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The Ark of the Covenant in Africa: The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century. Steven Kaplan.The Ark of the Covenant in Africa: The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews: A History of the Beta Israel (Falasha) to 1920. James Quirin.

Book reviewed in this article:Applied Anthropology: Work and the Quality of Life: Resource Papers for Work in America. James O'Toole, ed.

Using information collected over 6 1/2 years, a human factors analysis was completed of the diesel-electric locomotive cab. The analysis was directed towards displays, control design and arrangement, and environmental quality. Nineteen recommendations were provided for the modification of existing cabs and the design of new cabs to enable future locomotive crews to work more efficiently and safely in a more comfortable work environment.

Agricultural or nonindustrial civilization is customarily defined by social scientists in terms of urbanism and a dual social organization. Such a definition is not recent and, like many other concepts in Western thought, can be traced back to the Greeks, to Strabo for example, if one wishes to do so. Another way of considering the definition is in terms of two complementary societal components, neither existing without the other. One component is an elite in an urban setting with an elaborate high culture or Great Tradition based on literacy, and the second is a large rural peasantry with a Little Tradition or illiterate folk manifestation of the Great Tradition. However, civilization with its elite and peasants is also found when cities are absent, as in Mayan Mesoamerica; nonexistent or not vital, as in early Dynastic Egypt; or atrophied into uninhabitable ruins, as in Ethiopia. Indeed, cities were neither numerous nor large throughout the time of Bronze Age civilizations. Cities and civilizations are thus not always related. As shown above, the latter may exist without the former, and in preliterate western Africa urbanism existed without civilization.

Considerations of work / Frederick C. Gamst -- The concept of work in Western thought / Herbert Applebaum -- Task performance and fulfillment : work and career in tribal and peasant societies / Walter Goldschmidt -- Theories and meanings of work : toward syntheses / Ivar Berg -- Work and technology in modern industry : the creative frontier / Mariette L. Baba -- The web of rules in comparative work relations systems / Frederick C. Gamst -- Post-industrialism, post-Fordism, and the crisis in world capitalism / June Nash -- The contingent character of the American middle class / Judith R. Blau -- Processes of retirement / Robert S. Weiss -- The socio-economics of work / Amitai Etzioni