Sales Taxation: Critical Issues in Policy and Administration

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This book is a comprehensive analysis of the major issues in state sales taxation. Topics such as taxation of services, mergers and acquisitions, nonprofit organizations, media, religious organizations, and international companies are analyzed by a group of the nation's leading experts on state taxation, including representatives of industry, government, and academia. The book identifies long-term qualitative and quantitative trends in the sales tax base and rates. Likely policy changes during the next decade are pinpointed and their implications discussed. Emerging sales tax problems are identified and analyzed, and techniques for integrating equity in sales tax design are included. This unique volume will be of interest to tax planners and managers in business, and tax policy-makers and administrators in state and local governments.

Sales Taxation: Critical Issues in Policy and Administration. (book reviews): An article from: Government Finance Review

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Sales Taxation: Critical Issues in Policy and Administration. (book reviews): An article from: Government Finance Review
J. Patrick McDonald
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Title: Sales Taxation: Critical Issues in Policy and Administration. (book reviews)
Author: J. Patrick McDonald
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 1993
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: v9 Issue: n4 Page: p43(1)

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Sales Taxation: Critical Issues in Policy and Administration. (book reviews): An article from: National Tax Journal

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Sales Taxation: Critical Issues in Policy and Administration. (book reviews): An article from: National Tax Journal
Sally Wallace
Manufacturer: National Tax Association
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Title: Sales Taxation: Critical Issues in Policy and Administration. (book reviews)
Author: Sally Wallace
Publication: National Tax Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1993
Publisher: National Tax Association
Volume: 46 Issue: n2 Page: 251-254

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Childish.......2006-01-10

I was expecting to learn stuff like the most effective way to train people, how to structure training programs, how people learn etc. Instead, this book covers stuff that's very elementary and anyone who's a manager and got a grain of sense should know. It has a condecending tone towards managers--as in, your people need training because you're a moron. For example, "there probably isn't one worker in a thousand who can clearly describe the results (or accomplishments) they are expected to achieve." or "It's not uncommon for people to be expected to do things that they haven't been given permission to do." I only got to about page 50 and the tone and quality were consistant with these quotes.

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Good book. Typical Mager - easy to read, lots of good stuff.......1999-07-29

Valuable book, well worth the reading time. Good for Managers, Training Managers and developers.

Get results, save money: apply this book........1999-06-15

In his typical clear, jargon-free style, Bob Mager explains what training is, and what it's not. "Training" won't fix a problem unless the problem stems from a lack of skill or knowledge.

Mager explains why you can't train your way out of badly designed jobs, or idiotic incentive systems, or a lack of resources. He also shows ways to deal with those barriers to accomplishment.

And that's the heart of the matter. In the world of training and development, we talk about performance improvement -- focusing first on the results you want to get, and then examining possible reasons why you're not getting those results. Mager's book demystifies that focus and that examination.

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Great, Vintage Mager.......2000-08-29

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In 1428, a young girl from a small French village approached the royal castle of Vaucouleurs with a now famous tale. Heavenly voices, she said, had told her to seek out the Dauphin of France, so that he might giver her an army with which to deliver France

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An Overdue Perspective.......2005-10-16

Kelly deVries sets out to correct a serious oversight in modern historical analysis of Joan of Arc. Other twentieth century writers have downplayed her role as a war hero and general, often in contradiction to the original source material. I am what you could call a serious aficionado of Joan of Arc: I have read most of the leading modern biographies and plays, perused a good part of the original documents, and once spent three weeks in France following her campaigns. Ms. deVries's book deserves a place on the shelf of any Joan of Arc devotee.

Historical records about Joan of Arc are unusually abundant. She led what was probably the best documented life of her era. We have far more reliable information about her career than, say, of William Wallace. In fairness to Ms. deVries, these original documents are sometimes frustrating. They say so much that they tempt the reader to demand more. The captains who fought alongside Joan of Arc have high praise for her military skill yet are sketchy about her tactics. Where the scholar wants to deduce an artillery arrangement the records instead report which color horse she rode that day. Many of the fortresses where Joan of Arc fought still stand, at least in ruin. The surrounding earthworks are largely unrecoverable. At a distance of six centuries we cannot reconstruct these scenes with the detail of the American civil war.

This well-researched work corrects and amplifies the subject. That said, I have a few bones to pick. The topic deserves a discussion of weapons technology. Ms. deVries overplays the importance of gunpowder to the point where I suspect she misunderstands the fifteenth century meaning of "artillery." Medical scholarship might have illuminated some issues, particularly the instances when Joan of Arc overcame battle wounds and returned to combat. Finally Ms. deVries omits all mention of Joan of Arc's escape attempts as a prisoner of war. As examples of good soldiering they deserve attention: Joan actually leaped from a seventy foot tower and survived with no broken bones.

With minor reservations, Joan of Arc: A Military Leader is a welcome addition to my collection.

Disappointed.......2004-09-04

The history I knew but what I was hoping for a detailed analysis and study of military tactics used by Joan.

If you want a fairly good history of her, you might read this.

Nice pictures but little analysis or synthesis.......2003-10-08

While the subject matter of this book holds great potential interest to the reader, unfortunately, Mr. Devries fails to deliver on that potential by way of new material or analysis - notwithstanding his own claims to the contrary. Mr. Devries, however, does break new ground at the very beginning of his book - in the Acknowledgements. Typically, this section is devoted to thanking other people who have played a role in supporting the author, but Mr. Devries has shown great creativity by turning that old-fashioned notion on its head. His Acknowledgements proudly features - well - himself! In addition to jamming twenty-six (count `em) instances of the pronoun "I," two of "me" and nine of "my," into this short section, he manages to drag in his family members throughout, and even then, only so far as they must have missed his delightful presence while he wrote this book.
As to the text itself, while not purely a redaction of existing works on the subject, this volume appears to shed little new light - especially as it lacks a certain capacity for critical insight, which one hopes to find in such works. If one does not have ready access to more original works on the subject, this volume may serve to point the reader in the right direction. How sad that readers of exciting materials such as the trial transcript of the Maid of Orleans find no glimmer of that brilliant female mind in the strategies addressed in this volume. If the author had effectively compared Jean's maneuvers with those of past military leaders who found themselves in similar circumstances, we would have had a firm grasp on how Jean's brilliance compared to theirs. Unfortunately, this requires familiarity with a broad range of military analyses and a reading knowledge of the sources in their original tongues--especially since the names of weaponry and even military maneuvers frequently do not translate consistently.
Our universities have for decades been turning out graduates who are hampered by forays beyond their native languages. I can't help but remember how even the limited introductions, terse footnotes, and line drawings in our old Latin editions of Caesar's Belli Gallici carried enough information to bring to life the military strategies of that great leader. Where are the descriptions of the battle techniques utilized by Jean? Where the analysis of how her forces utilized their resources better-or worse--than others of her time? Alongside the spate of TV films on this extraordinary woman, we now have yet another volume that adds inches and weight, but little fire and light, to our love of a singular woman's mind.

A Promise Unfulfilled.......1999-11-30

This is an exceptionally well-produced book, with glossy pages, excellent maps of the routes Joan traveled and the geography of her campaigns, as well as a number of photographs of historic landmarks related to the life of La Pucelle. If it were a bit larger in size, it would even make a good coffee table book. Mr. DeVries has apparently done a sizable amount of research on his subject and has included excellent endnotes and references. Anyone wishing to follow-up with his or her own study of Joan of Arc would do well to use this work as a starting point. Unfortunately, though, it ultimately fails to deliver on its promise of being a study of her capabilities as a tactician and a strategist.

Having read many of the documents contemporary with Joan's time, as well as numerous biographies (Pernoud, Sakesville-West, et. al.) I was quite familiar with her career. Also, having recently read J.F.C. Fuller's excellent account of the battles of Alexander the Great (The Generalship of Alexander the Great, De Capo Press), I had expected a treatise along similar lines. I was hoping for such things, perhaps, as a review of common fifteenth century tactics, an analysis of how Joan's tactics might have differed from these, information concerning the order of battle for both the French and English during each confrontation, an analysis of how troops were deployed, and so on. Instead, what was presented consisted of basically the same information already presented by Joan's other biographers. Maybe I was expecting too much. For one thing, it may be that medieval warfare was less tactically sophisticated than warfare during more ancient times, despite the advent of gunpowder weapons. For another, it may well be that reliable, detailed documentation of Joan's battles simply does not exist.

The learned clerics at Poitiers asked Joan what need she had of soldiers if God had foreordained the outcome, and she replied, "The soldiers will fight and God will give the victory." Given this supernatural viewpoint, considerations of strategy and tactics become relatively unimportant, little more than a context for a foregone conclusion. Any maybe that's all we really need to know about Joan's military actions.

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Joan of Arc Military Leader
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"In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children," the Bible commands, and for centuries childbirth pain was judged woman's inescapable burden. Then in the 1950s arrived a revolutionary new technique for dealing with it, named for its inventor and tireless promoter, a French doctor named Fernand Lamaze. Lamaze proposed a simple yet radical way by which women could not only ease their labor but also take control over it. The rest is obstetrical history. For half a century, Lamaze's "painless childbirth method" has been employed in hospitals and clinics worldwide. Yet to millions "Lamaze" remains just that-a method, a technique, even a brand, rather than a figure of flesh and blood. Caroline Gutmann, Lamaze's granddaughter, brings him to life in this remarkable book. Through her exclusive access to her family's papers and letters, Gutmann lovingly but honestly pieces together the story of her famous grandfather, showing how and why he struggled to make childbirth safe. It was a struggle that foreshortened his own life. Though often associated-rightly or wrongly-with "natural" childbirth, the Lamaze Method was born into controversy. Introduced during the height of the cold war, it was to some a godless Communist plot to undermine Western tradition (Lamaze had gotten his inspiration from Soviet medicine and from the work of Ivan Pavlov). In France and elsewhere, the medical establishment-an almost exclusively masculine domain-saw it as a threat, for it wrested power from the obstetricians and gave it to women. The controversy continues. Today, some argue that the wondrous epidural has made the Lamaze Method quaintly irrelevant; others, believing that childbirth has become dehumanized-a procedure rather than a process-argue that the method is essential. Derided or embraced, Lamaze's legacy remains key. When women use breathing exercises to control the pain of uterine contractions, and when men stand by them in the delivery room (Lamaze was the first to insist their presence was crucial), they are invoking him and his work. The Legacy of Dr. Lamaze is an intimate and moving portrait of a passionate, courageous, and contradictory man who forever changed the way children are born. AUTHORBIO: Caroline Gutmann lives with her son and husband in Paris, where she is publicity director of the publishing house Fayard.

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in the Gallic style.......2002-04-02

Through the excellent translation of Bruce Benderson comes this biography of Fernand Lamaze, written by his granddaughter who never knew him. Caroline Gutmann puts together an account of the life, work, and relationships of Lamaze through the use of family letters and papers. She uncovers the reasons why he sought to make childbirth less painful. Gutmann resists the temptation to sugarcoat Lamaze's weaknesses and failings, like keeping several mistresses despite his fairly happy marriage.

In l951 Lamaze traveled to Russia, where Soviet doctors proudly showed him their method of "psychoprophylactic" childbirth. He was impressed (although in the light of history, one has to wonder just how successful their methods were, as so much of Soviet science has since been discounted). Lamaze refined their technique and began teaching his preparation exercises to women in their last three months of pregnancy. On a personal note: I have experienced Lamaze births for three of my four children. I smile to note that what we were taught to call only "contractions", never "pains," are now referred to as "pains" by Lamaze trainers. Apparently during labor many women exclaimed, "Contraction? What do you mean? That was a PAIN!" My experiences were not painless, but I am thankful to Lamaze for his legacy of educating women about what happens during childbirth, and about safeguarding the health of their newborn by not using pharmaceutical painkillers during birth.

Gutmann writes in Gallic style, which may seem somewhat emotionally exaggerated and offputting to American readers, but her biography is a valuable contribution to the memory of a man who changed the way childbirth is accomplished for generations of women.

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