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آموزش و پرورش
ادبیات و زبان
پزشکی، دندانپزشکی و داروسازی
تاریخ و جغرافیا
داستان و رمان
دیگر
دین و فلسفه
روانشناسی
ریاضیات و آمار
سلامتی، تناسب اندام و رژیم غذایی
شیمی و پلیمر
علوم اجتماعی و حقوق
علوم زیستی و بیوتکنولوژی
فیزیک و نجوم
کامپیوتر و اینترنت
کتابهای کودکان و داستان
کسب و کار و اقتصاد
کشاورزی و دامپزشکی و غذا
معماری
مهندسی و فناوری
هنر و تئاتر
محصولات
If You Eat, You Never Die: Chicago Tales - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Food was religion in our house. In her tortured English, Mamaalways said, “If you eat, you never die,” which to me simply meantthat dead people no longer eat, but it seemed to make perfect senseto her. Why did I imagine that I could hide the weight I was cuttingfor the wrestling team?The first seven or eight pounds were easy. The weight came offmostly from my stomach and the lower part of my chest where theribs pushed through, and I was able to hide it with bulky sweatersand baggy sweatshirts. After ten or fifteen pounds, my face becamemore angular and bony, my eyes two hollow sockets, my lips dry andcracked. Then she knew.I sat there at the dining room table on a Friday night, 106 pounds,21 pounds under my normal weight. Mama clomped from the kitchento the dining room carrying dishes full of food, her flat, heavy foot-steps shaking the house. Every time she set something down, she eyedmy plate with anger.
Alternative Minimum Tax: What You Need To Know About the ''Other'' Tax - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: This book deals with one of the more challenging areas inthe tax law—the alternative minimum tax (AMT). Since itsorigin in the Tax Reform Act of 1969, it has steadily affectedmore and more individual taxpayersmaking it a chal-lenge worth understanding. After all, imagine the surpriseof a married couple expecting a large refund, only toreceive a letter from the IRS demanding a payment of sev-eral thousand dollars because of this stealth tax known asthe AMT. In view of the expanded impact of the AMT onindividual taxpayers, it has become essential not only tounderstand the fundamentals of it, but also to determinethe means of planning around it.The purpose of this book is to lay out, in as muchsimple English as possible, the basics of the AMT. Will yoube capable of filing your own Form 6251, AlternativeMinimum Tax—Individuals? Perhaps. However, one thingis definite. You will understand why your tax preparer isdoing (or not doing) an AMT for you and your family. AndPrefaceeven more important, it will give you ways to reduce, orin some cases eliminate, this added tax burden.The book begins with a brief introduction on the natureof the AMT and computing the AMT (with actual examplesand IRS materials). Special chapters on adjustments and taxpreference items, use of the tax credits and the importanceof the AMT credit, and the oft-overlooked other areasimpacting the AMT (like the kiddie tax and estimated taxpayments) follow. The final chapter describes the means toreduce or eliminate the AMT. The chapters have been keptintentionally short and descriptions terse and to the point.The most beneficial way to master this subject is to readthis book from cover to cover. However, you can go straightto the areas or chapters that hold the greatest interest for you.More importantly, this book is a companion that beatsany tax preparer or CPA, because it’s on-call 24/7 and aidsyou in your quest for an answer. If the exact answer is notfound, chances are that you will find it at one of the many24/7 websites identified throughout the book.
I Told You So - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Told You So was completed at the end of July 2008. This book is acollection of columns from magazines, essays translated from early-century Bloggerean, and material written especially for this compila-tion. After I sent the document file of my book to my editor just bywarily pressing Send, I made a big flourish of checking off the last dayof my six-month writing schedule. I cleaned off my desk, filed twotrees’ worth of hard-copy rewrites, and turned my full attention towriting for my summer show in Provincetown.For more than twenty years I have performed in July and Augustin Provincetown. I write something new every day, especially if theweather is bad; I ride my bike down to the club and try the lines outat night. My audience knows that a lot of the material is being work-shopped for the show I will take on the road in the fall. They knowbecause generally I tell them.Some weeks a brilliant three pages of newly minted material be-comes an aside after only three shows. But other times a throwawayline gets a surprising response and over a few performances grows toa brand-new ten minutes. My audiences like being part of the process.They often talk to me after a show: “When you said that, I thoughtyou were going to go this way,” as if the show were on MapQuest, butthen they finish with the perfect punch line that had eluded me. SinceI have joke dyslexia, they kindly point out when I have reversed setupand punch line altogether. Or they tell me their stories. I take notes. Ipromise them royalties.My partner of twenty years has said to me after almost every showshe has seen, “Well, that was too long, but you need to do more po-litical stuff.” Over the years, and because of the world, I have becomemore political. Actually I am a full-blown junkie. My shows reflectthat. On the Provincetown entertainment menu of drag shows, pianobars, Broadway adaptations, theater, and comedy, I am the entréeknown as “that political one.”In the past, doing a lot of political material for people on theirprecious one- or two-week vacation in a resort town could be dicey.They have been at the beach all day reading trashy beach books orboogie boarding. They have not kept up. Some nights I felt that I wasanchoring a news show, not so much doing a comedy show. Instead oflaughter, I would hear, “I wish she had this on PowerPoint.”The summer of 2008 was like nothing I had ever witnessed. Itwas not just because critical mass had been reached in the possessionof personal handheld devices. Nor was it because the town mothersand fathers had finally gotten some decent radio transmitters andfewer people had to stand out in parking lots screaming into theircell phones, “I can’t hear you!” That summer Wi-Fi was the preferredguesthouse amenity. More than a private bath. No one wanted off thegrid. No one wanted to miss anything. Even on vacation.Would the Hillary supporters get over themselves and make thechange to Obama? Could Obama really beat McCain? The town sleptfitfully, waiting for a text message about Obama’s choice for vice presi-dent. Would he pick Hillary? In the line at the Grand Union, strang-ers would say, “Can’t wait to hear what you have to say about Palin.”Increasingly panicked mass e-mails from California warned of thepassage of Prop Hate, the anti-gay-marriage ballot initiative. Every-one bemoaned high gas prices. Bear Stearns Week trumped the funof Bear Week. International tourists crowded town during CarnivalWeek. Some shops accepted euros. In one ominous sign, the storecalled Don’t Panic was shuttered.When your situation room is a resort town in August, it is difficultto convey the seriousness of some developments to vacationers. It isalso perhaps cruel. In one late August show I joked about George W.,back stateside from the Chinese Olympics, which had been broughtto us by our own credit card debt. With not one little toenail left onhis moral footprint, and still president-erect from cruising the Olym-pic volleyball babes and hectoring China on its human rights abuses,our spectator in chief excoriated Russia for its preemptive strike onGeorgia. You could practically hear the world snorting, or maybe itwas me
Writing in the Devil's Tongue: A History of English Composition in China - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Asense of complacency, if not outright chauvinism, is tangible these daysin certain parts of American composition studies. Sensational state-ments of one kind or another—“Composition Studies Saves the World!”;“Globalizing Composition”; “Transnationalizing/Globalizing Rhetoric andComposition Studies”; and so forth—reveal not only tremendous disciplin-ary pride but also compositionists’ confidence in what the discipline cando: namely, rescue the troubled world at large.1 And why shouldn’t we beconfident about what the discipline can achieve? After all, we have gaineda better understanding of our students, students of diverse linguistic, cul-tural, racial, sexual, and class backgrounds who have made such a strongpresence in American universities since the 1960s; and we have developedeffective pedagogical approaches to address those students’ needs. Project-ing this national experience to the rest of the globe, we naturally becomeoptimistic. Indeed, the rest of the world is also hopeful now, looking toAmerican composition studies for standards of English writing practicesand proven pedagogies.As the teaching of composition is increasingly connected to global po-litico-economic dynamics, our disciplinary effort to lift composition out ofnarrow nation-state bounds is the right direction to go. However, Americancomposition scholars do not seem fully cognizant of the geopolitical differ-ences and stakes involved in the teaching of English writing. For one thing,while English has been taught as the native language, the official language,or a second language in the United States, it is typically taught as a foreignlanguage in the majority of nations in the world. A different name for Englishentails a different history of the language in a particular country. A differ-ent name for English entails a whole different constellation of values andpractices in teaching English writing
601 Words You Need to Know to Pass Your Exam (Barron's 601 Words You Need to Know to Pass Your Exam) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: . Which Word Comes to Mind? In each of the following, read the statement, then circle the word that comes to mind. 1. You want to rip into your neighbor for his bigoted remarks. (philanderer, philippic, protean) 2. A newspaper editorial calls for us to send the fleet to intimidate a Caribbean country. (jingoism, spoonerism, solecism) 3. All the girls wear pantsuits except Betsy who prefers dresses (maverick, saturnine, nemesis) 4. I heard of a scheme that would provide $10,000 for each American family. (lothario, Pyrrhic victory, quixotic) 5. Everyone at the meeting was forced to change his or her mind in order to afree with the chairman’s philosophy. (tawdry, sybarite, procrustean) 6. It’s unusual for a fashion editor to have such a gawdy taste in jewelry. (tawdry, saturnine, protean) 7. Mark boasted of having been engaged seven times. (philippic, lothario, jingoist) 8. The singer was fond of saying he always did it his way. (maverick, solecism, spoonerism) 9. Rudy likes caviar and imported champagne. (sybarite, nemesis, philanderer) 10. The senator blasted his opponent in a fiery speech. (quixotic, procrustean, philippic
Land the Tech Job You Love (Pragmatic Life) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: You've got the technical chops - the skills to get a great job doing what you love. Now it's time to get down to the business of planning your job search, focusing your time and attention on the job leads that matter, and interviewing to wow your boss-to-be. Land the tech job you love.
Residents' Teaching Skills (Springer Series on Medical Education) - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: After a 2-year stint as a research fellow in nephrology, I returned to BostonCity Hospital in order to complete my 3rd year of internal medicine residen-cy. During the course of my fellowship, I'd done research on acid-basedisorders—an area that most medical students and residents find very con-fusing. Because of my research experience, the faculty and attendings as-sumed that I could teach this arcane subject to my peers and to our medicalstudents. With no training whatsoever in teaching (yes, even as a 3rd-yearresident!), I was assigned the task of putting together a lecture/seminar se-ries. To this day, I'm not sure whom the experience was worse for: theanxious, utterly unprepared "instructor" (me), or the learners, who probablygot very little satisfactory instruction from the seminar despite my mostearnest efforts.Does this sound familiar? It's an experience that nearly all of us have hadat some point during our residency: the sudden, sickening realization thatwe're going to be expected not only to care for patients, but to teach themedical students that we all too recently were ourselves. And we have abso-lutely no idea what to do. For more than a few residents, a crashing patientin the emergency room may be a lot less daunting than a clutch of earnestmedical students following in their wake and waiting for their wisdom.Traditionally, medical residents have not received the formal preparationthat is essential to the transition from full-time learner to at least part-timeteacher. Although many residents make that transition successfully through asort of osmosis, many more do not, and they remain ineffective teachersthroughout their residencies. With some estimates indicating that residentsare responsible for as much as 80% of student teaching, this is clearly anuntenable situation for medical education. Nor is it permissible according tothe standards of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which statethat "Residents must be fully informed about the educational objectives ofthe clerkships and be prepared for their roles as teachers and evaluators ofmedical students.
You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: SOME DAY a doctorate will justly be awarded to a scholar braveenough to write a history of the theory and practice of British andAmerican punctuation, from the time when there certainly was noneuntil the time when there will perhaps be none.I have aimed at something much less ambitious. Eschewing all butthe most recent history—except, here and there, for the sake of anexample—I deal only with the theory and especially the practice ofpunctuation as we know it today and knew it yesterday; and withsuch allies or accessories as capitals, italics, quotation marks,hyphens, paragraphs.Acquainted with ‘the literature of the subject’, I recognize themerits, both of such books as that of T.F. and M.F.A.Husband, that ofMr G.V.Carey and that of Mr Reginald Skelton, and of the chapters orentries in such works as the Fowler brothers’ The King’s English,H.W.Fowler’s Modern English Usage and G.H.Vallins’s Good English.This recognition and that knowledge strongly confirm me in adetermination (publicly stated in the article on punctuation in Usageand Abusage, 1942 in U.S.A., 1947 in Britain) to write a comprehensiveguide to punctuation and its concomitants. Such a guide is very badlyneeded, especially in what I have called ‘orchestration’: andorchestration forms the subject of the quite painfully practicalBook III.
Retire Secure!: Pay Taxes Later The Key to Making Your Money Last as Long as You Do - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Retire Secure! is written for consumers and advisors who wor-ry about these essential questions: “Will I have enough incomewhen I retire?” and “Will it last as long as I might?” These ques-tions might have additional significance for the wife of a maleretiree because she is statistically likely to survive her husband.Jim has properly identified the three stages of retirementplanning: accumulation, distribution, and estate planning, andreaders will fi nd the organization extremely helpful. They canquickly place themselves along the continuum of the retirementprocess and fi nd excellent recommendations for each stage oftheir journey.Understanding the implications of various retirement plan-ning decisions requires looking at the numbers. There is no get-ting around that. Comparing and contrasting different optionsguides the consumer into making the right choices. Jim takes allthe work out of this by providing numerous comparisons. Gradu-ally the reader is educated and informed—and making the rightchoices becomes easier.An important issue is, “Which account (Roth, IRA, 401(k),403(b), after tax, etc.) is the best to make withdrawals from first?”This is very clearly addressed in the book despite the fact that theexplanation cannot be simple or the response universal. It de-pends on an individual’s particular circumstances, and Jim avoidsgiving the reader the simplified, and often wrong, answer.The mini case studies are a real eye-opener for all readers,both consumers and financial advisors, because they mathemati-cally prove Jim’s assertions. Each comparison and mini case studyis based on several assumptions, which Jim is careful to point outin a clear fashion. I particularly enjoyed Mini Case Study 5.2about the disastrous execution of beneficiary forms and the deci-sion of Junior not to sue the careless estate administrator—hismother
Light (Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science So You Can Teach It series) (Robertson, William C. Stop Faking It!,) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Back when I was in college, there was a course titled Physics for Poets. At aschool where I taught physics, the same kind of course was referred to by thestudents as Football Physics. The theory behind having courses like these was thatpoets and/or football players, or basically anyone who wasn’t a science geek, neededsome kind of watered-down course because most of the people taking the coursewere—and this was generally true—SCARED TO DEATH OF SCIENCE.In many years of working in education, I have found that the vast majorityof elementary school teachers, parents who home school their kids, and parentswho just want to help their kids with science homework fall into this category.Lots of “education experts” tell teachers they can solve this problem by justasking the right questions and having the kids investigate science ideas on theirown. These experts say you don’t need to understand the science concepts. Inother words, they’re telling you to fake it! Well, faking it doesn’t work when itcomes to teaching anything, so why should it work with science? Like it or not,you have to understand a subject before you can help kids with it. Ever triedteaching someone a foreign language without knowing the language?The whole point of the Stop Faking It! series of books is to help you under-stand basic science concepts and to put to rest the myth that you can’t under-stand science because it’s too hard. If you haven’t tried other ways of learningscience concepts, such as looking through a college textbook, or subscribing toScientific American, or reading the incorrect and oversimplified science in anelementary school text, please feel free to do so and then pick up this book. Ifyou find those other methods more enjoyable, then you really are a science geekand you ought to give this book to one of us normal folks. Just a joke, okay?آیا کتاب مورد نظر هنوز بر روی سایت قرار نگرفته است؟ جای نگرانی نیست! کافی است بر روی گزینه سفارش کتاب کلیک کرده و درخواست خود را ثبت کنید. در کمتر از چند ساعت کتاب شما را آماده خواهیم کرد.