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  • Value Added Tax: International Practice and Problems

    by Alan Mr. Tait ...
    This book, by Alan A. Tait, is an examination of VAT. It looks at problems and theoretical options and potential impacts, as well as detailing the practical aspects of implementing new tax structures. The author advances arguments for and against alternative policies and illustrates his study with international examples from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific. He suggests that countries ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

  • Value-Added Tax: Administrative and Policy Issues

    by Alan Mr. Tait ...
    Series Book 88 - Occasional Papers
    More than 50 countries worldwide employ a value-added tax. What are its effects on prices, exports, and investment? Is it regressive? These and other questions are answered in this collection of papers presented at a March 1990 Jakarta seminar on the VAT in Asia. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Government Employment and Pay: Some International Comparisons

    by Alan Mr. Tait, Peter Mr. Heller ...
    Series Book 24 - Occasional Papers
    How many people are employed by the government? How many are employed by the central government compared with the state and local authorities? How many are employed in public enterprise? How much are they all paid? How much are they paid relative to each other, or relative to the private sector? Such questions interest people in general and economists and policymakers in particular; yet it is ... Read more

    $3.44 CAD

  • Distance and E-learning in Transition

    Learning Innovation, Technology and Social Challenges

    Edited by Alan Tait, Martine Vidal, Ulrich Bernath, András Szücs ...
    The rushed development of information and communication technologies and their impact on the world of learning in the last decade have profoundly changed the paradigms, scenarios and values at all levels of education.The professionalization of tools and practices, in addition to the consolidation of academic and practical knowledge, has been a major continuing issue throughout these years. The ... Read more

    $391.99 CAD

  • Supporting Lifelong Learning

    Volume III: Making Policy Work

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Nod Miller, Nick Small, Alan Tait ...
    This volume of the Open University Reader for Supporting Lifelong Learning looks at policy development in lifelong learning at local, regional, national and supra-national levels. Using an international team of contributors, it explores and examines the policy context for lifelong learning, the policies themselves, and their effects when implemented. The book focuses on the role of lifelong ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education

    Patterns of Flexibility for the Individual Learner

    Edited by Roger Mills, Alan Tait ...
    This volume of essays from leading British, North American and Australasian contributors looks at the issues of the convergence of distance and conventional education. The term 'convergence' refers to the breaking down of barriers between open and distance learning and conventional institutions, and the creation of more and more institutions working across a range of modes. Such convergence has ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Rethinking Learner Support in Distance Education

    Change and Continuity in an International Context

    Edited by Roger Mills, Alan Tait ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Distance Education
    Distance learning is becoming an increasingly popular way of studying, and most universities now provide courses using these methods. Today's students, though, are demanding high quality, consumer-focused and flexible courses, as well as learning resources and active learner support. This means that providers of distance education need to reconsider key issues about their learner support systems, ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • International Comparisons of Government Expenditure

    by Peter Mr. Heller, Alan Mr. Tait ...
    Series Book 10 - Occasional Papers
    Many studies on International tax compaisons have been undertaken since the early 1970s. While controversial, such studies have facilitated more subtle comparisons of a country's tax performance than would be afforded by focusing on its simple tax ratio. ... Read more

    $3.44 CAD

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    Playing God

    The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon

    by Anthony Youn, MD ...
    Narrated by Kyle Tait ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 56 min

    What does it mean to be a doctor?"I am a doctor."Every year, thousands of medical school graduates utter these four simple words. But as you will see in Playing God, earning an MD is just the first step to becoming a real physician.In this thrilling and moving memoir, Dr. Anthony Youn reveals that the true metamorphosis from student to doctor occurs not in medical school but in the formative years ... Read more

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