He's Saved... But is He for Real?

Religion & Spirituality

Kim Brooks

Literature & Fiction

New Spirit

Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear

Flatiron Books

Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Joseph Chavez Stowaways Marshall says it was like possibility itself. Life like an old clock, wound up after three years of silence and set ticking once again. "Yes!" Steven says. "Exactly." This is the opening he was looking for.
 Siamak Vossoughi The X-250 Mr. Rezai had melted, like a man falling in love, only in a movie that was too sentimental to be believed. George had never seen him look that way before.
 Melissa R. Sipin Walang Hiya, Brother I can never tell anyone this. You know how it is, with family. The things you can't say, the secrets they hide until the omissions crack the surface, start fractures, evolve into lies.
 Mehdi Tavana Okasi The Hate "I would never have let you become a soldier," my mother said to me in those years, recalling how we'd fled the eight-year war with Iraq.
 Sean Padraic McCarthy Speak to Me She felt him leave, she later says, the energy shooting up through her hand. But now everyone is just shouting goodbye, I love you, we'll miss you. All at once. A family usually quite quiet, reserved, now a chorus of grief. Gone.
 Eugene Cross Miss Me Forever While he waits at the bus stop, Tulsi leafs through the free Bible each student received after class. He can hardly believe how thin the pages are, like the wings of an insect.
 Elizabeth Kadetsky What We Saw Mice, bugs, heat wave, neighbors, mattresses: all since the little earthquake. "The little earthquake," people call it, like it was as benign as a stuffed animal, a creature innocent beside the morning grapefruit.
 Kim Brooks Hialeah "Peach Tree? Very aggressive sounding." "It says here she's a maniac, bred on nothing but cabbages and beets." "A Jewish racehorse. How could you go wrong?"
 Robert Powers Maghreb and the Sea We knew it was time to leave when we realized we'd have to become miners after running out of money. I told you I'd rather drown in the sea than be buried in a cave.
 Gil Filar Here for Life In December the heat blasted and the humidifier rumbled round-the-clock. Melody stayed inside more, overeating kale and quinoa and Hungry Man turkey dinners.
 E.A. Durden The Orange Parka Since the beginning of Prithi's sophomore year, when she began to attend a charter school in another part of Brooklyn, Rakesh has accompanied his daughter to the city bus stop where her route begins.
 Junot Díaz Interview by David Naimon That doesn't mean that I'm not sexist, that I'm not being sexist. The reader has to decide this. But I'm willing to risk the blowback.

Glimmer Train Stories, #91

JUNOT DÍAZ

Joseph Chavez

Melissa R. Sipin

Mehdi Tavana Okasi

Sean Padraic McCarthy

Eugene Cross

Elizabeth Kadetsky

Robert Powers

Gil Filar

E. A. Durden

Simak Vossoughi

David Naimon (interviewer)

Cathal Sheerin

Glimmer Train Press, Inc.

Glimmer Train Stories (4 Issues)

Siamak Vossoughi

Short Stories & Anthologies

Glimmer Train Press, Incorporated

Although the details of tax law are literally endless—differing not only from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but also from day-to-day—structures and patterns exist across tax systems that can be understood with relative ease. This book, now in an updated new edition, focuses on these essential patterns. It provides an immensely useful introduction to the core common knowledge that any well-informed tax lawyer or policy maker should have about comparative tax law in our times. The busy reader will welcome the compact nature of this work, which is shorter than the first edition and can be read in a weekend if one skips footnotes. The authors elucidate the commonalities and differences across countries in areas including (much of the detail new to the second edition): <ul>
<li> general anti-avoidance rules;</li> <li> court decisions striking down tax laws as violating constitutional rules against retroactivity, unequal treatment of equals, confiscation, and undue vagueness;</li> <li>statutory interpretation;</li> <li>inflation adjustment rules and the allowance for corporate equity;</li> <li>value added tax systems;</li> <li>concepts such as “tax”, “capital gain”, “tax avoidance”, and “partnership”;</li> <li>corporate-shareholder tax systems;</li> <li>the relationship between tax and financial accounting;</li> <li>taxation of investment income;</li> <li>tax authorities’ ability to obtain and process information about taxpayers; and</li> <li>systems of appeals from tax assessments.</li> </ul> The information and analysis pull together valuable material which is scattered over a disparate literature, much of it not available in English. Especially considering the dynamic nature of tax law, whose rate of change exceeds that of any other field of law, the authors’ clear identification of the underlying patterns and fundamental structures that all tax systems have in common—as well as where the differences lie—guides the reader and offers resources for further research.

Comparative Tax Law

Victor Thuronyi

Borbala Kolozs

Foreign & International Law

Wolters Kluwer

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