Security Risk Assessment and Management: A Professional Practice Guide for Protecting Buildings and Infrastructures
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    Security Risk Assessment and Management: A Professional Practice Guide for Protecting Buildings and Infrastructures
    Betty E. Biringer , Rudolph V. Matalucci , and Sharon L. O'Connor
    Manufacturer: Wiley
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    ASIN: 0471793523

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    Proven set of best practices for security risk assessment and management, explained in plain English

    This guidebook sets forth a systematic, proven set of best practices for security risk assessment and management of buildings and their supporting infrastructures. These practices are all designed to optimize the security of workplace environments for occupants and to protect the interests of owners and other stakeholders. The methods set forth by the authors stem from their research at Sandia National Laboratories and their practical experience working with both government and private facilities.

    Following the authors' step-by-step methodology for performing a complete risk assessment, you learn to:

    The authors further provide you with the analytical tools needed to determine whether to accept a calculated estimate of risk or to reduce the estimated risk to a level that meets your particular security needs. You then learn to implement a risk-reduction program through proven methods to upgrade security to protect against a malicious act and/or mitigate the consequences of the act.

    This comprehensive risk assessment and management approach has been used by various organizations, including the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bonneville Power Administration, and numerous private corporations, to assess and manage security risk at their national infrastructure facilities. With its plain-English presentation coupled with step-by-step procedures, flowcharts, worksheets, and checklists, you can easily implement the same proven approach and methods for your organization or clients. Additional forms and resources are available online at www.wiley.com/go/securityrisk.
    Principles of Home Inspection:  Communication & Professional Practice (Principles of Home Inspection)
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      Principles of Home Inspection: Communication & Professional Practice (Principles of Home Inspection)
      Carson Dunlop
      Manufacturer: Dearborn Home Inspection Education
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      ASIN: 0793179335

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      Only half of a home inspector's challenge is technical--the other half is effective communication with clients. This text is designed both for beginners who need an in-depth introduction and more advanced practitioners looking for tips, sample dialogue and documents, and an understanding of the scope and ethical aspects of a home inspection.

      The text includes Inspection Checklists that summarize the important components and problems home inspectors will encounter, and can be used for actual inspections.
      Site Investigation, Remediation, and Closure: A Simplified Guide for Environmental and Real Estate Professionals
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        Dr. Arshud Mahmood
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          Malcolm Hollis
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          Five Minutes to Great Real Estate Marketing Ideas (with CD-ROM)
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            John D. Mayfield
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            As a real estate professional, would you like to seize the power of one office suite in your daily businesses, but don't know how to implement the programs to marketing strategies within your real estate career? This book will help alleviate this problem and show you exactly how to leverage one software application such as Microsoft Office to improve the success of your business. The principles and applications presented can also be used with other applications like Top Producer, Online Agent and other marketing programs by Hewlett Packard. 5-MINUTES TO GREAT REAL ESTATE MARKETING IDEAS is a collection of powerful marketing tools, valuable ideas, and do-it-yourself strategies to help real estate professionals like you set up action plans for existing clients, past clients, for-sale-by-owners, expired listings and much more. You'll learn the secrets to using free reports, letters and documents, sample flyer and postcard templates, listing and buying presentations along with other tools to help streamline and improve your daily real estate business. This book also incorporates the ideas, documents, templates and other marketing proposals through use with the Microsoft® Office Family of products such as Word®, Excel®, Outlook®, PowerPoint®, Publisher® and more. The bonus CD-ROM included in the book provides all of the forms, documents, checklists and presentations found throughout the book.
            Get the Knowledge Out of Technology: A Guide for Real Estate Professionals
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                The Home Inspection Book: A Guide for Professionals
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                  Marcia Darvin Spada
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                  Multilingual Dictionary of Real Estate: A guide for the property professional in the Single European Market English French German Spanish Italian Dutch
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                    Bernad Williams
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                    New Generation Whole-Life Costing: Property and Construction Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
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                      Ian Ellingham , and William Fawcett
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                      This book presents a new approach to whole-life costing and risk management for the construction industry. The options-based approach to making decisions has revolutionised the management of uncertainty in the financial world, and this pioneering study applies the same principles to costing in construction projects. This approach offers a significant advance over conventional costing methods as it considers a diversity of possible futures with strategies that respond to events as they unfold, leading to more cost-effective and sustainable investment decisions across all areas of construction.

                      When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
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                      • Everybody is foreign to somebody but we can all work together
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                      When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
                      Richard D. Lewis
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                      ASIN: 1904838022

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                      Richard Lewis provides a truly global and practical guide to working and communicating across cultures, with penetrating insights into how different business cultures accord status, structure their organizations, and view their role of leaders.

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                      5 out of 5 stars Highly recommended!.......2007-10-08

                      I highly recommend this book. I have lived and worked in several countries and dealt with many more nationalities. The topic - cultural differences - is tremendously fascinating.

                      I agree with one of the other reviewers that some of the things Lewis describes in his book only become clear when you're actually faced with the specific culture. Then, they may suddenly become only too clear, and lead to a chuckle or two.

                      "When Cultures Collide" is a must-read for anyone who deals with people of different nationalities, no matter to which degree. Another book that may be useful to you if you do business with people in or from other nations is "Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity" by Francis Fukuyama.

                      And don't be too surprised when while reading these books, you also discover something about your own background that you didn't know yet...

                      4 out of 5 stars Everybody is foreign to somebody but we can all work together.......2006-10-24

                      If you're managing a project outside of your cultural home country, this book is worthwhile reading, or at least skimming (as I did) to get ideas on how to work more effectively with your "foreign" partners. If nothing else, it'll remind you that for them, you're the foreign person. Also good to remember that even if you yourself immigrated, your cultural outlook is likely still from your country of birth, especially if you lived there through adulthood and first job.

                      The first half of the book covers different concepts (e.g. time, communication, life outlook) for a variety of countries. The second half is an encyclopedia of short chapters on different specific countries.

                      While being expert at working in another culture comes only with time, it's certainly worth reading parts of this book (the general chapters plus a specific country's chapter) before your first working meeting on a multi-cultural project.

                      5 out of 5 stars Excellent.......2005-07-30

                      This is an excellent book. From its marketing, I thought that "When Cultures Collide: Managing Successfully Across Cultures" pertained specifically to dealing with people of different nationalities in the business place. And indeed, it is a most useful book for that purpose. However, I was struck by how much one could apply Lewis' analyses to other situations, for example, dealing with people of other nationalities on a social level. Indeed, I have many aquaintances, and some close friends, from diverse backgrounds, and this book sometimes occupies us for entire evenings, discussing our experiences with one another. The chapter on Hungarians I found particularly accurate, and entertaining. I believe that Lewis would have enjoyed hearing some of these discussions (and arguments). My point is: don't dismiss this book thinking it is a businessman's tool. It's a good read for anybody who encounters people of other nationalities and cultures, irrespective of the context.

                      5 out of 5 stars Essential reading before working internationally.......2005-05-27

                      At times this book veers on being discriminatory, shallow, stereotypical and arbitrary. For instance, what has Mr Lewis got against the Finns to focus on them mercilessly? Is it really useful to paint these simple caricatures of whole nations, with all their diversity and increasing multi-ethnicity?

                      Well, in a word, Yes. Yes, if you are suddenly faced with having to do business with people from other nations. I cannot praise highly enough how this book, in both its current and previous editions, enabled me to come to terms with the challenges of working across cultural divides. It has come to my rescue on no end of occasions, helping me adapt my expectations and be open to differences. The style is light without being shallow, and it can be dipped into as easily as it can be read cover to cover.

                      And it was particularly useful when I suddenly found myself responsible for a department in Finland!

                      5 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended!.......2001-03-15

                      Richard D. Lewis, an expert on cross-cultural and language training who has tutored clients from Swedish corporate executives to the Japanese Imperial Family, discusses the need to consider cross-cultural differences in managing any company in today's global world. He suggests a broad model you can use to characterize different national characteristics as linear-active, multi-active, and reactive. These traits shape attitudes toward time, leadership, team building, and affect a range of organizational behaviors. Lewis includes brief national profiles you can refer to when doing business away from home. This in-depth book covers common patterns in different cultures, and offers many examples of how different groups act under different situations. We at getAbstract recommend this book to top executives, managers and anyone who works in a multicultural business environment, as well as to general readers with a yen for informed people watching.
                      Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide
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                      Maureen Dowd
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                      She may be smart, incisive, witty, and keenly observant but with the release of Are Men Necessary?--a series of pithy (some might say piqued) ruminations on the sexes--Maureen Dowd will never, ever be championed by guys. Not that she cares. Even those who seek to avoid her columns in the august pages of The New York Times are certain to stumble over her invective in syndication. Dowd, it often seems, is everywhere. So those seeking even more via this book should be warned: Are Men Necessary? not only asks the eponymous question; it seeks to answer it with myriad examples (some convincing, some not) drawn from the Toronto Star to Kenneth Starr, from Cosmopolitan to Condoleezza Rice. You can bet a lot of folks aren't going to relish the answer.

                      With hands on hips and eyes wide open, Dowd surveys gender relations in contemporary settings such as the workplace, the White House, the mall, and the media, comparing and contrasting as she goes. And while her secondary sources are endless--and, let's face it, the subject of gender inequality is not exactly new--Dowd manages to produce a fair share of bons mots. To wit, this pearl on the subject of plastic surgery and men: "I have yet to see a man come out of cosmetic surgery without looking transformed into some permanently astonished lesbian version of himself," Dowd quotes a source as saying. "It's terrifying. My friend's father had just his eyes done by the best, most highly sought-after cosmetic surgeon in New York City. And he doesn't look refreshed or well rested. He looks like he's being stabbed to death by invisible people." Dowd's generously dispersed anecdotes, though seldom as funny, are equally readable. In the end, though, one wishes Are Men Necessary? went beyond simply grocery listing examples of sexual disparity to offer concrete suggestions for change. Then again, maybe that's too great a task even for a woman like Dowd. --Kim Hughes

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                      Are men afraid of smart, successful women? Why did feminism fizzle? Why are so many of today's women freezing their faces and emotions in an orgy of plasticity? Is "having it all" just a cruel hoax?

                      In this witty and wide-ranging book, Maureen Dowd looks at the state of the sexual union, raising bold questions and examining everything from economics and politics to pop culture and the "why?" of the Y chromosome. These new writings will delight her devoted readers-and anyone trying to sort out the chaos that occurs when sexes collide.

                      Customer Reviews:

                      5 out of 5 stars Surprised- I thought I'd hate it.......2007-10-06

                      I may be confused, am I giving 5 stars because it was a good read, or because Maureen Dowd is hot? I'm can't be sure, I am after all, a guy. I expected a feminist rant against men and was pleasantly surprised by the sensible, rational approach to the topics. I found myself thankful to be wired and plumbed as I am, and a bit more understanding of the frustrations my wife and other professional women- women in general, experience. I agree with a previous reviewer, I think Ms (Miss) Dowd needs a date. If my DNA strands weren't so darn long, I'd enthusiastically volunteer.

                      1 out of 5 stars Is Maureen Dowd necessary? When ignorance and arrogance collide.......2007-09-11

                      To answer Dowd's question, one need only consider that half of all the people you know would not be alive today if it were not for the medical marvels invented by this unnecessary sex, just to look at a single area revolutionized by male creativity and ingenuity, those gifts that CANNOT be learnt parrot-fashion by the ungifted, no matter how hard they try. Let all of us who are grateful that half of our friends and family are alive and not dead express our posthumous gratitude to the men who saved us from the disaster of midwifery (50% mortality rate achieved by these Einsteins until finally men were allowed to participate, and a MAN came along, inventing the necessary equipment and techniques within decades, and teaching his life-saving techniques to these ungrateful wretches, who had only had six millennia to learn to do their job properly.) Thank you Peter Chamberlen, that every baby born feet forwards today is not condemned to die along with its mother like when women ruled midwifery. Dowd and half of her friends and family would not be with us today if these unnecessary men hadn't helped these ignorant women understand how their own bodies worked. If she would gladly accept the loss of all these people from her life, then I fully respect her decision that men are not necessary. If however, she has gladly made use of the medical wonders, from childcare to cancer treatment, that exist only through the genius of the male sex, then I call her an ungrateful, female chauvinist pig of the lowest kind, whose drivel can only be of appeal to those in a similar IQ range. Go away and make room for someone with something useful to say. And see how many days you can get by without making use of any inventions created by the unnecessary sex. I promise to do the same with female inventions.

                      1 out of 5 stars Is ANYONE Necessary?.......2007-09-02

                      That's a totally irrelevant question and book title. No one is necessary; because God made man and woman for his own pleasure and desire. We're here because God wanted us here. Plain and simple. Secondly, women would not exist on the earth without men. No women ever born on the earth got here without a man. The first person on earth was a man and everyone else came from him.

                      5 out of 5 stars A interesting title and lots of real good information.......2007-09-01

                      I listen to the book on DVDs. The author is a well know columnist. Her insighted to famous and infamous people of our world is very interesting.

                      She has to be a real woman, who enjoys being a woman and her wit and insight is very enlightening to all who read this intriguing collections of observations.

                      A must read for women of all ages, it tell the tale of wanting something and then when we have it the repercussions of having is not all that good.

                      1 out of 5 stars "new" doesn't always mean new.......2007-07-31

                      Even though I ordered the item "New" from amazon, the book was obviously used, with wear on the binding.
                      Moral Conflict: When Social Worlds Collide
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                      W. Barnett Pearce , and Stephen W. Littlejohn
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                      Release Date: 1997-03-20

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                      Moral Conflict, the subject of this book is passionate and difficult to resolve. Responses that are normally effective such as explaining, persuading, and compromising can make matters worse and drive people further apart in such conflicts. Moral conflicts occur when incommensurate social realities come to clash. Disputes about abortion, religion in politics and education, legal rights for homosexuals, and environmental politics are issues in which well-intentioned parties have created polarized and diverse patterns of communication. The most virtuous actions of each side not only fail, but widen the schism. Such conflicts require us to find forms of communication that go beyond our normal ways of dealing with disagreement. In an original synthesis of communication theory and their own research, W. Barnett Pearce and Stephen W. Littlejohn describe a dialectical tension between the expression and suppression of conflict that can be transcended in ways that lead to personal growth and productive patterns of social action. In Moral Conflict several projects are described as practical examples of these new ways of working through difficult struggles.

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                      5 out of 5 stars Wonderful book.......1999-03-01

                      I am reading this book, Moral Conflict, and I recommend it very highly. Intercultural conflict in today's rapidly shrinking world is almost inevitable. The authors bring many practical models which help increase one's options in resolving conflict situations. I VERY highly recommend the book.
                      Reform as Learning: When School Reform Collides with School Culture and Community Politics
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                        Reform as Learning: When School Reform Collides with School Culture and Community Politics
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