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Cotton Malone novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Investigate the strange episode known as the Heliodorus Affair. This power struggle between Jerusalem’s elite families during the time of the Ptolemies and Seleucids became a key turning point in the history of Jews in Judea. We also see echoes of this conflict in Gospel accounts of taxation..
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As a glimpse into how the empire functioned so effectively, learn about the Mit'a, a system of labor taxation, noting the services subjects provided to the empire and how they benefited in return. Grasp the Inca's ingenious technology of road building, suspension bridges, and freeze-drying vegetables, and how they eliminated hunger.
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program takes us from the beginning of America’s search for its own unique identity in modern political terms through revolution and the growing pains of the world’s first truly multi-cultural nation. Learn about colonial rebellion, and what "No Taxation Without Representation" means along with the struggle to create a new country..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Witness how the Progressive movement took shape in the late 19th century, fueled by alarm over the unbridled power of large corporations. Grasp the era’s new definition of American economic freedom, and examine actions taken under presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson to dismantle railroad, meatpacking, and oil trusts, and to reform banking and taxation..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Shift your attention to another important arm of the government. Explore the roles of the Council of 500 officials chosen by lot, required to serve for a whole year, as well as the respected (if not particularly powerful) magistrates known as archons. Then, review the relatively limited systems of taxation and welfare in ancient Athens.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Spotlight three innovations introduced by Chinggis Khan to unify and modernize the Mongol state: his reorganization of Mongol society; his taxation reforms; and his creation of a new law code, the Great Yasa, which included injunctions designed to protect horses, water, and wild animals. The code also specified seemingly minor breaches of decorum that were punishable by death.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Discover the vital farming communities of the Yellow River watershed. Study the culture of farming and rural society, and delve into how peasants lived - their dwellings, clothing, diet, work and gender roles, and family structures. Take account of the hardships faced by peasants through taxation and corrupt local officialdom and of the natural and manmade disasters that plagued rural populations.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Examine the US system of free market economics, and the fiscal and monetary policies our government employs to correct for market failures. Learn how Congress and the president address problems such as high unemployment and inflation through government spending and taxation, and how the Fed uses interest rates and the sale of treasury bonds to stimulate or de-stimulate the economy.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Study three phases of Jesus's ministry, as he cast a wider and wider net with his message. Take account of Jesus's role as a healer, and of his central vision of the Kingdom of Heaven as social change. See how his ministry responded to the humanitarian crisis of brutal taxation and dispossession of the Judeans, and how, in its final phase, he determined to take his message to Jerusalem.
14) Outlook Money
Series
Publisher
Outlook Publishing (India) Private Limited
Language
English
Description
Outlook Money has remained India’s No.1 personal finance magazine for the last 25 years, delivering accurate, insightful, balanced and practical information to our readers that is easy to understand and implement. Since our inception in 1998, we have focused on consumer interest and benefits. We empower our readers by giving in-depth analysis and credible information on investments, insurance, taxation, banking, financial planning and all things
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Newt Gingrich proposes a bold vision of the future: America is on the cusp of a renaissance, a new birth of technological and scientific innovation that will dramatically transform the prosperity and quality of life of every American. Our biggest enemy? Special interest groups, powerful lobbyists, and government bureaucrats who are determined to squash, control, or prevent these innovations—and permanently change the future
...Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles--even its language--can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange charter and how did it gain such legendary status? Historian Dan Jones takes us back to the turbulent year of 1215, when, beset by foreign crises and cornered by a growing domestic rebellion, King John reluctantly agreed to fix his seal to a...
17) Board to Death
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a trendy Salt Lake City, Utah, neighborhood, Ben Rosencrantz's board game shop has become a community hotspot for players of all ages—and for killer collectors.
Back in his hometown of Sugar House, running his family's board game shop and café, Ben Rosencrantz just can't seem to get his life to pass go, much less collect $200. Once he was a happily married English professor in Seattle. Now he's a divorced caregiver, looking...
Back in his hometown of Sugar House, running his family's board game shop and café, Ben Rosencrantz just can't seem to get his life to pass go, much less collect $200. Once he was a happily married English professor in Seattle. Now he's a divorced caregiver, looking...
18) Southern belle
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Civil War may be long over but the spirit of rebellion is hard to extinguish even in something as innocent as a girls' summer camp. Southern belle examines the 1861 Athenaeum Girls' School where young women eagerly sign up to become that iconic and romantic image of Southern identity: the Southern belle, replete with hoop skirt, hat and gloves, singing the region's anthem, Dixie. While the young women are eager to learn the "art" of being a lady...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
The New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world—brazenly accelerated during the pandemic—has transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy.
"Davos Man will be read a hundred years
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