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Considering the philosophical reasons why people will sometimes deliberately take the worst course of action, this book examines theories put forward by Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. The author argues the case for weakness to be considered irrational.

This book presents international views on this fast changing field, with the main themes of: technical components of test quality, quality assurance in testing laboratories, laboratory accreditation and transnational recognition of test results.

This book presents new information on concrete properties and production in the light of the widespread use of ready mixed concrete and new concreting materials. This book forms the Proceedings of the RILEM Colloquium held in Hanover, West Germany in October 1990. Papers from 18 countries in Europe, North America and the Far East are included.

Born in Germany in 1786, Friedrich Kuhlau fled to Copenhagen in 1810 to avoid being conscripted into Napoleon's army, where he rapidly made a name for himself as a pianist and composer. These are graceful and elegant sonatinas in the classical style.

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This well-written and carefully organized textbook describes the performance of the mammalian cardiovascular system and the physiological mechanisms that maintain normal function. The viewpoint ranges from the molecular and cellular level to the integrated function of the entire human organism. The author reviews historical developments in the field, and offers a detailed survey of hemodynamic variables and methods for measuring cardiovascular...

This study is the first to consider all three of Rachmaninoff's careers in detail. After surveying his place in Russian musical history and his creative activity, the author examines, with musical examples, each working chronological order against the background of the composer's life.

This intermediate-level text concentrates on new macroeconomic analysis and is one of the first to focus on labor markets. Presenting a neo-Keynesian treatment of macroeconomics, whose use of wage bargaining and price setting under imperfect conditions make product and labor assumptions closer to the real world, the authors look at important applied work on unemployment, inflation, and external balances. They make available for the first time ...

This book is the first full-length description of, and commentary on, Jeremy Bentham's unique utilitarian theory of justice. The book is unusual for defending Bentham's views on the subject, rescuing him from the caricatures which have persisted since the eighteenth century. The author makes use of neglected and unpublished writings, thus contributing to the literature on Bentham's thought. In the process, he also develops a detailed utilitari...

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Seymour Chatman is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Shows how managers, workers, and organization members exhibit the classic symptoms of addiction: denying and avoiding problems, assuming that there is no other way of acting, and manipulating events to maintain the status quo.

John Dewey was a pioneer of progressive educational approaches, as well as a politically active liberal and an unconventional philosopher. His highly original version of pragmatism--his "instrumentalism"--has held a pre-eminent place in American philosophy during the first half of this century. The dominant characteristic of Dewey's thought was his desire to resist thinking of the main aspects of human life in isolation from one another, and t...

Women's quest for the vote Kent argues, was indissolubly linked with other feminist demands for reform which would overturn the cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity and determined their powerlessness in both public and private.

Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.

Aimed primarily at secondary school teachers who must provide for pupils with special needs, this volume explores such issues as managerial and curricular problems, in-service training, the use of new technology and the development of community links.

Faced with increased levels of international competition and mounting budget deficits some developed, Western economies have responded by introducing trade restrictions. This book uses a comparative analysis of eight leading industrial nations (including Japan, the United States, West Germany and Britain) to demonstrate that such policies are mistaken. Alternatives to trade restrictions, including subsidies for industries and labour-market pol...

Minority nationalism is a significant not to say potent force in the modern world. In many countries new problems of and for minority nationalism have recently surfaced. This book presents a wide ranging examination of the state of minority nationalism in the 1970s and 1980s. It considers many different cases in detail: Britain, Ireland, the Soviet Union, Canada, France, Spain and South Africa. It explores the political and socio-economic circ...