Use Design to Design Change is a guide for creating brands that go beyond selling products to inspire, connect, and make a lasting impact. Written by designer and brand strategist James Hurst, this second edition explores how purpose-driven brands can balance people, planet, and profit to build a legacy of significance.Organized into three sections—Launch, Scale, and Adapt—the book provides practical tools, actionable insights, and thought-provoking exercises to help you c...

Use Design to Design Change is a guide for creating brands that go beyond selling products to inspire, connect, and make a lasting impact. Written by designer and brand strategist James Hurst, this second edition explores how purpose-driven brands can balance people, planet, and profit to build a legacy of significance.Organized into three sections—Launch, Scale, and Adapt—the book provides practical tools, actionable insights, and thought-provoking exercises to help you c...

Welcome to a new way of thinking about brands and the immense power they hold. Use Design to Design Change is built on the revolutionary idea that brands today have the opportunity—and responsibility—to make a profound impact on people, the planet, and the way we all live. Brands today can be more than their products or messages; they can act as catalysts for change, voices that shape culture, and forces that inspire others to take action. This book is for those who believe in the transfor...

What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011, two new nations came into being. In South Sudan a former rebel movement faces colossal challenges in building a new country. At independence it was one of the least developed places on earth, after decades of conflict and neglect. The '"rump state'", Sudan, has been debilitated by devastating civil wars, including in Darfur, and lost a significant part of its territory, and most of its...

American Indian Nations takes stock of Indian history, policy, and culture over the past 30 years. A distinctive contribution to the understanding and interpretation of current Indian affairs, policies, and community development, this dynamic commentary of contemporary issues brings together a Who's Who of tribal leaders, scholars, and activists. No other collection offers such a thought-provoking and utterly current series of essays on the problems and achievements of modern Nati...

This is the Real James Brown by Candice Hurst   When a young Candice Hurst met James Brown, it changed her life in a profound way. Her dreams came true when she was given the chance to travel the world. After James Brown passed, she attempted to have his will honored. In her interviews with band members and in her own accounts, she recalls what he said and did. This is the Real James Brown states the facts on the criminal acts having to do with his estate over ...

At the core of the Christian faith lies the spiritual journey to the heart of ultimate reality, or God–described by some mystics as a ‘dazzling darkness’. For over 2,000 years, certain women and men have experienced various degrees of direct communion with God, from mild illuminations to a union in which the will of the mystic has been consumed.This book explores such spiritual figures’ lives and teachings, alongside their personal and historical backgrounds, from early Christendom...

Xinjiang, the vast northwestern region comprising one sixth of the PRC today, borders on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Russia and Mongolia. Since antiquity it has stood at the crossroads between China, India, the Mediterranean and Russia. In recent decades its historic silk road linkages have grown increasingly global, with issues of energy, development, separatism and terrorism bringing the region into the news. James Millward draws on primary sources an...

A clone searching for her identity, an android out of control, a young man fleeing from killer-cyborgs, a synthwave DJ whose music slays, a deadly videogame – and a very hungry cyber-croc.Welcome to the world of Neo Cyberpunk!Fifteen of the hottest contemporary cyberpunk authors have joined forces to create a unique anthology. In this book readers will find the full spectrum of modern-day cyberpunk, full of action, mystery, technology and humanity.Cyberpunk is Now!

The premiere issue of Further Light, a semiannual magazine featuring science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, magical realism, and light horror short fiction, creative scriptural retellings, poetry, and literary criticism in the Latter-day Saint tradition. The magazine that seeks to explore the restored gospel through the medium of the human imagination. Our goal is to enjoy the fandoms we love, to experience new ones, and to expound on the eternal truths buri...

Green chemistry has now been around in the academic world for some thirty years but the biggest impact it can have in terms of reducing pollution and waste and moving towards the greater use of safe and sustainable chemicals will be in industry. This book provides a series of views from industry on the importance of green chemistry, both in terms of current and future activities in their businesses.With contributions from large and small companies, established and new businesses an...

Richard Sorge is one of history’s most famous spies. This hard-drinking, womanising, motorcycle-crashing Soviet officer penetrated the German embassy in Tokyo during the 1930s and gathered intelligence credited with changing the course of the Second World War. It is an intriguing tale; but Sorge’s spy ring was just one chapter in a much longer history of Russian and Soviet espionage in and against Japan.Cracking the Crabtells the extraordinary full story of Russian intrigu...