As well as profiting financially from his many engineering projects, Kelvin introduced influential theories about energy and electromagnetism, all strongly coloured by his industrial experiences and the thrifty attitudes of Scottish Christians.
That includes introducing influential Chinese entrepreneurs and startups on TechCrunch's global stage and bringing the best of Silicon Valley to China.
It contains a collection of nineteen new and original short chapters introducing influential concepts, ideas and approaches that have shaped and developed new materialism, inhuman theory, critical posthumanism, feminist materialism, and posthuman philosophy.
As a prominent "fixer", a middleman of sorts for the political and social honchos, whose job it is to introduce influential figures to one another to expand their networks, told me, "The most effective meetings are outside the meeting rooms".
December > "ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: THE SILKSCREEN PAINTINGS, 1962-1964". An especially important phase in this artist's multifaceted career, which introduces an influential painting technique as he operates in the gap between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
The chapter introduces the influential views of Noam Chomsky that the faculty of language is largely innate and "switches" that change specific, superficial features of language are turned either on or off by the environment.
From the social sciences, there is a paper by Nahapiet and Ghoshal (SS98) in 1998 [23], cited over 460 times, which reviewed the influential concept of 'social capital', and a 1977 book by Bordieu (SS77), cited over 2,700 times, which introduced such influential concepts as 'agency' and 'structuration' into the social sciences [24].
Strawson (1919 2006) introduced an influential version of compatibilism grounded in human psychology.
Moisture-wicking clothing wasn't new: DuPont had introduced an influential wicking fabric called CoolMax in 1986.
It was by Thom Browne, the American designer who, a few years ago, introduced an influential line of suits whose skinny trousers and sleeves were cropped so short that the wearer appeared to be dressed in a hand-me-up.
Along with the ideas of the imminent intervention of God in history and the reversal of the irresistible progress of evil and declension of good, Daniel's apocalypse introduced other influential ideas.
