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As more women achieve management positions across the world, it is essential to understand women’s roles in management in different countries and economies as well as their relationships to the global market and the gender effect on management. Women’s leadership and the challenges that they face look very different globally. It is important to research the role of women in management in order to strengthen equality and efficiency. Perspectives on Women in Management and the Global Labor Market provides a clear idea of the effect of gender on the management decision-making process and the respective consequences, showing similarities and striking differences in the practices of different...
A study that examines the major events that led to the Spanish control of Portugal in 1580 and the major causes of the revolt in 1640.
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Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource.
Connections between the Society of Jesus and astrology used to appear as unexpected at best. Astrology was never viewed favourably by the Church, especially in early modern times, and since Jesuits were strong defenders of Catholic orthodoxy, most historians assumed that their religious fervour would be matched by an equally strong rejection of astrology. This groundbreaking and compelling study brings to light new Jesuit scientific texts revealing a much more positive, practical, and nuanced attitude. What emerges forcefully is a totally new perspective into early modern Jesuit culture, science, and education, highlighting the element that has been long overlooked: astrology.
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Recounting an insider's perspective of the turbulent historical currents of late eighteenth-century Brazil.
When I say sleep, you're free again. A man loses his daughter to a car accident. Nothing now is what it seems. It's like he's in a play - but he doesn't know the words or the moves. Tim Crouch's critically acclaimed play playfully pushes the limits of theatre: a two-hander, where one of the actors walk on stage having neither seen nor read a word of the play they're in... until they're in it. Shockingly moving, An Oak Tree questions how we perform ... and whether we know our lines. This edition was published to coincide with the runs at Avignon Festival, France, in July 2023, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in August 2023.