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Model Tax Convention: Four Related Studies (Issues in International Taxation, No. 4)
Manufacturer: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Devel
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Includes four recent reports from the OECD that have resulted in changes to the Commentary of the Model Tax Convention on Income and Capital. These studies deal with the computation of the 183 day rule of sub-paragraph 2b of Article 15 of the Model, the application of tax conventions to so-called "triangular cases," the tax treatment of software payments, and the tax treatment of employees' contribution to foreign pension schemes.
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This series is the only annual compilation of editorial cartoons, focusing on all the newsworthy events of the year as expressed through the pens of the major cartoonists from North America. A roster of winners of major cartoon awards is included. Each edition is indexed by the cartoonist.
The Democrats' campaign for the presidency, and the growing threat of Russian missiles.
Customer Reviews:
Smile was only two-thirds complete.......2004-10-29
I agree with Chris's review far below, which states that Priore was operating under a misconception. Brian Wilson has stated that the album was supposed to have three movements, and that only two movements (2/3 of the entire album!) had been completed at the time the album was scrapped. I think Priore was trying to convince himself that the Smile album wasn't actually "lost," and that whatever bootlegged versions he'd strung together at home were close to the real thing. Nice try.
Other than that, though, the book contains the most thorough collection of Smile-related essays available, so it gets three stars from this old-school Wilson fan.
Smile was nearly complete.......2004-10-29
The review below is incorrect in stating that Smile was only about 75% finished. The Smile tapes are readily available as bootlegs, and they clearly show an album that was pretty much finished. The song bits had not yet been sequenced, and the Beach Boys' vocals were not completed on every song. However, the album was very near completion, and almost everything that's out in the current Smile was already in the original. In fact, it took Brian only 2 weeks to complete Smile for performance and release in 2004 -- that's how close to finished Smile was.
Waiting for the shoe to drop.......2004-08-18
Priore's book is a fantastic feat of journalism, or archival detective work, take your pick . . . Yes, it's sloppy looking and somewhat outdated, but it has the genuine thrill of the chase that you find in a book like Symons' QUEST FOR CORVO or in Richard Holmes' biographical investigations into the lives of the British Romantics.
Soon, they say, Brian will have finished and released SMILE after all these years, and surely all of us wonder, can it possibly live up to the SMILE of our imaginations? We're waiting for the other shoe to drop, will it be a success? Or will I wind up a broken man too tough to cry?
A thrilling book for those who love rock history.......2004-05-22
Now SMiLE is finished, and it will be in stores this September. This makes Priore's scrapbook/history tome about the 1966-67 SMiLE era that much more interesting and valuable. I don't have much to add to previous reviewers (and my five-star rating should indicate how I feel about the book), but I'll just note this: Domenic Priore painstakingly assembled this book as a fan's labor of love, almost as an underground project--and years later, when Brian Wilson and his band premiered the completed SMiLE in London, Priore was selected to write articles for the tour program. So now he's an officially sanctioned historian of SMiLE, lending the book even more credence.
Domenic Priore's lookback at SMiLE.......2003-08-26
This book has so many interesting things about the period in the Beach Boys' life from early 1966 through 1967 and beyond. What interested me about Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile! is that there is proof that the Beach Boys were not as square as once believed. The music from the unreleased SMiLE album is absolutely like none other before or since. Brian Wilson's position on top of the music world after Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations was soon brought back to earth when many different things got in the way of the making of such an artistic album. Although most of the book contains news clippings from the time period documented, it worth reading and investigating even though you really don't know what happened. If you really want to discover something new about the Beach Boys, check this book out. You will not be disappointed!
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A proud, distinguished German emigre director named Dieter Seife has had to content himself cranking out B-movies for Superior Pictures, until finally, Superiors founder, Arthur Lustig, gives Seife the opportunity to prove himself on a larger-budget picture titled The Big Betrayal. Its also a break for a young actor on the rise, Harley Hayden, whos been signed to star. Seife is unhappy with the casting of Hayden and aware of Seifes displeasure, Hayden takes the defensive step of hiring a disgraced LA cop named Roarke to look into Seifes background and see whether Siefe may be hiding something. Out There in the Dark brings to life the corrupt side of wartime Hollywood.
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Out There in the Dark.......2007-04-03
The review I read for this book was quite positive, and since I am a fan of "old Hollywood," I ordered the book. It was most disappointing. Not very well written, cardboard characters, dull plot, tended to ramble. I did finish it, but felt it was a waste of time and money.
Must review later.......2007-03-19
I haven't started the book yet. I am taking it to read on my trip to new york
Recommended.......2006-08-01
I bought this book on a whim and didn't regret it. Strick pinpoints a particular time and place and puts you right smack in the middle of it. I found it a quick, enjoyable read, but engrossing all the way through. For fans of "Old Hollywood" the name dropping of figures of the era is fun (love the titles of the movies starring Harley Hayden!) and the atmosphere is vividly re-created. What's next on the horizon, Mr. Strick?
Outstanding Novel of Hollywood.......2006-05-29
It doesn't seem to me that in 1940 the private eye might be speculating on which luscious movie star was causing Harley Hayden to cheat on his girlfriend--"But who? Rita, Greta, Ingrid, Lana?" Of these names only Greta Garbo was a great star in 1940--and would a savvy eye like Roarke seriously suspect her of having a back street affair with a man? The other names seem of a later date, say 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, when all had achieved superstardom. (Each had made movies by 1940 of course, but none were yet at Garbo's level.) Outside of that one little error I congratulate Wesley Strick on having everything right, the most difficult thing of all.
I shouldn't say that, because he has done something incomparably different, he has selected a pair of humans who seem between them to balance out between them, like the scales of Scorpio, all that is good and bad in Hollywood. We might compare his allegory to the famous Hollywood novel by Christopher Isherwood, PRATER VIOLET, and I think we would say the laurels go to Strick. I wasn't one hundred percent convinced by the implacable anti-Semitism of the detective, Roarke, which doesn't go any place and just provides for innumerable scornful and offensive putdowns of Hollywood Jews. And yet perhaps the storytelling needed him as a fulcrum from which we get to view the mysterious boy actor, Harley Hayden, and the tragic German director-meister Deiter Seife. Beyond the fireworks of the plot, we see in miniature the ways in which the escapees from the Third Reich who made their way to Los Angeles in the 1930s changed the movie capital forever, providing, if not a moral corrective as has sometimes been assumed, but a cracked lens that skewed all vision into a personal, ethical darkness--an aesthetic choice Strick seems to understand beautifully. This novel is so much better than the scripts Strick has written for Hollywood (FINAL ANALYSIS, WOLF, THE SAINT) one feels that maybe he went there as a spy--a chiel among them. OUT THERE IN THE DARK feels like one of the books we'll be reading in 100 years.
1942 vs 2006.......2006-04-10
On the surface, "Out There in the Dark," Wesley Strick's debut novel, is a well-written, concisely researched, mystery novel that is sure to delight fans of 1940 Hollywood drama. As a result of the subject matter, some readers may want to compare Wesley's book to works by Chandler, but this is somewhat unfair (albeit flattering); Mr. Strick's contemporary, fresh, straightforward writing style enhances the storyline with its clean approach to everyday language. Additionally, and most importantly, strip away the references to the 1940's and here lies a treatise on today's "glorious" world of Tinsel Town.
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The Big Sleep, The Godfather, Little Caesar, LA Confidential—behind these classic films there’s a story waiting to be told, and pulp novels, bank robbers, and serial killers have all played a part in shaping crime cinema. But after Hollywood throws these elements into the blender—along with the demands of censors, backers, and the frequently rampant egos of stars and directors—the finished film often bears little resemblance to its source. Real crimes are often considered by filmmakers to be too brutal, and their perpetrators too unattractive. When Sam Peckinpah filmed The Getaway, for instance, the novel’s pessimistic ending had to be changed to suit the tastes of its glittering stars, Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw. Packed with fascinating facts and anecdotes, Hardboiled Hollywood delves into the origins of the greatest crime films ever, placing them in the context of their times and the studio system that produced them.
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Entertaining and Thoroughly British.......2005-02-07
The book is lively and entertaining from beginning to end. As an examination of the ways in which filmmakers have transformed texts both classic and pulp into resonant crime movies, HARDBOILED HOLLYWOOD has a bite and a fervor to it that other books with blander approaches have missed. What a quirky selection of movies he calls the "Great Crime Films" It's a strange classification anyhow, for what links THE GODFATHER to PSYCHO--yes, both of them have killings in them, but other than that they're here because the author, Max Decharne, has a thing for them.
He doesn't bring that much new to the table in his chapters on those two films, but dig a little closer and you'll find some interesting commentary on films by Val Guest, Mike Hodges, and John Boorman. Yes, three British directors whose work in the noir field is often slighted. But for Decharne, HELL IS A CITY, GET CARTER and POINT BLANK rank right up there with THE BIG SLEEP and KISS ME, DEADLY, and as he explains it, his reasons are often cogent. And the gossip he gives is fascinating. I particularly enjoyed hearing about the career of Ted Lewis, the man who wrote the novel on which GET CARTER (the Michael Caine version, not the Sylvester Stallone version) was based.
Decharne always has a sly kind of wit which produces a chuckle every page or so--no bellylaughs, just one brief "ha" and then another.
Behind-the-scenes examination of the origins of these tales.......2004-10-10
Film fans with an affinity for crime films and a host of such viewing under their belts won't want to miss Max Decharne's studious Hardboiled Hollywood, a studied behind-the-scenes examination of the real-world origins of these tales. Real life crimes were often considered too brutal to turn into films, so Hollywood modified the stories for screen and sensitive audiences, creating fictional couples, classic good/evil confrontations, and embellishments which went beyond reality. Decharne's guide provides a change to compare actual sources with finished film results and is a 'must' for avid viewers.
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Hardboiled in Hollywood
David Wilt
Manufacturer: Bowling Green State Univ Popular Pr
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Gossip. It's more than just hearsay. society columns, and supermarket tabloids. It has, like it or not, become a mainstay of American pop culture. In Dish, industry insider Jeannette Walls gives this provocative subject its due, offering a comprehensive, serious exploration of gossip and its social, historical, and political significance. Examining the topic from the inside out, Walls looks at the players; the origins of gossip, from birth of People magazine to the death of Ladi Di; and how technology including the Internet will continue to change the face gossip. As compelling and seductive as its subject matter, Dish brilliantly reveals the fascinating inner workings of a phenomenon that is definitely here to stay.
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What really goes on behind the scenes.........2001-01-31
If you have any fascination with gossip/celebrities or how the "media machine" works, this is a great book. It is very fast pace, tracing the history of gossip columns from the early "penny papers" through Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, the ET tonight type programming, and Matt Drudge. Lots of interesting tidbits about celebrities that I never knew, plus lots of information on how exactly the "publicity people" in Hollywood earn their keep. Who gets access to stars, why, and the hoops they jump through to keep it. I have to admit, it made me wonder about my own character (why am I so interested in what perfect strangers are up to) but then again, it is all in fun. A fun, quick read, with lots of historical information and background.
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Great Overview of Dance/Music History.......2001-09-25
This book is a great condensed overview of different eras and their styles of dancing and music. It also had some exercises for Jazz students including pictures, which is very helpful. I enjoyed the book.
Wanting to learn about Jazz? This is the book for you!.......2000-06-05
This book was very insightful. It gave a detailed history of where Jazz began and how it has developed to the present day. It also discussed proper nutrition a dancer should have, classroom etiquette, injury prevention and much more. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn or teach jazz.
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Build a network from the ground up in just 24 hours! Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours is written in a unique task-oriented, step-by-step guide that allows you to learn the essentials of networking from beginning to end. Chapters are broken out into hour-long lessons, each one focusing on a specific topic, beginning with a basic overview of networking. After 24 one-hour lessons, you will have an understanding of the concepts, hardware and software that are needed to build a network, as well as wireless networks, SSID broadcast, security and anti-spam technologies. Rome may not have been built in a day, but a network could be!
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Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours, Third Edition.......2005-09-25
Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours, Third Edition
is very informative and very well designed to get a begginer up to speed with the networking principles.
Gets you started.......2004-12-17
Networking can be a frustrating experience. There used to be lots of grungy details to deal with, and all the debugging would be done on a command line. No GUIs to guide you. But here the authors hope to improve matters.
Naturally, the network described in most of the book is TCP/IP, better known as the Internet. There are also brief descriptions of ATM, Token Ring, FDDI, IPX and Net BIOS. It's probably fair to say that for most readers, you won't encounter these networks anytime soon. The Internet is where most of the network buildout is happening.
For the Internet itself, they don't go down to the level of detail about the various fields in a packet header. Just to give you an idea of the degree of foreknowledge you need for this book.
At the operating system level, they give a balanced coverage of unix/linux networking and its counterpart under Microsoft. For diagnosis and security, there is a general exposition of good practices. The authors refrain from delving into using tools like Snort or Ethereal as part of your Intrusion Detection Systems. In fact, they don't even use the latter term (or IDS). The book is worthy as a nice first book on networking. Gets you started.
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As the Internet continues to expand its reach, more and more users, administrators, and programmers need to learn about TCP/IP the core standard behind the Internet, and the dominant protocol for networks throughout the world.
Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours provides a clear and concise introduction to TCP/IP. It is accessible enough for non-technical readers, yet specific enough for technical readers who are looking for a solid foundation in TCP/IP.
This edition adds coverage of recent developments that affect TCP/IP. New topics added include: wireless networking, spam control, broadband, and peer-to-peer networking technologies.
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Exellent book!.......2006-10-20
This book was above and beyond my expectations when i first bought it. It was not incredibly long, yet very thurogh. It explains everything, packets, the network layers, and the internet backbone and how it all connects. It also shows how to use functions built in on your operating system, like ping, trace route, among others. Highly reccomended!
Joy to read!.......2004-12-30
I read the first revision of this book and it was a joy to read. Each chapter is short and fun. It covers just the right amount of material. It is nice to see books that are well written. Although the book is very introductory, you actually learn a lot!
I should have read this one Years ago.......2004-05-02
4.5 STARS
If you want an intro book to:
- Computer Networking,
- how the Internet (www) works,
- TCP/IP Protocol, layers, and utilities,
- Networking Applications
(with lots of diagrams, eye-friendly page layout, extensive index, end-of-chapter summary, Q&A, terminology) then .... you MUST read this book.
Make sure to read the 3rd edition (c. 2004). This edition has some new chapters and material over the 2nd edition and even discusses recent and emerging technologies, and does not spend time going over obsolete protocols or apps.
NOTE: I think this book deserves a 4 1/2 stars because some material (like Encryption part) could have been explained more elegant and easier. Nevertheless the author does an excellent job at providing further references for more detailed analysis (e.g. RFC recommendations).
Books:
- Model Tax Convention on Income and Capital: Condensed Version 2000
- Multilateral Tax Treaties - New Developments in International Tax Law
- Multistate Corporate Tax Guide, 1994
- Mutual Assistance for the Recovery of Tax Claims
- Neutrality and Subsidiarity in Taxation (Efs (Series), 3.)
- OECD Model Income Tax Treaties and Commentaries, 1963 and 1977
- Offshore Financial Centres
- Oil Taxation Acts, 1991
- Optimal Income Tax and Redistribution
- Package X, 1988: Informational Copies of Federal Tax Forms/Stk No 048-004-02275-3 & 048-004-02276-1
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