Surviving an IRS Tax Audit

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Worried about escaping an audit intact? Then you need Surviving an IRS Tax Audit.

This Nolo book explains what to say, what to do, even what to wear, so that a visit from the auditor doesn't turn into a disaster.

With material pulled directly from IRS training manuals, the book exposes the tricks of the auditor's trade. It provides you with a profile of People Most Likely To Be Audited (small business owners and contractors, step carefully!) and discusses whether or not the IRS can examine your "lifestyle" during an audit, rather than stick to the tax return.

The book also suggests three steps to take when an unreasonable auditor goes too far.

Nearly 50 percent of all taxpayers will be audited during their lifetime. This book levels the playing field, giving you the information you need to act and speak like a tax pro.

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For ten years, hundreds of thousands of investors have turned to "The Best Stocks to Own in America" to help them find the stocks best poised for superior long-term growth. Now Gene Walden turns his efforts to helping a whole new audience: consumers who can't or simply don't want to spend a lot of maney to get into the market. He uses the same stringent criteria here for ranking stocks: earnings growth, stock growth, revenue growth, and consistency. The simple language, at-a-glance tables, and clear explanations will appeal to investors at all levels.

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Just another tip........2007-05-11

This book is ok. I bought it back in 00'. Choose one company Interface, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ: IFSIA) out of the whole book. Bought it under $10, trading around $16, still under $20 though. No big deal.

Now over $20.......2000-02-22

After following and/or investing in about 15 of these stocks, I have been pleasantly surprised. I'd say on average, their stock prices have doubled. However, I don't think it is worth buying the book anymore because these stocks are no longer undervalued.

Under $20 and not going anywhere........1999-12-17

After reviewing over half the stocks in this book, I found only two I would consider purchasing. Most have gone down or gone nowhere. I still enjoy Gene Walden's book "The 100 Best Stocks to Own in America" but this book did nothing for me. Also, was surprised he had so little technology stocks in the book.

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Web Pages for Churches and Other Nonprofit Organizations
Karen L. Oberst
Manufacturer: Eulogia Books
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ASIN: 0970903901

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This booklet will help you think through the process of creating a Website, from why you want a page, through what should be on it, and when to update it. It will help you figure who and what you need to make and keep up your site.

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50 Simple Steps You Can Take To Sell Your Home Faster

Just What You Want

SOLD in less than 24 hours

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50 Simple Steps You Can Take to Sell Your Home Faster and for More Money in Any Market
Ilyce R. Glink
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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House Selling for Dummies

ASIN: 0609809334
Release Date: 2003-01-28

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America’s bestselling real-estate expert offers a highly practical, reader-friendly guide to selling your home quickly and for the best price—in any market.

In 50 Simple Steps You Can Take to Sell Your Home Faster and for More Money in Any Market, Ilyce Glink takes home sellers through the process of readying their homes for sale, offering inside tips and expert advice about how to get the most value from any house or apartment in the shortest time possible. Inside you’ll find:

• Rules every seller should live by
• Mistakes every home seller makes—but can easily avoid
• Steps you have to take before you sell, including great ideas for keeping
your house ultraclean and organized
• Room-by-room improvements—including the basement, attic, garage,
and the exterior—that will add instant value to your home
• Information on timing your sale
• Inside advice on pricing your house
• Tips for navigating the paperwork and closing documents

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50 Simple Steps You Can Take To Sell Your Home Faster.......2007-01-19

Excellent!
Can't miss using the ideas presented.

Just What You Want.......2005-09-22

This book IS just what you want if you want to sell your house. I'm a Realtor, so I feel especially qualified to say this.

SOLD in less than 24 hours.......2005-08-08

This book tells it like it is. You want the most money out of your investment, than try to do all the things listed to prepare your house before you call a realtor or have people view it. It is a lot of work - it took me three months - but everyone who viewed my home said what a lovely home I had, how well-maintained it was, and I had an offer in less than 24 hours for more than my listing price! I also heard a lot of comments from potential buyers about how dirty and cluttered other homes they visited were - so much so that it was hard to see what the home had to offer. A very, very worthwhile investment.

selling tips.......2005-07-06

this book is great, we did everything wrong and payed for it.
this was a great help with our other properties. Highly recommend this to others.

A small gem.......2005-05-24

Invaluable! Solid, practical, up-to-date advice with no fluff, from a woman who knows the real estate market inside and out. Written in a friendly, conversational style--not "technical" at all. I followed Glink's advice, and my condo sold in three days (to the first person who looked at it) for $1,750 above the asking price.

Sell Your House Faster and for More Money

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Sell Your House Faster and for More Money
Janet Little , and Katie Gilles
Manufacturer: Ideaworks Publishing, Incorporated
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Binding: Paperback

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I'm curious... What do you think?

The Woodstock Nation revisited

Better than Elvis's sleeping pills

A Legal Mystery Tour

Gimme Some Truth: the John Lennon Fbi Files
Jon Wiener
Manufacturer: California
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ASIN: B0001PBYAO

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When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group." When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Information request, the entire text was withheld--along with almost 200 other pages--on the grounds that releasing it would endanger national security. This book tells the story of the author's remarkable fourteen-year court battle to win release of the Lennon files under the Freedom of Information Act in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. With the publication of Gimme Some Truth, 100 key pages of the Lennon FBI file are available--complete and unexpurgated, fully annotated and presented in a "before and after" format.
Lennon's file was compiled in 1972, when the war in Vietnam was at its peak, when Nixon was facing reelection, and when the "clever Beatle" was living in New York and joining up with the New Left and the anti-war movement. The Nixon administration's efforts to "neutralize" Lennon are the subject of Lennon's file. The documents are reproduced in facsimile so that readers can see all the classification stamps, marginal notes, blacked out passages and--in some cases--the initials of J. Edgar Hoover. The file includes lengthy reports by confidential informants detailing the daily lives of anti-war activists, memos to the White House, transcripts of TV shows on which Lennon appeared, and a proposal that Lennon be arrested by local police on drug charges.
Fascinating, engrossing, at points hilarious and absurd, Gimme Some Truth documents an era when rock music seemed to have real political force and when youth culture challenged the status quo in Washington. It also delineates the ways the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations fought to preserve government secrecy, and highlights the legal strategies adopted by those who have challenged it.

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I'm curious... What do you think?.......2005-10-23

Did the government have something to do with the assassination of John Lennon? Click yes if you think so or no if you don't.

The Woodstock Nation revisited.......2003-10-18

It did bring me back "...to those thrilling day's of yesteryear." I was 18 and in the Army in 1972. I have forgoten most of the events unfolding that year, and this book brought back those scene's, as well as the THEN famous people who are just "faded memories" now. John and Yoko, Abby and Jerry, The other Chicago seven members, all of them are here and live again in these declassified FBI files. You would think some of the printed report's on the coming's and going's of the counter-culture leaders were written by old busy-bodies. Most documents are just plain nonsense and gossip. Why the Government tried to supress these for so long is a wonder. I would like to know what the British sent over to the FBI in the way of documents. These are shown to the reader as still being blacked out, and some dated beyond the date the FBI stopped watching Lennon's movements. A well done book by the Prof. and well worth the time if you like to read book's of a more political theme. Not for the four mop top's type of Beatle's fan. If you lived through the Day's of rage and wish to take a walk down those paranoid paths of the Hippie era then buy this book (I did not say "Steal This Book.")

Better than Elvis's sleeping pills.......2001-07-28

Well I just woke up from a long nap after trying yet again to *yawn* read a chapter of this *yawn* book. Definitely not nearly enough bananas or geese in it for me. If you want to hear long drawn-out stories about getting files from government agencies....well all I'm saying is I guess my primary interest in Lennon has always been his music and I just don't give a hoot about this stuff-- not enough entertainment value. I thought the book "The day Elvis Met Nixon" was much better. Oh go ahead write me a negative response.

A Legal Mystery Tour.......2000-06-04

First a simple test. To whom was FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover referring when he wrote to President Nixon's Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, "[He is]...a paradox because he is difficult to judge by the normal standards of civilized life....His main reason for being is to destroy, blindly and indiscriminately, to tear down and provoke chaos...."? Adolf Hitler maybe, or some seminal Osama bin-Laden? Of course not, as you already know it was none other than our friendly, pudgy-faced, mop-headed, evil genius, that heinous John Lennon, composer of such bellicose anthems as "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance." Reason enough to warrant the FBI's surveillance of the man for 24 hours a day, for years on end? Well, not really, but they did it anyway. This book details the efforts by the author, Jon Wiener, and two ACLU attorneys, Mark Rosenbaum and Dan Marmalefsky, to obtain the 200 odd pages of documents held by the FBI on Mr. Lennon, that the agency had refused to release, (typically on grounds of either national security or ostensibly to protect confidential sources). To this end the attorneys employed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as their basis to obtain these documents. The run-around that they were given by the government should be nothing new to students of previous such encounters, and the fact that it took 15 years to achieve it should not prove too surprising either. But without doubt the central point of this book, and one that cannot be overemphasized, is that it was the FBI (acting outside of its own charter and the explicit instructions contained in the FOIA) that violated the law, while finding no criminal activity on the part of Mr. Lennon. Possibly I'm too old, too jaded or just plain too cynical to be surprised to find out that the government, or its representatives, are capable of lying, placing illegal wire-taps, harassment, obfuscation and underhandedness. Certainly all of that happened here, and it is hats off to Rosenbaum and Marmalefsky for uncovering much of the skullduggery. Although most of the information on Mr. Lennon that was unearthed as a result of this effort was largely already known to any diligent reader of, for example, "Rolling Stone" magazine, following the trail of the hearings and legal arguments is a fascinating and worthwhile one, and the book's final chapter was (for me, at least) an eye-opener.

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interesting but at times a stretch
Meandering with moments of interest.

John Lennon and the FBI Files
Phil Strongman , and Alan Parker
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Once the Beatles split up, John Lennon found time to explore his strong political activist side. Moving to New York City, he and wife Yoko Ono befriended a host of activists and writers with a variety of agendas, encouraging and supporting them to such an extent that the FBI took notice. What followed was an escalating, and often bizarre, series of harassments - apartment bugging, deportation orders, attempted declaration of the Lennons' "insanity," concert embargoes, a set-up pot bust, harassment of friends like David Bowie, culminating, the authors argue, in the Beatle's death. The strange and sinister story of the U.S. government's secret war on the Lennons is dramatically told in this book based on recently released documents from the FBI's own archives. Included are photographs as well as new information from Lennon's music peers and fellow activists.

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interesting but at times a stretch.......2005-09-01

this book is a fairly interesting read however the author basically blends consipacy theories with fact, and treats them as fact. the book is also overtly opinionated. i do not condem the author or the book, but i think it should have been written in a manner that did not frequently display possibilities (even if they seem likely or at least plausible) as though they were known facts. that being said, i did enjoy reading the book. i dont know if i am with it all the way through but it was definitly interesting and did present a lot of facts about Lennon and about the history of the times that i, being born at the tail end of those days, didnt know much about. certainly whether or not all the conspiracy theories are true are not there are some fascinating similarities between various events discussed, odd coincidences, and really untidy loose ends that leave the possibilies open. i recomend this for those interested in such topics as sociology and history as well as the conspiracy theorists of the world, and for those interested in Lennon, although the books focus is really only on his death and only gives a brief overview of his life.

Meandering with moments of interest........2004-06-21

"John Lennon and the FBI Files" suggests that Lennon's assassin was not a deranged fan, but a programmed killer. Despite being this being the main objective of the book, it only occupies the latter third of the book's content. The majority of the book outlines the history of the CIA and FBI organizations and the various theories about mind control and programmed killers as pertaining to the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations.
By comparing Lennon's murder to the murder's of JFK and MLK it only exposes the lack of tangible evidence. While there's much evidence to help fuel the conspiracy theories of those assassinations, there's not a great deal of evidence in the Lennon shooting. The authors make a rather thin case in this book for a conspiracy. It's an interesting idea, but the most interesting portion of this book is dealing with the history of the CIA, which is better discussed in other books.

John Lennon: The FBI Files (Moments of History)

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John Lennon: The FBI Files (Moments of History)
Tim Coates
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GIMME SOME TRUTH: THE JOHN LENNON FBI FILES.

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GIMME SOME TRUTH: THE JOHN LENNON FBI FILES.
Jon. Wiener
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John Lennon & The FBI Files - Autographed

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John Lennon & The FBI Files - Autographed
John Lennon
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Binding: Tankobon Hardcover
ASIN: 4902800012

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Holocaust Literature falls in an international genre because Nazism affected many countries, and after the war survivors were scattered over the globe. It will prove a valuable resource to students, scholars, general readers, or to anyone interested in world history.

Featuring 300 alphabetically organized bio-critical essays on writers of memoirs, novels, poetry, and drama, ranging in length from 1,500 to 7,000 words, this comprehensive scholarly work presents a broad spectrum of voices remembering, interpreting, and reinterpreting one of the twentieth century's most politically and emotionally charged events. Including writers whose works first appeared in Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish, this reference provides wide international coverage, though its focus will be on writers whose work is available in English.

Key Features
* Includes a lengthy introduction discussing the special circumstances and characteristics of national literatures, and outlines the issues in the field
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Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature

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Whether it's a novel, memoir, diary, poem, or drama, a common thread runs through the literature of the Nazi Holocaust--a "motif of personal testimony to the dearness of humanity." With that perspective the expert authors of Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature undertake profiling 128 of the most influential first generation authors who either survived, perished, or were closely connected to the Holocaust. Arranged alphabetically by author, all of the entries answer the same basic questions about the author and his or her work: What is the nature of the author's literary response to the Holocaust? What is his or her place in Holocaust literature? What does the author's work contribute to an understanding of the Holocaust? What is distinctive about the author's work? What are some key moments in the author's life? What issues does the author's work pose for the reader? To address these questions, the entries are generally organized into three primary divisions: (1) an opening section on why the author's work has a significant or distinctive place in Holocaust literature, (2) a second section containing information on the author's biography, and (3) a critical examination of the highlights of the author's work. In most cases, the third section is the longest, since the focus of the encyclopedia is the literature, not the author. The Encyclopedia is intended for all students and teachers of the Holocaust, regardless of their levels of learning. Avenues for further research are incorporated at the conclusion of each entry and in a comprehensive bibliography of primary works of Holocaust literature and a second bibliography of critical studies of Holocaust literature.

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