James Smith

William Hoffman

Eugene Willis

Packed with Big Picture tax scenarios and What-If? case variations, SOUTH-WESTERN FEDERAL TAXATION 2011: INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAXES remains the most effective text for helping students master detailed tax concepts and the ever-changing tax legislation. Renowned for its accessible, comprehensive, and time-tested presentation, this text provides thorough coverage while highlighting materials of critical interest to the tax practitioner. INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAXES offers readers many opportunities to sharpen critical-thinking and writing skills. A chapter-opening feature, Framework 1040: Tax Formula for Individuals, provides a unique, organizational framework so that students can understand how chapter topics relate to the 1040 form. Internet exercises are tied directly to chapter research cases in the text to give students hands-on experience using online resources to solve tax issues. H&R Block at Home tax preparation software and the student version of Checkpoint from Thomson Reuters come with each new copy of this text to give your students professional experience with leading software! The 2011 edition has been fully updated to include the latest tax legislation for individual taxpayers. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

South-Western Federal Taxation 2011: Individual Income Taxes

David Maloney

William Raabe

Packed with NEW Financial Disclosure Insights boxes, Big Picture tax scenarios, What-If? case variations, and more new or revised end-of-chapter homework and test bank items than ever before, SOUTH-WESTERN FEDERAL TAXATION 2012: CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, ESTATES & TRUSTS remains the most effective text for helping students master complex tax concepts and the ever-changing tax legislation. Renowned for its accessible, comprehensive, and time-tested presentation, the text provides thorough coverage of C Corporations, Flow-Through Entities, Family Tax Planning, Taxes on the Financial Statements, and more, while highlighting materials of critical interest to the tax practitioner. Preparing students for the long term, CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, ESTATES & TRUSTS offers readers many opportunities to sharpen critical-thinking and writing skills. Internet exercises tied directly to chapter research cases give students hands-on experience using online resources to solve tax issues. H&R Block At Home tax preparation software, CPAexcel’s online CPA exam study tool, and Checkpoint from Thomson Reuters come with each new copy of this text to give your students professional experience with leading software! The 2012 edition has been fully updated to include the latest tax legislation at press time, and new updates are posted online as soon as the relevant tax law changes are in effect. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

South-Western Federal Taxation 2012: Corporations, Partnerships, Estates and Trusts

When Stopping Is Not an Option

Intrepid Pursuit

William Hoffman alternates enduing themes of land and sea by taking inhabitants mostly of Virginia’s inland and Chesapeake Bay regions and making them thoroughly his own in this superb collection of stories. The stories deal with the clash between old and new values, with ties to the land and the lure of the sea, with the struggle to maintain relationships–between parents and children, husbands and wives, community and individual. In “Fathers and Daughters,” a man fears that his pretty teenage daughter is throwing away her life by taking up with a handsome young man whose values are primitive and rapacious. In “Landfall,” an ailing, elderly couple makes a last trip. In their beloved sailboat, which has been like a vessel holding their marriage, the two cruise the New England coast to Canada, where the end of their journey is not what either foresaw. The protagonist of “Cuttings” is a bold, decorated veteran of Vietnam who has become softened by living in a metropolitan southern city. He is forced to show his bravery by facing a white oak that has died and needs felling to protect his beach cottage. In “Smoke,” a former convict, sickly and cynical, comes in poverty to live with his sister and her family, and by his courage restores the idea of honor in those whom he has caused to feel shame and anger. “Lover” is the haunting story of an aging businessman who seeks desperately to regain love and his youth through a relationship with an adolescent girl. An intellectually sophisticated minister, in “The Question of Rain,” is asked by member of his congregation to offer a special prayer day for rain when a drought scorches the countryside. He is reluctant to perform the service, to be tapped in the position of publicly asking for rain and putting himself and his God to the test. In “Patriot, a coal miner’s love of country makes him a true patriot, though the war he fights is not against a foreign enemy but against new, potentially destructive values. Hoffman’s skill as a craftsman is matched by the veracity of his eye and ear for poignant detail in these quietly powerful and always deeply moving stories.

Stories

By Land, By Sea

Lake Headley

A former hit man, pimp, heroin dealer, loan shark, and mob insider reveals such shocking mob secrets as where Jimmy Hoffa is buried, who killed Hoffa, and who pulled the trigger on Joey Gallo. Reprint.

Contract Killer

William Hoffman is a master storyteller, and Follow Me Home reveals him at his inimitable best. In these eleven brilliantly observed, superbly crafted stories, he explores one of the most secret places of the human heart—the corner where we keep hidden the small and precious supply of whatever it is that lets us persist, and sometimes even triumph, in the face of life’s inescapable diminishments and losses. In Hoffman’s characters, the content of this inner reservoir varies greatly. For the hill farmer in “Abide with Me,” it is a form of direct grace granted to him in a near-death vision. For the disabled veteran in “Night Sport,” it is a bitter concoction of disillusionment and raw truth carried home from a distant war. For the quietly retired minister in “Sweet Armageddon,” unexpectedly given a glimpse of the life he long ago forsook, it is a prayerful wish for annihilation. On a less apocalyptic scale, in the haunting “Points,” a once-great horseman finds sustenance in a remembered world of elegance and courage—a world that, like his skills, is rapidly fading. In “Dancer,” a bereft and lonely woman retreats into the music of her youth, birds becoming quarter notes that fill the sky. In “Expiation,” a self-made executive after many years comes to terms with his own childhood, even though it means ending the lie on which his marriage is built. And in “Coals,” a maid and cook calls on her own reserves of spirit to bring her employer a renewal of life. Set in the small towns, cities, hills, and seascapes of Virginia—territory Hoffman knows as well as any writer ever has—the stories of Follow Me Home reveal to us men and women we know and care about, for in their struggles, win or lose, we recognize ourselves.

Follow Me Home

Eddie Maloney

This is the true story of Crazy Eddie Maloney, a contract thief and enforcer for the likes of John Gotti, Joey Gallo, Vinnie The Chin Gigante and the Lucchese family. Now, still carrying a bullet in his back, hunted by the mob, unprotected by the FBI, and forced to live his life on the run, Eddie spills his guts for the first time. Includes 12 pages of photos.

William Hoffman

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