Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World, De Hamel Christopher

Автор: Hamel Christopher de
Название: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
ISBN: 0141977493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141977492
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meeting and talking to a person of world stature.The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to explore with the author what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and sometimes about the modern world too. Christopher de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, collectors and the international community of manuscript scholars, showing us how he and his fellows piece together evidence to reach unexpected conclusions. He traces the elaborate journeys which these exceptionally precious artefacts have made through time and space, shows us how they have been copied, who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell), how they have been embroiled in politics and scholarly disputes, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and luxury and as symbols of national identity. The book touches on religion, art, literature, music, science and the history of taste.Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts conveys the fascination and excitement of encountering some of the greatest works of art in our culture which, in the originals, are to most people completely inaccessible. At the end, we have a slightly different perspective on history and how we come by knowledge. It is a most unusual book.

Автор: Hamel, Gary Prahalad, C.k.
Название: Competing for the future
ISBN: 0875847161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780875847160
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Описание: Develops a coherent model for how modern executives can identify and accomplish no less than heroic goals in tomorrow`s marketplace. This blueprint addresses how executives can ease the tension between competing and clearing a path toward leadership in the future.

Автор: Keil Roger, Hamel Pierre, Boudreau Julie-Anne
Название: Governing Cities Through Regions: Canadian and European Perspectives
ISBN: 1771122773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771122771
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja's terms, ""an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it."" Governing Cities Through Regions broadens and deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project that engages with Anglo-American, French, and German literatures on the subject of regional governance. It expands the comparative angle from issues of economic competiveness and social cohesion to topical and relevant fields such as housing and transportation, and it expands comparative work on municipal governance to the regional scale. With contributions from established and emerging international scholars of urban and regional governance, the volume covers conceptual topics and case studies that contrast the experience of a range of Canadian metropolitan regions with a strong selection of European regions. It starts from assumptions of limited conversion among regions across the Atlantic but is keenly aware of the remarkable differences in urban regions' path dependencies in which the larger processes of globalization and neo-liberalization are situated and materialized.