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The Ancestor's Tale

A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

By: Richard Dawkins,Yan Wong

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The Ancestor's Tale

A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

By: Richard Dawkins,Yan Wong

The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work in this revised edition that offers a comprehensive look at evolution. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's tale takes us modern humans back through four billion years of life on our planet. As the pilgrimage progresses, we join with other organisms at the forty "rendezvous points" where we find a common ancestor. The band of pilgrims swells into a vast crowd as we join first with other primates, then with other mammals, and so on back to the first primordial organism. Dawkins's brilliant, inventive approach allows us to view the connections between ourselves and all other life in a bracingly novel way. It also lets him shed bright new light on the most compelling aspects of evolutionary history and theory: sexual selection, speciation, convergent evolution, extinction, genetics, plate tectonics, geographical dispersal, and more. The Ancestor's Tale is at once a far-reaching survey of the latest, best thinking on biology and a fascinating history of life on Earth. Here Dawkins shows us how remarkable we are, how astonishing our history, and how intimate our relationship with the rest of the living world.

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HarperCollins

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0547525125

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9780547525129

The Laughs on Hollywood

By: Richard Webb,Teet Carle

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The Laughs on Hollywood

By: Richard Webb,Teet Carle

Titles -- Directors & craftspersons -- Producers & executives -- Actresses & actors -- Writers & authors -- Promoters & publicists -- End credits.

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388

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Roundtable Publishing

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0915677091

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9780915677092

Profits, Taxes, and the State

By: Richard Jankowski

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Profits, Taxes, and the State

By: Richard Jankowski

The 1980s and 1990s were a watershed in terms of both tax and monetary policy. The 1981 Reagan tax cut ushered in supply-side economics, while the 1986 Tax Reform Act produced a substantial cut in the marginal individual income tax rate. In terms of monetary policy, the Volcker-Greenspan chairmanships of the Federal Reserve initiated fundamental changes in monetary policies that lowered inflation. Jankowski examines both tax and monetary policies to determine their effects on profits. He shows that the pretax profit rate fell in the post-World War II year, but that the post-tax profit rate remained relatively constant. However, Jankowski argues that the tax policies adopted did not produce the observed constancy in the post-tax profit rate. He further argues that the elimination of the corporate income tax would have the effect of enhancing redistributive policies. Jankowski's analysis of tax and monetary policies leads to new theories of the state and classes, and he argues that the growth of the state has restructured classes. The state, and not the workplace, has become the locus of income for the majority of individuals in modern capitalist societies. This change requires a fundamental rethinking of the nature of classes and class politics. A controversial analysis that will be vital reading for economists, political scientists, and other scholars and policymakers dealing with tax and monetary issues.

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202

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Praeger

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0275960811

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9780275960810

StataQuest 4

Software Developed by the Stata Corporation

By: J. Theodore Anagnoson,Richard E. DeLeon

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StataQuest 4

Software Developed by the Stata Corporation

By: J. Theodore Anagnoson,Richard E. DeLeon

This easy-to-use introductory statistics program builds statistical understanding from the ground up. Its on-line help and spreadsheet-like data entry, coupled with its superior graphics output, make it an industry leader.

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0534265464

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9780534265465

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The Ancestor's Tale

The Ancestor's Tale

The Laughs on Hollywood

The Laughs on Hollywood

Profits, Taxes, and the State

Profits, Taxes, and the State

StataQuest 4

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