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  • Middle Managers in Program and Project Portfolio Management

    by Tomas Blomquist, Ralf Müller ...
    The increasing "projectization" of organizations has led to a greater reliance on program and project portfolio management, and middle managers are playing a central role in the management of multiple simultaneous projects. Experienced project managers understand the value of defining project roles and responsibilities, but what are middle managers' roles and responsibilities in program and ... Read more

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  • Identifying the Forces Driving Frequent Change in PMOs

    by Monique Aubry, Brian Hobbs, Ralf Müller, Tomas Blomquist ...
    Project Management Offices (PMOs) are not etched in stone. They are complex entities which go through frequent transformations during their average two-year life span. So, what does that mean to project professionals? Identifying the Forces Driving Frequent Change in PMOs answers this question for both researchers and practitioners based on a three-year research effort focused on the ... Read more

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  • Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth

    Co-Creating a European Capital of Culture

    by Maria Kapsali, Malin H. Näsholm, Nils Wåhlin, Tomas Blomquist ...
    Over the past three decades, the European Capital of Culture has grown into one of the most ambitious cultural programs in the world. Through the promotion of cultural diversity across the continent, the program fosters mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue among citizens, thereby increasing their sense of belonging to a community. This insightful book outlines potential avenues through ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Merchant Families, Banking and Money in Medieval Lucca

    by Thomas W. Blomquist ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This volume brings together a series of studies by Professor Blomquist on the evolution of banking in Lucca from the 12th and 13th centuries. They describe how the leading bankers operated, how they invested, and how they pursued their family interests. In particular, they trace the transformation of money changers, or campsores, into deposit and transfer bankers, who deployed their capital in ... Read more

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    by Prof. Raymond de Roover ...
    The roots of modern capitalism go back to the Italian banking system of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the fifteenth century, the Medici Bank succeeded in overshadowing its competitors, the Bardi and the Peruzzi, who were the giants of the fourteenth century, and grew into a vast establishment with branches in most of the large cities of Western Europe. A study of its operations is ... Read more

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  • Florence Under Siege

    Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City

    by John Henderson ...
    A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plaguePlague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered, and survived the impact of plague. Going beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor, ... Read more

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  • The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness

    by Emanuele Lugli ...
    An interdisciplinary history of standardized measurements.Measurement is all around us—from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, measures of distance stand at the very foundation of everything we do, so much so that we take them for ... Read more

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  • Giuliano de' Medici

    Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art

    by Josephine Jungic ...
    Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure, Josephine Jungic re-evaluates Giuliano’s life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by Medici ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • The Medici Women

    Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence

    by Natalie R. Tomas ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas examines critically the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power within it; and contributes to our historical understanding of how women were able to wield power in late ... Read more

    Was $89.99 CAD Now $79.69 CAD

  • Forbidden Fashions

    Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents

    by Isabella Campagnol Fabretti ...
    Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled shoes, make-up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a contemporary person to reconcile these elegant clothes and accessories with the image of cloistered nuns. For many of the some thousand nuns in early modern Venice, however, these fashions were the norm. Often locked in convents without any religious calling—simply to save ... Read more

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  • Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga

    Power Sharing at the Italian Renaissance Court

    by Sarah D.P. Cockram ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    In the first book systematically to give evidence of conjugal co-rule at an Italian Renaissance court, and the first full length scholarly study of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, Sarah Cockram shows their relationship in an entirely new light. The book draws on (and presents) a large amount of unpublished archival material, including almost unprecedented surviving correspondence between ... Read more

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  • The Venetian Money Market

    Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500

    by Reinhold C. Mueller ...
    The long awaited conclusion to the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice.Originally published in 1997. In 1985 Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller published the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, volume 1: Coins and Moneys of Account. Now, after ten years of further research and writing, Reinhold Mueller completes the work that he and ... Read more

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