Costing for the Fashion Industry is a practical, easy-to-use guide to the manufacture, sourcing and risk management methods essential to make a new fashion business venture financially viable. Each chapter focuses on a theme, such as entrepreneurship, time constraints, global awareness and new markets and sourcing, alongside practical exercises and detailed industry case studies to put the theory into context. This second edition explores capital investment decisions, the changing nature of cost and the importance of global awareness and new markets, as well as expanded coverage of internationalization strategies for SMEs.

Val is an extremely attractive and very bright young African-American woman. An exotic dancer by trade (and very successful at her craft), the hard gristled back boned enchantress lives a free wheeling, come and go as she pleases lifestyle. Choosing to always remain emotionally unattached, Val very much enjoys the intrinsic freedoms of her devil-may-care standard of existence. By far her favorite customer is a good looking and very upstanding Ebony gentleman named Martin who made sporadic appearances at the club where she danced. A very well-to-do advertising executive, Martin has been widowed for 10 years and is 18 years further up the age ladder than is Val. In coming from the opposed stations that they hailed from, their improbable association will take them both on a gut wrenching, emotionally charged rollercoaster ride (that neither of them could ever have been mentally prepared for), and trigger a chain of events that is packed with the types of drama, twists and turns that oft times happen......'When Opposite Worlds Collide'!!!

Divided Emotions is a story about a moderately successful 36 year old, single African-American mother dedicated to raising her son with whom she shares a very close-knit bond. After years of forsaking a personal life of her own by dating very little and not even once having any parts of a serious relationship, 'Zari' finally allows herself to indulge in a wonderful love affair while her son 'Tre' (who is 17 by now) is away for the summer. For Zari and her lover it is a magical time as they experience each other and they both fall deeply in love very quickly. There are issues however. As happy as Zari and her lover are about being with each other, their love affair must be kept a secret between just the two of them. If Tre ever found out about the affair it would more than likely destroy his relationship with his mother, spawn hatred for her and open emotional wounds that even after given plenty of time.....may well never heal!!!!!!!!

The Letters of Psellos is the first detailed study of the correspondence of Michael Psellos, a leading Byzantine intellectual, politician, and writer of the eleventh century. Psellos' corpus of over 500 letters represents a historical source of great significance for the study of society and culture of the time: literary masterpieces in and of themselves, yet often complex and difficult to understand in their entirety, they not only rebound with subtlety and humour, but also offer invaluable information on myriad subjects ranging from the political culture of Byzantium and its civil administration to social codes, religious beliefs, and popular culture. This volume consists of two complementary parts designed to make Psellos' letters as widely accessible as possible, both to the specialist academic community and to a wider non-specialist audience. The first part contains five essays offering detailed historical and literary analyses of a considerable number of the letters across a range of different topics, including the financial management of monasteries, the friendship of Psellos and John Mauropous, and the challenges posed by Psellian irony. While the essays are supplemented by individual appendices containing the translated text of the pertinent letters, the second part of the book presents annotated summaries in English of the entirety of Psellos' correspondence, compiled over many years as part of the Prosopography of the Byzantine World project and supported by substantial excursuses and notes. The result is an engaging and accessible shortcut into these bewildering and fascinating letters and an essential resource for the study of eleventh-century Byzantine society and culture through the pen of one of its pre-eminent figures.