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This volume:* explores the extent to which European Industrial Relations systems are converging *explores what has been the unions' reaction to changes in the economic environment * includes studies from key sectors: electronics, food manufacturing, banking and public administration * compares trade unions in these sectors in five of Europes most important economies: Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy and Denmark

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Excerpt from A History of the Family of Cairnes or Cairns: And Its Connections The tradition referred to by Dr. Sommers, taken in conjunction with the difference in the style both of the masonry and architecture between the basement and upper storeys of Cairns Castle, suggests that. The original castle, of which the basement is the remnant, dates from the fourteenth or even the thirteenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publish...

The Little Book of Wicklow is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Wicklow, the last Irish county to be created and one of the most beautiful, the `Garden of Ireland'.

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Excerpt from The Rosslyn Missal: An Irish Manuscript in the Advocates Library, EdinburghThe arrangement of the gatherings may be indicated as follows, the letters denoting the gatherings, the superscribed figures the number of leaves in each.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books...

On May 13, 1939, the eve of the Second World War, the MS St. Louis left port in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Havana, Cuba. Among the ship's passengers were more than six hundred Jews attempting to escape Nazi rule. But most of the visas the passengers had purchased turned out to be fake and after several days in limbo in Havana's harbour, the ship's captain turned back for Europe. Canadian and American activists petitioned their governments to...

Excerpt from The Psalter and Martyrology of Ricemarch, Vol. 1 Nevertheless, a revival of learning was at hand. In the first quarter of the tenth century the number of Irish scholars considerably increased, and remained apparently at the same level till within a few years of its close.3 By the year 1000 the number was doubled and no very serious diminution is notice able till the Close of the eleventh century. In the first quarter of that cent...

Excerpt from Evsebiana: Essays on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, Bishop of CaesareaIT has been my habit for some years to give occasional courses of lectures on the Ecclesiaétical History of Eusebius. The following Essays are based on material collected for that purpose.I have to thank the editors of the Journal of Theological Studies and Hermathena for permission to make use of articles published in those journals. The Essays on the ...

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This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the development of Keynes's economic ideas in the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money , using archival material, the historical record of the economics of Keynes's time and place and the scholarship available on Keynes's biography and philosophy.

After the deaths of her father and father-in-law, Laurie Lawlor discovers an unlikely place for healing and transformation in a wetland in southeastern Wisconsin--a landscape of abundant and sometimes inaccessible beauty that has often been ignored, misunderstood, and threatened by human destruction. In her decade-long personal wetland journey, she examines the sky, delves underwater, and peers between sedges in all seasons and all times of da...

Australian aboriginal people have lived in harmony with the earth for perhaps as long as 100, 000 years, in their words, since the First Day. In this absorbing work, Lawlor explores the essence of their culture as a source of and guide to transforming our own world view. While not romanticizing the past or suggesting a return to the life of the hunter/gatherer, Voices of the First Day enables us to enter into the mentality of the oldest contin...

Excerpt from Chapters on the Book of MullingIt remains to pen a few words about the purpose and aim of the present essay. Let it be at once said that the design of the writer is not to give an exhaustive account of the book. He is quite conscious that many things have been left unsaid upon which students might desire to have information. He is conscious also that the subjects upon which, in the pages now Offered to the public, he has touched h...

This book seeks to explain how consumption - a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and artistic Romantic malady. It tries to explain the disparity between literary myth and bodily reality, by examining literature and medicine from the Renaissance to the late Victorian period, covering a wide range of authors and characters.

A biography of the pioneering scientist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring."Once you are aware of the wonder and beauty of earth, you will want to learn about it, " wrote Rachel Carson. She wrote Silent Spring, the book that woke people up to the harmful impact humans can have on our planet especially through the overuse of pesticides. Silent Spring was first published in 1962 and helped start the environmental moveme...

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(A) magnificent work... that will definitely shape the discussionon Derrida for years to come." -- Rodolphe Gasch What isthe nature of the relationship of Jacques Derrida and deconstruction to EdmundHusserl and phenomenology? Is deconstruction a radical departure from phenomenologyor does it trace its origins to the phenomenological project? In Derrida andHusserl, Leonard Lawlor illuminates Husserl's influence on the French philosophicaltradit...