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The tax system profoundly affects countless aspects of private
behavior. It is a powerful policy influence on the distribution of
income and it is the one aspect of government that almost every
citizen cannot avoid. With tax reform high on the political agenda,
this book brings together studies of leading tax economists and
lawyers to assess the various reform proposals and examine the
effects of tax reform in several distinct areas. Together, these
studies and comments on them present a balanced evaluation of
professional opinion on the issues that will be critical in the tax
reform debate. The book addresses annual and lifetime
distributional effects, saving, investment, transitional problems,
simplification, home ownership and housing prices, charitable
groups, international taxation, financial intermediaries and
insurance, labor supply, and health insurance. In addition to Henry
Aaron and William Gale, the contributors include Alan Auerbach,
University of California, Berkeley; David Bradford, Princeton
University; Charles Clotfelter, Duke University; Eric Engen,
Federal Reserve; Don Fullerton, University of Texas; Jon Gruber,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Patric Hendershott, Ohio
State; David Ling, University of Florida; Ronald Perlman, Covington
& Burling; Diane Lim Rogers, Congressional Budget Office; John
Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin; Joel Slemrod, University of
Michigan; and Robert Triest, University of California, Davis.
A.J. has always been an athlete that excels at any sport he
tries...until he is introduced to the world of men's competetive
softball. A.J. soon learns that its not just a game but a business
and everyone from the directors, the sponsors and even the players
are in it for the money. Follow A.J. as he tries to take the sport
by storm and the interesting line up of characters he is forced to
team up with in order to make it in this business. Inspired by true
events, the characters are loosely based on real athletes and
businessess actively participating in the sport of Men's
Competetive Softball today.
For Bishop Aaron Williams, his journey has been about finding
purpose, meaning, and a calling in his life. In My Father's
Business: A Memoir of Purpose and Revelation, he shares his story
in order to pay respect to his forefathers and to provide his
children with a written record of his life and their heritage.
This memoir details the critical, destiny-making moments of
Williams's life, providing a narrative of how he developed a
relationship with Christ driven by inspiration and in spite of
religious dogma. Recalling his childhood in Sweeny, Texas; his
service in the US Navy; his family; and his ministry, My Father's
Business: A Memoir of Purpose and Revelation shows how Christ
revealed his purpose for Williams's life through a personal
relationship with him-a connection that has nothing to do with
religion and denominations and everything to do with knowing
Christ.
A collection of one man's remembered experiences and emotions,
this written record delivers the message that through Christ all
things are possible.
This book is a complete study on the nature of atomic phenomana. I
proposes new ideas on the nature of consciousness. The main premise
of the book is my argument to convince the reader about the ethics
of certain theoretical particles. The book also has a critique on
natural phenomanon. The book introduces a new concept which gives
new meaning to the nature of quantum mechanics.
World War II is enshrined in our collective memory as the good war
- a victory of good over evil. However, the bombing war has always
troubled this narrative as total war transformed civilians into
legitimate targets and raised unsettling questions such as whether
it was possible for Allies and Axis alike to be victims of
aggression. In Bombing the City, an unprecedented comparative
history of how ordinary Britons and Japanese experienced bombing,
Aaron William Moore offers a major new contribution to these
debates. Utilising hundreds of diaries, letters, and memoirs, he
recovers the voices of ordinary people on both sides - from
builders, doctors and factory-workers to housewives, students and
policemen - and reveals the shared experiences shaped by gender,
class, race, and age. He reveals how it was that the British and
Japanese public continued to support bombing elsewhere even as they
experienced firsthand its terrible impact at home.
Historians have made widespread use of diaries to tell the story of
the Second World War in Europe but have paid little attention to
personal accounts from the Asia-Pacific Theater. Writing War seeks
to remedy this imbalance by examining over two hundred diaries, and
many more letters, postcards, and memoirs, written by Chinese,
Japanese, and American servicemen from 1937 to 1945, the period of
total war in Asia and the Pacific. As he describes conflicts that
have often been overlooked in the history of World War II, Aaron
William Moore reflects on diaries as tools in the construction of
modern identity, which is important to our understanding of
history. Any discussion of war responsibility, Moore contends,
requires us first to establish individuals as reasonably
responsible for their actions. Diaries, in which men develop and
assert their identities, prove immensely useful for this task.
Tracing the evolution of diarists' personal identities in
conjunction with their battlefield experience, Moore explores how
the language of the state, mass media, and military affected
attitudes toward war, without determining them entirely. He looks
at how propaganda worked to mobilize soldiers, and where it failed.
And his comparison of the diaries of Japanese and American
servicemen allows him to challenge the assumption that East Asian
societies of this era were especially prone to totalitarianism.
Moore follows the experience of soldiering into the postwar period
as well, and considers how the continuing use of wartime language
among veterans made their reintegration into society more
difficult.
World War II is enshrined in our collective memory as the good war
- a victory of good over evil. However, the bombing war has always
troubled this narrative as total war transformed civilians into
legitimate targets and raised unsettling questions such as whether
it was possible for Allies and Axis alike to be victims of
aggression. In Bombing the City, an unprecedented comparative
history of how ordinary Britons and Japanese experienced bombing,
Aaron William Moore offers a major new contribution to these
debates. Utilising hundreds of diaries, letters, and memoirs, he
recovers the voices of ordinary people on both sides - from
builders, doctors and factory-workers to housewives, students and
policemen - and reveals the shared experiences shaped by gender,
class, race, and age. He reveals how it was that the British and
Japanese public continued to support bombing elsewhere even as they
experienced firsthand its terrible impact at home.
D-Generation X, or DX as they came to be known, was headed by
Triple H and Shawn Michaels, two of the biggest Superstars in
wrestling history, and had a changing roster of rebels who did
whatever they wanted, whenever, wherever -- regardless of the
ultimate outcome. First created in 1997 as a means for two friends
to work together, the faction rapidly grew so popular with
audiences and fans that other wrestlers were clamouring to join
it.Their anti-establishment, authority-busting attitude was key to
their appeal and they were instrumental in the success of WWE over
the rival WCW, occupying a special place in the hearts and minds of
wrestling fans to this day. Different incarnations of DX followed
-- but always with Triple H and Shawn Michaels at their centre. DX
were notorious for speaking their minds, no matter whom they
provoked or how. Told by the men who created DX, this is their
inside story.
Many medical authorities predict that average life expectancy could
well exceed 100 years by mid century and rise even higher soon
thereafter. This astonishing prospect, brought on by the revolution
in molecular biology and information technology, confronts
policymakers and public health officials with a host of new
questions. How will increased longevity affect local and global
demographic trends, government taxation and spending, health care,
the workplace, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid? What
ethical and quality-of-life issues are raised by these new
breakthroughs? In Coping with Methuselah, a group of practicing
scientists and public policy experts come together to address the
problems, challenges, and opportunities posed by a longer life
span. This book will generate discussion in political, social, and
medical circles and help prepare us for the extraordinary
possibilities that the future may hold.
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