Weekly address : protecting the middle class & the economy / by the White House.

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The glossary of property terms / compiled by Jones Lang Lasalle in association with Estates Gazette ; edited by Geoff Parsons.

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction to the First Edition; Introduction to the Second Edition; Editor's Note; Panels; Acknowledgements; Notes on Compilation and Usage; Terms; Changes in Society; References; Categories; Abbreviations; Glossary of Property Terms and Abbreviations; Appendix -- Terms grouped by subject-matter; Accounts; Agriculture and fisheries; Archaeology; Biometrics; Building and construction; Capital allowances; Capital Gains Tax; Case references; Companies and partnerships; Compulsory purchase; Contamination and pollution.…”
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Mexico Battle for North America / Sveriges television.

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Sea Change : How Markets and Property Rights Could Transform the Fishing Industry. by Aligica, Paul Dragos

Table of Contents: “…; Appendix: UK system for apportioning national fishing quotas; References; 4 Governing the fisheries: insights from Elinor Ostrom's work; Paul Dragos Aligica and Ion Sterpan; Introduction; Public choice and voluntary action; The approach; Governance regimes; Performance criteria; Co-management and the commons; Government interference and failure; A case of fragile institutions: the Nova Scotian inshore fisheries; A case of robust institutions: the Maine lobster industry; Conclusions; References.…”
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Developing a sustainable economy in Cameroon / edited by Aloysius Ajab Amin.

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Medicare and medicaid : how can we afford them? / Maura Casey. by Casey, Maura

Table of Contents: “…; Option One: Do What It Takes to Maintain Our Commitment; Tax hikes may make sense; Sharing in the cost; What we could do; Option Two: Reduce Health-Care Costs Throughout the System; Waste robs health-care dollars; Bargaining over drug prices; What we could do; Option Three: Get Serious about Prevention; Curb alcohol use, not just smoking; Put farmers' markets on wheels; Care for seniors and the disabled at home; What we could do; Summary: Medicare & Medicaid: How Can We Afford Them?…”
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QuickBooks 2019 IT, Simon. by IT, Simon

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Handbook of US consumer economics / edited by Andrew Haughwout, Benjamin Mandel.

Table of Contents: “…Live production results -- 9.1 Prediction in practice: the main mistakes17 -- 9.2 Public benefits of microfoundations of macro -- 9.3 Two main contributions: accurate measurement and more detail -- 9.4 Mitigating data colonialism? …”
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Handbook of US consumer economics / editors, Andrew Haughwout, Benjamin Mandel.

Table of Contents: “…Live production results -- 9.1 Prediction in practice: the main mistakes17 -- 9.2 Public benefits of microfoundations of macro -- 9.3 Two main contributions: accurate measurement and more detail -- 9.4 Mitigating data colonialism? …”
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Managing Concentrated Stock Wealth : an Advisor's Guide to Building Customized Solutions. by Kochis, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Note -- Appendix -- PART II: GIFTS -- CHAPTER 7 Gifts to Family -- Transfer Taxes -- Income Tax Leverage -- Special Rules on Employer Stock -- Transfer Structures -- Gifts Under the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act -- Minorâ#x80;#x99;s Trust -- Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts -- Family Limited Partnerships -- Gaining Psychic Distance -- CHAPTER 8 Nonqualified Stock Options: Gifts to Family -- Investment Leverage -- Tax Leverage -- Timing and Valuation -- CHAPTER 9 Gifts to Charity -- Tax Savings -- The Cost of Charitable Gifts -- Special Income Tax Considerations -- Loss Positions -- Short-Term Gains -- Seasoned Incentive Stock Option Stock -- Low-Basis Shares -- IRA Assets -- Tangible Personal Property -- Structures for Charitable Gifts -- Direct Gifts -- Donor-Advised Funds -- Private Foundations and Supporting Organizations -- A Word of Caution -- Appendix: Key Characteristics of Charitable Vehicles -- CHAPTER 10 Charitable Trusts -- The Charitable Remainder Trust -- Tax Requirements and Opportunities -- Tax Deferral -- Coordinating a CRT with the Clientâ#x80;#x99;s Financial Plan -- The Charitable Lead Trust -- CHAPTER 11 Nonqualified Stock Options: Gifts to Charity -- The Charitable Gift -- Mismatches of Valuation and Timing -- Why Bother? …”
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More and better jobs in South Asia / World Bank.

Table of Contents: “…-- Addressing disadvantages before school: The role of early childhood development -- Primary and secondary education -- Tertiary education and preemployment training systems -- On-the-job training -- Annex 5A: Additional tables and figures on education and skills -- Annex 5B: Projections of the educational attainment of South Asia's population and labor force -- 6. …”
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Tricks of the Rich Overy, Paul. by Overy, Paul

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The writer's legal guide an authors guild desk reference / Tad Crawford and Kay Murray. by Crawford, Tad, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The business of writing -- Copyright : gaining and keeping protection -- Copyright : registration and deposit -- Copyright : works made for hire, joint works, and community property -- Copyright : infringement, fair use, and permissions -- Copyright : past and present -- Other rights of the writer -- The limitations on free expression -- The Freedom of Information Act -- Contracts : an introduction -- Negotiating a book contract -- Periodical and syndication contracts -- Film and television contracts and dramatic productions -- Electronic rights, e-books, and audio licenses -- Literary agents and agency agreements -- Collaboration agreements -- Book packagers -- The self-publishing option and subsidy presses -- Taxes : income and expenses -- Taxes : beyond schedule C -- The hobby loss rule -- Estate planning for professional authors -- How to avoid or resolve disputes.…”
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Guidelines for establishing farm forestry accountancy networks : MOSEFA (Monitoring the socio-economic situation of European farm forestry) / edited by A. Niskanen, W. Sekot.

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Top Incomes : a Global Perspective. by Atkinson, A. B. (Anthony Barnes), 1944-2017

Table of Contents: “…The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 18862005: Evidence from Income Tax Statistics; 4. Top Incomes in Indonesia, 19202004; 5. …”
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Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2005 / Davis Langdon. by Davis Langdon

Table of Contents: “…part PART 1: GENERAL -- chapter Purpose and content of the book -- chapter Outline of the tendering and estimating process -- part PART 2: PREUMINARIES AND GENERAL ITEMS -- chapter Method related charges -- chapter Insurances and bond -- chapter Worked example -- part PART 3: RESOURCES -- chapter Basis of this section -- chapter Labour costs -- chapter Basic material prices -- chapter Plant -- chapter Introductory Notes -- chapter Guidance Notes -- chapter Class A: General items -- chapter Class B: Ground investigation -- chapter Class C: Geotechnical and other specialist processes -- chapter Class D: Demolition and site clearance -- chapter Class E: Excavation -- chapter Class F: In situ concrete -- chapter Class G: Concrete ancillaries -- chapter Class H: Precast concrete -- chapter Class I: Pipework - pipes -- chapter Class J: Pipework - fittings and valves -- chapter Class K: Pipework - manholes and pipework ancillaries -- chapter Class L: Pipework - supports and protection, ancillaries to laying and excavation -- chapter Class M: Structural metalwork -- chapter Class N: Miscellaneous metalwork -- chapter Class O: Timber -- chapter Class P: Piling -- chapter Class Q: Piling ancillaries -- chapter Class R: Roads and pavings -- chapter Class S: Rail track -- chapter Class T: Tunnels -- chapter Class U: Brickwork, blockwork, masonry -- chapter Class V: Painting -- chapter Class W: Waterproofing -- chapter Class X: Miscellaneous work -- chapter Class Y: Sewer and water main renovation and ancillary works -- chapter Class Z: Simple building works incidental to civU engineering works -- chapter Introductory Notes -- chapter Guidance Notes -- chapter Series 100: Preliminaries -- chapter Series 200: Site clearance -- chapter Series 300: Fencing -- chapter Series 400: Safety fences, safely barriers and pedestrian guardrails -- chapter Series 500: Drainage and service ducts -- chapter Series 600: Earthworks -- chapter Series 700: Pavements -- chapter Series 1100: Kerbs, footways & paved areas -- chapter Series 1200: Traffic signs and road markings -- chapter Series 1300: Road lighting columns, brackets and CCTV masts -- chapter Series 1400: Electrical work for road lighting and traffic signs -- chapter Series 1500: Motorway communications -- chapter Series 1600: PHiling & embedded retaining walls -- chapter Series 1700: Structural concrete -- chapter Series 1800: Steelwork for structures -- chapter Series 1900: Protection of steelwork against corrosion -- chapter Series 2000: Waterproofing for structures -- chapter SerIes 2100: Bridge bearings -- chapter Series 2200: Parapets -- chapter Series 2300: Bridge expansion joints and sealing of gaps -- chapter Series 2400: Brickwork, blockwork and stonework -- chapter Series 2500: Special structures -- chapter Series 3000: landscaping and ecology -- part PART 6: LAND REMEDIATION -- chapter Guidance notes -- chapter Definition -- chapter Background -- chapter Initial study -- chapter Land remediation techniques -- chapter Cost considerations -- chapter The landfill tax -- chapter Introductory notes -- chapter Substructure -- chapter Superstructure -- chapter Roof -- chapter Stairs -- chapter External walls -- chapter Windows and extemal doors -- chapter Internal walls, partitions and doors -- chapter Internal doors -- chapter Wall finishes -- chapter Floor finishes -- chapter Ceiling finishes -- chapter Decorations -- chapter Fittings and funishings -- chapter Sanitary and disposal installations -- chapter Services installations -- chapter Gas installation -- chapter Protective, communication and special installations -- chapter Builders' work in connection with services -- chapter Extenal services -- chapter Drainage -- part PART 8: ONCOSTS AND PROFIT -- chapter Risk/opportunity -- chapter Value added tax -- part PART 9: COSTS AND TENDER PRICES INDICES -- chapter Introduction -- chapter A constructed cost index based on the price adjustment formula indices -- chapter The road construction tender price index -- part PART 10: DAYWORK -- chapter Introduction -- chapter Schedules of dayworks carried out incidental to contract work -- chapter Application of dayworks -- part PART 11: PROFESSIONAL FEES -- chapter Consulting engineers' fees -- chapter Quantity surveyors' fees -- part PART 12: APPROXIMATE ESTIMATES -- chapter 1 Industrial and commercial buildings and civil engineering facilities -- chapter 2 Foundations for structures -- chapter 3 Earth retention and stabilisation -- chapter 4 Bridgeworks -- chapter 5 Highway works -- chapter 6 Civil engineering works site utilities and infrastructure -- chapter 7 Landscaping -- chapter 8 Temporary works.…”
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McCulloch v. Maryland WQED Multimedia.

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The man and the statesman : the correspondence and articles on politics / Frédéric Bastiat ; translated from the French by Jane Willems and Michel Willems, with an introduction by... by Bastiat, Frédéric, 1801-1850

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Reaching for a new deal : ambitious governance, economic meltdown, and polarized politics in Obama's first two years / Theda Skocpol and Lawrence R. Jacobs, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Layzer -- Paying America's way: the fraught politics of taxes, investments, and budgetary responsibility / Andrea Louise Campbell.…”
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Edge Computing and IoT: Systems, Management and Security Third EAI International Conference, ICECI 2022, Virtual Event, December 13-14, 2022, Proceedings / edited by Zhu Xiao, Ping...

Table of Contents: “…Models and methods for data management in IoT -- Forecasting the Temperature of BEV Battery Pack based on Field Testing Data -- The Data Exchange Protocol over Multi-chain BlockchainUsing Zero-knowledge Proof -- A Hybrid Task Offloading and Service Cache Scheme for Vehicular Edge Computing -- On Enhancing Transmission Performance for IoV Based on Improved Greedy Algorithm -- Precise Segmentation on Poly-Yolo, YoloV5 and FCN -- Adaptive approaches to manage energy consumption and security of systems -- Research on DAG Based Consensus Mechanism for Adjustable Load Metering Data -- A Detection and Information Processing Model based on an Automatic Mechanism for Tax Payment Control in Developing Countries -- IEC-FOF: An Industrial Electricity Consumption Forecasting and Optimization Framework -- Demons Hidden in the Light: Unrestricted Adversarial Illumination Attacks -- Edge Intelligence Based Garbage Classification Detection Method -- Mobile computing in wireless networks -- Evaluation of Higher Education System -- Defense Mechanisms against Audio Adversarial Attacks: Recent Advances and Future Directions -- An Empirical Study of Worldwide Plastic Waste Mitigation -- Prediction for Surface Subsidence of Shield Construction in Water-Rich Sand Egg Stratum Based on Edge Intelligence -- Highly Accurate Dynamic Gesture Recognition Method Based on Edge Intelligence -- Distributed computing in IOT -- Edge Intelligence Based Garbage Classification Detection Method -- Adversarial Example Attacks in Internet of Things (IoT) -- Training Node Screening in Decentralized Trusted Federated Learning -- Exploration and Practice of Course Homework Metaverse Based on Extended Reality under Edge Computing -- Federated Learning Based User Scheduling for Real-Time Multimedia Tasks in Edge Devices -- A Co-caching Strategy for Edges Based on Federated Learning and Regional Prevalence -- LSTM-DAM: Malicious Network Traffic Prediction for Cloud Manufacturing System.…”
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