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In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S.          management had shown just one "e;symptom of originality,"e; namely "e;playing one race        against the other."e;In this eye-opening book, David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch offer        a radically new way of understanding the history of...

This is the definitive reference work on the health effects of asbestos. It covers geology and mineralogy, industrial and commercial hygiene, cellular and molecular interactions, epidemiology of human diseases, physiology, lung function testing, clinical features, risk assessment, regulatory approaches, and absestos litigation. Comprehensive and...

How Democracy Defines, Empowers and Limits its LeadersDemocratic leadership is the most familiar form of leadership and yet the least        well understood by people in democratic countries. This book explores the tensions        and dilemmas that beset such leadership in order to explain why democracies produce        simultaneously the strongest...

A new critical edition (the first since 1864) of Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides. Proclus' work is the most important document on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue, and has had a crucial influence on all subsequent readings. This volume contains Books IV and V....

Why do some children take up music, while others dont? Why do some excel, whilst        others give up? Why do some children favour classical music, whilst others prefer        rock?These are questions that have puzzled music educators, psychologists, and        musicologists for many years. Yet, they are incredibly difficult and...

Maximus the Confessor (580-662) was an important Byzantine thinker, the 'father of Byzantine theology'. This study describes his metaphysical world-view. The discussion covers Maximus' doctrine of creation, the Logos and the   logoi, the cosmic order, the activities or energies of God, and how created beings may participate in God....