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This innovative book assesses the impact of labour standards on the
competitiveness of firms through a comparison of developing and
industrialized countries.The lack of a strict code of labour
standards in developing countries is thought to result in unfair
competition, which industrialized countries have used to justify
protectionist policies. Developing countries are seen to oppose the
adoption of labour standards, believing that such measures are
likely to jeopardize their competitiveness in world markets. This
book analyses both of these positions within the context of the
current political debate on the subject. The authors investigate
the reasons for implementing labour standards, and measure their
impact upon firm competitiveness using a variety of empirical tests
and statistics from approximately 165 countries. They conclude that
labour standards do not have a significant impact on the
competitiveness of firms or economies as a whole. From their
evidence the authors offer policy advice including the
decentralization of decision making for implementing labour
standards, and the adoption throughout the world of core labour
standards. Labour Standards and International Competitiveness will
be welcomed by academics interested in international economics,
development economics and labour economics, as well as by
policymakers and practitioners working in international
organizations.
Many facts were at the origin of the present monograph. The ftrst
is the beauty of maple leaves in Quebec forests in Fall. It raised
the question: how does nature create and reproduce such beautiful
patterns? The second was the reading of A. Lindenmayer's works on L
systems. Finally came the discovery of "the secrets of DNA"
together with many stimulating ex changes with biologists. Looking
at such facts from the viewpoint of recursive numerical systems led
to devise a simple model based on six elementary operations
organized in a generating word, the analog of the program of a
computer and of the genetic code of DNA in the cells of a living
organism. It turned out that such a model, despite its simplicity,
can account for a great number of properties of living organisms,
e.g. their hierarchical structure, their ability to regenerate
after a trauma, the possibility of cloning, their sensitivity to
mutation, their growth, decay and reproduction. The model lends
itself to analysis: the knowledge of the generating word makes it
possible to predict the structure of the successive developmental
stages of the system; and to synthesis: a speciftc type of
structure can be obtained by systematically constructing a
generating word that produces it. In fact the model here proposed
is coherent with the fundamental assumptions of cellular biology
and in particular with recent discoveries concerning DNA, which in
the light of our model behaves like a very elaborate generating
word."
foreword by Pierre Vidal-Naquet The acclaimed French classicist
Marcel Detienne's first book traces the odyssey of "truth,"
aletheia, from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in
archaic Greece. Detienne begins by examining how truth in Greek
literature first emerges as an enigma. He then looks at the
movement from a religious to a secular thinking about truth in the
speech of the sophists and orators. His study culminates with an
original interpretation of Parmenides' poem on Being.
Assassins of Memory is a passionate and painstaking look at one of
the more curious realities of recent French cultural life: the
prominence accorded to the phenomenon of revisionism. An attempt on
the part of a tiny group of fanatics, often masquerading as
scholars and researchers, to deny the existence of the gas chambers
and horrors of Hitler's genocidal policies, revisionism is quietly
gaining adherents.
"No one can fail to admire the brilliance of the connections
Vidal-Naquet suggests ...Audacity has been characteristic of
Vidal-Naquet's career from the start; it marked his activities as a
historian engage in the political struggle; it is visible at work
in every page of this book."-Bernard Knox, from the Foreword The
black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek
mythology, living on the frontier of the city-state, of adulthood,
of class, of ethics, of sexuality. Taking its title from this
figure, The Black Hunter approaches the Greek world from its
margins and charts the elaborate system of oppositions that
pervaded Greek culture and society: cultivated and wild, citizen
and foreigner, real and imaginary, god and man. Organizing his
discussions around four principle themes-space and time; youth and
warriors; women, slaves, and artisans; and the city of vision and
of reality-Pierre Vidal-Naquet focuses on the congruence of the
textual and the actual, on the patterns that link literary,
philosophical, and historical works with such social activities as
war, slavery, education, and commemoration. The Black Hunter probes
the interplay of world view, language, and social practice "to
bring into dialogue that which does not naturally communicate
according to the usual criteria of historical judgement." "A
brilliant demonstration of structural analysis and its usefulness
in illuminating well-known texts and providing fresh insights
...What strikes the reader of this book is its daring, innovative
interpretations. This is not a book that merely collects new
information or synthesizes old views. It bursts into the heart of
important themes and floods them with bright light."-Modern Greek
Studies Yearbook "One of the liveliest intellects in the field
...There is a wealth of learning in this book; specialists ...will
wish to consult individual articles while the general reader will
not only learn but enjoy its contents and tenor."-Classical World
"Excellent ...Vidal-Naquet's book is a gem. It will stimulate
further thoughts, discussions and writings on the Greek politeia
and politikon. It should be read by all those who are involved in
classical and comparative studies. It puts into circulation a
structuralist reading which is provocative and simultaneously rings
true."-V. Y. Mudimbe, Journal of Ritual Studies
Title: La Vie a Montmartre. Illustrations de P. Vidal.Publisher:
British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is
the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the
world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items
in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers,
sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This
collection includes works chronicling the development of Western
civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development
of language, political and educational systems, philosophy,
science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil
war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central
Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations,
and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool
in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Montorgueil, Georges; Vidal, Pierre; 1899. iv. 293 p.; 4 .
10172.k.10.
Title: Tableaux de Paris ... Paris qui consomme. Dessins de P.
Vidal.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL
HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library
digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material
that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include
health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology,
culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and
social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Goudeau, mile; Vidal,
Pierre; 1893. ix. 325 p.; 4 . 10171.dd.2.
Title: Histoire de la Re volution Franc aise dans le de partement
des Pyre ne es-Orientales, d'apre s les documents ine dits des
archives de partmentales, communales et particulie res,
1789-1800.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORICAL WORKS
OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains works in
both French and English highlighting the history of the Girondists
and the Jacobins, the storming of the Bastille, the Napoleonic
Wars, restorations of the monarchy, the spread of secularism, and
the role of women. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Vidal, Pierre;
1885-89. 3 tom.; 8 . 9225.c.23.
This is the history of the development through the ages of Plato's
"Atlantis" story - the imperialist island state that disappeared in
a cataclysm, leaving Athens to survive it...Instead of simply
focusing on the various attempts to 'find' Atlantis - all of which
are futile for the very good reason that Plato made the island up -
the author re-examines the very different uses made of the myth in
different contexts and periods. He shows how Plato's myth was
reinterpreted in the medieval period and after through conflation
with the search for the lost tribes of Israel; how it became
involved with the debate about whether Europe should look back to
its origins in the Classical or Biblical worlds; how the myth was
reinterpreted with a more geographical emphasis following Columbus'
discovery of America; and how it was used in the "Enlightenment" to
add colour to nationalist attempts to claim antiquity by finding
unrecognised origins. Written in a clear and interesting way,
Pierre Vidal-Naquet's original ideas rest on deep knowledge
supported by primary references and illustrations.
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