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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 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471793523 |
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Proven set of best practices for security risk assessment and management, explained in plain EnglishThis 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.
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Principles of Home Inspection: Communication & Professional Practice (Principles of Home Inspection)
Carson Dunlop Manufacturer: Dearborn Home Inspection Education ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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.
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Site Investigation, Remediation, and Closure: A Simplified Guide for Environmental and Real Estate Professionals
Dr. Arshud Mahmood Manufacturer: Government Institutes ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0865876231 |
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In both agricultural and urban areas, fuel hydrocarbons, metals, solvents, and other contaminants--left behind by the property's previous occupants--are surfacing, bringing construction projects to a grinding halt and leaving developers wondering what to do next. This book examines the obstacles of contaminated land and associated water and explains, in an easy-to-read narrative style, how best to take care of such sites.
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Cavity Wall Tie Failure (The Estates Gazette Professional Guides)
Malcolm Hollis Manufacturer: Estates Gazette ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0728201623 |
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Surveyors have been increasingly called upon to identify and remedy wall-tie failure - this book provides the essential advice and guidelines they need.
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Five Minutes to Great Real Estate Marketing Ideas (with CD-ROM)
John D. Mayfield Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0324653581 |
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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.
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Get the Knowledge Out of Technology: A Guide for Real Estate Professionals
Sandra Geroux Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1401041876 |
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Grebene Analog Integrated Circuits (Real Estate for Professional Practitioners)
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471052108 |
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The Home Inspection Book: A Guide for Professionals
Marcia Darvin Spada Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 032456063X |
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THE HOME INSPECTION BOOK is designed to serve as a learning tool as well as a reference guide. This professional guide is a comprehensive yet self-paced handbook covering both the practice and the business of home inspection addressing all the key areas associated with the business of home inspection in this rapidly growing profession. In addition, this handbook also takes you step-by-step through the entire process of home inspection following the most current guidelines established by the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI), the National Association of Home Inspectors (NAHI) and the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors (NACHI).
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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
Bernad Williams Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0419180206 |
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This is a book for the Single European Market and for the real estate professionals operating within it. The real estate industry is europeanising rapidly in anticipation of the SEM, with potentially even greater European integration under the provisions of the Maastricht Treaty of European Union.
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New Generation Whole-Life Costing: Property and Construction Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Ian Ellingham , and William Fawcett Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0415346584 |
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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.
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When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
Richard D. Lewis Manufacturer: Nicholas Brealey Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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.Customer Reviews:
Highly recommended!.......2007-10-08
Everybody is foreign to somebody but we can all work together.......2006-10-24
Excellent.......2005-07-30
Essential reading before working internationally.......2005-05-27
Highly Recommended!.......2001-03-15
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Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide
Maureen Dowd Manufacturer: Berkley Trade ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 042521236X |
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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?Customer Reviews:
Surprised- I thought I'd hate it.......2007-10-06
Is Maureen Dowd necessary? When ignorance and arrogance collide.......2007-09-11
Is ANYONE Necessary?.......2007-09-02
A interesting title and lots of real good information.......2007-09-01
"new" doesn't always mean new.......2007-07-31
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Moral Conflict: When Social Worlds Collide
W. Barnett Pearce , and Stephen W. Littlejohn Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0761900535 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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Wonderful book.......1999-03-01
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Reform as Learning: When School Reform Collides with School Culture and Community Politics
Lea Hubbard , Hugh Mehan , and Mary Kay Stein Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415953766 |
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This Book explores the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform by looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego. Drawing on the systemic school reform initiative that was launched in San Diego in the 1990's, this book provides a unique focus on the real action "on the ground" to explore all layers of the school reform process-from leadership in the central office, to work with principals and teachers, to the impact on how teachers worked with students in the classroom. In order to provide an account of the actual enactment of reform, the authors draw on careful ethnographic research collected over the entire four years of the San Diego reforms. They identify not only how teachers, principals, and other district educators were shaped by the large-scale reforms, but also the ways in which the reform unfolded. In doing, the book identifies more broadly how actors throughout a school system can change the views of leaders and impact the larger reform process.
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When Culture and Biology Collide: Why We Are Stressed, Depressed, and Self-Obsessed
Euclid O. Smith Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0813531039 |
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When law and culture collide: Handling conflicts between U.S. laws and refugees' cultures
Manufacturer: National Crime Prevention Council ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0934513961 |
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You Gotta Have Wa When Two Cultures Collide on Baseball
Manufacturer: Macmillan & Collier Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000HZ6AGQ |
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You Gotta Have Wa* (When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond, * From the Japanese meaning team spirit, unity the ball club always comes first)
Manufacturer: Macmillan Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000FMZC9C |
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You Gotta Have Wa: When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond
Robert Whiting Manufacturer: MACMILLAN PUBLISHING CO. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OKOBVA |
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You Gotta Have Wa: When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond
Robert Whiting Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: 155994210X |
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