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Great read for anyone in tipping industry

This is one book you can't afford to pass up.

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The Complete Guide to Tips & Gratuities: A Guide for Employees Who Earn Tips & Employers Who Manage Tipped Employees and Their Accountants
Sharon Fullen
Manufacturer: Atlantic Publishing Company (FL)
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There are millions of workers in the USA that rely on tips for most of their income, and there are well over two million businesses where the employers rely on tipped employees. According to recent statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor, food and beverage service-related workers held 6.5 million jobs in 2000 alone. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates in a 2001 study that tips and gratuities may account for well over $5 billion per year being left on plates and tip trays, financed on credit cards and handed directly into happy, open palms.

But let's face facts. Relying on customers' tips for your income is tough. The average customer just doesn't realize how difficult and hard the average waiter, waitress, hair dresser, concierge, cab driver, maitre de or bartender works for their money. Dealing with and satisfying the general public is one of the most demanding jobs around. Many, if not most, tipped employees have a tough time making ends meet. And then there are the complicated IRS tax laws regarding tipping and gratuities that most employees and few employers know how to handle correctly.

For the first time this new book deals with all aspects of tips and gratuities. For the employee or self-employed, learn how to earn more tips and how to properly account for and pay taxes on them. For the employer: how to manage and properly account for the taxes on tipped employees; for the bookkeeper and accountant: get the latest on tax and withholding laws. Apart from all great and practical advice in the book, it has to be remembered that tips have to be earned, thus there are literally hundreds of little tricks, hints and suggestions to help tipped employees - well, make more tips!

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Great read for anyone in tipping industry.......2006-06-16

Tipping can cause some confusion not only for customers but also for the employees who receive and the employer who handles the tipped employee. This book is a godsend for those who are thinking about becoming a tipped employee. It is loaded with lots of advice on how to increase the tips that are received. The book is also great for those who are thinking about hiring tipped employees and for those who already have tipped employees.

The book is easy to use and starts with helping people to understand what tips are and the history of tipping. This history helps to explain the reasons why many tip today. The author goes into explanation about the tip etiquette of today and discusses such controversial subjects such as a tip jar. The author lends some advice to the employee which not only is guaranteed to help with the gratuity but also helps the business out as well. Employers are also given suggestions for how they can both boost service and tips.

The last part of the book talks about the laws surrounding gratuity as it is seen as income. It explains basic concepts such as allocated tips, why records are important, and penalties that can arise by not reporting all tips. At the end of the book, there are more resources to answer any questions about the laws in depth. The author is able to unravel much of the confusion surrounding tipping. It is recommended that anyone who has ever or is thinking about working in a tipping industry or with tip receiving employees should read this.

This is one book you can't afford to pass up........2006-01-27

The Complete Guide to Tips & Gratuities lives up to its name. An established restaurateur attempted to explain the ins and outs of tipping to me. Quite frankly, I had no idea the topic warranted such consideration. I now realize that my future employees and I can land ourselves in hot water if we are uneducated on the matter. This book sheds light on tipping practices across cultures avoiding faux pas that could cost us repeat business. It guided me through the waters of reporting tips to the IRS, and even breaks down filling out W-2 forms. Don't mistake this book as an optional purchase. When you think about the rules involving tipping, and the penalties for breaking them, this is one book you can't afford to pass up.

Review From Book News Inc........2005-07-12

Primarily written for service workers in the restaurant and hotel industries, this guide explores the psychology behind giving a server a monetary gratuity, and offers advice on increasing tips and reporting tip income to the IRS. Employers also can read about ideas for improving customer service, measuring performance, empowering employees, and complying with tip regulations.

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How much does regulation matter in shaping corporate behavior? This pathbreaking, in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand reveals that steadily tightening regulatory standards have been crucial for raising environmental performance. But while all firms have shown improvement, some have improved more than others, many going substantially beyond compliance.

What explains the variation in compliance? It’s not necessarily the differences in regulation in each country. Rather, variation is accounted for by the complex interaction between tightening regulations and a social license to operate (especially pressures from community and environmental activists), economic constraints, and differences in corporate environmental management style. Shades of Green provides the most extensive and systematic empirical study to date of why firms achieve the levels of environmental performance that they do.

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This clear and accessible text helps public health professionals gain a solid understanding of geographic information system technology, what it is, how it works, and how it shapes their careers. Using examples drawn from public health practice, the author fully explains this exciting technological development. The text builds from basic to more advanced topics, such as:

A description and the history of GIS
Getting started using GIS: hardware, software, and Internet essentials
Examples of the use and relevance of GIS for environmental health, communicable disease control, injury prevention, chronic disease prevention and control, and community health assessment and improvement
Also, limitations and potential problems of the technology
The connection between GIS technology and public health management and practice, including the future role of public health officials
Also includes graphs, charts and maps to reinforce the text; tables that summarize important information; and URLs for useful web sites; glossary of key terms

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Extremely helpful.......2006-07-08

I am using this book for a graduate level class on GIS applications in public health and it has proven to be tremendously helpful. I didn't know a thing about GIS before but, this book helps to provide the basics and clearly explains the applications of GIS in today's health systems.

A Must Read for Public Health Students and New Practitioners.......2006-04-04

Dr. Melnick's years' of experience praciticing and teaching public health tactics and strategies come through in this comprehensive overview of geographic information systems for public health. A valuable, understandable reference for the novice or professional. It should be part of every public health training program and on the reference shelf of every health department in the country. Dr. Melnick's book is also facinating reading for anyone interested in learning more about the public health world.

THE best GIS related book focussing on Public Health.......2004-04-27

The scoop:
* Book consistently focuses on GIS usage in healthcare.
* Practically applicable ideas.
* Exhaustive and highly informative lessons learnt chapter.
* Very clear and crisp presentation.
* IT part needs better information.

I had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Melnick. He is clearly a subject matter expert. Knows the micro and macro problems and opportunities in this field.

Public Health GIS by A Melnick.......2002-07-30

This is a serious book for the serious student of both public health and geographical information systems. Not difficult, but certainly serious. Dr. Melnick does an excellent job of introducing us to GIS and then walking us through the application of GIS to various public health areas (environmental health, communicable diseases, injuries, chronic diseases, and assessment). At each point he carefully notes the applicable principles, what the data and GIS application demonstrate, and the strengths and weaknesses of the GIS approach. This should become the standard learning tool for GIS and Health.

The book probably over references and over describes specific software programs and companies (e.g. see the discussion of Maptitude and Version 3.0 and 4.0 and HUD....) - these are outdated in 12 months.

Obviously, the book needs a CD-ROM (or web site) with data sets and the capacity to play with some of the data. The main point of the book is doing the picture and thinking about what you end up with. Without a CD-ROM or web site we are left short of really being able to get it.

In summary, despite some drawbacks this book is a winner. By the end you will not know how to do GIS, but you will know that you need to find a way to know it

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Electromagnetic Noise and Quantum Optical Measurements is the result of more than 40 years of research and teaching. The first three chapters provide the background necessary to understand the basic concepts. Then shot noise and thermal noise are discussed, followed by linear noisy multiparts, the quantum theory of waveguides and resonators, an analysis of phase-insensitive systems, detection, photon probability distributions, solitons, phase-sensitive amplification, squeezing, the quantum theory of solitons and squeezing, and quantum non-demolition measurements. Rich appendices give additional information. The book is intended for graduate students and scientists in physics and engineering. Numerous problems and selected solutions will help readers to deepen their knowledge.

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This classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the author's philosophy of love and death.

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Simply put : Timeless.......2005-09-01

Currently I'm taking a class in German, as is being taught by a professor from Germany. When pressed on what sorts of things might be a good read from the German catalogue, she pointed me towards the likes of Thomas Mann.

Fortunately for me I'm bad with names. I went to the bookstore in search of something to read (because I would like to know more about Germany) but I couldn't remember any of the authors she told me to check out. The only name I could remember was Goethe and his only work that I was familiar with was, of course, Faust. One more happy circumstance (that they were out of that story) put me in possession of this edition of 'Werther'. Again, I am a fortunate man.

This is a terrific little book. I am told that it caused a storm of praise and a sort of cult following upon its publication (even a few suicides) and I find that I can truly believe that. It tells the story of unrequited love, of a man who meets a woman who fills all the holes in his heart and life, yet remains estranged from him. The emotions that Werther goes through in pining for his Lotte are real, for they are the same emotions that every other human being has had in shaking anticipation of seeing their 'crush'.

As you read through the short work, you find yourself feeling the initial highs that Werther goes through. Without saying it so succinctly, Werther begins to see green for green and blue for blue for the first time, all augmented by his new appreciation for life through the filter of his beloved. As the story progresses, the emotions grow darker and more foreboding. You can feel the onset of defeat, the slow torture of knowing that even if Lotte became his, his whole life would never be the same for it because the moment of ripeness for the relationship has come and passed. You can feel Werther's non-acceptance of his situation...it lies inside all of our hearts.

The other short pieces in the book are tantalizing tidbits as well. 'The New Melusina' is a quaint tale of a typical man who cannot commit himself to anything but Bacchus. 'The Fairy Tale' reminded me somewhat of a CS Lewis work. The non-fiction pieces are insightful into the way Goethe's mind worked although I found myself wondering if maybe he wasn't trying to tell a tale about his own life in the Sesenheim recounting; it sounded more like wishful thinking than anything else, though I think a historian (or a few minutes research in a library) might settle the matter (sorry- didn't have time to do that for this review).

Bottom line: Buy this book and give it a read. It bears the word 'classic' on the back of it with more justification than some of the other books in that milieu.

-NL

Haunting exploration of the human heart and psyche........2005-01-17

When I found this book on the reading list for my European literature class, and once I'd read a synopsis of the story, I wasn't expecting to like it much. And initially I was a little put off by the protagonist's melodramatic way of expressing himself, but by the time I'd finished the book, my opinion had changed drastically. I don't usually go in for tragedies, but this one is somehow different. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is the tale of a young man, Werther, who seeks a new life by moving to a pretty country town and immersing himself in the beauties of nature. Once there, however, he meets and falls in love with Lotte, a young woman who happens to be already engaged to another man. Werther initially befriends the couple, but as the tension in this hopeless love triangle increases, so does Werther's depression deepen.

The story is told mainly in the form of a series of letters written by Werther to a close friend, William, whom we never actually meet, and occasionally a few other individuals, including Lotte. Each letter is dated and we see the progression and deterioration of Werther's mental state from infatuation, to love, and then to destructive obsession and despair. Toward the end of the book, shortly before Werther's depression finally drives him to take his own life, the narrative style abruptly switches to third person, allowing us for the first time to see the thoughts and emotions of other characters without having them first filtered through Werther's unreliable perception. And the viewpoints of those around Werther give us critical insight into the manifestations of his mental state.

Over the years this book has sparked much concern as to whether it advocates suicide in cases of unrequited love. And indeed there have been cases where individuals were motivated to take their own lives after reading this story. However, those who draw such a message from "The Sorrows of Young Werther" are, I believe, misinterpreting the work. Though the protagonist does indeed commit suicide, his act is not glorified (just look at the pitiful way in which his death is described) and nowhere does Goethe make any commentary on whether suicide is right or wrong in such a situation. In fact, I didn't find anything judgmental in the book at all. Rather, Goethe simply explores the human heart and emotions, presents his findings, and leaves the reader to draw their own conclusions.

Despite being a first novel for Goethe, "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is beautifully written. I cannot compare this particular translation (1962 Signet Classics printing, translated by Catherine Hutter) to the original German text, but even in translation it is clear that Goethe had a powerful command of the written word. And it is quite plausible to believe that the depth and intensity of emotions expressed in the work are a result of Goethe's own experiences with unsuccessful romances. This particular edition also contains an interesting piece entitled "Goethe in Sesenheim" in which he relates one such relationship and in which we can identify many parallels with Werther's story.

This Signet Classics edition also includes two other short stories - "The New Melusina" and "The Fairy Tale." Neither one is, in my opinion, as good as "The Sorrows of Young Werther," but they are interesting to read nonetheless. Both contain the theme of love, making the book as a whole into a nice exploration of this particular emotion. "The Fairy Tale" is a rather strange and rambling tale, the plot of which is difficult to pin down and identify, and I could either take it or leave it. "The New Melusina" is my favorite of the two, and is told from the perspective of a traveling gentleman who enters a relationship with an alluring but mysterious woman he meets at an inn. He later discovers that she is a pixie, and must then choose between joining his love in her own world, or losing her forever.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther," as well as the other pieces in this edition, really does give us a lot to think about. Goethe's insights into human emotion are right on the mark, and he expresses them in haunting and moving language. While many modern readers will balk at Werther's extreme romanticism, it is really only his outward expression of emotion that is so alien to us. Once you get past this and delve into the actual feelings beneath, most readers will realize that they can identify with Werther in many ways. Nearly all of us has been in a similar romantic situation, longing for someone we will never have, and Goethe offers a wealth of material for us to contemplate in analyzing our own emotions. Any thoughtful reader will find much to appreciate here.

A bittersweet story.......2003-11-08

I didn't buy this book from Amazon, but I read it last year in high school. I highly recommend it, but definitely not to those who do not enjoy reading about misery (and in this case, it's incessantly prevalent, so if you're that type of person - Beware!). True, Werther's sorrow is constantly talked about through the entire story (which, understandably, can cause annoyance), but it's still very very beautiful. But perhaps this was done to emphasize just how much he suffers, so that we may come to understand the intensity of his feelings. Goethe probably couldn't have done it any other way, in my opinion...
And I completely agree with Jude C - "this is deep reading best for those who want to uncover a darker side to the human heart and mind". Many people I know wouldn't like this type of literature. It's too sad, too annoying, and Werther probably seems pathetically pitiful. But if you take a deeper understanding and try to put yourself in his shoes... you'll be touched. Just like I was.
But although some aren't fitted for this book, there's no harm in trying it out and proving me wrong. :)
Give it a try.

I may have been unfair.......2002-06-25

I may have been unfair in my previous review. The foul-up I highlighted may be the printer's rather than the translator's fault. Anyway, a prose writer of Goethe's elegance deserves better.

incompetent translation.......2002-06-08

I am looking for the best translation of this novel for my students. This translation of Catherine Hutter is utterly incompetent. Example: "I have spoken to my aunt and must say that I didn't find her to be the dreadful vehement woman with the kindest of hearts." The German reads: "Ich habe meine Tante gesprochen und bei weitem das boese Weib nicht gefundet, das man bei uns aus ihr macht. Sie ist eine muntere, heftige Frau von dem besten Herzen" = "I have spoken to my aunt and found her to be not at all the dreadful woman she is made out to be among us. She is a cheerful, energetic woman with the best of hearts."

THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER AND SELECTED WRITINGS

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THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER AND SELECTED WRITINGS

Manufacturer: New American Library
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The Sorrows of Young Werther and selected Writings
johann Wolfgang geothe
Manufacturer: New Amer Library
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The Sorrows of Young Werther and selected Writings
Goethe
Manufacturer: Signet
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The Sorrows Of Young Werther: And Selected Writings
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Manufacturer: Signet Classic
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