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The causal relationship between growth and inequality is complex, and there have been many scholarly works to study this relationship since the seminal work of Kuznets in the 1950s. Few recent studies in this field have shown that the nature of relationship is multifaceted and non-linear. In addition to the intrinsic non-linear nature of the relationship, government and institutions play pivotal role in distributing the benefits of growth to r...

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Excerpt from The Gentleman Pensioner: A Romance of the Year 1569 It was an hour or two before noon on the twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and sixty-nine, when I rode up full speed to the Temple Gate, and called for some one to Show the way to the house Of Master William Tucker, the Mayor of Bristol. And Why? Cried a stout-built warden. Who is my lord that he should be so big, and demand an escort t...

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Excerpt from The Frown of Majesty: A Romance of the Days of Louis the FourteenthThere was another motive for the general lack of love for this priest, and it fell in most convincingly with my own experience.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology t...

Schon als Kind muss Malcolm Little erfahren, dass seine Hautfarbe eine größere Rolle spielt als seine überdurchschnittliche Intelligenz. Nach einem Job als Eisenbahnkellner hält er sich mit Gelegenheitsdiebstählen über Wasser, wobei er geschnappt wird. Zehn Jahre Knast lautet das Urteil, hauptsächlich aber aufgrund seiner Beziehung zu einer Weißen. Im Gefängnis lernt er den Muslim Baines kennen, der ihn mit dem Gedankengut der Nation of Islam ...

Excerpt from Four for a Fortune: A Tale C lz if a rd is alive a nd tlc rivin g, a nd goes about lzis business in New York as quiet ly and earnestly as if lie lzaa' never stabbed a man and tlzrown lzis body into tlze sea. C arguemort (tlzank Heaven!) is dead, and may tlze Devil never send lzis like to ea rt/c again. Good Captain mcleod is no long er of tke living but Glen, 1 lzear, kas prospered and is ma rried. T katclzer looked over tk is m...

Excerpt from At His Country's Call: A Tale of the Great War Mr. Millard was writing in his room when a tap came on the door. "Come in!" he cried, and when the door opened, a strapping young fellow in the uniform of a Scout stood in the doorway, with all the belongings he had brought from the camp. Mr. Millard put down his pen, but before he had time to say a word Maurice was at the table, holding out his left hand to his father, who looked ...

Excerpt from The Story of Royal Windsor This Story of Royal Windsor would probably never have been written had it not been for a public utterance by the Vicar of Windsor-the Rev. J. H. J. Ellison. Preaching before the Mayor and Corporation some months ago, he spoke of Windsor Castle as "more widely known than any other building in the world. Men living far away have been familiar with its outline from their earliest years. The picture of Wind...

A grand story of some thrilling adventures in the life of William Tyndale. No matter whether he was fleeing for his life through forest tracks, or being hidden by kindly friends in underground caverns, or even being starved in some castle dungeon, Tyndale had but one fear. It was not the torture and death which his persecutors were so anxious to inflict on him, but that they should succeed in their evil designs before he had finished his work ...

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Excerpt from King Stork of the Netherlands: A Romance of the Early Days of the Dutch RepublicA kiss, my pretty one. Nay, just one. Did ever a maiden look so tragic! He added, when I struck him in the face, because he dared to put his arm about my waist.No sooner had I given him that blow than I re pented, for who can tell the consequences of striking a Spaniard? It is true they have not the power in Leyden that they once had, yet every one see...

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