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Auditing Information and Cyber Security Governance

A Controls-Based Approach

By: Robert E. Davis

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Auditing Information and Cyber Security Governance

A Controls-Based Approach

By: Robert E. Davis

A much-needed service for society today. I hope this book reaches information managers in the organization now vulnerable to hacks that are stealing corporate information and even holding it hostage for ransom." – Ronald W. Hull, author, poet, and former professor and university administrator A comprehensive entity security program deploys information asset protection through stratified technological and non-technological controls. Controls are necessary for counteracting threats, opportunities, and vulnerabilities risks in a manner that reduces potential adverse effects to defined, acceptable levels. This book presents a methodological approach in the context of normative decision theory constructs and concepts with appropriate reference to standards and the respective guidelines. Normative decision theory attempts to establish a rational framework for choosing between alternative courses of action when the outcomes resulting from the selection are uncertain. Through the methodological application, decision theory techniques can provide objectives determination, interaction assessments, performance estimates, and organizational analysis. A normative model prescribes what should exist according to an assumption or rule.

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CRC Press

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1000416089

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9781000416084

"We Return Fighting"

The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age

By: Mark Robert Schneider

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"We Return Fighting"

The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age

By: Mark Robert Schneider

The first history of the dramatic civil rights battles fought by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1920s, struggles that paved the way for advances made in the 1950s and 1960s.

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UPNE

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1555534902

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9781555534905

The Forerunners

Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora

By: Robert P. Swierenga

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The Forerunners

Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora

By: Robert P. Swierenga

He details the contributions and the leadership provided by the Dutch Jews and relates how they lost their "Dutchnessand their Orthodoxy within several generations of their arrival here and were absorbed into broader American Judaism.

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Wayne State University Press

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081434416X

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9780814344163

In Pursuit of Leviathan

Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906

By: Lance E. Davis,Robert E. Gallman,Karin Gleiter

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In Pursuit of Leviathan

Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906

By: Lance E. Davis,Robert E. Gallman,Karin Gleiter

In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling industry from its rise in the 1840s to its precipitous fall at the end of the nineteenth century. Using detailed and comprehensive data that describe more than four thousand whaling voyages from New Bedford, Massachusetts, the leading nineteenth-century whaling port, the authors explore the market for whale products, crew quality and labor contracts, and whale biology and distribution, and assess the productivity of the American fleet. They then examine new whaling techniques developed at the end of the nineteenth century, such as modified clippers and harpoons, and the introduction of darting guns. Despite the common belief that the whaling industry declined due to a fall in whale stocks, the authors argue that the industry's collapse was related to changes in technology and market conditions. Providing a wealth of historical information, In Pursuit of Leviathan is a classic industry study that will provide intriguing reading for anyone interested in the history of whaling.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226137902

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9780226137902

Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows

Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865–1914

By: Lance E. Davis,Robert E. Gallman

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Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows

Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865–1914

By: Lance E. Davis,Robert E. Gallman

This study examines the impact of British capital flows on the evolution of capital markets in four countries - Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States - over the years 1870 to 1914. In substantive chapters on each country it offers parallel histories of the evolution of their financial infrastructures - commercial banks, non-bank intermediaries, primary security markets, formal secondary security markets, and the institutions that provide the international financial links connecting the frontier country with the British capital market. At one level, the work constitutes a quantitative history of the development of the capital markets of five countries in the late nineteenth century. At a second level, it provides the basis for a useable taxonomy for the study of institutional invention and innovation. At a third, it suggests some lessons from the past about modern policy issues.

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1002

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Cambridge University Press

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1139427180

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9781139427180

John A. Quitman

Old South Crusader

By: Robert E. May

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John A. Quitman

Old South Crusader

By: Robert E. May

The premier secessionist of antebellum Mississippi, John A. Quitman was one of the half-dozen or so most prominent radicals in the entire South. In this full-length biography, Robert E. May takes issue with the recent tendency to portray secessionists as rabble-rousing, maladjusted outsiders bent on the glories of separate nationhood. May reveals Quitman to have been an ambitious but relatively stable insider who reluctantly advocated secession because of a despondency over slavery’s long-range future in the Union and a related conviction that northerners no longer respected southern claims to equality as American citizens. A fervent disciple of South Carolina “radical” John C. Calhoun’s nullification theories, Quitman also gained notoriety as his region’s most strident slavery imperialist. He articulated the case for new slaver territory, participated in the Texas Revolution, won national acclaim as a volunteer general in the Mexican War, and organized a private military—or “filibustering”—expedition with the intent of liberating Cuba from Spanish rule and making the island a new slave state. In 1850, while governor of Mississippi during the California crisis, Quitman wielded his influence in a vain attempt to induce Mississippi secession. Later, in Congress, he marked out an extreme southern position on Kansas. Mississippi’s most vehement “fire-eater,” Quitman played a significant role in the North-South estrangement that led to the American Civil War. The first critical biography of this important figure, May’s study sheds light on such current historical controversies as whether antebellum southerners were peculiarly militaristic or “antibourgeois” and helps illuminate the slave-master relations, mobility, intraregional class and geographic friction, partisan politics, and family customs of the Old South.

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LSU Press

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0807112070

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9780807112076

Tarawa

The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles

By: Robert Sherrod

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Tarawa

The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles

By: Robert Sherrod

In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan—and one journalist was there to chronicle the horror. Dive into war correspondent Robert Sherrod’s battlefield account as he goes ashore with the assault troops of the U.S. Marines 2nd Marine Division in Tarawa. Follow the story of the U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division as nearly 35,000 troops take on less than 5,000 Japanese defenders in one of the most savage engagements of the war. By the end of the battle, only seventeen Japanese soldiers were still alive. This story, a must for any history buff, tells the ins and outs of life alongside the U.S. Marines in this lesser-known battle of World War II. The battle itself carried on for three days, but Sherrod, a dedicated journalist, remained in Tarawa until the very end, and through his writing, shares every detail.

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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1620871017

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9781620871010

International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914

By: Lance E. Davis,Robert J. Cull

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International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914

By: Lance E. Davis,Robert J. Cull

This book is a study of the capital transfers to the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and, for the latter decades of that period, of the transfers from the United States to the rest of the worldMparticularly Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America. It provides a quantitative estimate of the level and industrial composition of those transfers, and qualitative descriptions of the sources and uses of those funds; and it attempts to assess the role of those foreign transfers on the economic development of the recipient economies. In the process, it describes the evolution of the American domestic capital market. Finally, it explores the issue of domestic political response to foreign investment, attempting to explain why, given the obvious benefits of such investment, the political reaction was so negative and so intense in Latin America and in the American West, but so positive in Canada and the eastern United States.

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186

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Cambridge University Press

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0521526442

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9780521526449

Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880

The Early Years of American Ethnology

By: Robert E. Bieder

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Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880

The Early Years of American Ethnology

By: Robert E. Bieder

Brilliantly written and copiously footnoted, this book details the life and work of five central figures in the development of American anthropology: Albert Gallatin, Samuel G. Morton, Ephraim G. Squier, Henry R. Schoolcraft, and Lewis Henry Morgan.Plains Anthropologist

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806135719

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9780806135717

Capital in the Nineteenth Century

By: Robert E. Gallman,Paul W. Rhode

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Capital in the Nineteenth Century

By: Robert E. Gallman,Paul W. Rhode

Gives permanence and context to Gallman’s influential economic research on growth theory. When we think about history, we often think about people, events, ideas, and revolutions, but what about the numbers? What do the data tell us about what was, what is, and how things changed over time? Economist Robert E. Gallman (1926–98) gathered extensive data on US capital stock and created a legacy that has, until now, been difficult for researchers to access and appraise in its entirety. Gallman measured American capital stock from a range of perspectives, viewing it as the accumulation of income saved and invested, and as an input into the production process. He used the level and change in the capital stock as proxy measures for long-run economic performance. Analyzing data in this way from the end of the US colonial period to the turn of the twentieth century, Gallman placed our knowledge of the long nineteenth century—the period during which the United States began to experience per capita income growth and became a global economic leader—on a strong empirical foundation. Gallman’s research was painstaking and his analysis meticulous, but he did not publish the material backing to his findings in his lifetime. Here Paul W. Rhode completes this project, giving permanence to a great economist’s insights and craftsmanship. Gallman’s data speak to the role of capital in the economy, which lies at the heart of many of the most pressing issues today.

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University of Chicago Press

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022682103X

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9780226821030

Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease E-Book

By: Robert Wyllie,Jeffrey S. Hyams

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Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease E-Book

By: Robert Wyllie,Jeffrey S. Hyams

Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, by Drs. Robert Wyllie and Jeffrey S. Hyams provides the comprehensive reference you need to treat GI diseases in children. Review the latest developments in the field and get up-to-date clinical information on hot topics like polyps, capsule endoscopy, and pancreatic treatments. With expert guidance from an expanded international author base and online access to 475 board-review-style questions, this latest edition is a must-have for every practicing gastroenterologist. Confirm each diagnosis by consulting a section, organized by symptoms, that presents the full range of differential diagnoses and treatment options for each specific condition. Recognize disease processes at a glance with detailed diagrams that accurately illustrate complex concepts. Stay current with advances in the field by reviewing new chapters on Polyps and Polyposis Syndromes, Capsule Endoscopy and Small Bowel Enteroscopy, Small Bowel Transplantation, IBD, Short Gut Syndrome, Steatosis and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, and Pancreatic and Islet Cell Transplants. Gain fresh global perspectives from an expanded list of expert international contributors. Sharpen your visual recognition by accessing a color-plate section that displays additional endoscopy images. Prepare for certification or recertification with 475 online board review-style questions, answers, and rationales.

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1401

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437735665

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9781437735666

The Confederate Soldiers of Rockbridge County, Virginia

A Roster

By: Robert J. Driver, Jr.

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The Confederate Soldiers of Rockbridge County, Virginia

A Roster

By: Robert J. Driver, Jr.

Based on an exhaustive search of various sources, this book provides a comprehensive roster of all known Confederate soldiers, sailors and marines from Rockbridge County, Virginia, or those who served in units raised in the County. Washington College and Virginia Military Institute alumni who were from Rockbridge, enlisted in local companies or lived in the County before or after the war are also included. Complete service records are given, along with photographs where possible.

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McFarland

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1476664110

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9781476664118

Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

A Complete Illustrated Record

By: Robert P. Broadwater

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Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

A Complete Illustrated Record

By: Robert P. Broadwater

In November 1861, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Townsend, adjutant general of the Army, sought to establish an award to motivate and inspire Northern soldiers in the aftermath of the early, morale-devastating defeats of the Civil War. The outcome of Townsend's brainstorm was the Medal of Honor. This reference book offers information about all recipients of the Civil War Medal of Honor, with details of their acts of heroism. The work then organizes recipients by a variety of criteria including branch of service; regiment or naval ship assignment; place of action; act of heroism; state or country of nativity; age of recipient; and date of issuance. Also included is information about the first winners of the medal, the first recipients of multiple medals, posthumously awarded medals and civilian recipients.

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McFarland

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0786491744

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9780786491742

Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering

By: Mark E. Davis,Robert J. Davis

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Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering

By: Mark E. Davis,Robert J. Davis

Appropriate for a one-semester undergraduate or first-year graduate course, this text introduces the quantitative treatment of chemical reaction engineering. It covers both homogeneous and heterogeneous reacting systems and examines chemical reaction engineering as well as chemical reactor engineering. Each chapter contains numerous worked-out problems and real-world vignettes involving commercial applications, a feature widely praised by reviewers and teachers. 2003 edition.

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Courier Corporation

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0486291316

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9780486291314

Kendig's Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children E-Book

By: Robert W. Wilmott,Andrew Bush,Robin R Deterding,Felix Ratjen,Peter Sly,Heather Zar,Albert Li

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Kendig's Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children E-Book

By: Robert W. Wilmott,Andrew Bush,Robin R Deterding,Felix Ratjen,Peter Sly,Heather Zar,Albert Li

Now in a fully updated 9th Edition, Kendig's Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children, by Drs. Robert Wilmott, Andrew Bush, Robin Deterding, and Felix Ratjen, continues to provide authoritative, evidence-based information to residents, fellows, and practitioners in this wide-ranging specialty. Bringing key knowledge from global experts together in one easy-to-understand volume, it covers everything from the latest basic science and its relevance to today's clinical issues, to improving patient outcomes for the common and rare respiratory problems found in newborns and children worldwide. - Uses succinct, straightforward text, numerous tables and figures, summaries at the end of each chapter, and more than 500 full-color images to convey key information in an easy-to-digest manner. - Contains new chapters reflecting expanding knowledge on the respiratory complications of Down syndrome and other genetic disorders, modern molecular therapies for cystic fibrosis and asthma, and pulmonary embolism and thromboembolic disease. - Includes access to a new video library with demonstrations of key procedures. - Features a new templated format with more descriptive headings and bulleted text for quick reference and navigation. - Covers today's key issues, including the genetic basis of respiratory disease, new and emerging respiratory infections, interstitial lung diseases in infants and young children, technology and diagnostic techniques for pulmonary function tests, emerging lung infections, and new therapies for cystic fibrosis and asthma. - Provides up-to-date instruction on important procedures, such as bronchoscopy and pulmonary function testing. - Highlights the knowledge and expertise of three new editors, as well as more than 100 world authorities in the fields of pediatrics, pulmonology, neurology, microbiology, cardiology, physiology, diagnostic imaging, critical care, otolaryngology, allergy, and surgery. - Expert ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323555950

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9780323555951

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Auditing Information and Cyber Security Governance

Auditing Information and Cyber Security Governance

"We Return Fighting"

"We Return Fighting"

The Forerunners

The Forerunners

In Pursuit of Leviathan

In Pursuit of Leviathan

Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows

Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows

John A. Quitman

John A. Quitman

Tarawa

Tarawa

International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914

International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914

Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880

Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880

Capital in the Nineteenth Century

Capital in the Nineteenth Century

Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease E-Book

Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease E-Book

The Confederate Soldiers of Rockbridge County, Virginia

The Confederate Soldiers of Rockbridge County, Virginia

Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering

Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering

Kendig's Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children E-Book

Kendig's Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children E-Book

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