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GLUE Transforming Leadership in a Hybrid World

GLUE Transforming Leadership in a Hybrid World

The adoption of remote hybrid and flexible working is the new normal. But like the old normal no one seems very happy. The solution requires a different type of leadership – one that unites transforms and elevates performance. Leadership that creates glue. With employee engagement productivity and personal ties on the wane leaders urgently need to refocus on harnessing relationships making their organisations more humane and finding new ways to engage and unleash talent. To do that the single most impactful thing leaders can do is to create and nurture an intangible yet essential factor called glue. So this book sets out some ideas about glue: where to look for it how to use it and most importantly how to cultivate glue amongst your most valuable people. It explores the approach of some unusual leaders and of firms transformed through the ‘organisational advantage’ of smartly configuring and harnessing talent. Using stories from firms such as Alibaba Apple Barclays Sky Husqvarna Group HSBC Space X Zopa and Richer Sounds the book shows how leaders can shape the effectiveness of teams reimagine the workplace and reinvigorate their business through the talents ideas and energy of their firm’s best people. This book is for anyone who has a genuine interest in leading others with impact and wants to better unite transform and elevate their business. Whatever your role sector or seniority this book sets out a distinctive vision for the firm and shows the profound impact you can make through creating and nurturing glue. | GLUE Transforming Leadership in a Hybrid World

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Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

The formation of states in early modern Europe has long been an important topic for historical analysis. Traditionally the political and military struggles of kings and rulers were the favoured object of study for academic historians. This book highlights new historical research from Europe’s northern frontier bringing ‘the people’ back into the discussion of state politics presenting alternative views of political and social relations in the Nordic countries before industrialisation. The early modern period was a time that witnessed initiatives from people from many groups formally excluded from political influence operating outside the structures of central government and this book returns to the subject of contentious politics and state building from below. | Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

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Computational Engineering of Historical Memories With a Showcase on Afro-Eurasia (ca 1100-1500 CE)

Computational Engineering of Historical Memories With a Showcase on Afro-Eurasia (ca 1100-1500 CE)

Nanetti outlines a methodology for deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance historical research. Historical events are the treasure of human experiences the heritage that societies have used to remain resilient and express their identities. Nanetti has created and developed an interdisciplinary methodology supported by practice-based research that serves as a pathway between historical and computer sciences to design and build computational structures that analyse how societies create narratives about historical events. This consilience pathway aims to make historical memory machine-understandable. It turns history into a computational discipline through an interdisciplinary blend of philological accuracy historical scholarship history-based media projects and computational tools. Nanetti presents the theory behind this methodology from a humanities perspective and discusses its practical application in user interface and experience. An essential read for historians and scholars working in the digital humanities. | Computational Engineering of Historical Memories With a Showcase on Afro-Eurasia (ca 1100-1500 CE)

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Correspondence Analysis in Practice

Correspondence Analysis in Practice

Drawing on the author’s 45 years of experience in multivariate analysis Correspondence Analysis in Practice Third Edition shows how the versatile method of correspondence analysis (CA) can be used for data visualization in a wide variety of situations. CA and its variants subset CA multiple CA and joint CA translate two-way and multi-way tables into more readable graphical forms — ideal for applications in the social environmental and health sciences as well as marketing economics linguistics archaeology and more. Michael Greenacre is Professor of Statistics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona Spain where he teaches a course amongst others on Data Visualization. He has authored and co-edited nine books and 80 journal articles and book chapters mostly on correspondence analysis the latest being Visualization and Verbalization of Data in 2015. He has given short courses in fifteen countries to environmental scientists sociologists data scientists and marketing professionals and has specialized in statistics in ecology and social science.

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Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers

Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers

Now in its second edition this volume offers a strong synthesis of classic and current work in conversation analysis (CA) usefully encapsulated in a model of interactional practices that comprise interactional competence. Through this synthesis Wong and Waring demonstrate how CA findings can help to increase language teachers’ awareness of the spoken language and suggest ways of applying that knowledge to teaching second language interaction skills. The Second Edition features: Substantial updates that include new findings on interactional practices Reconceptualized reorganized and revised content for greater accuracy clarity and readability Expanded key concepts glossary at the end of each chapter New tasks with more transcripts of actual talk New authors' stories The book is geared towards current and prospective second or foreign language teachers material developers and other language professionals and assumes neither background knowledge of conversation analysis nor its connection to second language teaching. It also serves as a handy reference for those interested in key CA findings on social interaction. | Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers

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Toward Effective Strategic Analysis New Applications Of Information Technology

Toward Effective Strategic Analysis New Applications Of Information Technology

Exploring the future of strategic analysis this book identifies problems at the heart of the historical U. S. failure to perform effective strategic analysis then explains and dramatizes how new applications of information technology can make significant progress possible. Certain specific limitations of human memory says the author are major ca | Toward Effective Strategic Analysis New Applications Of Information Technology

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Exploratory Multivariate Analysis by Example Using R

Exploratory Multivariate Analysis by Example Using R

Full of real-world case studies and practical advice Exploratory Multivariate Analysis by Example Using R Second Edition focuses on four fundamental methods of multivariate exploratory data analysis that are most suitable for applications. It covers principal component analysis (PCA) when variables are quantitative correspondence analysis (CA) and multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) when variables are categorical and hierarchical cluster analysis. The authors take a geometric point of view that provides a unified vision for exploring multivariate data tables. Within this framework they present the principles indicators and ways of representing and visualising objects that are common to the exploratory methods. The authors show how to use categorical variables in a PCA context in which variables are quantitative how to handle more than two categorical variables in a CA context in which there are originally two variables and how to add quantitative variables in an MCA context in which variables are categorical. They also illustrate the methods using examples from various fields with related R code accessible in the FactoMineR package developed by the authors.

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Security without Obscurity A Guide to PKI Operations

Security without Obscurity A Guide to PKI Operations

Most books on public key infrastructure (PKI) seem to focus on asymmetric cryptography X. 509 certificates certificate authority (CA) hierarchies or certificate policy (CP) and certificate practice statements. While algorithms certificates and theoretical policy are all excellent discussions the real-world issues for operating a commercial or private CA can be overwhelming. Security without Obscurity: A Guide to PKI Operations provides a no-nonsense approach and realistic guide to operating a PKI system. In addition to discussions on PKI best practices the book supplies warnings against bad PKI practices. Scattered throughout the book are anonymous case studies identifying both good and bad practices. The highlighted bad practices based on real-world scenarios from the authors’ experiences illustrate how bad things are often done with good intentions but cause bigger problems than the original one being solved. This book offers readers the opportunity to benefit from the authors’ more than 50 years of combined experience in developing PKI-related policies standards practices procedures and audits as well as designing and operating various commercial and private PKI systems. | Security without Obscurity A Guide to PKI Operations

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Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture 16th–18th Centuries

Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture 16th–18th Centuries

The studies presented in this collection are concerned most particularly with the material conditions of life in the mature Ottoman state of the 16th-18th centuries. They range from the evaluation of sources of livelihood and conditions in the workplace on the one hand to notions of domesticity and organization of the private sphere on the other and deal with the provinces in both the Balkans and in Asia as much as with Istanbul. At the same time the volume aims to illuminate Ottoman imperial institutional forms and norms as they existed in the high imperial era before the rapid change and transformation associated with late imperial times when the empire was more exposed both to global economic forces and external political pressures. This concentration on the relatively stable conditions that prevailed in the empire throughout the bulk of the early modern era (ca. 1450-ca. 1750) provides the reader with an opportunity to assess Ottoman institutional development and observe social and economic organization in their relatively 'pure' state before the double impact of industrialization and increasing Westernization in the late nineteenth century. | Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture 16th–18th Centuries

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Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic

Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic

How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415) and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and North Sea coast of Norway. Norse Greenland was the stepping stone for the Europeans who first discovered America and settled briefly in Newfoundland ca. AD 1000. The community had a global significance which surpassed its modest size. In the last decades scholars have been nearly unanimous in emphasising that long-term climatic and environmental changes created a situation where Norse agriculture was no longer sustainable and the community was ruined. A secondary hypothesis has focused on ethnic confrontations between Norse peasants and Inuit hunters. In the last decades ethnic violence has been on the rise in Eastern Europe the Middle East and parts of Africa. In some cases it has degenerated into ethnic cleansing. This has strengthened the interest in ethnic violence in past societies. Challenging traditional hypotheses is a source of progress in all science. The present book does this on the basis of relevant written and archaeological material respecting the methodology of both sciences. | Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic

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Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire

Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire

This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly manly traits like militarism aggressive sexuality and the pursuit of power within a political system based on power sharing and cooperation. In deliberations in the Senate at social gatherings and on military campaign displays of consensus with other men greased the wheels of social discourse and built elite comradery. Through literary sources and inscriptions that offer censorious or affirmative appraisal of male behavior from the Middle and Late Republic (ca. 300–31 BCE) to the Principate or Early Empire (ca. 100 CE) this book shows how the vir bonus or good man the Roman persona of male aristocratic excellence modulated imperatives for personal distinction and military and sexual violence with political cooperation and moral exemplarity. While the advent of one-man rule in the Empire transformed political power relations ideals forged in the Republic adapted to the new climate and provided a coherent model of masculinity for emperor and senator alike. Scholars often paint a picture of Republic and Principate as distinct landscapes but enduring ideals of male self-fashioning constitute an important continuity. Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire provides a fascinating insight into the intertwined nature of masculinity and political power for anyone interested in Roman political and social history and those working on gender in the ancient world more broadly.

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Technological Capability and Learning in Firms Vietnamese Industries in Transition

Technological Capability and Learning in Firms Vietnamese Industries in Transition

First published in 1999 this volume examines technology in developing countries with a focus on Vietnam. One of the world’s poorest countries Vietnam has begun rehabilitation following the Vietnam War. Tran Ngoc Ca had four aims for this study. First exploration of the development of TC in Vietnamese industrial companies and looks at how the learning process is related to the accumulation of TC. Second to detail links between macro environment factors and micro internal actions of firms and their impact on TC. Third addressing specific issues in comparison with other developing countries and transitional economies. Fourth and finally to provide a background for the implementation of policy concerned with enhancing TC acquisition. | Technological Capability and Learning in Firms Vietnamese Industries in Transition

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Origami Polyhedra Design

Origami Polyhedra Design

This book unravels the mystery of Geometry in Origami with a unique approach: 64 Polyhedra designs each made from a single square sheet of paper no cuts no glue; each polyhedron the largest possible from the starting size of square and each having an ingenious locking mechanism to hold its shape. The author covers the five Platonic solids (cube tetrahedron octahedron icosahedron and dodecahedron). There are ample variations with different color patterns and sunken sides. Dipyramids and Dimpled Dipyramids unexplored before this in Origami are also covered. There are a total of 64 models in the book. All the designs have an interesting look and a pleasing folding sequence and are based on unique mathematical equations. | Origami Polyhedra Design

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Using the R Commander A Point-and-Click Interface for R

Using the R Commander A Point-and-Click Interface for R

This book provides a general introduction to the R Commander graphical user interface (GUI) to R for readers who are unfamiliar with R. It is suitable for use as a supplementary text in a basic or intermediate-level statistics course. It is not intended to replace a basic or other statistics text but rather to complement it although it does promote sound statistical practice in the examples. The book should also be useful to individual casual or occasional users of R for whom the standard command-line interface is an obstacle. tinyurl. com/RcmdrBookThe site includes data files used in the book and an errata list. http://socserv. mcmaster. ca/jfox/Books/RCommander/Writing-Rcmdr-Plugins. pdf Writing R Commander Plug-in Packages | Using the R Commander A Point-and-Click Interface for R

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Executive Functions What They Are How They Work and Why They Evolved

Executive Functions What They Are How They Work and Why They Evolved

This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive theory of executive functioning (EF) with important clinical implications. Synthesizing cutting-edge neuropsychological and evolutionary research Russell A. Barkley presents a model of EF that is rooted in meaningful activities of daily life. He describes how abilities such as emotion regulation self-motivation planning and working memory enable people to pursue both personal and collective goals that are critical to survival. Key stages of EF development are identified and the far-reaching individual and social costs of EF deficits detailed. Barkley explains specific ways that his model may support much-needed advances in assessment and treatment. See also Barkley's empirically based ecologically valid assessment tools: Barkley Deficits in Executive Functioning Scale (BDEFS for Adults) and Barkley Deficits in Executive Functioning Scale-Children and Adolescents (BDEFS-CA). | Executive Functions What They Are How They Work and Why They Evolved

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Hybridity in Early Modern Art

Hybridity in Early Modern Art

This collection of essays explores hybridity in early modern art through two primary lenses: hybrid media and hybrid time. The varied approaches in the volume to theories of hybridity reflect the increased presence in art historical scholarship of interdisciplinary frameworks that extend art historical inquiry beyond the single time or material. The essays engage with what happens when an object is considered beyond the point of origin or as a legend of information the implications of the juxtaposition of disparate media how the meaning of an object alters over time and what the conspicuous use of out-of-date styles means for the patron artist and/or viewer. Essays examine both canonical and lesser-known works produced by European artists in Italy northern Europe and colonial Peru ca. 1400–1600. The book will be of interest to art historians visual culture historians and early modern historians.

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Fluoride Removal from Groundwater by Adsorption Technology

Fluoride Removal from Groundwater by Adsorption Technology

In the Eastern corridor of Northern region of Ghana presence of high fluoride concentration in the groundwater has made many drilled boreholes unusable for drinking. Little is however known about the factors contributing to the occurrence of high fluoride in this part of Ghana and it’s spatial distribution. Treatment of the fluoride-contaminated groundwater by adsorption is also hampered by the lack of suitable adsorbents that are locally available. Based on principal component analysis and saturation indices calculations this thesis highlights that the predominant mechanisms controlling the fluoride enrichment probably include calcite precipitation and Na/Ca exchange processes both of which deplete Ca from the groundwater and promote the dissolution of fluorite. The mechanisms also include F-/OH- anion exchange processes as well as evapotranspiration processes which concentrate the fluoride ions hence increasing its concentration in the groundwater. Spatial mapping showed that the high fluoride groundwaters occur predominantly in the Saboba Cheriponi and Yendi districts. The thesis further highlights that modifying the surface of indigenous materials by an aluminium coating process is a very promising approach to develop a suitable fluoride adsorbent. Aluminum oxide coated media reduced fluoride in water from 5. 0 ± 0. 2 mg/L to ≤ 1. 5 mg/L (which is the WHO health based guideline for fluoride) in both batch and continuous flow column experiments in the laboratory. Kinetic and isotherm studies thermodynamic calculations as well as analytical results from Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy suggest the mechanism of fluoride adsorption onto aluminium oxide coated media involved both physisorption and chemisorption processes. Field testing in a fluoritic community in Northern Ghana showed that the adsorbent is also capable of treating fluoride-contaminated groundwater in field conditions suggesting it is a promising defluoridation adsorbent. The adsorbent also showed good regenerability potential that would allow re-use which could make it practically and economically viable. Additional research is however required to further increase the fluoride adsorption capacity of developed adsorbent. | Fluoride Removal from Groundwater by Adsorption Technology

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Disaster in the Early Modern World Examinations Representations Interventions

Disaster in the Early Modern World Examinations Representations Interventions

How did early modern societies think about disasters such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster and how did they intervene to mitigate its destructive effects? This collection showcases the breadth of new work on the period ca. 1300-1750. Covering topics that range from new thinking about risk and securitisation to the protection of dikes from shipworm and with a geography that extends from Europe to Spanish America the volume places early modern disaster studies squarely at the intersection of intellectual cultural and socio-economic history. This period witnessed fresh speculation on nature the diffusion of disaster narratives and imagery and unprecedented attempts to control the physical world. The book will be essential to specialists and students of environmental history and disaster as well as general readers who seek to discover how pre-industrial societies addressed some of the same foundational issues we grapple with today. | Disaster in the Early Modern World Examinations Representations Interventions

GBP 130.00
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Valuing People in Construction

Valuing People in Construction

Valuing People in Construction provides contemporary perspectives on the ‘glue’ that binds the construction process together; people. The book addresses people issues in the construction industry where behavioural outcomes impact upon business and project performance. The main proposition of the book is that as people continue to lead the completion of construction activities their health safety and well-being should be seen as a priority and valued by stakeholders. As employers and employees the role of people in construction must be to strive for the improvement of individual lives and society. This edited collection which is the first book to focus specifically on placing value on people in construction focuses on people at work gender at work conditions at work and respect at work. In addition to an editorial overview the book presents tested and refined empirical work and case studies by leading construction researchers from Africa Australia and Europe. Essential reading for researchers students and professionals interested in construction management the sociology of construction HRM in construction gender work and health studies.

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Pavement Roadway and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pavement. Roadway and Bridge Life Cy

Pavement Roadway and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pavement. Roadway and Bridge Life Cy

An increasing number of agencies academic institutes and governmental and industrial bodies are embracing the principles of sustainability in managing their activities. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an approach developed to provide decision support regarding the environmental impact of industrial processes and products. LCA is a field with ongoing research development and improvement and is being implemented world-wide particularly in the areas of pavement roadways and bridges. Pavement Roadway and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 contains the contributions to the International Symposium on Pavement Roadway and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 (Davis CA USA June 3-6 2020) covering research and practical issues related to pavement roadway and bridge LCA including data and tools asset management environmental product declarations procurement planning vehicle interaction and impact of materials structure and construction. Pavement Roadway and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 will be of interest to researchers professionals and policymakers in academia industry and government who are interested in the sustainability of pavements roadways and bridges. | Pavement Roadway and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pavement. Roadway and Bridge Life Cy

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Industrial Biomimetics

Industrial Biomimetics

Biomimetics is an innovative paradigm shift based on biodiversity for sustainability. Biodiversity is not only the result of evolutionary adaption but also the optimized solution of an epic combinatorial chemistry for sustainability because the diversity has been acquired by biological processes and technology including production processes operating principles and control systems all of which differ from human technology. In the recent decades biomimetics has gained a great deal of industrial interest because of its unique solutions for engineering problems. In this book researchers have contributed cutting-edge results from the viewpoint of two types of industrial applications of biomimetics. The first type starts with engineering tasks to solve an engineering problem using biomimetics while the other starts with the knowledge of biology and its application to engineering fields. This book discusses both approaches. Edited by Profs. Masatsugu Shimomura and Akihiro Miyauchi two prominent nanotechnology researchers this book will appeal to advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level students of biology chemistry physics and engineering and to researchers working in the areas of mechanics optical devices glue materials sensor devices and SEM observation of living matter. | Industrial Biomimetics

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The Arithmetica of Diophantus A Complete Translation and Commentary

The Arithmetica of Diophantus A Complete Translation and Commentary

This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus of Alexandria’s Arithmetica along with a comprehensive conceptual historical and mathematical commentary. Before his work became the inspiration for the emerging field of number theory in the seventeenth century Diophantus (ca. 3rd c. CE) was known primarily as an algebraist. This volume explains how his method of solving arithmetical problems agrees both conceptually and procedurally with the premodern algebra later practiced in Arabic Latin and European vernaculars and how this algebra differs radically from the modern algebra initiated by François Viète and René Descartes. It also discusses other surviving traces of ancient Greek algebra and follows the influence of the Arithmetica in medieval Islam Byzantium and the European Renaissance down to the 1621 publication of Claude-Gaspard Bachet’s edition. After the English translation the book provides a problem-by-problem commentary explaining the solutions in a manner compatible with Diophantus’s mode of thought. The Arithmetica of Diophantus provides an invaluable resource for historians of mathematics science and technology as well as those studying ancient Greek medieval Islamic and Byzantine and Renaissance history. In addition the volume is also suitable for mathematicians and mathematics educators. | The Arithmetica of Diophantus A Complete Translation and Commentary

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The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks

The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks

This volume brings together the latest results and discussions from research carried out in the eastern Fertile Crescent the so-called hilly flanks and adjacent regions as well as providing key historical perspectives on earlier fieldwork in the region. The emergence of sedentary food producing societies in southwest Asia ca. 10 000 years ago has been a key research focus for archaeologists since the 1930s. This book provides a balance to the weight of work undertaken in the western Fertile Crescent namely the Levant and southern Anatolia. This preference has led to a heavy emphasis on these regions in discussions about where when and how the transition from hunting and gathering to plant cultivation and animal domestication occurred. Chapters assess the role of the eastern Fertile Crescent as a key region in the Neolithization process in southwest Asia highlighting the key and important contributions people in this region made to the emergence of sedentary farming societies. This book is primarily aimed at academics researching the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in southwest Asia. It will also be of interest to archaeologists working on this transition in other parts of Eurasia. | The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks

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Federico Barocci Inspiration and Innovation in Early Modern Italy

Federico Barocci Inspiration and Innovation in Early Modern Italy

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 1533–1612) 'the greatest artist you’ve never heard of'. One of the first original iconographers of the Counter Reformation Barocci was a remarkably inventive religious painter and draftsman and the first Italian artist to incorporate extensive color into his drawings. The purpose of this volume is to offer new insights into Barocci’s work and to accord this artist the dates of whose career fall between the traditional Renaissance and Baroque periods the critical attention he deserves. Employing a range of methodologies the essays include new ideas on Barocci’s masterpiece the Entombment of Christ; fresh thinking about his use of color in his drawings and innovative design methods; insights into his approach to the nude; revelations on a key early patron; a consideration of the reasons behind some of his most original iconography; an analysis of his unusual approach to the marketing of his pictures; an exploration of some little-known aspects of his early production such as his reliance on Italian majolica and contemporary sculpture in developing his compositions; and an examination of a key Barocci document the post mortem inventory of his studio. A translated transcription of the inventory is included as an appendix. | Federico Barocci Inspiration and Innovation in Early Modern Italy

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