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Advances in Taxation" publishes articles dealing with all aspects of taxation. Articles can address tax policy issues at the federal, state, local, or international level. The series primarily publishes empirical studies that address compliance, computer usage, education, legal, planning, or policy issues. These studies generally involve interdisciplinary research that incorporates theories from accounting, economics, finance, psychology, and ...

Proceedings from the ninth International Conference on Artificial Life, papers by scientists of many disciplines focusing on the principles of organization and applications of complex, life-like systems.

Why does Western culture remain fascinated with and saturated by cannibalism? Moving from the idea of the dangerous Other, Priscilla L. Walton's Our Cannibals, Ourselves shows us how modern-day cannibalism has been recaptured as in the vampire story, resurrected into the human blood stream, and mutated into the theory of germs through AIDS, Ebola, and the like. At the same time, it has expanded to encompass the workings of entire economic syst...

This book breaks down preconceptions and misconceptions about how kids learn to spell, making startling new connections between orthography and literacy.

In contrast to Euro-centric works on comparative fascism that set Japan apart from Germany and Italy, this book emphasizes parallels between Japan and its Axis Allies. Romantic nationalist ideologies attracted a strong following in all three nations as they emerged as modern states in the late 1800s. In both Germany and Japan these were, from the beginning, strongly racial in nature. Spurred by grievances against the 'status quo' powers, all t...

The Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making is a state-of-the art overview of current topics and research in the study of how people make evaluations, draw inferences, and make decisions under conditions of uncertainty and conflict.

The year 2003 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the lifting of the ban excluding black members from the priesthood of the Mormon church. The articles collected in Newell G. Bringhurst and Darron T. Smith's Black and Mormon look at the mechanisms used to keep blacks from full participation, the motives behind the ban, and the kind of changes that have--and have not--taken place within the church since the revelation responsible for its end...

Das Martyrium eröffnet Zugänge zu jenen oft genug verdeckten Selbst- und Weltdeutungen, die Gemeinschaften konstituieren. Über das Martyrium als Ort, an dem Gemeinschaften sich offenbaren müssen, als Ort, an dem entschieden wird, was wahr ist und was unwahr, gelingen Peter Burschel Einblicke in den Prozess der Genese und der Profilierung konfessioneller Kulturen. Er versteht das Martyrium als Medium kollektiver Leidenserfahrung, kollektiver Er...

Ausgehend von den Konstellationen in der Reichspräsidenten-Wahlkampagne 1932 wird die Entwicklung strategischer und taktischer Überlegungen in der Emigration unter der Frage: "Was setzen wir dem deutschen Faschismus entgegen?" untersucht. Die Asylpolitik in West- und Mitteleuropa, die Politik der Komintern und die Haltung der Sozialistischen Arbeiter-Internationale werden in den Konsequenzen dargestellt, die sie für die Versuche der Emigranten...

Das um 1900 durch Bernhard Seuffert gegründete Editionsvorhaben, das sich die historisch-kritische Edition des Wielandschen OEuvres (Werke, Übersetzungen und Briefwechsel) zum Ziel setzte, begann ab 1909 Bände in der Ersten Reihe (Werke) und Zweiten Reihe (Übersetzungen) zu veröffentlichen. Die Arbeit an der Ausgabe war während und nach den beiden Weltkriegen jeweils längere Zeit unterbrochen. In den 50er Jahren begann Hans-Werner Seiffert...

Die Philosophie des reifen Schelling ist zuerst und zuletzt eine Philosophie der Personalität. Personalität ist gleichsam das Zentralgestirn, das die anderen Gegenstände seines Philosophierens nicht nur beleuchtet, sondern wie Planeten zu einem wohlgeordneten System verbindet. Ein solches Gravitationszentrum der Philosophie Schellings und seine systembildenden Kräfte erstmals genau zu erkunden, ist die Leistung des Bandes, an dem sich eine Rei...

This work is the only complete compilation of polls taken by the Gallup Organization, the world's most reliable and widely quoted research firm. An invaluable tool for ascertaining the pulse of American public opinion in a certain year, as well as for documenting changing perceptions over time of crucial core issues (such as women's rights, health care), it is necessary for all social science research. More than just a collection of polls, eac...

Kevin Gallagher makes an outstanding contribution to the trade-environment debate, offering some real breakthroughs in thinking about the relationship between trade expansion and environmental protection. The lessons of Mexico and NAFTA are especially timely and will resonate in many countries throughout the Western hemisphere."--Scott Vaughan, Director of the Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment, Organization of American States "T...

Originally published in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka stands as the single most important expression of the philosophic views on which all of his literary endeavors depend. Put in the context of Melville's Moby Dick, Thoreau's Walden, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and the music of Liszt and Wagner, it is an explosive, startlingly unconventional creation of the High Romantic era. Representing Poe's fantastical thoughts on how the universe was for...

The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa is the "official biography" of German king and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I. This historical firsthand account was begun by his maternal uncle, Bishop Otto of Freising, the leading medieval church figure and notable historian, and continued by a less well known cleric, Rahewin. This chronicle is the single most important source for the early reign of Frederick Barbarossa and the most valuable biographical st...

Presents an overview of the field of law and anthropology. This book also explores historical issues and contemporary ones such as illegal migration, human rights, gender discrimination, political corruption.

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The author discusses forces--like economic insecurity, group loyalty, family strength, women's rights advances, and Catholic social teachings--that have affected Irish law and mores, especially those relating to abortion and divorce.

Schmidt gives you everything you need to double or triple your instructional capabilities, including a step-by-step plan to improve parent-teacher communication, guidelines for avoiding burnout, and a do-it-yourself kit for creating a culture of success in your classroom.

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