Böcker av Nigel Nicholson

Athletics represented an important institution through which the Greek aristocracies sought to maintain their privileged political position. In this book, Nigel Nicholson examines how aristocrats responded as the relationship between the victors and the helpers changed radically, which threatened the political value of athletics, through a study of victory memorials.

This book describes the first large-scale longitudinal study of the causes, form and outcomes of job change. Focusing on one of the most influential segments of society - middle to senior managers - it offers a new approach to the analysis and understanding of job change.

Talks about traders in financial markets: what they do, the kind of people they are, how they perceive the world they inhabit, how they make decisions and take risks. This book also talks about how traders are managed, and about the institutions they inhabit: firms, markets, cultures, and theories of how the world works.

By setting epinician in dialogue with the colorful stories about athletes that circulated in the same period, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West offers a new and compelling account of the Deinomenids' self-promotion and of the complex communities within and around the Deinomenid empire.