International taxation taxes of foreign- and U.S.-controlled corporations : fact sheet for the Honorable Byron L. Dorgan, U.S. Senate (SuDoc GA 1.13:GGD-93-112 FS)

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International taxation taxes of foreign- and U.S.-controlled corporations : fact sheet for the Honorable Byron L. Dorgan, U.S. Senate (SuDoc GA 1.13:GGD-93-112 FS)
U.S. General Accounting Office
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a great Shadow mystery by O'Neil & Kaluta.......2006-04-20

Released in 1989(and out of print, though good condition copies are relatively easy to get), this hardcover volume reprints the first several issues of DC Comics' 1970's Shadow comic series.
Written by Dennis O'Neil, and illustrated by Mike Kaluta, this is a great introduction to the comic book version of the Shadow. Contains a bonus Shadow short story,written & illustrated specifically for this volume by Mike Kaluta.

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Another Great Roz Chast Book.......2003-10-11

Roz Chast hits the bullseye once again with this book of cartoons. I'm at the point now where I'll snap up anything that has her name on it. She's consistently and howlingly funny without being mean or snide.

Hope the New Yorker pays her enough for her work. Checking out her cartoon in there is the first thing I do when I get my issue.

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More Read Book!.......2005-01-29

My daughter's response after I've read to her this big book! She lifts every flap and we count the animals and I sing parts of the songs from the Wiggly Safari DVD that we also have. The flaps are perfect for little hands and my daughter loves to hear me read the book at least 3 times before bed!
A perfect companion to the Wiggle Safari DVD with Steve, Terri and Bindi Irwin.

Diappointing Lift-the-flap book.......2004-08-09

The writing in this book is very basic but not in a way that educations. When describing the Alligators the book says they are big and like to eat instead of telling us something unique to alligators. Also, the flaps are not interesting. The page will say the Wiggles see an animal, such as a snake, and they gives two flaps to look under that has the same animal. For such a large book I would have thought they could have added a few more flaps and put more variety under the flaps. I was very disappointed in this book.

Great Book!.......2004-02-12

This is a great book for little ones. My son loves the lift the flap pages and learning about all the animals. Plus, as always, it is always nice that the Wiggles are always concerned about teaching kids the right things and are properly dressed throughout the book. i.e. they have short outfits on top of their traditional outfits. Really, really like that! Thanks Wiggles for being there to help!

4 Wiggles On Each Page See Diffrent Animals........2004-01-24

The Wiggles love to go on a Wiggly Safari Adventure, and they love to look at animals that live there. Greg has to be careful while seeing snakes, Anthony sees Asian Wolves called Dingos, Murray looks at crocodiles who get fed by Steve Irwin from the movie. Last but not least, Jeff holds a koala in his arms and they sleep about 18 hours a day, that's like Jeff who's always falling asleep.

What I love most about this book, is liffting up the flaps.

The Wiggles Love Their Wiggly Safari Adventure........2003-11-12

Wiggly Safari takes place at the Australia Zoo, only now in four different editions. 1.Video, 2.DVD, 3.Music,4.Lift-the-flap book. I once looked at the pictures inside, and that's how I see Greg, Murray, Anthony and Jeff on one page at a time, I think this book is really a pop-up book-in fact, that's what Lift the flap means in other words. The Wiggles and their friends hope that someday, you'll have your own Wiggly Safari, too.

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Wiggly Party! (The Wiggles)

Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 0448438224

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Join The Wiggles and their friends Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags the Dog, and Captain Feathersword on this fun Wiggly adventure, which ends with a fun party at Captain Feathersword's! This board book features photos and colorful holographic foil throughout-all for just $7.99!

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A Wiggly Mystery (The Wiggles)

Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0448434989

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The Wiggles have been so busy lately that they're all a bit confused. Each one is sure that he left something in a certain spot, but every morning The Wiggles are finding another thing that is out of place. When Wags the Dog offers to play watchdog, he finally uncovers the truth behind the mystery—and you'll never believe who the culprit is!

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A Very Wiggly Christmas
Great Holiday Book
A Very Wiggly Christmas Is Like Yule Be Wiggling.

A Very Wiggly Christmas (The Wiggles)

Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0448434245

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A Very Wiggly Christmas.......2005-02-03

We got this book for my soon to be two year old son at Christmastime, it's now February and he wants it read to him every night and even sleeps with it! I would highly recommend it, especially to help your young child get used to Santa.

Great Holiday Book.......2003-12-10

I bought this book as a special treat for potty training and boy, did it work! The story is so very cute and really helps with introducing the different celebrations of Christmas throughout the world. It's nice that there's someone out there finally caring about the quality of books and videos that children are seeing and reading, and the Wiggles are simply the best, in my opinion. Thanks so much Wiggles for providing such educational, fun, and enjoying items!

A Very Wiggly Christmas Is Like Yule Be Wiggling........2003-11-12

My own reason why I think that The Wiggles: A Very Wiggly Christms is just like the DVD, Yule Be Wiggling, is because Santa Claus, needed help from The Wiggles. Since one of Santa's reindeer was sick and couldn't pull the slaigh, The Big Red Car was The Wiggles only hope-and delivering presents to children from around the world worked so magically well.
All I have to say now is that today, I've already read this new book. I'll wish The Wiggles my very own Wiggly Christmas to them, in December.

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The Wiggles: A Wiggly Movie
Pat Eytcheson Taylor
Manufacturer: HIT Entertainment
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1571327940

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Where bagels are king, Twinkies don't flourish. And Alaskans buy fewer home pregnancy tests, but they're better-than-average book purchasers. What's it mean? With this remarkable atlas of marketing surveys, you can make a case for almost anything. If you can eat it, read it, visit it, watch it, play with it or listen to it, chances are it has been a survey subject, and this reference work has some fun with it. The first section is an array of clever and sometimes outlandish comparisons. The second half offers what's-hot, what's-not profiles of the nation's 209 consumer markets.

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Eye-Opening.......2004-09-14

This book is a survey of American marketing surveys. Through its detailed maps, we can see associations between products and behaviors, attitudes, and income. The book has two major sections. The first half is comprised of maps showing us such information as the regions in which baking from scratch is popular and the regions where it is not, or juxtapositions of the regions where heavy metal music is preferred as opposed to where gospel music rules. The maps are drawn not on a state-wide scale, but rather using the more detailed ADIs (Arbitron's Areas of Dominant Influence), which divide up the US into some 211 markets. Underneath each map is a short article describing the topic in more detail, and mentioning other related correlations. The maps are organized by topic, including chapters on food, drink, leisure activities, home, health, sports, cars, television, music, periodicals, and politics. The second half of the book takes up each ADI in turn from Abilene-Sweetwater, Texas to Zanesville, Ohio, providing a short description of the market including total population, median income, median house price, median education level, primary age groups, major employment options, a list of hot and not-hot topics (such as car brands, TV shows, magazines, foods, and political views) as well as a one-paragraph overview of the community. At the very end of the book are charts reviewing the information from the maps in graphical form. There is no index.

The book is filled with amazing bits of information, some predictable, and others quite surprising. For example, we learn that pro-lifers also tend to be staunch supports of the death penalty. Filmgoers tend to be more highbrow than video renters, since filmgoers also attend plays, concerts, and art openings at above average rates, while video renters have less money, more kids, and typically watch more than seven hours of TV every weekday. We can see a huge cluster of National Enquirer readers in the Southeast, while the Simpsons are popular on the West Coast. Weiss doesn't provide us with maps of educational attainment or income levels. But in the text, he manages to slip in some eyebrow-raising details, such as "Southerners...have low rates of mobility and college attendance," the appeal of both Donahue and Oprah in the South is "understandable, given the region's dubious distinction as having the lowest high school completion rate in the nation." We can see how the relative burden of housing costs varies across the nation, with houses in Davenport, Iowa going for only 1.6 times local salaries, while houses in Santa Barbara cost 6.4 times local salaries.

Presenting this information in book form brings with it certain technical limitations. In the interests of clarity, Weiss never juxtaposes more than 2 sets of survey results at once. However, in flipping from page to page, repeated patterns begin to emerge, and the reader will probably wish the book could have been printed with loose transparent maps that could be over-layed according to interest. Even better would be a CD-ROM that would allow readers to play with the data themselves, but that might be asking too much since the information came from proprietary sources. There are some topics that beg for broader comparisons, such as considering both European and American markets. For example, in considering cigarette smokers, Weiss notes that "today's smokers tend to be downscale and poorly educated blue-collar residents of farms and inner cities." Such correlations are not however, universal, as an examination of European smokers would show that smoking is quite popular there amongst highly educated academics. What marketing forces could explain such a difference in smoking practices?

The regional descriptions of the ADIs at the end of the book could potentially be used by people interested in re-locating to identify regions where their own values and preferences are popular. However, I'm not convinced that this information is accurate for every ADI. For example, most of Vermont is grouped into one ADI together with a large chunk of upstate New York. Those of us who live in the region have a gut feeling that Vermonters and New Yorkers are two distinct populations. Our houses look different, we work for different kinds of employers, and we eat different foods. Much of the text summarizing marketing data for this ADI sounded quite surprising to me- -it made the region sound more like New York than Vermont. Perhaps it was easier to accurately characterize some of the smaller, more cohesive, or more homogenous regions, but in general, I would take the information in this section with a grain of salt.

This book was written by a marketing specialist and it summarizes information that is well-known (or should be well-known) to marketers, but it's written for general audiences. Through reading this book, you will not only get to know your fellow Americans better, but you will also get an inkling of the kinds of information that marketers use when planning campaigns to sell stuff to you.

Amusing AND Useful!.......2003-06-18

This is a fun book, great entertainment (I was laughing like crazy when I was looking through it at the bookstore). The main reason I bought it was because my husband and I plan to move within the year, and I thought the book would be a good resource for helping us choose where to live--it is!

The book uses the 213 American consumer markets--the way the market research folks have sectioned off the country by consumer trends. For example, there's Northern Maine, Central Maine, Southern Maine/Vermont, about 12 sections in Calfornia, New Mexico is all one, and about 10 in Florida.

The first half of the book is maps with the sections color coded as to inhabitants' preferences for things like: fresh croissants vs. white bread, bagels, twinkies, books vs. tv, owners of power tools, owners of personal computers, cats, dogs, different kinds of cars, political leanings, what they watch on tv, what kind of car they drive, et cetera. There are 87 maps and 11 categories (eg Food, Sports, Cars, Television). Each map includes a commentary so we can learn why exactly snack nuts are much more popular north of the Mason-Dixon line and The Simpsons are more popular in the West.

The second half of the book highlights each of the 213 sections (half a page for each), telling what's hot and what's not, along with commentary on the general mood of the place,and statistics about socioeconomic makeup, median income and house price.

The consumer market designated as Seattle-Tacoma, Washington (actually most of the Western half of the state), is described (in part) thusly: "Locals have the money to enjoy the 'good life': traveling abroad, enjoying gourmet cuisine--especially espresso from numerous coffee bars--and investing in stock, bonds, and real estate at some of the highest rates in the nation."

For Bangor, Maine (which includes the central portion of the state), the author says, "The sterotypical New Englander--aloof, curt, idiosyncratic--is what you'll find in Bangor. Many are independent-minded professionals, retirees, and assorted blue-collar workers who keep to themselves."

The book also serves as a kind of armchair traveler--or a guidebook in knowing what to expect of the natives when traveling through the U.S. All in all, LATITUDES AND ATTITUDES is an entertaining way to learn more about the people of America--or to help choose a new place to live!

(and yes, we are now very happy in our new home state of Oregon :)

Kimberly Borrowdale - Under the Covers Book Reviews

Loved it!.......1999-09-24

Great info. A fun and creative way to look at market profiles. Only problem is that an update is needed as my copy was published in 1994, pre-Internet, etc.

Why a book so good can be out of print so soon?.......1998-11-10

Michael Weiss's earlier book, The Clustering of America, was a very enlighting look on the social settings of America. It was tops, but he even did one better with LATITUDES & ATTITUDES. I have walls covered with books but this is one of the most coveted books of my guests once they open it. It is a reference book that you return to over and over. Bless Michael and all his loved ones!

Amusing to peruse, frustrating to use........1997-03-01

This book is fun to flip through, but it's absolutely useless as a research tool, or for anything more than a quick laugh. The main reason for this is that it has no key. The same map of the 209 market areas is used on each page, but the different areas of the map are not identified. Say you've noticed that a small region in the deep south seems to have different "attitudes" than any of the other regions around it, and you want to look up the profile for this region to find out more about it. To do this, you have to guess approximately where in the country the area is (there are no state boundary lines on the map), go to your atlas and figure out which cities are in that general area, and then look in the profiles in the back, which are arranged alphabetically by metropolitan name. The only way to be sure that you've found the right region is to compare the shape of the area to the one on the map. This can be frustrating, especially since there are a couple of regions that have no profiles in the back of the book (I can only assume they were included as deliberate errors to protect the copyright of the maps). In addition, the book doesn't give any actual numbers; it usually indicates whether a given region has above or below average consumption of a particular product, but doesn't say what the average consumption of that product is. I understand why the given regions were used (they're the ones marketing analysts use), but for information about the large metropolitan centers of the west this book is pretty useless. Every little town in the southeast has it's own profile, while the LA region includes most of southern California. Finally, some of the profiles in the back, especially the lists of "what's hot" and "what's not" don't appear to reflect the information given in the maps. In short, this book is ultimately frustrating if you want to analyze the given information, even casually

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NOT BAD, BUT COULD BE BETTER.......2007-02-13

Sir's:
This book is very good, but needs more. How about a chapter on definitions or maybe better, a new book on nothing but definitions in C++.

For Programmers with Some Experience!.......2006-08-05

"C++ GUI Programming with GT 3" Is an good book for an experienced Linux programmer. Most of the examples do compile properly on SuSe Linux 10.1. However, database connections are difficult to configure for MySql.

Appended: Sept 2, 2006: The book's binding came unglued and pages started falling out after less than a month of use. I have found that others are correct in that the code in the book is, to say the least, a bit comfusing. I have been working with computers regularly since the 1980's and have worked with most versions of Windows and many versions of Linux. Amended: I would not reccomend this book.

The Windows Qt 3 software did not fully install on my Windows 2000 machine. This book is difficult for me to use as an advanced beginning programmer and is not for everyone.

This book is not a tutorial that takes one over every step of the road. It takes a lot of time to understand how QT works, but it is worth it. If you have the new QT 4, you will need the new book on GT 4.

In order to compile a standalone program using GT 3 in Linux, one must use a terminal. And qmake must be installed in the right place. To test for qmake: open a terminal or C prompt and type qmake -v If you get the version number and some other info, you are good to go. If not, search for it and copy it to /usr/bin for Linux and try again. Or install qmake or reinstall QT 3, if it cannot be found.

To compile your program into an exe. Simply open a terminal and locate the file you created, Ex: hello.cpp, and type qmake -project then press enter. Then type dir and press enter. Find the file with the .pro extension. Let's say it is hello.pro. Now type qmake hello.pro then press enter. Finally just type make and press enter. Fix any errors and try again until it completes the MakeFile.

After the make command finishes, Go to the file using a file search "not" a text editor, such as Kate or Open Office, because it will open the file as a binary and not execute the program. After locating the file click on the gear Icon and the program will execute on the desktop if all is done correctly.

I hope this helps.

It would be decent, but the format destroys everything.......2005-07-23

The only reason you would want to read this book is if you were interested in building a spreadsheet application from the ground up following instructions. This is NOT a reference, you can not just look up one sunject, it does nt work that way, subjects are just spread everywhere throughout the book. This was a complete waste of money.

I'm glad my company bought the book because it's a waste.......2005-06-07

I'm glad my company bought the book and I didn't waste my own money on it. I'm back looking for a better book now. Writing style is terse. Very scant operational discussion about what is going on behind the scenes with UIC and MOC. The only reason I gave two stars is because I did use one of the examples in the book for production use, heavily modified. Otherwise the book is dry, humorless, and uninspiring. Buy it only if you are using someone else's money.

An extraordinarily efficient introduction to Qt.......2004-05-24

I was given a few weeks to port several applications from other windowing systems to Qt. I had never used Qt before.

This book, along with the Qt Assistant online documentation, were all I needed. I was astonished at how relevant almost every page of this book was to my tasks.

The examples of displaying data in a table, employing double-buffered graphics, parsing and creating XML, adding OpenGL, multithreading, using sockets, creating custom events, and accessing a database were all almost copy-and-pasted into my final applications. Even the esoteric information on selecting an object from an OpenGL widget was useful.

Maybe my needs were just particularly well covered by the material in this book, but it's more likely that the authors have carefully chosen a wide range of examples that prove to be extremely useful in real-world applications.

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