Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear, Brooks Kim
Автор: Brooks Kim Название: Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear ISBN: 1250089573 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250089571 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 1838.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"It might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." --Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World
"Brooks's own personal experience provides the narrative thrust for the book -- she writes unflinchingly about her own experience.... Readers who want to know what happened to Brooks will keep reading to learn how the case against her proceeds, but it's Brooks's questions about why mothers are so judgmental and competitive that give the book its heft." --NPR
One morning, Kim Brooks made a split-second decision to leave her four-year old son in the car while she ran into a store. What happened would consume the next several years of her life and spur her to investigate the broader role America's culture of fear plays in parenthood. In Small Animals, Brooks asks, Of all the emotions inherent in parenting, is there any more universal or profound than fear? Why have our notions of what it means to be a good parent changed so radically? In what ways do these changes impact the lives of parents, children, and the structure of society at large? And what, in the end, does the rise of fearful parenting tell us about ourselves?
Fueled by urgency and the emotional intensity of Brooks's own story, Small Animals is a riveting examination of the ways our culture of competitive, anxious, and judgmental parenting has profoundly altered the experiences of parents and children. In her signature style--by turns funny, penetrating, and always illuminating--which has dazzled millions of fans and been called "striking" by New York TimesBook Review and "beautiful" by the National Book Critics Circle, Brooks offers a provocative, compelling portrait of parenthood in America and calls us to examine what we most value in our relationships with our children and one another.
Автор: Thuronyi Victor, Brooks Kim, Kolozs Borbala Название: Comparative Tax Law ISBN: 9041167196 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789041167194 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 28416.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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):
general anti-avoidance rules;
court decisions striking down tax laws as violating constitutional rules against retroactivity, unequal treatment of equals, confiscation, and undue vagueness;
statutory interpretation;
inflation adjustment rules and the allowance for corporate equity;
value added tax systems;
concepts such as "tax", "capital gain", "tax avoidance", and "partnership";
corporate-shareholder tax systems;
the relationship between tax and financial accounting;
taxation of investment income;
tax authorities' ability to obtain and process information about taxpayers; and
systems of appeals from tax assessments.
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.
Автор: Brooks Kim Название: The Houseguest ISBN: 1619029448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781619029446 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1559.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It is the summer of 1941 and Abe Auer, a Russian immigrant and small-town junkyard owner, has become disenchanted with his life. So when his friend Max Hoffman, a local rabbi with a dark past, asks Abe to take in a European refugee, he agrees, unaware that the woman coming to live with him is a volatile and alluring actress named Ana Beidler. Ana regales the Auer family with tales of her lost stardom and charms and mystifies Abe with her glamour and unabashed sexuality, forcing him to confront his own desire as well as the ghost of his dead brother. As news filters out of Europe, American Jews struggle to make sense of the atrocities. Some want to bury their heads in the sand while others want to create a Jewish army that would fight Hitler and promote bold, wide-spread rescue initiatives. And when a popular Manhattan synagogue is burned to the ground, our characters begin to feel the drumbeat of war is marching ever closer to home. Set on the eve of America's involvement in World War II, The Houseguest examines a little-known aspect of the war and highlights the network of organizations seeking to help Jews abroad, just as masses of people seeking to escape Europe are turned away from American shores. It moves seamlessly from the Yiddish theaters of Second Avenue to the junkyards of Utica to the covert world of political activists, Jewish immigrants, and the stars and discontents of New York's Yiddish stage. Ultimately, The Houseguest is a moving story about identity, family, and the decisions that define who we will become.
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