Author: Mark Wolfson
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: social, issues, problems, paper, proglems, health, tobacco, movement, state, public, fight
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0202305988
ISBN-13: 9780202305981

The use of tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Over the past twenty-five years, a formidable social movement has emerged in response to this vital public health problem. How has the tobacco control movement become such a significant force in shaping contemporary public policy, social norms, and the habits of millions of Americans? The Fight against Big Tobacco develops two central arguments to answer this question. First, the movement was able to grow rapidly by building upon a rich "infrastructure" of health organizations and networks of health pro

Authors:Myron S. Scholes, Mark A. Wolfson, Merle M. Ericks
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: strategy, business, taxes
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2008-07-19
List price: $146.67
ISBN-10: 0136033156
ISBN-13: 9780136033158

Through integration with traditional MBA topics, the book provides a framework for understanding how taxes affect decision-making, asset prices, equilibrium returns, and the financial and operational structure of firms. Tax law fundamentals, compensation planning, pension and retirement planning, multinational tax planning, taxable acquisitions, and estate and gift tax planning. For the business professional who needs the most updated framework for understanding how taxes affect decision making, asset prices, equilibrium returns, and the financial and operational structure of firms.

Authors:Myron S. Scholes, Mark A. Wolfson, Merle M. Erickson
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: approach, planning, strategy, business, taxes
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2004-04-09
List price: $198.67
ISBN-10: 0131465538
ISBN-13: 9780131465534

This book takes an MBA style strategy perspective by considering the tax, accounting, and finance trade-offs involved in tax planning. Reflected in this revision are all changes in the tax code. Also covered: extensive analysis of technical tax rules applied to corporate mergers and acquisitions; explanation of accounting for income taxes; discussion on College Savings Plans (529s); up-to-date material on new tax rates on dividends and capital gains; and much more. For individuals furthering their personal or formal education of tax strategy, investment banking, corporate finance, strategy

Author: Ron Wolfson
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Keywords: renewing, life, earth, reviewing, heaven, questions, asked, seven
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2009-07
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1580234070
ISBN-13: 9781580234078

How do you get to the heart of a life well lived? It’s all about the questions. "If you can hear the questions and apply them to the way you live your life on earth today, then when the time comes, your soul will be ready to take that stairway to heaven, prepared to answer the Seven Questions with a resounding `Yes!,’ and take your rightful place among the angels." --from the Prologue In this charming, inspiring and wise guide to a well-lived life, beloved teacher Ron Wolfson provides an advance copy of the Seven Questions you’ll be asked in heaven--whether you’

Author: Wolfson
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers,2002
Keywords: emunah, publication, sources, perspectives, faith, wellsprings
Published: 2002
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1583305262
ISBN-13: 9781583305263

Author: Ron Wolfson
Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub
Keywords: god, earth, work, ways, list, angel
Number of Pages: 122
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1580233015
ISBN-13: 9781580233019

All human beings are made in the image of God. But for what purpose were you made? The biblical answer is clear: you are to imitate God in order to bring God’s presence into your life and the lives of others. This practical guidebook to repairing the world--often in simple everyday ways--details the biblical accounts of what God does, not what God says: God creates, blesses, rests, calls, comforts, cares, repairs, wrestles, gives and forgives. For each of God’s actions, this provocative resource suggests what might be on God’s To-Do List for you, the many ways

Author: Richard Wolfson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: climate, environment, energy
Number of Pages: 532
Published: 2008-02-16
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0393927636
ISBN-13: 9780393927634

In this new study of energy use and global climate change, Richard Wolfson outlines basic science concepts as well as specific, contemporary applications in energy production and their environmental consequences. Energy, Environment, and Climate is structured on the premise that climate change is the dominant energy-related environmental issue of the twenty-first century. Traditional concerns like pollution and conservation of energy resources are cov