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Three Education Sessions You Won’t Want to Miss at ISC East

Security Industry Association

14-16 in New York City, and the Security Industry Association (SIA) and ISC East recently revealed full conference details for the SIA Education@ISC East program , including keynote presentations from top luminaries and over 40 sessions from top industry expert speakers on the most current business trends, technologies and industry developments.

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FEMA’s Higher Education Symposium

Recovery Diva

There were several sessions devoted to new books and help for potential authors of books. Of special interest to me is the availability and knowledge of potential users of new text books, since I am the editor of some in recent years.

Education 100
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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

The book has sixteen (16) chapters of which the first four were written by the editors, and the remaining twelve (12) each written by different authors. The framework introduced by the editors is applied to all the case studies covered by varying authors in the rest of the chapters. The case studies cover both the U.S.

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Personal and Organizational Risk Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

Michele Wucker is an author, speaker and strategist on the topic of risk. This would be an excellent text for courses in emergency management to educate people on the topic of risk, so we can manage it ourselves and address programmatic and public education efforts with a more informed position.

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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

This way the reader is given a roadmap to pick and choose from, if they wish so, the case studies written by various authors whose chapters span a wide variety of hazards as well as geographical and sociological settings all of which delve into a chosen aspect of disaster recovery towards building resiliency.

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A Growing Threat of Violence Against Public Officials

Disaster Zone Podcast

P ete Simi , a professor of sociology at Chapman University, is overseeing a research team of the university’s students and graduates who are diving into court records about federal cases of death threats sent to public officials, including officials elected or appointed in health care, education and law enforcement.

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Academic Publishing and Malpractice

Emergency Planning

In an article in Times Higher Education Professor Harvey J. Graff described malpractice among academic journal editors and called for a bill of rights to protect authors against such excesses. During that time I have encountered all sorts of behaviour, good and bad, by authors, reviewers and editors. Plagiarism.