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- Covers Basics, But Could Be More Practical About Realities
- Another Great Tour Guide on the Pearl of the Orient
- A "must-have" for the serious explorer of Hong Kong.
- The best Hong Kong travel book
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Moon Handbooks Hong Kong: Including Macau and Guangzhou (Moon Handbooks : Hong Kong)
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If you're keen on delving into Hong Kong's culture, you'll do well with Moon Handbooks' guide (which also includes chapters on Macau and Guangzhou). Moon offers an amazingly thorough look at this vibrant city--from its historical beginnings under the Tang Dynasty to its dramatic hand over to China in 1997. Throughout, there are sidebars on a variety of topics, from Confucianism to Chinese medicine to mahjong. The "Food & Restaurants" section will intrigue (or perhaps repulse) readers with its descriptions of meals made from snake, dog, and shark's fin. There is also a chapter on shopping (from the best street markets for Chinese crafts to tailors who will custom-make silk shirts for a song). The body of the book discusses the major tourist areas (Hong Kong Island, New Kowloon, the New Territories) and lists not-to-miss sights such as a ride on the Star Ferry and afternoon tea at the Peninsula Hotel. There are also plenty of tips to make your trip as seamless as possible, from translations of place names into Chinese, Cantonese phrases (simple greetings, foods, etc.), a glossary, and an extensive booklist (from James Clavell's Tai-Pan to Suzy Gershman's Frommer's Born to Shop: Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing). --Jill Fergus
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With Moon Handbooks: Hong Kong, you'll find your way through city streets, neighborhoods, and sights, while taking a deeper exploration of Chinese culture. Learn about feng shui, dragons, tea, street markets, festivals, and more in this completely revised edition that also includes all of the practicalities you'll need for your trip to this bustling metropolitan port city. ". . . full of well-researched historical and cultural information and includes the practicalities of accommodations, places to eat, shopping, and getting around." -- Transitions Abroad
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Covers Basics, But Could Be More Practical About Realities.......2003-11-11
As someone who lived in Hong Kong in the 90s and revisited on business since, I'd like to point out that this is a good guide book for the basics :Where to stay, what places to eat at, how to get around. It gives good coverage of the hikes in the unspoiled northern New Territories (Plover Cove, The Hunchbacks-Ma On Shan area, Stanley Mound - these are some of the most scenic walks in the world). You will be able to fit your budget with this guide. But where it is not so helpful is in the practical realities of life in Hong Kong - what you have to put up with in this crowded, not very happy city in China. Many tourists and expats are shocked by the not very gentle, wall-to-wall crowds of people in Hong Kong, a legacy of the terrible flood of millions of Chinese refugees who poured into China in the decades after the Chinese Revolution, swamping the tiny British colony. Much of Hong Kong's urban parts consist of miles of 40-storey tower blocks of shabby concrete. *Other books* (see below) will help you get a handle on these issues, which dominates all levels of life in Hong Kong, including especially the level of your comfort. Hong Kong people are understandably reluctant to talk about their refugee past; it is considered rude to refer to the shabbyness of much of urban Hong Kong (it causes loss of "face" in Chinese society), but, since it has such an impact on the visitor's stay today, knowing about such essential basics of Hong Kong will help make your trip/domicile more pleasant and rewarding.
Jan Morris's book, Hong Kong, has all the history and colourful anecdotes you'll want to know, brilliantly told in a good narrative. She goes into a lot of detail about the sad story of all those millions of refugees, how they survived, exploiting each other in a sweat-shop environment under a thin veneer of British law, which made Hong Kong so different from the dictatorships around it. There's also the whole story of the British, with lots of good anecdotes. Since she's a Westerner she does not have the obsession with "losing face" that is such a dominant part of Chinese culture (she explains it very well, though) and can lead to denying the truth when it comes to the realities of Hong Kong.
Timothy Mo's The Monkey King is a great story about a Hong Kong Chinese family through several generations. As a Westerner I was astonished at how helpful this book was in "preparing me" for the interesting types of locals I met again and again.
Bo Yang's The Ugly Chinaman and the Crisis in Chinese Culture is a harder, unblinking look at the underbelly of Chinese society - the pushy crowds, the harsh language, the public spitting that Hong Kong is unfortunately well-known for. If you're bringing young family to Hong Kong, pick this book up along with Jan Morris's. It will help you deal with your kids' reaction to some (to us) bizzare aspects of Chinese society - the drug stores selling Chinese natural medicines made from animal reproductive parts, ...and can help you talk to your children the first time they see locals spit, belch and break wind in public. Bo Yang's book goes into the long history of stultification of society in Chinese history under the centuries of repressive rulers. It is a sad but enlightening read, and will make you appreciate more the classics of Chinese culture: the poetry of Li Po and Tu Fu, the novel The Story of the Stone, Confucius, etc.
Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong is a fascinating novel of the Handover period that neatly captures many Hong Kong types - Chinese, British, even American. A great Graham Greene-ish novel that is also a great guide to Handover Hong Kong and beyond.
And Austin Coates' Hong Kong classic, Myself a Mandarin, tells the illuminating, often hilarious tale of a 1950s British Magistrate dealing with Chinese culture in the (then) unspoilt countryside of the New Territories, and the inevitable clash (What do you do when there's no real concept of "libel" in Chinese thought?). Still relevant to today.
Many people wish Hong Kong to suceed since its handback to China, but the Western visitor/expat will be better served by learning what he or she is actual in for, than to be given essentially a tourist bureau pamphlet, as some of the following reviews seem to do. The books above, along with the Moon Guide, will help prepare you for what you'll actually experience. Good voyage!
Another Great Tour Guide on the Pearl of the Orient.......2000-09-06
This is 1 of the 2 tour guides I recommend for Hong Kong besides Fodor's. As a local who grew up and used to live in Hong Kong, I was both surprised and excited about how much foreigners can dig deep through this city. Post-colonial Hong Kong still preserves the heart-beat of Chinese heritage underneath the burgeoning veneer of high-tech development and finances.
The official airline of Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific unveiled its newest operation logo couple of years back with slogan "Heart of Asia". The Hong Kong Tourist Association (HKTA) strived to revive tourism that was correlated with the regionwide stock market plunge in 1997 by launching the campaign "Hong Kong: City of Life" in 1998 to attract visitors. Featured was a 7-day-6-night package from the US including airfare and hotel for $899 including tax.
Dubbed "Heart of Asia" and "City of Life", this volume of "Hong Kong Handbook" will surely be your pocket guide to explore this exotic capital of Asia. The book included history and remarkable events associated with this newest Chinese SAR (Special Administrative Region), along with its rich mixed cultures and lifestyles.
In addition to the usual tips on fine dining, hotels from 5-star to no-star, shopping bargains and transportation, this handbook devotes incredible amount of pages on almost all the districts within the city. It would be a tremendous loss for any Hong Kong visitor to stay in central (downtown) area and the usual tourist spot like The Peak, Ocean Park and Po Lin Monastery. This handbook guides you to local areas like Mongkok, Yaumatei, and even outlying islands Po Toi Island, Tung Ping Chau, and Cheung Chau. One of the preserved wildlife area, Sai Gung Peninsula, is illustrated with lucid photos. You might wish to allocate 3-4 days hiking through the trails that provides panoramic view of the South China Sea.
The Hong Kong Handbook offers more than just a packaged tour can satisfy. You might completely stay away from urban areas and venture through monasteries or explore one of the biggest man-made water reservoir Plover Cove. The border with mainland is just 15 miles from the main financial center. The guide would be a must-have for those who wish to see the other side of Hong Kong.
A "must-have" for the serious explorer of Hong Kong........1999-02-22
Anyone planning a trip to Hong Kong would be wise to pick up a copy of this book. I recently returned from a two-week exploration of the SAR, and I found this book to be invaluable. Not only did it give me maps and all the essentials, but it gave me insight into the people and culture that surrounded me. The only thing I found lacking was the glossary of Chinese phrases.
The best Hong Kong travel book.......1997-12-31
While the book is older than some, and may be in some regards a bit out of date (hint to publisher - bring out a revised version), for instance some of the restaurants no longer exist, I found this to be the best book (and I brought many with me). The recommendations are solid, the highlighted points of interest are the most consistant (and often off-beat) and the essays and comments are the best (this is the only book for instance that explained why bamboo is used as scaffolding),
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"Robinson walks the reader through almost every conceivable scenario that could result in a lower tax bill."
—Ilyce Glink, Tribune Media Services
The 2005 Edition of J.K. Lasser's Homeowner's Tax Breaks reveals a multitude of both well-known and little-known tax-saving ideas that will allow you to put substantial dollars back in your pocket. In fact, it's packed with the largest in-print collection of tax-planning ideas for homeowners.
Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, the 2005 Edition of J.K. Lasser's Homeowner's Tax Breaks will help you:
- Legitimately take deductions for your household when you have a home office
- Make your credit card and car loan interest deductible
- Qualify to exclude up to $250,000 of gains on the sale of your home—$500,000 if you're married
- Cope with a depressed housing market by getting deductions for renting your home before you sell it
- Create tax-free income from renovating your home and selling it at a profit
- Receive charitable deductions for your home while you still live in it
- Make your home a retirement nest egg that generates tax-free income by trading down or using it for a reverse mortgage
- Eliminate estate tax on your principal residence by utilizing a personal residence trust
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Shows how to take advantage of the many tax breaks available to homeowners
There are 65 million homeowners in the U.S. and there are almost as many tax savings opportunities offered to them. Unfortunately, beyond the most common tax breaks, homeowners are typically in the dark. Worse, some may know about a particular tax break, but not know how to take it. This is the perfect resource for all homeowners. J. K. Lasser's Homeowner's Tax Breaks is a lively, plain English guide to the dozens of income tax savings opportunities currently available to homeowners. In accessible language, it skillfully explains both well-known opportunities, such as how to obtain tax-free gains on the sale of a home, and little known benefits, including how to obtain tax-free short term rents and how to get tax-free cash out of a home when trading up. Homeowners will learn how they can save tax money by acting on any of these great tips:
- How to deduct all of your real estate taxes
- How to deduct your home office expenses
- How to get the government to pay for home damages
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It's As Good As Money in the Bank.......2004-04-05
As a CPA and former teacher of accounting at the graduate school level, I can tell you that if you own or are selling real estate, Gerald Robinson's new book is almost as good as winning the lottery. In fact, the odds of realizing a big pay-off from this book are much better than the odds of hitting the lottery.
While books on taxation can be among the most boring ever written, Mr. Robinson avoids that trap. He writes in plain english, explaining complex strategies at a level almost everyone can understand.
For example, if you are selling your primary residence that you've owned for many years, or you've moved to more expensive homes a number of times during your working career, this is as good as discovering an unexpected bonanza in your bank account. The three strategies for avoiding capital gains tax when yous sell a residence and realize a gain of more than $500,000 (it is far more common than you think, and comes as a shock to many sellers) are unknown to most people, including some tax accountants. This one chapter is worth the cost of the book many times over.
The book is clearly written, is well organized, and I highly recommend it. The reader will feel much more confident the next time he/she is a party to a real estate transaction, including the renting of vacation property.
A Friend Indeed.......2004-02-17
Having recently sold a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard, it was fortutious to find a copy of Gerald Robinson's new book "Homeowner's Tax Breaks" at my local Borders.
Well writen, clearly writen and, best of all, superbly organized, Robinson's book covers all the bases of the complex game of home ownership. Were that most books of this type provided as much useful advise for passage through the dense U.S. tax codes that apply to buying and selling of one's home.
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Hiring financial help is a task that many otherwise savvy people approach the wrong way, opting to go on recommendations from family and friends, chance encounters, or advertisements rather than on sound research. In witty, highly readable prose, nationally syndicated columnist Charles A. Jaffe takes the reader through the basics of how to locate appropriate candidates, understand their credentials, check references, conduct initial interviews, maintain control of the relationships and ones finances, and fire an advisor who is not working out.
The book contains guidance on hiring and checking the backgrounds of seven types of advisors--brokers, financial planners, insurance agents, lawyers, tax preparers, bankers, and real estate agents--as well as specific questions to ask to determine whether an advisor is a good, qualified match. In addition the book offers guidance on how to help the advisors function as a team. The author's aim is to help the reader assemble and manage a pool of advisors to serve every major need for the rest of a financial lifetime.
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Needs better focus.......2003-06-24
A previous reviewer who accused the book of having too much fluff is, unfortunately, only slightly exaggerating. If the author had taken the time to tighten up the book and used only half as many words as he did, the resulting book would have been first rate useful. As it is, the book is a serious test of one's patience and concentration. The ideas are very reasonable, but the reader has to struggle to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Forces you to practice due diligence.......2001-04-27
Some people might think that Jaffe's book is obvious. But what's obvious to some may be revolutionary and important to others.
The book outlines questions that should be asked of any financial proessionals one is considering hiring, and suggests interviewing at least three of each type of adviser to learn differences and to become comfortable.
Jaffe's advice is so good that it is almost impossible not to gain many times the cost of the book in better financial planning and better peace of mind that one has proceeded with due diligence.
From a Jaffe fan: This book is what we have come to expect.......2000-08-27
I read Mr. Jaffe's column every week in the Boston Globe and bought this book after hearing him talk on this subject atthe Globe's personal finance conference (he autographed the book for me).
This book gave me exactly what I have come to expect from Mr. Jaffe: Clear, insightful, unafraid commentary that helped give me the courage to go through with choosing a financial planner. I learned which questions to ask, and I took the book with me and asked those questions. And while it's early to tell (Mr. Jaffe says all the time that anything less than one year is not really long enough to judge), I am happy with my financial planner and expect to stay that way for a long time.
As for the reviewer who thought this book was redundant, he must have skipped the introduction. That's where Mr. Jaffe explains why parts of the book are redundant and advises more knowledgeable investors to skip the parts that they don't need.
If you do that, this book will give you exactly what you need. It certainly did for me.
Lots of fluff.......1999-12-30
As with many books these days, the author seems to have been desparately trying for the maximum number of pages as his primary goal. Large margins, explaining the obvious, repetition, unnecessary quotes, all add up to a book that's only about 25% actual content. If this book was 75% shorter, I'd give it two, maybe three stars. But most of the useful info in this book could be found on the web. A shorter book might have been worthwhile to avoid having to search for it on the web, but having to wade through all the fluff negates this potential benefit.
A lifesaver.......1999-03-03
I had worked with financial planners befor but I was never comfortible. Then I read about this book in the local paper. I bought it. I used it. I just hired a planner, and this time I am comfortible. This book is the reason. I recomend it!
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Preface: A number of excellent books, articles, and pamphlets have been written in recent years on the subject of estate planning, but there is little reference material which will serve to guide an individual who has the responsiblity of handling an estate that has already been created. This person will have no interest in estate planning technics--the opportunity for that is gone. He will need to know how to handle the day-to-day problems, usually not of his own making, which arise as he proceeds with the discharge of his duties. This book gives the overall picture of estate administration from creation to distribution. It is written primarily from the viewpoint of the practicing accountant who may be called upon to assist in the accounting and tax work for the estate. It should also be of value to the attorney who is relatively inexperienced in estate work. The person selected to administer the estate is often a friend or relative of the deceased, who has had no previous experience in this difficult field, and he will probably call on his accountant and his lawyer almost daily for assistance in administrative problems and procedures, in addition to the accounting and tax questions. Most professional men do not have the opportunity to do estate work often enough to keep in mind a complete picture fo the step-by-step procedures in estate administration--and there must also be a "first time"in estate work for the accountant or lawyer--so this book covers not only the actual accounting and tax phases of estate administration, but also the other phases with which the practitioner should be familiar in order to be of most service to his client.
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Management Auditing as a Regulatory Tool: The New York State Experience
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This important new book explains how to use management auditing to determine the efficiency of public utility management systems. The first book to concentrate on such areas as evaluation criteria and audits of operations and personnel, Management Auditing as a Regulatory Tool identifies problems in the auditing process and recommends strategies for improving it. It is an essential guideline for public utility management, auditors, and consulting organizations. The book focuses on nine management audits of major New York state organizations.
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