West's Federal Taxation: Corporations, Partnerships, Estates, and Trusts, 2000 (West Federal Taxation Corporations, Partnerships, Estates and Trusts)

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Generally used in the second course in taxation, this market leading book focuses primarily on taxation as it applies to corporations, partnerships, trusts and estates. Hoffman et al., provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage of relevant code and regulations as well as all major developments in federal taxation.

West Federal Taxation : Corporations, Partnerships, Estates, and Trust, 2001 ed. , hc, 2000

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West Federal Taxation : Corporations, Partnerships, Estates, and Trust, 2001 ed. , hc, 2000
William/ Ra Hoffman
Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUCZE0

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Provides analysis of 650 jobs, based on 20 years of research using the McClelland/McBer job competence assessment (JCA) methodology. Includes generic job models for entrepreneurs, technical professionals, salespeople, service workers and corporate managers. Defines JCA and describes in detail how to conduct JCA studies. Suggests future directions and uses for competency research.

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Essential & Exceptional.......2003-10-21

The phrase "essential reading" is a cliché, however, this is truly essential reading for anyone seeking to understand competencies.

Not bed-time time reading; this is a technical book for HR professionals. Detailed and lucid (although the neophyte may prefer to start with something a little lighter, eg some emotional intelligence work by Goleman).

A good index and bibliography.

Required reading to become a true competency expert.......2002-12-07

I have studied and used dozens of books on the topic of competencies, and many are useful, but this is the one I return to most often. My copy of this book is ragged, dog-eared, coffee-stained, and marked by many colored tabs for quick reference. Competence at Work changed my approach to human resources, and I actually earned some national honors and recognition for innovations in assessment and workforce planning by using it as a guide. It yields an effective understanding of competencies and how to apply them in processes such as recruiting, selection, development, performance management, succession, and workforce planning.

Some insights and tools in the book are particularly valuable:

Criterion sampling:
Compare high performers to average performers in order to understand how each performance group achieves their different levels of success.

Operant measures:
Measure how people operate in the real world as opposed to how they respond to a list of multiple-choice items. It describes Behavioral Event Interviewing (BEI) as the preferred approach, but you might have to access other sources for a complete understanding of the BEI.

Competency definitions and scales:
These alone are worth the price of the book. Based on behaviors that are empirically related to performance in a wide variety of jobs, they provide a quick-start to comparing performance groups and developing competency models, and they provide a framework for both assessing and developing competencies in people.

The principles and methods outlined in this book allow one to construct and apply competency models and human resource practices that get results. If I could have only one book on human resources, it would be this one! If I could have only three, the other two would also be by Spencer: Reengineering Human Resources and Calculating Human Resource Costs and Benefits.

Good competence guideline.......2002-09-17

This book present the components of the job competence assessment approach,including the competency dictionary, which lists, defines, and provides scoring criteria that can help you predict superior performance for most jobs,It's provided to step by step guidelines on how to use the dictionary in all types of
job.
You will understand what is competence from this book!I strongly recommendation!

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An Essential Primer on Competence.......2000-08-04

Lyle Spencer has written a book that is lucid, well-organized, and a concise reference on human competence. If this was history, you would know that he had been there and had not merely interviewed those who were. This is so because his work is informed by original research. Spencer begins the presentation within a framework of competence that is criterion-referenced. The competence dictionary is organized around competency clusters that are well-defined and behaviorally anchored. But theory is not left to wrestle with the reader's experience. Spencer provides the practioner with a guide that takes the user through all steps in the conduct of a competency study. Spencer closes with a set of generic competency models that the practioner can tailor to his or her client before drawing the reader's attention to the variety of applications that study data may serve. Though a bit pricey, you can purchase it with the knowledge that it will stand up well as your single source of reference.

This book changed how I do my job as a trainer........1998-09-30

This book gives a comprehensive competency dictionary using behaviorally anchored rating scales for each competency. It also gives step by step guidelines on how to use the dictionary in all types of HR decision making. It is clearly written and is based on years of extensive research. Using this book eliminates the need to use expensive and dependency creating consulting services. Every HR professional should have it on their shelf. Moreover, as a training professional, if I had to choose 2 books to have on my bookshelf, I would choose this book and Performance Consulting by Dana Gaines Robinson.

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Much has been written on the human rights relevance and impacts of the policies and activities of the World Bank and IMF --or International Financial Institutions (IFIs). However while many of the human rights-based critiques of the Bank and Fund purport to link broadly defined reforms with obligations under international human rights law, rarely has this been carried out through a rigorous and in-depth application of international legal rules governing the proper interpretation of the institutions' mandates, and rarely have the policy consequences and practical possibilities for human rights integration been explored in any detail. These are the principal gaps that the present book aims to fill, by reference to a sample of the IFIs' most important and controversial contemporary activities. 'By balancing a legal academic analysis with a rigorous evaluation of policy proposals for the integration of human rights at the Bank and Fund, Darrow appeals to a broad audience of policymakers, international legal experts, and human rights advocates. He bridges a gap between theory and practice in the existing literature on the law of international institutions. 'Galit A. Sarfaty, American Journal of International Law.

Between Light and Shadow: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and International Human Rights Law.(Book Review): An article from: Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal

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Between Light and Shadow: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and International Human Rights Law.(Book Review): An article from: Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
Horacio Javier Etchichury
Manufacturer: Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal
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Title: Between Light and Shadow: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and International Human Rights Law.(Book Review)
Author: Horacio Javier Etchichury
Publication: Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal
Volume: 7 Page: 188(4)

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Skylab is not just a story of space hardware and space science, but also of space explorers and pioneers. Using official NASA documentation and interviews with the astronauts and key personnel, the inside story of Skylab is presented as the story unfolds. An evaluation of the lessons learnt from the programme and how these were, or were not, incorporated into the Space Shuttle and Space Station programme is also offered to present the value of Skylab in the context of the current programme, 25 years after the last crew came home.

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All there is...and thankfully it's a good one.......2006-01-19

There aren't many books that focus on the Skylab project. My own memories of Skylab are vague and in the shadow of Apollo, the Viking landers and the Voyager probes how could public perception of Skylab be anything but "underwhelmed"? What a shame. Many thanks and kudos to David Shayler for taking the time to craft such a well written account of an oft overlooked and imminenetly vital contribution to manned space exploration. The text is rife with detail and description that is rarely dull. With little else written about Skylab it is a relief to be able to say that this book is the best and will be difficult to top by anyone aspiring to tackle the subject. For any space buff this is a highly recommended addition to your collection.

A Good Narrative History of the Skylab Program.......2005-01-23

David Shayler has been a prolific writer of space history for the last several years, and this narrative history of Skylab is a notable addition to his portfolio and the historical literature on space stations. From the time of Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy through Robert Goddard, Hermann Oberth, and Wernher von Braun all the spaceflight visionaries believed that a space station was a necessary prerequisite to further human exploration of space. They recognized that once humans had achieved Earth-orbit about 250 miles up, the presumed location of any space station, the vast majority of the atmosphere and the gravity well had been conquered and that humans were now about halfway to anywhere else they might want to go. They could use it as a base camp at the bottom of the mountain or the fort in the wilderness, or use any other similar metaphor, to jump off on explorations of the Solar System. It became the centerpiece of an integrated strategy for space exploration, and found its most sophisticated depiction as a way station in the masterful 1968 Stanley Kubrick movie, "2001: A Space Odyssey."

The first effort in the United States to build a space station was Skylab, launched in 1973 and occupied through 1974, a far cry from the rotating wheel of "2001: A Space Odyssey" but nonetheless a genuine success story. It represented a preliminary space station and was a relatively small orbital space platform that would allow astronauts for the first time to remain in space for months at a time. It would be, NASA officials hoped, be the precursor of a real space station. This is the story that Shayler tells in this fine narrative history.

It used a reconfigured and habitable third stage of the Saturn V rocket as the basic component of the orbital workshop. The 100-ton Skylab 1 workshop was launched into orbit on May 14, 1973, the last use of the giant Saturn V launch vehicle. Shayler is at his best when discussing the dramatic rescue effort that followed, for technical problems developed due to vibrations during lift-off When the meteoroid shield--designed also to shade Skylab's workshop from the Sun's rays--ripped off, taking with it one of the spacecraft's two solar panels, and another piece wrapped around the other panel to keep it from properly deploying. This caused a serious temperature rise inside Skylab that the astronauts had to correct.

In an intensive ten-day period, NASA developed procedures and trained the crew to make the workshop habitable. On May 25, 1973, astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr., Paul J. Weitz, and Joseph P. Kerwin, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in an Apollo capsule atop a Saturn IB and rendezvoused with the orbital workshop. This crew carried a parasol, tools, and replacement supplies to repair the orbital workshop. After substantial repairs requiring extravehicular activity (EVA), including deployment of a parasol sunshade that cooled the inside temperatures to 75 degrees Fahrenheit, by June 4 the workshop was habitable. During a June 7 EVA the crew also freed the jammed solar array and increased power to the workshop.

In orbit the crew conducted solar astronomy and Earth resources experiments, medical studies, and five student experiments. This first crew made 404 orbits and carried out experiments for 392 hours, in the process making three EVAs totaling six hours and 20 minutes. The first group of astronauts returned to Earth on June 22, 1973, and two other Skylab missions followed. The Skylab 3 crew was launched on July 28, 1973, and its mission lasted 59 days. Skylab 4, the last mission on the workshop was launched on November 16, 1973, and remained in orbit for 84 days. At the conclusion of Skylab 4 the orbital workshop was powered down with the intention that it might be visited again.

Following the final occupied phase of the Skylab mission, ground controllers performed some engineering tests of certain Skylab systems, positioned Skylab into a stable attitude, and shut down its systems. It was expected that Skylab would remain in orbit eight to ten years, by which time NASA might be able to reactivate it. In the fall of 1977, however, space agency officials determined that Skylab had entered a rapidly decaying orbit--resulting from greater than predicted solar activity--and that it would reenter the Earth's atmosphere within two years. They steered the orbital workshop as best they could so that debris from reentry would fall over oceans and unpopulated areas of the planet. On July 11, 1979, Skylab finally impacted the Earth's surface. The debris dispersion area stretched from the Southeastern Indian Ocean across a sparsely populated section of Western Australia. NASA and the U.S. space program took criticism for this development, ranging from the sale of hardhats as "Skylab Survival Kits" to serious questions about the propriety of space flight altogether if people were likely to be killed by falling objects. In reality, while NASA took sufficient precautions so that no one was injured, its leaders had learned that the agency could never again allow a situation in which large chunks of orbital debris had a chance of reaching the Earth's surface. It was an inauspicious ending to the first American space station, not one that its originators had envisioned, but it had opened some doors of understanding and had whetted the appetite for a full-fledged space station.

David Shayler tells this story well, but without footnotes. If you wish to read the same story, also well told, but with references to official documents see the official NASA history by W. David Compton and Charles D. Benson, "Living and Working in Space: A History of Skylab" (Washington, DC: NASA Special Publication-4208, 1983).

America's first space station is recalled.......2005-01-17

Everything you wanted to know about Skylab is in this book, and contrary to many opinions NASA didn't just loft three, three-man crews, to this space station to play around with candy and fruit juice.
Probably the most interesting details come early in the book which show how Dr. Wernher von Braun and Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Ala., designed and built Skylab. The groundwork for today's International Space Station was laid in the mid-1960s by the men and women of the Skylab program.
A fair amount of time is spent discussing how Skylab was saved from an untimely demise when it was damaged during launch. It took two crews to get it set up right, but what could have been a failure was turned around to a quick thinking success because of NASA's dedication to this mission. Lessons that can be learned in today's space program if we are going to return to the moon and go on to Mars.
Like all the Springer-Praxis space books this one can be an interesting history and a valuable learning tool. It works either way for the casual or the more intensely interested.

Skylab - America's First Space Station (A Pop-up Book)

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Skylab - America's First Space Station (A Pop-up Book)

Manufacturer: Hallmark
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JKX6GG

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Skylab: America's Space Station.
David J. Shayler
Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UY9MKA

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Very informative and wonderfully written but dated.......2005-02-08

Keith S. Thomson's book is truly a marvelous piece of scientific writing. It seamlessly integrates the stories of the eccentric personalities involved in first identifing and classifying the coelacanth, the odd history of coelacanth evolution and what we know about coelacanth physiology and behavior. "Living Fossil" is both meticulously researched and a joy to read.

The only problem with Thomson's work is that the book was released in 1991 (at least the edition I've read), and in 1997 a new species of ceolacanth was found in Sulawesi, Indonesia (quite distant from the first species' habitat in the Comoros Islands!) The book is still a compelling read, but a more contemporary book is suggested for information on Latimeria menadoensis, the most recently discovered of the coelacanth species.

the dark itching.......2000-03-08

to be perfectly honest, i haven't exactly read this book. it matters not. and anyway, i just ordered the dang thing, so i'll read it soon enough. am i the only poor asshead in the world with a credit card, internet access, poor impulse control, and a fascination with ugly prehistoric fish?

LIVING FOSSIL. THE STORY OF THE COELACANTH.

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LIVING FOSSIL. THE STORY OF THE COELACANTH.
K. Thomson
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WQJ4YK

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LIVING FOSSIL. THE STORY OF THE COELACANTH.
K. S. Thomson
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WPTOM8

Search for a Living Fossil - The Story of the Coelacanth

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Search for a Living Fossil - The Story of the Coelacanth
Eleanor Clymer
Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OF2OWS

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a book read to death

Search for a living fossil : the story of the coelacanth
Eleanor Clymer
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00005WRUB

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a book read to death.......2003-06-13

This was one of my all time favorites when I was a kid. I read it so many times that the book became tattered. I still have it. The writer does a great job of making the search for a fish into high drama. When I was a child this book opened my eyes to the sciences that were out there to study. It also showed that two people could change what is known about evolution.

Search for a living fossil ;: The story of the coelacanth / by Eleanor Clymer ; Ill. by Jerry Robinson

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Search for a living fossil ;: The story of the coelacanth / by Eleanor Clymer ; Ill. by Jerry Robinson
Eleanor Lowenton Clymer
Manufacturer: Scholastic Book Services
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Search for a Living Fossil The Story of the Coelacanth
Eleanor and Jerry Robinson (Illustrator) Clymer
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JHKQYO

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Search For A Living Fossil(The Story of the Coelacanth)
Eleanor Clymer
Manufacturer: Scholastic
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PCQAOS

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Search for a Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth
Eleanor Clymer
Manufacturer: Scholastic Book Services
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J5AJBQ

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Search for a Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth
Eleanor Clymer
Manufacturer: Scholastic Book Services
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KTV0Z0

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Winner of Mayhaven's Awards for Fiction.

What begins as curiosity about a cookbook becomes a novella of extraordinary sensitivity and surprising humor. Lippmann's characters are compelling and engaging. Some might even say unforgetable.

Set in Vienna, Austria at the end of World War II, the characters not only survive poverty and loss, but manage to find spirit and humor in their indignity.

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