With women in the UK construction industry constituting just thirteen per cent of the workforce and black and Asian workers numbering less that two per cent; despite representing more than six per cent of the working population; diversity is a problem that the construction industry needs to tackle directly.In this title; diversity management is presented as an opportunity for the construction industry. Work is presented from several different countries and regions; in North America; Australia and Europe to provide a comprehensive picture of this complex and often sensitive issue. Going beyond the traditional topics of gender and racial discrimination contributions encompass a wide range of diversity issues facing the construction industry; including sexual orientation; disability and the work-life balance.Essential reading for construction managers and a valuable resource for post-graduate researchers; this key title provides not only a thorough exposition of contemporary research but also supplies the practical diagnostic tools; and techniques to successfully manage diversity in construction and the information to adhere to the law.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Precious material for historians of mathematics; natural philosophy; and ontologyBy Jordan BellThere are four disciplines that have substantial connections with ancient mathematics: harmonics; astronomy; optics; statics. Not enough has been said about harmonics in the history of science literature. It is not immediate what things are measured in harmonics and what it means to say that one note is higher than another note or what it means to assign ratios to intervals (diastemata); e.g. to say that the fourth is 4:3. The work of Aristoxenus was new to me; and he writes about finding a minimum interval against which other intervals can be measured (cf. Platos Republic 531a); this impinges on the question of minima naturalia in natural philosophy.We speak of one note being higher or lower than another note. It is not obvious from the phenomenon of hearing music why we should speak this way (namely if we do not have the connection between frequency and a note). "Just occasionally; a Greek writer speaks of notes as above and below; ano and kato; but the usage is very rare. Where we would call a note high; a Greek would most commonly describe it as oxys; where we would call it low it is barys. But oxys and barys do not mean high and low; they mean sharp and heavy. I have argued elsewhere that these designations are not conceptually neutral; amounting to nothing more than another way of labelling the same distinctions of pitch that we make; but that they radically condition the way in which the Greeks experienced and envisaged the phenomena." (page 21)Another subject that appears in music theory is approximations to square roots. To divide an interval into two equal parts amounts to finding a square root; and the approximation 7:5 is used for the square root of 2. If a tone is 9:8; then a semitone is the square root of 9:8; and the approximation 17:16 is used.It would be helpful for scholars outside of music if the objects used in music theory were introduced formally. Without having long experience using musical instruments; the following terms may not say as much to the reader as the author wants them to: harmony; melody; attunement; note; scale; tone; semitone; interval; pitch; octave; fourth; fifth; enharmonic; diatonic; chromatic; concord; discord; modulation. If I am explaining different cuisines to an alien who is nourished by electricity; I will not casually mention the different pizza chains in North America before I defined precisely what food is; what pizza is; explain that pizza is sold; that stores can be part of chains; etc. Instead of saying that this book is bad because it doesnt give definitions adequate for an outsider; I say that there is room in the literature for a book presenting Greek music theory as part of the history of science that builds up all the musical ideas from scratch.3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. The Science of Harmonics in Classical GreeceBy Hugues DufourtUne reacute;organisation du savoir Grec antique en matiegrave;re de theacute;orie de la musique. Une approche originale et syntheacute;tique agrave; la charniegrave;re des matheacute;matiques; de la musique et de la philosophie. Une nouvelle "topique" ougrave; toutes les difficulteacute;s fondamentales sont abordeacute;es et clairement cerneacute;es. Un nouveau regard sur la penseacute;e antique et une nouvelle cristallisation du savoir. Ouvrage appeleacute; agrave; devenir un classique.Hugues Dufourt///A reorganization of ancient Greek knowledge in the field of music theory. An original and synthetic approach at the crossroads of mathematics; music and philosophy. A new "topic" where all the fundamental problems are addressed and clearly identified. A new look at ancient thought and a new crystallization of knowledge. Work destined to become a classic.Hugues Dufourt