Author: Dana Mentink
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488053448
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 423
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Enjoy two action-packed page-turners featuring K-9 crime-stoppers solving thrilling mysteries that will keep you on the edge of your seat! Keeping one step ahead of a killer… Flood Zone Mia Sandoval’s friend is murdered—and the single mother is a suspect. Her only ally is search-and-rescue worker Dallas Black. With no choice but to work with secretive Dallas, Mia discovers he’s as complicated as the murder they’re forced to investigate. Yet as a flood ravages their small Colorado town, a killer is determined that Mia, Dallas and their evidence get swept away to a watery grave. Betrayed Birthright Abigail Mayfield is certain her stalker couldn’t have followed her to Texas—until someone breaks into her new home. The music teacher has no idea why someone is after her, but she can’t uncover the truth alone. Sheriff Noah Galloway makes Abigail’s safety his personal mission. He doesn’t want to risk leaving his son an orphan, but Abigail needs him. Because somewhere buried in her past lies a secret worth killing for.
Author: Gail M. Jones
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461715474
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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To better understand how high-stakes accountability has influenced teaching and learning, this book takes an in-depth look at the myriad consequences that high-stakes tests hold for students, teachers, administrators, and the public. By focusing on these tests and spending large amounts of time on test preparation and driving teachers to teach low-level, rote memorization, schools are essentially wiping out non-tested subjects such as science, social studies, physical education, and the arts. Although testing is promoted as a strategy for improving education for all, research shows that testing has differential effects on students with special needs, minority students, students living in poverty, and those for whom English is a second language. The Unintended Consequences of High Stakes Testing unpacks the assumptions and philosophical foundations on which testing policies are based. The authors' arguments are grounded in extensive interviews and research. Through an examination of research, these authors show that high-stakes testing promotes students' dependence on extrinsic motivation at the cost of intrinsic motivation and the associated love of learning—which has tangible impacts on their education and lives. Features: -Examines how high stakes testing from the perspectives of teachers, students, and adminstrators. -Considers how testing impacts the curriculum including tested subjects such as reading, writing, and mathematics as well as non-tested subjects such as science, social studies, physical education, and the arts. -Documents how teachers and administrators engage in test preparation and discusses ethical and unethical test preparation practices. -Reviews the evolution of testing through history and how it mpacts the curriculum. -Examines the differential effects of testing on students with special needs, minority students, students living in poverty, and those for whom English is a second language.
Author: Glenn Simpson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 059313415X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “I’ve read kind of all the books on this subject . . . and this is the one you want to read.”—Rachel Maddow Before Ukraine, before impeachment: This is the never-before-told inside story of the high-stakes, four-year-long investigation into Donald Trump’s Russia ties—culminating in the Steele dossier, and sparking the Mueller report—from the founders of political opposition research company Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS was founded in 2010 by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former reporters at The Wall Street Journal who decided to abandon the struggling news business and use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firms—and opposition research for political candidates. In the fall of 2015, they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump. What began as a march through a mind-boggling trove of lawsuits, bankruptcies, and sketchy overseas projects soon took a darker turn: The deeper Fusion dug, the more it began to notice names that Simpson and Fritsch had come across during their days covering Russian corruption—and the clearer it became that the focus of Fusion’s research going forward would be Trump’s entanglements with Russia. To help them make sense of what they were seeing, Simpson and Fritsch engaged the services of a former British intelligence agent and Russia expert named Christopher Steele. He would produce a series of memos—which collectively became known as the Steele dossier—that raised deeply alarming questions about the nature of Trump’s ties to a hostile foreign power. Those memos made their way to U.S. intelligence agencies, and then to President Barack Obama and President-elect Trump. On January 10, 2017, the Steele dossier broke into public view, and the Trump-Russia story reached escape velocity. At the time, Fusion GPS was just a ten-person consulting firm tucked away above a Starbucks near Dupont Circle, but it would soon be thrust into the center of the biggest news story on the planet—a story that would lead to accusations of witch hunts, a relentless campaign of persecution by congressional Republicans, bizarre conspiracy theories, lawsuits by Russian oligarchs, and the Mueller report. In Crime in Progress, Simpson and Fritsch tell their story for the first time—a tale of the high-stakes pursuit of one of the biggest, most important stories of our time—no matter the costs.
Author: Rae L. Baker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119933250
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Learn to gather and analyze publicly available data for your intelligence needs In Deep Dive: Exploring the Real-world Value of Open Source Intelligence, veteran open-source intelligence analyst Rae Baker explains how to use publicly available data to advance your investigative OSINT skills and how your adversaries are most likely to use publicly accessible data against you. The author delivers an authoritative introduction to the tradecraft utilized by open-source intelligence gathering specialists while offering real-life cases that highlight and underline the data collection and analysis processes and strategies you can implement immediately while hunting for open-source info. In addition to a wide breadth of essential OSINT subjects, you’ll also find detailed discussions on ethics, traditional OSINT topics like subject intelligence, organizational intelligence, image analysis, and more niche topics like maritime and IOT. The book includes: Practical tips for new and intermediate analysts looking for concrete intelligence-gathering strategies Methods for data analysis and collection relevant to today’s dynamic intelligence environment Tools for protecting your own data and information against bad actors and potential adversaries An essential resource for new intelligence analysts, Deep Dive: Exploring the Real-world Value of Open Source Intelligence is also a must-read for early-career and intermediate analysts, as well as intelligence teams seeking to improve the skills of their newest team members.
Author: Tracy L. Coenen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470387963
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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A fraud investigation is aimed at examining evidence to determine if a fraud occurred, how it happened, who was involved, and how much money was lost. Investigations occur in cases ranging from embezzlement, to falsification of financial statements, to suspicious insurance claims. Expert Fraud Investigation: A Step-by-Step Guide provides all the tools to conduct a fraud investigation, detailing when and how to investigate. This guide takes the professional from the point of opening an investigation, selecting a team, gathering data, and through the entire investigation process. Business executives, auditors, and security professionals will benefit from this book, and companies will find this a useful tool for fighting fraud within their own organizations.
Author: Cheryl Allsop
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003815359
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Routledge International Handbook of Homicide Investigation will be the first of its kind to bring together research and personal insights from detectives, practitioners, academics and experts internationally on various complexities that are involved in the investigation of homicides. The handbook discusses the challenges faced by homicide detectives, especially since not every investigation will demand the same approach. The tools, techniques and expertise required also vary according to the type of homicide that is investigated. This handbook brings these issues and opportunities to the forefront while also illustrating the wider complexities and emotional impact of homicide investigations on detectives and those bereaved by homicide. The book is divided into four parts. Part I provides chapters that explore homicide investigation across the globe. Parts II and III offer an up-to-date insight into the ever-evolving tools and techniques that are used during a homicide investigation and explore how specific types of homicides are investigated. Part IV considers both those directly affected by the homicide and the role of indirect victims in the investigation, including the impact of homicide and its investigation. Chapters also consider some recent developments in homicide investigation that may shape its future as well as current issues that are facing homicide detectives. Providing cutting-edge research on every step of the criminal homicide investigation process, this handbook is essential reading for scholars, students and practitioners interested in homicide investigation.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1894
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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Author: David Coniam
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811063583
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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This book provides a detailed account of the origin, development, administration, revision and subsequent research findings on the benchmarking initiative from 1996-2016. It presents an overall assessment of the initiative’s impact on major stakeholders, predictions regarding the way forward, and implications for other countries, especially in South East Asia. In addition, the book discusses what the larger global community can learn from Hong Kong’s two-decade experience of conceptualizing and implementing minimum standard language requirements for teachers.
Author: HENRY H. PERRITT (JR.)
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
ISBN: 1543818153
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Employment Law Update, 2020 Edition analyzes recent developments of interest to employment law practitioners representing plaintiffs, defendants, and labor unions. It comprehensively covers recent developments and case law in the rapidly changing employment and labor law field. Comprised of 7 chapters - each written by an expert in employment law - this updated edition provides timely, incisive analysis of critical issues. Employment Law Update, 2020 Edition provides, where appropriate, checklists, forms, and guidance on strategic considerations for litigation and other forms of dispute resolution. Highlights of coverage in this 2020 Edition include: Analysis of the proliferating state and municipal ordinances and statutes requiring employers to adopt predictable schedules. Case law under the Americans With Disabilities Act involving employees or applicants for employment who claim that their inability to relate well to others constitutes a statutory mental disability that must be accommodated. How the acquiring firm in an acquisition and the surviving firm in a merger can improve the chances of retaining preferred employees, including the likely impact of various equity and option arrangements. The rapidly changing legal landscape for covenants not to compete, including a review of basic common-law concepts and the reach of new statutes that limit the enforceability of covenants in several states. The possibility that employer rules may constitute unfair labor practices under the National Labor Relations Act, under the doctrine of The Boeing Company case, which allows employers to avoid liability by offering justification for rules such as those prohibiting employee use of camera in the workplace. The controversy over political speech by professional athletes and the legal framework defining the rights of players, teams, and leagues, considering that the First Amendment does not apply to the non-state actors. Guidance to multinational employers on how to conduct an internal investigation without running afoul of widely differing national laws on privacy and other employee rights. Note: Online subscriptions are for three-month periods. Previous Edition: Employment Law Update, 2019 Edition ISBN 9781543808452
