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Western medicine has accomplished a great deal in addressing physical pain and controlling symptoms for people with a terminal illness, but much slower progress has been made in understanding and alleviating psychological and spiritual distress. In What Dying People Want, Dr. David Kuhl begins to bridge that gap. He does so by addressing end-of-life realities -- physical, psychological and spiritual -- through his own experiences as a doctor and through the words and experiences of people who know that they are dying. He presents ways of addressing the pain, of finding new life in the process of dying and of understanding the inner reality of living with a terminal illness. He acknowledges the despair and recognizes the desire for hope and meaning. 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The Main Driver Of Inequality, The Tendency Of Returns On Capital To Exceed The Rate Of Economic Growth, Today Threatens To Generate Extreme Inequalities That Stir Discontent And Undermine Democratic Values If Political Action Is Not Taken. But Economic Trends Are Not Acts Of God. Political Action Has Curbed Dangerous Inequalities In The Past, The Author Says, And May Do So Again. This Original Work Reorients Our Understanding Of Economic History And Confronts Us With Sobering Lessons For Today. Income And Capital. Income And Output ; Growth: Illusions And Realities. -- The Dynamics Of The Capital\/income Ratio. The Metamorphoses Of Capital ; From Old Europe To The New World ; The Capital\/income Ratio Over The Long Run ; The Capital-labor Split In The Twenty-first Century. -- The Structure Of Inequality. Inequality And Concentration: Preliminary Bearings ; Two Worlds ; Inequality Of Labor Income ; Inequality Of Capital Ownership ; Merit And Inheritance In The Long Run ; Global Inequality Of Wealth In The Twenty-first Century. -- Regulating Capital In The Twenty-first Century. A Social State For The Twenty-first Century ; Rethinking The Progressive Income Tax ; A Global Tax On Capital ; The Question Of The Public Debt. Thomas Piketty ; Translated By Arthur Goldhammer. Translation Of The Author's Le Capital Au Xxie Siècle. 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