Principles of International Tax: A Multinational Perspective

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This essential guide to the complexities of international taxation as it affects multinational companies will be indispensable to all those working in this area. Finance directors, as well as practitioners and students of international tax will find it invaluable.

Written in simple and straightforward terms, the author not only looks at all the principal types of tax system around the world, outlining their interaction, but also deals with the fundamental principles of international tax planning. Throughout, all the issues involved in international tax are considered from a multinational perspective, rather than in the light of one particular tax regime. This approach will provide all those in business and professional practice with a wider view of the commercial ramifications of international tax planing. Written by an author with considerable expertise in this field, The Principles of International Taxation - A Multinational Perspective should be on the shelves of all those with dealings in international taxation.

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An outstanding overview of European VAT

Principles of Value Added Tax - A European Perspective
Adrian Ogley
Manufacturer: Interfisc Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0952044218

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This book puts the theory of value added tax (VAT) into the context of the European single market. In so doing, it introduces senior financial officers and tax practitioners, who may already be familiar with the principles of direct taxation, to VAT. It also provides VAT specialists who, until now, may have concentrated on the VAT system within their own Member State, with a pan-European perspective. Thus it serves a practical, as well as theoretical, purpose. In view of the importance of the European single market to the majority of U.S. (and other) multinationals, it is essential that tax practitioners understand the need for coordinated VAT planning across Europe and for its integration into the mainstream of commercial decision-making. By providing tax practitioners with a strategic overview of the current European VAT system, this book will enable management to achieve this. It also highlights possible future developments which every multinational will need to take into account in defining its strategy for this important market.

The principles of VAT planning within Europe will have a wider application and will be relevant to other VAT/Goods & Services Taxes outside Europe. Furthermore, Chapter 10 in outlining the key issues surrounding a subtraction VAT will equip U.S. practitioners to take part in the growing debate on the desirability of introducing some form of consumption tax.

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An outstanding overview of European VAT.......2000-03-29

The structure of this book and the importance of the European Union ("EU") in world trade mean that the book has a wide audience. Non-EU advisers and anyone involved in tax planning for multinationals will find it fascinating to explore the issues that arise in a mature VAT system. The book will give them profitable ideas to explore with their clients in their own context. Ogley does not pretend to have provided the definitive work on VAT. What he does do very successfully is combine theory with practical application in an examination of the operation of the VAT across the European Union. This book provides a very readable guide to VAT principles for anyone not intimately involved in European VAT practise.

The first chapter provides a clear overview of the general structure and operation of a VAT system. The second chapter briefly sketches how VAT fits within the EU framework. Ogley has eschewed a detailed analysis in these chapters. Yet he has managed to provide enough information for a reader new to the VAT or the operation of the EU to follow the more complex analysis in later chapters. The explanations are simple without being simplistic.

Chapters three and four go to the nub of the European VAT and describe the structure of the tax and the general treatment of goods, services and exemptions. Ogley explains the key provisions of the VAT law using well-chosen extracts from European case law. This serves the dual purpose of clarifying the meaning of the law, and giving an insight into how the courts interpret it. The law is a living thing. It is only through understanding how and why judges reach the decisions that they do, that advisers can predict the official treatment of their own plans, should they come under the microscope.

To a reader from a new VAT jurisdiction, it is fascinating to find a comprehensive jurisprudence on terms such as consideration and the treatment of discounts, where the same concepts at home wait to be tested. The author had to be selective in his subject matter and does not explore the issues in great detail. Some items, for example promotions, are covered in greater depth than others. That is always going to be the shortcoming of an overview of this kind. The important thing is that readers' interest is piqued and they are given enough information to know what topics they wish to pursue.

Chapters five and six deal with the vexed issues of financial services and property and related supplies. They are chosen as the exemptions that present the most complex technical problems. As a result, they are of most interest to readers. The treatment of financial services explains the basic problem of taxing the value added on financial transactions, and trying to determine what that value is. It identifies the consequent compliance and other problems that make the exemption an important area for tax planning. The chapter on property and related supplies explores the five principles that underlie the EU VAT treatment and how they have been implemented through the sixth directive. A discussion of the application of anti-avoidance provisions is of particular interest.

Chapters seven and eight cover the transitional regime and the definitive system. The transitional regime was introduced on 1 January 1993 in conjunction with the abolition of border controls. It effectively maintains a destination system of taxation, except for individuals, whose purchases for private consumption are usually subject to VAT in the Member State of origin. The complex provisions provide a fascinating example of the difficulties in applying a common tax, while retaining fiscal sovereignty. The operation of the regime provides some useful analogies for the prospective taxation of international electronic commerce, particularly the introduction of an automatic collection system. Ogley does not discuss this issue, but his observations on the transitional regime, particularly the treatment of telecommunications, are remarkably relevant to it. The discussion of the Simplification Directives gives very clear examples of the problems the EU still faces with its VAT.

The chapter on the definitive system describes the effort to move towards some form of harmonisation. It notes the difficulties faced by each new proposal and sets out the current position of the European Commission. The Commission's focus seems to be on getting the institutional and administrative structures in place before trying to implement a definitive VAT system.

Chapter nine provides a refreshingly clear outline of the principles of VAT planning. The chapter does not look in detail at specific planning arrangements. It concentrates on the basic principles that any planning arrangement must take into account. The principles are illustrated with practical examples. It provides an overview that all but a current VAT specialist would find useful.

Chapter ten will be of particular interest to those concerned with the US and proposals for the reform of the US sales tax system. It discusses subtraction VAT (calculated by reference to an entity's accounts on an aggregate basis, rather than on each transaction) and US Tax Reform. Chapter eleven concludes with a brief overview of the issues of globalisation and trading blocs and unresolved problems of VAT.

This book provides an ideal introduction to the principles of VAT. It is not a book for VAT experts. It is a book for tax advisers, business executives, academics and students from outside the EU who want to get a grasp of the main VAT issues. Those who are looking for extensive detail should do so elsewhere. A major advantage of the book is Ogley's lucid style, which makes a complex subject easy to read.

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This book-sized boxed set includes instructions and parts for 20 full-color standees. The sturdy characters and stands are designed to be punched out of the enclosed cardboard sheets and fitted together by plugging the tabs into the slots - no scissors or other equipment is required. The standees include Meowth, Charmander, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Clefairy, four different versions of Pikachu, and 11 more.

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I'm Ready for the Other 25,800

Incredible collection--I recommend it to everyone

The 200 Best Jokes Ever Written By Joe Martin Out Of 26,000
Joe Martin
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Mister Boffo: The First Decade

ASIN: 0974596701

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Joe Martin, creator of "Mr. Boffo", "Willy 'n Ethel", "Porterfield", and "Cats With Hand" picks his 200, or so, best strips and panels.

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I'm Ready for the Other 25,800.......2006-03-01

Joe Martin is a very inspired man. His humor is intelligent with appeal to nearly everyone. Many of the cartoons and comics in this book are knee-slappers. I tried to read just a few pages at a time to prolong the enjoyment. There is a very funny section of jokes that didn't make it into the newspapers. I highly recommend this book.

Incredible collection--I recommend it to everyone.......2004-02-05

This is an incredible collection, and collects the best comics by Joe Martin from over the years. I laughed at every page.

I'm a huge Mr. Boffo fan, and its main features are Mr. Boffo comics. Joe Martin's work reminds me of the Far Side, but he's much better and much funnier. I highly recommend it.

The sections in order are:
1. The best of Mr. Boffo--In my opinion his best. Earl Boffo is in a variety of situations, from Hell, to Bumhood, to medieval times.
2. The best of Willy 'n Ethel--Willy is unemployed, and jokes about his laziness
3. The best of Cats with Hands--Shows a world dominated by cats, with cats in situations like executive meetings
4. The best of Porterfield--Porterfield is a lazy employee who keeps getting fired from his job.
5. Mr. Boffo comics that were pulled because of how "sick, tasteless, and perverted" they are.

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Marilyn Monroe . . . an Appreciation
Eve Arnold
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover

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Marilyn Monroe, An Appreciation
Eve Arnold
Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover
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Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation
Marilyn] Arnold, Eve [Monroe
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Jackson Lears has won accolades for his skill in identifying the rich and unexpected layers of meaning beneath the familiar and mundane in our lives. Now, he challenges the conventional wisdom that the Protestant ethic of perseverance, industry, and disciplined achievement is what made America great. Turning to the deep, seldom acknowledged reverence for luck that runs through our entire history from colonial times to the early twenty-first century, Lears traces how luck, chance, and gambling have shaped and, at times, defined our national character.

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"An award-winning historian offers a provocative alternative history of America that traces how luck, chance, and gambling have shaped, indeed defined, our national character Hailed by The New York Review of Books as ""one of cultural history's masters of linking popular moods and ideas with arts, philosophies, industries, and commodities,"" prizewinning historian Jackson Lears has now written the most important, most wide-ranging, and most original book of his career. In Something for Nothing, Lears documents how America's culture of control is inextricably entwined with its culture of chance. Conventional wisdom has it that the Protestant ethic of hard work and self-control is what made America great, but a deep, seldom acknowledged reverence for luck runs through our history as well. Americans have embraced the seductive whims of chance, from African fortune-telling to Puritan folk superstitions right up to the current resurgence of casinos and lotteries. Drawing on a vast body of research, Lears ranges through the entire sweep of American history as he uncovers the hidden influence of risk taking, conjuring, soothsaying, and sheer dumb luck on our culture, politics, social lives, and economy. Written with impressive clarity and authority, Something for Nothing will be compared to Louis Menand's bestselling The Metaphysical Club and Ann Douglas's Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. This is cultural history at its best-challenging, eye opening, deeply learned, and as surprising as it is illuminating."

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The analysis of luck.......2006-08-05

It is patently obvious that Americans have always been a gambling people. But in Something for Nothing, Jackson Lears takes a further analytical leap, looking at how the "culture of chance" has been central to American life and thought. Though In Lears' summation the self-made man has been more influential than the confidence man in American, an America shorn of hereditary privilege and deference to one's betters was a fruitful breeding ground for the legions of Americans-from land speculators to day traders-seeking something for nothing.

Lears takes an interesting approach, admitting at the beginning that he is not writing a history of gambling but of chance, which he sees as a sort of anti-virtue, a shortcut to grace for those not willing to put in long hours at the hard work of self-betterment. Lears sees an Apollonian/Hermetic dialectic throughout much of Western culture, with the trickster Hermes, patron of the lucky rounder, pitted against the rationalist Apollo. The rampant gambling found in most periods of American history is symptomatic of a deeper struggle within the American psyche between chance and control.

Along the way, Lears hits all of the signature spots of any gambling history: Dostoyevsky's manic Roulettenberg, Jamestown settlers "bowling in the streets" while starving, itinerant blacklegs like Canada Bill Jones and George Devol, and many more. But he ties these evergreens to a larger cultural force that also shaped the sermons of Jonathan Edwards, the philosophy of William James, the writing of Ralph Ellison, and the music of John Cage. Lears also pulls in an impressive mass of cross-cultural analysis of luck and chance as a means to break down the components of the American culture of chance into its European, African, and Native American components. The wild nut diviners of Ghana, white and black American bibliomantics (those who used the Bible for divinatory purposes), and the Runyonesque craps shooter fingering a lucky rabbit's foot are equal parts of the same culture of lucky superstition.

One of the real strengths of Something for Nothing is that it democratizes luck-trailer park denizens at Tuesday night bingo have an equal place at the table with Marcel Proust. An America where gambling in its many manifestations is an increasingly powerful revenue producer and job provider needs such an honest look at the culture of chance. There is undoubtedly a reason why many Americans choose casinos over tax increases most of the time, and Lears comes as close as any historian to understanding why. According to him, there is a fundamental tension throughout much of American life between the managers and those entranced by accident and chance. Though Lears focuses more on this struggle in letters and ideas, it is easy to see how the struggle for control seeped from the boardrooms and workfloors of America into popular culture and life. Gamblers like Titanic Thompson and aleatory artists like Joseph Cornell stand out as cultural heroes in a struggle against the rational production standards of Frederick Winslow Taylor and World Standard Time.

Most impressively, Lears is able to look into how folk culture has molded the ideas of American thinkers. Ralph Ellison, who Lears believes bridges the gap between "numbers running and philosophical debate" (312), benefits from an exceptionally well-honed analysis. Invisible Man, obviously a novel about a young black man's adventures into adulthood, is, according to Lears, more deeply a story of a vernacular culture of chance triumphing over ethics of mastery and control, be they individualism or collectivism. This insight is emblematic of many within Something for Nothing.

As with any work as all-encompassing as this one, there are inevitably areas that beg a greater focus from the author. America's paramount holy of holies of luck, Las Vegas, is parenthetically dismissed as a high-roller heaven and "efficient money machine for fugitive crime bosses" (243) in less than a sentence. One wishes the Las Vegas story, in which an entire city has prospered on Americans' hunger to gamble, might have been afforded a more sophisticated analysis than this.

But the incredible power of Lears's analysis, which ranges from the prosaic objects of everyday superstition to the rarefied air of positivist philosophy, is no less rich for not having taken a more literal look at some of the more obvious manifestations of the culture of chance. Lears instead has produced a brilliant work of history that ties together many divergent strands in American life into a common culture of chance.

Good, But Dense, Scholarship.......2006-03-02

Be forewarned: Something for Nothing does not run in the same vein as the pop history/nonfiction titles, such as The Tipping Point or Fast Food Nation, that have grown popular of late. Despite the seemingly lighthearted topic and the common refrain that American capitalism is more about luck than merit, Lears's account is a focused, rigorous account of the history of and attitudes towards gambling, providence, and faith in America, from its founding to the early 20th century. This is not a rumination on the origins of Las Vegas.

Lears focuses largely on the relationship between gambling and religion and on the varieties of religious philosophies that compel people to roll the dice and/or decry the greed and levity that accompanies it. He highlights key individuals who changed or promoted both informal and formal gambling and chronicles subtle changes that have evolved along with American culture. The scholarship is immaculate, and the research is rigorous. As a result, it suffers from the density and tedium of other books that do not expect an audience outside the academy.

Something for Nothing does, though, have substantive flaws, the most glaring of which is, of course, the omission of modern gambling. Lears may consider Vegas and Indian casinos too pedestrian for his efforts, but their prominence is unarguable. An explanation of the philosphical and cultural values that gave rise to Vegas-style gambling would be not only fascinating but also socially important, and by shopping short of the present -- or at least suggesting how the present came to be -- Lears hunkers down in the ivory tower and stops short of relevance.

Truly fascinating but a bit of a slog.......2004-09-05

If it is the case that nothing much has changed regarding survival of individual humans and their families and it remains a jungle out there, then this book should be part of the survival kit, or first aid kit alongside the bandages, stingose, and burn cream. An unlikely event as digesting this somewhat academic book is not quite as satisfying as pulling the handle on a slot machine or throwing the dice or putting another 200 each way on that horse race. It is more likely to be read by those of the Protestant persuasion who see sacrifice and hardwork as the road to grace than those of the Catholic persuasion who see chance and miracles as signficant. It is also an historical analysis of American culture(sport, art, etc) in relation to the pursuit of happiness, the American dream. And lets face it, governments depend on gambling for a significant part of their revenue - whether its Wall Street, lotteries, Casinos or racing, it's big bucks. A fascinating book but a bit of a slog.

Something Special.......2003-05-22

In "Something For Nothing" Jackson Lears has come up with nothing less than a fresh way to look at the American idea. He tells the story of two cultures: -- "the culture of control," and the "culture of chance" -- that have bubbled beneath the surface American life from the beginning (and he traces their roots deeper into history as well). He returns to gambling often, but this is much more than a social history of gambling. It's easy to think of America as place where the culture of control dominates and always has, in the form of the "work ethic" that says that the way to get ahead is to work hard, merit will be rewarded, etc. This notion is so basic to the way many contemporary debates are framed that we hardly even think about it anymore. But there are now and always have been competing ideas out there -- in the most unexpected places -- about the role of chance, or luck, in life. At times the culture of control has simply denied chance, and aother times it has tried to subdue it (through everything from insurance to statistics-based social science to management theory). At times the lines have been blurry -- business risk-taking has been culturally rewarded even when it is as much a matter of chance as a (demonized) spin of the roulette wheel. Obviously I'm oversimplifying, but the book is incredibly thought-provoking. It's also thick with references drawn from history, culture, art, literature, philosophy -- at times this is dazzling and at times it's overwhelming; one almost feels the need to pause, get a Ph.D. in American Studies, and then return to the book. But on the whole Lears is in command of the material, and makes his book a fascinating and important read.

Gambling for Grace.......2003-02-21

This is the third book by Jackson Lears and it confirms his status as one of the most innovative of American intellectual historians. Like his previous books "No Place of Grace" about late 19th century conservative intellectuals, and "Fables of Abundance" about American advertising, his approach is idiosyncratic, and not easily summarized. His work uses a large amount of literary allusion, so as "Fables" invoked Little Nemo and examined Henry James and Joseph Cornell, in "Something" Cornell makes a return appearance, along with Mark Twain, Damon Runyon (of course) and a special examination of "Invisible Man."

Lears' book is based on a contrast between a "Culture of Chance" and a "Culture of Control." Naturally, the growth of science has helped to vastly strengthen the latter against the former. But it is not that simple. There is a clash between differing Christian, indeed Protestant, views of grace. Is grace granted unconditionally, freely, like the winner of a game of chance? Or is it a matter of Divine Providence which, if not saying salvation is earned by merit, does strongly state that the hard working self made man either will get success or deserves the success he gets. Lears discusses this in a nuanced and subtle reading of the theologian Paul Tillich. One the one hand he was promiscuous and power-hungry ("not an attractive combination, in a theologian or anyone else") and his view of grace could be fashionable, dangerously naive and convenient. But there was something important, that recognized the link between grace and chance. "...Tillich had recaptured a key element in the religion of Jesus..."

It is at this point that one must demur. As a Jew, and as a critical historian I must object to any view that attributes to Jesus the ideas of grace that were developed by Paul, Augustine, Luther, Calvin or by American theologians. If there is one constant flaw of American Protestantism, both liberal and conservative, whether evangelically Orthodox or Mormon/Jehovah's Witness heterodox, it is to attribute to first century Palestine beliefs which could only have developed in the United States. Although more sophisticated than most, Lears (and the late Christopher Lasch) fall to this temptation. Another problem is that Lears does not discuss the flip side of grace. Damnation can also be awarded freely, and with no right of appeal. And if most Protestants believe they will be saved, for much of the first few centuries of Protestantism its theologians assumed most of their fellow Christians were doomed, while the non-Christian majority of humanity did not have a chance. To the extent that American Protestants no longer believe this, it is not simply the result of glib positivism, complacent pro-capitalism or sinister and sentimental "therapeutic" motifs.

"Something" is also weaker than "Fables" because it is often repetitive and less coherent. Nevertheless there is much of value for the reader here. He discusses the culture of chance in America and its roots among Europeans, Africans, and Indian Americans (rather tellingly, there was a "virtually complete absence" of cheating among the last group). Although gambling is often addictive and harmful, and clearly an unjust way of raising revenues, the culture of control's critique is often moralistic, and fatally unimaginative. There is much discussion of the social pretensions of gamblers, and their tendency to cheat. Particularly interesting is how the culture of control slowly increased its influence in the 19th century, while at the same time euphemizing or ignoring those trends in science which undermined it. Chance could be tamed by the scientific study of probability, and later public opinion poll surveys and Tayloristic management. Darwinism's undermining of conscious design and teleology could be ignored. But ultimately anthropologists developed more sophisticated understandings of what people had long dismissed as "superstition." The crude positivist certainties were undermined as non-Euclidean mathematics and quantum physics arose.

The best chapter is the penultimate one, "The Persistent Allure of Accident," in which Lears notes the recovery of chance in modernist literature like Joyce and Proust. We see the influence of Chance in Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. And we see Chance's sway in Abstract Expressionism, the Beats and John Cage. But this allure has its own weaknesses. Lears points out that the risk-taking persona could degenerate into a pose. In particularly nuanced readings Lears points out that the Beats could collapse into misogyny and solipism, and Cage's work could contribute to postmodernist triviality. But there was another, more fruitful side in both Cage and the Beats, a theme best represented in Robert Motherwell's desire not to be the slave of chance, but its partner. If chance and grace are not to by synonoms for solipsism, that we have to remember "to recognize the role of other people in the creation of grace." Now that is a gamble we all have to take.

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Always Be Closing.(Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life)(Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room)(Something for Nothing: Luck ... review) : An article from: Labour/Le Travail
Alex Lichtenstein
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Something for Nothing: Luck in America
Jackson Lears
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prosperity consciousness from another source

Changed my entire approach to living. . .

Brilliant!

My Favorite Book of All Time!

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The Writings of Florence Scovel Shinn: The Game of Life and How to Play It, Your Word Is Your Wand,the Secret Door to Success, the Power of the Spok
Florence Scovel Shinn
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prosperity consciousness from another source.......2007-08-05

Florence Scovel Shinn was writing about prosperity consciousness in the late 1800's and early 1900's, well ahead of the current trend. Her books are easy to read and easy to understand. I highly recommend this book to all of my friends and they are purchasing it and doing the same. That says it all in my mind.

Changed my entire approach to living. . ........2007-07-06

The Game of Life and How to Play It has been the most influential self-help reading to date that I have found. The book is easy to read and understand. I have read my copy probably 15 times; pages are beginning to fall out. The fact that it is divided into sections for life's encounters, e.g., prosperity, love, etc., I can go back when I need help getting through the rough times to that particular section and gain strength and guidence. Once read, the writings just all come together to make more sense about approaching life's daily challenges than anything I have ever read; and, trust me I've read plenty of self-help books. I love this book so much that I have bought 6 copies to give to beloved family members and close friends because I do not want to keep the insights this book reveals to myself. I want everyone I care deeply about to experience what this book has to offer. Great read, great lessons!

Brilliant!.......2007-06-13

I've had this book for years and have worn out the cover. I refer to it constantly. I purchased copies for friends and have been doing so since I first read it. Florence was before her time!

My Favorite Book of All Time!.......2007-06-09

Absolutely without question the most charming and inspiring book I've ever read. My copy is lovingly dog-eared, my loaner copy is in the same condition and I've bought several as gifts.

Of all the "positive thinkers", including the much more well-known such as Louise Hay and Norman Vincent Peale, Florence is the most enjoyable to read and the easiest to apply to your life, in my opinion.

Reading her is sheer delight and an instant mood-lifter and problem-solver, every time.

before the secret.......2007-05-17

This is an amazing collection of writings that gives real and practial ways to move forward in life. A Lady well before her time, the princibles that she teaches are not secrets just forgotten over time.

Have a little faith, change your Life.

C.M. Dwyer

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Word games for play and power
Joseph Twadell Shipley
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Definitive? Nahhh Don't think so.

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The step-by-step instructions make it easy to create, edit, and distribute your Flash files. Each chapter includes sample screen shots as well as tips for making your work more efficient and avoiding common pitfalls.

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Definitive? Nahhh Don't think so. .......2006-11-22

This book is rated for Introductory to Advanced users. I would rate it as something akin to "Captivate for the Mentally challenged" and a complete waste of time if you have used captivate for more than 30 minutes.

Don't waste your money on this book. Play with the application a bit and this book quickly becomes irrelevant paper pulp. I look for a bit more than information on resizing windows and slide elements in a definitive guide.

Sorry, Brenda.

Helpful for Beginners.......2006-09-20

The book is well organized and written clearly, however, I was hoping to find a little more in-depth information for a more advanced user.
This book will really help you if you are a Beginning or early Intermediate user of Captivate.

Review on quality and speed of delivery.......2006-08-25

The book was delivered on time and in excellent quality.

It will be very helpful if Amazon explored the possibility of delivering books to India. I requested for this order to be delivered to my daughter in Portland, Oregon and she further mailed the same to me as a post-parcel.

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Hema

Captivate Guide is 'captivating.......2006-02-28

I had been looking for a book on Captivate for some time, so I was happy to see this one come out. Having used Captivate for a few months now, I had gotten beyond the basic 'how-to' and was looking for some of the more advanced tips & tricks.

As I read through the book, I was amazed at all of the little things I picked up, even in chapters were I thought I knew how to do what the author was describing.

The book is well-written and well-designed. It contains a lot of very good information that will help any Captivate user, beginning or advanced, to turn out a better product.

I would recommend the book to anyone who uses or is thinking about using Captivate.

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