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When Strikes Make Sense—And Why

Lessons from Third Republic French Coal Miners

By: Samuel Cohn

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When Strikes Make Sense—And Why

Lessons from Third Republic French Coal Miners

By: Samuel Cohn

Social scientists have not helped the working class make strategic deci sions. Unionists need to know how to carry on industrial conflict so as to provide concrete economic benefits for their members. Should unions strike or not strike? Should losses be avoided at all costs, or can unions afford to take chances? Does economism gut the class power of workers or provide a pragmatic strategy for increasing workers' wage gains? We can say with great confidence that workers should join unions; there is now an exhaustive and compelling literature demonstrating that union membership provides a wide variety of economic benefits. We can say that corporatist class compromises lower income but increase job security and overall employment. Beyond that, however, we cannot say much. In particular, we can do little to advise particular unions in partic ular fixed institutional and political environments how they should han dle the microtactics of individual confrontations. The United Farm Work ers do not need a speech about the miracle of the Swedish industrial relations system. They need to know whether they should strike or not strike, and how their tactics should change if rival Teamsters come into the field. Unfortunately, medical research often has to start with rabbits be fore it proceeds to humans, and so it is with research in industrial conflict. The realistic prospects of doing a large sample analysis of con temporary American wage settlements that simultaneously estimates the effects of union tactics and economic factors are poor.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0585345880

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9780585345888

Babel

Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy

By: Samuel L. Boyd

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Babel

Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy

By: Samuel L. Boyd

In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Samuel L. Boyd offers a new reading of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9. Using recent insights on the rhetoric of Neo-Assyrian politics and its ideology of governance as well as advances in biblical studies, Boyd shows how the Tower of Babel was not originally about a tower, Babylon, or the advent of multilingualism, at least in the earliest phases of the history and literary context of the story. Rather, the narrative was a critique against the Assyrian empire using themes of human overreach found in many places in Genesis 1-11. Boyd clarifies how idioms of Assyrian governance could have found their way into the biblical text, and how the Hebrew of Genesis 11:1-9 itself leads to a different translation of the passage than found in versions of the Bible, one that does not involve language. This new reading sheds light on how the story became about language. Boyd argues that this new understanding of Babel also illuminates aspects of the call of Abram when the Tower of Babel is interpreted as a story about something other than the origin of multilingualism. Finally, he frames the historical-critical research on the biblical passage and its reception in ancient Jewish, Christian, and Islamic sources with the uses of the Tower of Babel in modern politics of language and nationalism. He demonstrates how and why Genesis 11:1-9 has become so useful, in often detrimental ways, to the modern nation-state. Boyd explores this intellectual history of the passage into current events in the twenty-first century and offers perspectives on how a new reading of the Tower of Babel can speak to the current cultural and political moment and offer correctives on the uses and abuses of the Bible in the public sphere.

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Fortress Press

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1506480683

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9781506480688

Have You Considered My Servant Job?

Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience

By: Samuel E. Balentine

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Have You Considered My Servant Job?

Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience

By: Samuel E. Balentine

An extensive history of how the Bible’s story of Job has been interpreted through the ages. The question that launches Job’s story is posed by God at the outset of the story: “Have you considered my servant Job?” (1:8; 2:3). By any estimation the answer to this question must be yes. The forty-two chapters that form the biblical story have in fact opened the story to an ongoing practice of reading and rereading, evaluating and reevaluating. Early Greek and Jewish translators emphasized some aspects of the story and omitted others; the Church Fathers interpreted Job as a forerunner of Christ, while medieval Jewish commentators debated conservative and liberal interpretations of God’s providential love. Artists, beginning at least in the Greco-Roman period, painted and sculpted their own interpretations of Job. Novelists, playwrights, poets, and musicians—religious and irreligious, from virtually all points of the globe—have added their own distinctive readings. In Have You Considered My Servant Job?, Samuel E. Balentine examines this rich and varied history of interpretation by focusing on the principal characters in the story—Job, God, the satan figure, Job’s wife, and Job’s friends. Each chapter begins with a concise analysis of the biblical description of these characters, then explores how subsequent readers have expanded or reduced the story, shifted its major emphases or retained them, read the story as history or as fiction, and applied the morals of the story to the present or dismissed them as irrelevant. Each new generation of readers is shaped by different historical, cultural, and political contexts, which in turn require new interpretations of an old yet continually mesmerizing story. Voltaire read Job one way in the eighteenth century, Herman Melville a different way in the nineteenth century. Goethe’s reading of the satan figure in Faust is not the same as Chaucer’s in The Canterbury Tales, and neither is fully consonant with the Testament of Job or the Qur’an. One need only compare the descriptions of God in the biblical account with the imaginative renderings by Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Franz Kafka to see that the effort to understand why God afflicts Job “for no reason” (2:3) continues to be both compelling and endlessly complicated. “A tour de force of cultural interaction with the book of Job. He guides today’s reader along the path of Job interpretation, exegesis, adaptation and imagining revealing the sheer variety of themes, meanings, creativity and re-readings that have been inspired by this one biblical book. Balentine shows us that not only is there “always someone playing Job” (MacLeish, J.B.) but there’s always someone, past or present, reading this ever-enigmatic book.” —Katharine J. Dell, University of Cambridge “Balentine “considers Job” for the countless ways this biblical book, in all its rich complexities, has inspired readers over the centuries. . . . Balentine’s volume sparkles with insightful theological commentary and rigorous scholarship, and any exegetical course or study on Job would benefit from it.” —Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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161117452X

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9781611174526

Biographia Literaria

in large print

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Biographia Literaria

in large print

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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3387049153

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Megacity Mobility

Integrated Urban Transportation Development and Management

By: Zongzhi Li,Adrian T. Moore,Samuel R. Staley

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Megacity Mobility

Integrated Urban Transportation Development and Management

By: Zongzhi Li,Adrian T. Moore,Samuel R. Staley

World population growth and economic prosperity have given rise to ever-increasing demands on cities, transportation planning, and goods movement. This growth, coupled with a slower pace of transportation capacity expansion and deteriorated facility restoration, has led to rapid changes in the transportation planning and policy environment. These stresses are particularly acute for megacities where degradation of mobility and facility performance have reached alarming rates. Addressing these transportation challenges requires innovative solutions. Megacity Mobility grapples with these challenges by addressing transportation policy, planning, and facilities in a multimodal context. It discusses innovative short- and long-term solutions for meeting current and future mobility needs for the world’s most dynamic cities by addressing the influence of urban land use on mobility, 3D spiderweb transportation planning, travel demand management, multimodal transportation with flexible capacity, efficient capacity utilization driven by new technologies, innovative transportation funding and financing, and performance-based budget allocation using asset management principles. It discusses emerging issues, highlights potential challenges affecting proposed solutions, and provides policymakers, planners, and transportation professionals a road map to achieving sustainable mobility in the 21st century. Zongzhi Li is a professor and the director of the Sustainable Transportation and Infrastructure Research (STAIR) Center at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Adrian T. Moore is vice president of policy at Reason Foundation in Washington, D.C., with focuses on privatization, transportation and urban growth, and more. Samuel R. Staley is the director of the DeVoe L. Moore Center in the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy at Florida State University.

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1000518205

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9781000518207

Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A leading poet, literary critic and philosopher who helped found the Romantic Movement in England, Samuel Taylor Coleridge has had an immense impact on world literature. This volume of the bestselling Delphi Poets Series presents the complete works of Coleridge, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (4MB Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Coleridge's life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Excellent formatting of the poems * THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER appears with Gustave DorÈís celebrated illustrations, vividly bringing the famous poem to life * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * The poetry features line numbers and page breaks for each poem ñ ideal for students * The complete plays, with individual contents tables * Includes Coleridge's prose works - spend hours exploring the poet's theoretical and literary studies * Features two bonus biographies - discover Coleridge's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: Major Works THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER CHRISTABEL KUBLA KHAN FRANCE AN ODE LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS THE CONVERSATION POEMS The Complete Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE OSORIO THE PICCOLOMINI THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN REMORSE ZAPOLYA: A CHRISTMAS TALE IN TWO PARTS The Prose LIST OF PROSE WORKS The Biographies THE LIFE OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE by James Gillman COLERIDGE by S. L. Bensusan Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

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1909496383

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When Strikes Make Sense—And Why

When Strikes Make Sense—And Why

Babel

Babel

Have You Considered My Servant Job?

Have You Considered My Servant Job?

Biographia Literaria

Biographia Literaria

Megacity Mobility

Megacity Mobility

Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

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