An essential tool for contractors, construction managers, and accountants, this edition of this popular reference details the special accounting and financial problems faced by the construction industry, and provides clear solutions to them. Included is expert advice on everything from handling subcontracting, labor, materials, equipment, and overhead costs, to financial reporting, internal auditing, and tax considerations. Filled with checklists, forms, and report guidelines, the fifth edition covers the latest tax reforms and computer applications, as well as new methods-such as Partnering-to minimize contract disputes.

Construction Accounting and Financial Management

Smith, Mark A.

Palmer, William J.

Coombs, William E.

Business

McGraw=Hill

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Construction Accounting & Financial Management 5th Edition

Palmer, William

When Pope Francis recently answered “Who am I to judge?” when asked about homosexuality, he ushered in a new era for the Catholic church. A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a pope to express tolerance for homosexuality. Yet shifts of this kind are actually common in the history of Christian groups. Within the United States, Christian leaders have regularly revised their teachings to match the beliefs and opinions gaining support among their members and larger society. Mark A. Smith provocatively argues that religion is not nearly the unchanging conservative influence in American politics that we have come to think it is. In fact, in the long run, religion is best understood as responding to changing political and cultural values rather than shaping them. Smith makes his case by charting five contentious issues in America’s history: slavery, divorce, homosexuality, abortion, and women’s rights. For each, he shows how the political views of even the most conservative Christians evolved in the same direction as the rest of society—perhaps not as swiftly, but always on the same arc. During periods of cultural transition, Christian leaders do resist prevailing values and behaviors, but those same leaders inevitably acquiesce—often by reinterpreting the Bible—if their positions become no longer tenable. Secular ideas and influences thereby shape the ways Christians read and interpret their scriptures. So powerful are the cultural and societal norms surrounding us that Christians in America today hold more in common morally and politically with their atheist neighbors than with the Christians of earlier centuries. In fact, the strongest predictors of people’s moral beliefs are not their religious commitments or lack thereof but rather when and where they were born. A thoroughly researched and ultimately hopeful book on the prospects for political harmony, Secular Faith demonstrates how, over the long run, boundaries of secular and religious cultures converge.

Secular Faith: How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics

History

Americas

University of Chicago Press

American Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)

Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this controversial book, Mark A. Smith sets conventional wisdom on its head. In a systematic analysis of postwar lawmaking, Smith reveals that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing. This surprising conclusion holds because the types of issues that lead businesses to band together—such as tax rates, air pollution, and product liability—also receive the most media attention. The ensuing debates give citizens the information they need to hold their representatives accountable and make elections a choice between contrasting policy programs. Rather than succumbing to corporate America, Smith argues, representatives paradoxically become more responsive to their constituents when facing a united corporate front. Corporations gain the most influence over legislation when they work with organizations such as think tanks to shape Americans' beliefs about what government should and should not do.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this controversial book, Mark A. Smith sets conventional wisdom on its head. In a systematic analysis of postwar lawmaking, Smith reveals that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing. This surprising conclusion holds because the types of issues that lead businesses to band together—such as tax rates, air pollution, and product liability—also receive the most media attention. The ensuing debates give citizens the information they need to hold their representatives accountable and make elections a choice between contrasting policy programs. Rather than succumbing to corporate America, Smith argues, representatives paradoxically become more responsive to their constituents when facing a united corporate front. Corporations gain the most influence over legislation when they work with organizations such as think tanks to shape Americans' beliefs about what government should and should not do.

Social Sciences

In his most ambitious expedition yet, Magnus the treasure hunting meerkat is on the hunt for five mysterious elemental crystals that came to Earth in a meteorite over a century ago. Aided by friends old and new, he embarks on a globetrotting adventure in a bid to track down and obtain them.But Magnus has competition in the form of a resentful and resourceful brother he never knew he had who will stop at nothing to see him ruined, as well as his boss - a ruthless Russian gangster who wants to harness the power of the elements for himself in a bid to bring a new dawn to the world - by destroying it as we know it.Following the trail from a rain-soaked Scottish archipelago to the barren Australian outback, through a spooky abandoned mining camp in Canada to a hi-tech skyscraper in Hong Kong, it is now up to Magnus and his friends to prevent their foes from unleashing chaos across the planet!

Kat-Venture and the Pursuit of the Elements

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

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The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society

Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that defines the nation's most important policy choices?
 Conventional wisdom attributes the Republican resurgence to a political bait and switch--the notion that conservatives win elections on social issues like abortion and religious expression, but once in office implement far-reaching policies on the economic issues downplayed during campaigns. Smith illuminates instead the eye-opening reality that economic matters have become more central, not less, to campaigns and the public agenda. He analyzes a half century of speeches, campaign advertisements, party platforms, and intellectual writings, systematically showing how Republican politicians and conservative intellectuals increasingly gave economic justifications for policies they once defended through appeals to freedom. He explains how Democrats similarly conceived economic justifications for their own policies, but unlike Republicans they changed positions on issues rather than simply offering new arguments and thus helped push the national discourse inexorably to the right.
 The Right Talk brings clarity, reason, and hard-nosed evidence to a contentious subject. Certain to enrich the debate about the conservative ascendancy in America, this book will provoke discussions and reactions for years to come.

Princeton University Press

Thorough examination of the antebellum fortifications that formed the backbone of U.S. military defense during the National Period. The system of coastal defenses built by the federal government after the War of 1812 was more than a series of forts standing guard over a watery frontier. It was an integrated and comprehensive plan of national defense developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and it represented the nation's first peacetime defense policy. Known as the "Third System" since it replaced two earlier attempts, it included coastal fortifications, but also denoted the values of the society that created it. The governing defense policy was one that combined permanent fortifications to defend seaports, a national militia system, and a small regular army. The Third System remained the defense paradigm in the United States from 1816 to 1861, when the onset of the Civil War changed that paradigm. In addition to providing the country with military security, the system also provided the context for the ongoing debates in Congress over national defense through the annual congressional debates on military funding. In charting the philosophy, construction, and maintenance of the forts of the Third System, a history of antebellum American national defense policy emerges, and permits an investigation of the political, economic, social, and military development of the U.S. between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.

Engineering Security: The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815–1861

University Alabama Press

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Construction Accounting and Financial Management

Construction Accounting & Financial Management 5th Edition

Secular Faith: How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics

American Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)

American Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)

Kat-Venture and the Pursuit of the Elements

The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society

The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society

Engineering Security: The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815–1861

Engineering Security: The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815–1861