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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chronology: Lists of Relevant Smithsonia Institution/US National Museum Personnel -- Introduction: A Bowl's Journey, There and Back Again -- Part I - The Museum through the Lens of Specimen Exchange -- Chapter 1 - The Smithsonian and the Museum: Specimen Exchange as a Bridge between Joseph Henry's Research Institution and Spencer Baird's Grand Cabinet -- Chapter 2 - Spencer Baird's US National Museum and Early Trends in Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates (1861-1880) -- Chapter 3 - Networking the US National Museum: Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates (1882-1920) -- Chapter 4 - Giving and Receiving: Specimen Exchange between Curators, and the Shaping of Anthropological Collections -- Part II - The Duplicate -- Chapter 5 - Duplicates: Specimens in Motion -- Chapter 6 - Catalogs, Classification, and Contingency: Designating Duplicates -- Conclusion: Museum Pasts and Futures -- Appendix: Smithsonian Institution/USNM Table of Distributed Specimens (1854-1880) -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: Understanding Taxes -- The Progressive Tax -- The Proportional Tax -- The Regressive Tax -- Which System Is Best? -- The Argument for Lower Taxes -- The Argument for Higher Taxes -- CHAPTER TWO: What is Government Spending? -- Understanding Debt -- Impact on Future Generations -- Advantages -- The Bank Bailouts -- CHAPTER THREE: Budgeting -- Personal Budget Versus the Federal Budget -- CHAPTER FOUR: Fiscal Policy -- Problems with Fiscal Policy -- What Can We Do? -- Fiscal Discipline -- A Challenge -- Using Technology to Keep an Eye on Spending -- CHAPTER FIVE: How You Can Help -- Encourage Voting -- Raise Your Voice -- What You Can Do -- Using Social Media for Change -- GLOSSARY -- FOR MORE INFORMATION -- Web Sites -- FOR FURTHER READING -- INDEX -- About the Authors -- Photo Credits