This highly readable and timely book explores the transformation of the modern and contemporary art market in the 21st century from a niche trade to a globalised operation worth an estimated $50 billi
This book explores human trafficking, examining the work of grass-roots, non-profit organizations who educate and rehabilitate human trafficking victims and at-risk youth. Through interviews with staf
Kay (U. of Kansas) attempts to solve some of the riddles that he finds in Commedia and figures Dante left hanging on purpose to engage the intellect of readers. Among these are the sins of Brunetto La
This volume reprints nineteen articles that deal with the formation of the first Islamic state under the 'rightly-guided' and Umayyad caliphs (632-750 CE). The articles (five of which originally appea
Building rapport, communicating and establishing trust with people, as a line manager, as part of a department or a temporary project team, involves a fundamental set of human and business skills. And
Presents 11 original essays and three expanded revisions of essays published between 1976 and 1999. Contributors deal with some of French opera's unfamiliar roots and characteristics, and attempt to i
Intended as a companion and continuation of her earlier collection Armenia between Byzantium and the Sasanians Garsonan continues to emphasize relations between Armenia and Sasanian Persia on its ea
The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's Book of the Courti
This second volume of studies by the late Nehemia Levtzion pursues the themes covered in his previous collection, Islam in West Africa; it also maintains a particular interest in the history of Africa
It is no secret that Europe is currently undergoing a major economic and social crisis, so it is essential says Dimitris Chorafas that leaders of industry and finance within the EU, or doing business
The "Quarterly Review" presents a rare opportunity to Romantic scholars to test the truth of Marilyn Butler's claim that the early nineteenth-century periodical is the matrix for dem
American exceptionalism – the idea that America is fundamentally distinct from other nations – is a philosophy that has dominated economics, politics, religion and culture for two centuries. This coll
Most of the 13 essays are reprinted from journals and anthologies between 1981 and 2000. They cover religion and historical crosscurrents in Renaissance drama, sacred violence and the mysteries, and c
Richard Newhauser examines here aspects of the moral tradition of medieval thought, specifically the construction of the seven deadly sins, their offspring, and related schematizations of immorality i
Bogucka has collected twenty articles, published in English, German, and French between 1973-1999, that deal with subjects of commerce, trade, the social history in towns, and culture and customs in t
An element common to all the articles collected here is the attempt to make parallel use of sources from different cultures a€“ Biblical and Talmudic Hebrew, Greek and Latin, Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic
By looking at the decline of the jute industry, this study assesses the successes and failures of Britain’s managed economy. It also addresses broader arguments about the political economy of twentiet
In this collection of essays first published as journal articles in the 1970s-90s, Gough examines James Cook and British enterprise in the North Pacific and the politics and decolonization of Latin Am
Professor Russell-Wooda€?s detailed studies of Brazilian social history in the colonial era have long been recognised as model contributions to the history of class, race, gender and religion. This co
Considers the reputations and biographical portrayal of three innovative and controversial writers: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and William Thackeray. These anthologies of contemporary biog
