* Explores issues relevant to sustainability and business management in luxury goods companies
* Comprehensive collection of current thinking on sustainable luxury products

Most consumers of luxury products and services use them as status symbols – symbols of success. However, the definition of success – and the way it is perceived by others – is changing. Many of these successful consumers now want the brands they use to reflect their concerns and aspirations for a better world. There are shifts in the luxury paradigm, emerging from major changes in social dynamics. In future, the highest-quality product or service will be the one that generates the most benefit to all involved in its production and trade.

Topics covered include value chain management, production and design processes, entrepreneurship, cause-related marketing and innovation. This book explores a wide range of issues relevant to sustainability and business management in luxury goods companies. It represents the most international and complete collection of academic and practitioner thinking on transforming the luxury sector into a powerful advocate for sustainable production and consumption.

The textile industry plays a significant part in the global economy, yet often operates with disregard to its environmental and social impacts. This book takes a wide-ranging look at current analysis of the industry and explores the issues of continuous consumption and increasing disposability.

By definition, a high view of Scripture inheres in evangelicalism. However, there does not seem to be a uniform way to articulate an evangelical doctrine of Scripture. Taking up the challenge, Vincent Bacote, Laura Miguélez and Dennis Okholm present twelve essays that explore in depth the meaning of an evangelical doctrine of Scripture that takes seriously both the human and divine dimensions of the Bible. Selected from the presentations made at the 2001 Wheaton Theology Conference, the essays approach this vital subject from three directions. Stanley J. Grenz, Thomas Buchan, Bruce L. McCormack and Donald W. Dayton consider the history of evangelical thinking on the nature of Scripture.John J. Brogan, Kent Sparks, J. Daniel Hays and Richard L. Schultz address the nature of biblical authority. Bruce Ellis Benson, John R. Franke, Daniel J. Treier and David Alan Williams explore the challenge of hermeneutics, especially as it relates to interpreting Scripture in a postmodern context.Together these essays provide a window into current evangelical scholarship on the doctrine of Scripture and also advance the dialogue about how best to construe our faith in the Word of God, living and written, that informs not only the belief but also the practice of the church.

«Potrei dimenticare che l'avvenimento di piazza San Pietro è accaduto nel giorno e nell'ora in cui si ricorda a Fatima, in Portogallo, la prima apparizione della Madre di Cristo ai poveri e piccoli contadini? Infatti, nonostante tutto quello che è accaduto proprio quel giorno, ho notato la straordinaria protezione e sollecitudine materna che si sono dimostrate più forti del proiettile mortale» (Giovanni Paolo II) Dopo la pubblicazione della terza parte del segreto di Fatima sono usciti molti libri e articoli, a volte documentati correttamente, a volte intrisi di invenzioni fantastiche e di ipotesi inverosimili. Aura Miguel, giornalista portoghese di rara onestà e di profonda competenza religiosa, ci offre una precisa ricostruzione del segreto di Fatima, che attraversa il pontificato di Giovanni Paolo II come una drammatica chiave di interpretazione. L'Autrice svolge un'indagine accurata e appassionata, interpellando le fonti e i protagonisti degli eventi, e mettendoli a confronto soprattutto con il mistero di Colei che è la prima interlocutrice e comunicatrice del messaggio di Fatima, Maria.