A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the moment of innovation the eureka moment that sparks astonishing technological feats. In this book, Jeffrey Ding offers a different explanation of how technological revolutions affect competition among great powers. Rather than focusing on which state first introduced major innovations, he investigates why some states were more successful than others at adapting and embracing new technologies at scale. Drawing on historical case studies of past industrial revolutions as well as statistical analysis, Ding develops a theory that emphasizes institutional adaptations oriented around diffusing technological advances throughout the entire economy.Examining Britain s rise to preeminence in the First Industrial Revolution, America and Germany s overtaking of Britain in the Second

The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne offers studentsand teachers an introduction to Hawthorne's fiction and the livelydebates that shape Hawthorne studies today. In newly commissionedessays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introducereaders to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen ourunderstanding of Hawthorne's writing. Each of the major novels istreated in a separate chapter, while other essays exploreHawthorne's art in relation to a stimulating array of issues andapproaches. The essays reveal how Hawthorne's work exploresunderstandings of gender relations and sexuality, of childhood andselfhood, of politics and ethics, of history and modernity. AnIntroduction and a selected bibliography will help students andteachers understand how Hawthorne has been a crucial figure foreach generation of readers of American literature.

Leaders in business are typically criticized as control freaks. The Control Freak Revolution shows you that being a control freak is actually a good thing, and why CEOs look for leaders who can use control to increase employee and team effectiveness. But leadership is a tough job. You face a number of challenges, such as: Attracting new employees and keeping good ones. Managing different personalities and different generations. Getting tasks done quickly, accurately, and under pressure. All these challenges can be met with ease when you are able to control and influence others to perform at the highest levels possible. In this practical, no-nonsense guide, author Cheryl Cran teaches you how to be a successful "control freak" leader in seven easy steps, with exercises to help you implement the ideas in each chapter. The book will show you how to: Evaluate and improve your leadership style. Set up systems that support the results you want. Bust through the myths t

Food and the City makes the relationships between food and the city visible by exploring both the ways in which buying and eating food have become such a significant part of urban public life, and the ways in which design supports and enhances the place of food in the city. It is timely because the proliferation of urban cafes, restaurants, and markets continues, but is not sufficiently recognized or analyzed. Food related topics are now of great interest in academic and design disciplines but the theme of this issue, food as it relates to the variety and vitality of urban life, has not been addressed. Food and the City, will develop ideas from the popular Food and Architecture (2002). Contents include: Raw, Medium, Well Done: A Typological Reading of Australian Cafes by Jane Lawrence & Rachel Hurst; Blurring Boundaries, Defining Place: The New Hybrid Space of Dining by Gail Satler; The New and the Rare: Gourmet Food in the Japanese Department Store by Masaaki Takahashi; Tasting the Periphery: Bang

For readers daunted by the formal structures and rhetoricalsophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, thisintroduction by John Sitter brings the techniques and the majorpoets of the period 1700–1785 triumphantly to life. Sitter beginsby offering a guide to poetic forms ranging from heroic couplets toblank verse, then demonstrates how skilfully male and female poetsof the period used them as vehicles for imaginative experience,feelings and ideas. He then provides detailed analyses ofindividual works by poets from Finch, Swift and Pope, to Gray,Cowper and Barbauld. An approachable introduction to English poetryand major poets of the eighteenth century, this book provides agrounding in poetic analysis useful to students and general readersof literature. · A practical guide that helps students to read and understandeighteenth-century verse forms · Attends to the variety of formsand range of subjects of the poetry · Covers the most importantpoets such as Pope, Swift and Thomson and many