Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-cycle Planning

"The MIT Press"This collection of essays, coauthored with other distinguished economists, offers new perspectives on saving, intergenerational economic ties, retirement planning, and the distribution of wealth. The book links life-cycle microeconomic behavior to important macroeconomic outcomes, including the roughly 50 percent postwar decline in America's rate of saving and its increasing weal…

Essays on the Representational and Derivational Nature of Grammar: The Divers…

This book can be read on two levels: as a novel empirical study of wh- interrogatives and relative constructions in a variety of languages and as a theoretical investigation of chain formation in grammar.The book is divided into two parts. Part I investigates the distribution and interpretation of multiple wh- interrogative constructions, focusing on the workings of Superiority. Part II investi…

Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness

"A Bradford book."Consciousness is at the very core of the human condition. Yet only in recent decades has it become a major focus in the brain and behavioral sciences. Scientists now know that consciousness involves many levels of brain functioning, from brainstem to cortex. The almost seventy articles in this book reflect the breadth and depth of this burgeoning field. The many topics covered…

e-topia: "Urban Life, Jim—But Not As We Know It"

How an electronically connected world will shape cities and urban relationships of the future. The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new urban infrastructure—one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone networks did in the past. In this…

The jungle trappers : a tale of the Indian jungle

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The industrial arts, historical sketches;

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vi, vii, 276 p,Pref. signed: W.M. [i.e. William Maskell]

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Lakmé; opera in three acts

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47 p,French and English on opposite pages,Libretto (by Gondinet and Gille) based on "Le mariage de L

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A journal kept by Miss Sarah Foote (Mrs. Sarah Foote Smith) while journeying …

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Introduction signed : Chester W. Smith,With autograph of Olive Percival

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Adam Bede

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A day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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