Communication 2000: Resolving Problems and Conflicts: Learner Guide/CD Study Guide Package (Communication 2000)

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Focusing on strategy for resolving differences by understanding the points of view of coworkers, Resolving Problems and Conflicts develops and improves upon the ability to listen well, prevent unnecessary conflict, and negotiate fair solutions. The workshops provided give instruction on how to understand different perceptions, strive for fairness, use strategies for making difficult decisions, ease tensions, and understand discipline policies. The CD-ROM component enhances the impact of the workshops so users can complete a variety of exercises on the computer and use the Internet to conduct further research.

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The only way to do it...is to do it.

Change Activist shows you how to make a difference in the world while achieving personal fulfillment in your career. The author argues that profit and principles are mutually achievable, and guides you toward become the driving force behind bigger, better, and more value-based results.

Customer Reviews:

Hope for frustrated idealists.......2002-12-11

Ideal for people who work in or own any size company and fear they have 'sold out' in order to earn a living wage. McConnell demonstrates in humorous yet logical sequences how one can influence a corporate environment or control one's own decisions and settings with cooperative and socially responsible attitudes and more importantly, actions. Her short quizzes cut right to the issues and actual behaviors, leaving one with hope and even an action plan for becoming a "change activist."

Bringing Passion to Change.......2002-10-16

By putting the heart into business everyone wins. According to Carmel change is not working in many companies because of the lack of passion. Change Activists make things happen because they care

Carmel creates a compelling case for becoming a Change Activist. This benefits the individual, the business and society as a whole. She learnt her activist skills at the Greenham Common US Air Base in the UK and has successfully these skills into the business world

The free flowing style is refreshing. And her case is backed up by many interviews with the likes of Anita Roddick of Body Shop fame

I've recommended this to my website members and they've told me that it has helped them to - take control of their lives, turn up the volumen on what they really care about, and above all - make things happen.

Definitely different and definitely recommended

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The World Atlas of Wine, 5th Edition
Hugh Johnson
Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Spirits | Drinks & Beverages | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
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The World Atlas of Wine

ASIN: 0760747091

Product Description

There are few books that have had such a monumental impact in their field; sales of the first four editions exceed 3.5 million copies. Now, for the first time in the history of wine writing, world-renowned authors Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson have teamed up to combine their unrivalled talents. Together they have created the fifth edition of this masterpiece, making it the most thorough and expansive revision ever of the work. Johnson and Robinson, acclaimed worldwide as the most brilliant, authoritative and eloquent writers on wine, have in this fifth edition produced a truly incomparable book. This Special Edition brings together wine's greatest maps and prose for the frontline of the expanding wine world.

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Functional knitting

Keeping it simple

Simple Knits for Easy Living

Simple Knits for Easy Living (Berry Books (Collins & Brown Limited))
Erika Knight
Manufacturer: Collins & Brown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1855857723

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Functional knitting.......2007-01-10

This is an excellent book containing a variety of knitting tips and patterns for useful pieces for the home, such as blankets and cushions. It is a worthwhile investment for any knitter interested in creating useful and attractive objects for themselves or as gifts or heirlooms.

Keeping it simple.......2006-03-09

This is a very basic knitting book. it is a great book to buy for a new knitter as the patterns mostly use garter stitch (all knit rows). As an experienced knitter it is impressive to see how effective the old garter stitch can be. It works really well for home accessories, and doesn't require the purchasing of expensive yarn. In fact, the more basic the yarn (like string and cotton chenille) the better. Unfortunately Erika Knight mostly uses Rowan yarns. Rowan yarns are gorgeous but expensive, particularly when you need large quantities to make a throw rug. Detailed yarn specifications and hints for substitution would have been great.
I would buy this book for a beginner knitter, particularly who doesn't feel inspired by knitting scarves. Despite the photography which really is quite minimalist and appeals to adults, I think the patterns are great for children who are learning to knit. Using garter stitch squares and some funky coloured yarn they can make baskets, cushions and even blankets.
Overall it makes a great present for a new knitter. I'm hoping to inspire the person who will recieve this book and will package it in a string basket (made from the pattern in the book) with a set of needles and a ball of string.

Simple Knits for Easy Living.......2004-06-21

This book is the EXACT same book as Erika Knight's book: Comforts of Home, simple knitted accents. "Simple Knits for Easy Living" was produced for England's market while the "Comforts of Home" was produced for the United States market.

I was very disappointed in the book and thought it lacked creativity. It's definitely TOO basic for an advanced knitter. Not at all worth buying.

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Simple Knits for Easy Living
Erika Knight
Manufacturer: Collins & Brown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K43P4Y

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AGITPROP.......2006-11-12

If it looks like AGITPROP, if it stinks like AGITPROP, it is AGITPROP.
Yes, let's all trace the murderous Marxists bloody footprints and sing 'Seremos como el Che', 'We will be [muderers & torturers] like Che'.
Please speak with people who fled the Cuban "paradise".

Let The Truth Be Told.......2005-12-03

Definitively, a book that needed to be written. Kudos to Ratner and Smith for their exhaustive research combined with lucid and skilled writing.
If more people would read this book, debunk the propoganda here in the U.S.A., possibly another Wall would come down with the end of the draconic Embargo against Cuba.

Extremely interesting documents from CIA and FBI on Che........1998-04-14

A great book documenting how the US spied on Che and what the CIA and FBI thought about him, Cuba and Latin America. Of all the recent books on Che this is the only one to reproduce authentic documents reflecting contemporaneous material. We could not put it down.

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A small business owner's helper

Well-written, precise, and practical

Great advice for small business owners/managers

Great advice for small business owners/managers

Worth the money.

The Small Business Owner's Guide to a Good Night's Sleep: Preventing and Solving Chronic and Costly Problems
Debra Koontz Traverso
Manufacturer: Bloomberg Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1576600475

Book Description

Finally, owners of small businesses have a practical book that can prepare them for the most common and destructive crises they face. Even problems that would be "small" to a larger company can be disastrous for a small one. Entrepreneurs know this, but many balk at the prospect of crisis planning because it seems endless and overwhelming.

Debra Traverso shows business owners how to best use their limited time and resources to address the most important potential threats to their businesses. By laying basic groundwork for crisis planning and zeroing in on the most likely, most damaging problems, owners can stay a step ahead of the disruptions that plague their peers.

This book covers preventive measures for bullet-proofing a business and explains what to do if a crisis has already struck. It offers a wealth of information in an easy-to-browse format, including proven checklists, examples, case studies, and resources. A "Vulnerability Identification Form" helps the business owner conduct the kind of risk analysis that a large company would typically perform.

Best of all, these strategies are ready to implement immediately, because they don't revolve around 500-page contingency plans and big emergency response teams.

Customer Reviews:

A small business owner's helper.......2006-05-09

At first glance I thought this book was written for managers who regularly put out fires. But when I started studying the book I quickly learned that the book identifies a myriad of typical "fires" that can sprout up at work and describes how a good manager/leader can PLAN so the likelihood of such fires ever starting is minimal. I highly recommend this book for any entrepreneur in business to use when strategically managing his or her business rather than managing with a fire extinguisher.

The book is split into 3 sections:

1. Principles of planning for a small business
2. Getting your house in order
3. When the crisis moves from in-house to the public

My favorite chapter was #3 (Avoid the Most Common Management Missteps), but chapters 2, 4 & 5 were very good ones as well concerning self-audit, employees, and computers. If you are a small business owner, then do yourself a favor and read this book. I suspect it will inform you of a few things you should do at your work that will improve your way of doing things.

Well-written, precise, and practical.......2001-10-27

I just finished reading "The Small Business Owner's Guide to a Good Night's
Sleep," and have already recommended it to a couple small business owners I know. I
congratulate the author! It's well-written, precise, and practical.
Kim Lisi
Managing Editor
HOMEBusiness Journal

Great advice for small business owners/managers.......2001-10-27

I got more advice from this book's chapter on dealing with employees than I
have in the last three books I've read on employee relations, put together. I
especially appreciated the information on how to involve families of
employees to, in turn, motivate the employees even more.. . . and all while
keeping the families out of the way. I'm not sure I agree with Traverso that
a small business can survive and even thrive through a recession, but her
tips seem to make great sense, so I'm going to try them.

Great advice for small business owners/managers.......2001-10-27

Worth the money........2001-09-22

This is one of the best books I've read in months on how to manage your
business prudently and efficiently. I bought it so that I would have it on my
shelf for when those frightening unexpected and negative times arise. . .and
we know they do in every business. . . so I was surprised to find myself
reading the book for about two hours without putting it down. I also took the
time to do the small business self-audit, and the author was right: I DO have
problems brewing in my organization that I wasn't even aware existed before I
read the book. Worth the money.

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IRS Practice and Procedure
Michael I. Saltzman
Manufacturer: Warren Gorham & Lamont
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Taxes | Accounting | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0791347095

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GREAT!!! Retired IRS worker

Written by a Tax Collector, Exciting as a Tax Collector

ugh,

A very interesting look at one of America's most hated instiutions

This book is awesome!

Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS (P.S.)
Richard Yancey
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0060555610
Release Date: 2004-12-28

Amazon.com

Imagine if Brad Meltzer or John Grisham's first book had been a memoir about working for the Internal Revenue Service and you have an idea of just how thrilling Richard Yancey's Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS really is. Serving as a revenue agent--or, more informally, a tax collector--of the IRS for two years, Yancey went through strange transformations--from a tall, pencil-thin theater major, in an unforgiving relationship with no steady income, to a mean, muscle-wielding, unyielding revenue officer at the top of his game. What happens in between this tax collecting, money-hungry metamorphosis makes this memorable memoir the stuff of great fiction.

The Americans who shirk tax laws and responsibilities are inevitably tracked, coded, analyzed, pursued, and in general, marked for tax collection by a legion of government workers take center stage. "We have superior intelligence; we know more about our enemies' lives than they know about themselves. We know where they are. We know what they do. We know what they have. We will execute what they fear," Yancey writes. Just envision the line-up of misfits and average joes who populate the screen on Cops or America's Funniest Home Videos and you'll be close to imagining the range of people Yancey tangles with. Vengeful middle managers, hard-working small business owners, mean-spirited tax protestors, hardened tax evaders--the list of characters goes on and on. Every one of the people tracked within the walls of Yancey's local IRS office has the same, pitiful problem: the tax man cometh and the "beast needs to be fed." Equal parts love story, business tale, high-speed chase, and self-evolution, Yancey's Confessions of a Tax Collector packs plenty of human drama--all of it experienced and survived by one man. --E. Brooke Gilbert

Book Description

Twelve years ago, Richard Yancey answered a blind ad in the newspaper offering a salary higher than what he'd made over the three previous years combined. It turned out that the job was for the Internal Revenue Service -- the most hated and feared organization in the federal government.

So Yancey became the man who got in his car, drove to your house, knocked on your door, and made you pay. Never mind that his car was littered with candy wrappers, his palms were sweaty, and he couldn't remember where he stashed his own tax records. He was there on the authority of the United States government.

With "a rich mix of humor, horror, and angst [and] better than most novels on the bestseller lists" ( Boston Sunday Globe), Confessions of a Tax Collector contains an astonishing cast of too-strange-for-fiction characters. But the most intriguing character of all is Yancey himself who -- in detailing how the job changed him and how he managed to pull himself back from the brink of moral, ethical, and spiritual bankruptcy -- reveals what really lies beneath those dark suits and mirrored sunglasses.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Customer Reviews:

GREAT!!! Retired IRS worker.......2007-06-21

I love the book about IRS that I worked for IRS 20 years from clerk/typist to tax examiner clerk (12/14/1981 to 01/11/2002). The book are funny stories about IRS that I was a sense of humor IRS employee for 20 years to make my co-workers laugh when I said funny things to the co-workers.

Written by a Tax Collector, Exciting as a Tax Collector.......2007-06-17

I picked up this book and really wanted to enjoy it. I slogged through half the book and just can't finish it. A topic matter with great promise, written by an ex-tax collector who fails to write in any compelling way. The writing, to the contrary, seems very childish; as if it would be a reading selection on an elementary school reading list - the book that every kid hated. Overall, it's saturated with a littany of unimportant details, and as a result, the book never gets going.

As to the reviewer that states it reads like a daily log - I couldn't agree more. The sense of time is totally lost. It just seems like a muddle of random days all thrown together with hardly any real beginning or end. There seems to be no real purpose to the book. This is like buying employment inside the IRS. You get all the boredom without the pay.

Not recommended

ugh, .......2007-03-02

This book reads like a daily log. I cannot think of one reason to recommend it.

A very interesting look at one of America's most hated instiutions.......2006-12-18

Although the information in this book is a bit dated as this branch of the IRS is no longer in use this book was an interesting read. It covers one of the most hated branches of the US government and one of the most hated parts of that branch. The need to feed the beast is well illustrated and how one can get sucked into that world is easily seen. Very interesting and scary look at what happens to those in power of our tax system.

This book is awesome!.......2006-11-23

I read this book in one sitting it is that good. This book is set in earlier IRS days (1980s / 1990s if I rememeber correctly) so don't think it's very recent; although, who knows... the same kind of stuff might still go on.

Tax Litigation Best Practices: Leading Lawyers on Audit and Dispute Aversion, Tax Court, Arbitration Strategies, and IRS Investigations (Inside the Minds) (Inside the Minds)

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Tax Litigation Best Practices: Leading Lawyers on Audit and Dispute Aversion, Tax Court, Arbitration Strategies, and IRS Investigations (Inside the Minds) (Inside the Minds)
Aspatore Book Staff
Manufacturer: Aspatore Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Tax Litigation Best Practices is an astute and captivating volume that provides invaluable perspectives on todays most common, compelling, and intricate legal taxation issues. Featuring partners and chairs from some of the nations leading firms, these experts highlight and clarify the fundamental stages of tax litigation, providing clever examples and tactics that have been imperative to their own success and daily practice. These varied outlooks prove useful for guiding readers in formulating concrete plans and tax litigation strategies when approaching trials, IRS audits, and preemptive planning, as well as estates, gifts, and excise tax disputes. At a conceptual level, each author outlines and clarifies precise, indispensable factors which can influence and ultimately determine the outcome of common tax litigation matters. Additionally, these leading tax litigators discuss topics such as tax court rules, Internal Revenue Service agents, tax law ambiguities, IRS litigation policies, the Tax Appeals Commission, and more. Tax Litigation Best Practices provides the necessary tools for readers to understand and implement proven practices that dictate success, ultimately helping readers to develop an effective approach to taxation. Chapters Include: 1) Steven Ledgerwood, Shareholder, McAfee &Taft PC-- " Modern Tax Litigation: How to Gain Tactical Advantage from the Initial Transaction through Case Resolution"; 2) Maureen A. McGinnity, Partner and Chair, Foley &Lardner LLP-- "The Benefits of Seamless Representation"; 3) John W. Schmehl, Partner, Chairman, Dilworth Paxson LLP-- "Proceeding Efficiently with the IRS through Tax Litigation"; 4) J. Harlan Stamper, Shareholder, Shughart Thomson & Kilroy PC-- "A Look at the Process, Step by Step"; 5) Steven E. Grob, Member, Director, Dykema Gossett PLLC-- "Always Staying One Step Ahead". About Inside the Minds: Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the worlds most respected companies nation-wide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession, or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter.

A Law Unto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power

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A Law Unto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power
David Burnham
Manufacturer: Vintage
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Attorneys , IRS Audit Protection and Survival Guide

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Attorneys , IRS Audit Protection and Survival Guide
Daniel J. Baran , Gerald F. Bernard , and James E. Brown
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Binding: Hardcover

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How can a law practice survive . . .

The first major overhaul of the tax audit system in the past 50 years?

MSSP, an organized IRS program that targets the legal profession?

Specially trained IRS agents with unprecedented fingertip access to public archives, industry statistics, and the tax history of any business?

With IRS Audit Protection and Survival Guide Attorneys

New strategies and techniques for audit self-defense

And don't miss these other IRS Audit Protection and Survival Guides available now from Wiley:

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Attorneys are a prime target of the IRS's Market Segment Specialization Program (MSSP). Using a newly developed industry specific Audit Technique Guide and the latest in computer and communications technology, IRS agents specially trained in the finer points of legal practice operations and accounting are putting the tax returns of thousands of businesses under a very powerful microscope. Now more than ever, it is vital for CPAs and attorneys to anticipate IRS actions in order to avoid an audit or to survive one should it occur.

IRS Audit Protection and Survival Guide: Attorneys helps law practices prepare for this intensified scrutiny. It explains the issues in the IRS's MSSP Audit Technique Guide for attorneys and describes specific changes in the IRS approach to examining their tax returns. Prescribing a series of audit self-protection strategies and techniques for the entire profession, authors Daniel Baran, former IRS agent Gerald Bernard, and attorney James Brown bring almost 60 years of combined experience to bear in analyzing the program's effects on key areas of taxation. Topics covered include:

Sources of income
Expenses and record keeping
Accounting periods and methods
Employee and independent contractor issues
Establishing, purchasing, or buying into a practice
Attorney-client privilege and other special issues.

Supplemented with relevant IRS forms and regulations, this is the ultimate road map to the changing tax landscape for CPAs and attorneys.

About the authors

DANIEL J. BARAN, CPA, is a principal of Daniel J. Baran, P.C., a firm specializing in tax controversy, tax planning, and tax compliance. A former senior tax staff member with Ernst & Young LLP, he was a founding board member of the Arizona Forum for Improvement of Taxation. He is a past chairman of the Arizona Society of CPAs' Internal Revenue Service Committee and the Arizona Department of Revenue Tax Liaison Committee.

GERALD F. BERNARD, CPA, is coprincipal of Bernard & Stallman, P.C., a Phoenix-based accounting firm that specializes in tax services. A former IRS agent who for five years performed audits on individuals, small businesses, and trusts, Mr. Bernard now uses his IRS expertise to serve his clients. He is a past chairman of the Arizona Tax Legislation Committee of the ASCPA and served two terms as chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee of the Arizona Forum for Improvement of Taxation.

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This practical book offers a complete analysis of the procedures and practices of the IRS in its audits of tax-exempt organizations. Written by Bruce R. Hopkins, the foremost expert on nonprofit law, it provides detailed documentation and citations.

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Irs Practice and Procedure
michael saltzman
Manufacturer: Warren Gorham & Lamont
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PV6S32

Irs Practice and Procedure (1987 CUMULATIVE SUPPLEMENT NO. 2, STUDENT EDITION)

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Irs Practice and Procedure (1987 CUMULATIVE SUPPLEMENT NO. 2, STUDENT EDITION)
MICHAEL I. SALTZMAN
Manufacturer: WARREN, GORHAM & LAMONT
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 088712853X

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1987 CUMULATIVE SUPPLEMENT NO.2

IRS Practice And Procedure (1997 Cumulative Student Supplement)

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IRS Practice And Procedure (1997 Cumulative Student Supplement)

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ASIN: 0791330915

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