THE MAGNIFICENT BUILDERS And Their Dream Houses

Arts & Photography

Thorndike, Joseph J.

Architecture

American Heritage Publishing Company

The author's account of his walking tour of the Atlantic coast captures the beauty of the region, but also reveals that more than ninety percent of the shoreline is privately owned and that pollution and development have taken a heavy toll

The Coast: A Journey Down the Atlantic Shore (A Thomas Dunne Book)

Travel

United States

St.Martin's Press

Findings of the new, scientific archaeology do not generally contradict the conclusions of the pioneers, although they may refine the dating. It is still true that the first civilizations, marked by cities, governments, armies, laws, religion, and writing, arose in the Mesopotamian Valley between three and four thousand B.C. and at the same time or almost as soon (though without cities) in Egypt. It is during that magic millennium that the comprehensible record of civilized man begins. The discovery of selected chapters of that record is the subject of this book.

Discovery of Lost Worlds

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO@

Perhaps the most important quality of a tax system is that citizens consider it fair. Yet agreement on what a just tax would look like is one of the most difficult questions in economics. This book advances knowledge considerably on this controversial topic by providing a variety of new perspectives culled from economics, law, history, and religion.

Tax Justice: The Ongoing Debate (Urban Institute Press)

Politics & Social Sciences

Ventry Jr., Dennis J.

Social Sciences

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Joseph J. Thorndike's history of the U.S. federal tax system from the 1920s until the end of World War II might feel familiar: the president with a progressive reputation who proves more pragmatic than his ardent supporters hoped, the legislators who serve the media apoplectic rhetoric, the magnates who pay no income tax and defend themselves with the perfectly true argument that doing so is 100 percent legal, and the public interested seeing everyone pay their fair share. Thorndike mines governmental and popular media archives to explore both the scholarship of taxes and the way we feel about paying them.

Their Fair Share: Taxing the Rich in the Age of FDR (Urban Institute Press)

Business & Money

Economics

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