This book describes how accelerators, the 'schools of startup entrepreneurship', help startups to become successful companies in Silicon Valley, the world's most successful innovation region.
This book explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
By examining intellectuals' thoughts, common people's attitudes, and official opinions, along with the social-cultural factors that were... Læs mere
This book investigates the role imaginings of the European past since the eighteenth century played in the construction of a Europeanist worldview and the ways in which ‘Europe’ was constructed in literature and art.
The Celestine monks of France represent one of the most unheralded but influential monastic reform movements of the later Middle Ages. This book argues their importance as a mirror of the political, intellectual, and Christian reform culture of their age.
This book considers films that have experimented with new, increasingly complicated narrative approaches, including Stage Fright and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, to show how they reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film.
A current evalution on which individual characteristics, organisations and managers affect managers' decisions to hire older workers.
This book investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy.
Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World investigates for the first time how seismic religious changes, a dramatic rise in the availability and consumption of goods, and new global connections transformed the nature and experience of religious material life.
This book offers sustained, interdisciplinary reflections on performative methods, variously known as Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment (RRR) practices across the fields of history of science, archaeology, art history, conservation, musicology and anthropology.
Giles Knox examines how El Greco, Velaìzquez, and Rembrandt, though a disparate group of artists, were connected by a new self-consciousness with respect to artistic tradition.
This book examines the role of the papacy and the crusade in the religious life of the late twelfth through late thirteenth centuries and beyond.