California Income Tax Fundamentals 2000 Edition

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A concise, practical guide to California state income taxation, Whittenburg/Raabe/Altus-Buller's text/workbook format presents material in easy-to-digest sections. Using multiple examples and review problems, it is perfect as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to any tax text where an emphasis on California state income taxes is desired.

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New laws affect every aspect of being an employer--from interviewing and hiring, to handling employee benefits to firing.

The most complete guide to your legal rights and responsibilities, The Employer's Legal Handbook shows you how to comply with the most recent workplace laws and regulations, run a safe and fair workplace and avoid lawsuits. Learn everything you need to know about:

*Hiring: Understand the legal guidelines for hiring employees, writing job descriptions, conducting interviews and investigating applicants.

*Smart personnel practices: What to include in employee personnel files, employee handbooks, performance reviews and references for former employees.

*Employee benefits: Learn the ins and outs of wage and hour laws, retirement plans and health insurance.

*Workplace health and safety: Comply with OSHA requirements, and implement policies on smoking, drugs and alcohol abuse.

*Discrimination: Prevent sexual harassment and discrimination based on age, race, pregnancy, sexual orientation and national origin.

*Termination: Avoid wrongful termination cases, conduct a final meeting and protect your business information when employees leave.

*Laws affecting small business practices: Everything you need to know about the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, health and safety issues, employee testing and more.

Whether you hire one employee or one hundred, The Employer's Legal Handbook gives you the practical and legal guidance you need to run a fair and productive workplace, and stay out of legal trouble.

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"The plain-English resource every employer, manager and HR professional needs. New laws affect every aspect of being an employer -- from interviewing and hiring, to handling employee benefits to firing. The most complete guide to your legal rights and responsibilities, The Employer's Legal Handbook shows you how to comply with the most recent workplace laws and regulations, run a safe and fair workplace and avoid lawsuits. Learn everything you need to know about: Hiring: Understand the legal guidelines for hiring employees, writing job descriptions, conducting interviews and investigating applicants. Smart personnel practices: What to include in employee personnel files, employee handbooks, performance reviews and references for former employees. Wages & hours: Comply with federal and state overtime and minimum wage requirements. Employee benefits: Learn the ins and outs of wage and hour laws, retirement plans and health insurance. Workplace health and safety: Comply with OSHA requirements, and implement policies on smoking, drugs and alcohol abuse. Discrimination: Prevent sexual harassment and discrimination based on age, race, pregnancy, sexual orientation and national origin. Termination and layoffs: Avoid wrongful termination cases, conduct a final meeting and protect your business information when employees leave. Laws affecting small business practices: Everything you need to know about the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, health and safety issues, employee testing and more. The 7th edition updates the book's easy-to-use legal charts to provide the latest employment laws of your state. "

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Completely helpful.......2007-01-05

For a small company, this book was just what we needed. It outlined different state requirements, some common pitfalls, and provided sample text for editing. Overall, just what we needed to be a professional little business.

Great Book.......2006-11-05

It's very easy to read and has a wealth of information in it.

Worth its weight in gold!!!.......2004-05-18

This book should be on every employer's bookshelf! I am so impressed by how comprehensive, well organized, and easy to use it is. Steingold really knows what he's talking about, he explains all of the complex laws and regulations that trip up unprepared employers and result in expensive lawsuits. Thanks to this book I learned the best ways to comply with OSHA, wage-and-hour laws, sexual harassment and discrimination laws, the Americans with Disabilities Act and many many more. You owe it to yourself to know your rights and responsibilities as an employer and to protect your company from needless litigation.

A mile wide and several feet deep.......2000-11-16

An excelent, readable, survey of the law on this topic. The greatest strengths of the book are two-fold. First, it is written in easy to follow, plain english. Second, it is amazingly comprehensive. I have been practicing employment law in two millenia, and this is the book that I use (after reviewing dozens) to teach non-lawyer classes on the topic. As with any survey book, it doesn't cover the details of the many topics it touches. You don't want to use this book to deal with comprehensive planning or an employment law dispute. But if you read this book you'll understand much of the language and many of the concerns of the experienced human resources professional or lawyer that you need.

Protect your business from employee and government law suits.......2000-09-23

Here is the book that will teach you what you need to know to keep compliance with the law and protect your business. Easy to read and comprehend, this book will help you promote fair business practices and avoid lawsuits. Folks, there are many laws most business people don't know about. This book will bring you up to speed. It's a necessity for the small and large business alike.

Lawyers' Professional Development: The Legal Employer's Comprehensive Guide

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Lawyers' Professional Development: The Legal Employer's Comprehensive Guide
Ida O Abbott
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ASIN: 1557330336

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Lawyers' Professional Development is an in-depth guide to designing, implementing, and improving professional development programs for lawyers. Directed to anyone responsible for any aspect of lawyers' professional development within a law firm or other law practice setting, the book focuses particularly on four essential components of professional development: work assignments, mentoring, evaluations, and training.

Additional chapters address program design; budgeting; coordinating professional development efforts with recruiting, summer programs, and orientation; knowledge management; professional development in corporate and government settings; and such special issues related to lawyers' professional development as women and minority lawyers, associate participation on committees, career guidance, succession planning, and the role of the ombudsperson.

Employer's Rights: Your Legal Handbook from Hiring to Termination and Everything in Between
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Employer's Rights - Understandable, Useful and Effective

Easy read - great information

Employer's Rights: Your Legal Handbook from Hiring to Termination and Everything in Between
Charles H. Fleischer
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The Law (In Plain English) for Small Business (Sphinx Legal)

ASIN: 1572483652

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Explains discipline and termination procedures Identifies federal and state tax considerations Discusses wage attachments, assignments and garnishments Covers workers' compensation laws and claim procedures Clarifies sex discrimination ambiguities Includes information regarding employee handbooks, evaluations and personnel files Explains employer liability to third parties Helps reduce the risk of lawsuits from employees

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Employer's Rights - Understandable, Useful and Effective.......2005-09-08

The "Employer's Rights" book is written in plain English, is understandable, useful and effective. You can quickly find issues of interest to you for individual projects, or read the entire manual to increase your Human Resource skill set. The work is comprehensive, up-to-date with recent legislation and reliable.

Easy read - great information.......2004-01-16

This is just the book I needed to quickly find out the facts for hiring and firing an employee and everything in between! The employer tips were great, and the glossary and resources in the back were perfect! I recommend this book to employers of any size, as well as for-profit or not-for profit organizations.

California Employer's Guide: A Handbook Fo Employment Laws and Regulations (Employer's Guides)

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Mark S. Summers
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Employee termination handbook: Legal and psychological guidelines for employers

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Employee termination handbook: Legal and psychological guidelines for employers

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Employer's Guide to Managing Personnel Costs: A Handbook of Law and Strategy

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Employer's Guide to Managing Personnel Costs: A Handbook of Law and Strategy
Michele A. Potts
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The Employer's Handbook (Pocket Lawyer)
Watt & Border
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The Employer's Handbook: An Essential Guide to Employment Law, Personnel Policies and Procedures

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The Employer's Handbook: An Essential Guide to Employment Law, Personnel Policies and Procedures
Barry Cushway
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British Employment Law Unravelled All employers operating in the UK are expected to deal with an increasingly complex employment law. The Employer's Handbook provides comprehensive, reliable, and practical guidance that will ensure that employers stay on the right side of the law. This new edition has been fully updated to take account of the latest British legislation. There is also new information on case law decisions affecting the handling of grievances, as well as updated figures relating to the national minium wage, statutory sick pay, maternity pay, and compensation limits for unfair dismissal.

Florida Employer's Guide : A Handbook of Employment Laws And Regulations (Employer's Guides)

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Charles B. Lewis
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This book concerns the most important relationship most people have outside the family: the relationship between an employer and an employee. That relationship is crisscrossed by a complex web of laws and regulations. This book describes those laws in a direct, straightforward fashion.

The Florida Employer's Guide provides the "lay of the land" of personnel law and regulations and integrates the state and federal law that is relevant to an employer. Each section of the book attempts to include both the underlying concept and a simple, straightforward rule.

This book is written in small, self-contained sections. The reader does not need to refer to the rest of the chapter, much less the rest of the book, to find information about a topic. Although this method of writing causes some duplication, it more than repays the reader in the efficiency of its use.

The Florida Employer's Guide is supplemented at least yearly, and more often if major legislation or court cases require. In order to incorporate updated pages easily, the book is published in a three-ring notebook. The Florida Employer's Guide is, and will continue to be, one of the most current employment law books available anywhere in the nation.

"Memo English" is used throughout this book. Whenever possible, the author has avoided terms not found regularly in a newspaper and discussions that would appear out-of-place in a business memo. This book is a non-technical discussion of technical topics.

Georgia Employer's Guide: A Handbook of Employment Laws and Regulations
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Georgia Employers Guide

Georgia Employer's Guide: A Handbook of Employment Laws and Regulations

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Georgia Employers Guide.......2007-05-23

Georgia Employer's Guide is an authoritative and accessible book that provides the "lay of the land" about employment law. The Guide integrates federal and Georgia laws that affect the employer-employee relationship, making it a valuable resource for business owners, managers, and human resource professionals.

Relevant state and federal agencies are listed at the end of each chapter, along with citations for the information discussed. Chapter headings are:

Hiring
Managing Employees and Personnel Costs
Termination of Employment
Health and Safety
Employment Discrimination
Wages, Hours, and Child Labor
Employee Benefits and Leave
Personnel Records
Workplace Privacy
Unions and Government Contractors
Written from an employer's point of view, this 16th Edition Georgia Employer's Guide includes discussion of these and other current topics:

Updated sections on Georgia workers' compensation law
Discussion of the revised definition of "supervisor" under federal labor relations law
Discussion of the new standards for retaliation claims under federal discrimination laws
Updated sections reflecting 2006 pension reform legislation
Discussion of new regulations on employee Social Security numbers

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Is there a cosmic blueprint?.......2006-07-15

This (2004 edition) is an updated re-publication of Davies' 1988 book. In the new preface, Davies (mathematical physicist, prolific writer, recipient of the Faraday Prize, the Kelvin Medal, and the Templeton Prize) suggests the possibility of something quite outlandish--that if humanity can somehow survive the full future of the universe, that upon the universe's thermodynamic and quantum demise, our descendants might scramble into a new universe of their own manufacture. The assertion brings several thoughts to mind, we might begin with, well, let's say, idea-heisting [I'll not say plagiar_sm, that would be a bit harsh]. (Frank Tipler famously envisioned this kind of scenario in a universe headed for a "big crunch." The big crunch has currently fallen out of favor with astronomers and theorists, and Davies' invented universe envisions the currently favored thermodynamic "big fade away" scenario.) It also might strike us as unrealistic or even arrogant; but, foolish or not, Davies' reason for such 'optimism' is unveiled in the following 200 pages.

What follows is a fast-paced and critical tour-de-force of the state of current and emerging scientific theories and prospects (promising and otherwise) for the future. There are many outstanding discussions, one centered on the mathematics of self-similar scaling -- the "Mandelbrot set" being a famous example. Davies believes that, in principle, science will one day explain, comprehensively, how the world works. Don't hold your breath, we're not exactly close to that day just yet. In some significant areas, notably the deepest theoretical understandings of biological and mind sciences, there seems to have been rather little progress at all. From popular treatments [like glossy spreads in National Geographic magazine, or Discovery Channel shows], one might be led to believe that great insights have been gained into how biological evolution proceeds and how life arises spontaneously from non-life. Davies surveys the competing claims and theories in these disciplines and exposes them as being starkly impotent to date. (There is a popular myth that only religious fundamentalists are skeptical of the neo-Darwinian story line -- but many of the most penetrating minds of modern theoretical science and mathematics, including Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, John von Neumann, and Kurt Godel, among others, have found the Darwinian story to be non-compelling at best, and on some points glaringly wrong. As Davies points out, a world in which 'natural selection' was The Great Generative Engine, supporting only reproductive advantages, many life forms that we observe, like elephants [low birth rate, long gestation period, etc], could not have been 'selected' into existence. It does no good to protest that elephants should not and could not reproduce like bunnies -- in a truly Darwinian world there simply should not be elephants [or humans: striving to discern whether the universe might be headed toward a 'big crunch' or a 'heat death' can offer no reproductive advantage for beings given to contemplating such things!]. One thinks of many Darwin-confuters in the plant kingdom. A world built by Darwinian mechanisms would be populated only by masters of mitosis, and perhaps sex-maniacs that mated like bunnies, although sex itself, a comparatively inefficient means of reproduction [obviously when compared to mitotic reproduction], is another intractable problem for the Darwinian story.) Davies, like many noted physicists, is well studied and articulate in theoretical biology, and finds the state of neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory to be mostly a patched-up, just-so story that is easy fodder for skepticism. He does, however, believe that Stuart Kaufmann's ideas concerning holistic approaches to understanding complexity may be more fruitful. However I give a wrong impression if I seem to suggest that the book is largely about biological evolution, it is not. This is but one of several illuminating discussions, most of which understandably center on mathematical physics.

Davies, an epistemological optimist at any rate, expects that theoretical biology and mind science will one day succumb to our advancing knowledge, and that we will know, exhaustively, how the world works. But to know how the world works is not to know why the world works. Even if science should attain a reductionistic "theory of everything" and a stunning cadre of holistic theories explaining all features of 'emergence' and 'complexity', the big Why question(s) will remain, and any answers will remain as matters of faith, not strict science. Science speaks to "how," but why should this be so? Why should there be an explainable world and why should it contain world-explainers? One can deny teleological inference and many materialists insist [religiously] on doing so, but the denial is one of personal choice, not actual science. The world IS 'up to something,' and this fact IS fundamentally written into the new physics. The mysterious profundity of "why" always remains. In the day that Davies foresees, when physical science has achieved its final triumph, it will not have dispensed with God and it will not have written purpose out of the world.

Well, that's the book in a nutshell, but there's much more to it. I've read something like ten of Davies' books; most of them being either 'good' or 'very good' (with one notable exception) and this volume fits either category, except, perhaps, for that wild assertion in the new preface.

Analytical, informative and creative..........2005-10-11

Davies has the unique ability to integrate various scientific ideas into a cohesive whole. Rather than dodging questions, he addresses them directly. There is a resistance to many of his ideas partly because some scientists are fearful that creationists will use his arguments to denigrate contemporary science.

I hope Davies will continue to do what he does best-- analyze, synthesize and share his ideas.

The Cosmic Blueprint.......2003-05-28

In 1987, James Gleick released Chaos, which was regarded as a seminal work in the subject, but in the same year, a much less popularised book by Paul Davies - The Cosmic Blueprint was also released - a vastly wider-ranging and advanced introduction to the theory of Complexity, as chaos came to be known.

Davies' book clearly explains the fundamental concepts and ties them all in - emergence, nonlinearity, the second law, self-organization, stochastic structures, complex and dynamic systems, darwinism and creativity - in all their cosmological and terrestial implications, with excellent philosophy to back it.

This is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in contemporary science. It still stands as a classic explication of an emerging new scientific paradigm which is now in full swing, and which Davies called and contextualized years ahead of his time.

If you read one science book in your life, this should be it.

The Cosmic Blueprint.......2003-05-28

If you read one science book in your life, this should be it.

IT CANNOT BE LEGO!.......2000-07-31

Besides being, like many others of Davies' books, a little masterpiece of scientific vulgarization, this is a deeply honest enterprise under a strict, intellectual standpoint. But one which, while clinging to a crystalline sense of science's autonomy, aims at promoting a persuasion: reductionism (something called by the less merciful critics "this ritual nothingbuttery") is no more viable as a means of convincing explanation for natural phenomena, especially for those of a higher, more complex order, like living systems, human beings and, on top of all, human conscience and intelligence, both as individual and social processes.

The book strikes a perfect balance - not in the sense of compromise at all costs but in that, more useful and enlightening, of creative dialectical synthesis - between a steady faith in the capacity of science to investigate and eventually unveiling natural truths and a sort of rational and humane optimism which makes one feel that our universe is a formidable work-in-progress with a built-in, but not mechanistic inclination at producing new principles and meaning.

Mystery and freedom (and that flavour of "philosophic poetry" associated with them!) are preserved in the frame of a non-deterministic worldview, because no precise and mandatory evolutionary path seems to have been established at the "beginning", which Davies assumes, like the majority of today's cosmologists, to have been the Big Bang, the "moment" at which all - space, time, matter and energy - broke into being. Rather a potentiality for progress which in the course of billions of years has reached and will reach numerous transition points, from where the universe can branch out into a wide choice of meaningful possibilities. The only "constraint" being represented by a sort of tacit, maternal invitation to follow the route to self-consciousness as if the universe was sketched in such a way as to eventually reach this fundamental stage. For this reason Davies appears to believe, but never in a fixed, dogmatic sense, that just something like a loose cosmic blueprint, whence the book's title, lies hidden at the very core of creation, secretly fostering the growth of that substance we call, with still a bit of approximation, Intelligence.

I think that, like any truly important book, this one was written to revisit old questions and pose new ones rather than to provide standard ready-made answers, because, Davies seems to imply, no definite and irreversible answer is written on the giant cosmic page before us. That's to say: open arguments, for open minds!

During his exposition Davies touches many of the issues on which the debate and the contrasts between reductionism and holism are more vivid and intellectually productive. And he affirms that a new turn towards holism is gaining momentum among the scientific communities the world over as the lego-like philosophy of reductionism shows all its conceptual inadequacy to provide convincing prospects for the advancement of our understanding of complexity and significance.

Such rich notions as Jung's principle of synchronicity and Elsasser's "biotonic laws" are discussed, as well as that nice and inevitable philosophical animal known under the name of Schroedinger's cat, which as every well-read scientific layman already knows implies a plunge into the spectral world of quantum-mechanics. These and many other ideas and hypotheses are presented in a fascinating review of the more suggestive attempts to forge new visions of the universe and its destiny.

As a final, if trivial, consideration I may say that after reading this kind of books you come back to your everyday routine problems with a refreshed notion of their limited importance and consequently with the conviction that you should not permit them to take away a too large amount of your intellectual and spiritual energies.

The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in the Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe
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Intuitive Explanation of "Downward Causation"

The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in the Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe
Paul Davies
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Intuitive Explanation of "Downward Causation".......2004-11-08

This book gives a great feel for Downward Causation. Is it a "Straw Man" to label bottom-up clockwork-universe types as "Believing that knowing the Physics behind Random Access Memory, would let you derive the programs stored in it" ? For many, the idea that the universe is NOT absolutely deterministic will still come as a revelation in late 2004. "Absolute Determinism" is a dead horse still in need of much more kicking, as Arthur Koestler's SPCDH might remark.

4 stars, because it rambles more than his later books, but then again there is good stuff in here which isn't repeated in the later books.

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