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Title: Tax practice standards for the new millennium.
Author: John C. Gardner
Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Volume: 31Issue: 3Page: 174

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From the supplier: Section 6694 has been revised and tax preparers may take tax positions based on a 'realistic possibility of success' rather than the former 'reasonable basis' standard. Section 6694(a) provides for a $250 tax liability penalty for inaccurate statements on a return. A tax preparer can make a good faith challenge to tax regulations without incurring the risk of penalty by filing a Form 8275 Disclosure Statement.

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Title: The final return preparer regulations.
Author: John C. Gardner
Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 1992
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Volume: 23Issue: n4Page: 208(10)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on November 1, 1993. The length of the article is 2041 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: Towards Sustainability: Soil and Water Research Priorities for Developing Countries. (book reviews)
Author: John C. Gardner
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1993
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v48Issue: n6Page: p520(1)

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From the supplier: Issuers and owners of tax-exempt bonds must keep arbitrage rebate rules in mind in order to protect their tax exemption. A bond becomes an arbitrage bond and thus subject to tax unless all profits are remitted to the federal government every five years if the issuer used the difference between tax-exempt and taxable interest rates to gain a significant financial advantage. State and local government series bonds and qualified regulated investment company stock do not have to follow these rules.

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Title: Tax-exempt bonds - questions and answers on arbitrage rebate.
Author: John C. Gardner
Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 1992
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Volume: 23Issue: n4Page: 238(3)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Managerial Issues, published by Pittsburg State University - Department of Economics on September 22, 1996. The length of the article is 7261 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: Assessing the managerial objectives of CPA firm partners.
Author: John C. Gardner
Publication: Journal of Managerial Issues (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1996
Publisher: Pittsburg State University - Department of Economics
Volume: v8Issue: n3Page: p343(17)

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Title: Amendments to circular 230.(part 2)
Author: John C. Gardner
Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
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Volume: 37Issue: 2Page: 90(9)

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Title: Preview and analysis of proposed statements on standards for tax services.
Author: John C. Gardner
Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2009
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Volume: 40Issue: 5Page: 314(7)

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THE GREEN LANTERN ARCHIVES VOL. 4 continues to chronicle the legend of Hal Jordan, former test pilot turned intergalactic hero. Armed with a power ring that creates anything its bearer can imagine, Green Lantern faces off against some of his most classic and deadliest foes, including Sinestro, Star Sapphire, Sonar, the Shark, and the Tattooed Man. Reprinting the earliest tales of Hal Jordan's career, this book is the perfect way to learn about one of the greatest heroes of all time. ... Read more

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The Silver Age adventures continue
With stories by Gardner Fox and John Broome, _Green Lantern Archives: Volume 4_ collects the Green Lantern stories from _Green Lantern_ (2nd Series) Nos. 22 (July 1963) - 29 (June 1964).An entertaining read, this is the first DC Archive Edition that I have read featuring Hal Jordan as Green Lantern, so I cannot address the specific concerns of other reviewers.However, despite any critiques, these stories, the majority of which feature fantastic science fiction plots, are important in laying the groundwork for future issues, as they feature new conflicts with Hector Hammond, Star Sapphire, and Sonar, and introduce important new adversaries like the Shark and the Black Hand, as well as minor ones like the Tattooed Man and the alien mage Myrwhydden, who had been imprisoned within Jordan's power ring by his predecessor Abin Sur. The stories also further develop Jordan's relationship with Carol Fenris and Tom Kalmaku as well as his fellow Green Lanterns, specifically the grasshopper-like Xax.

Silver Age Classics...
This Silver Age collection is decent but the creative team really picks up steam in Volumes 5 and especially Volume 6. If you don't have any of these Green Lantern collections, I'd suggest starting with Volume 5 or 6. The first four volumes are decent; but in that rudimentary Silver Age way. The art and stories improve as time goes on, and I for one am looking forward greatly to further volumes in this series. ... Read more

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Breathtaking suspense, cold-blooded crime and challenging twists of plot make this collection a chilling audio experience. Features the finest short story mystery fiction by the most acclaimed writers, past and present. 4 cassettes. ... Read more

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Madman. Prophet. Magician. Hippie. Murderer. Who is the Sunlight Man?

In The Sunlight Dialogues, John Gardner's vision of America in the turbulent 1960s embraces an unconventional cast of conventional citizens in the small rural town of Batavia, New York. Sheriff Fred Clumly is trying desperately to unravel mysteries surrounding a disorderly, nameless drifter called "The Sunlight Man," who has been jailed for painting the word "LOVE" across two lanes of traffic, and who is later suspected of murder. The men battle over morality, freedom and their opposing notions of justice, leading each to find his own state of grace. Their conflict is mirrored in the community of middlebrow politicians and their church-going wives, Native Americans, working-class immigrants, farmers, soldiers, petty thieves, and even centenarian sisters too stubborn to die. Gardner's alchemy is existential: from the most raw, vulnerable, and conflicting characters in the American melting pot, he transmutes common denominators of human isolation and longing. With unnerving suspense, his acute ear for American speech, and permeated by his deep-rooted belief in morality, this expansive, sprawling, and ambitious novel is John Gardner's masterpiece: "A superb literary achievement," noted The Boston Globe. ... Read more

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Big Mistake
Ordered this book for a book group discussion.Not only could I not finish it, I couldn't really start it.Overall the book group didn't like it either.

Not the same without the illustrations
Back in the 70s, I became fascinated with John Gardner, starting with The Wreckage of Agathon and Grendel.When The Sunlight Dialogues came out, I was hooked.I picked up a paperback copy and just fell into the story.After that, each new Gardner was purchased in hardcover, which I could ill afford back then.

About 10 years ago, I tracked down a fine condition copy of TSG and re-read it.Bad move, though, donating the paperback to the library.

I welcomed the arrival of a new trade paperback edition of the novel, and of one or two others by Gardner until I actually had the opportunity to hold them.The reprints were done without the original illustrations, which are integral to the books.Unbelievable!

For old times sake, I bought a used Ballantine paperback copy and am re-reading it.I have no intention of buying this new edition.

So, five stars for Gardner and the book, with a one-star demerit for this compromised reprint.The new introduction doesn't add much to the book.

Best book for decade of 1960s
John Gardner wrote many good works, the Sunlight Dialogues being by far the best. In it he captures the range of hope and anxiety that made the 1960s such a thrilling and tormenting time to be alive. Using the small town of Batavia, New York, Gardner plunges the reader into the life of a prodigal son of the most prestigious family in town and that of the dedicated police chief. And do the intellectural sparks fly! The illustrations by John Napper are reminescent of those from the Yellow Book in the 1890s, by Aubrey Beardsley. There is a lot of subtle humor ("take a gun of, say, x caliber...") as well as dead-on observation of what makes people do outrageous things for perfectly logical reasons.
It's a roller coaster of a novel, so hang on and enjoy the ride. You might even want to go back for a second trip. I did.

I think we're in big trouble.
I recently met a recent graduate of the State University of New York: Binghamton, an English major. He had never heard of John Gardner, author of the one American post WWII novel that stands comparision in scope and quality, if not import, with Middlemarch.

Unjustly Overshadowed By Grendel-A Truly Fantastic Novel
The Sunlight Dialogues_ is truly John Gardner's magnum opus, equaling and perhaps overshadowing _Grendel_, the book for which he is best known.

Grossly over-simplified, it is about the tide of discontent and changethat came about in the 1960s, exemplified in the stories of a handful ofpeople who live in the small New York town of Batavia.All of thesecharacters' stories occur at roughly the same moment, and to a certaindegree overlap each other; they all come into contact with one another atsome point during the novel, and may even influence each other, but everymember of the book's huge cast has his or her own story and denouement.

The primary one of these stories is the one that concerns Police ChiefFred Clumly and a haggard, maniacal drifter known as "the SunlightMan", and the happenings of this particular storyline are thecatalysts for the rest of the stories."The Sunlight Man", whomwe later find out is Taggert Hodge, the black sheep of the wealthy andpowerful family the members of whom comprise roughly half the othercharacters in the novel, is the one who sets all of these denouements intomotion with his seminal return to his hometown as a magician, hippie,murderer, and poet. His has been a life of disillusionment, loss, betrayaland unattainable wants, and he returns to Batavia to set into motion a sortof romantically juvenile plot to take revenge on the world and to mewl outhis disappointment with the way things are, the latter of which he doesthrough Fred Clumly(thus is the origin of the title.)

Gardner isremarkably adept at character development; Taggert Hodge, Walter Benson andFred Clumly are among the best painted characters of fiction I know of. The author has a gift for articulating neuroses and flaws of characters,from miniscule ticks in their everyday behavior to major personalityfaults. And with a cast of roughly eleven major characters, making each andevery one entirely unique in their drives and hamartias is no task to bescoffed at.However, the ability of John Gardner's I perhaps envy the mostis that of taking a very normal, even pretty environmental setting, andturning it nightmarish and haunting. In the novel, the dense forests andcentury-old barns of Batavia are made into artifacts and ruins of an almostLovecraftian caliber of queerness, and yet it does not serve to displacethe small New York town from the realm of believable reality, but ratherforces you to evaluate your reality on the same dark and weird basis as hisauthorial voice.

The sheer scope of the novel (that of several storiescycloning around a unifying theme and plot catalyst) at times threatens totear it apart, however; the reader at times is left wondering why theauthor has switched point of views when the scenario he was describingpreviously had yet to be resolved. This is a mere annoyance, however, andis not really something for which I believe the novel should be faulted,for the rewards of its pages are vast ones.

Due perhaps to itsrelatively young age, it has yet to receive the proper "classic" status itso rightly deserves, and, sadly, it may never, for "Grendel" seems to beJohn Gardner's only remembered and widely read work, and is perpetuallyovershadowing the rest of the author's material, most of which are just aspowerful and memorable as tale of Beowulf's tragic nemesis.In fact, somemay even be better, as I propose The Sunlight Dialogues is, but until thehigher-ups at Norton and the like get around to looking at this master offiction as a master should, I advise any and all of the people reading thisto purchase this book from whatever obscure publisher it has currently beentossed to. ... Read more

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The third edition of this text provides a background to the politics of China, Eastern Europe and what was the Soviet Union. The book has been rewritten throughout to reflect the emergence of pluralist multi-party systems and non Communist governments are marked. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more