Financial Markets and Capital Income Taxation in a Global Economy (Advances in Finance, Investment and Banking)

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The book describes the developments and the evidence, the problems and the interrelationships among problems, the outlook, and the intricate balance between the national and the international dimensions of the policy issues faced by tax administrations in OECD countries in the field of financial markets and capital income taxation in the wake of profound technological change and market globalization.

The book provides a broad perspective of the problems, comparing thoughts on how the problems may be best dealt with, and using lessons from experience with theoretical and policy developments in a number of countries including the EU, North America and Australia.

The book focuses on the following topics:
• falling barriers, increased capital mobility, and the challenges of capital market globalization
• the implications, for capital income taxation, of technological innovation and new financial products
• tax distortions and international market pressures for national tax system conformity
• questions of national tax sovereignty and the constraints imposed on governments by tax competition
• the growing need for tax cooperation
• emerging national and international capital taxation issues, including the premise that international cooperation may be key to solving, or at least alleviating, the existing and predicted tax problems.

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Manage I.T.: A Step by Step Guide to Help New and Aspiring IT Managers Make the Right Career Choices and Gain the Skills Necessary
Joe Santana , and Jim Donovan
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Manage I.T. helps newly promoted IT Managers and candidates considering the leap into IT Management keep their careers on a successful track. Every year thousands of companies promote star technical performers into IT Management roles. These newly minted managers start out with enthusiasm and high expectations. What happens in most cases, however, is that shortly after their promotions, these formally confidant and stellar workers become less than stellar and unhappy managers. The good news is that there are steps you can take to prevent this career derailment from happening to you.

If you want to make sure that a career in IT Management is the right choice and want to know what you can do to quickly move toward sustainable peak performance, you need this book.

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Good for managers with staff.......2006-03-15

I have to admit, I'm an aspiring IT Manager that purchased this book as a "look out for.." and clues to develope my managment skills.
I was a little disappointed when I found out that the first 3-4 chapters cover how to manage people and how to hire people. The last 2-3 chapters were the only things that applied to me (since i do not manage a staff). I guess I'm more looking on the how to manage your users then the staff.
Otherwise, for those that are entering into managing an IT staff, I would definitely see how you could benefit from this book.

Does "Manage I.T." help one manage I.T.?.......2005-03-06

This book takes on a noble goal- to try to bridge the gap between information technology practitioner and manager. It properly identifies that most I.T. managers are tossed into management positions as a result of doing well in subordinate positions with little or no guidance as to the requirements of their new positions.

While the book starts off with solid advice, advising would-be managers to first consider whether they want the new position and detailing many of differences. Unfortunately, as the book details the responsibilities of an I.T. manager, it misses some very big ones including training the team, innovating to improve existing processes, and generating synergy within the team.

As the book continues, it gets worse as it espouses bad advice including dropping out of recurring meetings attended as non-manager (in many cases the manager will attend the same meetings but in a different role) and ensuring employees do not carbon copy the manager on emails where the manager does not need to take an action (the manager should be copied on many of subordinates' emails to observe the interaction between the manager's employees and others. In the worst advice, it goes on to say how outsourcing is usually a good thing and that good managers support it. In all my experience and that of those I've talked with, I have not heard of a case where outsourcing has not led to both higher costs and poorer service.

In summary, if one reads the first five-six chapters and keeps in mind that it only covers some aspects of a technology manager's job, this book can be helpful. But if one reads beyond the sixth chapter, any good is outweighed by the poor advice that follows.

IT Management Mentor in a Bottle.......2004-03-05

Whether you are a new IT manager or an experienced one that wants to gain some of the new competencies required for success in today's environment, you will find that this book has all the essentials - in a compact easy to digest format. I also highly recommend it for people who are looking for an alternative to IT management books that are loaded with the same-old metrics.

Could be more indepth.......2004-01-30

If you are going to buy one book to guide you during your IT management transition, this book is not it. Instead use this book as a supplement to other materials, such as First, Break all the Rules or the HR Scorecard. The concepts in those books are transposed in the quick read. Instead of getting a brief overview, get the full version of each topics discussed elsewhere. The book does provide some good insight in employee development and stress management (great yoga breathing technique enclosed) but lacks in depth overall. Also, at times I felt the book was an informercial for the Employee Lifecylce HR model.

At last a transitional coaching tool for IT managers.......2003-07-02

Reading Manage I.T. is like having a transitional coach walk you through the process of moving from an indivudual contributor into an IT management role. Even people who have been managers for a number of years, but who've skipped learning the important lessons in this book will benefit. This book should be part of every IT managers library and every IT management training program.

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While gun supporters use the nation's gun-toting history in defense of their way of life, and revolutionary enthusiasts replay skirmishes on historic battlefields, it now turns out that America has not always had a gun culture, and wide-scale gun ownership is much newer than we think. After a 10-year search for "a world that isn't there," professor and scholar Michael Bellesiles discovered that Americans not only rarely owned guns prior to the Civil War, they wouldn't even take them for free from a government that wanted to arm its reluctant public. No sharpshooters, no gun in every home, no children learning to hunt beside their fathers. Bellesiles--whose research methods have generated a great deal of controversy and even a subsequent investigation by Emory University--searched legal, probate, military, and business records; fiction and personal letters; hunting magazines; and legislation in his quest for the legendary gun-wielding frontiersman, only to discover that he is a myth. There are other revelations: gun ownership and storage was strictly legislated in colonial days, and frivolous shooting of a musket was backed by the death penalty; men rarely died in duels because the guns were far too inaccurate (duels were about honor, not murder); pioneers didn't hunt (they trapped and farmed); frontier folk loved books, not guns; and the militia never won a war (it was too inept). In fact, prior to the Civil War, when mass production of higher quality guns became a reality, the republic's greatest problem was a dearth of guns, and a public that was too peaceable to care about civil defense. As Bellesiles writes, "Probably the major reason why the American Revolution lasted eight years, longer than any war in American history before Vietnam, was that when that brave patriot reached above the mantel, he pulled down a rusty, decaying, unusable musket (not a rifle), or found no gun there at all." Strangely, the eagle-eye frontiersman was created by East Coast fiction writers, while the idea of a gun as a household necessity was an advertising ploy of gun maker Samuel Colt (both just prior to the Civil War). The former group fabricated a historic and heroic past while Colt preyed on overblown fears of Indians and blacks.

Bellesiles, who is highly knowledgeable about weapons and military history, never comes out against guns. He is more interested in discovering the truth than in taking sides. Nevertheless, his work shatters some time-honored myths and icons--including the usual reading of the Second Amendment--and will be hard to refute. This fascinating, eye-opening account is sure to both inform and inflame the already highly charged debate about guns in America. --Lesly Reed

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How and when did Americans develop their obsession with guns? Is gun-related violence so deeply embedded in American historical experience as to be immutable? The accepted answers to these questions are "mythology," says Michael A. Bellesiles.

Basing his arguments on sound and prodigious research, Bellesiles makes it clear that gun ownership was the exception--even on the frontier--until the age of industrialization. In Colonial America the average citizen had virtually no access to or training in the use of firearms, and the few guns that did exist were kept under strict control. No guns were made in America until after the Revolution, and there were few gunsmiths to keep them in repair.

Bellesiles shows that the U.S. government, almost from its inception, worked to arm its citizens, but it met only public indifference and resistance until the 1850s, when technological advances--such as repeating revolvers with self-contained bullets--contributed to a surge in gun manufacturing. Finally, we see how the soaring gun production engendered by the Civil War, and the decision to allow soldiers to keep their weapons at the end of the conflict, transformed the gun from a seldom-needed tool to a perceived necessity--opposing ideas that are still at the center of the fight for and against gun control today.

Michael A. Bellesiles's research set off a chain of passionate reaction after its publication in the Journal of American History in 1996, and Arming America is certain to be one of the most controversial and widely read books on the subject.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Michael A. Bellesiles' Arming America is a stunning and seminal book that challenges everything we've previously been taught about America's history with guns. Painstakingly examining the historical record, Bellesiles shatters the myth of our gun-toting forefathers. When questions rose as to details of his research in probate records, the politically motivated effort by the gun lobby and its supporters expanded to include a committee of scholars and historians who devoted months to checking Bellesiles's footnotes in the archives where he did his research--practice that is extremely unusual in historical scholarship--and found evidence of sloppy research in five pages. In this revised edition, Bellesiles answers his academic critics, providing updated research addressing their legitimate concerns, and finding that the underlying thesis of his book remains as solid as ever."

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Interesting topic.......2007-01-31

Many of the other reviews for this book focus on the validity and/or existence of the sources used by the author. As such, I will only comment on the flow and subject of the book itself. The author contends that the stereotype of near-universal gun ownership among Americans is mainly false until after the Civil War. To back this up, the author cites sources such as wills, probate records, court documents, tax documents, store receipts and other such records. In his opinion, the evidence points to a very low rate of gun ownership, even in the frontier, and a colonial lifestyle that was essentially independent of firearms. For example, most food was caught by fishing and trapping, and less by hunting. Likewise, colonial violence was less common than commonly portrayed. The author also suggests that this low rate of gun ownership was one reason the War of Independence took so long; i.e. the colonies did not have enough men equipped to fight on the battlefield.

The contentions of this book are provoking, and it is nice for someone to address such a topic. The text itself is easy to read and flows nicely. I cannot comment, however, on the validity of the references.

Look closely at author's sources..........2006-12-14

I read this book for a historiography class in college - the prof's entire intention was to show us budding historians what not to do. Bellesiles has either falsified some of his sources or had access to sources that do not appear to exist and which he himself cannot remember. This resulted in the loss of his position at Emory Univ. and the withdrawl of his Bancroft Prize from Columbia University...just thought people should know.

Amazon.com as Guilty as Bellesiles?.......2006-06-29

Michael Bellesiles work has been exposed by legitimate historians (not just by NRA "gun nuts") as poorly researched and inaccurate. That is a polite way of saying that the book is worthless because the author intentionally invented facts (okay, I'll say it, he lied) and faked research to support his hypothesis. After an independent academic panel came to these same conclusions, Mr. Bellesiles resigned his position at Emory University in disgrace and his Bancroft Prize was eventually revoked. For the most part, the only informed people who continue to support him or his "work" are rabid and venomous gun grabbers for whom the end (gun confiscation) apparently still justifies the means. Anyone who still believes in any of Mr. Bellesiles contentions after reading James Lindgren's thoroughly and properly researched article published in the Yale Law Review is in a complete state of denial. All that being said, I must ask why Amazon.com continues to promote this despicable piece of garbage masquerading as legitimate historical research using the glowing laudatory reviews written when the book was first published in 2000, and before Mr. Bellesiles was exposed. So much for ethics among book peddlars.

Raising the Rating, For Fairness' Sake.......2006-03-27

Through a combination of bad luck, forgetfulness and, yes, sloppy documentation, Michael Bellesiles's pathbreaking work could not sustain a prominent place in American historiography. The 2003 paperback edition of "Arming America" has now incorporated a number of needed corrections and revisions. Despite the abuse heaped upon the author, it once again stands as a significant contribution to colonial and early national US history. Its well-documented flaws were concentrated in a few passages and tables presenting quantitative data. But critics never really addressed the mass of qualitative data, much of it available for decades, supporting Bellesiles's thesis that our gun culture's historical "roots" exist largely as myth. They also ignored his first-rate earlier research, notably "Revolutionary Outlaws" on early Vermont, which made him a rising star among historians. His foes' success in derailing his career reveals their failure to accept contrary views, and the power of the NRA gun lobby. The most substantive critiques appeared in "William & Mary Quarterly." For a full account of the affair, read J. Wiener, "Historians in Trouble." Wiener notes that many well-regarded histories have more serious problems, and the controversy reflects the hostility of "Arming America's" enemies far more than the book's weaknesses. Wait and see: Michael Bellesiles will eventually regain a reputation as a fine historian.

Difficult to check.......2006-01-15

It is unfortunate that upon considering this book, that one should, if honest to themselves, undertake a study to see if Bellesiles' peer historians have "signed off" on it.

Having read the exhaustive 50+ page report: "Fall from Grace: Arming America and the Bellesiles Scandal" by JAMES LINDGREN of Northwestern University Law School, one discovers that the all of the fifteen "major contentions of Arming America turn out to be false." (save that the militia was ineffective), in a well documented fashion. Also the work of Clayton Cramer document (often with actual copies of original documents from the period) what appears to be the art of historical revisionism at its highest.

This book is now regularly cited in University classes as an example of research and peer review failure.

If you are hoping to study the history of fradulent and unprofessional research, or failures in academic review, I should say you have found your book.

If, on the other hand, you wish to discover anything factual about guns and early America, you have no legitimate choice but to look elsewhere.

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Gun Control (American Issues Debated)
Herbert M. Levine
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Gun Control - An American Issue

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The Gun Control Debate: A Documentary History (Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues)

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The Gun Control Debate: A Documentary History (Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues)

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Both the history of the gun control debate, as well as the focus the debate will take in the future, are explored in this unique collection of over 200 documents spanning 200 years. High school and undergraduate students can use this resource--one of the largest collections of key documents concerning the issue of gun control--to explore the seminal arguments for and against further restrictions on guns. Each document is preceded by an explanatory head note to aid the student researcher in understanding and appraising the primary source. An advisory board of distinguished specialists and teachers on both sides of the debate assisted Bijlefeld with the selection of documents. All aspects of the debate are examined, including the history and development of the Second Amendment and its modern interpretations, as well as the political climate surrounding the debate. Users can investigate explanations of federal and state gun control measures, how they are passed into law, and gun control's role in today's political debates. Examining the future of the debate, Bijlefeld provides documents that explore the developing legal theories, the increased attention by criminologists, and the role played by the public health and law enforcement communities. The volume serves as a comprehensive source of key documents as well as a guide to additional sources covering specific topics.

Gun Control: An American Issue (Information Plus Compact Reference Series)

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Gun Control: An American Issue (Information Plus Compact Reference Series)
Jacquelyn Quiram
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Discussions on Gun Prohibition.......2006-04-19

The 13 chapters and Appendix provide concise coverage on this topic. The right to keep and bear arms is a definition of democracy (Aristotle, Cicero, Machiavelli, James Madison). English Common Law regarded keeping arms as a human right. Against that human right were most despots and their apologists (Plato, Garry Wills). America's right to keep and bear arms goes back to the 17th century. The Bill of Rights was to guarantee the rights of the people against an oppressive state. Late in the 19th century as the corporate aristocracy gained power they sought to limit people's rights. First they attacked the "well-regulated militia" from 1877 to 1919. Then they started on "the right to keep and bear arms" from 1934 onwards. The militia was composed of all male citizens was replaced with a "select militia". This battle goes on today (Chapter I).

Chapter II discusses gun ownership. Many Americans today buy firearms from China or Russia because of their high-quality and lower cost than domestic products. Table 2.4 presents statistics from a polling organization. People in rural areas need firearms for hunting and vermin control. Overall, white males formed a majority. Chapter III summarizes firearms laws. The 1986 Gun Control Act made it legal to transport guns through jurisdictions (p.20). [Has the increase of gun laws gone in step with attacks on the economic well-being of citizens?] Since 1989 in Florida most states have passed a right-to-carry law. This reverses the gun banning from the WW I era. In the 18th and early 19th century people were required to own guns as part of militia duty. Chapter IV tells how the federal and state courts have handled "the right to bear arms". Does the Bill of Rights apply to the states (p.43)? Not always. Note how the judges will create a decision to back the politicians. Chapter V has many tables of figures relating guns to crime. "Many Americans believe they are safer at home" but 4 out of 10 murders were done by a family member or acquaintances. Children are safer in school than at home (pp.63-68).

Chapter VI covers the injuries and fatalities from firearms. Suicides account for half of the mortalities, homicides almost half. More than half of the deaths occur for those aged 15 to 54, next age 55 or older. Gun ownership correlates with wealth (white males), gun wounding correlates with poverty (black males). These economics are rarely mentioned. Victims mirror the perpetrators, by race and age. [Gun deaths seem to match the latitude, more in Galveston and Memphis, fewer in Seattle (p.82).] Gun use saves lives and prevents injuries; gun ownership prevents home invasions. There is a concerted effort to attack popular gun ownership disguised as a safety measure, but they do nothing to provide "good jobs at good wages" or less oppressive taxation. Hypocrisy or politics? Chapter VII discusses "Guns and Youths" and their social environment. The authors fail to mention the quality of the high schools involved. [There were no problems in high schools before the 1968 Gun Control Law.] They note that BB guns are not toys for children.

Chapter VIII starts with an example on how concealed guns work for self-protection. It reduces violent crime against persons, but increases crimes against property. The authors quote the discredited story of Kellermann and Reay (pp.105-108). Most suicides occur at home, most murders involve family and friends; your home isn't as safe as a shopping district however counter-intuitive this seems. [Popular entertainment often serves as propaganda for a point of view.] Look at the "public health researchers" for an example (p.111). Gun buy-backs result in increased homicides (p.113)! Chapter IX tells of Public Attitudes; "gun control" is low on the list (p.117). Public opinion polls exist to provide what the buyer wants (p.119). Questions are constructed to educe answers. Those against gun permits have more real-world knowledge and experience (manual workers, farmers, etc.) than those shielded (professional and clerical). Poll results vary according to the levels of propaganda (pp.123-127). Do you know who is paying for the poll results (p.129)?

Chapters X and XI provide short speeches for and against gun prohibition ("stricter gun laws"). You can read and compare. A knowledge of classical logic can help to spot the fallacies. Did banning "Saturday Night Specials" result in more crime for "lower income people" (p.142)? Chapter XII and XIII provide short speeches for and against banning the so-called "assault weapons". Can you detect the logical fallacies? Appeal to ignorance, appeal to emotion, appeal to authority (ipse dixit), etc. are all here. Did the "assault weapon ban" lead to a lower rate of suicides and murder, and a higher rate of prosperity and general welfare? Historically, "gun control" leads to oppression of the people, and is one sign of a republic that is becoming a tyranny.
(This is from the 1997 edition.)

student.......1999-04-20

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NRA vs. 82nd Airborne Division. (Early Edition).(Brief Article): An article from: St. Louis Journalism Review

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NRA vs. 82nd Airborne Division. (Early Edition).(Brief Article): An article from: St. Louis Journalism Review
Ed Bishop
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This digital document is an article from St. Louis Journalism Review, published by SJR St. Louis Journalism Review on November 1, 2002. The length of the article is 767 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: NRA vs. 82nd Airborne Division. (Early Edition).(Brief Article)
Author: Ed Bishop
Publication: St. Louis Journalism Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2002
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Volume: 32 Issue: 251 Page: 3(1)

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A survey of the American people on guns as a children's health issue

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A survey of the American people on guns as a children's health issue
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Magnetism is one of the most pervasive features of the Universe, with planets, stars and entire galaxies all having associated magnetic fields. All of these fields are generated by the motion of electrically conducting fluids, the so-called dynamo effect. The precise details of what drives the motion, and indeed what the fluid consists of, differ widely though. In this work the authors draw upon their expertise in geophysical and astrophysical MHD to explore some of these phenomena, and describe the similarities and differences between different magnetized objects. They also explain why magnetic fields are crucial in the formation of the stars, and discuss promising experiments currently being designed to study some of the relevant physics in the laboratory. This interdisciplinary approach makes the book appealing to a wide audience in physics, astrophysics and geophysics.

The Magnetic Universe - Geophysical and Astrophysical Dynamo Theory

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GUNTHER HOLLERBACH, RAINER RUEDIGER
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