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Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis

By: Jack Baker,Brendon Bradley,Peter Stafford

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Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis

By: Jack Baker,Brendon Bradley,Peter Stafford

Seismic hazard and risk analyses underpin the loadings prescribed by engineering design codes, the decisions by asset owners to retrofit structures, the pricing of insurance policies, and many other activities. This is a comprehensive overview of the principles and procedures behind seismic hazard and risk analysis. It enables readers to understand best practises and future research directions. Early chapters cover the essential elements and concepts of seismic hazard and risk analysis, while later chapters shift focus to more advanced topics. Each chapter includes worked examples and problem sets for which full solutions are provided online. Appendices provide relevant background in probability and statistics. Computer codes are also available online to help replicate specific calculations and demonstrate the implementation of various methods. This is a valuable reference for upper level students and practitioners in civil engineering, and earth scientists interested in engineering seismology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108604900

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9781108604901

Girl Among Crows

By: Brendon Vayo

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Girl Among Crows

By: Brendon Vayo

Beware the Brotherhood of the Raven When two boys vanish from her hometown, Daphne Gauge notices uncanny parallels to her brother’s disappearance 30 years earlier. Symbols of an ancient Norse god. Rumors of a promise to reward the town’s faithful with wealth and power, for a price. She warns her husband that another sacrifice is imminent, but just like last time, no one believes her. This leaves her with a desperate choice: investigate with limited resources, or give in to the FBI’s request for an interview. For years, they’ve wanted a member of the Gauge family to go on record about the tragedy back in 1988. If she agrees to a deposition now, Daphne must confess her family’s dark secrets. But she also might have one last chance to unmask the killer from back then . . . and now. For readers who enjoy Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, Joshilyn Jackson, Riley Sager, Jennifer McMahon, and Simone St. James.

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CamCat Publishing, LLC

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0744306639

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9780744306637

Children of the Raj

By: Vyvyen Brendon

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Children of the Raj

By: Vyvyen Brendon

Vyvyen Brendon's evocative, at times heart-tugging book, runs from the 18th century and the East India Company, through the Afghan wars, the Indian mutiny and the more settled era of the Queen Empress, and culminates in the conflict leading to Britain's hurried exit in 1947. Its subject is the young progeny of traders, soldiers, civil servants, missionaries, planters, engineers and what should be done with them. Until the coming of air travel these children often only saw their parents every few years. Then there were the children born of Anglo-Indian marriages and affairs. Sent back to Britain they were often reviled as 'darkies', 'a touch of the tar-brush'. And then there were the children educated in India. Brendon reveals appalling stories of abuse at the hands of servants. What frequently unites Brendon's wildly different subjects is their loneliness--drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs and interviews, she portrays children who had to discipline themselves to adapt (often ingeniously) to unfamiliar cultures, far away from family and forced to spend termtime in boarding schools and holidays with unfamiliar families.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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1780227477

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9781780227474

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997

By: Piers Brendon

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The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997

By: Piers Brendon

A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.

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850

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Vintage

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0307388417

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9780307388414

Operational Risk Assessment

The Commercial Imperative of a more Forensic and Transparent Approach

By: Brendon Young,Rodney Coleman

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Operational Risk Assessment

The Commercial Imperative of a more Forensic and Transparent Approach

By: Brendon Young,Rodney Coleman

Operational risk assessment The Commercial Imperative of a More Forensic and Transparent Approach Brendon Young and Rodney Coleman “Brendon Young and Rodney Coleman's book is extremely timely. There has never been a greater need for the financial industry to reassess the way it looks at risk. [...] They are right to draw attention to the current widespread practices of risk management, which [...] have allowed risk to become underpriced across the entire industry.” Rt Hon John McFall MP, Chairman, House of Commons Treasury Committee Failure of the financial services sector to properly understand risk was clearly demonstrated by the recent 'credit crunch'. In its 2008 Global Stability Report, the IMF sharply criticised banks and other financial institutions for the failure of risk management systems, resulting in excessive risk-taking. Financial sector supervision and regulation was also criticised for lagging behind shifts in business models and rapid innovation. This book provides investors with a sound understanding of the approaches used to assess the standing of firms and determine their true potential (identifying probable losers and potential longer-term winners). It advocates a 'more forensic' approach towards operational risk management and promotes transparency, which is seen as a facilitator of competition and efficiency as well as being a barrier to fraud, corruption and financial crime. Risk assessment is an integral part of informed decision making, influencing strategic positioning and direction. It is fundamental to a company’s performance and a key differentiator between competing management teams. Increasing complexity is resulting in the need for more dynamic, responsive approaches to the assessment and management of risk. Not all risks can be quantified; however, it remains incumbent upon management to determine the impact of possible risk-events on financial statements and to indicate the level of variation in projected figures. To begin, the book looks at traditional methods of risk assessment and shows how these have developed into the approaches currently being used. It then goes on to consider the more advanced forensic techniques being developed, which will undoubtedly increase understanding. The authors identify 'best practice' and address issues such as the importance of corporate governance, culture and ethics. Insurance as a mitigant for operational risk is also considered. Quantitative and qualitative risk assessment methodologies covered include: Loss-data analysis; extreme value theory; causal analysis including Bayesian Belief Networks; control risk self-assessment and key indicators; scenario analysis; and dynamic financial analysis. Views of industry insiders, from organisations such as Standard & Poors, Fitch, Hermes, USS, UN-PRI, Deutsche Bank, and Alchemy Partners, are presented together with those from experts at the FSA, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), and the Financial Reporting Council. In addition to investors, this book will be of interest to actuaries, rating agencies, regulators and legislators, as well as to the directors and risk managers of financial institutions in both the private and public sectors. Students requiring a comprehensive knowledge of operational risk management will also find the book of considerable value.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470745991

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9780470745991

Children at Sea

Lives Shaped by the Waves

By: Vyvyen Brendon

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Children at Sea

Lives Shaped by the Waves

By: Vyvyen Brendon

Children at sea faced even more drastic separations from loved ones than those sent 'home' from India or those packed off to English boarding schools at the age of seven, the subjects of Vyvyen Brendon’s previous books. Captured slaves, child migrants and transported convicts faced an ocean passage leading nearly always to lifelong exile in distant lands. Boys apprenticed as merchant seamen, or enlisted as powder monkeys, or signed on as midshipmen, usually progressed to a nautical career fraught with danger and broken only by fleeting periods of home leave. “Solitary among numbers”, as Admiral Collingwood described himself, they could be not just physically at risk but psychologically adrift – at sea in more ways than one. Rather than abandoning sea borne children as they approached adulthood, therefore, Vyvyen follows whole lives shaped by the waves. She focusses on eight central characters: a slave captured in Africa, a convict girl transported to Australia, a Barnardo’s lass sent as a migrant to Canada, a foundling brought up in Coram’s Hospital who ran away to sea, and four youths from contrasting backgrounds dispatched to serve as midshipmen. Their social origins as well as their maritime ventures are revealed through a rich variety of original source material discovered in scattered archives. These brine-encrusted lives are resurrected both for their intrinsic interest and because they speak for thousands of children, cast off alone to face storms and calms, excitement and monotony, fellowship and loneliness, kindness and abuse, seasickness and ozone breezes, loss and hope. This book recounts stories never before told, stories that might otherwise have sunk without trace like so much juvenile flotsam. They are sometimes inspiring, sometimes heart-rending and always compelling. Children at Sea embarks on a fresh voyage and explores a world of new experience.

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Pen and Sword History

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1526772450

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9781526772459

Horror and Those Who Caused It

By: Brendon Meynell

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Horror and Those Who Caused It

By: Brendon Meynell

History is filled with horrific acts, acts that have shocked the world, brought terror on the human race and have left us in utter disbelief at the events that have occurred. HORROR AND THOSE WHO CAUSED IT takes a look inside the stories of some of the world's most horrific acts, from Charles Manson and the families murders of pregnant starlet Sharon Tate, to the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. HORROR AND THOSE WHO CAUSED IT takes you on an inside guide to some of the world's deadliest cults, spine-chilling details from killers such as Martin Bryant and the Port Arthur Massacre, Katherine Knight and Australia's most notorious Serial Killers Ivan Milat. HORROR AND THOSE WHO CAUSED IT is the ideal book to accompany any true crime collection.

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Lulu.com

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0648136833

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9780648136835

Message from God

By: Brendon McCoy

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Message from God

By: Brendon McCoy

It was February 28, 1993 and after months of investigations and following up on leads by disgruntled former members, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms attempted to raid a religious commune, on the outskirts of Waco, Texas, known as the Branch Davidians in an effort to arrest their charismatic leader Vernon Howell aka David Koresh. Gunshots run out! By the time a ceasefire was negotiated three hours later four BATF agents, and five Branch Davidian religious members were dead. A 51-day siege followed which included broken promises on both sides, psychological mind games and an ongoing battle between the Government and religious freedom. On April 19, 1993, with the whole world watching military tanks operated by members of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team began to systematically began breaching the building the religious followers followers had been hold up in, dispersing CS Gas to force an end to the siege when fire broke out.

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0648136841

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9780648136842

Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga

A Practical Guide

By: Brendon Abram

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Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga

A Practical Guide

By: Brendon Abram

A practical, hands-on, experienced-based guide from a military veteran turned yoga teacher Brendon Abram combines his first-hand experience with PTSD in the field and years of teaching to offer this practical guide to bringing trauma-sensitive yoga to both clinical and studio settings. Drawing on his work with military veterans, first responders, and survivors of domestic and sexual abuse, he emphasizes the importance of respecting the uniqueness of every individual and demonstrates how to use the foundational principles of yoga to create a safe experience. Abram explains that basic principles of yoga bring power to the practice and that breath, mindful movement, focused awareness, and acceptance of present-moment experience form the foundation of any yoga offering.

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North Atlantic Books

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162317225X

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9781623172251

A Political History of the American Welfare System

When Ideas Have Consequences

By: Brendon O'Connor

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A Political History of the American Welfare System

When Ideas Have Consequences

By: Brendon O'Connor

John Maynard Keynes once noted that "Madmen in authority... are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back." O'Connor (politics and public policy, Griffith U., Australia) supports this observation in his study of the development of the American welfare system and the broader world of political language and rhetoric within which it has been shaped. Studying welfare policy from Lyndon Johnson's liberal social agenda to Bill Clinton's "ending welfare as we know it," he divides the period (and his book) into three sections corresponding to welfare politics that conformed to liberal ideology, the conservative backlash against liberalism, and the forging of a conservative welfare system. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742526682

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9780742526686

Regulating Undercover Law Enforcement: The Australian Experience

By: Brendon Murphy

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Regulating Undercover Law Enforcement: The Australian Experience

By: Brendon Murphy

This book examines the way in which undercover police investigation has come to be regulated in Australia. Drawing on documentary and doctrinal legal analysis, this book investigates how, in the space of a single decade, Australian law makers set out to regulate one of the most difficult aspects of police: undercover investigation. In so doing, the Australian experience represents a paradigm model. And yet despite its success, it is a system of law and practice that has a dark side – a model of investigation to relies heavily on activities that are unlawful in the absence of authorisation. It is a model that is as much concerned with the surveillance and control of police as it is with suspected criminal conduct. The book aims to locate the Australian experience in comparative perspective with other major common law jurisdictions (the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand), with a view to contrast strengths, similarities and weaknesses of these models. It is argued that the Australian model, at the pragmatic level, offers a highly successful model for regulatory structure and practice, providing a significant model for successful regulation. At the same time, the model that has been introduced raises important questions about how and why the Australian experience evolved in the way that it did, and the implications this has for the relationship between citizen and state, the judiciary and the executive, and broader questions about the protections offered by rights discourse and jurisprudence. This book aims to document the law, policy and practices that shape undercover investigations. In so doing, it aims to not only articulate the way in which the law regulates these activities, but also to move on to consider some of the fundamental questions linked to undercover investigations: how did regulation happen? By what means of regulation? What are the driving policy issues that give this field of law its particular complexion? What are the implications? Who gains, and who loses, by which means of power? The book offers unique insights into a largely unknown aspect of modern covert policing, identifying a range of practices, the legal framework, controversies and powers. By locating these practices in a rich theoretical context, informed by risk and governmentality scholarship, this book offers a legal and theoretical explanation of one of the most controversial forms of policing.

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Springer Nature

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9813363819

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9789813363816

The Use of Small Buses in Transit Service

By: P. Brendon Hemily,National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board,Transit Cooperative Research Program

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The Use of Small Buses in Transit Service

By: P. Brendon Hemily,National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board,Transit Cooperative Research Program

Examines the use of small buses -- 30 ft or less in length -- as replacements for large buses in fixed-route, scheduled servcice or those used in innovative, more flexible operations such as route deviation or demand-response service.

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0309069149

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Book's by Brendon Bradley

Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis

Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis

Girl Among Crows

Girl Among Crows

Children of the Raj

Children of the Raj

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997

Operational Risk Assessment

Operational Risk Assessment

Children at Sea

Children at Sea

Horror and Those Who Caused It

Horror and Those Who Caused It

Message from God

Message from God

Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga

Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga

A Political History of the American Welfare System

A Political History of the American Welfare System

Regulating Undercover Law Enforcement: The Australian Experience

Regulating Undercover Law Enforcement: The Australian Experience

The Use of Small Buses in Transit Service

The Use of Small Buses in Transit Service

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