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  • Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue

    Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages

    by Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod ...
    An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the agesGovernments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts—and, in repressing it, ended ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Azawad’s Facebook Warriors

    The MNLA, Social Media, and the Malian Civil War

    by Michael Keen ...
    Series Book 2 - Currents in Media, Social and Religious Movements in the Middle East
    In January 2012, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), a group dominated by members of the Tuareg ethnic group, launched a military uprising seeking the independence of Mali’s vast but sparsely populated north as the democratic, secular nation-state of Azawad. Azawad’s Facebook Warriors tells the extraordinary story of a small group of social media activists who sought to ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • The Word of a Humble God

    The Origins, Inspiration, and Interpretation of Scripture

    by Karen R. Keen ...
    "Scripture is a spring of life-giving, life-altering truth, but when we don't understand how and why it came to us, we end up misusing it."How did we get the Bible? And why does it matter? History reveals that Scripture can be used for both life-giving and destructive purposes. Discovering the Bible's origins makes all the difference for fostering redemptive interpretation of Scripture. Bringing ... Read more

    $27.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective

    Edited by Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn, Alex Ruck Keene ...
    With contributions from an international team of experts, this collection provides a much-needed international, comparative approach to mental capacity law.The book focuses particularly on exploring substantive commonalities and divergences in normative orientation and practical application embedded in different legal frameworks. It draws together contributions from eleven different jurisdictions ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Zoo Clue

    by Carolyn Keene, Michael Frost ...
    Illustrated by Jan Naimo Jones ...
    Series series Nancy Drew Notebooks
    Nancy and her friends are on a class trip to the zoo. Everyone brought a camera and is excited because their teacher has announced a Best Photo contest. Whoever takes the best picture at the zoo wins a prize!The trip is going great—until a flowerbed outside the monkey cage is wrecked and Nancy’s class is blamed! The zookeeper is mad and says they might have to leave the zoo if someone doesn’t come ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Snowman Surprise

    by Carolyn Keene, Michael Frost ...
    Illustrated by Paul Casale ...
    Series series Nancy Drew Notebooks
    Nancy Drew and her friends putting on their sleuthing caps to uncover a snow sculpture saboteur in this sixty-third entry in the early chapter book series.It’s winter break, and Nancy, George, and Bess can hardly wait for Sunday. That’s the day of the big snow festival in town. This year, the girls are entering the snow sculpture contest. They already know what they are making: swans from the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Singing Suspects

    by Carolyn Keene, Michael Frost ...
    Illustrated by Jan Naimo Jones ...
    Series series Nancy Drew Notebooks
    Nancy and her friends can’t wait to enter the singing contest being held in the park—they’ll call themselves the Spy Girlz! They decide to wear their coolest clothes, and Riley has even let them borrow a pair of sunglasses that once belonged to teen idol Eric Stanley! But when the glasses go missing, Nancy worries that the Spy Girlz are ruined before they even perform! ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Secret in the Spooky Woods

    by Carolyn Keene, Michael Frost ...
    Illustrated by Jan Naimo Jones ...
    Series series Nancy Drew Notebooks
    A spooky and fun-filled mystery for Nancy and her friends in this entry in the Nancy Drew Notebooks.Rumor has it that the woods in River Heights Park are haunted! There have been eerie noises and unexplained lights coming from there lately. At first Nancy doesn’t believe it, but when some girls from school, and even her own puppy, Chocolate Chip, start acting strangely, Nancy knows she has some ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Fiscal Monitor, April 2014: Public Expenditure Reform: Making Difficult Choices

    Edited by Martine Ms. Guerguil, Michael Mr. Keen ...
    Series series Fiscal Monitor
    Fiscal risks are abating somewhat but remain elevated. In advanced economies, recent policy moves have broadly stabilized public debt ratios, but medium-term prospects are still uncertain, and debt remains at historic highs. Fiscal vulnerabilities are rising in both emerging market economies and low-income countries, although in most cases from relatively moderate levels. Across country groups, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Taxation of Petroleum and Minerals

    Principles, Problems and Practice

    Edited by Philip Daniel, Michael Keen, Charles McPherson ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    There are few areas of economic policy-making in which the returns to good decisions are so high—and the punishment of bad decisions so cruel—as in the management of natural resource wealth. Rich endowments of oil, gas and minerals have set some countries on courses of sustained and robust prosperity; but they have left others riddled with corruption and persistent poverty, with little of lasting ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • International Taxation and the Extractive Industries

    Edited by Philip Daniel, Michael Keen, Artur Świstak, Victor Thuronyi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The taxation of extractive industries exploiting oil, gas, or minerals is usually treated as a sovereign, national policy and administration issue.This book offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of the theory and practice involved in designing policies on the international aspects of fiscal regimes for these industries, with a particular focus on developing and emerging economies.International ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

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    Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue

    Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages

    by Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 28 min

    Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts—and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax. Sometimes they succeed astonishingly, as when, in eighteenth-century Britain, a cut in the tax on tea massively ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD