Download or read book Upsetting the Apple Cart written by David Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Foreword, by Maria João Rodrigues, President of FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies), Member of the European Parliament and Vice-Chair of the Socialists and Democrats Group: This book, which is the fruit of a collaboration between FEPS and TASC, serves the purpose of contributing to serious reflection on the need for a common platform able to deliver a sounder corporate taxation system for the EU. The chapters together provide a timely contribution to the debate on increasing inequality and the role of relatively wealthy MNEs through their special arrangements to reduce their tax payments. At times, as the Panama Papers and the LuxLeaks proved, companies engage in illegal behaviours (e.g. money laundering, tax dodging, establishing bogus offshore companies) but most of the special arrangements relate to tax avoidance. In our tax systems, there is room for exploiting loopholes, differences in tax regimes and accounting practices so that sufficiently big corporations are able to legally avoid paying the statutory corporate income tax. The unsurprising results are: 1) increasing inequality due to the unfair competition between big and small corporations, which do not have subsidiaries abroad between which to switch profits, intellectual properties and so on; 2) increasing inequality due to the heavier burden on labour incomes and consumption; and 3) the loss of potentially useful public revenues at a time when public budgets are tight and there is a need to re- launch the economy with forward-looking investment. In this context, the chapters of Upsetting the Apple Cart together offer a new way of approaching these important issues of our time: What to do about the problem of taxation of multinationals; How countries that have elements of tax havens facilitate tax avoidance; Whether international agreements can lead to better control of MNE activity; How industrial policy can be developed other than through tax policies. The reader will be provided with a description and analysis of the situation in Ireland complemented with an interesting look at its effect on the EU. Indeed, Ireland has famously led the way in having a low corporate tax rate. In some ways Ireland can be seen as the champion of a race to the bottom, which should be put to an end.
Download or read book Martha s Upset Apple Cart written by Irene Pough and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Tamleton has more to worry about than someone coming onto her parent's farm and upsetting a cart full of apples. News has spread throughout the town of Hayview, New York that Clint Price, former Hayview High School Quarterback, and heartthrob of the teen female population is returning as guest of honor for town festivities. It has been fifteen years since Martha and Clint parted ways, and Martha wants no part of the man who participated in destroying her family and her dreams. For years Martha has sought to accept, and live with what Clint did. Now with his return, she will have to find the strength to confront and reconcile their shared past. Will this be the turning point in Martha's life allowing her to move on and finally follow her life's dream? Or, will Clint be too much for Martha to handle and do more than upset her apple cart?
Download or read book The Apple Cart written by George Bernard Shaw and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a satirical comedy about several political ideologies that the characters expound on, often in extended monologues. The entire play revolves around a simple "conflict of interests" between a king and his prime minister. The story follows the fictional English King Magnus as he wrestles with Prime Minister Proteus and his cabinet as they seek to deprive the monarchy of its remaining political power. However, the king is adamant about taking independent positions against his Prime Minister, which leads to a clash between the two. Will the King eventually outwits the Minister
Download or read book Modernism the Lure of Heresy written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.
Download or read book The History of New Hampshire written by Jeremy Belknap and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Little Witch Hazel written by Phoebe Wahl and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An earthy and beautiful collection of four stories that celebrate the seasons, nature, and life, from award-winning author-illustrator Phoebe Wahl. Little Witch Hazel is a tiny witch who lives in the forest, helping creatures big and small. She's a midwife, an intrepid explorer, a hard worker and a kind friend. In this four-season volume, Little Witch Hazel rescues an orphaned egg, goes sailing on a raft, solves the mystery of a haunted stump and makes house calls to fellow forest dwellers. But when Little Witch Hazel needs help herself, will she get it in time? Little Witch Hazel is a beautiful ode to nature, friendship, wild things and the seasons that only Phoebe Wahl could create: an instant classic and a book that readers will pore over time and time again.
Download or read book It s Not About the Burqa written by Mariam Khan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience. In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the ‘traditional submissiveness’ of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn’t know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female? Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women’s voices are still pushed to the fringes – the figures leading the discussion are white and male. Taking one of the most politicized and misused words associated with Muslim women and Islamophobia, It’s Not About the Burqa is poised to change all that. Here are voices you won’t see represented in the national news headlines: seventeen Muslim women speaking frankly about the hijab and wavering faith, about love and divorce, about feminism, queer identity, sex, and the twin threats of a disapproving community and a racist country. With a mix of British and international women writers, from activist Mona Eltahawy's definition of a revolution to journalist and broadcaster Saima Mir telling the story of her experience of arranged marriage, from author Sufiya Ahmed on her Islamic feminist icon to playwright Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's moving piece about her relationship with her hijab, these essays are funny, warm, sometimes sad, and often angry, and each of them is a passionate declaration calling time on the oppression, the lazy stereotyping, the misogyny and the Islamophobia. What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa. Here’s what it’s really about. Shortlisted for Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year 'An incredibly important collection of essays that explores the pressures of being a Muslim woman today . . . passionate, angry, self-effacing, nuanced and utterly compelling in every single way' - Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant 'Engrossing . . . fascinating . . . courageous' – Observer
Download or read book Black Sea written by Neal Ascherson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-09-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author demonstrates, through the history of the Black Sea area and the disputed regions of Russia, Turkey, Romania, Greece, and Caucasus, that "the meanings of 'community, ' 'nationhood, ' and 'cultural independence' are both fierce and disturbingly uncertain."
Download or read book Conflict Management Coaching written by Cinnie Noble and published by Cinergy Coaching. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONFLICT MANAGEMENT COACHING: THE CINERGY MODEL describes a well-researched process for coaching people on a one-on-one basis, to improve their skills and abilities to manage and engage in their interpersonal disputes. This comprehensive text written by Cinnie Noble, a lawyer-mediator and certified coach, not only provides a coaching model that uniquely integrates neuroscience principles with conflict management and coaching theory and practice. It also provides readers with many ideas and practical ways to support a conflict coaching practice. CONFLICT MANAGEMENT COACHING is an informative resource that will be of interest to coaches, mediators, ombudsmen and other conflict management and dispute resolution practitioners, HR professionals, leaders, lawyers, psychologists, social workers and others who work with people in conflict. TABLE OF CONTENTS * Introduction * The Three Pillars of Conflict Management Coaching * Conflict Management: There Is No Rule Book * Client Engagement * The CINERGY Conflict Management Coaching Model * Conflict Management Coaching Skills * Applications of Conflict Management Coaching * Measuring Conflict Management Coaching
Download or read book Mindset Mathematics Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas Grade 1 written by Jo Boaler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the first-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation. During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message—that they want to incorporate more brain science into their math instruction, but they need guidance in the techniques that work best to get across the concepts they needed to teach. So the authors designed Mindset Mathematics around the principle of active student engagement, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning. Open, creative, and visual math tasks have been shown to improve student test scores, and more importantly change their relationship with mathematics and start believing in their own potential. The tasks in Mindset Mathematics reflect the lessons from brain science that: There is no such thing as a math person - anyone can learn mathematics to high levels. Mistakes, struggle and challenge are the most important times for brain growth. Speed is unimportant in mathematics. Mathematics is a visual and beautiful subject, and our brains want to think visually about mathematics. With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas which emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.
Download or read book Southern Food and Civil Rights written by Frederick Douglass Opie and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food has been and continues to be an essential part of any movement for progressive change. From home cooks and professional chefs to local eateries and bakeries, food has helped activists continue marching for change for generations. Paschal's restaurant in Atlanta provided safety and comfort food for civil rights leaders. Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam operated their own farms, dairies and bakeries in the 1960s. "The Sandwich Brigade" organized efforts to feed the thousands at the March on Washington. Author Fred Opie details the ways southern food nourished the fight for freedom, along with cherished recipes associated with the era.
Download or read book Unfaithful Music Disappearing Ink written by Elvis Costello and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal introspective by the influential pop songwriter and performer traces his Liverpool upbringing, artistic influences, creative pursuit of original punk sounds, and emergence in the MTV world.
Download or read book Upsetting the Apple Cart written by Frederick Douglass Opie and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upsetting the Apple Cart surveys the history of black-Latino coalitions in New York City from 1959 to 1989. In those years, African American and Latino Progressives organized, mobilized, and transformed neighborhoods, workplaces, university campuses, and representative government in the nation's urban capital. Upsetting the Apple Cart makes new contributions to our understanding of protest movements and strikes in the 1960s and 1970s and reveals the little-known role of left-of-center organizations in New York City politics as well as the influence of Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns on city elections. Frederick Douglass Opie provides a social history of black and Latino working-class collaboration in shared living and work spaces and exposes racist suspicion and divisive jockeying among elites in political clubs and anti-poverty programs. He ultimately offers a different interpretation of the story of the labor, student, civil rights, and Black Power movements than has been traditionally told. His work highlights both the largely unknown agents of historic change in the city and the noted politicians, political strategists, and union leaders whose careers were built on this history. Also, as Napoleon said, "An army marches on its stomach," and Opie's history equally delves into the role that food plays in social movements, with representative recipes from the American South and the Caribbean included throughout.
Download or read book Orbital Decay written by Allen Steele and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Locus Award: Space-station workers discover a shocking global surveillance plot in this novel from “the master of science-fiction intrigue” (The Washington Post). Popeye Hooker knows that space isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A former fisherman who takes a job building low orbital stations to escape a failed relationship, he finds that in space, construction work is still a grind. And when they aren’t building the space stations that will usher humanity into the stars, Sam Sloane and the rest of the beamjacks get high, blast the Grateful Dead, and stare through telescopes at the world they left behind. But life in orbit is about to get much more interesting. Nestled among the life support equipment that keeps them alive and the entertainment systems that keep them happy, the beamjacks find something astonishing. Turns out, their home isn’t just a space station—it’s a giant antenna designed to spy on every inhabitant of Earth. It’s the greatest privacy invasion ever perpetrated, and the beamjacks won’t stand for it. They may not be pioneers, but these roughnecks are about to become revolutionaries. Timely—and with Orwellian undertones, Allen Steele’s debut won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Perfect for fans of Robert Heinlein, Robert J. Sawyer, and Greg Bear, Orbital Decay blends fantasy and science fiction with a prescient attention paid to the dangers of government surveillance.
Download or read book Born Not Made written by James L. Fisher and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two leadership experts show that--contrary to popular opinion--some people are pre-wired to become successful entrepreneurs.
Download or read book Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present A to Byz written by John Stephen Farmer and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personal Impact written by Amanda Vickers and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever missed out on a job or promotion because you didn't make a positive impression? Would you like to be able to influence people and assert yourself more confidently? Do people remember your colleagues but forget you? Achieving what you want in life depends largely on the impact you have on others. You only get one first impression, but in today's world, people are so busy and distracted that it's harder than ever to make a real impact on someone's life. Personal Impact tells you everything you need to know to be able to connect with people quickly, easily and powerfully. This book is packed with practical hints and tips that you can put to use immediately, including: * how to harness your body language to convey authority * how to handle nerves on big occasions * how to make yourself instantly likeable * how to master the art of persuasion. There's also a wealth of advice on what to avoid - such as carrying bags into an interview or failing to make eye contact when giving a presentation. Remember, you only get one chance to make a first impression. MAKE AN IMPACT.
