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    Public Sector Information In The Digital Age: Between Markets, Public Management And Citizenső Rights
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    End User Information Systems [FACSIMILE]
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    Bis '99: 3rd International Conference on Business Information Systems, Poznan, Poland, 14-16 April 1999
  7. On Methods for Systems Development in Professional Organizations: The Karlstad University Approach to Information Systems and Its Role in Society
    On Methods for Systems Development in Professional Organizations: The Karlstad University Approach to Information Systems and Its Role in Society
  8. Reengineering Mis: Aligning Information Technology and Business Operations
    Reengineering Mis: Aligning Information Technology and Business Operations
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    Managing IT/Community Partnerships in the 21st Century
  10. Building Knowledge Management Environments for Electronic Government
    Building Knowledge Management Environments for Electronic Government
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    KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISES
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    The Human Side of Information Technology Management (Series in Managing the Human Side of Information Technology)
  13. Global Information Technology Education: Issues and Trends (Series in Global Information Technology Management)
    Global Information Technology Education: Issues and Trends (Series in Global Information Technology Management)
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    Information Handling in Offices and Archives
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    Information Technology Diffusion in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives on Policy, Electronic Commerce and Education
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    Distributed Information Systems in Business
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    Pitfalls and Triumphs of Information Technology Management (Cases on Information Technology Series, Vol 3, Part 1)
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    Information Technology and Computer Applications in Public Administration: Issues and Trends
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The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Natural Disasters or Terrorists: the Greater Threat?
  • Good informative & eye opening
  • On the mark
  • The Real Non-Political Plan for National Security
  • Steve Flynn, Warnings about THE EDGE OF DISASTER
 The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation
Stephen Flynn
Manufacturer: Random House
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ASIN: 1400065518
Release Date: 2007-02-20

Book Description

Why do we remain unprepared for the next terrorist attack or natural disaster?
Where are we most vulnerable?
How have we allowed our government to be so negligent?
Who will keep you and your family safe?
Is America living on borrowed time?
How can we become a more resilient nation?

Americans are in denial when it comes to facing up to how vulnerable our nation is to disaster, be it terrorist attack or act of God. We have learned little from the cataclysms of September 11 and Hurricane Katrina. When it comes to catastrophe, America is living on borrowed time–and squandering it. In this new book, leading security expert Stephen Flynn issues a call to action, demanding that we wake up and prepare immediately for a safer future.

The truth is acts of terror cannot always be prevented, and nature continues to show its fury in frighteningly unpredictable ways. Resiliency, argues Flynn, must now become our national motto. With chilling frankness and clarity, Flynn paints an all too real scenario of the threats we face within our own borders. A terrorist attack on a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas into Boston Harbor could kill thousands and leave millions more of New Englanders without power or heat. The destruction of a ship with a cargo of oil in Long Beach, California, could bring the West Coast economy to its knees and endanger the surrounding population. But even these all-too-plausible terrorist scenarios pale in comparison to the potential destruction wrought by a major earthquake or hurricane.

Our growing exposure to man-made and natural perils is largely rooted in our own negligence, as we take for granted the infrastructure handed down to us by earlier generations. Once the envy of the world, this infrastructure is now crumbling. After decades of neglect, our public health system leaves us at the mercy of microbes that could kill millions in the next flu pandemic. Flash flooding could wipe out a fifty-year-old dam north of Phoenix, placing thousands of homes and lives at risk. The next San Francisco earthquake could destroy century-old levees, contaminating the freshwater supply that most of California relies on for survival.

It doesn’t have to be this way. The Edge of Disaster tells us what we can do about it, as individuals and as a society. We can–and, Flynn argues, we must–construct a more resilient nation. With the wounds of recent national tragedies still unhealed, the time to act is now.

Flynn argues that by tackling head-on, eyes open the perils that lie before us, we can remain true to our most important and endearing national trait: our sense of optimism about the future and our conviction that we can change it for the better for ourselves–and our children.

“Steve Flynn offers the answer not only to protecting America from terrorist attacks and natural disaster but also to revitalizing our democracy. This book is a must-read for all members of Congress, 2008 presidential candidates, and ordinary citizens who want to build a better and safer future.”
–Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Advance praise for The Edge of Disaster

“Steve Flynn has done it again. Like America the Vulnerable before it, The Edge of Disaster is the must-read book for every American, elected official, and presidential candidate who is committed to ensuring that our nation continue to thrive in perilous times.”
–Mark Warner, former governor of Virginia

“Since 9/11, protecting our nation against a terrorist attack has consumed policy makers in Washington. What Stephen Flynn points out in The Edge of Disaster is that much of this effort has been directed overseas, often at the expense of our homeland and its much more likely areas of vulnerability. Laying out a series of potential disasters both manmade and natural, Flynn calls for a greater emphasis on preparedness and the ability of communities and the nation to recover. Painting an often frustrating and infuriating picture of missed opportunities, The Edge of Disaster is a call to action. The time to act is now. We can only hope that policy makers are listening.”
–Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and
former administrator, Environmental Protection Agency (2001-03)

“Steve Flynn’s book makes the very persuasive argument that national security preparedness is linked to natural disaster preparedness. By investing significantly in our critical infrastructure, in citizen preparedness, and most importantly in leadership, we can be better prepared for all hazards. A great book that I highly recommend.”
–James Lee Witt, former director, Federal Emergency Management Agency

“Steve Flynn has become a relentless contributor to the dialogue on prioritizing the work of the post-9/11 security environment. The Edge of Disaster calls into question the neglect of domestic preparedness in favor of the Department of Defense-driven offensive in the global war on terrorism. The book offers provocative challenges to both our elected and our private-sector leaders, and both should read it thoroughly.”
–Admiral James M. Loy, former commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, and former deputy secretary of homeland security

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Natural Disasters or Terrorists: the Greater Threat? .......2007-05-30

Stephen Flynn travels a lot --- and everywhere he goes he finds crumbling bridges, inadequate highway systems, overtaxed hospitals, parochial politicians, obsolete communications gear, neglected or nonexistent planning, and a citizenry that does not seem to give a damn about any of these things. This book --- his second on the subject --- is his strident wake-up call, a plea that something be done before the inevitable disaster strikes.

His case rests on two major premises: that more 9/11s and Katrinas are a certainty, and that of the two, future Katrinas are the more to be feared because they will be more frequent and will impact more people directly. Our present political and popular fixation on terrorism alone he finds shortsighted and foolish. He calls for measures to deal with both at the same time.

Flynn's method is to construct hypothetical scenarios --- a terrorist attack on a ship carrying liquefied natural gas in Boston Harbor, a catastrophic earthquake that devastates north-central California --- and then to demonstrate the inadequacy of existing means to either prevent the event or minimize the damage they cause. His scenarios are generally based on authoritative sources as well as his own observations. In every case his conclusions are dismal: inability to respond quickly and efficiently, widespread panic, enormous casualties, government ineptitude. Yet the general public, he says, lives in an "almost adolescent sense of denial," preferring to just keep fingers crossed and hope that such things will not happen, or if they do happen, it will be somewhere else.

Flynn tries gamely to be nonpolitical about all this, but his indictment of the Bush administration and the small-government fetish of many politicians is plain. He deplores the Iraq War as a diversion of funds and resources from the place where real threats are much more evident --- here at home.

Some of his strictures are hardly new (e.g., the governmental passion for secrecy that keeps bureaucrats from sharing vital information, the inability of "first responders" and "first preventers" to communicate with each other, the absence of true collaboration between public and private agencies at times of crisis, the unfortunate preference for pork-barrel politics over meeting really urgent needs). But he goes well beyond these obvious truths, condemning public indifference or even ignorance of what needs to be done urgently. Our nation is "brittle," he says, and needs to be made more "resilient" before it is too late. Flynn obviously sees himself as Paul Revere on a coast to coast midnight ride.

There is a strain of special pleading in the book. Flynn, himself a long-serving officer in the Coast Guard, tells again the familiar story of how well that agency performed in New Orleans in 2005 --- then goes on to propose that it be given the leading role in domestic disaster response, with FEMA demoted to secondary status. It may well be a good idea, but Flynn is not exactly an impartial judge.

The obvious question here is: If all this work needs to be done pronto, how are we to pay for it? Flynn proposes a new agency, the "Infrastructure Resiliency Commission," insulated from pork-barrel political pressure. He would pay the enormous cost of quickly making us into a "resilient" nation with money from five sources: funds from the estate tax that the administration wants to end altogether, repeal of the tax cuts enacted under Bush, a dollar-a-gallon gasoline tax, funds from the defense budget and from state and city governments. One can virtually hear the howls of protest from motorists, conservative politicians, the Pentagon and local officials. Were I a betting man, I would not bet on this one.

Nonetheless, this is an important and often eloquent book. One hopes that Flynn/Paul Revere will be heeded, and that he is not like poor Cassandra, who was given the gift of prophecy, but along with it the curse that no one would believe anything she said.

--- Reviewed by Robert Finn

4 out of 5 stars Good informative & eye opening.......2007-05-12

Good book, Flynn writes at a level anyone can understand. He makes the urgency clear that changes must be made in order to secure our nation.

5 out of 5 stars On the mark.......2007-05-06

This book illustrates why anyone with a shred of critical thinking skills always defaults to questioning what governments tell their people is important. Our completely wrong-headed "war on terror" asks all the wrong questions and comes to all the wrong conclusions. While we waste billions of dollars and thousands of lives (American and Iraqi), the real threats to our national security and long-term economic stability are ignored.

On top of that, instead of providing leadership to steel Americans against inevitable future attacks and make sure the infrastructure is in place to handle national emergencies, the Bush administration sought to maintain political control by making Americans afraid of their own shadows. Fear-mongering is clearly the only thing that Karl Rove and W know how to do well. They are utter failures at everything else they touch.

The Dems don't get off either. They have not provided any counter to the fear-mongering and have not provided leadership on any relevant issues. I cannot believe that anyone in government has not read this excellent book, but I don't hear any of them talking about the consequences to our nation or how to fix what's wrong.

If every thinking American read this book and demanded a reassessment of our priorities, we might have a chance to fix things before it's too late. We need to get over our fear of being attacked. It will happen. We need to focus on repairing our infrastructure and creating sensible, pragmatic emergency programs.

5 out of 5 stars The Real Non-Political Plan for National Security.......2007-04-30

This is a brilliant book that exposes our sheer recklessness by our society and public servants handling 'national security.' I can not add to this book and it's analysis. Mr. Flynn has set out a classic and timely case for a change of public policy. This book is nonpartisan and is very reasonable. No conspiracy theories here. Please read this and send copies to your mayor, governor, congressman, and your friends. The present administration is tone deaf to this reality.

5 out of 5 stars Steve Flynn, Warnings about THE EDGE OF DISASTER.......2007-04-04

Steve Flynn has been trying to get us to pay attention for a few years now. This is his second book; AMERICA THE VULNERABLE was the first. This book takes a broader, more practical and more troubling view. Flynn points out that disasters, whether terrorist caused or natural, impact our complex social and economic systems in the same way: they generate paralyzing disruption. In each case, the remedy is the same: develop resilient individual and collective response capablities in order to endure the disruption. Whether we face hurricaines, plagues or weapons of mass destruction, each disaster faces us with the need to endure and recover.
A former Coast Guard officer, Flynn brings a perspective on survival preparedness that comes from practical training and experience. This is the perspective that we must all adopt as we find ourselves enmeshed in ever more complex and tightly-linked systems subject to the risk of cascading catastrophes.
Give this book to people you care about. You may save lives.
Management and Supervision in Law Enforcement
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Im the Chief now
  • Good read
 Management and Supervision in Law Enforcement
Wayne W. Bennett , and Kn M. Hess
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ASIN: 0495093416

Book Description

Eminently practical, straightforward, and applied, this text focuses on law enforcement managers and supervisors, their jobs, and the complicated interrelationships between members of the law enforcement team and the communities they share. It illustrates the best-known methods and practices of police leadership and management while also turning an eye to the future. It presents a comprehensive overview of the responsibilities of law enforcement leaders and covers everything from the newest principles of participative leadership and community policing to the exciting technological aids changing the face of law enforcement today.

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5 out of 5 stars Im the Chief now.......2006-08-09

Great Book. Hard to read at times on mids, but now Im the CHief....Good Luck

4 out of 5 stars Good read.......2006-02-26

I was tasked with reading this for a promotional test. It has lots of good infomation and makes for an easy read. Some of the chapters contain too much information making it difficult to retain but overall a good resource.
Police Patrol: Operations and Management, Third Edition
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Police Patrol-Operations and Management by Charles Hale
 Police Patrol: Operations and Management, Third Edition
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Based upon a practical application of theory with the “how-to” of “real world” policing, this book details the core functions of a police agency—covering patrol operations, goals, and strategies. It combines management theory with case study examples taken from small police departments. KEY TOPICS Specific chapter topics discuss police patrol hazards, community-oriented policing, patrol force staffing and deployment, special issues in patrol operations, and upgrading patrol effectiveness. For police practitioners, field supervisors, and middle managers.

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5 out of 5 stars Police Patrol-Operations and Management by Charles Hale.......2000-07-07

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Introduction to Security, Seventh Edition
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    Introduction to Security, Seventh Edition is a complete revision of the classic text. This edition presents the latest in security issues from security equipment and design theory to security management practice and has been reorganized to reflect the industry changes since the 9-11-01 World Trade Center attacks. It begins with a new chapter on the movement of Homeland Security in the United States and includes new coverage throughout the book of terrorism as it relates to: cargo and travel security, potential areas of attack and target hardening techniques, and the use of current technologies to combat new threats. Traditional physical and guard security is covered in addition to the advances in the electronic and computer security areas including biometric security, access control, CCTV surveillance advances, as well as the growing computer security issues of identity theft and computer fraud.

    The Seventh Edition provides the most comprehensive breakdown of security issues for the student while detailing the latest trends, legislation, and technology to interest experienced security professionals alike.

    * Examines the attacks of September 11th, 2001 and the lasting impact on the security industry
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    From Buddy to Boss: Effective Fire Service Leadership
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      		From Buddy to Boss: Effective Fire Service Leadership
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        This fourth edition of Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management continues to be the sole book of its kind: an examination of all facets of the criminal justice system as well as several related matters of interest to prospective and actual administrators. It addresses the three components of the justice system: police, courts, and corrections. More than 30 case studies are desseminated throughout the book; also included are chapters on personnel and financial administration, rights of criminal justice employees, technology, discipline and liability, and futures. Articles from Law Enforcement News and other sources are interspersed throughout, and the book has been updated with added sections on ethics, bioterrorism, racial profiling, school violence, vehicle pursuits, judicial selection, jury administration, gender bias, and women in corrections. Useful as an important reference work for justice administrators and others in police departments, the court system, corrections, as well as defense attorneys and prosecuting attorneys.
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        Introduction to Emergency Management, Second Edition is a practical reference for students and professionals covering disaster response planning and mitigation. The book details the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (U.S), the Federal Response Plan (FRP), and the roles, responsibilities, and interrelationship between FEMA and state and local emergency management systems. It also covers the changes in emergency management since the events of September 11, 2001, the latest information on the Office of Homeland Security, and includes several detailed appendices. This Second Edition is completely updated and continues this titles success as a practical reference for students and professionals covering disaster response planning and mitigation.

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        4 out of 5 stars Medical Consequence Manager.......2007-04-17

        I found this to be a good introduction to emergency management. I am using it in my course on Disaster Preparidness: medical consequency management. Well written and easy to read for the novice.

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          Terrorism Handbook for Operational Responders, 2e
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            		Terrorism Handbook for Operational Responders, 2e
            Armando S. Bevelacqua
            Manufacturer: Thomson Delmar Learning
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            The only reference of its kind for emergency responders, this updated book is a guide to the most significant points that surround the emergency response processes needed to cope with terrorism incidents. It highlights what is required to establish and implement tactical goals during such events, including new equipment and strategies that can enhance a responder?s detection, monitoring, and protection capabilities against chemical and biological agents. Written to provide emergency responders with the knowledge they need to prepare for and combat acts of terrorism, this book is a must for all emergency personnel who are called on to respond to a terrorist event.
            Money Laundering: A Guide for Criminal Investigators, Second Edition
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            • Excellent Resource
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            • Money Laundering for the Stupid.
            • An excellent nuts and bolts introduction.
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            With numerous case studies, graphs, tables, and charts, Money Laundering: A Guide for Criminal Investigators gives law enforcement professionals a clear understanding of money laundering practices, legislation, and investigation. This second edition highlights the link between money laundering and terrorist funding. It includes new sections on basic terrorist financing and explores specific terrorist financing schemes, describing in detail methods, applicable federal laws, and examples from real cases. The author also presents up-to-date information on legislation and its impact on money laundering investigation and explains how changes to federal forfeiture law affect money laundering law.

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            4 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource.......2005-09-30

            The text provides excellent introduction into the crime of money laundering...very easy to understand and at times comical. Although the book is a bit dated, its concepts remain the same and I would recommend this text for anyone interested in understanding the role of money laundering.

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            being the same field for over 30 years, i found the book lacking in real facts.......but an excellent effort for 76.00 dollars

            1 out of 5 stars Money Laundering for the Stupid........2001-04-08

            Do not waste your time or money on this book. The book assumes that all readers have the financial literacy of a high school student. Of course, the book was purportly written for police investigations so maybe the authors dummed it down so their fellow law enforcement friends would be able to understand it. For example, the book goes into painly silly details about what a balance sheet and income statement are all about and how to read them properly. (ie the section on debit-credit was particularly useless) My personal favorite was the filler section on how to buy real-estate or securities. The book only really gets to the interesting(and the most imporant aspect of a book on money laundering) "how to" structures of money laundering operations in a couple of chapters. One chapter is basically dedicated to simple structures like using smurfs so that is essentially useless. BOTTOM LINE: if you are at all familar with money laundering, financial statements, bank secrecy act, tax rules, yadda yadda, then this book is a waste of your time. If you know nothing about the above, then you may find the book useful.

            5 out of 5 stars An excellent nuts and bolts introduction........1999-10-18

            As a Canadian police officer, I picked up this book expecting to find its understandable American focus to be of limited use to me. Instead I was very surprised. Yes it is entirely American in focus and reference, but its explanation of laundering methodologies - and weaknesses - was exceptionally straight forward and of universal application. I was able to apply several aspects immediately to an existing international investigation of commercial fraud.

            It is in its explanations that the book is strongest. These are simply written, without jargon. For example, using the analogy of Al Capone's enterprises, it gives the best and simplest description of a balance sheet and financial statement and what goes into their makeup that I have ever seen. When this began I was suspicious that the Capone analogy was going to have to be stretched beyond any usefulness, but this turned out not to be the case at all. In fact, the analogy gave the explanations life and character.

            Its outline of resources, to consider was equally direct and useful, even to a Canadian investigation.

            5 out of 5 stars congrats to john and sydney- published authors & experts.......1999-10-11

            you both sound like world renown experts on money laundering. those racketeers don't stand a chance against the two of you.

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