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First published in 1862, this is a narrative of the life led in the
islolated Ethiopia of a century ago.
First published in 1862, this is a narrative of the life led in the
islolated Ethiopia of a century ago.
Title: The Captive Missionary: being an account of the country and
people of Abyssinia. Embracing a narrative of King Theodore's life,
and his treatment of political and religious missions.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
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British Library Stern, Henry Aaron; 1868 8 . 10095.cc.26.
Title: Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia; together with a
description of the country and its various inhabitants. Illustrated
by a map, etc.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
Stern, Henry Aaron; 1862. 8 . 10095.cc.27.
Leo Mazzone is pro baseball's premier pitching coach. In his years
with the Atlanta Braves, he has trained several Cy Young Award
winners and helped lead his team to the World Series.
In "Pitch like a Pro," Mazzone and coauthor Jim Rosenthal offer
step-by-step instructions for players and coaches in Little League
through high school. They teach all of the pitching basics and give
athletes advice on how they can use the right training techniques
to grow stronger and stay healthier. Contents include:
Mazzone's between-starts throwing program
How to grip different pitches
Proper mechanics and delivery technique
Pitching strategies and tactics
Field the position
"Pitch like a Pro" offers contributions by such well known pitchers
as Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smotz, and Denny Neagle, along
with black-and-white instructional photographs.
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.
"In recent years, workers earnings have hardly grown, violence and
crime have plagued the inner cities, homelessness and public
begging have become commonplace, and family life has greatly
deteriorated. With governments facing large deficits and slowly
growing revenues, and public distrust in the efficiency of
government and elected officials at all-time highs, the authors
ask, ""What can government do for you?"" This book brings together
a prominent group of experts to answer this critical question.
Edited by Henry Aaron and Charles L. Schultze, two of the nation's
most noted and experienced economists, the book focuses on the
crucial domestic and social issues confronting America today. Seven
vital areas are discussed by the following contributors: Henry
Aaron on health care; Gordon L Berlin and William McAllister on
homelessness; Linda R Cohen and Roger G. Noll on research and
development; John J. DiIulio, Jr., on crime; Frank Levy and Richard
J. Murnane on education and training; Isabel V. Sawhill on children
and families; and Clifford M. Winston and Barry P. Bosworth on
infrastructure. In each problem area, the authors use the results
of research and analysis to identify existing or proposed
governmental interventions that are likely to work, as well as some
that are likely to fail and some that need to be reformed. They
then present a budget proposal that not only pays for suggested
changes in domestic policy, but brings the budget into virtual
balance in ten years. "
" Setting National Priorities continues the highly acclaimed and
influential series of books that examine domestic and foreign
policy choices confronting the United States. Members of the
Brookings staff join outside experts to evaluate America's course
through the next decade. In clear and nontechnical terms the
contributors explain and evaluate options for the United States in
the 1990s, consider whether the federal government's current
pollicies are consistent with long-term objectives, and explain
what action could best achieve those goals. Charles L. Schultze
shows why it is important to solve the problem of the federal
budget deficit and how it can be done: John D. Steinbruner
addresses the revolution taking place in American foreign policy
and explains how the United States can be more secure with lower
defense spending; Lawrence J. Korb evaluates President Bush's
defense budget and suggests possible improvements; Robert Z.
Lawrence describes how the U.S. government and private industry
should respond to the competitive challenge from foreign companies;
William D. Nordhaus explains the risks form global warming and
presents a policy to meet them; John E. Chubb and Eric A. Hanshek
chart new directions of American elementary and secondary
education; Henry J. Aaron identifies the major problems with the
financing of healthcare and describes how they can be solved; and
Thomas E. Mann considers how political institutions and public
preferences constrain our ability to enact needed policy changes
and what might be done to overcome those obstacles. "
Examines the effects of rising social security costs and of
measures adopted to deal with them, and discusses possible ways of
coping with the shortfall of available money for the aging American
population.
Whether the nation would be better served by an income tax or by a
consumption tax has been debated by tax experts for decades. In
practice, tax systems everywhere are mixed or ""hybrid"" systems.
And while legislators have reasons for enacting such systems, the
mix results in inequities, inefficiencies, and abuse.For Uneasy
Compromise, Brookings brought together some of the nation's most
knowledgeable tax experts and analysts to address the question: How
should lawmakers grapple with the problems that arise from the
side-by-side existence of principles of consumption taxation with
principles of income taxation? Rather than propose rules for an
ideal system that will never exist, this book addresses the
problems created by a hybrid system. In so doing, it offers
policymakers a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of our
current tax system and the tools for evaluating proposed
refinements.
The well-documented gap between men's and women's earnings has
aroused intense debate over the concept of comparable worth, that
is, equal pay for work judged to be of equal value. Government,
business, labor unions, and the courts have been forced to consider
whether workers in dissimilar jobs of comparable worth measured by
such criteria as working conditions, degree of difficulty, and
knowledge and responsibility required should receive equal wages,
and how wage adjustments can be implemented.The issue has provoked
inflated rhetoric, litigation, and considerable confusion.In this
concise study, Henry J. Aaron and Cameran M. Lougy review the
conditions that have sparked the debate and unravel the
implications of comparable worth for employers in public and
private sectors, for labor union agendas and employer-employee
negotiations, and for the administrative and and judicial burdens
of the nation's courts. The authors conclude with general
guidelines for implementing wage adjustments in ways that would not
seriously disrupt society or have a major impact on overall
economic efficiency.
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