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Cahiers de Droit Fiscal International Volume LXXXVIa - 2001 - Taxation of Income Derived from Electronic Commerce (IFA Cahiers, Volume LXXXVIa)
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While there have been significant discussions in various international forums regarding revenue characterization and the creation of a permanent establishment in the e-commerce environment, the questions of the impact of domestic source rules and transfer pricing principles on e-commerce transactions have not been as thoroughly explored. The application of source rules can have substantial consequences on whether a transaction is subject to local tax, but in many circumstances the novel business models produced by e-commerce transactions may make a determination of source of income problematic. Similarly, application of existing transfer pricing rules may be made more difficult as different business models emerge in the new economy. The difficulties in applying both sets of rules have inspired policy debates concerning how best to apply existing principles to e-commerce transactions. Subject I of the 2001 Congress explores these topics.
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FUNNY AS HELL.......2000-04-22
THIS BOOK IS SUMMED UP BY I ALMOST CAUGHED UP BLOOD!
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- Everyone needs this book
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The Email Jokes You Wish You Would Have Saved
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The Friars Club Encyclopaedia of Jokes: 2,000 One-Liners, Straight Lines, Stories, Gags, Roasts, Ribs and Put-Downs
ASIN: 1419608908
Release Date: 2005-12-30 |
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A collection of E-Mail Jokes that have been sent to me over the years.
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Everyone needs this book.......2007-09-24
When was the last time you read a book good enough to get you laughing until the people sitting around you are looking at you like you've lost your mind? Well, if you haven't had that 'laugh till you can't breathe' feeling in a while, you should definitely get Lou's book. There's something for everyone in here. It will lift your spirits and tap your funny bone, so don't delay, get your copy today.
Great and Funny compilation!!!.......2007-01-21
Lou, Awesome job saving and publishing some of the best jokes I've EVER heard! "What Love Means to a Child" brought tears to my eyes and "Let me get my Hat" brought tears of laughter. And it just keeps going from there. Highly recommended.!!
Healthy, Humerous reading.......2006-05-26
I am married, a father of 4, educator and I run my own business, which can create alot of stress in a day. Reading Lou's book during the small breaks throughout the day provides the laughs that are needed to relieve stress. Great Job Lou!!!!
I'm ready for volume II.
Laugther is good for ones health and this book will make you laugh.
Best book i've read in a long time.......2006-05-25
I think that this is a very funny and entertaining book. It is a perfect present for anyone in the family. I really enjoyed reading it, as did my spouse. The comedy inscribed in it was very origional and uplifting.
Lou is the one!.......2006-04-26
Lou personally signed my book and he has hit a home run. Most of the jokes are LOL [laugh out loud] funny.
He has done a service for e-mail fans. By painstakingly compiling hundreds of the best jokes out there, he has provided a service for thousands of users.
Thank you, Lou.
Jim Hodges
Col, USMC (Ret.)
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La Industria de La Telenovela / Couple Psychoanalysis (Paidos Estudios de Comunicacion)
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The authors of Growing Up with Dick and Jane do themselves one better in this beautifully packaged and exhaustively researched volume. While Dick and Jane is loads of fun, it is a bit light on text; this book tells you everything you wanted to know about your favorite white-bread detectives. The story of their creation in the mind of Edward Stratemeyer, the way they were fleshed out by his stable of writers, and their transformation in the light of a changing America are all told, with tons of asides on their influences, effects, and environment. Kismaric and Heiferman use the teen detectives as a lens through which to view the invention of adolescence in the 20th century, but they never become dry or pedantic. The lushly illustrated, large-format book is as beautiful to hold and look at as it is engaging to read. --James DiGiovanna
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You're hot on the trail of the world's most beloved teen
detectives when you crack open The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, so grab your magnifying glass and curl up on the couch for some action-packed sleuthing. Discover how and why the
plucky blonde Nancy Drew and the
fearless, energetic Frank and Joe Hardy have entertained and influenced American teenagers for seventy years and solved hundreds of page-turning mysteries along the way.
When the sunny, tree-lined streets of River Heights and Bayport are threatened by an endless lineup of colorful
thugs, smugglers, thieves, and
villainous rogues, these crime-busting teens make sure that justice prevails and good always wins out over evil. Nancy, Frank, and Joe were breakthrough characters, the first teenage detectives to
star in their own book series and personalities who were
tough enough to face dozens of literary competitors.
Kids stumbling through the obstacle course of adolescence couldn't get enough of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. The young
sleuths survived countless
revolutions in teenage taste, jumped from books to movies to television, and found themselves employed by merchandisers to sell a range of products, from jigsaw puzzles to Halloween costumes. This book tracks the growth of
teen power, too -- from
screaming bobby-soxers to antiwar protesters -- and shows how the rise of a youth culture redefined values and transformed American life.
For anyone who grew up reading the classic mysteries, which have been published since 1972, The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys offers an absorbing way to connect once again with the hyperactive teen sleuths who taught young readers that being a teenager could be a
thrill-a-minute adventure. The whole gang's back:
handsome dads Carson Drew and Fenton Hardy; college-boy heartthrob Ned Nickerson; Nancy's best friends, Bess Marvin and George Fayne; and chubby Chet Morton and the Hardy Boys' gang.
Independent and driven Nancy Drew continues to be a role model for new generations of girls, showing them the thrill of taking
risks and taking charge. The heart-pounding excitement of Frank and Joe's heroics still
enthralls boys, tapping into their fantasies of omnipotence and reinforcing the ideals of masculinity that have defined American manhood.
Two hundred million copies later, Nancy, Frank, and Joe's stories remain bestsellers, passed from one
friend to another, from father to son, mother to daughter, and from one generation to the next.
Customer Reviews:
the evolution of two popular children's series.......2004-07-14
"The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys" takes the reader back to the origin of the Hardy Boys Mystery Series and the Nancy Drew books. While the two series have Franklin W Dixon and Carolyn Keene listed as the authors, neither author actually exists are a person. They are both creations of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the "writing factory" started by Edward Stratemeyer as a means to churn out book after book in a series that he conceived of. He would contract an author to write a book with the requirement the author sign away all rights to the book and to remain anonymous. This led to the birth of Franklin W Dixon and Carolyn Keene (as well as the Tom Swift series, among others).
This book is the history and evolution of these two iconic series for children. The reader is shown how society has influenced the content of the novels, both in the language used as well as the plots. When the Hardy Boys first began in the late 1920's and into the 30's, there early volumes contained numerous racial stereotypes, both among the bad guys as well as the Hardys' friends. Later editions would edit these stereotypes out. This book follows the series through their various authors as well as the change in the focus of the Syndicate after the death of Edward Stratemeyer.
One thing that the authors of this book try to do is tie both series into the society of the time (whether it is the 1930's of the early series, the 1950's or the 1980's). This attempt is what I found less successful or interesting about the book. There are numerous sidebars and pictures and captions about the America's youth during each era and how the books impacted the youth and I felt that this information was extraneous and unnecessary.
What is most interesting about this book is the evolution of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. The characters changed over the 75 years and the books continue to sell. This coverage was the best part of the book and is what I would recommend for the reader. Nothing would be lost by just skipping the sidebars. I do feel that the authors have overstated the influence of these characters, but I cannot question the popularity of the Hardys or Nancy Drew.(...)
The Stratemeyer Syndicate sleuths get their day........2003-04-14
This book is fun to look at. Dozens of photos, large and small, pay tribute to the most popular series characters in English-language fiction. As a child I used to stand in front of rows of these books in bookstores, poring over the covers, for hours at a time. The covers have a talismanic quality this book neatly captures. Interior line drawings (including the "frontispiece" illustrations in each book) also appear throughout this large-format book. Unfortunately none of the Drew/Hardy pictures are labelled, so unless you know the originals you can't pair them to the book. The potted history of the Stratemeyer syndicate is clearly if breezily presented, with excerpts from letters indicating the tensions behind the scenes between publishers and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, who assumed control of the empire after her father died in 1930, just as the Drew series was about to start (three years after the Hardy series had taken off). The authors document almost nothing, though, so you can't easily use the book for research purposes. Still, these authors condescend to the series characters far less than most academic writers have -- it's nice to read complimentary things about the power of the books on kids who have literally read them to pieces over the decades. The main problem with this book is that it goes far afield to encompass a general social history of the last century. We get inset mini-essays on adolescence, "model dads" (from FDR to MLK), juvenile delinquents, "Seventeen" magazine, the influence of TV, etc. The inset coverage is superficial, reading like canned newsmagazine features. Anyone who picks up the book to read about Drew/Hardy is unlikely to care about this material. Fortunately, there is still plenty about Drew/Hardy, with generous quotes from both the original books and updated rewrites of the Grosset and Dunlap series. The authors treat each series as one long book, looking for trends in plots and characterizations -- Nancy is "locked in closets, attics, gymnasiums, cisterns, caves, and submarines," they note. They're also good on the media and pop culture variations of the characters, from Disney TV adaptations to board games. The paperback watering-down of the characters in the 1980s gets softer treatment than it deserves, since this book's publisher (Simon and Schuster) owns the Stratemeyer Syndicate now and published them. The book is worth seeing, as long as readers knowit lacks full focus on Drew/Hardy, and often doesn't reveal its sources.
Great photos, text could be better.......2001-11-26
GREAT info for the Nancy Drew lover. This would get 5 stars for the inclusion of photos from the books alone. The writing could have been more detailed and written a bit better. I DID like that the authors included information from the period during which the NDs were written -- the '30s through today -- and how teens were changing over the years. Nancy Drew changed and grew along with today's teens, although die-hard fans wish the syndicate hadn't changed a WORD.
I was a little disappointed with the reading of the book, but had just finished "The Nancy Drew Scrapbook" which is AWESOME, so that might be why I was expecting more from this book. I LOVED all the photos, tho, lots of nostalgia!
Great pictures, great research!.......2001-11-09
This descriptive book shows great book photos from the '30s and later and describes what life was like back then! It describes TV shows of the time, and how Nancy Drew sparked interest in female sleuths like Jessica Fletcher of Murder She Wrote! Teens of the time are described, and how Nancy Drew became an important positive role model for all young women. Hat off to the authors!
Fascinating social commentary a must-read for Hardy Boys fan.......2000-10-17
This beautifully packaged, colourful, but thin paperback unearths the long history of the Stratemeyer Syndicate's greatest heroes, the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Blown-up covers from both series liven up the book, triggering memories of adrenaline surging through the veins of teenagers everywhere.
The material on how the books changed over the years -- especially the evolution of racial stereotypes of "Negroes," Jews, and Italians -- is truly fascinating. I never realized that the books I read in the seventies had been homogenized by a factory of authors. I now want to read the original books, if I can find them (eBay here I come!).
I could do without most of the overlong and annoying sidebars. Again and again they fill us in on how teens have changed over the last century, but seldom are the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew even mentioned in them!
I give this book an "A" for the terrific images and accurate and enlightening history, but overall, marred by some poor editorial decisions, the book deserves a "B." Still, this is required reading for those interested in pop culture and the literature of our youth. Now I'm off to solve the Secret of the Caves . . .
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Although only one of the four chapters in The Art of Framing focuses on the actual craft of decorating frames, serious crafters and anyone interested in the use of framable objects in home decor should consider investing in this deluxe volume. More than 250 color photos document the history and art of framing, wonderful ways to create effective displays of framed items in the home, and how to decorate frames and mats with specialized treatments (faux finishes, gilding, craquelure, veneers) and decorative effects (stenciling, combing, painted motifs). The section on framing objects and ephemera offers unique ideas that crafters can adapt to show off their other creations.
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To truly fool the eye, trompe l'oeil painting must display convincing perspective, proper depth of field, and a credible play of light and shadow. Jocelyn Kerr Holding carefully explores these principles and many more, with detailed explanations of all the basic considerations behind the creation of a trompe l'oeil image and the various techniques available for achieving it, including perforating an existing drawing, painting freehand, projecting a photograph, and using photocopies in a decoupage manner. Despite the "quick and easy" promise of the book's title, however, many beginners will be intimidated by the process as presented here, since Holding offers no patterns (other than a small section of architectural motifs for photocopying) and presumes an existing comfort level with the handling of paint and perspective on the part of the reader to achieve, in her words, "a freehand reproduction of reality." But those seeking a decent primer on the art of trompe l'oeil will find much useful information here, along with some nicely rendered eye-fooling images of book- and object-filled shelves, landscape views, and animals. --Amy Handy
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“An unusually good survey of the techniques for decorative trompe l’oeil....Projects...go from painted stones, to decorative panels, to classical forms like arches and columns...accomplished by projecting photographs on a wall, free hand, with stencils, or photocopies.”—Library Journal. “Supplies information on perspective, color, techniques, and architectonic and scenic methods.” —Booklist.
Customer Reviews:
An outstanding how-to guide to decorative painting.......2001-04-29
Quick & Easy Trompe I'Oeil is an outstanding how-to guide to decorative painting on walls, furniture and even bricks and presents easy step-by-step techniques for using the trompe i'oeil technique. A range of examples of pictorial art from all styles, from still life to Surrealistic paintings, provide painters with many different ideas to choose from, while the techniques are easy to follow and duplicate. Color photos pack the presentation.
Fool the Reader.......2001-01-02
Jocelyn Kerr Holding's book is misleading and insulting with it's self-presentation as a"Quick & Easy" how-to book. In her chapter titled "Easy Trompe L'Oeil" She has the nerve to say "With those of you tackling this technique for the first time in mind, I decided to describe six easy projects simple to draw and amusing to do. The "step-by-step" explinations which follow have been written...so they can be carried out without too many dificulites". But her steps are vauge and useless, rarely haveing more than four steps. You can not learn how to paint wood grain or marble in four steps, although marble is presented here in three meaningless steps. So as a learning tool this book is useless. I would recommend instead Trompe L'Oeil Creating Decorative Illusions with Paint by Roberta Gordon-Smith or Painting Murals by Patricia Seligman, for new muralist. However, if you are a skilled artist versed in most forms of Trompe L'oeil, but are looking for classic examples of the technique, there are some lovely examples in this book. I'm keeping my copy as refrence material, which is how it should have been presented.
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Painting & Decorating Frames (Creative Finishes)
Phillip C. Myer
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Clear directions and great (big) pictures.......2000-03-24
Mr. Myer presents projects easy enough for all of us to try, yet introduces many new ideas to challenge our creativity, too. My only wish is that he would make the pictures just a little bit smaller so that he could cram even more great ideas in the book!
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Sams Teach Yourself HTML and XHTML in 24 Hours is a carefully organized well-written tutorial that teaches the beginning Web page author just what he needs to know in order to get a Web page up in the shortest time possible.
The book covers only those HTML and XHTML tags and technologies that are likely to be used on a beginner's Web page, and it is organized in a logical step-by-step order that reflects the natural progression in a new Web page author will follow in developing a Web site.
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The latest edition of the best entry-level HTML tutorial on the market. New edition covers the latest developments in Web publishing techniques, as well as the new generation of browsers from Microsoft and Netscape. Revised and refined to improve the book's examples, better integrate the book with the companion Web site, and to address reader suggestions for improvement. Lifetime sales of over 400,000 units and more than $4 million. Sams Teach Yourself HTML and XHTML in 24 Hours, Sixth Edition is a carefully organized, well-written tutorial that teaches the beginning Web page author just what he needs to know in order to get a Web page up in the shortest time possible. The book covers only those HTML and XHTML tags and technologies that are likely to be used on a beginner's Web page, and it is organized in a logical step-by-step order that reflects the natural progression a new Web page author will follow in developing a Web site. Dick Oliver has brought his unique and colorful writing style to several Web and graphics books from Sams Publishing, including Web Page Wizardry and Tricks of the Graphics Gurus. He is the president of Cedar Software and publishes the online Nonlinear Nonsense Newsletter. Michael Morrison is a writer, software developer, toy inventor, and author of a variety of books including the second edition of Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours. He is the instructor of several Web-based courses and serves as a technical director for ReviewNet, a company that provides Web-based staffing tools for information technology personnel.
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Great starting point.......2006-08-11
I didn't know any significant HTML prior to using this book. This book is a great starting point and will give anyone enough background to put up a pretty good page. I feel like I have gotten a good grasp of HTML from this book and now feel like I should branch out into Javascript to develop my pages further.
Oliver & Morrison offered good advice on what to do and what not to do when designing a webpage, and they also explained why they make those suggestions, which certainly assists in making later judgement calls on topics they don't directly address.
I would also recommend O'Reilly's HTML/XHTML book, which has come in handy in clarifying a few points. However, this book is sufficient for anyone looking to put up realatively simple pages and is easier as an introduction (and more motivating) than O'Reilly's book. That is, buy this book first and buy O'Reilly's book if you have a desire to learn more about HTML.
Great book........2005-08-12
I have been using a canned program to manage my company's web site, but I wasn't always able to do fine tune the pages the way I wished. So I decided to teach myself HTML. Working through this book, I was able to learn step by step how to design pages and manipulate the images and text. The book is very clear and concise and the exercises the author gives at the end of every chapter are extremely useful.
Up-To-Date Now - Thank you........2005-07-19
Having been out of web Development for a couple years, I needed confidence that my basic understanding was up to speed. This book HTML and XHTML in 24 hours, brought me up to date rather quickly. It provided the foundation that I needed both to build some basic web application prototypes, and to be able to begin reading more specialized books on Web Development. Specifically books on CSS.
Awesome book!.......2005-07-13
Best computer related book that I have ever read. I was somewhat familiar with HTML concepts, but never created my own web page. The lessons are organized well and are so easy to follow! They even go over applets, Active X, and JavaScript. Awesome, awesome book.
An excellent starting point.......2003-12-29
This text will not make you a wizened internet programming guru... but it doesn't pretend to do so. What it does promise, and deliver, is a solid grounding in the creation of basic web pages. The book starts with the absolute basics; nothing is assumed. Finding someone to host your web site is covered, as is the creation of files using the Windows Notepad text editor and the uploading of files onto a web hosting computer. And, of course, there's a tremendous amount of detail in creating web pages.
It's important to note that there are two approaches to creating web pages today: you can create them by hand, using XHTML code written with a simple text editor like notepad; or you can use a web page authoring package, such as DreamWeaver or FrontPage. Using a program like DreamWeaver (most agree its the #1 program of its type) will allow you to create web pages much more quickly than by hand coding them; and unless you have an innate skill as a design artist, they will likely look better than something you hand code.
On the other hand, you'll never have a clue about how the code actually works, if you don't learn XHTML; and so you'll never be able to modify it. You'll be stuck with whatever the web authoring package can do for you. And there's also the cost factor: web authoring packages cost several hundreds of dollars, but notepad is free; it's part of the Microsoft Windows operating system. (Macs have a similar built in text editor.)
Most internet pros can do both; they regularly use DreamWeaver as a production tool, but know XHTML so that they can quickly modify what the program generates when the need arises. On the other hand, amateurs building simple web pages probably would never be able to justify the cost of a full blown web authoring package, so learning XHTML makes perfect sense.
Either way, learning XHTML is an appropriate way to start your web page building education; and this book is the perfect way to do so. Having read several books on the subject - including some thousand+ page hardcover whoppers - I can confidently state that this book does a spectacular job of teaching you exactly what you need to know. It gets right to the point, and quickly and simply teaches the core material. All the fluff is gone; everything in this book is solid. There's thorough coverage of graphics, animated graphics, even some javascript. There's a lot of reference to readily available tools on the net, and some indication of how they might be used. I was particularly impressed with the clarity of the instruction; the book does a spectacular job of identifying and teaching exactly what needs to be taught, while deftly avoiding extraneous discussion. Most universities don't provide a quality of instruction as crisp and as easily followed as that contained within this book.
So what's missing? Not much. There's no coverage of Flash to speak of, or CGI scripting. I didn't see any mention of secure HTML, so you'll need more than this book in order to start processing credit cards, or conducting commerce. And a few of the web resource links that the author provides are dead links, and haven't worked for years; they should have been caught during the revision process.
But these are mere quibbles; make no mistake, this book gives you an awful lot. If your desire is a really good book that starts right at the very beginning, and gives you enough knowledge to build really good looking web pages from scratch... then this is your book. If you want to set up a simple web page for yourself - or an informational web page designed to promote your home business - this is a great text. And if you plan on persuing a career as a web page developer, but have no previous knowledge of web design or HTML... then this is a great book to start with.
The book is now in its 6th edition, and that says a lot; publishers won't revise a book with poor sales. For a computer book to be revised and released 6 times is a dramatic testament to its popularity, and inherent quality. I can only think of one other book on my bookshelf - Muellers' Upgrading and Repairing PCs - that has shown such a continuing popularity level.
When you invest in this book, you get a lot of value. When you've learned and applied everything in this book, you'll be able to create extremely good looking and well written informational web pages from scratch, without having to rely on a web authoring package; and you'll be completely prepared to learn the intricacies of Java, Flash, and CGI scripting, if you so choose. However, probably 90% or more of the people who read this book, will never need to move beyond it.
For most web pages, this book is all you'll ever need.
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- Comparative Tax Jurisprudence: Germany and Japan
- Corporate Income Taxation and Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe (Foreign Investment Advisory Service Occasional Paper, No 4)
- Cracks in the Foundation: Refuting the Conservative Case for Low Taxes and Small Government
- Debt and Taxes: Politics and Fiscal Policy in America
- Decentralization And Rural Property Taxation (Land Tenure Study)
- Dilemmas of Solidarity: Rethinking Distribution in the Canadian Federation
- Earmarking State Taxes
- Euthanasia for Death Duties: Putting Inheritance Tax Out of Its Misery (Research Monograph, 54)
- Federal Income Taxation of Trusts & Estates: Cases, Problems, and Materials (Carolina Academic Press Law Casebook Series)
- Federal Taxation of Computer Software (Software Taxation Library)
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