International Business Transactions: Problems, Cases, And Materials (Casebook)

Book Description

The core of this book consists of the provisions of "Subchapter J," the relevant portion of the Internal Revenue Code (sections 641 through 692), and its first priority is to give readers an understanding of those provisions and how they work. This text takes four distinct, but integrated, approaches. At the beginning of each section, the book presents assignments of carefully selected provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulations. Following are one or more precedents (cases or rulings) dealing with the topic at hand accompanied by textual material that amplifies the topic by further analysis of the primary precedent(s), presentation of other precedents, or discussion of subsequent developments. Finally, numerous problems, where appropriate, allow the reader to apply the material to actual fact patterns.

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Designed for use in law schools, business schools and schools of management, this casebook outlines the determination and administration of U.S. income tax liabilities resulting from international transactions. Textual discussion, cases, rulings and problems, guides students through the basic tax considerations that confront foreign individuals and entities participating in the U.S. economy, and U.S. individuals and entities seeking to derive income abroad. Covers both the U.S. tax rules applicable to international transactions and the tax policy considerations underlying those rules.

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Extremely odd, hilarious in parts, not for everyone

Smart and extremely funny

Decent...not great

Yo Mama joke stretched in new directions

very entertaining

A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man
Andrew Barlow , and Kent Roberts
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Yo mama sucks.

For years, everyone has talked about yo mama, pointing out her failings in important areas such as appearance, mental capacity, and weight. Now, two researchers and retired sewer cartographers have spent over a decade investigating yo mama, assembling a wide range of evidence against her. They stalked, photographed, and studied the horrible woman who brought you into this world—yo mama—then compiled their findings.

The result is A PORTRAIT OF YO MAMA AS A YOUNG MAN. This unprecedented exposé proves once and for all that the woman who is arguably dearest to you in life—yo mama—is stupid, crazy, a failure, physically unattractive, deceitful, a bad mother to you, unthinkably overweight, and worthy of only ridicule and disdain. To make this case, the authors present you with graphs, field notes, charts, Mad Libs, and various primary source documents. Crying, you’ll learn what you never wanted to know from a text that is readable, contemptuous, and factual.

Here is some of the evidence you will find in A PORTRAIT OF YO MAMA AS A YOUNG MAN: yo mama’s résumé, her last will and testament, her internet searches, personals she has placed, e-mails yo mama wrote to you while you were in college, and numerous charts and graphs. From this thorough and authoritative work you will learn facts such as:

• Yo mama says “comprised” when she means “composed,” as in, “I am comprised mostly of grease and sugar.”

• Yo mama’s so lupine, she chases rabbits.

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• Yo mama got two wishes from a genie.

• If nervous tics were pizzas, yo mama would have five pizzas that freak everybody out.

• And the opinions of a variety of observers, including a taxi driver (“Yo mama’s so stupid, she doesn’t know how to get to 4653 Greenwood Terrace”) and Nietzsche (“God is dead. Yo mama is just really decrepit-looking.”)

Drawing on a substantial research budget and the strong stomachs they acquired from working in America’s sewers, Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts got closer to yo mama than anyone else ever has. They even experienced the infamous battle between yo mama's head lice and body lice of 1992. All in all, you will not find a better biography of yo mama. Authored by two of the funniest twentysomethings writing today, this absurdist take on the oldest joke in the book—the “yo mama” snap—is warped, witty, ironic, and, frankly, sad in places.

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Extremely odd, hilarious in parts, not for everyone.......2005-06-28

Depending on your sense of humor, this book may be what's termed in the industry as a "laff riot" or you may not get some of the jokes. The Onion famously tries to go over some reader's heads all of the time, but for the most part, this book doesn't use obscure references to make its jokes, just unnatural observations. If you like oblique humor, this may be right for you.

Smart and extremely funny.......2005-05-19

Very, very funny book. It's a play on the "yo mama" joke (a clever idea), but much of the humor transcends the concept. I have laughed out loud at this more times than I can count. Absurd insults appear along with witty twists on things like internet search wordings, kidspeak, Nietzsche, legalese--and it's all about, well, your mom (known to a lot of us as "yo mama"). Some of the short pieces are among the sharpest and strangest things I've ever seen. (Especially recommended are the e-mails from yo mama to you in college.) Overall laugh-out-loud hilarious, often sublime.

Decent...not great.......2005-05-16

Yes. It's one big, elaborate, exhaustively documented "yo mama" joke, complete with charts, graphs, diagrams, and even a family tree. The humor consists mainly of surreally oblique non-sequiturs and general oddness. The concept is actually funnier than the text itself; I found myself laughing more at the names of the chapters than at the jokes therein.

Still, it's an amusing read - just be aware that it's more likely to produce wry grins than fits of hysterical laughter.

Yo Mama joke stretched in new directions.......2005-04-27

"Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man" finds Andrew Barlow & Kent Roberts stretching the Yo Mama jokes in strange new directions previously unseen. For example, Yo Mama's resume (one of my personal favorites). Or the Yo Mama non-joke joke. "Yo Mama's so environmentally conscious, she recycles a great deal." Or jokes which are just plain odd. "Yo Mama's so February 24, 1993, she watches the 37th annual Grammy awards every night." ?! Or countless charts and graphs. Needless to say, the concept pays off in spades--the book is extremely funny.
Like "Fierce Pajamas" or Dave Barry's collections of columns, it makes sense to read this book a chapter at a time, as opposed to all in one sitting. Strongly recommended--humor writers to watch.

very entertaining.......2005-03-28

as amusing as the title would suggest. picked this up off my friend's coffee table with a laugh over the weekend, after initially mistaking it for the Joyce namesake.

a great meld of highbrow/lowbrow, completely irreverant of course. excellent book to read a chapter from when you need something fun to change your train of thought. imagine these guys had a good time writing this...

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In Narrated Films, Avrom Fleishman explores the distinctive literary techniques often used by filmmakers to tell their stories. Through close viewings of ingeniously paired films, Fleishman documents five narrational practices in the cinema: voice-over (Orpheus and Sunset Boulevard); dramatized narration, in which the film is a story that one character tells another (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Hiroshima Mon Amour); multiple narration, in which a number of characters tell the story that is the film (Rashomon and Zelig); written narration, whether through diaries or letters (Letter from an Unknown Woman and Diary of a Country Priest); and the cinematic version of interior monologue, which Fleishman terms mindscreen narration (Brief Encounter and Daybreak).

Narrated Films: Storytelling Situations in Cinema History

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Narrated Films: Storytelling Situations in Cinema History
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Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
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Binding: Hardcover
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Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magic—usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern—is also something that is at home in modernity. “Magic” and “modernity” are rarely regarded as belonging together. Evolutionism regarded magic as quintessentially “unmodern.” Although psychologists and romantic artists have sometimes declared magic to be a human universal, few modern scholars in the humanities and social sciences have studied how modern culture and institutions incorporated and even produced magic.

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Investigate computer crime, corporate malfeasance, and hacker break-ins quickly and effectively with help from this practical and comprehensive resource. You’ll get expert information on crucial procedures to successfully prosecute violators while avoiding the pitfalls of illicit searches, privacy violations, and illegally obtained evidence. It’s all here--from collecting actionable evidence, re-creating the criminal timeline, and zeroing in on a suspect to uncovering obscured and deleted code, unlocking encrypted files, and preparing lawful affidavits. Plus, you’ll get in-depth coverage of the latest PDA and cell phone investigation techniques and real-world case studies.

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An excellent reference but..........2006-05-09

for anyone conducting an investigation, this is the epitome of a textbook reference book hybrid. The book provides a good overview of the most popular tools on the market and how to effectively use them during the investigative process, as well as legal requirements for evidence handling and tracking.

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Hacking Exposed Computer Forensics

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Hacking Exposed Computer Forensics Secre
Chris Davis
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Survivors of one of the fiercest battles of the war in the Pacific tell their dramatic stories in this collection of oral histories. Veterans from all the services--Marine Corps, Navy, Coast Guard, Army, and Army Air Corps--are represented, everyone from infantrymen, machine gunners, and engineers to medics, airmen, and coxswains. Their vivid firsthand accounts of personal experiences explore the great variety of actions that made up the campaign to win Iwo Jima from the Japanese. Their descriptions of events add new dimensions to the history of the monumental battle. Ordinary young Americans thrown into extraordinary situations, they recall the details of battle as if it happened yesterday. Their recollections not only provide insight into military operations but reveal the effect that battle had on the course of their lives and the meaning it holds for them today.

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Never In Doubt Remembering Iwo Jima

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Binding: Hardcover
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Title: Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History.(Book Review)
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