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"This book is a uniquely accessible discussion of the sanctions and international trade measures deployed against Russia following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The book situates the sanctions response within its historical and economic backgrounds"--

"Focus your time, energy and attention on the things that really matter. For many leaders, the reality is that now they have achieved career success, they have never felt so busy, so distracted, so overwhelmed, and so unable to find time for the things that truly matter in their role. Too many leaders fall victim to crushing meetings schedules, hopelessly overflowing inboxes, constant interruptions, and a sense of busyness that does not equate to effectiveness in their role.The simple truth is that leaders are often too busy to have the impact that they need to have. We need to become less busy and shift our mindset from activity to impact. We need to protect time to think, to plan, to make good decisions and to provide clear direction. We need to be responsive and available to our team, not constantly unavailable in meetings, so we can empower them to act in line with our goals. And we need time to coach and mentor our people, leveraging their skills, capacity and productivity"--Publisher's description

"After the Civil War, as Black freedmen prepared to exercise their new voting rights in Georgia, white supremacist groups rose to restrict their ability to participate at the polls. Georgians faced a new prospect for brokering a class-based electoral coalition of white yeomen and Black freedmen. The failure of Reconstruction echoes today as Georgia remains a voting rights battleground. This book details this struggle for racial justice and democracy in postwar Georgia, with an eye on issues that have persisted more than 150 years later"--

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- Introduction -- Philosophical Foundations of Research -- Ontology and Ontological Perspectives -- Epistemology and Epistemological Perspectives -- Research Paradigms -- How Is This All Related? -- Researcher Positionality and Identity -- How to Use This Book -- References -- 2. Understanding and Applying Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks -- Introduction -- What Is Theory? -- Theoretical Frameworks -- Conceptual Frameworks -- Why Use a Framework? -- Finding Useful Theories and Concepts -- Applying Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks -- Considerations in Using Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. Critical Theories -- Critical Race Theory -- Definition and Overview -- Background and Foundations -- Key Terms and Concepts -- In Research -- Strengths and Limitations -- Intersectionality Theory -- Definition and Overview -- Background and Foundations -- Key Terms and Concepts -- In Research -- Strengths and Limitations -- Feminist Theory -- Definition and Overview -- Background and Foundations -- Key Terms and Concepts -- In Research -- Strengths and Limitations -- Queer Theory -- Definition and Overview -- Background and Foundations -- Key Terms and Concepts -- In Research -- Strengths and Limitations -- References -- 4. Sociology -- Cultural and Social Capital Theories -- Definition and Overview -- Background and Foundations -- Key Terms and Concepts -- In Research -- Strengths and Limitations -- Institutional Theory -- Definition and Overview -- Background and Foundations -- Key Terms and Concepts -- In Research -- Strengths and Limitations -- Dramaturgical Theory -- Definition and Overview -- Background and Foundations -- Key Terms and Concepts -- In Research -- Strengths and Limitations -- References.

"Modern Healthcare Marketing in the Digital Era, edited by Kakhaber Djakeli from the International Black Sea University, Georgia, is a comprehensive guide that addresses the critical challenge of transforming healthcare marketing strategies in the dynamic landscape of the digital era. With innovative technologies like artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain, and mobile applications reshaping the healthcare industry, this book offers practical insights and innovative methodologies to create a consumer-centric health culture. Healthcare professionals, policymakers, and marketers will find valuable guidance in bridging the gap between technology and marketing, enabling them to thrive in this ever-evolving landscape. Through its exploration of historical developments, the status, and the evolution of needs and demands in healthcare markets, the book equips readers with the tools they need to navigate the complexities of modern healthcare marketing. It covers essential topics such as patient segmentation, customer relationship management, and the integration of virtual and augmented reality in healthcare marketing and sales. By providing real-world examples and empirical research findings, Modern Healthcare Marketing in the Digital Era serves as a practical roadmap for transforming healthcare services, fostering patient-clinic partnerships, and enhancing health literacy through effective marketing efforts. With its valuable insights, this book is a vital resource for students, educators, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and researchers, empowering them to embrace digital innovations and cultivate a consumer-centric health culture for superior patient care and satisfaction. "--

The late nineteenth-century city acted as a magnet for the poor of ruralIreland, attracting them with the promise of employment and economicindependence. For many, however, urban life meant economic precarity,marginalisation and destitution, with the workhouse as an all-too-presentreality. Young families were particularly vulnerable, with the result that thousandsof children found themselves confined within the workhouse walls.This book explores the changing role of the Irish poor law in childwelfare in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century city. Taking as itsfocus Belfast, a burgeoning industrial and port city at the heart of a globaltrade network and a city deeply divided along political and confessional lines,it examines the ways in which that city s poorest children and their families engagedwith the poor law and used the workhouse as part of their economy ofmakeshifts. It examines the various spaces of the poor law - whether theworkhouse, the foster home, or the far reaches of empire - as sites of encounterand engagement between welfare authorities and the city s poorest families, andexplores the development of child welfare practice at a time of increasingstate encroachment into the daily lives of poor children

This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities questions how medieval people, texts, images, and ideas move across physiological, geographical, literary, and spiritual boundaries. In what ways do these movements afford new configurations of gender, sexuality, and being? Enacting a dialogue between medieval studies, feminist thought, and queer theory, Medieval Mobilities proposes that attending to the undulations of premodern gender and sexuality may help destabilize unstated assumptions about ways of being and loving in the Middle Ages. This volume also brings together emergent and established scholars to challenge an increasingly static academy and instead envision a scholarly practice focused on intergenerational, international, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Drawing upon wide range of primary sources and theoretical frameworks, the resultant essays unsettle the imagined fixity of gender and propose alternative conceptualizations of embodiment, identity, and difference in the medieval world

"Late Antiquity was particularly fertile in regard to the development of religion and philosophy; both what was propounded by scholars and what people throughout society thought and believed. The competition and cross-pollination between traditional Greco-Roman religion, Middle and Neo-Platonist philosophy, and Christian theology of the Patristic era created a feast for researchers that is both interesting and interdisciplinary. Current narratives of both peaceful competition and violent struggle between Christianity and Paganism (for lack of a better term) are reductive and incomplete. Greenwood's research, published between 2013 and 2018 in the fields of history, divinity, and philosophy, demonstrates the complexity of that era and provide a more fully-orbed picture of major actors including the Emperor Julian, Porphyry of Tyre, and Celsus. From the second to the fourth centuries, these were some of the major players in attempting to define the terrain in the conflict between their philosophies and the Christian religion. While the timeframe remains consistently within the late second to the mid-fourth centuries A.D., the evidence ranges between inscriptions, literature, and historical accounts. The particular focus of Greenwood's research is the emperor Julian (Flavius Caludius Julianus, d. 363), a figure of perennial interest, as not only the last pagan emperor, but the last anti-Christian polemicist of real significance in antiquity. This volume builds upon numerous recent articles offering a new perspective on Julian, bringing together research from ancient history, Neoplatonist philosophy, and patristic theology, and will be useful to students and scholars alike from these disciplines"--

Racial reckoning was a recurrent theme throughout the summer of 2020, a response to George Floyd's murder and the unprecedented impact of COVID on marginalized groups. Theater and Crisis proposes a literary and theatrical study of how Floyd's killing could possibly happen in the aftermath of the Civil Rights era, and in the supposedly post-racial era following the election of Barack Obama. In the days and months following Floyd's death, there were nightly protests in streets across the United States and broader world. At the same time, theater performances were forced to shift online to video conferencing platforms and to find new ways to engage audiences. In each case, groups made shared meaning through storytelling and narrative, a liberatory process of myth-making and reverence that author Patrice D. Rankine calls "epiphanic encoding."

Rather than approaching the problem of racial reckoning through history, where periodization and progress are dominant narratives, Theater and Crisis argues that myth and memory allow for better theorization about recurring events from the past, their haunting, and what these apparent ghosts ask of us. Building on the study of myth as active, processual storytelling, Rankine acknowledges that it grounds and orients groups toward significant events. Theater and Crisis aligns narratives about Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, and George Floyd, among others, with ancient, mythic figures such as Christ, Dionysus, Oedipus, and Moses. As living and verbal visitations, these stories performed on stage encode the past through their epiphanies in the present, urging audiences toward shared meaning.

Rankine traces the cyclical hauntings of race through the refiguring of mythic stories across the past 75 years in the plays of James Baldwin, Ntozake Shange, Antoinette Nwandu, and many more, and in response to flashpoints in US racial history, such as the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, the upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, the wars on drugs and crime, and the continued violence against and disenfranchisement of Black people into the twenty-first century. Theater and Crisis explores the appearance of myth on the American stage and showcases the ongoing response by the theatrical establishment to transform the stage into a space for racial reckoning. This timely book is essential reading for scholars of theater studies, classics, and American studies.