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Fully revised and updated, THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS remains an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of English and its place in the Indo-European language family. More than 13,000 words are traced to their origins in Proto-Indo-European, the prehistoric ancestor of English that was spoken before the advent of writing. In Calvert Watkins's skilled hands, Proto-Indo-European language and society are rendered as alive and compelling as they must have been six thousand years ago. His introductory essay shows how words in an unrecorded ancient language can be reconstructed and offers a wealth of fascinating information about Proto-Indo-European culture. The dictionary that follows contains nearly 1,350 reconstructed roots, plus two dozen new "Language and Culture" notes that explore interesting sidelights to the etymologies presented in many entries.
Customer Reviews:
same old same old.......2007-05-10
This booklet is merely a reprint of the appendix found at the back of the American Heritage Dictionary. I already have the dictionary -- so, had I known that this booklet contained nothing new, I would not have purchased it!
Intriguing theories ... to be taken with a pinch of salt.......2006-02-05
Authors of works on word origins must choose whether to err on the side of including fanciful derivations, or to err on the side of sticking to the well-attested and uncontroversial. Scholars are tempted to show off their novel theories, and Watkins tops them all. His book cites alleged relationships so fanciful that many or most of them may be spurious, but it is impossible to tell which are solid and which are air. A truly honest work would label speculative theories with appropriate caveats.
Those who believe that new roots cannot emerge ex-nihilo may be inclined to believe that words with far-flung meanings and frail phonetic similarities are "genetically" related, but I have my doubts. Neologisms influenced by analogies with existing words may play a greater role in word-genesis than orderly evolution per rule. Even if many of Watkins's theories about genetic relationships are based on illusion, he has laid out an intruguing map of the network of real or perceived semantic associations that underpins human language.
In a perfect world, there would be some way of calculating the odds of a false-positive match between alleged cognates, but words are not DNA, and we must settle for subjective screening criteria, especially with respect to semantics. Who will rise to the challenge of assessing the reliability of Watkins's theories?
By conservative counts, only 600-700 semantically distinct roots are attested beyond dispute, from multiple branches of the IE family tree. Doubly-attested roots are somewhat suspect, especially when they occur in branches thought to bear close relations, such as Greek and Sanskrit, or Latin & Celtic. Watkins lists roughly twice that many roots, but some unknown percetage must surely be spurious. Be warned.
As Near Perfection As One Could Ask.......2005-12-23
This beautiful and scholarly tome has more facts per inch in its 149pp than in almost any other work in my library. The second paperback edition is easily worth three times its cover price, and except for one flaw, (minor, and noted by other reviewers) this work is as near perfection as one could ask in a work of linguistic reference.
First, in praise:
To the scholar (or layman) studying the Indo-European roots of the English lexicon, there is no other work (in the English language) of comparable value to this book.
(View the index pages available above to see the English words referenced in the work.)
Each word is derived from its putative IE root, and each root is exemplified by its various reflexes in English, whether native or borrowed. For example, if we look up "deal" in the index, it gives two roots, *dail- (from which we get the meaning "portion out") and *tel- meaning plank or flat stone:
"*tel- Ground, floor, board. 1) DEAL from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch dele, "plank," from Germanic *thil-jo. 2)Suffixed form *tel-n-, TELLURIAN ...[also tile, title].... From Latin tellus "earth, the earth.....[Pokorny 2. *tel- 1061.]"
Hence, Watkins gives us the modern English exemplars of the root, whether they come through Germanic directly or indirectly, or through another PIE sister language such as Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, etc.,. For each root Watkins refers to the proto-form as it is given and numbered (i.e., here 1061) in Pokorny's authoritative "Indogermanisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch" or notes its absence therein.
Watkins also inserts a "language and culture note" on about every other page, giving philological/ethnological insight into the implications of the existence of certain forms and their connotations in the IE proto-language.
Regarding the PIE nominal root *Rtko-s "bear," which is absent as an inherited form in English, Watkins explains that the root (which is found in the Hittite "Hartaggas," Latin "ursus" Greek "arktos" and so forth) is replaced by "taboo" avoiding forms meaning "the brown one: "bruin" or "the honey-eater" as in Slavonic "medv-ed." The significance of such avoidance for hunter-gatherers such as the putative PIE speakers is obvious to anyone who knows the meaning of the word "jinx."
Yet, in criticism:
The book as it is currently titled (second edition, paperback) implies a completeness that the work lacks. When we find that certain English words such as "basket, boy, dwarf, dog" and "girl" are not listed in the lexicon, what are we to assume?
Are they neologisms as are perhaps "boy, dog" & "girl?"
Are they Germanicisms such as "dwarf" (although it apparently has a canonical PIE root structure)?
Or are they just inexplicable - as it would seem is "basket" which looks an awful lot like a cognate of the Latin "fasces"?
Also, PIE roots not native to or not borrowed into English are ignored, as are most non-PIE-derived yet acceptably 'English' words such as "alcohol."
Nevertheless, even Tolkien had his criticisms of the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) and that work was some 1000 times the length of Watkins' achievement. Anyone who finds these caveats discouraging will know where to seek for further enlightenment.
This work is worth well more than its dime a page asking price
Great book for language lovers.......2004-03-12
It's a great book for fans of Indo-European, of course. The other reviewers have commented on that. I must comment on one aspect of the book which is disapointing: the binding. It is the most poorly-bound hardback I have seen recently. Parts of the binding are falling apart. Also, some of the ink transfered from one page to the opposite page. These kinds of flaws should never happen with modern bookbinding technologies. It is a shame that such a wonderful book was let down by the printers. Don't let this stop you from buying it, though.
Very Helpful Book on Aryan root words.......2003-08-26
Watkins has created a fine book. This is not a dictionary as much as it is a word hoard. An easy to use list of Aryan root words and examples of how they appear in Latin, Hindi, German, Norse, Greek, Russian, English, etc. A great aid for anyone studying Western tongues.
Wyatt Kaldenberg
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Most Americans would agree that they are duty bound as beneficiaries of our democracy to pay taxes, and the majority of us do pay—-exorbitantly. But what about those who do not pay their fair share? David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, here reveals how fairness and equity have eroded from the American tax system. Johnston describes in shocking detail the loopholes our government provides the "super rich"--from private individuals to profitable corporations—-to hide their wealth, to defer or evade tax payments, and to pass the bill to law-abiding middle-class Americans. The loss in revenue "imposes a severe cost on honest taxpayers" through reduced services, increased federal debt, and a weight on the middle class that threatens to impede its ability to achieve upward social mobility. Admitting the extreme complexity of our economy and by extension our tax code, Johnston points out that the very wealthy do, of course, pay taxes. However, because of shelters that allow them to understate most of their income, they pay little more on average than most Americans on the dollar. This is regressive, and unquestionably favors the superrich. Johnston includes examples of outrageous corporate malfeasance (such as companies that establish off-shore tax addresses) and exposes the tax benefits of the particularly loathsome practice made famous by Jack Welch, in which thousands of wage earners are laid off while a handful of executives are granted hundreds of millions of dollars through deferred compensation, company stock options, and lucrative retirement packages, all at stock holders' xpense. In addition to these offenses, he describes the tax evasion methods of those who simply defy the law and are emboldened by a beleaguered IRS that is too underfunded to serve as an effective deterrent to tax cheats. Johnston calls for a complete overhaul of the system. But because those who most benefit from these laws comprise the "donor class" that supports the government power structure, our prospects for reform remain very bleak. --Silvana Tropea
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One of the country's top investigative reporters reveals how the richest 1 percent of the country has rigged the tax code and other laws in its favor.
Since the mid-1970s, there has been a dramatic shift in America's socioeconomic system, one that has gone virtually unnoticed by the general public. Tax policies and their enforcement have become a disaster, and thanks to discreet lobbying by a segment of the top 1 percent, Washington is reluctant or unable to fix them. The corporate income tax, the estate tax, and the gift tax have been largely ignored by the media. But the cumulative results are remarkable: today someone who earns a yearly salary of $60,000 pays a larger percentage of his income in taxes than the four hundred richest Americans.
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston exposes exactly how the middle class is being squeezed to create a widening wealth gap that threatens the stability of the country. By relating the compelling tales of real people across all areas of society, he reveals the truth behind:
* "middle class" tax cuts and exactly whom they benefit
* how workers are being cheated out of their retirement plans while disgraced CEOs walk away with millions
* how some corporations avoid paying any federal income tax
* how a law meant to prevent cheating by the top 2 percent of Americans no longer affects most of them, but has morphed into a stealth tax on single mothers making just $28,000
* why the working poor are seven times more likely to be audited by the IRS than everyone else
* how the IRS became so weak that even when it was handed complete banking records detailing massive cheating by 1,600 people, it prosecuted only 4 percent of them
Johnston has been breaking pieces of this story on the front page of The New York Times for seven years. With Perfectly Legal, he puts the whole shocking narrative together in a way that will stir up media attention and make readers angry about the state of our country.
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"One of the country's top investigative reporters reveals how the richest 1 percent of the country has rigged the tax code and other laws in its favor Since the mid-1970s, there has been a dramatic shift in America's socioeconomic system, one that has gone virtually unnoticed by the general public. Tax policies and their enforcement have become a disaster, and thanks to discreet lobbying by a segment of the top 1 percent, Washington is reluctant or unable to fix them. The corporate income tax, the estate tax, and the gift tax have been largely ignored by the media. But the cumulative results are remarkable: today someone who earns a yearly salary of $60,000 pays a larger percentage of his income in taxes than the four hundred richest Americans. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston exposes exactly how the middle class is being squeezed to create a widening wealth gap that threatens the stability of the country. By relating the compelling tales of real people across all areas of society, he reveals the truth behind: ""middle class"" tax cuts and exactly whom they benefit how workers are being cheated out of their retirement plans while disgraced CEOs walk away with millions how some corporations avoid paying any federal income tax how a law meant to prevent cheating by the top 2 percent of Americans no longer affects most of them, but has morphed into a stealth tax on single mothers making just $28,000 why the working poor are seven times more likely to be audited by the IRS than everyone else how the IRS became so weak that even when it was handed complete banking records detailing massive cheating by 1,600 people, it prosecuted only 4 percent of them Johnston has been breaking pieces of this story on the front page of The New York Times for seven years. With Perfectly Legal, he puts the whole shocking narrative together in a way that will stir up media attention and make readers angry about the state of our country."
Customer Reviews:
Review of Perfectly Legal.......2007-06-22
This book is well researched and addresses an area every American should be aware of, but I suspect too few are. The author has done everyone a service by pulling together evidence that is both comprehensive and detailed. It acts as a sad indictment on American society, showing that many wealthy Americans maintain and enhance their wealth by corruption. That the book shows the US authorities actively support it is all the more cause for concern. I recommend evey American to read this book thoroughly and demand appropriate action from those in power.
Excellent.......2006-07-12
Another book which confirms my own. This book in general shows that the super-rich are (in general of course) evil, but it also shows that the U.S. Government is also very evil.
He points out something interesting which is that it was found by a scholar, that the laws of the former Soveit Union were better than those of the U.S.'s, and mainly because of our tax laws, which he found to be worse than those of all the socialist countries of Europe.
The prize is capital gains........2006-05-23
Blattmair devised a scheme where he would use a charitable trust for MS Bill Gates as a way to avoid paying $56 million in capital gains taxes for $200 million in stock profits. Charitable Trust provided a shelter from taxes for stocks or buildings that appreciated in asset. The asset is transferred to the charitable trust and the charitable trust sells the asset tax-free and invests the proceedings. The trust gives the donating individual a lifetime income typically 6% a year. However, Blattmair plan was to take back 80% per year for two years and Gates would pocket $192 million without paying taxes and the charity would fold, but not before 92% of the funds had been converted into cash. The government would collect nothing. Instead, Bill Gates could claim a tax deduction of $2 million. It became questionable whether the IRS reviewed or challenged the tax shelter devise or even if the device was used. The only fact known is that at one time it existed and provided a shelter against the capital gains tax. The capital gain is the source of ½ of all the income of the super rich. Capital gains tax fell from 28% rate in 1987 to 15% in 2003.
The rich are getting richer. Money is moving from the middle class too the super rich. Both the middle class and the poor are increasingly burdened with tax while the super rich repeat all the social benefits of the tax. The Reagan "Trickle down Wealth effect" is mythical: 1. Working class wages increases have not increased in three decades 2. Food and consumer products have become cheaper offsetting the cost of living for the middle class. Cost reductions made possible because of government subsidies and manufacturing efficiency 3. Government debt in the form of government bonds has absorbed cheap money supply making market growth slow and become more competitive for available money. Business profit margins have slimmed jeopardizing survival long term. Interest rate thresholds have lifted increasing bankruptcies and reaching levels of about 1 million claims a year. 4. Stocks returns averaging a 7 percent real return less inflation have barely broke even. The Stock market is transferring wealth from the middle class to the super rich. The super rich are realizing profits of about 25 to 40 percent a year on their money. 5. Property taxes, fuel taxes, and income taxes have placed a heavier burden on the working class reducing the percent diverted to savings and retirement. The US has the highest percentage separation between rich and poor (1 dollar saved in the lower percentile equates to 7,500 dollars saved in the top 5 percentile). The middle class is in trouble as interest rates rise, the dollar weakens, the stock market routes, the housing market deflates, and the commodity market switches back into bear territory.
The weakness discovered in Title 26 of the US code are the law is based on politics and not principles; the tax system in America is being rigged to benefit the super rich; the tax system is a vehicle designed to finance social change; the rules that government sets for their tax system and the degree they enforce them, affects and determines who will prosper. "Congress lets business owners, investors, and land lords play by one set of rules, which are filled with opportunities to hide income, fabricate deductions and reduce taxes," and on the other hand, "Congress requires wage earners to operate under another, much harsher set of rules in which every dollar of income from a job, a saving account or stock dividend is reported to the government, and taxes are withheld from each pay check to make sure wage earners pay in full."
The richests 1 percent, whose adjusted gross income of more than $313,000 in 2000, earned almost 21 percent of all reported income and pay more than 37% of individual federal income taxes. For three decades profits have been growing 1/3 faster than corporate income taxes; in 1993, 26 cents went to taxes for every dollar and in 1998, 22 cents per dollar earned while corporate income tax remained 35%. Many of the rich owned businesses, creating opportunities to charge a portion of their lifestyle to the company and managed to keep profits near zero while the owners built up wealth in the company; wealth that would not be taxed until they died.
The share of income going to taxes for the top 400 in 2000 was about the same ratio as that paid by a single person making $123,000 or a married couple making $226,000. The average amount been paid was about $38.6 million dollars each.
The super rich are finding the tax shelter opportunities in the law and is perfectly legal. Law-makers are haphazardly allowing these opportunities to be put into the law because from lack or scrutiny or from pressure both politically and economically to allow these opportunities into the law. Lawyers and tax consultants study the law and discover these opportunities and advise the super rich on the tax shelter mechanisms. The super rich are able to increase their accumulation velocity. The accumulation of money is invested into bonds, commercial paper, bank notes, and stocks that pay the super rich a dividend. The capital gains are sheltered and increase the velocity of accumulation favoring the super rich. The middle class and the poor divert more of their money away from savings and retirement into taxes used for social change. Big government threatens to slow-down the availability of money causing rising interest rates for companies and business seeking to borrow money for capital projects. A business growth slows down employee wages are fired, unemployment increases, and retirement funds are jeopardized in survival tactics to save the company. The super rich do not have an economic incentive to risk their money on growth companies that generate almost all of the new jobs, innovations, and consumption trends. Instead, the super rich invest in large cap companies that are cash rich and promise a fat dividend payment and capable of withstanding short term distress in the business cycle. Financial devises like hedge funds become popular as the super rich dump billions of dollars into these funds. Insurance devises are also a popular tool for shelter vast amounts of money from taxes. The super rich are accumulating rather than creating jobs and that is the wealth illusion. Taxes do not create wealth. Capital creates wealth by creating jobs.
interesting, very needed yet a little over the top.......2006-05-10
This book was incredibly interesting and probably the most useful piece of investigative journalism I have seen on this topic. The tax code is rediculously complex and this book shows how that complexity is exploited by the rich and their friends.
The only problem I had with the book is the built in asumption that the rich should be taxed more that the poor. The point of his analysis is that the code is too complex, exploited, etc. The logical conclusion is to SIMPLIFY or CLOSE LOOPHOLES. However, the author repeatedly claims that as the taxes fall on the rich they must go up on the poor and middle class which is not always true and certainly need not be true. Taxes can go down on everyone. Or we could just as easily easily lower taxes on the middle and poorer citizens as raise them on the rich. There are more than one option.
The author seems to set up a case for a major reform of the tax code but his bias for an old fashioned 1930's style progressive tax policy is clear. Advocating for a retro tax code is fine and I might even agree to an extent but it seems to be a failing of many financial journalists to not understand the economics ramifications of their proposals. The economy is to different to go backward and we need a tax code for a global, serviced based economy. Robert Reich has good ideas as do many conservative advocates for a consumption tax. Which is best is still open for debate.
In conclusion the book is a vaild analysis of the problems with our current tax code but combines this analysis with advocating an old fashioned progressive system that I am afraid would be economically hurtful.
Blinded by numbers.......2006-04-27
Simply put, this book uses statistics and uncited claims to wow the reader whenever possible. This book had tremendous potential to show how broken the US tax system is and how much in need of reform it is. Instead of doing this it appears that the author took more or less substantial research and well developed hypotheses and ran it through the NY Times Krugmanizer, making everything seem like a grand right-wing conspiracy that with a wink and a nod politicians and multi-billionaires are bilking "American families" (the political buzzword du jour) from their hard earned cash.
Furthermore, as the Supreme Court has ruled explicitly, it is not an American's citizens duty to pay anything but the minimum amount of taxes required by law by using whatever lawful deductions or tax shelters he/she chooses.
So the thesis of the book is that the super-rich have taken advantage of and, the horror of it all, used their money to influence lawmakers to make tax laws even more favorable for them. I'm aghast!! The thought that lawmakers could sacrifice the principals of fairness and their constitutional duty for monetary gain?!? Thank goodness we have such paragons of virtue (Randy Cunningham, Tom Delay and his good friends Jack Abramoff and Mike Scanlon, and my new personal favorite W. VA congressman Allan B. Mollohan) protecting we plebians.
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Save tons of money with the secrets to avoiding income taxes
Could it be possible to run your business without paying federal and state income tax for at least 36 months? What if you're not in business-how about reducing or completely wiping out your income tax? It may sound too good to be true, but the answer is YES. In this easy-to-use, plain-English book, Robert A. Cooke shows how you can legally use the tax rules to your advantage. Doing Business Tax-Free, Second Edition is packed with tax-saving concepts and ideas and clear explanations on how to apply them to your own situation.
Numerous examples help you understand crucial tax-planning maneuvers and form a game plan, which, with a little professional fine-tuning, will alleviate your income tax burden. Plus, you'll save even more money by learning how to keep professional fees to a minimum and shorten your time in the tax preparer's office.
New to the Second Edition:
- Recomputes examples involving computation of individual income taxes with year 2000 tax rates
- Features updated sections on S corporations, limited liability companies, and loss carryovers
- Covers the new, simpler "check-the-box" rules for satisfying IRS requirements for taxation of a limited liability company
- Guarantees postings of future significant changes to the tax rules regarding S corporations on the author's Web site, www.robertcooke.com-which you can check for updates as you read the book
- Includes revised rules for home offices
Customer Reviews:
Great book for a beginner.......2003-03-16
I own a company and needed to learn about the basics of tax reduction. I found this book to be useful in just the basics. Because it concentrated on many topics, I believe it wasn't able to focus on many items that would have been useful to me. However, it was well written and easy to read, and I give it five stars because it gave me many broad questions to ask my tax consultant.
Less than what I expected.......2001-11-12
I thought that this book would have tons of lists of tips and give lots of legal, but perhaps edgey advice, but it fell short. I didn't find it easy to read through, I didn't find lots of lists and tips, I like books like this to make it easier.
I am sure the advice is sound, but what I found here didn't seem to live up to what the cover implied.
Where are the S-Corps?.......2001-01-21
I found this book a bit loose, and am looking for a more thorough description of financial management practices unique to an S-Corp. I have been looking for a definitive description of S-Corp accounting practices and concrete tax saving advice. My S-Corp. started last April, from a 3-month old sole proprietorship with all the requisite Federal and State designations. If anyone knows of a book particular to S-Corps, it would be much appreciated. In conclusion, I have found this book helpful, yet not as specific or thorough as I had hoped.
An understandable book on reducing business taxes.......2000-06-29
Full of good ideas conveyed with a clear writing style, this book gives readers lots of good, concrete examples of how different businesses can reduce their tax burden. I was looking to create a new company and wanted to figure out which type of company was right for me (partnership, LLC, Chapter S, or C Corp). By following the examples in the book, I was able to zero in on the right organization for my consulting business. I have no doubt that when it is all said and done, I will have saved thousands of dollars by reading this excellent book.
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Can you use the internet?.......2001-02-10
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