Selfish Gifts examines how early modern clients moved quickly and strategically to assimilate the language of competition and equality, characteristic of an emerging market economy, within their existing discourses of gift exchange, in order to maximize the rewards they might induce from an increasingly diverse group of patrons."--Jacket.

Investigates the politics and poetics of women's gendered identity in West Africa.

Investigates the politics and poetics of women's gendered identity in West Africa.

Selflove isn’t always easy. In fact, there is no selflove destination, only an ongoing journey you take in the relationship with yourself. This book will help you love yourself. In The Simply SelfWonderful Inner Workout Book, companion to the Simply SelfWonderful Card Deck, you can learn to love yourself wholly in five focus areas, known as MEPSS: Mentally, Emotionally, Physically, Socially, and Spiritually. Your relationship with yourself is key to your relationship with everyone and everything else in your life. You are a complete package. You have all you need at every given moment to be Simply SelfWonderful!

Wine as commodity has received enormous academic attention, while wine as gift has largely eluded significant dedicated research and analysis. This book addresses this lacuna with insights from leading scholars from a range of disciplines exploring wine as gift in different moments of history, across a variety of production to consumption contexts, and across societies and cultures. The book draws on examples from Australia, China, Croatia, France, Italy, Moldova, United Kingdom and Aotearoa New Zealand. Through the analysis of wine as gift, indeed often as a commodity-gift hybrid, this book significantly enhances understandings of the intertwined economic, societal, political and moral aspects of wine and its production, exchange, and consumption. Wine and the Gift: From Production to Consumption will appeal to researchers and undergraduates from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, geography, marketing, and business studies.

Build self-esteem and discover true self-love with this inspiring and interactive self-love workbook. Crafted for women of all ages, this interactive and heartfelt guide features exercises that empower you to rewrite limiting beliefs, embrace positive self-talk, and nurture genuine self-worth. Unleash your confidence, foster self-acceptance, and embark on a journey of inner strength and empowerment with this comprehensive workbook. The Gift of Self-Love includes: • A self-esteem and self-confidence quiz to assess how you feel about yourself today and identify areas to give yourself more compassion and love • Writing exercises to help you get in touch with your feelings, rewrite limiting beliefs, and stop pressuring yourself to meet other people’s expectations • A positive self-talk guide to help you reframe your thoughts and silence the negative voice in your head • Recommendations for loving your body and embracing healthy living at any size • Stories, research, and meaningful advice to help you build self-worth The Gift of Self-Love workbook is your path to enhanced self-esteem and genuine self-love. Don't miss this opportunity to boost confidence, rewrite limiting beliefs, and embrace a positive mindset. Get your hands on the best self-esteem workbook for women and embark on a life-changing journey today!

The aim of this volume originally was to occupy my time during the start of and worst of the Pandemic of 2020. As I started, I realized that I could write. For me writing was like surgery without anesthesia. The subject of the volume was to allow others to perhaps learn from my self-induced pain and pain brought by others, Although the sentiments are true to my heart, the examples used and people referred to are not meant to be actual history but lessons and teachings. The aim was not to generate money from my endeavors. It was to give those now and forever life lessons. All net proceeds will be directed to charitable endeavors. I do hope that these pages which follow serve to satisfy this dream.