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Reality Check: How VR and AR Can Supercharge Your Business
by Jeremy DaltonImmersive technologies have the power to radically transform your business. Discover how you can step into the future and gain competitive advantage with Reality Check.Virtual and augmented reality has existed for years, yet most of us rarely use them beyond gaming and tech demos. This book separates hype from reality to uncover how these groundbreaking techxnologies are transforming our world, offering huge business opportunities across all sectors.Reality Check features fascinating real-life examples and interviews with industry leaders which dispel common misconceptions, explore the future of technology and uncover how VR and XR can be integrated into your business, improving efficiency, impact and productivity.
The Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands
by Jean-Noël Kapferer Vincent BastienInternational best seller, The Luxury Strategy: Break the rules of marketing to build luxury brands, written by two of the world's leading voices on luxury, Jean-Noël Kapferer and Vincent Bastien, has now cemented its position as the global authority and reference book on luxury business. This book is ideal for senior executives in the luxury markets, entrepreneurs wishing to create a luxury brand, and students studying luxury brands in depth.The Luxury Strategy defines the differences between premium and luxury products, between a luxury and a fashion strategy, and why one needs to turn established marketing rules upside down to build luxury brands. It provides a rigorous guide for true and long-lasting success in the field of luxury.This essential guide rationalizes those business models that have achieved profitability and unveils the original methods that were used to transform small family businesses such as Ferrari, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Chanel, Prada, Hermès into profitable global brands. It unveils the narrow path to keep growing while remaining exclusive.This revised edition builds upon the content that has made this book a staple of the industry. It includes a new preface by the authors and an updating of key cases. The book concludes with a new chapter that delves into the consequences of the luxification of society, the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the sector as well as other new technologies and explores the need for the luxury industry to serve as exemplars of best practice.
Redefining Information Security: How to Build a Security-Driven Organization
by Brian WagnerRedefining Information Security shows security and technology leaders how to build a security-driven culture that not only safeguards but actively propels businesses forward, enabling innovation and growth in the face of an evolving digital business and threat landscape.This book pioneers a transformative approach that shields organizations from risks but also actively leverages them to drive competitive advantages. Redefining Information Security addresses the technical aspects of cybersecurity in addition to the organizational culture, leadership, communication, education and human factors that make up the integral components of a successful security strategy. It offers a strong emphasis on practical implementation, providing actionable guidance and tools to apply proactive security strategies.Redefining Information Security offers insights on integrating security into technology roadmaps and leveraging it as a growth catalyst. It introduces innovative risk management strategies, allowing organizations to navigate uncertainties while maintaining a robust security posture. This guide presents a wealth of real-word examples that provide insights into how organizations at the forefront of security innovation integrate and embed security within their strategic vision and explores how security can evolve to meet the challenges of tomorrow's digital landscape.
The Science of Shopping: How Psychology and Innovation Create a Winning Retail Strategy
by Kate HardcastleIn the ever-evolving landscape of retail, understanding the science behind modern shopping habits - both online and offline - has become crucial for success. In this book, global consumer expert and multi-award-winning business consultant Kate Hardcastle delivers a blueprint for the future of retail, exploring the psychological, technological and strategic elements that shape today's retail environment and providing unparalleled insights from some of the world's leading brands such as Erewhon, Selfridges, Aldi and Primark. Exploring every aspect of the consumer decision-making journey, The Science of Shopping includes content on how emotions, perceptions and social factors can drive consumer behaviour as well how to use AI to personalize the shopping experience and the different tricks and tips retailers can use to engage and entice customers. Learn how to find the perfect price point, how to create cohesive shopping environments across all platforms and how you can create immersive experiences that resonate with customers with this practical and insightful guide.
Food Supply Chain Management and Logistics: Understanding the Challenges of Production, Operation and Sustainability in the Food Industry
by Samir DaniFood supply chains are integral in ensuring that food makes it from the farm to the table. Understanding how these operate has never been more important.The new edition of Food Supply Chain Management and Logistics is the guide to all aspects of food supply chains. This book examines food production, operational challenges and the future challenges of the industry, sustainability and the circular economy. The emergence of new technologies, which are key in increasing the efficiency of processes, such as food apps, big data and blockchain, are discussed, with new content providing practical insights into supply chain resilience and risk mitigation.Food Supply Chain Management and Logistics embeds learning using case studies from leading companies such as Cargill, Nestlé and Starbucks. This new edition is structured to provide readers with an understanding of the basics of food supply chain management and logistics before expanding the scope to cover more of a range of topics. Online resources include PowerPoint lecture slides.
The Factory
by Hiroko OyamadaThe English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. But their lives slowly become governed by their work—days take on a strange logic and momentum, and little by little, the margins of reality seem to be dissolving: Where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? What's going on with the strange animals here? And after a while—it could be weeks or years—the three workers struggle to answer the most basic question: What am I doing here? With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping humor, The Factory casts a vivid—and sometimes surreal—portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of the modern workplace.
Complete Stories
by Clarice LispectorOne of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback—with three just-discovered stories Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don’t know what to do with themselves— and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives—and hers—and ours.
The Setting Sun
by Osamu DazaiThis powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
New Seeds of Contemplation (Shambhala Classics Library)
by Thomas MertonOne of the best-loved books by one of the great spiritual authors of our time, with a new introduction by best-selling author Sue Monk Kidd. New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the medieval mystics, while others have compared Merton's reflections with those of Thoreau. New Seeds of Contemplation seeks to awaken the dormant inner depths of the spirit so long neglected by Western man, to nurture a deeply contemplative and mystical dimension in our lives. For Merton, "Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost, because men are not prepared to receive them: for such seeds as these cannot spring up anywhere except in the soil of freedom, spontaneity and love."
Five-Minute Bedtime Bible Stories
by Amy ParkerFrom the classic and bestselling Read and Learn Bible comes the perfect collection of twelve illustrated Bible stories -- perfect for bedtime or anytime!Read and Learn: 5-Minute Bible Stories presents twelve fully-illustrated Bible stories. This book is perfect for read-aloud time: each story can be read aloud in one sitting! And it is a great way to introduce children to the Bible.The stories are retold in simple yet traditional language, and the colorful illustrations on every page make this book especially fun for young readers!Featured stories include:The Garden of EdenNoah's ArkMosesDavid and Goliathand more!This book has been officially vetted by the American Bible Society. Perfect for Easter basket stuffers, Christmas, baby showers, baptisms, birthdays, first communions, and more!
What Your Dog is Thinking: The Science Behind Your Dog's Behaviour and How to Improve It
by Sabrina Cohen-Hatton Danny WellsThe Dog Scholar reveals the science behind the way dogs think and behave, using cutting-edge research to unpack common myths about dogs and their relationship with people. Bringing together three experts in canine psychology and behaviour, the book will contain practical advice and training tips.
States of Play: How Sportswashing Took Over Football | The International Bestseller & Winner of the Football Book of the Year Award
by Miguel DelaneyTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARAN IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR'Important, perfectly timed and hugely necessary.' The Guardian'Magnificent. Some of the details are eye-popping.' Irish Independent'Football needs this book. A monumental piece of investigative journalism.' Irish Times'A must-read on how modern football works.' Ian Wright'Brave, forensic and utterly gripping.' Tom Holland______________________________The definitive account of how capitalism and the world's elite corrupted modern footballAs the 2022 World Cup in Qatar drew to a close, there was a bitter undercurrent to Argentina's triumph. Throughout the tournament, numerous allegations of sportswashing and financial misconduct had been made against the state of Qatar, moving what had previously been a smaller conversation into the worldwide spotlight. The question had been asked, who really owns and runs football? Journeying from Abu Dhabi to Newcastle, and onto London, Paris, Moscow and New York, journalist Miguel Delaney investigates the allegations of sportswashing and misconduct in the beautiful game. The result is a gripping account of how football has been taken over by the world's wealthiest businessmen, state-backed corporations, media tycoons and oil-rich oligarchs. From Neymar's £198 million transfer to Paris Saint-Germain and Abu Dhabi's construction empire in Manchester to failed Financial Fair Play constraints and the dawn of the European Super League, Miguel draws on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to key stakeholders to produce an all-encompassing exposé of modern footballs highest echelons.Authoritative, riveting and eye-opening, States of Play reveals how football has become a tool for the world's elite.______________________________'The moral compass that the game needs.' Andy Brassell'In this excellent investigation, Delaney reveals the ugly side of the beautiful game.' Oliver Bullough'The most important football book of its generation.' Jack Pitt-Brooke'This book tackles the major issue affecting football today with fearlessness and forensic scrutiny. An important investigation for our times.' Laurie Whitwell'A majestic book. The essential guide to how the people's game has become the plaything of the very rich and powerful.' Jonathan WilsonMiguel Delaney's STATES OF PLAY was ranked in the Irish Times bestsellers list weeks of 11th & 18th November 2024.
Box Clever: Quadrants to change the way we live and lead
by Rachel JohnsonBox Clever is a practical resource that will help you work out where you are now, where you want to be and crucially, how to get there. Rachel Johnson uses thought-provoking quadrants to bring clarity to some of the things that can hold you back, whatever your role or experience level. Whether it's communication, your sense of urgency, your self-image or the way you prioritise, there is a quadrant that can help you see the issue and, crucially, do something about it.This powerful book is for anyone who wants change in their life and leadership and is willing to do the important work to get there.
Percy Shelley for Our Times
by Kate Singer Omar F. MirandaTwo centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings continue to resonate in remarkable ways. Shelley addressed climate change, women's liberation, nonbinary gender, and political protest, while speaking to Indigenous, queer/trans, disabled, displaced, and working-class communities. He still inspires artists and social justice movements around the world today. Yet Percy Shelley for Our Times reveals an even more farsighted writer, one whose poetic methodology went beyond the didactic powers of prophetic art. Not historicist, presentist, or transhistorical, Shelley 'for our times' conceives worlds outside himself, his poetry, and his era, envisioning how audiences connect and collaborate across space and time. This collection revitalizes a writer once considered an adolescent of idealist protest, showing how his interwoven poetics of relationality continually revisits the meaning of community and the contemporary. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Fuji Fire: Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps Tragedy
by Chas HenryOn October 19, 1979, the largest, most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded propelled 5,500 gallons of gasoline into corrugated steel huts filled with U.S. Marines. The gas ignited, injuring seventy-three people, thirteen of them fatally. The Marine Corps commandant, a veteran of combat in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, was stunned as he met scores of horribly burned survivors. &“Having witnessed a lot of bad things, ugly things,&” the general declared, &“none can compare to that experience.&” And yet this 1979 catastrophe on the slopes of Japan&’s iconic Mount Fuji remains all but forgotten except by those directly affected. Now, the fruits of Chas Henry&’s exhaustive four-year, two-continent investigation provide insight into what many have called the U.S. Marine Corps&’ worst-ever peacetime disaster. Fuji Fire shares the compelling and intimate stories of heartbreak and inspiration forged by these events while bringing to light new, critical analyses of the incident&’s causes and effects.
At the Corner of Past and Future: A Collection of Life Stories
by Pamela Carter JoernWith keen observation and deep reflection, Pamela Carter Joern probes her life. No topic is too small or too sacred, from gutting chickens to Gaudí&’s cathedral. Through a range of experiences—growing up in rural Nebraska, raising children, surviving cancer, becoming a writer—she explores the tenuous link between memory and truth. Joern displays a gift for mining wisdom through surprising connections, juxtaposing her father&’s life to the discoveries of Isaac Newton or the writer&’s task to the ancient art of alchemy. She weds philosophical insight and spiritual imagination and laces this amalgam with candor and wit, resulting in a work that is engaging, intimate, and illuminating.
Victory in Shanghai: A Korean American Family's Journey to the CIA and the Army Special Forces
by Robert S. KimVictory in Shanghai tells the long-hidden story of a family from Korea that struggled for three decades to become Americans and ultimately fought their way to the United States through heroic actions with the U.S. Army during World War II. Among the first families from Korea to migrate to the United States in the early twentieth century, the Kim family was forced into exile in Shanghai in the mid-1920s after a new U.S. immigration law in 1924 excluded Asians. Two decades later, the family&’s four sons—raised as Americans in the expatriate community of Shanghai—voluntarily stepped forward during World War II to defend the nation they considered theirs. From both sides of the Pacific, the Kim brothers served in uniform with the U.S. Army and in the underground U.S. intelligence network in Shanghai. At the end of the war the eldest son led the liberation of seven thousand American and Allied civilians held in Japanese internment camps in Shanghai. His actions and the support of the leading generals of the U.S. Army in China led to three special acts of Congress that granted him U.S. citizenship and admitted the entire Kim family into the United States. Four Kim brothers became some of the earliest intelligence officers of the nascent U.S. intelligence community, and three of them ascended to leadership positions in the CIA and the Army Special Forces.Victory in Shanghai tells two intertwined American origin stories: a Korean family&’s struggle to become Americans during the World War II era and the contributions of Korean Americans to the creation of modern U.S. intelligence and special operations. Withheld from the public until recently due to the secrecy surrounding their actions during World War II and the Cold War, the history of the Kim family is one of the great stories of coming to America and defending and strengthening it in the process.
Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature
by Abigail WilliamsHow eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation—and how this still shapes the way we readReading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about: the misunderstanding, muddle and confusion of readers of the past when they first met the uniquely elusive writings of the period. Abigail Williams uses the marginal marks and jottings of these readers to show that flawed interpretation has its own history—and its own important role to play—in understanding how, why and what we read.Focussing on the first half of the eighteenth century, the golden age of satire, Reading It Wrong tells how a combination of changing readerships and fantastically tricky literature created the perfect grounds for puzzlement and partial comprehension. Through the lens of a history of imperfect reading, we see that many of the period&’s major works—by writers including Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Mary Wortley Montagu, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift—both generated and depended upon widespread misreading. Being foxed by a satire, coded fiction or allegory was, like Wordle or the cryptic crossword, a form of entertainment, and perhaps a group sport. Rather than worrying that we don&’t have all the answers, we should instead recognize the cultural importance of not knowing.
Know the Heretics (KNOW Series)
by Justin S. HolcombThere is a lot of talk about heresy these days. The frequency and volume of accusations suggest that some Christians have lost a sense of the gravity of the word. On the other hand, many believers have little to no familiarity with orthodox doctrine or the historic distortions of it.What’s needed is a strong dose of humility and restraint, and also a clear and informed definition of orthodoxy and heresy. Know the Heretics provides an accessible “travel guide” to the most significant heresies throughout Christian history. As a part of the KNOW series, it is designed for personal study or classroom use, but also for small groups and Sunday schools wanting to more deeply understand the foundations of the faith.Each chapter covers a key statement of faith and includes a discussion of its historical context; a simple explanation of the unorthodox teaching, the orthodox response and a key defender; reflections of contemporary relevance; and discussion questions.
Privacy Preserving Data Management: Assisting Users in Data Disclosure Scenarios (Technology, Peace and Security I Technologie, Frieden und Sicherheit)
by Sebastian LinsnerUsers face many situations in which they have to disclose their data to others. In many cases, they are not properly informed about the usage of their data or the consequences of data disclosure. This book investigates how users can be supported by researching three core aspects: Firstly, problems and risks that lead to (unintended) data disclosure or arise from it have to be identified. Secondly, measures are investigated that developers can apply to mitigate these risks and meet the needs of the users. Finally, the developed solutions have to be adopted into practice. Strategies to bring security- and privacy-enhancing technologies to use are essential because a tool that is not used cannot protect anyone. The investigated scenarios are twofold: Firstly, business-to-business (B2B) collaborations, especially highlighting the perspective of owners of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) who are forced to provide data for business processes. Secondly, scenarios of everyday usage for private users that require the disclosure of data are investigated.
HCI in Games: 7th International Conference, HCI-Games 2025, Held as Part of the 27th HCI International Conference, HCII 2025, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 22–27, 2025, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15816)
by Xiaowen FangThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on HCI in Games, held as part of the 27th International Conference, HCI International 2025, which took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, during June 22–27, 2025. The total of 1430 papers and 355 posters included in the HCII 2025 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from thousands of submissions. The HCI-Games 2025 proceedings was organized in the following topical sections: Part 1: Gamification, UX, and Player BehaviorPart 2: Identity, Emotion, and AI in Game ExperiencesPart 3: Gamified Learning and DesignPart 4: Games in Healthcare and Wellbeing
Grundzüge der Kategorientheorie
by Christian MaurerDas Buch soll Mathematik-Studierenden eine Einführung in die Kategorientheorie geben. Nach einem einführenden Kapitel, in dem alle Grundbegriffe der Kategorientheorie definiert und erklärt werden, wird das Konzept der adjungierten Funktoren vorgestellt und gezeigt, was sie mit Lösungen universeller Probleme zu tun haben. Es folgt ein Kapitel über Limites, die sich als spezielle Adjunktionen entpuppen. In den letzten drei Kapiteln werden spezielle Kategorien vorstellt: Abelsche Kategorien, Monaden und elementare Topoi. Die Produktfamilie WissensExpress bietet Ihnen Lehr- und Lernbücher in kompakter Form. Die Bücher liefern schnell und verständlich fundiertes Wissen.
Mexican Waves: Cinema, Television, Transmedia
by Paul Julian SmithThis book, Mexican Waves: Cinema, Television, Transmedia, explores the dynamic landscape of contemporary Mexican audiovisual storytelling, offering an in-depth examination of the works of influential filmmakers, television creators, and transmedia artists. By analyzing the convergence of these media, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of their evolution and socio-cultural impact. Key concepts include the interplay between cinema, television, and transmedia, with chapters dedicated to the works of renowned directors like Alejandro González Iñárritu and the rise of quality television series. The book also uncovers unexpected connections between art cinema and digital platforms such as YouTube, highlighting how these media address pressing themes like feminism and queer identity. Through close textual analysis and industrial context, readers will gain insights into the innovative narratives shaping Mexican media today. This essential volume is designed for scholars and students of media studies and Latin American studies, as well as anyone interested in the transformative power of storytelling. By presenting previously unstudied primary texts now accessible via streaming, the book invites readers to engage with the vibrant and evolving world of Mexican audiovisual culture.
Entrepreneurship in India's Unorganized Sector: Challenges and Opportunities (India Studies in Business and Economics)
by Leo-Paul Dana Naman SharmaThis book offers a comprehensive examination of entrepreneurship in India's unorganized sector, shedding light on the hidden opportunities and challenges that exist within this vibrant and dynamic part of the economy. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights from entrepreneurship studies, development studies, small businesses and economics, this book provides a deep understanding of the entrepreneurial landscape in the Indian context and explores strategies for empowering entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector. Through case studies, interviews, and data analysis, it uncovers the distinct characteristics, resource constraints, and unique challenges faced by entrepreneurs in this sector, while also showcasing their innovation, resilience, and contributions to the economy. This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers interested in driving inclusive and sustainable entrepreneurship in India's unorganizedsector.
Exploring the Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence among Africans in the Diaspora: Navigating Change (Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology)
by Abiodun RaufuThis book investigates the high prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among African immigrants across the world, addressing unique cultural contexts, acculturative stress, and identity which shapes their experiences. The author examines how migration-related stress, cultural norms, and systemic challenges intersect to influence intimate partner violence dynamics uniquely within the African diaspora. The book utilizes three theoretical frameworks to investigate this question: Urie Bronfenbrenner&’s ecological systems theory; John Berry&’s acculturation stress theory; and Kimberlé Crenshaw&’s intersectionality theory. This book situates the experiences of this unique immigrant population in the literature on IPV. It also provides global context by situating African diaspora experiences within broader discussions of intimate partner violence across immigrant populations. The author highlights the resilience and coping mechanisms of African IPV survivors and offers culturally sensitive strategies for prevention and intervention pathways to empowerment and healing.