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1. You Can't Live (Well) Without Business Ethics -- 2. Overview of Business Ethics -- 3. Primitive Trade -- 4. Ancient Trade in the Near East -- 5. Greek Society -- 6. Roman Society -- 7. Jewish and Christian Attitudes -- 8. Islam and Business Ethics -- 9. Medieval Business Ethics -- 10. Medieval Ethics and Markets -- 11. Early-Modern Europe and Resurging Trade -- 12. Birth of a Consumer Society in Eighteenth-Century England -- 13. Quakers and Business Ethics -- 14. Labor Relations Through the Ages -- 15. Slavery Throughout History -- 16. Conclusion.

""Cover ""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Preface: Veblen and Weber""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Why Leisure?""; ""1. Definitions of Leisure""; ""2. History and Attitudes Regarding Leisure""; ""3. The Economics of Leisure""; ""4. Less Work, More Play, and the Rise of Leisure""; ""5. The Rise of Expenditures on Leisure Goods and Services""; ""6. Patterns in Leisure for the Young and the Old""; ""7. The Interaction of Leisure and Public Health""; ""8. The Changing Workplace""; ""9. The Transformation of the Domestic Economy""; ""10. Commercialized Leisure in the Early 1900s

"This a much-welcome addition to the modern English-language reference library on Siberian indigenous people and the first book-size effort to address their plight and status from the perspective of the Russian archival statistical and documentary records of the early 1900s. It is an outcome of a monumental collaborative project." * Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Institution. In 1926/27 the Soviet Central Statistical Administration initiated several yearlong expeditions to gather primary data on the whereabouts, economy and living conditions of all rural peoples living in the Arctic

Scottish Puritanism, 1590-1638, is a portrait of Protestantism in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Puritanism produced a community of like-minded ministers and lay people, bound together in a similar experience of conversion and Christian pilgrimage. The book also addresses the relationship between this religion and the political revolution embodied in the National Covenant.