The book brings together research that investigates how people experience products: durable, non-durable, or virtual. In contrast to other books, the present book takes a very broad, possibly all-inclusive perspective, on how people experience products. It thereby bridges gaps b…
The volume investigates thoroughly the economic profitability of warfare in the early modern period and shows how smaller, commercialized states could sustain prolonged war violence common to that period. It moves beyond traditional explanations of Dutch success in warfare focus…
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An account of the race to solve the world's greatest scientific challenge--the sequencing of the human genome--describes the competition between rival researchers Craig Venter and Francis Collins.
In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from…
In private life we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotional work," just as we manage our outer expressions through surface acting. But what happens when this system of adjusting emotions is adapted to commercial purposes? Hochschild exami…
In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or ""emotion work, "" just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we ""ought"" to feel, we take guidance…
"In this second edition of her groundbreaking 1983 work, Hochschild examines what happens when systems of adjusting emotions - the inducing or suppressing of love, envy, and anger - are adapted to commercial purposes. She defines such "emotional labor" and vividly describes from…
"This study examines the process of commercialization of art which took place in Antwerp during the long sixteenth century, an era of rapid expansion of both the city's economy and its art market. Indeed, Antwerp carved altarpieces, paintings, tapestries, books and other luxury …
