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The scheme was phased in over twenty years so that those retiring before 1998 received a SERPS pension proportional to the number of years that they had made contributions to it. There was an "upper earning limit" of about seven times the lower earning limit, beyond which earnings were disregarded for NI contributions and calculation of SERPS ...
The book asserts that the United States prospered because it was established upon universal natural law principles that had been passed down from common law and traditional Judeo-Christian morality, as many of the Founding Fathers had been guided by the Bible, among others. Thus, the book asserts that the U.S. Constitution incorporates ...
SERPS may refer to: State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme , a UK Government pension arrangement from April 6, 1978 to April 5, 2002 SERPs, short for search engine results pages
The Years (French: Les Années) is a 2008 non-fiction book by Annie Ernaux.It has been described as a "hybrid" memoir, spanning the period of 1941 to 2006. [1] [2] [3] Ernaux's English publisher, Seven Stories Press, described it as an autobiography that is "at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective."
Two Centuries of Silence has been translated into English by Paul Sprachman (Oct. 5, 2017). [2] In his extensive introductory essay, Sprachman offers an analysis as how Zarrinkub was compelled to change his historical view of Iranian history after the 1979 Revolution [3] The book was earlier translated by Avid Kamgar (Aug. 19, 2016) and published by Oughten House Publications.
Upon release 12 Books That Changed the World received criticism from reviewers who noted that several items in the list were not considered books. [4] Others also criticized the list as focusing on works put out by white British men, as well as the length of the list. [5] [6] Miles Kingston noted that the list was absent of any foreign texts. [7]
Graph of world population over the past 12,000 years . As a general rule, the confidence of estimates on historical world population decreases for the more distant past. Robust population data exist only for the last two or three centuries. Until the late 18th century, few governments had ever performed an accurate census.
It holds that because human nature does not change, the same sort of events can recur at any time." [ 15 ] "Other minor cases of recurrence thinking", he writes, "include the isolation of any two specific events which bear a very striking similarity , and the preoccupation with parallelism , that is, with resemblances, both general and precise ...