt-für-Schritt-Plan, ihn loszuwerden, ist einfach. Doch der Herzog von Bamberg ist alles andere als einfach. Taylor versucht, sich in die Highlands zu flüchten, aber ihre Pläne werden kompliziert, als der Herzog vor ihrer Tür steht und ihre treuen Verbündeten sie im Stich lassen. Und selbst bei den besten Plänen können die Dinge schief gehen...
Post Office on the Tokaido
by Greta GorsuchIn Japan, nothing is more familiar than the neighborhood post office, with its big red box in front and bright, welcoming windows. The post office has been Siya's favorite place since she was a child. Now a young woman, Siya is delighted to have a job at the Shindori Post Office in Shizuoka City, even though it is temporary. But her boss is a jerk. Born in Japan of a Japanese father and an Indian mother, Siya looks just a little different. The boss won't believe she is a native speaker and gives her a hard time every day! Adding to her worries, a motorbike bandit is stealing money from elderly customers who use post offices to do their banking. Shindori Post Office is right on the Tokaido Road, an ancient path that follows the sea. As Siya explores her new home in Shizuoka City, she finds history hidden away in this modern city. Siya is strong, and she notices things. One day, as she stands on the old road, with modern cars zooming by, the motorbike bandit strikes. And what Siya does next surprises everyone...even herself!
One Season in the Sun (Gemma Open Door)
by Joseph SchusterThe history of baseball is filled with forgotten names: players who are good enough to reach the top of the sport but who, for any number of reasons, land at the edges of the game. Some spend a week or two in the major leagues and then disappear back into the minors. Many leave the sport for good. Still, for an afternoon, a week, or a couple of months, these men stood on the field alongside the best players in The Show. Here are gripping stories of their brief moments in the sun.
Arthur Mee: A Biography
by Keith CrawfordArthur Mee (1875-1943), best remembered as the creator of The Children's Encyclopaedia, was more than a popular editor, journalist and travel writer; for a generation of young readers and their parents, the name Arthur Mee truly meant something. Formany in his audience, the narratives and discourses embedded within his writing tied together and legitimised a trinity of beliefs that lay at the heart of his nonconformist faith and character: God, England and Empire. Despite the enormous appeal of his many published works, which during the first half of the twentieth century saw him become a household name and a major publishing brand, Mee has remained an ethereal figure. In Arthur Mee, the first full-length account of Mee's life since 1946, Crawford draws upon a range of Mee's correspondence to offer for the first time a realistic picture of the man at work and at home as an antidote to the overly romanticised image attached to his name. The book places Mee's work within the wider cultural, political and social context of an England undergoing unparalleled societal change and technological advancement. Scholars of the history of education, children's literature and beyond will find much of interest in these pages, and childhooddevotees to Mee's publications may well find themselves transported back to a time of wonder, imagination and hope.
A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter
by Dorothy HamiltonA Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter is written for all psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists who practise under the broad banner of psychoanalytic thinking. It is also for anyone who loves beauty and wants to think more about its place in the mind.
Reimagining Public Service Media: Navigating Change and Exploring Public Consensus in the Czech Republic (Routledge Focus on Communication and Society)
by Marína Urbániková Klára Smejkal Iveta Jansová Lenka Waschková CísařováIncorporating perspectives of various key stakeholders, this book critically explores the state and future of public service media (PSM), and maps areas of consensus upon which a renewed social contract for PSM could be built.Broadening the debate beyond normative frameworks and drawing on perspectives other than elite and expert opinions, this book represents a vital contribution to the discussion over PSM’s present and future. The study uses the Czech Republic as a case study, a representative Central and Eastern European (CEE) country that, following the fall of its Communist regime, successfully transformed its former state-run media propaganda system into PSM. Employing a mixed-methods research design, it provides empirically-based insights from three groups, namely: the general public, PSM’s audience and source of funding; politicians and members of PSM supervisory bodies; and PSM journalists and managers. This book synthesises the perspectives of these three groups, focusing on the common ground in their expectations and evaluations, and exploring where the societal consensus lies in terms of the public service PSM should provide and the public value it should bring. The analysis pays particular attention to the unique position of PSM in smaller countries and within the CEE region.Reimagining Public Service Media is recommended reading for advanced students and researchers in fields including Media Ownership, Media Regulation, and Media and Politics.
The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analyses (Routledge Focus on Mental Health)
by Raul MoncayoIn The Mind of Complex Numbers and the Subject in Analyses, Raul Moncayo uses the complex plane to evaluate analytic outcomes. Moncayo’s approach provides a study of the process and outcomes of singular analyses that does not rely on the methods and questionnaires of psychotherapy or medical research.Referencing topology and abstract mathematics, Moncayo explores the limits of the Cartesian plane for predicting the capacity for sublimation and positive outcomes. By integrating the complex plane, Moncayo arrives at an exact number to ‘arithmetize’ symptoms and human capacities.This book represents a new approach to Lacanian analysis and outcomes that will be of great interest to Lacanian analysts in practice and training.
Internet Popular Culture and (Everyday) Politics: Methodological & Ethical Critiques from Southeast Asia
by Crystal Abidin Natalie PangThis edited collection considers how scholars conduct research on (everyday) politics in Southeast Asia via networks of internet popular culture. This includes artefacts, networks, groups, and cultures that are specific to Southeast Asian online practices, and that seek to represent, advocate for, provoke, or question how citizens "do" politics online.In the Southeast Asia region in particular, these behind-the-scenes minutiae of everyday decisions are all the more under-valued when researchers have been taught, conditioned, or cautioned to tiptoe around taboo or political topics implicitly policed by states and governments. The combination of media regimes with limited press freedoms, the employment of sedition acts against citizens, and the need to be strategic to secure state and industry funding for research have pressured or motivated scholars to strategically obscure certain research anecdotes in favour of a smoother publishing journey and/or posterity. As such, this collection serves as a sounding board and collection of reflections on what it really looks like to conduct research on everyday politics online in the Southeast Asian region, while navigating innovative media methods, negotiating inter-disciplinary gatekeeping, demands of publishing in tiered journals, and the tensions around legitimising one's methodological choices. This collection features four accounts of scholars contemplating the methodological and ethical conundrums when conducting research on Southeast Asian internet popular culture and everyday politics.This book will be useful for the readers in the disciplines of anthropology, Asian studies, communications, cultural studies, media studies, and science and technology studies.
Athens: Notes on Urban Immanence (Built Environment City Studies)
by Stavros KousoulasFocusing on the city of Athens, this book examines architecture as something that produces culture and ideology — rather than the opposite. Therefore, this book aims to complement architectural and urban theories that are based only on historical overviews or typological assumptions; to do so, it boldly opens architectural discourse to philosophy, affect theory, and social and cognitive sciences.By examining Athens after its denomination as Greek capital in 1834, the moments, actors, and transformations that assist the individuation of the Athenian urban ecologies are problematised. Opting for theoretical speculations, the readers will witness architecture as a collective equipment that produces modes of life that can either enhance or diminish our collective potentials. As such, the ambition of this book is to provide the theoretical and methodological groundings for thorough extrapolations on how new collectivities can be produced.Readers of this book will be exposed to a transdisciplinary approach that identifies and addresses shared problems and concerns regarding the production of contemporary urban environments. This book will also explore theoretical innovations that can inform and trigger new ways of speculative thinking and offers a non-reductionist account of the development of Athens from the perspective of multiple architectural technicities. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, architectural theory, architectural history, and philosophy.
Reframing Neoliberalism as a Cognitive Regime: An Order of Alienated Consciousness
by Daniel GuganThis volume provides a new exploration of the complex phenomenon of neoliberalism from a unique perspective, casting it as our contemporary “collective consciousness” and arguing for its interpretation not as a political ideology, but as a multifaceted cognitive system.It maps out the formation processes and structural buildup of these systems by elaborating first on a certain model of individual cognition, then scaling it up to the societal level. This collective cognitive model then provides the foundation for in‑depth analysis of “cognitive regimes,” which are understood as the different examples of culturally defined and externally structured collective consciousnesses. Several attributes and their different dynamics are explored and organized into a general framework, such that a new and comprehensive understanding of the subject can be extracted. It offers valuable analysis of what this “cognitivist” approach to neoliberalism can provide for re‑imagining our future in a world struggling with ecologic, economic, demographic, and climatic degradation, and what lessons can be learned for an era overshadowed by a potential climatic collapse.Academics interested in the expansion of the “critique of neoliberalism” discourse to the socio‑cognitive field, looking for some novelties in the well‑established academic literature around this subject, would greatly benefit from this text. With its clear and concise format, it is also of interest to motivated readers from outside academia.
Design Principles of Autonomous Systems: UAV, UGV, and AUV
by Narayan Panigrahi Smita TripathyThis book explains unmanned systems including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs). It also details system and subsystem compositions and their basic design. The components/subcomponents, employed payloads and sensors, and communication systems used to compose the autonomous system are discussed. It examines generic applications of these unmanned systems including specific missions for which they are employed. Other topics like swarm of drone, anti-drone system, and some algorithms used in navigation and communication of the drone are also discussed.Some key features: Helps readers understand nuances of autonomous systems on land, in air, and in sea. Explains pertinent design principles, sensors, and communication system. Lays the foundation for crafting, designing, and deploying autonomous systems for different applications. Reviews algorithms, computing, control and technology stacks required for design of UAS. Discusses software and navigation aspects of autonomous systems with the concepts of SLAM. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in mechatronics engineering, systems and sensors, systems and control, and aerospace engineering.
Environmental, Social, and Governance Ratings: Risks, Regulations, and Market Dynamics (Routledge Open Business and Economics)
by Patrycja Chodnicka-JaworskaIn recent years, the world of finance and investments has changed, considering measures related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors for socially responsible investments. ESG scoring and ratings are used to estimate ESG risk.This book presents ESG ratings and scorings and their providers and lists problems with data quality, data sources, and unknown methodology, contributing to the green- and social-washing ESG rating phenomenon. The value of assets invested in green instruments relies on high-quality ESG ratings to measure green transition. Data greenwashing negatively impacts the financial market, especially the stock price, fund activities, and bond markets. The size of the rated company, geographical location, and industry biases are considered in understanding the greenwashing phenomenon. This book illustrates all the problems related to ESG rating inflation, conflicts of interest, models of payment, and internal and external ratings. It describes current regulations, initiatives, and practical knowledge of ESG scoring.Academics and students of financial law, economics, and financial sustainability will find this book invaluable. The practical implications in the book will benefit sustainability-concerned regulators and practitioners who estimate ESG risk (especially in financial institutions).The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.
EU Environmental Governance: Current and Future Challenges (Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy)
by Amandine Orsini Eleni KavvathaThis book presents an overview of the field of environmental law and policies within the European Union (EU) and externally, from theoretical foundations to major issues and applied governance solutions.Drawing on expertise from renowned academics and practitioners from different disciplines, EU Environmental Governance: Current and Future Challenges helps readers to understand the main legal, political and economic issues of environmental protection since the adoption of the European Green Deal in 2019. This new edition presents both current insights and future challenges as they seem to be emerging in the new geopolitical era in the EU after major events such as the COVID‑19 pandemic and the Russian invasion in Ukraine. The authors examine a broad range of sensitive and topical environmental challenges including climate change, air and environmental pollution, waste management, biodiversity protection, environmental and human health, marine biodiversity, renewable energy, nuclear energy and sustainable Arctic governance. Overall, this volume exposes the reader to a vast array of empirical case studies, which will bolster their training and help tackle the environmental challenges faced by Europe today.This book is a valuable resource for students, researchers and policymakers across a broad range of fields, including environmental law and policies, environmental economics, climate science and environmental sociology.
Ashwagandha: Potential Drug Candidate from Ancient Ayurvedic Remedy
by Dilip Ghosh and Benny AntonyFor over 3,000 years, ashwagandha has held a prominent place in Ayurveda and Unani, two of India’s ancient medicinal traditions. This revered herb, with its roots, leaves, and fruits, has been celebrated for its potent medicinal properties and adaptogenic benefits.This book is a comprehensive exploration of ashwagandha’s remarkable therapeutic potential. Drawing from centuries of traditional use and scientific advancements, it delves into the ethnopharmacology, botanical characteristics, phytochemicals, pharmacological activities, clinical trials, safety, toxicity, and formulations of this powerful herb. With growing recognition of ashwagandha as a candidate for drug development, this book critically examines its applications across diverse health domains, from neurological and reproductive health to cancer and arthritis management. It identifies research gaps that must be addressed to elevate ashwagandha to a fully commercialized, evidence-based medical intervention.Ashwagandha: Potential Drug Candidate from Ancient Ayurvedic Remedy provides insights for scientists, healthcare professionals, nutraceutical developers, and regulatory bodies. Whether seeking to develop innovative products, optimize fitness regimens, or craft informed nutritional plans, this book is the ultimate guide to harnessing the full potential of ashwagandha.
Love Letters to bell hooks: Narratives Celebrating the Influence of a Transgressive Educator
by Tricia M. Kress Robert Lake Nadia Khan-Roopnarinebell hooks was one of the most influential voices in critical and culturally-responsive education. In recognition of the magnificence of bell’s contributions to the field of education, this book is the first of its kind to bring together scholars, educators, and young people to honor her broad and deep legacy. Written in letter form, each chapter reflects how bell hooks’ many influential books have shaped the lives and livelihoods of the people who have read them. Narrative in style and accessible to a wide audience of readers, this collection serves as a bridge between the philosophical and the practical components of bell’s work, as authors demonstrate the direct influence and application of hooks’ legacy in their lives. Love Letters to bell hooks is a wonderful companion to any of bell’s other works and is especially relevant to undergraduate and graduate Education students, as well as in-service educators pursuing professional development.
Islamic Minorities of South Asia: An Ethnographic Account
by Nadeem HasnainIslam and Islamicate South Asia have generated interest since 9/11 as never before. However, Islamic Minorities, specifically, is still a relatively neglected area of study in South Asian Islam. It may be due to the reason that there has been a tendency to look at Islam as a monolithic faith and Muslims as a monolithic population to the western world.This book focuses on such Islamic Minorities as the Shias (dominant Isna Ashari/Twelver Shias), Ismaili Khoja, Dawoodi Bohra, and Ahmedia/Qadiyani communities and looks at them from the perspective of their interaction with Hindu cultures and traditions. Written in lucid language from a sociological perspective, it should be an important contribution to the field of “Lived Islam” or “Islam in Practice.”This book will be invaluable to all those interested in the religion, society, and culture of Muslim South Asia.
Visualization for Social Data Science (Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences)
by Roger Beecham"This is an important book on an important topic. I particularly like the examples showing different visualizations of the same data and the parallel presentation of graphics and code. And I absolutely love the chapter on visual storytelling. I can't wait to use this book in my classes."- Andrew Gelman, Department of Statistics and Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York"A book that gives learners the inspiration, knowledge and worked examples to create cutting edge visualisations of their own."- James Chesire, Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography, University College LondonVisualization for Social Data Science provides end-to-end skills in visual data analysis. The book demonstrates how data graphics and modern statistics can be used in tandem to process, explore, model and communicate data-driven social science. It is packed with detailed data analysis examples, pushing you to do visual data analysis. As well as introducing, and demonstrating with code, a wide range of data visualizations for exploring patterns in data, Visualization for Social Data Science shows how models can be integrated with graphics to emphasise important structure and de-emphasise spurious structure and the role of data graphics in scientific communication -- in building trust and integrity. Many of the book’s influences are from data journalism, as well as information visualization and cartography. Each chapter introduces statistical and graphical ideas for analysis, underpinned by real social science datasets. Those ideas are then implemented via principled, step-by-step, workflows in the programming environment R. Key features include:• Extensive real-world data sets and data analysis scenarios in Geography, Public Health, Transportation, Political Science;• Code examples fully-integrated into main text, with code that builds in complexity and sophistication;• Quarto template files for each chapter to support literate programming practices;• Functional programming examples, using tidyverse, for generating empirical statistics (bootstrap resamples, permutation tests) and working programmatically over model outputs;• Unusual but important programming tricks for generating sophisticated data graphics such as network visualizations, dot-density maps, OD maps, glyphmaps, icon arrays, hypothetical outcome plots and graphical line-ups plots. Every data graphic in the book is implemented via ggplot2.• Chapters on uncertainty visualization and data storytelling that are uniquely accompanied with detailed, worked examples.
Social Inequality and Human Security: Case Studies from Asia (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
by Christian PlobergerThis book collates case studies of national and subnational efforts to alleviate inequality and implement development and security policy more effectively, collaboratively, and multidimensionally.While inequality is a fundamental developmental challenge and a global phenomenon, responsibility largely falls to the state to address it. This book seeks to provide a specific framework to analyse these efforts at the national and sub-national levels. It does so through the United Nations’ concept of Human Security, whose five core principles provide a good means of addressing inequality’s various facets. Each chapter opens by highlighting the specific aspect of human security that is being addressed. Specific issues covered in the volume include local economic development, maritime economies, fishing communities, governance, and public administration.This book will be of keen interest to scholars of development studies, inequality (especially social inequality), and area studies.
Challenges in Primary Mental Health Care: Models for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
by Christopher Dowrick Christos LionisThis insightful and timely book equips family doctors and other primary healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to address a diverse range of new and important challenges in the field of primary mental health care, including ongoing impacts from the COVID pandemic, thanatophobia, and end-of life care, humanitarian and geopolitical catastrophes, and the effects of climate change.There is an emphasis throughout on the need to encourage and so reap the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration between family doctors and mental health specialists, and across the range of primary care and community workers. Effective primary healthcare relies increasingly on the use of remote consultations, and the book explains how the potential of remote working can be maximized in low-resource settings. The book concludes with a consideration of how to protect and enhance the mental health of primary care workers in the face of these ongoing challenges in care.Key Features: Global and inclusive, providing practical guidance and direction across low-, middle-, and high-income settings, satisfying the needs of all primary care practitioners regardless of geography Focused on key and immediate challenges for primary care practitioners arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty, and social inequality, migration, and climate change Addresses the vital importance of self-care by and of primary healthcare workers facing unprecedented work and emotional pressures Reflecting the expertise of the WONCA Working Party for Mental Health (WWPMH), building on the foundations laid in the 2020 WONCA volume Global Primary Mental Health Care, the editors and contributors all have expertise in primary mental health care at the frontline, with backgrounds in family medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and nursing.
The Sciences of Roger Bacon’s Opus Maius (Global Perspectives on the History of Natural Philosophy)
by Edited by Meagan S. AllenThrough an examination of the Opus maius, Roger Bacon’s great scientific work of 1267, this book offers insight into Bacon’s understanding of the role of science in society and the study and practice of science in the later Middle Ages.Written at the request of Pope Clement IV (d. 1268), the Opus maius contains English Franciscan and polymath Roger Bacon’s plans for educational and ecclesiastical reform through the study of arts and sciences, which Bacon saw as having been neglected in the curricula of the major European universities. In writing the Opus maius, Bacon wanted to demonstrate that not only were the sciences a solid foundation for learning theology, but they could also improve society and help mankind attain salvation. This volume contains nine essays on the sciences Bacon thought were most important in this scheme, including optics, mathematics, astronomy, alchemy, medicine, and experimental science. Each provides a focused examination of the individual sciences, demonstrating how Bacon understood and practised them, as well as how he envisioned they would fit together into his larger programme of scientific reform.This thought-provoking collection will be a valuable resource to historians of science, medicine, and philosophy, as well as those in medieval and premodern studies.
Creating Responsible and Inclusive Fashion Brand Narratives: Theory and Practice
by Emily HuggardThis book introduces the theories and frameworks necessary to drive meaningful social change in fashion brand communication, illustrating their applications with examples of brands that prioritize social justice, decolonization, and environmental sustainability in their practices and communication strategies.Drawing on social, consumer, and cultural theories—such as Indigenous dress theory, circularity, fat liberation, and social reproduction—this book encourages students to think critically about brand communication in ways that are relevant, impactful, and aimed at transforming discourse and ideologies, rather than focusing solely on products.Through case studies ranging from Polo Ralph Lauren’s collaboration with Indigenous weaver Naiomi Glasses to material regeneration at Veja, the authors demonstrate how these narratives can be applied in practice while raising ethical questions about transparency and authenticity in fashion brand messaging. Readers will not only gain an understanding of why more inclusive and equitable brand narratives are essential but also develop the knowledge and critical thinking skills needed to analyze, interpret, and contribute to the ongoing transformation of fashion brand storytelling.Creating Responsible and Inclusive Brand Narratives will be of interest to advanced students of Fashion Communication, Marketing and Brand Management.
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form
by Helen Vendler“An intellectual feast.”—John Leonard, Harper’s MagazineA monumental study reveals the patient and meticulous labor behind the Irish Nobel laureate’s immaculate poetic craft.The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one’s quarrels with others while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the resolution) of one’s quarrel with oneself. This is where Helen Vendler’s Our Secret Discipline begins. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poet’s mind. This book is a space-clearing gesture, an attempt to write about lyric forms in Yeats in unprecedented and comprehensive ways. The secret discipline of the poet is his vigilant attention to forms—whether generic, structural, or metrical. Yeats explores the potential of such forms to give shape and local habitation to volatile thoughts and feelings.Helen Vendler remains focused on questions of singular importance: Why did Yeats cast his poems into the widely differing forms they ultimately took? Can we understand Yeats’s poetry better if we pay attention to its form, both its internal architectonic and its external organization into conventional verse structures? Chapters of the book take up many Yeatsian ventures, such as the sonnet, the lyric sequence, paired poems, blank verse, and others. With elegance and precision, Vendler offers brilliant insights into the creative process and speculates on Yeats’s aims as he writes and rewrites some of the most famous poems in modern literature.