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This book provides English-speakers with a comprehensive description and incisive critique of the Japanese tax system. The third edition explores the Japanese government's latest round of tax reforms - a reaction to the country's prolonged period of recession following the collapse of the 'bubble' phenomenon in 1991. Two brand new chapters discuss...

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The Handbook offers a diverse set of scholarly perspectives on the nature of        corporate reputation: what it is, where it comes from, and how it may be managed to        create and protect corporate as well as societal value. Written and organized in an        accessible way, it assesses the current state of the field and provides guidance...

This volume brings together experts in the history of the ancient Mediterranean and early China and presents a series of comparative case studies on clearly defined aspects of state formation in early eastern and western Eurasia, focusing on the process of initial developmental convergence....

In   Depression, War, and Cold War, economic historian and political economist Robert Higgs recasts our view of the relations between the federal government and the economy from the New Deal era to the end of the Cold War, presenting new evidence, new statistical analyses, and new interpretations of familiar data. The result is a strikingly altered...

This book is a re-examination of the fertile years of early modernism immediately        preceding the First World War. During this period, how, where, and under whose terms        the avant-garde in Britain would be constructed and consumed were very much to play        for. It is the first study to look in detail at two little magazines...