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A Progressive Consumption Tax and the Path to Fiscal ReformThe Death of the Income Tax explains how the current income tax is needlessly complex, contains perverse incentives against saving and investment, fails to use modern technology to ease compliance and collection burdens, and is subject to micromanaging and mismanaging by Congress. Daniel...

Using Ethnography as a Meta-FrameworkAdopting ethnography as a meta-framework for social work research, this pocket guide provides a detailed, step-by-step approach for integrating cultural components and cultural awareness into the research process from research design and implementation; data collection; translation of instruments; analysis,...

Arguing Cultural ValueArtworld Prestige examines the ways in which cultural arguments about value develop: the processes by which some practices, artists, and media in the artworld win and others lose. The authors argue that the concept of prestige, although uncomfortable and consistently overlooked, is an essential model for understanding artworld...

Father of Evolutionary EcologyThe first biography of David Lack, the father of evolutionary ecology and an acclaimed ornithologist...

Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic CorpusIn this volume Canevaro studies the 'state' documents preserved in the public speeches of the Demosthenic corpus. Offering a comprehensive account of the documents in the corpora of the orators and in the manuscript tradition, Canevaro summarizes previous scholarship and...

The Aesthetics of Design offers the first full treatment of design in the field of philosophical aesthetics, challenging the discipline to broaden its scope to include the quotidian objects and experiences of our everyday lives and concerns. In doing so, it contributes to the growing field of Everyday Aesthetics....