West Federal Taxation 2005: Advanced Entities, Professional Version (West Federal Taxation)

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Edited by authors of the market-leading West Federal Tax Series, the 2005 Edition of Advanced Business Entity Taxation provides thorough and adequate coverage of all relevant tax codes and regulations, emphasizing the high-interest and multidisciplinary aspects of taxation for the second tax course. Designed with the AICPA model tax curriculum in mind, this text presents the second federal taxation course from a business entity perspective. It is an ideal follow-up to WFT: Taxation of Business Entities or any first course in taxation that uses the business entities approach. This course is intended for accounting or finance majors who take it to fulfill curriculum requirements, and for students likely to sit for the CPA or CFA Exams. Visit the Product Website @ http://wft.swlearning.com.

West Federal Taxation 2005 : Advanced Entities, Professional Version (West Federal Taxation)

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West Federal Taxation 2005 : Advanced Entities, Professional Version (West Federal Taxation)
William A. Raabe
Manufacturer: South-Western College/West
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUIAFS

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Radical changes in the workplace continue to impact the way we measure and manage employee performance, making the human resource professional's job more complex than ever. In The Changing Nature of Performance, a stellar group of contributors offers concrete suggestions on how the HR practitioner can cope. They examine seven major change factors that continue to influence individual performance--from the shift to team-based work to the interweaving of jobs with technology--and show readers how to develop effective HR policies and practices accordingly.

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Key changes in the nature of work and performance........2000-05-24

As stated by series editor Sheldon Zedek,"the general purpose of this volume is to provide a discussion of the relationship between the changing nature of work and the understanding, measurement, and influence of human performance. More specifically, the volume addresses how seven key changes in the nature of work-changes in technology, job design, type of workforce, training methodology, external control, leadership, and work structure-affect how job performance is viewed and measured. Three HR domains are emphasized: staffing, motivation, and training and development...The goal of the volume is not only to present greater understanding of the changing nature of performance but also to offer concrete ways in which to deal with the change."

In this context, in Chapter Seven - 'Leadership and the Nature of Performance', Robert G. Lord and Wendy Gradwohl Smith argue that the relation between leadership and performance is likely to increase while at the same time exercising effective leadership may become more difficult because of: (1). increased diversity in experience and technical training will reduce the degree to which organizational members share common performance standards, (2). greater ethnic, racial, and gender diversiy will increase the potential tensions among team members due to less homogeneous values and beliefs.Thus, they argue that this increased diversity creates greater need for leaders to define performance and manage group conflict effectively, and hence they construct a leadership model. On the other side, they summarize some of the important trends noted by other authors of this book that will affect the relationship of leadership to performance as follows:

I. In the Past:

1. Work organization: (a). Map job onto employee, (b). Relative ease in identifying KSAOs.

2. Design of jobs: (a). Stable jobs, (b). Common elements of jobs shared among a number of people.

3. Technology: (a). Relative ease in identifying individual and technological contributions to performance, (b). Little performance monitoring using technology.

4. Control of performance: Internal sources used for performance standards.

5. Meaning of performance: Performance defined by past behavior.

6. Leadership and supervision: Traditional leadership and supervision.

7. Part-time and temporary workers: Minimal concern for commitment to organization, learning, and development due to the stability and structure of jobs.

II. Current Trend:

1. Work organization: (a). Map job onto team, (b). More or different KSAOs and greater difficulty identifying KSAOs.

2. Design of jobs: (a). Less stable jobs, (b). Common elements of jobs shared among fewer people.

3. Technology: (a). Confounding individual and technological contributions to performance, (b). Greater performance monitoring using technology.

4. Control of performance: External sources used for performance standards.

5. Meaning of performance: (a). Performance defined by future behavior, continuous learning, (b). Different cultural views of good performance.

6. Leadership and supervision: Leadership that emphasizes skill development, teams, and identities.

7. Part-time and temporary workers: Greater concern for commitment to organization, learning, and development due to the instability and team-based nature of jobs.

I higly recommend this book as a whole for HR professionals.

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The Changing Nature of Performance Implications for Staffing, Motivation, and Development
Daniel R. Ilgen
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N7KHVC

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In the sequel to his bestselling Earth Ponds, Tim Matson offers new ideas, advice, a wealth of resources, and his trademark wit in this sourcebook full of practical information for pond owners. Those who want to build a new pond today are likely to face tighter regulations on wetlands and complicated questions about building methods; those who already own ponds may wonder how to stock it with fish, how to cure an alga or weed problem, or how to cope with beavers. This book addresses all of these issues, and more.

Topics covered include:

* Pond Building: a concise guide, A to Z
* Maintenance: symptoms of a dying pond and some basic and off-the-wall ideas about how to prevent, or reverse, this aging process
* Wildlife: how to attract those you want; how to repel those you don't.
* Activities and Use: skating, raising fish, saunas and hot tubs, kits for building rafts, docks, and gazebos, pumps for irrigation and pond protection,
* Garden ponds: goldfish, ornamental plants
* Details about the products on the market, where to buy supplies, and how to get the best for your buck.

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Earth Ponds.......2000-06-24

This is meant as a companion for his other book on ponds but does a very nice job by itself.

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A different way of managing

Organizational Engineering: Management Is Out! Engineering Is in
Paul Kartinen
Manufacturer: iUniverse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Organizational Engineering: A New Method of Creating High Performance Human Structures

ASIN: 0595306764

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A deluge of experts and consultants has transformed the job of organizational management into a state of confusion. Yet it's not ivory tower academics, but real people who struggle to operate organizations. Trapped in this confusion, the working person lives with frustration. Competition and change are challenges that can be met only by a practical, understandable, field-proven process.

Organizational Engineering is the result of forty years of observing, studying, structuring, operating and changing organizations. The author is a "grass-roots" organizer from the internals of large corporations. Through real life experience, complex management training has been simplified into a logical, people-powering system. Management is out, supplanted by Organizational Engineering. From one corporate executive: "You've taken the worst department in the plant and made it the best."

Organizational Engineering is a guide for anyone trying to get something done. It is a path through the seemingly endless confusion of getting a group of people to work together. This is a generic method suited to organizations of any size and involved in any pursuit. Organizational Engineering should be mandatory for all MBA curricula. So many MBA graduates can read a financial report but lack the skills to get an organization to do something, and do it well.

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A deluge of experts and consultants has transformed the job of organizational management into a state of confusion. Yet it

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A different way of managing.......2007-08-09

It's a very nice book that gives you a new management perspective, applying engineering to the management process. If you are a engineer you will find it a nice method.

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War and Mayhem is a retrospective account of the events of the first half of the twentieth century as experienced by the citizens of Vienna and comes in three parts.

The first part provides the historical material which was culled from the most up to date scholarly publications on this topic. The second part presents the personal experiences of the author growing up in a "dysfunctional" family during the Nazi occupation. It shows what it was really like to live under a totalitarian regime, especially when one was, in addition, "non-Aryan." It also illustrates the terrible toll WWII had taken on lives and property and describes how ordinary citizens coped during Nazi and Soviet occupation. The third part discusses in more detail the ideas which motivated Hitler, the antecedents to the Holocaust and how the solutions arrived at during the twentieth century will inevitably become problems in the twenty first.

The book, written in simple language with an Austrian accent, is well illustrated and intended for the general public. More specifically: WWII veterans of the Allied forces may be interested in getting a glimpse of what it was like on the enemy side. College students can benefit by realizing that history is not just something "about dead white males" but a force which directly affects people's lives, including their own in the future. Austrian Mittelschul students in the Oberstufe might enjoy reading about the lives of their grandparents in the English language thereby learning history as well as English. Jewish readers might want to know why there was such a massive aversion against the Jewish "race."

There is no doubt that some of the opinions presented will be regarded as controversial but unless one sees and understands both sides of the coin no progress toward a more humane world is possible. The author's hope is that by showing past follies people might become more open minded, less swayed by propaganda and will conduct themselves in their daily lives in a manner which may eventually allow the emergence of a saner world.

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The Importance of "War and Mayhem".......2001-02-21

Ernst Rodin's "War and Mayhem" is a must-read for students of the Holocaust and for anyone interested in understanding how Adolf Hitler managed to captivate and ultimately cripple Germany in the period between 1933 and 1945.

Rodin is a mischling, or "impure" Austrian, who nevertheless gets drafted into the Wehrmacht. In "War and Mayhem," he looks back on his life and offers us two points of view that are skillfully woven together: an eyewitness account of what it was like to be a young man growing up in Vienna during Hitler's rise to power; and an analysis of the most cataclysmic period in modern history from the perspective of an adult survivor.

Rodin's book is accessible and engaging. We follow young Ernst to school, a place he has little use for in his younger years, and to the summer swimming parks that he and his older brother sneak into because they cannot afford admission. We suffer along with him as he loses his biological father, a "ne'er-do-well" who abandons the family, and we hope, in vain, that his mother's second husband will somehow fill the void left by his biological father.

At the same time, Rodin, a retired neurologist, now living in Utah, offers us an adult perspective on how the day-to-day events of his childhood were being played out against a much larger and unsettling screen. He captures the flavor of pre-war Vienna and offers unique insight into factors that contributed to the latent, simmering anti-Semitism of the era, anti-Semitism that boiled over so viciously after Hitler came into power. Rodin is careful to explain historical factors that led to the Anschluss and includes valuable information about Austrian clergy and politicians, whose roles in the 30's and 40's have not been well-detailed in other books written about this time period.

As an avid reader of World War II-era non-fiction, I've read books written by Jewish authors, Christian authors, American authors, German authors. What intrigues me about "War and Mayhem" is Ernst Rodin's distinctive point of view. Rodin fought in the Werhmacht, yet was considered "less than German" because his maternal grandfather was Jewish. He suffered from anti-Semitism at school but is quite candid in his observations about how Jews in Vienna were easily targeted for mistreatment because they did little to embrace the community at large. His tone is straightforward, always honest, always enlightening.

I recommend Ernst Rodin's "War and Mayhem" to every historian and layperson interested in reading a first-rate account of life in Vienna before and immediately after World War II. Rodin's final assessment of the events he witnessed deserves our immediate and collective attention: given the right conditions, history could easily repeat itself.

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In 1716 Giambattista Vico published De rebus gestis Antonj Caraphaei to celebrate Neapolitan Antonio Carafa who emigrated to Vienna in 1662 to serve at the Court of Leopold I of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor. After becoming familiar with the intrigues of the Viennese court, Carafa gradually learned the secrets of state and the arts of public administration and of governing. Enjoying the favors of the emperor and of the royal princes related to the Habsburgs, Charles of Lorraine and Maximillian of Bavaria, Carafa was allowed to leave the Viennese court for the Hungarian marshes. His military experience grew under the leadership of generals such as Montecuccoli and Lorraine and he was promoted to higher ranks according to the many accomplishments that revealed his bravery, foresight, prudence, strategy, and political diplomacy. Leopold appointed him Military Governor first of Upper Hungary and then of Transylvania as well as General Commissary of all imperial armies on all fronts: Rhine, Danube, and Po. However, because of the jealous attacks of his rivals, Carafa was recalled to Vienna where he died of despair.

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During his remarkable career, George Curry participated in and observed many spectacular episodes of New Mexico's turbulent history: the Lincoln County War, Colfax County War, Springer War, Lee-Fountain case, and first New Mexico State Constitutional Convention. He served as a sheriff, territorial governor, United States congressman, international boundary commissioner, and New Mexico's first state historian. As a young man, Curry met Billy the Kid and was on personal terms with numerous public figures like Pat Garrett, Oliver Lee, Thomas B. Catron, Albert Fall, Elfego Baca, Harvey B. Fergusson, and many others. Curry's stint as a Rough Rider during the Spanish-American War introduced him to Theodore Roosevelt, who admired his service as a soldier, chief of police, and governor during the Philippine Insurrection. The enormous detail of George Curry's autobiography makes it an essential source for any student, scholar, or general reader of New Mexico's territorial and state history.

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Very Detailed.......2002-04-09

A very interesting Book written about One of New Mexico's Greatest People!! A must have for NM history students and historians. I am not just saying this because he was my Great Grand Father.

Excellent.......1999-06-15

Well researched and written biography of my Great, Great Grandfather. Tales of his colorful past and the many famous people he knew.

George Curry 1861-1947: An Autobiography.

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George Curry 1861-1947: An Autobiography.
George Curry
Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UYA3PI

George Curry, 1861-1947: An Autobiography 1st Edition

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George Curry, 1861-1947: An Autobiography 1st Edition
George Curry
Manufacturer: UNIV OF NM + PRESS
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TSJQ44

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George Curry, 1861-1947 an Autobiography
Edited By H. B. Hening
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OMG2PQ

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George Curry, 1861-1947: An Autobiography
H. B. (ed) Hening
Manufacturer: Univ of New Mexico
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J50AMO

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George Curry: 1861-1947. An Autobiography
H.B. (ed) Hening
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico
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