Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice, 2003-04

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An important professional book on the Hong Kong tax system. Explaining in detail the taxes under the Inland Revenue Ordinance-property tax, salaries tax and profits tax. In order to supply a more comprehensive source of information for readers chapters on stamp duty and estate duty are included.

Written in a user-friendly style, the book is amply illustrated with practical examples cross-referenced to relevant tax cases and relevant sections. The text is abundantly supplemented with detailed indices of tax cases and statutes.

This 2003-04 edition addresses the most recent changes through July 2003. All of the year's court decisions and the most important Board of Review decisions are discussed.

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When Sosuke's old military rival worms his way into the halls of Jindai High and into the hearts of the female students, it's all-out war on the toughest battlefield of them all... the classroom! Sosuke will set his studies aside to dish out a few lessons in the art of combat, but another invasion interrupts his assignment. He'll have to ward off the evil that threatens Kaname with the most lethal weapon he can find - cold medicine!

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WHITE HATS OF THE NAVY is a collection of true stories, poems, cartoons, and photographs about the United States Navy writtenby the former White Hats themselves

Humor, battle-action, liberty, love, wit, and wisdom, coupled with some Navy tradition are the subject of these stories. Stories and cartoons from the old OUR NAVY magazine are highlighted as is a story on THE SHELLBACK INITIATION, one of the oldest traditions in the Navy, complete with photographs.

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Beaver sets down stories he heard many years ago as a "white hat" in the navy, writing with insight and understanding of the life of ordinary sailors in the years between the great wars.

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Dealing with Look-See Pidgin.......2005-06-24

This is a great book with lots of information about the old Navy, where there was quite a bit of Look-See Pidgin going on. Look-See (just for show) Pidgin (mangled Chinese word for Business) was one of the things the Sailors in the old navy had to deal with. Ceremonies, decoration, and other things went away when World War II started. Fighting the enemy is what the Navy should do. When there is no enemy, it's Look-See Pidgin.

This book gives great insight to what the Navy was like in the pre-war years. Almost all of the stories involve the Signal Bridge, China Station, and Right Arm Rates.

I couldn't wait to pick this book back up and read more.

Tales from a True Sea Daddy.......2001-04-10

In the Navy, your "Sea Daddy" was an older, more experienced sailor who took you under his wing and looked out for you. Your Sea Daddy would pat you on the back or kick you in the butt as was necessary. The Sea Daddy often helped you chart your way through the rocks and shoals of Navy life with apocryphal tales of former shipmates faced with similar situations. Floyd Beaver is a Sea Daddy.

The Navy was and is a strict caste system. At the top of the heap were the Commissioned Officers. They were the knights of the castle. In the middle of the heap were the Chief Petty Officers. They were the castle yeomen: stout retainers who had risen through the ranks by strict adherence to the holy book of Navy Regulations. At the bottom of the heap were the White Hats; so called because of the distinctive white "Dixie Cup" hats. These White Hats are the heroes in this book. These White Hats were well aware of their station in life. However, rather than relegating them to subservience; they were in fact freed to use their intelligence on having a good time in general and getting over on the Navy whenever possible.

Floyd Beaver tells the struggles and trials that sailors have faced throughout history. He writes of aloof officers, lousy duty details, constant inspections, and the free spending, drunken liberties in the seedy Navy ports of call. His stories are at once funny and painfully poignant. He writes of the enlisted sailor: the Goat Head, the Swabbie, the Deck Ape, and the Skivvie Waver. If you are looking for battle strategies and the élan of war at sea, this is NOT your book. However, if you want to know what it feels like to be in Navy whites on the signal bridge of a cruiser, or drinking in a sailor bar, or one step ahead of the Shore Patrol ducking out the window of a fleet cathouse, then White Hats is the book you have been looking for.

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Between the wars: A memoir of a U.S. Navy white hat for the 1948-1950 period
Allan G LeBaron
Manufacturer: The Author
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ASIN: B0006QMCY0

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This classic of ethnography describes Maori tattooing (moko), which communicates the bearer's genealogy, tribal affiliation, and spirituality. This definitive study relates how moko first became known to Europeans and discusses the distinctions between men and women's moko, patterns and designs, and moko in legend and song. Features 180 black-and-white illustrations.

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Wonderful book!.......2007-02-14

I've read a lot about Maori tattooing, and this book is very informative and interesting. I strongly reccommend it for educational or personal research.

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Maori

Ta Moko: The Art of Maori Tattoo
D. R. Simmons
Manufacturer: Reed Publishing (NZ)
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Maori.......2000-04-05

The book by Michael King, Revised Edition of a photography and social history, which submission all the facts of life among Maori before the Euporean time of settlements in NZ, what are the Maori like in past and today are totally different

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Moko or Maori Tattooing
Horatio Robley
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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A little disappointed

The Art of the New Zealand Tattoo
Anne Nicholas
Manufacturer: Carol Publishing Corporation
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Maori Tattooing (Dover Pictorial Archives)

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A little disappointed.......1997-11-24

It's very nice pictures and everything but I thought it would contain Maori tattoos. There were only 5-6 of those.

Maori moko or tattoo (Discover New Zealand)

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Maori moko or tattoo (Discover New Zealand)

Manufacturer: Bush Press
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Making faces: European representations of the tattoo, cicatrix, moko & mokomai from New Zealand

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Making faces: European representations of the tattoo, cicatrix, moko & mokomai from New Zealand
Greg Whitecliffe
Manufacturer: School of Visual Arts and Communication, University of North Dakota]
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Mah Jong One Step At a Time
Alain Gelbman
Manufacturer: Red Dragon Mah Jong Society
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: B000PHK4XQ

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Mah Jong: One Step at a Time
Alain Gelbman
Manufacturer: Ishi Pr
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Required Supplement to LabVIEW Documentation.......2007-10-01

This book fills in the yawning gaps of LabVIEW 8.xx's documentation and ambiguous and dense "HELP" sections. For example, as a retread LabVIEW user from over a decade ago, I looked for a simple step-by-step procedure to turn on, write, a single digital line. Just to turn on and off a single LED. The LabVIEW HELP returned many dozens of topics and forced me to read many extraneous topics to come to the conclusion that I was not going to find any help. Then, I tried to use the "easy" virtual instruments already made for the occassion, but the only one found after navigating through a thicket of unrelated virtual instruments was one which wrote a digital port of eight channels and no explanation of how to set it up to write one digital line. LabVIEW for Everyone... solved my problem and a whole lot more. This book is needed by anyone who is not an experienced LabVIEW programmer and who does not have the time or resources to attend training classes and wants to get started as soon as possible. Travis and Kring have created a readable and effective reference source for LabVIEW programmers. It is possibly the only book which addresses recent LabVIEW 8.xx software and truly does make it easy and fun.

A good introduction to LabView.......2007-08-26

While there is a a lot of good information of the NI website, I thought buying a book would be helpful as I needed to learn LabView quickly. I thought this book was very helpful and would definately be a good book for someone new to LabView. My only wish is that it would have more converage on the DAQ part. To me this is not only the key part of LabView, it is the only part that got me confused (and still does) at some points. Some additional coverage would have helped.

The Single Best Overall Book On LabVIEW.......2007-07-03

If you are a beginner to intermediate with LabVIEW, then the 3rd Edition is the single best book on LabVIEW available to you as of summer of 2007. If your budget only allows for one or a few books, put this one at the top of you list. I have read this book cover to cover, twice, and some sections in further detail as well as worked through all of the example code in detail.

I won't repeat the fine comments of others in their reviews. I speak from the perspective of 15+ years of working with LabVIEW, as a beginner in the early 1990s, a Certified LabVIEW instructor in the mid 90s, a small control and test system business founder and owner since the late 90s and an enthusiastic member of the LabVIEW community all during that time. I have bought most of the LabVIEW books that have ever been published as well as the (late) LTR newsletter and this 3rd Edition is the best book I have come across. If I were hiring someone new to do LabVIEW work, I'd give them a copy of this book first. The investment is a no brainer.

A great book for beginners.......2007-04-30

LabVIEW stands for: Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench. Unlike traditional programming languages (Basic, C, C++, Java, etc.), where you have to write text instructions line by line, LabVIEW is a graphical programming language. Here you create a program using a graphical notation; in other words, you interconnect functional blocks (or icons) via wires, through which data flow. LabVIEW is specifically designed for data acquisition (DAQ), data analysis, and presentation of results.

If you have never worked with LabVIEW, you are like me. First you have to acquire the basic concepts. After that you will be able to read and fully understand more advanced LabVIEW books (at amazon.com you will find a lot of them).

LabVIEW for everyone give you those basic concepts. It has 981 pages divided into 17 chapters, 6 appendixes and 1 glossary. The fundamentals of LabVIEW are shown in the first 10 chapters. Advanced topics can be found in the last 7 chapters. There are plenty of illustrations (almost every page has at least one).

In this book authors explain, step-by-step, every pop-up menu, every pull-down menu, every functional block and its applications, etc. To follow those explanations, you just need to have the basic knowledge of your PC's operating system. There is an accompanying CD-ROM that includes a 30-day evaluation version of LabVIEW 8.0 for Windows, which allows you to practice all activities (exercises) found inside the book.

Well organized, best choice I know of.......2007-04-02

Labview is a problematic language. At first it seems so easy, and then something comes up and you can spend a lot of time tracking it down.

This book is well organized and has a lot of good content. Other books I've bought were terrible by comparison. This is written by those who know what they are doing.

However, you still have to get under the hood and practice and learn how to work with the program. The book will help.

LabVIEW for Everyone: Graphical Programming Made Even Easier

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Beginners Start
A great book for a novice trying to become more proficient.
Provides enough information to get started
Good starting resource - lots of examples

LabVIEW for Everyone: Graphical Programming Made Even Easier
Lisa K. Wells , and Jeffrey Travis
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Beginners Start.......2000-08-09

Being new to LabVIEW this book was a great help in learning. It starts with the basics and step through each phase. Excellent for any LabVIEW user.

A great book for a novice trying to become more proficient........1999-05-17

I had read all of the manuals that came with LabVIEW, but still needed something more to get me over the initial learning curve; something to answer the "Why should I do it that way?" questions .vs. the "Here's how to do it." The latter part of "LabVIEW for Everyone" did just that, in addition to providing more detail in how to perform basic operations.

Provides enough information to get started.......1998-06-05

Gives excellent overview and lets you see the potential of the software.

Good starting resource - lots of examples.......1997-08-10

I've been programming data acquisition systems for a long time and was daunted by the scope of learning yet another programming language. LabView product literature seemed difficult to understand. But, with the help of LabView for Everyone, I got into the project quickly and get results immediately. The book is easy to read, sometimes cutsey, but filled with good examples that work! They point out pitfalls, problem areas, and provide examples of how-to for many situations (for example, why the wires are different colors and sizes; common errors that result from broken wires, and so forth). Their examples were invaluable for getting my project done in a reasonable amount of time. I'd strongly recommend this book for people faced with getting going with LabView. I developed my project typing with one hand and leafing through this book with the other. I guess it saved me 4 weeks of work. That alone makes it worth the price, several-fold.

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LabVIEW for Everyone
Travis Jeffrey
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K3LT3E

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