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Innovation Bureaucracies
Let's Make the State Entrepreneurial
From self-driving cars to smart grids, new technologies are already significantly changing the way we live. Surprisingly, some of the time, it is governments driving this change. Rainer Kattel, Wolfgang Drechsler...
The Tudors
Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs brought changes to England that reverberated throughout Europe. This book provides a rare, comprehensive look at how Tudor artistic patronage legitimized...
Vittore Carpaccio
Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice
An authoritative and comprehensive celebration of the life and work of one of the most prominent artists of the Venetian Renaissance Meticulously researched and luxuriously illustrated, this volume offers a...
Van Gogh in America
A fascinating exploration of the introduction of Vincent van Gogh’s work to the United States Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) is one of the most iconic artists in the world, and how he became a household name...
Beethoven
The Nine Symphonies that Changed Music
Beethoven’s symphonies loom large in the public imagination. The nine symphonies, including the Fifth, the Pastoral and the Choral are key to understanding Beethoven’s life and work – and are each regarded masterpieces in...
Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition
Delightfully original, this book establishes Cubism’s intrinsic connection to the traditional art of pictorial illusion The age-old artistic tradition of illusionistic realism known as trompe l’oeil (...
Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
An Annotated Edition
This beautifully produced first annotated edition of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s oeuvre re-presents the work of the Jazz Age’s most famous poet More than sixty years after her death, the Pulitzer Prize...
Public Freedoms in the Islamic State
Available now for the first time in English, the most important work of one of the great moderate political leaders of the Muslim world Rached Ghannouchi has long been known as a reformist or moderate...
Cairo 1921
Ten Days that Made the Middle East
Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the Middle East in the wake of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The summit established the states of Iraq and Jordan as...
Raphael
Among the great figures of the Italian Renaissance, Raphael (1483–1520) is unarguably the artist who has been most widely and consistently admired across the centuries. He had an extraordinary and perhaps unrivaled capacity...