Choosing the Right Business Entity: Tax Practitioner's Guide 2000

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Choosing the Right Business Entity helps you advise your clients on the advantages and disadvantages--tax and otherwise--of the major forms of business organization available today. It provides extensive Examples to clarify specific situations and Observations to spotlight critical details. Text and practice aids alike contribute to thorough and consistent advice for clients. This Guide--and especially its accompanying software--will dramatically improve the quality of your service to clients and the investment of your time in routine aspects of the engagement.

Choosing the Right Business Entity was created to help you serve your clients faster and better than ever before as they consider selecting the optimal legal form of organization for business start-ups and business reorganizations. The Guide covers sole proprietorships, LLCs, LLPs, "traditional" limited and general partnerships, family limited partnerships (FLPs), and C and S corporations.

While recent events have clearly added complexity to the choice-of-entity decision process, they also have created greater opportunities for business owners and investors to meet both their tax-planning and their financial objectives.

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The Best!.......2003-06-17

This is the best book available on making diversity work!

Dr. Michael Beitler
Author of "Strategic Organizational Change"

Delightful Wizard of Oz analogy.......2002-09-06

Each chapter begins with a question: "What is diversity in the workplace?", "How do I begin to improve my understanding of people different from me?", "In today's environment of political correctness, it's too difficult to know what to do. Isn't it easier just to treat everybody the same?" After every heartened answer, she ends the chapter with practical tips.

I recommend this to everyone migrating or moving into North America.

The Lion-Hearted Author.......2000-02-11

This book represents a conversational approach to sharing critical information. Common sense steps to digging into our head regarding the value of tolerance and inclusiveness. I had the feeling of "being there" in a true teaching session. The analogy of The Wizard of OZ was delightful. The exercises are thought out and well organized. Thank you for providing steps on "how to make a difference"!

Practical and full of great ideas.......2000-02-11

I just read The Diversity Advantage. It was packed full of great ideas and easy to read. In a short time I gained useful knowledge and ideas for diversity training activities.

Short Concise Guide to Learning the Subject........1999-11-06

A short and concise guide to learning about the diversity that makes the United States the richest country in the world in more ways than monetarily. The excercises help to learn about diversity. Enjoyed the chance to read it.

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This book provides an introduction to the study of impact craters and their structures. It will, thus, place emphasis of the variety of different characteristics associated to impact cratering as observed in the field and in the laboratory. A detailed discussion of how to recognize impact structures is followed by a description of impact-diagnostic mineralogical and geochemical characteristics allowing confirmation of an impact structure. The authors show the environmental effects of impact events as well as possible associations with geological boundaries and provide extensive references.

Traces of catastrophe: A handbook of shock-metamorphic effects in terrestrial meteorite impact structures

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Traces of catastrophe: A handbook of shock-metamorphic effects in terrestrial meteorite impact structures
Bevan M French
Manufacturer: Lunar and Planetary Institute
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ASIN: B0006R1XF8

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Table of Contents:.......2005-05-23

1. Landscapes with craters: meteorite impacts, earth, and the solar system

2. Target earth: present, past, and future

3. Formation of impact craters

4. Shock-metamorphic effects in rocks and minerals

5. Shock-metamorphosed rocks (impactites) in impact structures

6. Impact Melts

7. How to find impact structures

8. What next? Current problems and future investigations

Bibliography of terrestrial impact structures (SuDoc NAS 1.15:87567)

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Bibliography of terrestrial impact structures (SuDoc NAS 1.15:87567)
Maurice J. Grolier
Manufacturer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch For sale by the National Technical Information Service]
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Meteorite Craters and Impact Structures of the Earth

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Extremely over-priced Novice level tourist guide
A list and short discription of known impact craters

Meteorite Craters and Impact Structures of the Earth
Paul Hodge
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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During its five billion year history, Earth has been hit countless times by asteroids and meteorites. Over 150 crater-producing events have been identified, and this book describes all 139 sites worldwide at which evidence of the impacts can be seen. They range in age from recent craters formed this century to the highly eroded billion-year old ancient craters. Some are spectacular to visit, such as the Barringer Crater in Arizona, the ring-shaped mountains of Gosses Bluff, Australia, and the huge crater at Ries in Germany. For each site there is a summary table giving location, size, age and present condition. Maps are included where necessary. The author has visited many of the sites and his photographs enrich this thorough survey. Meteorite craters are fascinating to visit, so the descriptions include guidance about access and suggested itineraries for the large structures.

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Extremely over-priced Novice level tourist guide.......2002-06-15

What the reader expects is an atlas of these crater structures, but what you get is little more than the content provided by any other run-of-the-mill tourist type book. This could have been a great work had there been some real meat and history added. Above all else, however is the insult of a [high]price tag ... outragious.

A list and short discription of known impact craters.......1998-12-06

This book contains short discriptions, with some photos and usually a local map to be used when exploring each impact structure on the ground. It is not intended as an in-depth scientific discussion of the impact process or of any particular terrestrial impact structure, but rather, as a "travel guide" to impact sites. It fullfils this purpose admirably.

Research in Terrestrial Impact Structures (Earth Evolution Sciences)

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Research in Terrestrial Impact Structures (Earth Evolution Sciences)

Manufacturer: Friedrick Vieweg & Son
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This book is a compilation of experimentally determined solubility ranges of over 1,700 compounds in the National Toxicology Program's Chemical Repository. Each compound's solubility was determined in a consistent manner in one to six solvents. Solvents chosen were those most commonly used for toxicology studies, spill cleanups, and chemical synthesis or chemical reaction experiments. These solvents include acetone, 95% ethanol, water, dimethyl sulfoxide, methanol, and toluene. Data for many of the research and industrial chemicals featured in this volume do not exist anywhere else. If you are a toxicologist, safety professional, industrial hygienist, or chemist, this book is a valuable reference tool you'll find yourself using every day.

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This book presents a highly readable account of Lamarck's theories and the debates they generated. A child of the Enlightenment and supporter of the French Revolution, Lamarck emerges in this study as a bold and intellectually adventurous pioneer whose early work centered on meteorology and botany and who became the leading authority on invertebrates of his period. It strips away the myth of Lamarck as precursor to Darwin, making the case that the only way to see him, or any figure in the history of science, is within the scientific, religious, philosophical, and political context of his time, rather than in the light of what we know now.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) was elected to the French Academy of Sciences, yet he had to contend with scientific conservatism ("Do not meddle with my Bible!" Napoleon is said to have commanded the biologists): he eventually died penniless and blind, his work condemned. Despite its shaky status Lamarckism, which holds that traits acquired during a creature's lifetime can be passed on to its offspring, is currently enjoying a resurgence of interest and has been the subject of several scientific papers and a host of experiments. "Wrong" theories tend to be avoided in discussions of the history of science and the true value of Lamarck's work is only now beginning to be appreciated. This book does not attempt to rehabilitate Lamarck but instead places him in his milieu showing that his theories are relevant to a problem still under discussion - the debate on innate versus acquired characteristics - providing a rich contribution to the history of ideas.

Madeleine Barthélemy-Madaule is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Picardie and directs the Interdisciplinary Research Center in the History of Ideas there.

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Written entirely in letters, this novel conveys the nuances and tensions only present in personal epistolary form. The virtuous but self-deceiving Clarissa and the charming villain Lovelace haunt the imagination as fully as Romeo and Juliet or Tristan and Isolde.

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I told him, he might be assur'd, that the severity and ill-esage I met with would be far from effecting the intended end: That altho' I could, with great sincerity, declare for a Single Life, which had always been my choice; and particularly, that if ever I marry'd, if they would not insist upon the man I had an aversion to, it should not be with the man they disliked.

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Stick with it & it'll stick with you........2007-07-06

What a group of despicable characters! By page 500, I was hoping every character would be put to the rack. By page 1000, I was hoping for a mass hanging. By page 1500, I was willing to grant clemency to a few.

Dozens of times I nearly relegated this book to the pile of books to be sent to an enemy - BUT - each time would pick it up again because I had to know if my hopes would be realized.

Should you read Clarissa? By all means; if for no other reason than to serve as penance for all past sins of omission or commission wreaked on others.

If Clarissa is too hard for you,,,,try Sir Charles Grandison.......2007-03-03

Clarissa besides being one of the longest novels out there is also a hard book to read. Written in a series of letters from the main characters, it is truly work of art. You need to have a dictionary handy when reading this book as you will find many words that are not in your present vocabulary. I am reading Clarissa and I am ONLY on page 157, that is not to say that it is not an interesting book because it is. It's just that if you undertake to read this huge mammoth book, give yourself time alone to squint at the tiny print, look up words you don't know and digest some of the character's unbelievable thoughts and actions. While reading the book, I had to suppress the urge to scream at the sheer absurdity of all of Clarissa's relative. What a bunch of morons. I like it though that this book gives me reason to want to scream at these folks.

While trying to read this book, I noticed that Samuel Richardson also wrote another book similar to Clarissa but slightly more lighthearted and readable. The book is called The History of Sir Charles Grandison. It is the story of the most perfect gentleman you will ever hope to find stuck between the affections of two very beautiful but different women (don't you feel sorry for him?). Like Clarissa, this book is long. You will not be able to find a single volume that contains the whole book unless you are willing to shell out big bucks. Save your money and right here in Amazon you can purchase the digital edition of this book. With this digital edition you can download onto your PDA, eBook or PC and read it from there. Or you could do like I did, I downloaded the book to my PC and then printed myself a hard copy. I must warn you, the book is long. On a regular 8 x 11 1/2 paper, this novel takes up 1,600 sheets so be prepared. That being said, this is one of the best investments I have made as it cost less than 10 bucks and I am thoroughly enjoying this story, daresay I, more than Clarissa.

I will write a review of Sir Charles once I finish reading it but waste no more time, go out and purchase your own copy and read some of the finest literature out there.

Clarissa Harlow: The angelic heroine of Richardson's mammoth 1747 novel.......2007-03-01

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)is one of the founders of the English novel. His 1741 novel "Pamela" was one of the best sellers of the 18th century. In 1747 the printer/novelist issued the behemoth "Clarissa" which is over 1500 small printed pages and logs in at over one million words!Clarissa is a novel of manners written in an epistolatory style. It consists of 543 letters written by the prolific Clarissa; her good friend
Anna Howe; her cad of a lover Robert Lovelace and his friend Mr. Belford. Several other letters are included written by minor characters.
The plot is a simple one. Clarissa Harlow is a wealthy young lady who refuses to marry the odious Mr. Solmes. Clarissa flees to London with the rakish, highly intelligent and utterly charminig Robert Lovelace. This arch seducer places her in a brothel; she is drugged and Lovelace has intercourse with her. Clarissa then goes into a steady mental and physical decline dying before her 20th birthday.
We read Clarissa over 250 years after its first appearance due to its psychological insight into the human soul. Richardson gives us an in depth look at the mind and heart of Clarissa and Lovelace. Clarissa dies as a Christian looking to Christ for salvation; forgiving her enemies and at peace with her unfortunate situation. Lovelace is killed in a duel. The evil characters are suitably punished. The story is a tragedy as the reader mourns the loss of such a brilliant young woman as Clarissa. Credulity is strained since I doubt if a teenager could write like Clarissa! And who would write such lengthy and minute letters dealing with daily affairs?. Perhaps they had more time in the eighteenth century.
Richardson along with such eighteenth century literary figures as Henry Fielding; Oliver Goldsmith and Daniel DeFoe gave the novel a popularity among the new middle class which was literate and craved for
stories which would instruct and entertain them in their homes.
I read this novel in eight days. My eyes are trying to recover but the experience is one I savor. Clarissa will never be popular due to its great lengths and complexity. It will, however, never die but live as long as great novels are read and savored by sagacious souls.

A powerful passionate novel about a courageous woman.......2006-10-24

It's hard to say anything that hasn't already been said about Clarissa. I won't try to recap the plot or attempt to make any scholarly observations, because you don't have to be a scholar to get something out of this book. The strong point of Richardson's writing style is that the story is told in the first person, in an immediate and fresh style. You can feel the heroine's emotions, but also those of the other characters as they comment on her experiences from a variety of points of view. Although in a book this long there are episodes that merely seem to add loads of detail without advancing the story, at its best the book is suspenseful and full of exciting action with surprising twists and turns. That certainly makes it interesting, but there is more to Clarissa than a soap opera or thriller. I was amazed that a male writer from a distant time could have had so much insight into the economic and social injustices inflicted on women, and could even write very frankly and graphically about the emotional trauma caused by rape and domestic violence. He gives Clarissa's friend Anna some of the best feminist speeches in all of English literature, and he makes her sound like a thinking human being and not a hysterical man-hating monster.

Those are all good reasons to recommend it, but beyond that I simply love this book because when I read it I felt that I had met a soulmate in Clarissa. She is true to her own moral and spiritual insights, even when she suffers almost unbearably as the victim of an unjust social code that condemns women to the status of chattels. The book is more than 200 hundred years old, but it isn't out of date. The good and bad extremes of human nature portrayed in Clarissa never change. Although many of the repressive customs of CLarissa's time have died out, they have not disappeared completely. Most young women in the modern world will thankfully never live a life as constricted as Clarissa's. Generations of social progress and enlightement in the developed countries have done away with the worst abuses described in this 18th century novel. However, women in many parts of the world still face the same dilemmas as Clarissa, when they have to decide if it is worth risking their reputation,security, family connections, or even their lives, to avoid an arranged marriage to a man they hate.

Reading Clarissa takes a major comittment in time and attention, but it is well worth it. This is a book that can change your life.

Clarissa: Morality-Not Lovelace-Is The True Villain.......2006-08-13

Samuel Richardson's CLARISSA, at one million plus words, is the longest novel in English. Written in the epistolary format, CLARISSA holds the patient reader's attention not because of plot, but due to a microscopic examination of sentiment. The plot is relatively simple and takes place in less than one year. Clarissa Harlowe, a lovely eighteen year old middle class woman, is courted first by the slovenly Solmes, then by the rakishly handsome Lovelace, whom her family wishes her to marry. She and he write endless letters, all of which detail his pursuit of her for pleasure purposes, which may or may not lead to matrimony. She resists his seduction until he drugs her, and while she is unconscious, he rapes her. She dies unrepentent and divine-like. Lovelace in turn in murdered in reprisal.

Such a brief summation says nothing about why the novel is still read today. Readers of each generation like to think that they are more sophisticated than their predecessors, but each succeeding reader can appreciate the intensity of experience created by the hundreds of letters that form the book. Each letter writes of the action as it occurs; thus there is no sense of "then" but only of "now." As Clarissa is hounded by Lovelace, one can sense that there is neither exit nor solution for a Clarissa who is as much a prisoner of her time as she is of her family or even of Lovelace. Clarissa "belongs" to her parents in the same property sense as their house or lands do. When she defies them, she also defies her culture. Her refusal to accept Lovelace is seen as the least significant of the three. Readers today lose the sense of horror that readers then felt at her refusal to accept a suitor who is a cad only by twentieth century standards. Lovelace was seen by contemporary readers as not so bad at all. In fact, had Defoe's Moll Flanders managed to jump from her book to this one, she would have leaped at the chance to marry upwardly.

Clarissa is seen today as far more than just the feminine deification of womanhood. She fought back against a society that saw her as property in the only way that she could--by insisting that her family, her suitors, and society at large treat her with the same unbending sense of decorum that allowed her to avoid the ugliness of life while paradoxically they used that decorum to force her to confront that ugliness. When Clarissa clashes with Lovelace, they are doomed not because of their respective inflexibilities of life and philosophy, but because of the same inflexibilities between her and a brute society.

Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Volume 1

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Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Volume 1
Samuel Richardson
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0543986683
Release Date: 2001-04-11

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1768 edition published in London.

Clarissa Harlowe Or The History Of A Young Lady

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Clarissa Harlowe Or The History Of A Young Lady
Samuel Richardson
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ASIN: 1414279272

Clarissa (Or the History Of A Young Lady)

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Clarissa (Or the History Of A Young Lady)
Samuel Richardson
Manufacturer: Random House
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LH18QC

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Clarissa (The History of a Young Lady)
Samuel Richardson
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Co., Riverside Editions
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RPMTAW

Clarissa Harlowe (Large Print Edition): or the history of a young lady Volume 3

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Clarissa Harlowe (Large Print Edition): or the history of a young lady Volume 3
Samuel Richardson
Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1426438486
Release Date: 2006-10-07

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God forgive me, if I judge too harshly of their views!—But if I do not, it follows, that they laid a wicked snare for me; and that I have been caught in it.—And now they triumph, if they can triumph, in the ruin of a sister, who never wished or intended to hurt them!

Clarissa Harlowe (Large Print Edition): or the history of a young lady Volume 5

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Clarissa Harlowe (Large Print Edition): or the history of a young lady Volume 5
Samuel Richardson
Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
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ASIN: 1426442009
Release Date: 2006-11-09

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At length, my dearest Miss Howe, I am in London, and in my new lodgings. They are neatly furnished, and the situation, for the town, is pleasant.

Clarissa Harlowe (Large Print Edition): or the History of a young lady Volume 6

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Clarissa Harlowe (Large Print Edition): or the History of a young lady Volume 6
Samuel Richardson
Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1426448945
Release Date: 2007-01-15

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A few words to the verbal information thou sentest me last night concerning thy poor old man; and then I rise from my seat, shake myself, refresh, new-dress, and so to my charmer, whom, notwithstanding her reserves, I hope to prevail upon to walk out with me on the Heath this warm and fine morning.

Clarissa Harlowe (Large Print Edition): Volume 2 or the history of a young lady

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Clarissa Harlowe (Large Print Edition): Volume 2 or the history of a young lady
Samuel Richardson
Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
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ASIN: 1426437412
Release Date: 2006-10-07

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My heart fluttered with the hope and the fear of seeing my mother, and with the shame and grief of having given her so much uneasiness. But it needed not: she was not permitted to come. But my aunt was so good as to return, yet not without my sister; and, taking my hand, made me sit down by her.

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Clarissa Harlowe Or The History Of A Young Lady
Samuel Richardson
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