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How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? Both have played an important role in academic fashion studies to this point, but they are most often discussed in the context of abstract phenomena such as modernity and capitalism, or identity issues such as sexuality, class and gender. The essays in this volume strive instead to show how the realities of the global fashion industry have importan...

From 1940 to 1990, new machines and devices radically changed listening to music. Small and large single records, new kinds of jukeboxes and loudspeaker systems not only made it possible to playback music in a different way, they also evidence a fundamental transformation of music and listening itself. Taking the media and machines through which listening took place during this period, Listening Devices develops a new history of listening.Alth...

Practical Guide to Instrumentation, Automation and Robotics discusses in detail the concepts of instrumentation, process control, automation, robotics design and their applications in industry, and provides practical examples. The book adopts a life-cycle approach for discussing the different aspects of selection, process design, installation and commissioning of modern measurement and process control systems. The examples are taken from real-...

Alice and George are meant for each other. But they haven't met yet ... Fall in love with Life Before Us, the heart-warming bestseller from the author of The Restaurant

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Opioids Addiction, Volume Four in the Neurobiology of Addiction series, explores the molecular, cellular and systems in the brain responsible for opioid addiction. This volume introduces the readers to the history of opioid use, including the medical uses of opioids. The authors clearly define the neurobiological effects into three distinct steps: Binge/Intoxication Stage, Withdrawal/Negative Affect Stage, and finally, the Preoccupation/Antici...

Incredible' The Times'A readable and enjoyable narrative history' TLS Delving into Britain's evolution, achievements, complexities and tensions in a ground-breaking new take on British identity, historian and barrister Dominic Selwood explores over 950, 000 years of British history by examining fifty documents that tell the story of what makes Britain unique. From Anglo-Saxon poetry, medieval folk music and the first Valentine's Day letter to ...

Praise for Kate Evans 'Kate Evans delivers a gripping crime debut with a truly original policewoman as the central character. Highly recommended' Irish Independent'Well written and without any flashiness, this believable police procedural deals with guilt, vengeance, love, a serial killer with a God complex and redemption. . . effective and moving' Literary Review'Read this book' 5 Stars, Reader Review'A rich and rewarding police procedural wi...

David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.

From the #1 science author for kids comes this next installment in the best-selling Baby University seriesWith scientific and mathematical information from an expert, The ABCs of Geography is the perfect book for enlightening the next generation of geniuses. Written by an expert, this is the perfect book for enlightening the next generation of geniuses. It's never too early to become a mathematician!

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An updated edition of the first-ever consumer guide to whistleblowing by the nation¿s leading whistleblower attorneyThe newest edition of The Whistleblower¿s Handbook brings the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to exposing workplace wrongdoing up-to-date with new information on wildlife whistleblowing, auto safety whistleblowing, national security whistleblowing, and ocean pollution whistleblowing. It also includes a new ¿Toolkit¿ fo...

¿¿Sonora Pass, located north of the famous Tioga Pass that leads to Yosemite, is not well known. Extremely steep, and carved into granite, like much of the Sierra, the pass is a hidden jewel. A community unto itself, Sonora Pass has a rich history, and Cate Culver has unearthed and recorded the stories and information that would have been lost to time. Who were the people who built the roads, established resorts, grazed cattle, constructed dam...

Er wollte sie immer beschützen - jetzt ist sie an der Reihe. Amber war in ihren besten Freund Dean verliebt, seit sie denken kann. Umso schwerer war es für sie, als sich ihre Wege trennten. In den letzten zwei Jahren hat sie neue Freunde gefunden und ihn vergessen, doch dann gerät Dean in Schwierigkeiten. Amber ist entschlossen, ihm zu helfen - auch wenn sie dabei zu unkonventionellen Mitteln greifen muss! Als Dean aus der Entzugsklinik kommt,...

Sie kennt sein größtes Geheimnis - doch er nicht ihres. Dean hat Amber alles erzählt, und sie verstehen sich besser als je zuvor. Nur von dem Kerl, mit dem seine beste Freundin neuerdings so viel Zeit verbringt, hält er nichts. Doch das ist lediglich eine Art von brüderlichem Beschützerinstinkt ... Oder? Amber ist so glücklich wie schon lange nicht mehr, denn sie hat die perfekte Ablenkung gefunden: Eine, die mit einem schiefen Lächeln ihr Her...

The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Five decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed predicament of the contemporary Iranian woman, at once subj...

Cariad County: a place of anarchy and farce, of the grotesque and the slapstick, of tragedy and violent comedy, where the local hunt is disrupted by a camel-riding hero, where the town hall burns down as the town cheers, a place haunted by grotesque revenants from the First World War. This is the world of Nigel Heseltine's short stories.

This book provides a ground-breaking reading, both comparative and historical, of the structure and transformation of private law in continental Europe. In doing so it reconstructs a hermeneutical praxis that is (it is argued) at the core of private law: the balancing of conflicting interests and normative considerations. The book makes three key arguments, firstly that 'balancing' in private law is a not merely an analytical process but inste...

This book provides an in-depth and easy to understand account of a subject that students often find dauntingly difficult to master. The opening chapter sets out some definitions of what a trust is, and goes on to clearly explain the history of trusts law and how both trusts law and the roles played by trusts have changed over time. Different types of trust (trusts for persons, charitable and non-charitable purpose trusts, express trusts, const...