In this riveting book, Jared Diamond---whose Guns, Germs, and Steel revolutionized our understanding of history---explores how humankind's use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world's great collapses, from the ...
Creator: Twila Slesnick, John C. Suttle | Business & Economics - 2011-07-06
Covers such topics as when to take money out, tax strategies, avoiding or reducing penalties, distributions, early retirement and more, with updated tax tables and recent rule changes for taking money out of Roth IRA conversions and other ...
But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation.
Creator: Douglas R. Hofstadter | Philosophy - 2008-07-08
Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.
