Delivering the most thorough coverage available on individual and corporate taxation, this updated edition helps CPAs and tax preparers master the complex and ever-changing tax code. Includes a CD-ROM with H&R Block's TaxCut software.
This companion to a PBS television series presents four centuries of urban history in a sweeping narrative that highlights the many personalities and many forces that shaped New York. The city is seen as a powerful metropolis and industrial center as well as a series of neighborhoods with people from all socio-economic levels. Ric Burns and his ...
The classic acoustics reference! This widely-used book offers a clear treatment of the fundamental principles underlying the generation, transmission, and reception of acoustic waves and their application to numerous fields. The authors analyze the various types of vibration of solid bodies and the propagation of sound waves through fluid media.
The most comprehensive text on program evalation, providing an overview of a wide variety of approaches to evaluation and extensive practical guidelines for how to carry out evaluation studies successfully. This text helps both students and professionals who are new to evaluation to understand how the field has evolved , what different approaches ...
With groundbreaking investigative journalism, "First Strike" uncovers substantial new information, including a critical terrorist connection, about the crash of TWA flight 800.
Written by an architect, this volume looks at New York through the lenses of Hollywood, exploring how the city has been represented cinematically over the years. Includes over 300 photos and film stills.
The Second Edition of this volume is the result of an extensive review process by the Joint Committee of the original Standards for Evaluations of Educational Programs, Projects, and Materials published in 1981. The 30 standards are divided into four groups corresponding to the attributes of fair programme evaluation - utility; feasibility; ...
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as "ideas" but as "signs," external to the self and without meaning unless ...
An introductory text for materials science and engineering. This book takes an integrated approach to materials, with an organization focusing on properties rather than classes of materials.
The outrageous and astonishing story of 25,000 American POWs held captive in the Soviet Union and the American officials who lied about it for half a century. Based on six years of painstaking research, review of thousands of documents, and chilling eyewitness accounts, Soldiers of Misfortune will rewrite the history of prisoners of war. 20 photos.
Perturbation theory and in particular normal form theory has shown strong growth during the last decades. So it is not surprising that the authors have presented an extensive revision of the first edition of the "Averaging Methods in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems" book. There are many changes, corrections and updates in chapters on Basic Material ...
This guide was written to provide teachers and administrators in primary and secondary school systems with basic programme evaluation principals and procedures to aid them in planning and evaluating school programmes. Evaluating School Programs provides concise, yet comprehensive coverage of a complex topic in a highly usable format. It will take ...
What does it mean to speak of a ?canon? of scripture? How, when, and where, did the canon of the Hebrew Bible come into existence? Why does it have three divisions? What canon was in use among the Jews of the Hellenistic diaspora? At Qumran? In Roman Palestine? Among the rabbis? What Bible did Jesus and his disciples know and use? How was the New ...
This beautiful scholar's edition of the oldest complete Hebrew Bible in the world--produced under the auspices of the University of Michigan in cooperation and consultation with the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center and the West Semitic Research Project--features a large format that includes 16 full-color illuminated carpet pages that capture in ...
With a special section on the landmark TV series, commercials, and music videos filmed in New York, this text is an affectionate and vivacious ovation for the city's captivating character that rarely receives billing but always steals the show.
A comprehensive resource on many current methods for surgical correction of astigmatism in the cataract and refractive patient. Prominent ophthalmologists share their different strategies, techniques, and results for treating patients.
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