Tax-Exempts and Tax Reform: Assessing the Consequences of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 for the Municipal Securities Market

Average customer rating:
Tax-Exempts and Tax Reform: Assessing the Consequences of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 for the Municipal Securities Market
John Peterson
Manufacturer: Academy for State & Local
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

International | Taxes | Accounting | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 9998017440

Average customer rating:
Tax-exempts and tax reform: Assessing the consequences of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 for the municipal securities market
John E Petersen
Manufacturer: Academy of State and Local Government
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B000710U8E

Book Description

`We called them `the crazy years,' New York City was spreading like a pool of urine across a subway platform. Even rats caught diseases there.' Welcome to the world of Miss, a bold new journey into crime graphic novels from Humanoids Publishing. Set during the early 1900s in New York, Miss tells the tale of two unlikely partners in crime, Enola and Slim. Enola is a poor white girl who has learned to survive by hook or by crook since being expelled from the orphanage. Slim is a black pimp with an uncertain past, trying to keep one foot out of the grave. When their paths cross, and their options run out, Enola and Slim forge a partnership as murderers for hire. This is their story ... what it takes to survive when all you have is a gun.

Customer Reviews:

Oustanding Crime Graphic Novel.......2007-02-25

New York's interwar crime demimonde has been richly treated in fiction and film, and now we can finally add a worthy graphic novel to that list. Set in the 1920s and '30s, it's somewhat surprising to discover that such a stylish story was written and produced by three Frenchmen. Surprising until you consider that the French have always taken the American crime genre much more seriously than Americans themselves. Sometimes that adulation has gone a little overboard, but here it results in a story of great depth and tone.

It kicks off with a quick introduction to Nola, a poor white girl raised by a violent alcoholic father, prostitute/junkie mother, and eventually, nuns. Kicked out of the orphanage as a teenager, she quickly hooks up with shady private eye, and within the book's first twelve pages, she's deep in Harlem, seeing a man about a gun, getting shot at, and meeting a slick black pimp named Slim. A series of misadventures results in Nola and Slim teaming up as contract killers for the upper crust -- a lucrative line of work that allows Nola to escape poverty and Slim to escape his creditors.

Fortunately, the story doesn't throw them into bed, and their relationship is allowed to develop nuance and texture. Their race plays a large role in both their business and personal relationship, and is used to confound the reader's expectations when Slim's backstory is finally explained. Similarly, the story avoids easy morality, as it asks the reader to sympathize, and ultimately, root for, two people who unleash a fair amount of coldblooded carnage throughout the book. It's worth noting that the artists do an excellent job with both the action sequences and everything else. Interiors, exteriors, architecture, background -- all are visually compelling despite being rendered in a very stylized manner. There aren't very many good crime graphic novels out there, but this is definitely one of them.

Note: There are two versions of the book, the one initially published in the U.S. in 2002 under the ISBN 193065281X has a color cover and grayscale art. That's the one I have, and it's great. However, it was republished in 2005 with the original full-color artwork of the French edition, under ISBN 1401206360, so I'm going to go track that version down and upgrade!

Average customer rating:

GREAT TALES!

a wonderful example of Bombeck's great brand of humor.....

The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
Erma Bombeck
Manufacturer: Fawcett
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
Look Inside Entertainment Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
Similar Items:

If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

Family - The Ties that Bind...And Gag!

Eat Less Cottage Cheese And More Ice Cream Thoughts On Life From Erma Bombeck

At Wit's End

Aunt Erma's Cope Book

ASIN: 0345471725
Release Date: 1995-03-01

Customer Reviews:

GREAT TALES!.......2007-01-18

I really like this book, she is a great american story teller. Stuff is real life, if you enjoy a good laugh, i reccomend this book at anyone!

a wonderful example of Bombeck's great brand of humor............2006-02-19

This book diverges from Bombeck's usual subject matter--family--to take on other compelling topics, like diet and the self image of American women. One of the greatest stand-out examples, for me, of her warm humorous take on crash diets and extreme weight loss measures, is when she talks about a case study done with laboratory rats. As part of the experiment, the rats modelled different kinds of clothing. For example, if a rat wore vertical stripes, he was more likely to look longer and leaner than his counterparts. Also, if a rat was having a dialogue with another rat, he stood on the curb, or the stairs, so he was always on a higher platform from his friend. This gave the illusion that he was taller and skinnier. I remember the first time I read this. I was rolling with laughter.

God bless Erma Bombeck. We are so lucky that her comedic gift lives on in her wonderful books. These books are best described as "slice of life" vignettes of the day-to-day experiences of American identity, through the eyes of one of the most influential people in the world---a mother.

The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

Average customer rating:

The grass is always greener over the septic tank
Excuse any typos....I'm still laughing after 10 years

The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
Erma Bombeck
Manufacturer: Fawcett
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Essays | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

General | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0449207595
Release Date: 1985-02-12

Book Description

"She is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living....Lovely stuff."
VOGUE
It's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters.

Customer Reviews:

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.......2000-02-16

I bought this book about ten years ago and it is nearly worn out. I had never heard of Irma Bombeck back when I purchased this book and I thought the American humour might not suit me (I'm an Aussie). I was soon to fall in love with Irma's wit and observations. It is a funny and painfully honest look at life in suburbia. If this book doesn't get you smiling....see your doctor!

Excuse any typos....I'm still laughing after 10 years.......1998-09-21

Yes, it's been ten years since I read it (I have the original version with the white cover and Erma mowing the lawn). I still laugh at the thought of some parts of it. Erma, I love you, I miss you, and I wish you could send us columns from heaven. About the book: you must read it and you will find something to relate to in it. Even though it has a 1970's tone (pre-microwaves and cell phones) you can still relate to it and laugh with it. Get it, and any other Bombeck Book you can snatch.

Average customer rating:

The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
Erma Bombeck
Manufacturer: Fawcett
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000HL0FGQ

Average customer rating:

The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
Erma Bombeck
Manufacturer: Fawcett
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

General | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

ASIN: 0449201066
Release Date: 1982-09-12

Average customer rating:

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER OVER THE SEPTIC TANK
Erma Bombeck
Manufacturer: Fawcett
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000OUGHR6

Average customer rating:

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER OVER THE SEPTIC TANK
Erma Bombeck
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H17686

Average customer rating:

The Grass Is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank
Bombeck
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OF4BX8

Average customer rating:

The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

Manufacturer: Recorded Books,LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette
ASIN: 0788749854

Product Description

Erma Bombeck's classic, humorous trek to the land of suburbia never fails to amuse and delight the listener. Unabridged on 3 Cassettes

Average customer rating:

The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
Erma Bombeck
Manufacturer: Fawcett
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 0449232921
Release Date: 1978-11-12

Average customer rating:

The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
Erma Bombeck
Manufacturer: Methuen Publishing Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIK3XW

Average customer rating:

Great Tips to Break even

101 Casino Gambling Tips: Affordable Strategies & Techniques for Maximizing Profits & Reducing Loses
John Marchel
Manufacturer: Four Suits Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Gambling | Card Games | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
Accessories:

Hoyle Casino

ASIN: 0966516702

Book Description

Here are the tips and strategies for blackjack, craps, roulette, slots, baccarat, keno and even bingo. 160 pages, with illustrations and short histories on all the games. These are the tips that the professionals know and use in today's modern mega-casinos. Included are over 480 toll-free telephone numbers for every casino in the U.S. Plus 150 Internet casino and gambing information sites.

Customer Reviews:

Great Tips to Break even.......2000-03-30

John Marchel's, 101 Casino Gambling Tips: Affordable Strategies and Techniques for Maximizing Profits and Minimizing Losses is a great book for those who wish to go into a casino and walk away with the same amount of money in their pockets. The tips in this book are not for anyone that actually wants tips on how to beat the odds it is tips for those who want to steer clear of the high stakes and big losses. It is a great book for those who wish to spend hours at the casinos without loosing their shirts, but big gamers should look for something else.

Book Description

Perl/Tk is the marriage of the Tk graphical toolkit with Perl, the powerful programming language used primarily for system administration, web programming, and database manipulation. With Perl/Tk, you can build Perl programs with an attractive, intuitive GUI interface with all the power of Perl behind it. Mastering Perl/Tk is the "bible" of Perl/Tk: It's not only a great book for getting started, but the best reference for learning the techniques of experienced Perl/Tk programmers. The first half of the book contains the basics on how to use Perl/Tk, and then branches out into advanced applications with a series of extensive program examples. The result is a book accessible for novices, and invaluable for experienced programmers ready to learn the next step in the elegant and effective use of Perl/Tk. The book includes:

An introduction to each of the basic Perl/Tk widgets and geometry managers
A dissection of the MainLoop, including how to use callbacks and bindings effectively
Coverage of the Tix widgets, an extended set of widgets that are a part of the standard Perl/Tk distribution
Working with images in Perl/Tk, including bitmaps, pixmaps, photos, and how to compose a compound image type
How to create custom mega-widgets in Perl/Tk, both composite and derived
Handling interprocess communication with Perl/Tk, both with standard Unix utilities (pipes and sockets) and with the send command designed for direct communication between Tk applications
Developing your own Tk widget in the C language
Examples of web applications written with Perl/Tk and the LWP library

The book also includes appendices on installing Perl/Tk, a complete quick-reference for each standard widget, and listings of all the extended examples in the book. Nancy Walsh is the author of Learning Perl/Tk, and Steve Lidie wrote the Perl/Tk Pocket Reference as well as a series of Perl/Tk articles in The Perl Journal. Together, they have written Mastering Perl/Tk to be the definitive guide to Perl/Tk.

Customer Reviews:

don't buy Perl/Tk book.......2007-09-27

I'm a big fan of the O'Reilly Perl books. Most of them are very well written, and can really increase your knowledge about a topic. But this book is an exception. Simply put, it's horrible. Don't buy this book. It's poorly written, has a bad style, and provides nothing that you couldn't easily get from online documentation.

Get this one INSTEAD of 'Learning Perl/Tk', not in addition to.......2005-08-09

This book has so far given me all the information I've
needed to write usable GUIs. However, I share the concern
expressed by other reviewers that the the titles 'Learning
Perl/Tk' and 'Mastering Perl/Tk' can be misleading. While
it's reasonable to assume that the 'Learning' volume is
introductory/tutorial while the 'Mastering' volume is for
advanced techniques, this is not the case. The 'History of
this Book' section of the preface describes it as an
expansion of 'Learning Perl/Tk', not a sequel or supplement.
There is no need to buy both books.

Incomplete and redundant.......2003-05-13

This book is heavily redundant to Learning Perl/Tk. I would say about 1/3 of the book is new content, of which the majority is poorly organized.

Textual content is written in a teaching context.

In the examples there are a lot of things being done implicitly, and comments are lacking. This defeats much of the teaching functionality of the textual content that references to the examples.

The custom widget section, is some of the most disorganized technical writing I've seen. Things that should be footnotes are left as content. In my copy of chapter 14, if you were to couple the X'd out superfluous language with the pencil notes in the margin used to decipher the remaining text (after referencing _Programming Perl_, the POD and usenet) you would nearly equal the content of the author.

They appear to have been stretching for length like a freshman year term paper, Noted by the 75 pages of options tables in the rear that are redundant to the core widget option tables in the front, or otherwise straight out of the POD.

This book leaves a lot of room for a competing title. There is however none at this time to my knowledge. Therefore buy it anyway, if you plan on working heavily in Perl/Tk.

To use the word "Mastering" in the title is begging criticism. If you are looking for a definative work, this isn't it. But it is available, and will get you through the first half of your head scratching while developing with Perk/Tk.

Tries to be all things.......2003-04-05

This book tries to be all things to all people. "Learning Perl/Tk" needs to be reworked to be more of a tutorial in the same spirit as "Learning Perl." "Mastering Perl/Tk" needs to be split into two works--one like "Programming Perl" and another like "Perl in a Nutshell." It's hard to master Perl/Tk when you have to try to swallow it all in one gulp. It can be done, but you may suffer with a case of indigestion for a while.

A nice introduction, but not a reference.......2002-04-27

I picked this book up and learned enough from it to write (in a few weeks) a nice little GUI-based data display program that's being used to monitor train schedule adherence at the US's second-largest subway system. So obviously the book is useful.

But it's also a bit frustrating. The index is almost completely useless; 90% of the time I do not find anything remotely related to the word on the page that it's supposed to be on. Sometimes if I go back and forth a dozen pages I think I find the actual page. There are a fair number of typos that I discovered (most of which are, admittedly, corrected on O'Reilly's web site.) There's this bizarre example of having two MainWindows in the same application, something that mislead *me* into trying the same thing before I discovered how awfully awkward it was.

Book Description

Perl is still hot! If you are looking for a fast and effective tool for learning the most popular language for building interactive applications for the Web, Mastering Perl is the answer! It's designed for non-programmers and readers who aren't Unix gurus--unlike the leading books--and is written in the classic, unintimidating Mastering style. It also specially addresses the fastest-growing audience for Perl: Windows NT and 98 users. Each section of the book has a special "JumpStart" opener, which walks readers through a complex example illustrating key concepts, so they learn by doing.

Customer Reviews:

Terrible, just terrible.......2004-06-03

I'm here to echo the comments of the August 18, 1999 entry here. This book is absolutely terrible, terrible, terrible.

First and foremost, let me just say that I am an experienced C++, Objective-C, PHP, and MySQL developer. I am learning Perl for the purpose of undergraduate research relating to bioinformatics. My problems with this book lay not in my technical ignorance.

The book is absolutely ridden with typos and errors. I'd say a good 40% of the examples don't work correctly. One of the more egregious errors is the repeated use of the decrement operator, -- (that's 2 minuses). Throughout the book, the author references it as being just - (that's one minus). I'm guessing the author typed this book up in MicroSoft Word or some other editor (double minuses followed by a character create an em dash) which screwed up all of the syntax. Furthermore, the book's website does not acknowledge these errors at all. Also, many of the coded examples are accompanied by screenshots giving you the expected output. Unfortunately, these screenshots oftentimes offer results far different from what the printed code outputs.

To sum up problems with the book:
1) Lots of typos
2) Syntactical errors
3) Mismatched code and expected output
4) Lack of corrections on the book's website
5) There are better books out there
6) Don't buy this book
7) Overly repetitive and verbose

Book for beginners confuses the beginner.......2001-11-02

I bought the book because it was marked as a book for beginners. Perhaps it was intended for beginners but found it hard to follow.

I also wish the index was put together with better keywords in finding material. I'm a heavy user of indexes especially when I'm looking for something very specific. The index was hard to use unless you knew what the technical term was before you tried to find information on it. If the index had better layman's terms applied to the ideas found in the book, I would have located information much more quickly.

For a while, I had a hard time locating specific areas of interest. Only after using the book for some time have I gradually gotten use to it. I wonder how some of the people that have reviewed this book as excellent came to that conclusion. The author no doubt knows his stuff but teaching is quite another task and requires one to understand how people learn. Give us clear and simple examples and then build on them.

If I could rate this book, I'd give it 2½ stars. It covers lots of info but the organization and how easy it is to understand could be much improved on. I suppose I have to give some credit to it. As hard as it was at first to learn from the book, I did finally grasp some useful perl programming skills.

Great reference book.......2001-05-06

This is a great reference if you need to find out how a function is used in a context because of its numerous complete example programs and subroutines which you can also use as a base for your own programs. However, if you want to learn Perl from the ground up, I would recommend the slightly humorous and very well written "Programmering Perl" by Larry Wall (the inventor of the Perl programming language) et all. The latter is great as a study book and the instruction list it features answers every question you could possibly ask about Perl.

"Programming Perl" is the book I always reach for, but I do not regret buying this one. They both have their pros and cons.

Beginner book, yet hard to read.......2001-01-27

This book is targeted to beginners, and in many cases this philosophy shows repeatedly. However, the layout of the book is not well-designed at all. Many a time you find yourself jumping back and forth between chapters searching for the answers to some language features used in the examples, yet at times you found yourself reading duplicate materials in different chapters. For example, the author taught you some scalar variable usages in chapter 3, then the (nearly) same topic was covered in chapter 5, leaving the rules for scalar variable naming conventions duplicated in both chapters (hash is another topic that was repeated in different chapters). Another example is that the author referred to appendix A repeatedly, yet either due to author's cryptic writing or negligence (or my lack of effort?), I was not able to find it. The author seems to be trying to give you an overall taste of Perl program flavor in the first few chapters then begin to lay down language foundations systematically, yet his intention and writing were confusing enough to turn me away from this book to "Programming Perl" from O'Reilly.

I had learned a few interpreted or compiled languages before (though not Perl) so I was looking for finishing this book rather quickly. However it is the writing not the content that repeatedly got in my way. This book has the right content. Had this book been MUCH better orgnized, it'd been an excellent beginner book. For its current edition, though, it's pretty mediocre. If you have enough time to read it through, maybe you will find it helpful, or else you should find some other books that allow you learn the same thing faster.

this is not a beginners book.......2000-09-01

first of all., my reason for giving this book a rating of 1 star isthat I bought it on the assumption that it was a beginners book. It may very well be a good book for intermediate/advanced, but since it has been marketed for beginners I give this a rating of 1 star.

I have never been so compelled to rate any book, ever, until seeing the positive ratings.

My final remark is, though, Eric C. Herrmann may know his PERL, his verbal/teaching skills are seriously limited....

Phil

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books