HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY IN TODAY'S WORLD: A hands-on, practical guide to protection strategies

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Consider that you have completed your tax return and expect a large refund. Some weeks later you receive a letter from the IRS and, not only do you receive no refund, but you owe more tax - all because of the alternative minimum tax! While you express dismay you must struggle with this new tax. Understanding The Alternative Minimum Tax put you - not a tax preparer - in control of your situation. It should save you thousands of dollars over many years by just understanding what the AMT is, how it operates, and how to reduce or eliminate it. Written in plain English, with little technical terms, this book will guide you to lower the AMT each year and, hopefully, not be "shocked" in the future.

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Understanding the current bust.......2001-10-27

This is an excellent book on how financial markets work and on why they have become so much more volatile in recent years. It explains how the performance pressures on fund mangers are making markets less efficient and why and how this inefficiency explains recent financial crises and the ups and downs of the stock market. Unlike most economists, Dr. Harmes successfully predicted the collapse of stock prices. He gives a sound explanation for why the Dow, and not just tech stocks, were overvalued and why the current correction and slowdown was so hard to predict - but why it could have been. His explanation builds and expands on Shiller's "Irrational Exuberance" argument and provides useful lessons to help investors in the current period of volatility.

Understanding the current bust.......2001-10-27

Monetary policy, currency fluctuation, and herd behaviour.......2001-05-16

This book is not getting the attention it deserves. It is an outstanding book based on Dr. Harmes's PHd thesis from York University. He seems to cover everything: monetary policy, exchange rate fluctuations, capital controls, and herd behaviour. If you have some background in economics even better. Conservatives won't like the arguments but then again conservatives still think markets are 100% efficient!

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Work and Integrity is a timely resource that examines the crisis as well as the promise of professionalism in contemporary society. This vital book argues for the importance of a new civic professionalism that reflects the ideals of democracy and public service in our ever more complex economic environment. A publication of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Work and Integrity explores the most current thinking on the various (and often conflicting) ways in which the concept of professional work is understood. Using examples from the United States and Europe, the author describes how the professions evolved from a limited kind of genteel occupation into one of the most widely emulated and sought-after models of work. The book also explores the rise of complex institutions of industrial and postindustrial society, especially the university and the bureaucratic structures of business, government, health care, and education.

Professionalism in Medicine: Critical Perspectives

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Professionalism in Medicine: Critical Perspectives

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ASIN: 0387327266

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The topic of professionalism has dominated the content of major academic medicine publications (e.g. Journal of the American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine, Academic Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Lancet) during the past decade and continues to do so. The message of this current wave of professionalism is that medical educators need to be more attentive to the moral sensibilities of trainees, to their interpersonal and affective dimensions, and to their social conscience, all to the end of skilled, humanistic physicians. Urgent calls to address professionalism from such groups as the Association of American Medical Colleges (representing the nation's 126 accredited medical schools and nearly 400 major teaching hospitals), the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, among others. In fact, at the 2004 annual meeting of the AAMC six separate presentations addressed professionalism with such titles as "Evaluating Humanism and Professionalism," Professionalism: Expectation, Education, Evaluation," or "Toward Assessing Professional Behaviors of Medical Students through Peer Observations" (note the preoccupation with assessment).

Professionalism, then, has become part of the current academic medicine parlance, used by administrators, clinical faculty, residency programs, and professional organizations with an expectation of shared meanings and goals. All of these stakeholders focus on what has become a consistent list of attributes deemed to be the essence of professionalism, which usually include variations on altruism, duty, excellence, honor and integrity, accountability, and respect. In fact, most of the scholarly work to date has been listing (attributes of professionalism), describing (activities that may foster it), decrying (the environment that works against it), and measuring/evaluating it.

In this collection of essays, we don’t argue with these attributes. Instead, we ask questions of the discourse from which they arise, how the specialized language of academic medicine disciplines has defined, organized, contained, and made seemingly immutable a group of attitudes, values, and behaviors subsumed under the label "professional" or "professionalism." This collection aims to be a critical text, one that questions the profession’s beliefs about the nature of its work and how such beliefs are enacted (or not) in medical education, particularly as they fuel the professionalism discourse. In addition, we will scrutinize how the discourse is enacted in both the formal and hidden curriculum, and in the larger medical environment.

Professionalism and Ethics in Teaching (Professional Ethics)

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Professionalism and Ethics in Teaching (Professional Ethics)
David Carr
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415184606

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i Professionalism and Ethics in Teaching /i examines the ethical issues of teaching. After discussing the moral implications of professionalism, David Carr explores the relationship of education theory to teaching practice and the impact of this relationship on professional expertise. He then identifies and examines some central ethical and moral issues in education and teaching. Finally he gives a detailed analysis of a range of issues concerning the role of the teacher and the management of educational issues. i Professionalism and Ethics in /i i Teaching /i presents a thought-provoking and stimulating study of the moral dimensions of the teaching professions.

Becoming a Lawyer: A Humanistic Perspective on Legal Education and Professionalism (American Casebooks)

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Becoming a Lawyer: A Humanistic Perspective on Legal Education and Professionalism (American Casebooks)
Elizabeth Dvorkin
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ASIN: 0829921265

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Authors explore their concerns about the professionalization process and the issues raised in considering the relevance of humanistic education to law. Responds to the difficulty of understanding and expressing a humanistic perspective on legal education in a way that does it justice and connects with the readers' own experiences. Each chapter is followed by short essays describing how the issues raised in that particular passage affected the authors as persons involved in the law school community.

Collegial Professionalism: The Academy, Individualism, And The Common Good (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)

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Collegial Professionalism: The Academy, Individualism, And The Common Good (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)
John B. Bennett
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition

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John Bennett offers a provocative and tightly knit argument on ethics in higher education. He examines the current condition of faculty isolation and organizational fragmentation, which he believes has led to a penchant for "insistent individualism" at many institutions of higher learning. Bennett presents a philosophical model that reflects the academy in its current state, where the focus is on private interests and promotion, and then offers an engaging alternative.

The Moral Base for Teacher Professionalism (Professional Ethics in Education)

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The Moral Base for Teacher Professionalism (Professional Ethics in Education)
Hugh Sockett
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Teaching and Learning Professionalism: Report of the Professionalism Committee

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Teaching and Learning Professionalism: Report of the Professionalism Committee

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The Florida Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism and the crises of legal education.: An article from: Florida Bar Journal

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The Florida Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism and the crises of legal education.: An article from: Florida Bar Journal
Donald J. Weidner
Manufacturer: Florida Bar
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This digital document is an article from Florida Bar Journal, published by Florida Bar on May 1, 1997. The length of the article is 5872 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Florida Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism and the crises of legal education.
Author: Donald J. Weidner
Publication: Florida Bar Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1997
Publisher: Florida Bar
Volume: 71 Issue: n5 Page: 64(6)

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The necessity of seeing relational accountability in teaching and learning.(Professionalism and Ethics in Teaching)(Learning Relations: Impure Education, ... article from: Journal of Teacher Education

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The necessity of seeing relational accountability in teaching and learning.(Professionalism and Ethics in Teaching)(Learning Relations: Impure Education, ... article from: Journal of Teacher Education
Margaret Macintyre Latta
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Teacher Education, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2817 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The necessity of seeing relational accountability in teaching and learning.(Professionalism and Ethics in Teaching)(Learning Relations: Impure Education, Deschooled Schools, and Dialogue With Evil)(Book Review)
Author: Margaret Macintyre Latta
Publication: Journal of Teacher Education (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
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Volume: 56 Issue: 4 Page: 399(5)

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The normative structure of community college teaching: a marker of professionalism.: An article from: Journal of Higher Education

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The normative structure of community college teaching: a marker of professionalism.: An article from: Journal of Higher Education
Alan E. Bayer , and John M. Braxton
Manufacturer: Ohio State University Press
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Higher Education, published by Ohio State University Press on March 1, 1998. The length of the article is 6345 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Gender, academic discipline, and professional experience exert a profound professional experience exert a profound impact on the professionalism of community college teachers. Results show that there are five normative structures which were prohibited in community colleges. These are 'Interpersonal Disregard,' 'Restrictive Accessibility,' 'Inadequate Planning,' 'Particularistic Grading' and 'Moral Turpitude.' Experts suggest that absence of these proscriptions are indicators of professionalism among community college teachers.

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Title: The normative structure of community college teaching: a marker of professionalism.
Author: Alan E. Bayer
Publication: Journal of Higher Education (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1998
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Volume: v69 Issue: n2 Page: p187(19)

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Tried and true tax-planning strategies to help the taxpayer get the most out of income tax.

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An excellent tax strategy resource.......2000-12-12

I reviewed an advance copy of this book. Other tax books often read like IRS instruction manuals and completely disregard the tax bracket and before-tax and after-tax approach used by Professor Cataldo. His many illustrations include those for both itemizer and non-itemizer taxpayers. He does not waste time trying to sell repackaged materials that can be downloaded from the IRS web site for free. If you prepare your own tax returns, this book will teach you to think and plan strategically.If you use a professional tax preparer, this book will provide insights that allow you to discuss the suggested strategies with your preparer. As a professional accountant with international tax preparation experience, I can give this book my highest recommendation.

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Tax Strategies for the Self-Employed

Tax Strategies for the Self-Employed
Julia K. Brazelton , Sharie T. Dow , and Alan D. Campbell
Manufacturer: CCH
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Self-employed individuals face many vexing tax compliance and planning problems. While most salaried individuals think little of tax compliance except at the end of the year and toward tax return time, the self-employed often face thorny tax issues throughout the year. Self-employed individuals must deal with estimated taxes, FICA, business income and deductions, and specific tax rules that uniquely affect their basic business and personal needs. Even health and savings plans in many instances are much more complicated for the self-employed. Often self-employed individuals need the professional counsel of tax attorneys, accountants, and others to help them comply with current law, make sound business decisions, and plan effectively for what lies ahead. Such professionals will benefit from the clear and comprehensive discussion in this new groundbreaking work from CCH, Tax Strategies for the Self-Employed. Tax Strategies for the Self-Employed covers all the bases for the practitioner. The first part of this insightful treatise creates a context to understand the more complex tax issues by surveying the basic income tax principles that affect the self-employed. Once this context is formed, the book offers more detailed coverage of the many important and complex topics that practitioners must understand to help clients create and execute effective working strategies. Issues that must be considered in the early stages of the self-employed's operation such as accounting methods, accounting for inventories, and start-up and expansion deductions are addressed initially. These preliminary chapters are followed closely by ones that explain and analyze the more common yet vexing considerations that relate to automobile and transportation deductions, depreciation, pension and employee benefit deductions, and other deductions and credits. Rounding out the book's coverage of important individual tax topics for the self-employed are chapters on hobby classification and passive losses; disposing of property; avoiding the alternative minimum tax and tax penalties; and hiring independent contractors. Chapters in the final portion of the book examine the self-employment tax itself, inclusions and exclusions from income, and strategies to reduce the self-employment tax. Featured throughout the book are generous examples to help practitioners at any experience level come to a greater understanding of the issues. Specific strategies are frequently called out to the reader. Finely tuned concise explanations of the topics consistently reference underlying authority for the reader's continued research and study. Tax Strategies for the Self-Employed includes a detailed topic index, plus a helpful Finding List that indexes Code sections, Regulations and Rulings. A separate Case Table is also included.

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Tax Strategies for the Self-Employed.......2002-08-31

Very informative book. I have a tax and bookeeping practice and find it a valuable resource. I strongly recommend it to any body that is self employed. I advise clients that are considering going into business for themselves to read the book before they start.

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