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Winds of Destruction: The Autobiography of a Rhodesian ...

Winds of Destruction: The Autobiography of a Rhodesian ...

Peter J. H. Petter-Bowyer

Written by a serving Air Force pilot, this is one man's story of the Thirteen-Year bush-war fought in Rhodesia.
Investigation and Prevention of Financial Crime: Knowledge ...

Investigation and Prevention of Financial Crime: Knowledge ...

Petter Gottschalk

The book will also be of interest to advanced students and researchers in criminology and police science.
The Secret Army: The Ira

The Secret Army: The Ira

J. Bowyer Bell

This is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army.
Knowledge Management in Police Oversight: Law Enforcement ...

Knowledge Management in Police Oversight: Law Enforcement ...

Petter Gottschalk

Based on integrity and accountability challenges in police forces all over the world, this book discusses the roles and methods of police oversight agencies.
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

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White-collar Criminals: Theoretical & Managerial ...

White-collar Criminals: Theoretical & Managerial ...

Petter Gottschalk

This book presents information regarding white-collar crime, as well as indications of individual traits which categorize these types of criminals.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Entrepreneurship and Organised Crime: Entrepreneurs in ...

Entrepreneurship and Organised Crime: Entrepreneurs in ...

Petter Gottschalk

This book illustrates how so many issues for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship are similar in legal and illegal business. At the same time, all the cases in the book show how different many of the individual criminal entrepreneurs are.
The IRA, 1968-2000: Analysis of a Secret Army

The IRA, 1968-2000: Analysis of a Secret Army

J. Bowyer Bell

The study focuses on the intricate workings of an organization involved in armed struggle for over 30 years, and is based on thousands of interviews, accompanied by penetrating analysis.
CEOs and White-Collar Crime: A Convenience Perspective

CEOs and White-Collar Crime: A Convenience Perspective

Petter Gottschalk

A description of rivalry can be found in the book by Erin Callan Montella who was the chief financial officer (CFO) at Lehman Brothers. The bank collapsed shortly after the following episode occurred (Montella 2016:175): In any event, I don't ...
Terror Out of Zion: Fight for Israeli Independence

Terror Out of Zion: Fight for Israeli Independence

J. Bowyer Bell

These advocates of terror pitted themselves against not only the British and the Arabs, but also against less violent brethren like Ben Gurion, Moshe Dayan, and Yitzhak Rabin.This is the definitive story of desperate, dedicated ...
Policing Financial Crime: Intelligence Strategy Implementation

Policing Financial Crime: Intelligence Strategy Implementation

Petter Gottschalk

By combining insights into the broad variety of financial crime types and behaviors and alternative law enforcement approaches, this book provides a unique insight into the growing local and global phenomena of financial crime.
Understanding White-Collar Crime: A Convenience Perspective

Understanding White-Collar Crime: A Convenience Perspective

Petter Gottschalk

By applying convenience theory to an empirical sample of convicted white-collar criminals, the text teaches criminal justice students and ethics and compliance practitioners to identify and understand how opportunity affects real-world ...
The Dynamics of the Armed Struggle

The Dynamics of the Armed Struggle

J. Bowyer Bell

The Dynamics of the Armed Struggle is an authoritative and provocative analysis of the nature of one of the time's most prevalent forms of political violence.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
White-Collar Crime: Detection, Prevention and Strategy in ...

White-Collar Crime: Detection, Prevention and Strategy in ...

Petter Gottschalk

Executive positions involved in crime, white-collar crime analysis, response to crime suspicion, corporate social responsibility, and corporate reputation damage and repair are some of the core topics of this book.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
Dragonwars: Armed Struggle and the Conventions of Modern War

Dragonwars: Armed Struggle and the Conventions of Modern War

J. Bowyer Bell

Bell acknowledges that his proposals run counter to American belief and practice, but argues that in the face of insoluble conflicts, incremental advantages, through limited altered global arena, Dragonwars will prove an indispensable guide ...
Besieged: Seven Cities Under Siege

Besieged: Seven Cities Under Siege

J. Bowyer Bell

Beseiged is the story of seven great modern sieges: Madrid in the Spanish Civil War; London, Warsaw, Singapore and Stalingrad in World War II; Berlin during the Post World War II Airlift; and Jerusalem under Arab attack from four sides in ...
The Secret Army: The IRA

The Secret Army: The IRA

J. Bowyer Bell

Bell's book gives us vital insight into our times as well as Irish history. This edition of The Secret Army contains six new chapters that bring the history of this clandestine organization up to date.
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
Miscellanies

Miscellanies

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift T. Woodward ((Londres)), C. Davis ((Londres)), William Bowyer (( Londres)), Charles Bathurst ((Londres)). Inflamed hy a due Spirit of Coursge and In-
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Strategic Knowledge Management Technology

Strategic Knowledge Management Technology

Petter Gottschalk

Annotation This book applies stages of growth model for knowledge management technology, where firms develop from the person-to-tools strategy, via the person-to-person strategy and the person-to-documents strategy.

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