Boosting paychecks : the politics of supporting America's working poor / Daniel P. Gitterman. by Gitterman, Daniel Paul

Table of Contents: “…Bush and the return of across-the-board tax relief -- Toward a new bargain? -- The past and future politics of boosting paychecks.…”
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Controllership, the work of the managerial accountant / Steven M. Bragg. by Bragg, Steven M.

Table of Contents: “…Mergers and Acquisitions -- The Reporting Period and How to Close It -- Inventory Tracking -- Tax Records and Procedures -- Index.…”
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The War Within Private Interests and the Fiscal State in Early-Modern Europe / edited by Joël Félix, Anne Dubet.

Table of Contents: “…The Talhouët Affair; François R. Velde -- Chapter 7. Tax Officials Stand Accused: Reform in Taxation and Public Morality in the Dutch Republic, 1748-1756; Toon Kerkhoff -- Chapter 8. …”
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Creative safety solutions / Thomas D. Schneid. by Schneid, Thomas D.

Table of Contents: “…Joint ventures to reduce costs -- chapter 10. Grants, contracts, tax credits, and deductions -- chapter 11. Utilizing free services -- chapter 12. …”
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The almanac of American philanthropy / Karl Zinsmeister ; [edited by] Karl Zinsmeister. by Zinsmeister, Karl

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Bookkeeping For Dummies, 2nd Edition Epstein, Lita. by Epstein, Lita

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Europe's crisis, Europe's future / Kemal Derviş, Jacques Mistral, editors. by Mistral, Jacques

Table of Contents: “…Europe's crisis, Europe's future : an overview / Kemal Dervis and Jacques Mistral -- Greece : tax anything that moves! / Theodore Pelagidis and Michael Mitsopoulos -- Spain : a new quest for growth / Angel Pascual-Ramsay -- Italy : strategies for moving from crisis to growth / Domenico Lombardi and Luigi Paganetto -- France : part of the solution or part of the problem? …”
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Capital in the twenty-first century / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer. by Piketty, Thomas, 1971-

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The great forgetting : the past, present and future of social democracy and the welfare state / Jack Lawrence Luzkow. by Luzkow, Jack Lawrence, 1941-

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Income inequality in oecd countries : what are the drivers and policy options?. by Hoeller, Peter

Table of Contents: “…The Distribution of Labor Income Isabell Koske, Jean-Marc Fournier and Isabelle Wanner -- Introduction and Main Findings -- Main Findings -- Cross-country Patterns and Recent Trends in Labor Income Inequality in OECD Countries -- The Role of Non-policy Factors in Shaping Labor Income Inequality -- Skill-biased Technological Change -- Globalization -- The Role of Structural Policies in Shaping Labor Income Inequality -- Education Policy -- Labor Market Institutions -- Minimum wages -- Wage bargaining -- EPL: overall stringency and gap between regular and temporary contracts -- Unemployment and social assistance benefits -- Active labor market policies -- Interactions between labor market policies and globalization -- Product Market Regulation -- Tax Policy -- Other Policy Issues.…”
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HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Papers: Cognition, Learning and Games 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings / edit...

Table of Contents: “…Basic study on incidence of micro-error in visual attention-controlled environment -- A Methodological Approach to Create Interactive Art in Artificial Intelligence -- The Effect of Different Icon Shape and Width on Touch Behavior -- Project Team Recommendation Model Based on Profiles Complementarity -- A Neurophysiological Sensor Suite for Real-Time Prediction of Pilot Workload in Operational Settings -- Consideration of How Different Rearview Presentations Used for Electronic Mirrors on Automobiles Affect Human Spatial Cognition -- Design Guidelines of Social-Assisted Robots for the Elderly: A Mixed Method Systematic Literature Review -- Examining the relationship between songs and psychological characteristics -- An Overview of Paper Documentation Moving to Onboard Information System (OIS) for Commercial Aircraft -- Influence of Visual Symbol's User Background and Symbol Semantic Abstraction Level on User's Cognition in AR Auxiliary Assembly Environment -- Information Visualization Design of Nuclear Power Control System based on Attention Capture Mechanism -- Design Suggestions for Smart Tax Return Software based on Reviewing Tax Compliance literature -- Applications of an Online Audience Response System in Different Academic Settings: An Empirical Study -- Perceived Restorativeness and Meditation Depth for Virtual Reality supported Mindfulness Interventions -- Global Mindset - A Complex Cognitive Model Used for Global Leadership Decision-making when Working Across Geographical Boundaries -- Assessing Variable Levels of Delegated Control – A Novel Measure of Trust -- Neuroergonomics Behind Culture: A Dynamic Causal Modeling (DCM) Study on Emotion -- A Typology of Non-functional Information -- Basic Study to Reduce the Artifact from Brain Activity Data with Auto-Regressive Model -- Producing an Immersive Experience using Human-Robot Interaction Stimuli -- How Virtual Reality is Changing the Future of Learning in K-12 and Beyond - Using Needs-Affordances-Features Perspective -- Tangible Storytelling to learn the Four Seasons: Design and Preliminary Observations -- Analyzing Students’ Behavior in a MOOC Course: A Process-Oriented Approach -- The Role of Learning City “Smart Teams” In Promoting, Supporting, and Extending the Community School Model -- Design and Development of a Web Extension to Help Facilitate the Learning of a Foreign Language -- Training Professionals to Bring Digital Transformation into Museums: the Mu.SA Blended Course -- Learning and Creativity through a Curatorial Practice using Virtual Reality -- How augmented reality influences student workload in engineering education -- The Influential Factors on E-learning Adoption and Learning Continuance -- A Real-Time Cross-Sectioning System for Visualization of Architectural Construction Details -- Exploring the Affordance of Distance Learning Platform (DLP) in COVID19 Remote Learning Environment -- Tirana Plug-in River: Catalyst Playful Experiences to Revitalize Albanian Informal Settlements -- Investigating the relation between sense of presence, attention and performance: virtual reality versus web -- Research on the Design of Intelligent Interactive Toys Based on Marker Education -- Designing a Faculty Chatbot through User-Centered Design Approach -- The Influence of Picture Book Interaction Design on Preschool Children's Reading Experience -- Enable 3A in AIS -- Adapting E-Learning to Dyslexia Type: an Experimental Study to Evaluate Learning Gain and Perceived Usability -- Reducing the Gap Between the Conceptual Models of Students and Experts Using Graph-based Adaptive Instructional Systems -- A Learning Engineering Model for Learner-Centered Adaptive Systems -- Technology in Education - Meeting the Future Literacy & Numeracy needs of Societ -- Adaptive Agents for Fit-for-Purpose Training -- Google Service-based CbITS Authoring Tool to Support Collaboration -- The Interplay Between Artificial Intelligence and Users' Personalities: A New Scenario for Human-Computer Interaction in Gaming -- Behavlet Analytics for Player Profiling and Churn Prediction -- The Kansei Research on the Manipulation Experience of Mobile Game with Joystick -- A Novel Investigation of Attack Strategies via the Involvement of Virtual Humans: A User Study of Josh Waitzkin, a Virtual Chess Grandmaster -- Systems Approach to Designing an Enjoyable Process for Game Designers -- Broader Understanding of Gamification by Addressing Ethics and Diversity -- Game-Based Learning and Instructional Effectiveness in Organizational Communication Classrooms -- Enhancing Social Ties through Manual Player Matchmaking in Online Multiplayer Games -- A Simulation Game to Acquire Skills on Industry 4.0 -- Personalised Semantic User Interfaces for Games -- Utilization of Neurophysiological Data to Classify Player Immersion to Distract from Pain.…”
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HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Papers: Cognition, Learning and Games 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings / edit...

Table of Contents: “…Basic study on incidence of micro-error in visual attention-controlled environment -- A Methodological Approach to Create Interactive Art in Artificial Intelligence -- The Effect of Different Icon Shape and Width on Touch Behavior -- Project Team Recommendation Model Based on Profiles Complementarity -- A Neurophysiological Sensor Suite for Real-Time Prediction of Pilot Workload in Operational Settings -- Consideration of How Different Rearview Presentations Used for Electronic Mirrors on Automobiles Affect Human Spatial Cognition -- Design Guidelines of Social-Assisted Robots for the Elderly: A Mixed Method Systematic Literature Review -- Examining the relationship between songs and psychological characteristics -- An Overview of Paper Documentation Moving to Onboard Information System (OIS) for Commercial Aircraft -- Influence of Visual Symbol's User Background and Symbol Semantic Abstraction Level on User's Cognition in AR Auxiliary Assembly Environment -- Information Visualization Design of Nuclear Power Control System based on Attention Capture Mechanism -- Design Suggestions for Smart Tax Return Software based on Reviewing Tax Compliance literature -- Applications of an Online Audience Response System in Different Academic Settings: An Empirical Study -- Perceived Restorativeness and Meditation Depth for Virtual Reality supported Mindfulness Interventions -- Global Mindset - A Complex Cognitive Model Used for Global Leadership Decision-making when Working Across Geographical Boundaries -- Assessing Variable Levels of Delegated Control – A Novel Measure of Trust -- Neuroergonomics Behind Culture: A Dynamic Causal Modeling (DCM) Study on Emotion -- A Typology of Non-functional Information -- Basic Study to Reduce the Artifact from Brain Activity Data with Auto-Regressive Model -- Producing an Immersive Experience using Human-Robot Interaction Stimuli -- How Virtual Reality is Changing the Future of Learning in K-12 and Beyond - Using Needs-Affordances-Features Perspective -- Tangible Storytelling to learn the Four Seasons: Design and Preliminary Observations -- Analyzing Students’ Behavior in a MOOC Course: A Process-Oriented Approach -- The Role of Learning City “Smart Teams” In Promoting, Supporting, and Extending the Community School Model -- Design and Development of a Web Extension to Help Facilitate the Learning of a Foreign Language -- Training Professionals to Bring Digital Transformation into Museums: the Mu.SA Blended Course -- Learning and Creativity through a Curatorial Practice using Virtual Reality -- How augmented reality influences student workload in engineering education -- The Influential Factors on E-learning Adoption and Learning Continuance -- A Real-Time Cross-Sectioning System for Visualization of Architectural Construction Details -- Exploring the Affordance of Distance Learning Platform (DLP) in COVID19 Remote Learning Environment -- Tirana Plug-in River: Catalyst Playful Experiences to Revitalize Albanian Informal Settlements -- Investigating the relation between sense of presence, attention and performance: virtual reality versus web -- Research on the Design of Intelligent Interactive Toys Based on Marker Education -- Designing a Faculty Chatbot through User-Centered Design Approach -- The Influence of Picture Book Interaction Design on Preschool Children's Reading Experience -- Enable 3A in AIS -- Adapting E-Learning to Dyslexia Type: an Experimental Study to Evaluate Learning Gain and Perceived Usability -- Reducing the Gap Between the Conceptual Models of Students and Experts Using Graph-based Adaptive Instructional Systems -- A Learning Engineering Model for Learner-Centered Adaptive Systems -- Technology in Education - Meeting the Future Literacy & Numeracy needs of Societ -- Adaptive Agents for Fit-for-Purpose Training -- Google Service-based CbITS Authoring Tool to Support Collaboration -- The Interplay Between Artificial Intelligence and Users' Personalities: A New Scenario for Human-Computer Interaction in Gaming -- Behavlet Analytics for Player Profiling and Churn Prediction -- The Kansei Research on the Manipulation Experience of Mobile Game with Joystick -- A Novel Investigation of Attack Strategies via the Involvement of Virtual Humans: A User Study of Josh Waitzkin, a Virtual Chess Grandmaster -- Systems Approach to Designing an Enjoyable Process for Game Designers -- Broader Understanding of Gamification by Addressing Ethics and Diversity -- Game-Based Learning and Instructional Effectiveness in Organizational Communication Classrooms -- Enhancing Social Ties through Manual Player Matchmaking in Online Multiplayer Games -- A Simulation Game to Acquire Skills on Industry 4.0 -- Personalised Semantic User Interfaces for Games -- Utilization of Neurophysiological Data to Classify Player Immersion to Distract from Pain.…”
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Against the profit motive : the salary revolution in American government, 1780-1940 / Nicholas R. Parrillo. by Parrillo, Nicholas R.

Table of Contents: “…The old regime : lawful bargaining for public services -- Bargaining outlawed -- A regulatory nightmare : salaries as a remedy for corrupt exchange and official lucre -- A government capable of saying "no" : salaries as a reaction against customer service -- State and local taxation : the tax ferrets -- Federal taxation : the moiety men -- Criminal prosecution : cash for convictions -- Incarceration : jailors' fees and penitentiary profits -- Naval warfare : prize money and blood money -- Epilogue : American state-building and the critique of bureaucracy.…”
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Integration and Clustering for Sustainable Economic Growth edited by Elena G. Popkova, Valentina E. Sukhova, Aleksey F. Rogachev, Yulia G. Tyurina, Olga A. Boris, Valentina N. Para...

Table of Contents: “…Part 1: Building Cluster Initiatives as a Factor of Competitiveness of Modern Enterprises -- Chapter 1: Contradiction of Clusters Taxation in Russia: Taxes as Barriers and Stimuli for Clustering -- Chapter 2: Using Project-Based Approach in Public-Private Partnership with Participation of Corporate Holding Structures -- Chapter 3: Effective HR Management as the Most Important Condition of Successful Business Administration -- Chapter 4: Marketing Strategies of Cluster Development in Retailing Sector -- Chapter 5: Place and Role of Budgeting in the System of Methods of Managerial Accounting of Cluster Contractual Relationship -- Chapter 6: Role of Clusters in Promotion of Region’s Economic Competitiveness -- Chapter 7: Clustering as a Growth Point of Modern Russian Business -- Chapter 8: Perspectives of Use of Competence-Based Approach to Management in Educational Services Market -- Chapter 9: Marketing Aspects of Cluster Management in Retailing Sector -- Chapter 10: History of Views on Audit of Commercial Structures Management Quality -- Chapter 11: Approaches to Organization of Project Management in Russia -- Chapter 12: CORPORATE CULTURE OF COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATION AS AN EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT TOOL -- Part 2: Provision of Economic Security by Means of Creation of Innovational Network of Transnational Cluster Initiatives -- Chapter 13: Transnational Cluster Initiatives in Business as a Top-Priority Direction of Maximization of Economic Growth in Asian Countries -- Chapter 14: Modeling of Eco-Economic Security With the Use of Tax Instrumentarium -- Chapter 15: Formation of the System of Clustering as a Means of Perspective Development of Innovational Infrastructure of Region -- Chapter 16: Concept of Innovational Development of Entrepreneurial Potential of Small Enterprises -- Chapter 17: Problems and High-Priority Directions of Realization of Innovational Strategy of Development of Fuel and Energy Complex Enterprises -- Chapter 18: Biotech Cluster as a Critetion of Food Security Formation -- Chapter 19: Education as the National Safety Element in the Globalizing World -- Chapter 20: Formation of Creative Approach to Economic Activities as One of the Goals of Professional Training of Future Economists -- Chapter 21: Marketing Instrumentarium of Provision of Food Security -- Chapter 22: Innovational Approach to Management of Human Resources of Cluster Entity -- Chapter 23: YOUNG SPECIALISTS LABOR MARKET IN MODERN RUSSIA: ANALYSIS, PROBLEMS, AND PERSPECTIVES -- Part 3: Effectiveness of State Management and Economic Growth in the Context of Global Integration and Clustering -- Chapter 24: Sense of Rational Approach to Socio-Economic Development of Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 25: Integration of Social and Innovative Activities into Industrial Organization -- Chapter 26: Using Economic and Mathematical Methods During Formation of Construction Cluster -- Chapter 27: Support for Cluster Initiatives in View of Development of Innovational Economy: Regarding the Issue of Legal Regulation at the Level of Subjects of the Russian Federation -- Chapter 28: Methodology of Complex Evaluation of Eco-Economic Effectiveness of Agricultural Clusters -- Chapter 29: POLITICAL EXISTENCE OF THE SYSTEM OF SOCIAL SPACE-TIME -- Chapter 30: Wind Rose as One of the Main Factors of Apartment Buying Decision -- Chapter 31: Conceptual Aspects of Tax System Development in Cyclic Economy -- Chapter 32: Economic Aspects of Application of Biotechnologies During Creation of Forest Plantations -- Part 4: Methodological Approaches to Measurement of Sustainable Development of Industrial Enterprises Under the Conditions of Integration and Clustering -- Chapter 33: Educational Clusters as a Factor of Development of Educational Services Market in Region -- Chapter 34: Development of Entrepreneurial Component and a Factor of Increase of Effectiveness of Cluster Structures Management -- Chapter 35: Two-Level Economic and Mathematical Model of Monotown Development on the Basis of Cognitive Maps -- Chapter 36: Rational Environmental Management – the Platform for Integration and Optimization of Resources -- Chapter 37: Green Technologies – the Basis for Integration and Clustering of Subjects at the Regional Level of Economy -- Chapter 38: Effectiveness of State Territorial Administration in Provision of Sustainable Economic Growth of the Region -- Chapter 39: Economic and Mathematical Modeling During Organization and Conduct of Business Games -- Chapter 40: Strategic Management of Clustering Policy During Provision of Sustainable Development -- Chapter 41: Conceptual Features of Management Tools of Enterprise Structures Under the Conditions of Globalization of the World Market -- Chapter 42: Measures to Improve the Investment Attractiveness of Enterprises in the Modern Context -- Chapter 43: Adaptation of Macro-Economic Models to Solving the Problem of Countries Differentiation in Global Economy -- Chapter 44: Problems of Sustainable Development of Depressive Region in Crisis -- Chapter 45: Improvement of Methods of Analysis of Effectiveness of Stock Management at Industrial Enterprises -- Chapter 46: Modeling of Cluster Processes in the Sphere of Manufacture of ECO-Products: Issues of Ecological and Food Security of Russia -- Chapter 47: Development Efficiency Analysis of Public Administration Informatization -- Chapter 48: Formation of a Complex System of Indicators for Evaluation of Smooth Production Flow -- Chapter 49: Building a Strategy of Development of Hospitality Industry on the Basis of Improvement of the System of Personnel Training -- Chapter 50: Perspectives of Development of Small Business Within Modernization of Tax and Cluster Policy -- Chapter 51: Complementary Approach to Functioning of Entrepreneurial Structures Under the Conditions of Economic Instability of Region -- Chapter 52: Economic Growth in Russia: Influence of Oil Shock and Macro-Economic Factors -- Chapter 53: Transformation of Ethnocultural Development of Indigenous Peoples in the Conditions of Socialist Modernization of the Far East in 1920-1970’s: Problems of Historiography.…”
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Human-Centered Software Engineering 8th IFIP WG 13.2 International Working Conference, HCSE 2020, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 30 – December 2, 2020, Proceedings / edited b...

Table of Contents: “…Supporting teachers working in an inclusive learning environment -- A Generic Visualization Approach Supporting Task-based Evaluation of Usability and User Experience -- Digitalisation of Training Tasks and Specification of the Behaviour of a Social Humanoid Robot as Coach -- Model-based and model-driven approaches -- A Generic Multimodels-Based Approach for the Analysis of Usability and Security of Authentication Mechanisms -- Model-based Product Configuration in Augmented Reality Applications -- A scrum-based development process to support co-creation with elders in the eHealth domain -- BPMN Extensions and Semantic Annotation in Public Administration Service Design -- Software development strategies -- Identifying the Mood of a Software Development Team by Analyzing Text-Based Communication in Chats with Machine Learning -- Towards super user-centred continuous delivery: a case study -- Design Decisions by Voice: The Next Step of Software Architecture Knowledge Management -- Poster and demos -- Towards a Trustworthy Patient Home-Care thanks to an Edge-Node Infrastructure -- Paying the Pink Tax on a Blue Dress - Exploring Gender-based Price-Premiums in Fashion Recommendations -- Wearable Touchscreens to Integrate Augmented Reality and Tablets for Work Instructions? …”
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Rethinking ICT Adoption Theories in the Developing World Information and Communication Technologies / edited by Emmanuel Eilu, John Sören Pettersson, Rehema Baguma, Ganesh Bhutkar....

Table of Contents: “…Model for Improving Social Media Tax Compliance in Uganda -- Chapter 2. Digital Usage of Indian Teleworkers in Home Settings: A Digital Inclusion Framework -- Chapter 3. …”
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The wages of war : when America's soldiers came home : from Valley Forge to Vietnam / Richard Severo and Lewis Milford. by Severo, Richard, Milford, Lewis

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Introduction; Introduction; Prologue; Part One: After the Revolution; 1 Lambs and Bees or Tigers and Wolves; 2 Half Pay, Full Taxes, and Engines of Vice; 3 Officer Princes and the Art of Living Happily Ever After; 4 Daniel Shays: From True Patriot to Counterfeit Public Enemy; 5 A Little Rebellion Now and Then; Part Two: The War of 1812 and the Mexican War; 6 Like Sweet Poison on the Taste; 7 Just Debts and Common Sense; 8 St. …”
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Special economic zones : progress, emerging challenges, and future directions / edited by Thomas Farole, Gokhan Akinci.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Thomas Farole and Gokhan Akinci -- The thin end of the wedge : unlocking comparative advantage through EPZs in Bangladesh / Mustafizul Hye Shakir and Thomas Farole -- Success and statis in Honduras' free zones / Michael Engman -- China's investment in special economic zones in Africa / Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang -- Partnership agreements in the China-Singapore (Suzhou) industrial park : lessons for joint economic zone development / Min Zhao and Thomas Farole -- SEZs in the context of regional integration : creating synergies for trade and investment / Naoko Koyama -- When trade preferences and tax breaks are no longer enough : the challenge of adjustment in the Dominican Republic's free zones / Jean-Marie Burgaud and Thomas Farole -- Fostering innovation in developing economies through SEZs / Justine White -- Early reform zones : catalysts for dynamic market economies in Africa / Richard Auty -- Planned obsolescence? …”
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Capital, coercion, and postcommunist states / Gerald M. Easter. by Easter, Gerald, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a fiscal sociology of the post-communist state -- Fiscal crisis of the old regime -- Politics of tax reform : making (and unmaking) revenue bargains -- State meets society in the transitional tax regime -- Building fiscal capacity in post-communist states -- Taxation and the reconfiguration of state and society.…”
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Brilliant Book-keeping Quinn, Martin. by Quinn, Martin

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