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Innovation is a systemic phenomenon in which institutions, such as firms, government entities and public policy incentives, interact in complex ways. Targeting specific sectors of an economy in order to improve the competitiveness and capabilities of domestic firms, interventionist innovation policies can result in the structural transformation of host economies. Numerous examples exist of such policies working successfully in emerging economi...

Countries emerging from violent conflict face difficult challenges about what the role of media should be in political transitions, particularly when attempting to build a new state and balance a difficult legacy. Media, Conflict, and the State in Africa discusses how ideas, institutions and interests have shaped media systems in some of Africa's most complex state and nation-building projects. This timely book comes at a turbulent moment in g...

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The World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) sets out a framework and rules for the liberalization of international trade in services. Paragraph 2(a) of the GATS Annex on Financial Services is generally known as the Prudential Carve-Out (PCO). Notwithstanding GATS obligations, it allows WTO Members to pursue prudential regulatory objectives. This book studies the GATS PCO in light of its negotiating history and...

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Discover the nonlinear methods and tools needed to design real-world microwave circuits with this tutorial guide. Balancing theoretical background with practical tools and applications, it covers everything from the basic properties of nonlinear systems such as gain compression, intermodulation and harmonic distortion, to nonlinear circuit analysis and simulation algorithms, and state-of-the-art equivalent circuit and behavioral modeling techn...

The late nineteenth century saw a re-examination of artistic creativity in response to questions surrounding the relation between human beings and automata. These questions arose from findings in the “new psychology,” physiological research that diminished the primacy of mind and viewed human action as neurological and systemic. Concentrating on British and continental culture from 1870 to 1911, this unusual study explores ways in which idea o...

During the late nineteenth century, many countries across Europe adopted national legislation that required employers to compensate workers injured or killed in accidents at work. These laws suggested that the risk of accidents was inherent to work and not due to individual negligence. By focusing on Britain, Germany, and Italy during this time, Julia Moses demonstrates how these laws caused a major transformation in thinking about the nature ...

Plotinus is the first Greek philosopher to hold a systematic theory of consciousness. The key feature of his theory is that it involves multiple layers of experience: different layers of consciousness occur in different levels of self. This layering of higher modes of consciousness on lower ones provides human beings with a rich experiential world, and enables human beings to draw on their own experience to investigate their true self and the ...

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In this book, Eugene Johnson traces the invention of the opera house, a building type of world-wide importance. Italy laid the foundation theatre buildings in the West, in architectural spaces invented for the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century, and theatres built to present the new art form of opera in the seventeenth. Rulers lavished enormous funds on these structures.  Often they were among the most expensive artistic undertakings ...

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In this major new history of Muslim merchants and their trade links with China, John Chaffee uncovers 700 years of history, from the eighth century, when Muslim communities first established themselves in the Southeastern China, through the fourteenth century, when trade all but ceased. These were extraordinary and tumultuous times.  Under the Song and the Mongols, the Muslim diaspora in China flourished as legal and economic ties were formali...

Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in three instalments from 1776 to 1788, is widely regarded as the greatest work of history in the English language.   Starting with the accession of the Roman Emperor Commodus in the late second century CE, Gibbon's work traverses thirteen centuries, encompassing the rises of Christianity and Islam, the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, and the fall of the B...

This is the first book to demonstrate the value prose analysis -- both appreciative and interpretive in its “evaluations”—across dozens of authors, including Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Don DeLillo, and Toni Morrison. The Value of Style in Fiction is designed not just for students and scholars of the English novel—and its verbal “microplots”—but also for anyone interested in mastering the art of the sentence by “writing along with” its finest...

In this major new history of Muslim merchants and their trade links with China, John Chaffee uncovers 700 years of history, from the eighth century, when Muslim communities first established themselves in the Southeastern China, through the fourteenth century, when trade all but ceased. These were extraordinary and tumultuous times.  Under the Song and the Mongols, the Muslim diaspora in China flourished as legal and economic ties were formali...

Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in three instalments from 1776 to 1788, is widely regarded as the greatest work of history in the English language.   Starting with the accession of the Roman Emperor Commodus in the late second century CE, Gibbon's work traverses thirteen centuries, encompassing the rises of Christianity and Islam, the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, and the fall of the B...

Learning English means having the key to open the roads to a million and more possibilities, towards experiences you could never have imagined, to travel, to work, in relationships, through people, through ourselves and the entire world. Learning English means letting your TALENT flourish, and being able to fully exploit in the real world all of the competencies and skills learnt in the classroom and more. Learning English means breathing lang...

Learning English means having the key to open the roads to a million and more possibilities, towards experiences you could never have imagined, to travel, to work, in relationships, through people, through ourselves and the entire world. Learning English means letting your TALENT flourish, and being able to fully exploit in the real world all of the competencies and skills learnt in the classroom and more. Learning English means breathing lang...