Vermont Investment and Business Guide (Nis Business and Industrial Library)

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Ultimate investment and business guide for conducting business in the state. Business, investment and export-import opportunities. State economy, government structure, mineral resources, technology, government, political and business contacts and more...

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This portable, attractive city guide includes detailed PopOut™ maps, a 64-page insider guide, a functional compass, and a pen to help you travel intelligently around Milan. The classic itinerary suggests how to best enjoy the city by highlighting 16 must-see attractions, including the Duomo and the Quad d'Oro — and each attraction corresponds to an alphanumeric index cross-referenced with one of the helpful maps. Also included are 60 varied shops and services; 22 entertainment venues hosting music, activities, and sports; and 55 restaurants covering a wide range of atmospheres from fine dining to bars. A concluding section provides transportation, weather, and regional custom information. The Milan city guide includes PopOut maps of Centro Storico, central Milan, and an inset of Greater Milan and The Lakes.

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APA's Guide to Federal & State Wage & Hour Laws
American Payroll Association
Manufacturer: American Payroll Association
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1930471564

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APA's Guide to Federal and State Wage and Hour Laws gives you all you need to know to comply with federal and state laws governing minimum wages, overtime, exempt vs. nonexempt employees, child labor restrictions, and much more. The failure to pay required overtime or the misclassification of nonexempt employees as exempt can lead to costly penalties that significantly impact your bottom line. Important state requirements are presented in easy-to-read charts.

APA's Guide to Federal and State Garnishment Laws

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APA's Guide to Federal and State Garnishment Laws
American Payroll Association
Manufacturer: American Payroll Association
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ASIN: 1930471572

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APA's Guide to Federal and State Garnishment Laws gives you the information you need to confidently process federal tax levies, child support withholding orders, creditor garnishments, bankruptcy orders, and other wage withholding orders. The book also features easy-to-read state charts governing all aspects of child withholding orders and creditor garnishments. Learn when and how to report new hires, how much pay is subject to garnishment, whether the employer can charge an administrative fee, and what to do when faced with multiple child support orders.

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APA's Guide to State Payroll Laws
Laura Lough; Esq. and Rena J. Pirsos; J.D.
Manufacturer: American Payroll Association
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ASIN: 1930471939

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This handy reference text contains information on payroll-related laws and regulations in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. APA's Guide to State Payroll Laws presents information in easy-to-read tables. Citations to state laws and regulations are included to facilitate further research.

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APA's Guide to State Payroll Laws
Laura Lough
Manufacturer: American Payroll Association, Inc.
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ASIN: 1930471416

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The newest reference book from the American Payroll Association contains information on the payroll-related laws and regulations in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The information is presented in easy-to-read tables that makeit simple to find answers without doing exhaustive research. Citations to state laws and regulations are included if further research is necessary. The book covers areas of state regulation that Payroll Professionalsdeal with every day on the job, including: minimum wage rates, overtime, tip credits, pay frequency, handling unclaimed wages, withholding on nonresidents, reporting new hires, child support withholding, work hours for minors, the tax treatment of popular fringe benefits, and many more. The 2001 edition is the first edition of this softcover book.

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APA's Guide to State Payroll Laws 2004
Laura Lough , and Rena J. Pirsos
Manufacturer: American Payroll Association
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ASIN: 1930471556

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This handy reference text contains information on the payroll-related laws and regulations in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. APA's Guide to State Payroll Laws presents information in easy-to-read tables. Citations to state laws and regulations are included to facilitate further research. The book covers areas of state regulation including: minimum wage rates, overtime, tip credits, pay frequency, handling unclaimed wages, withholding on nonresidents, reporting new hires, child support withholding, work hours for minors, the tax treatment of popular fringe benefits, and many more.

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APA's Guide to Federal and State Wage and Hour Laws
American Payroll Association
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APAs Guide to Federal and State Wage and Hour Laws
American Payroll Association
Manufacturer: American Payroll Association
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ASIN: 1930471815

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Diana Mosley is the riveting tell-all biography of one of the most intriguing, enigmatic and controversial women of the twentieth century, written with her exclusive cooperation and based upon hundreds of hours of taped interviews and unprecedented access to her private papers, letters and diaries. Lady Mosley's only stipulation was that the book not be published until after her death.

Society darling Diana Mosley, born June 10, 1910, was by general consent the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the brewing dynasty, with whom she had two sons. After four years, she left him for the leader of the British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. It was a course of action that horrified her family and scandalized society.

In 1933 Diana took her sister Unity to Germany, where both met the new German leader, Adolf Hitler. Diana became so close to him that when she and Mosley married in 1936, the ceremony took place in the Goebbels' drawing room with Hitler as the guest of honor. She would continue to visit Hitler until a month before the outbreak of World War II, and afterwards she refused to believe in the horrors of the Holocaust. During the war the Mosleys' association with Hitler led them to be arrested and detained for three and a half years. After, they rebuilt their lives in exile, entertaining and being entertained by pre-war friends and new associates, including the Windsors. Attempts by Oswald Mosley to enter mainstream politics failed abjectly; for him at least, the message of the real world finally got through. His death devastated Diana, after their almost fifty years together. Her loyalty to him remained unquestioning, his political beliefs as sacred in death as in life.

Anne de Courcy's gripping biography reveals the mesmerizing life of a woman whose fateful choices shocked her family, friends and fellow countrymen while she remained unbowed. This is a unique window on a world and a life that are no more but are still gripping fifty years later.

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Great biography and a study of Fascism.......2007-08-05

"It remains extraordinary that a woman of such high intelligence could talk such heartless nonsense" These are the words of author Anne de Courcy upon hearing the 90+year-old Diana Mosley expound on her anti-semitic views.

It is not that de Courcy did not try to discover what lay behind Diana Mosley's repellant beliefs. On the contrary, I believe that de Courcy did perhaps as well as anyone could have done to lay bare Diana Mitford-Guiness-Mosley's psyche. Many writers, when given unfettered access to a subject end up writing hagiographies. Anne de Courcy, on the other hand, has written an objective, clear-eyed account of Diana Mosley and her milieu.

The author did an admirable job of describing the early Mitford household; the parents, sisters and other people who touched their lives are described in more than sufficient detail to lay the historical and psychological ground work for an understanding of the Mitfords' ensuing years. It was apparent that Diana was destined to lead an interesting life owing to her singular beauty and vivacious personality. She attracted the intellectual and wealthy elite like a magnet. The path that she chose for herself was indeed interesting, but often very uncomfortable. One small example of her interesting life is the fact that she was the last person alive to have personally known both Hitler and Winston Churchill. Most uncomfortable would have been her imprisonment and fractured family and personal relationships owing to her political and personal beliefs.

De Courcy spends a fair amount of time describing the life and times of Diana's second husband, Oswald Mosley, and the British Fascist movement. Many early Fascists during the time of Mussolini's rise in Italy began their political lives as Labour supporters. When the Depression came and Fascism promised a better life for the average worker, many working class people joined Fascist organizations, such as the British Union. It seems incredible from a modern perspective that Leftists could suddenly do a flip to become Rightists, but that is indeed what happened to many political activists, including Mosely and to Diana Guinness, who was already under Mosley's control at the time.

It was both fascinating and appalling to read about Diana Guinness falling under the influence of the charismatic Oswald Mosley, and her life-long dedication to Mosley and Fascist ideals. Both were charismatic people whose talents could have been put to far better use. Diana Mosley could have been the predecessor to another Diana, Diana Spencer, had she followed a different path. Instead, she is probably regarded as an unfortunate historical curiosity, much like her friends, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

As someone who is frankly more interested in the history of Fascism than in biographies of British wealthy elite, I found this book fascinating. I especially recommend this book to Americans who may not have heard of the Mitfords or the Mosleys before. The photographs alone are worth the price of admission.

Hmm, Hagiographic? I am not sure I am convinced, but a good read.......2005-08-22

Diana Mosley is one of the most fascinating women of the 20th century - or she is for me, she and her 5 sisters, the Mitfords were among the most beautiful and talented women in Britain in the early years of last century. Nancy, the eldest became a novellist, Diana was an accredited beauty and good friends with many of the artists and literati of the time. Jessica was a communist, Unity a friend of Hitler, and Jessica, later became a duchess. Born into an eccentric family (later immortalised in fictional accounts by Nancy as Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love) Diana and her sisters definitely trod their own paths, and her mother said something to the effect that whenever she opened the paper and saw "peer's Daughter" in the headline she knew it must be one of her daughters - and I think generally it was!

This was the time of the Bright Young Things, of Evelyn Waugh, and the glittering inter-war years, and of a talented, beautiful woman, and yet I have to say I was not really terribly convinced by the fundamental issue in this - which is Diana's relationship with Hitler and her understanding of his role in the World War II.

After all Diana was an anti-semite herself, her second marriage to Mosely (founder and leader of the British Fascist movement) cemented this. She visited him several times, her sister Unity was one of Hitler's confidants and certainly there is evidence that Unity was aware of and had been present at some hideous humiliations of Jews (although admittedly not deaths). It seems conveniently naive that Diana should not be aware of the extent the Nazi's were going to.

Luckily Diana was more than the sum of her Fascist beliefs, she spent 3 and a half years in jail for that during the second world war - a time in which she was also removed from her new born baby and other children. She was charming, and fascinating, and her life in the prior to this and in the 60 years after these events is wonderfullly readable

De Courcy has written another very readable biography on the Curzon sisters, one of whom (Cimmie) was Mosley's first wife. I preferred that book to this, but this is still very readable and a must for Mitfordites who want to know more of the family. De Courcy was given almost unrestricted access to Diana's diarys and papers, and made hundreds of hours of taped interviews, I just can't help thinking at times Diana did have a convenient memory - and no apology.

Great Biography of a Very Unusual Person and Family!.......2004-06-09

Diana was of the fabled Mitford sisters, and with the exception of her suicidal sister, Unity, the most bizarre. Both were completely infatuated with the Fuhrer, and his Germany. Now, in 2004, anyone can state the obvious about Nazi Germany. In the 1930's, this was definitely not as clear as now. Many forget the incredible attraction of the 1930's Germany to many at the time, not all Germans. And there was a deperate need not to have another terrible war between Germany & Birtain. Through her husband, the British Fascist Oswald Mosley, Diana, and Unity, met and befriended many top Nazi leaders. In sum, a really fine book in every way, not least for its insights into the times. A minor complaint is that the author could have written more about Diana's two author sisters, Jessica and Nancy, the 2 real brains in the family, both definitely more "normal" than Diana and Unity.

An outstanding biography written with her full cooperation.......2003-12-12

Diana Mosley is one of the most controversial women of the 20th century: this outstanding biography is written with her full cooperation and also includes hundreds of hours of taped interviews, access to her private diaries and letters, and unparalleled ability to achieve intimate revelations. The story of the society darling's notorious departure from an established marriage in favor of the leader of the British Union of Fascists and a notorious womanizer makes for an account which explains much about not only her actions, but the history and politics of the times.

Sensational and Shocking Reading.......2003-12-01

"Diana Mosley"-the person and the book-will rivet you and shock you. Not shock in a titilliating, revolving bedrooms way. Though Mosley does leave her devoted husband in her early 20's for a serial womanizer who cheats on her until his death nearly fifty years later, sex plays a minor role in this book. Mosley, after her youthful adultery, remained a one-man woman for the rest of her years. No, the shocking part lies in the lifelong devotion, actually obsession bordering on psychotic, for her lover and then husband, Oswald Mosley and his cause (British fascism). And this obsession led her to embrace both Nazism and a friendship with Adolf Hitler, both of which she defended until her death.
Diana Mosley was one of the fabled Mitford sisters, born to a minor, eccentric aristocrat and his equally well-born wife. Blessed with a perfect "face" and considered the beauty of her generation, she married early and well at the age of 18 to an heir to the Guinness fortune. She had two boys almost immediately and became a popular London society hostess of the early 1930's. At some point her path crossed Oswald Mosley's, the heir to a British baronetcy and the founder and leader of the British Fascist Movement, and that was that. Even though Mosley was married (happily too despite the infidelities) and had said he would never leave his wife, Diana left Guinness, his fortune and the good opinion of many including her family.

Soon after, Mosley's wife died and her family hated Diana for the rest of their mutually long lives (Diana died in august '03, Mosley's last sister-in-law in '95.)
Mosley then launched an affair with one of his sisters-in-law while simultaneously romancing Diana. Diana, perhaps to impress Mosley in the beginning, traveled to Germany on many occassions, attended Nuremberg rallies, and befriended Hitler. Her sister Unity Mitford, usually considered the "Mitford" sister most associated with Hitler, was obsessed with the fuhrer in a stalking, almost pathetic way. Diana, cooler, better looking, and far saner, enjoyed talking politics with him (eventually she did negotiate on behalf of the British fascists for a radio wave). Hitler reciprocated the friendship by arranging for her to marry Mosley in secret in Goebbels living room. He attended.
Well, she paid dearly for this friendship and her love for Mosley-she and MOsley were imprisoned during most of WWII, they were snubbed by many for years, they eventually lived out of the country-yet she never recanted her love for one and friendship for the other. Not after the reveleations of the Holocaust, not after her husband's numerous infidelities.
De Courcy does an excellent job of describing all aspects of Diana Mosley's life: not just her politics but her lifestyle, her intelligence, her reading, her friendships, her family. De Courcy admits in the beginning that she loved MOsley but saw her flaws...and she is critical, though at times could have been harder.

Perhaps the most damning section of the book: de Courcy inserts Diana Mosley's exchange with a Prison Advisory committee during her imprisonment. In it, she cooly responds to questions about her friendship with HItler, her dislike of Jews, her criticisms of her cousin Winston Churchill, her belief in fascism. The book ends with this chilling transcript--a fitting endnote to her life.

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Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel
Anne de Courcy
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel
Anne De Courcy
Manufacturer: William Morrow
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ASIN: B000OF1334

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This intriguing book brings a fresh perspective to bear on the intimate, charged partnership of John and Robert Kennedy. The author, Richard D. Mahoney, whose father was a friend of Bobby's and an appointee of Jack's, has both the academic and political experience necessary to evaluate evidence of the Kennedys' relations with the Mafia, anti-Castro rebels, and other groups lurking in the shadows of American life. He also has a sharp eye for the brothers' differing yet complementary personalities. Jack was intellectual and cheerfully cynical, with a zest for pleasure increased by a life-threatening illness concealed from the public. He looked to passionate, partisan Bobby for bulldog-like political support and used his brother as a "moral compass" when planning his administration's actions on civil rights, the corruption of organized labor, and the containment of Communism. Their powerful father, Joseph--whose deep pockets basically bought Jack the presidency and at the same time compromised it because of Joseph's links to organized crime--looms over the brothers as the author of a Faustian bargain that may well have played a role in JFK's assassination. Mahoney's vivid, compulsively readable text offers suggestive questions rather than definitive answers, but it certainly succeeds as a bracing corrective to "America's inability to see its history as tragedy," a failure Jack and Bobby emphatically did not share. --Wendy Smith

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Pretty Good.......2007-01-07

First of all, let's get it out of the way. I really love the Kennedys. I enjoy most of the books about them and always learn something of each (yes, even the crazy conspiracy books). This book was a little different. I learned a lot. I enjoyed how it was put together. It starts with the 1950's and then takes 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 and then Bobby Alone as separate topics. It has stories from their growing years in each as if looking back to show why they were doing what they were doing at that time in their life. I really got in the Bobby Alone section from 1964 to 1968. It showed how Bobby totally changed his views and what he went through in order to come to the conclusion that he needed to run for President. Mr. Mahoney does drag out the New Orleans, Cuban, and Mafia stuff but it's ok. Most nowadays do. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a well rounded book on the Kennedy boys.

Great companion volume to Ultimate Sacrifice.......2005-12-23

Richard Mahoney is to be commended for putting together a highly readable and cogent account of the life and times of JFK and RFK, as well as their dealings with the Mafia (that led to the death of JFK). Well done.
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why stop at only five stars?.......2005-08-24

ive read other books on JFK and none of the other books can quite compair to the realism in this book. the things i didnt understand in the first few books where explained more in depth than before and i came to realize that half of the things that kennedy was blammed for after his death were not acctually his fault. for example, vietnam.

The picture on the cover says it all.......2004-01-28

I was raised in a conservative household and consider myself conservative in many ways (though I'm a registered independent). That said, I am 29 years old and both these men were dead before I was even born. However I have had a fascination with JFK & RFK since I first started studying history and the impact that the changes in the 1960's would have on future America. The picture on the cover is very telling about how different these brothers were -- black and white. What this book is really about is how co-dependent these two men were, with Jack more so upon Bobby. Many disturbing facts have come out about the Kennedy brothers in the last twenty years. Much of it does bother me as a moral and religious person. But that doesn't erase the fact that Jack and Bobby were very intelligent and gifted men and when it is all said and done, their idealism and determination positively impacted our nation's history.

one star is far too much.......2003-06-15

this is not a biography,it's a fiction and it's stupid, boring.
the author was surely drunk when he wrote it.
this book is a shame to the legacy of the kennedys.
there are a few photos.
buy abetter book like: rfk and his times....

Sons & Brothers The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy

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Sons & Brothers The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
Richard D. Mahoney
Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0R4BE

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In March 1938, Hitler's troops invaded Austria, wildly cheered by thousands of spectators. Following the consequent annexation, a Greater Germany plebiscite recorded a 99 percent support for Austro-German unification under Hitler. By 1942, however, Allied leaders at Yalta had declared the annexed country "the first victim of Nazi aggression," laying the groundwork for the suppression of Austria's collaboration in the Holocaust and establishing a grossly deficient "culture of memory." Among the forgotten were the 130,000 Austrian Jews who escaped the work camps and gas chambers only to find themselves in unfamiliar lands among unsympathetic people. This book, rising out of Austria's "Year of Recollection" in 1988, contains the narratives of 27 ex-Austrian Jews who were forced into exile following the Anschlu. Translated from the German by poet Ewald Osers, the book includes accounts of anti-Semitism before Hitler, the annexation, flight from the homeland, and life in exile.

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Strangers at Home and Abroad.......2000-06-14

This book is a true account of the people who were exiled because they were Jewish and persecuted by the Nazis.It is a sincere description of biographical accounts. The introduction to the book is written with understanding and feelings by the editor, Adi Wimmer. The book is divided into three sections each one reflecting a different attitude toward the return to Austria. The experiences of the exiles are clearly described.

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