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The newest game in the franchise, Assassin's Creed® Odyssey, takes players on an epic voyage through history. The Art of Assassin's Creed Odyssey collates hundreds of concept arts, including sketches, final paintings, and 3D renders, alongside in-depth commentary from the artists and developers, representing the ultimate insight into the design processes behind the game.

Two powerful women, beloved by their people-one sits on the throne; the other is locked in a cell. Kate Mulvany's smart and witty adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart is a tale of two queens at war. In the legendary rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, great forces are at play, with nations at stake and citizens ready to fight for the just cause. On the one hand there is principle and ideology; on the other, jealousy and pride. But there is also love. For who else could understand what torments a queen better than another queen? Mulvany turns her feminist lens on this brutal and moving story of cousins pitted against each other by politics and circumstance, trapped on different sides of history's coin. Mary Stuart, in a new adaptation by Kate Mulvany... offers a different kind of catharsis: the act of reclaiming women's stories with empathy, insight and, crucially, by allowing women of the past to finally have a voice.- Time Out Sydney

Written under the general editorship of two specialist employment law practitioners, with contributions from their respective Chambers and Law Firm, Employment Covenants andConfidential Information: Law, Practice and Technique, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive yet highly practical analysis of the law and practice in this area of employment disputes, setting out appropriate strategies from both the employer's and employee's perspective.The book focuses on how to prevent competitive activity by an employee or former employee and what to do when it happens. Clear guidance is given on drafting to minimise the risk of competitive activity, what activities an employee or ex-employee may and may not undertake and the remedies available where competitive activity occurs. This expanded edition includes up-to-date coverage of:Case law relevant to the drafting and interpretation of employment covenants Current trends regarding enforcement of employment covenants and duties of confidentiality Developments in the law on fiduciary duties and the interrelationship with duties of fidelity Fresh perspectives on garden leave, springboard injunctions and team movesRemedies available against the (ex-)employee and third party competitors Disputes with a foreign law element: conflict of laws, exclusive jurisdiction clauses, choice of law and anti-suit injunctionsEmployment Covenants and Confidential Information, Fourth Edition is essential reading for all employment law practitioners, HR professionals and company directors responsible for drafting and enforcing employment contracts. Through the use of checklists, flowcharts, precedents and case studies it translates theory into practice.

It is with great pleasure that, as guest co-editors, we bring you this special issue of the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship (IJGE) based on a selection of papers presented at the 6th Diana International Conference. We are fortunate that the papers included in this special issue cover research undertaken in both developed (Australia, Canada and the UK) and developing countries (China and Vietnam) using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods (including in-depth interviews). Further, the sample selection processes involved in the studies was extremely varied. Two studies included both male and female subjects (one with entrepreneurs and the other with students). One study involved both female entrepreneurs and female non-entrepreneurs. The remaining two studies included only female entrepreneurs; with one of these studies restricted to females who had started their ventures at age 50 or older. This diversity of approaches and sample characteristics ensures that a breadth of gendered entrepreneurial experience is captured within the special issue. It also signals that research into gender and entrepreneurship has reached a point in its developmental timeline where a variety of methodologies and frameworks are both utilised and valued as a means of enriching our understanding of the phenomenon (from the small scale in-depth narrative perspectives possible via qualitative investigations through to samples of significant size being interrogated via quantitative processes). We believe the issues investigated in these studies, and the insights they provide, will help to substantially advance our understanding with respect to assessing entrepreneurial performance outcomes (EPOs). From what we have learned from the five papers selected for this special issue, and the available literature, we have formulated an over-arching framework that can be used to provide a holistic understanding and assessment of EPOs. At its core, the framework we advance suggests that to properly assess EPOs we need to understand and assess: the various goals an owner can have when starting a new venture; the factors that can potentially impact venture outcomes; and the owner’s overall satisfaction with those outcomes. Interestingly, while the literature draws a clear distinction between ‘necessity’, ‘opportunity’ and ‘lifestyle’ entrepreneurs, the Logan (2014) study highlights a fourth group of entrepreneurs; those driven to start a new venture to achieve ‘personal fulfilment’ (to ‘make a difference’). This suggests that we could view the goals for entrepreneurship as lying on some form of continuum, akin to Maslow’s (1943) hierarchy of needs. At one end we have the ‘necessity’ entrepreneurs who are trying to satisfy basic ‘physiological’ needs, such as providing food and shelter for their families. At the other end of the scale we have individuals who enter entrepreneurship to satisfy much higher level needs; for example, to make a difference to society (to achieve ‘self-actualisation’). ‘Lifestyle’ and ‘opportunity’ driven entrepreneurs would fall somewhere between these two ends of the continuum. ‘Lifestyle’ entrepreneurs who are trying to achieve a balance between work and family may represent Maslow’s ‘love/affection/belongingness’ needs, while ‘opportunity’ driven entrepreneurs may be motivated by the need to demonstrate strength, competence, mastery, self-confidence, independence, self-respect and freedom; which Maslow categorized as ‘self-esteem’ needs. There are a number of implications that follow from this special issue. First, in terms of research, the framework we propose supports the argument advanced by Lewis (2008, p. 67) that to gain a proper understanding of SME performance outcomes “there needs to be a focus on the person that equals or supersedes the focus on the firm.” Second, with respect to policy makers, it is clear that government policies (for example, to stimulate SME growth) need to be designed having a proper understanding of the various: motives/goals that SME owners have; and external environmental factors that can impact the decision to start a new venture and the outcomes achieved. Finally, for anyone involved in providing advice to the SME sector it is important that, before providing that advice, they ensure they have a clear understanding of the owner’s goals. We trust that the holistic EPO assessment framework we have provided will help direct future research in the area and we welcome comments and further development of our framework.

Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia is a multi-author look at drugs in East and Southeast Asia, on drug policy, patterns and trends, local problems, human rights abuses, treatment prospects, and potential reforms. From the history of drugs in Asia, the book examines recent trends in illicit drugs, especially the present enormous amphetamine problems. It addresses recent policy shifts, especially harm reduction responses to the devastating drug-associated HIV epidemics. It explores further necessary reform, especially in regard to the abysmally inhuman current emphasis on detention and the death penalty for drug offences, and present the most recent evidence on effective and humane approaches to drug treatments. As the first comprehensive collection on illicit drug and harm reduction in East and Southeast Asia, it will be a vital resource for health professionals, policymakers, and others working there—and elsewhere—on drug policy reform. As the first comprehensive collection on illicit drugs and harm reduction in East and Southeast Asia, it will be a vital resource for health professionals, policymakers, and others working on East and Southeast Asia—and elsewhere—on drug policy.

Changing Violent Men is based on the evaluation of British criminal justice responses and treatment programs for men who use violence against a woman partner. Court enforced abuser programs are compared with more traditional sanctions such as fines and probation. And qualitative and quantitative data are used to delineate patterns of personal change. This book allows the men and women involved to speak about their lives and the impact of criminal justice interventions upon them.