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LC copy of volume 2 has "This is copy number 132 of 750."

"By focusing on one of the principal German formations involved in the Somme fighting, the author brings to life this little-known period, from the initial German advance on the Somme in September 1914 through the formation of the front that became so well known two years later. Covers the early fighting around villages such as Serre, Beaumont-Hamel, Thiepval, Ovillers, La Boisselle and Fricourt.

Turbulent Waters: Cross-Border Finance and International Governance advocates faster progress in reforming the international financial system. Its most important theme is the need for national governments and international organizations to upgrade their collective efforts at crisis prevention and prosperity management. The core of such efforts is the supranational surveillance of cross-border "traffic regulations" and the cooperative monitoring of nations' macroeconomic, exchange rate, and balance-of-payments policies. Concurrently, governments should streamline and strengthen the intermediation of intergovernmental lending for the liability financing of payments deficits through the International Monetary Fund. This essay gives detailed analysis supporting these conclusions and provides more technical discussion of the incremental policy measures needed to strengthen these collective efforts.

The nature of consciousness and the relationship between the mind and brain have become the most hotly debated topics in philosophy. This book explains and argues for a new approach called enactivism. Enactivism maintains that consciousness and all subjective thoughts and feelings arise from an organism's attempts to use its environment in the service of purposeful action. The authors admit that their perspective presents many problems: How does one distinguish real action from reaction? Is it scientifically acceptable to say that the whole organism can use its parts, instead of being a mere summation of their separate mechanical reactions? What about the danger that this analysis will imply that physical systems fail to be "causally closed"? How the Mind Uses the Brain tries to answer these questions and represents a sharp break with tradition, arguing that consciousness and emotions are aspects of an organism's ongoing self-organizational activity, driving information-processing rather than merely responding to it.

The purpose of this statement on Farm Bookkeeping and the Federal Income Tax is to help farmers understand some of the problems involved in making adequate summaries of the farm business for federal income-tax returns. This is not a set of directions for setting up a system of farm accounts, nor is it a complete set of instructions for filling out an income-tax blank.