Katherine Collins – författare

Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet. Southern geographies, histories and lives have often been overlooked and defined by northern perspectives; Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere redresses this North/South alignment in its critical examination of life stories, memoirs, biographies and autobiographies from the southern hemisphere, providing a countervailing and alternative perspective that will unsettle, challenge and enrich the imaginative norms that inform life writing studies.From Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia in South America, through southern Africa, to Australia and New Zealand and as far down as Antarctica, this collection brings together writers and scholars in the oceanic humanities, postcolonial, Global South and polar studies, and presents works on human, animal and plant life captured in words, music, performance, visual arts and photography. Interdisciplinary and vast in its comparative range, Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere convenes a diversity of perspectives and positions that demonstrate that the south has rich internal knowledge sources of its own, allowing us to better conceptualize the planet ‘from below’.

Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet. Southern geographies, histories and lives have often been overlooked and defined by northern perspectives; Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere redresses this North/South alignment in its critical examination of life stories, memoirs, biographies and autobiographies from the southern hemisphere, providing a countervailing and alternative perspective that will unsettle, challenge and enrich the imaginative norms that inform life writing studies. From Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia in South America, through southern Africa, to Australia and New Zealand and as far down as Antarctica, this collection brings together writers and scholars in the oceanic humanities, postcolonial, Global South and polar studies, and presents works on human, animal and plant life captured in words, music, performance, visual arts and photography. Interdisciplinary and vast in its comparative range, Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere convenes a diversity of perspectives and positions that demonstrate that the south has rich internal knowledge sources of its own, allowing us to better conceptualize the planet ''from below''.

Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet. Southern geographies, histories and lives have often been overlooked and defined by northern perspectives; Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere redresses this North/South alignment in its critical examination of life stories, memoirs, biographies and autobiographies from the southern hemisphere, providing a countervailing and alternative perspective that will unsettle, challenge and enrich the imaginative norms that inform life writing studies. From Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia in South America, through southern Africa, to Australia and New Zealand and as far down as Antarctica, this collection brings together writers and scholars in the oceanic humanities, postcolonial, Global South and polar studies, and presents works on human, animal and plant life captured in words, music, performance, visual arts and photography. Interdisciplinary and vast in its comparative range, Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere convenes a diversity of perspectives and positions that demonstrate that the south has rich internal knowledge sources of its own, allowing us to better conceptualize the planet ''from below''.

Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet. Southern geographies, histories and lives have often been overlooked and defined by northern perspectives; Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere redresses this North/South alignment in its critical examination of life stories, memoirs, biographies and autobiographies from the southern hemisphere, providing a countervailing and alternative perspective that will unsettle, challenge and enrich the imaginative norms that inform life writing studies.From Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia in South America, through southern Africa, to Australia and New Zealand and as far down as Antarctica, this collection brings together writers and scholars in the oceanic humanities, postcolonial, Global South and polar studies, and presents works on human, animal and plant life captured in words, music, performance, visual arts and photography. Interdisciplinary and vast in its comparative range, Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere convenes a diversity of perspectives and positions that demonstrate that the south has rich internal knowledge sources of its own, allowing us to better conceptualize the planet ‘from below’.

We are all investors. We invest our time, our energy, our money. We invest every single day, as citizens, as consumers, as businesspeople. At its core, investing involves connection, exchange, and mutual benefit. Lately, however, the primary, beneficial function of investing has been overshadowed by ever-more mechanized iterations of finance. We have created funds of funds, securitizations of securitizations, and entire firms whose business is based on harvesting the advantage of microseconds of trading speed.  The Nature of Investing calls for a transformation of the investment process from the roots up. Drawing on the author's twenty-plus years of leadership experience in top investment firms, the book connects real-world finance with the field of biomimicry. Citing real-life examples and discussing principles from the natural world, The Nature of Investing shows how we can create an investment framework that is different from the mechanized one currently employed.  Readers will discover an approach that re-aligns investing with the world it was originally meant to serve. An approach that values resiliency over rigidity and elegant simplicity over synthetic complexity. This is the true nature of investing.

Als notorischer Frauenheld trifft es Lord Nathan Mannings schwer, dass seine eigene Braut ihn in der Hochzeitsnacht verschmäht. Fortan versucht er sie aus seinen Gedanken zu verbannen. Lady Annabell Mannings, von ihrem Onkel in die Ehe geprügelt, nimmt, nach jahrelang erduldeter Verbannung, ihre Zukunft selbst in die Hand. Eine Scheidung muss her und zwar schnell!

Lady Johanna wird zurück nach England gerufen, aber nicht an den Hof ihres Onkels, König Stephan, sondern in die väterliche Burg nahe der schottischen Grenze. Da ihr Vater, der Duke of Knightsbridge ein rauer und gefährlicher Mann ist, flüchtet Johanna, kaum dass sie Fuß auf englischen Boden setzt. Leider ist sie weniger gut vorbereitet auf die Unbill, die sie erwartet, als angenommen und wird just von einem Haufen Strauchdiebe gefangengenommen! Wird ihr die Flucht gelingen? Oder wird der Gauner Hawk sie zur freiwilligen Kapitulation bringen, indem er ihr all das verspricht, was sie sich so sehr wünscht?

London im 18. Jahrhundert: Lady Frances und Lady Heather begehen ihre erste Saison in der Londoner Gesellschaft. Frances, genannt Fanny, ist ein pummeliges Mauerblümchen und leidet unter ihrer herrischen Schwester und der tyrannischen Mutter. Der charmante Jonathan Cavendish hatte eigentlich nicht vor, sich wieder zu verheiraten, doch als Frances in eine verfängliche Situation gerät, verbieten es ihm sein Ehrgefühl und die Etikette, ihr nicht nur beizustehen, sondern sie tatsächlich auch zur Frau zu nehmen. Was für Frances ein wahrgewordener Traum sein sollte, wird eine freudlose Verbindung. Denn Frances erkennt ihr Glück erst, als es schon zu spät zu sein scheint …Von Katherine Collins sind bei Forever in der Regency-Reihe erschienen:Melodie der HoffnungTränen des HerzensVerliebt wider Willen

England, Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts: Lady Marie Windermere feiert ihr Debüt in der Londoner Gesellschaft. Was niemand weiß: Ihr Vater kann sich weder ihre Aussteuer noch die Saison leisten. Verzweifelt sucht die temperamentvolle Schönheit deshalb nach einem geeigneten Gatten. Unterstützt wird sie bei ihrer Suche von dem attraktiven Draufgänger Lord Argyll, einem Freund der Familie. Doch Argyll ist bekannt für sein liederliches Verhalten und seine Affären. Und tatsächlich geraten die beiden schon bald in eine heikle Situation. Plötzlich scheint eine Hochzeit mit Argyll der einzige Weg zu sein, um Maries Ehre zu retten. Die junge Frau ist am Boden zerstört. Wie soll sie mit einem solchen Mann jemals glücklich werden? Zu spät erkennt sie, dass Argylls Gefühle für sie vielleicht doch aufrichtig sind …Von Katherine Collins sind bei Forever in der Regency-Reihe erschienen:Melodie der HoffnungTränen des HerzensVerliebt wider Willen

England, 1815: Lady Amelie Mannings will eines ganz sicher nicht: heiraten. Nachdem sie beinahe auf einen Hochstapler hereingefallen wäre, hält sie sich fern von allen Männern. Doch als Tochter des Duke of Kent ist sie in der Londoner Gesellschaft heiß begehrt. Vor allem vom gutaussehenden Julien Moore, der als Verführer und Frauenheld gilt. Obwohl Amelie ihn ein ums andere Mal abweist, lässt Julien nicht locker. Schließlich geraten die beiden in eine verfängliche Situation und die Hochzeit scheint unvermeidlich. Doch Amelie würde lieber ins Kloster gehen, als einen Mann zu heiraten, der sie offenbar nicht liebt …Von Katherine Collins sind bei Forever in der Regency-Reihe erschienen:Melodie der HoffnungTränen des HerzensVerliebt wider Willen