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James Baldwins critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation race and police brutality to a new generation of readersAvailable for the first time in a standalone edition Nothing Personal is Baldwins deep probe into the American condition Considering the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020which were met with tear gas and rubber bullets the same year white supremacists entered the US Capitol with little resistance openly toting flags of the ConfederacyBaldwins documentation of his own troubled times cuts to the core of where we find ourselves todayBaldwins thoughts move through an interconnected range of questions from Americas fixation on eternal youth to its refusal to recognize the past its addiction to consumerism and the lovelessness that fuels it in its cities and popular culture He recounts his own encounter with police in a scene disturbingly similar to those we see today documented with ever increasing immediacy This edition also includes a new foreword from interdisciplinary scholar Imani Perry and an afterword from noted Baldwin scholar Eddie S Glaude Jr Both explore and situate the essay within the broader context of Baldwins work the Movement for Black Lives the COVID19 pandemic and the presidency of Donald TrumpNothing Personal is both a eulogy and a declaration of will In bringing this work into the twentyfirst century readers new and old will take away fundamental and recurring truths about life in the US It is both a call to action and an appeal to love and to life. 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An essential guide for practitioners on avoiding unethical situations in a fraud investigation--provides tips, techniques, and real-life examplesCredentialed accountants, auditors, and fraud examiners who fail to identify fraud and misconduct may be in violation of their professional standards. Among these standards are requirements to exercise professional and moral judgment, act in the best interest of the public, maintain integrity, objectivity, and independence, render opinions based on evidence and documentation, and exercise due care in planning and discharging professional activities. Failing to adhere to professional standards and ethical codes have serious consequences for CPAs, CFEs, and CIAs engaged in fraud investigations. Fraud helps readers avoid unethical situations in fraud investigations and stay within the boundaries of professional guidelines and standards.Author Jeffrey Matthews combines real-world techniques and practical advice with personal insights from his experience as a forensic accountant. Detailing how he faced death threats, retaliation, and family hardships during actual fraud investigations, the author shares how despite serious challenges, he never deviated from professional standards. The author demonstrates how accountants can avoid being caught in unethical practices and examines the common tendencies that hinder the ability to detect, deter, and prevent fraud and misconduct. This fascinating, highly-relevant book will help practitioners:Recognize current and emerging trends to identify new areas of weakness Address time and budget constraints with effective delegation and supervision of lower-level staff Maintain a healthy dose of skepticism by \'testing not accepting\' Understand the effort and expertise required to perform an investigation before accepting engagements Avoid establishing biases and pre-determining outcomes before accepting assignments A full-featured resource, complete with PowerPoint slides and a test bank, Fraud is invaluable for auditors, accountants, and other certified fraud examiners. Author Note Laura Hartman was most recently at DePaul University. She also currently serves as executive director of a trailblazing trilingual elementary school in Haiti, the School of Choice/l\'Ecole de Choix. She is also cofounded an online micro-development, finance, and education system for people living in poverty in Haiti, called Zafen. Previously, Hartman served as director of external partnerships for Zynga.org, the charitable arm of the social game developer Zynga. She has written many other books including Rising above Sweatshops: Innovative Management Approaches to Global Labor Challenges.Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility 4e provides a comprehensive, accessible, and practical introduction to the ethical issues arising in business. Hartman et al., focuses on real-world ethical decision making at both the personal and policy levels and provides students with a decision-making process that can be used in any situation.Practical applications throughout the text show how theories relate to the real world. The 4th edition features thoroughly updated statistics and coverage of timely issues and dilemmas throughout the text. In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, among the country\'s most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a bartender turned advertising executive, and many others to call into question the terms of our new economy. In his 1972 classic, The Hidden Injuries of Class (written with Jonathan Cobb), Sennett interviewed a man he called Enrico, a hardworking janitor whose life was structured by a union pay schedule and given meaning by his sacrifices for the future. In this new book-a #1 bestseller in Germany-Sennett explores the contemporary scene characterized by Enrico\'s son, Rico, whose life is more materially successful, yet whose work lacks long-term commitments or loyalties. Distinguished by Sennett\'s combination of broad historical and literary learning and a reporter\'s willingness to walk into a store or factory [and] strike up a conversation (New York Times Book Review), this book challenges the reader to decide whether the flexibility of modern capitalism . . . is merely a fresh form of oppression (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Praise for The Corrosion of Character: A benchmark for our time.—Daniel Bell [A]n incredibly insightful book.—William Julius Wilson [A] remarkable synthesis of acute empirical observation and serious moral reflection.—Richard Rorty [Sennett] offers abundant fresh insights . . . illuminated by his concern with people\'s struggle to give meaning to their lives.—[Memphis] Commercial Appeal A guide to personal accountability-the fundamental key to leadership successWith the toughest economic downturn in recent history, the issue of accountability has taken center stage. However accountability is often confused with punishment, fault, blame and guilt. In this book, the author argues that the only true accountability is personal accountability and the only way to achieve it is to take responsibility for the outcomes of your choices, behaviors and actions. The 85% Solution reveals that to be truly accountable, leaders must accept no less than 85% of the responsibility for the outcomes of your actions Empower themselves to take the risks and actions you must in order to get what they want and Show they are willing to answer for the outcomes that result from their choices and actions.Offers a practical guide to personal accountability and reveals how this leads to personal and business successGuides readers to take the risks and actions to reach their goalsContains self-assessments for determining personal accountability indexThe author is an experienced consultant who works with organizations, teams, and individuals to improve their personal and work lives. “For millions of years we have survived as hunters. In the few short millennia since our divorce from that necessity there has been no time for significant biological change - anatomical, physiological, or behavioral. Today we have small hope of comprehending ourselves and our world unless we understand that man still, in his inmost being, remains a hunter.”Robert Ardrey once again skates across decades of cutting-edge anthropological research, guiding the reader on a profound journey of discovery through twenty million years of man’s prehistory: from the days when his ancestors first emerged from the forests of Africa during the benevolent warmth and rains of the Miocene, through the unremitting drought of the Pliocene, and the dramatic climatic shifts of the Pleistocene, down to those few thousand years past when man emerged at last onto the stage of recorded history, a fully evolved hunting animal.Published in 1976, Ardrey\'s final work in the Nature of Man series is the capstone of a momentous achievement. His work deeply influenced figures like Stanley Kubrick, Sam Peckinpah, Strother Martin, and James Schlesinger, and lodged itself permanently in the public imagination. It will forever influence our answer to the fundamental question: Why is man man? In 1955 on a visit to South Africa, Robert Ardrey became aware of the growing evidence that man had evolved on the African continent from carnivorous, predatory stock, who had also, long before man, achieved the use of weapons. A dramatist, Ardrey\'s interest in the African discoveries sprang less from purely scientific grounds than from the radical new light they cast on the eternal question: Why do we behave as we do? Are we naturally inclined towards war and weapons? From 1955 to 1961, Ardrey commuted between the museums and libraries and laboratories of the North, and the games reserves and fossil beds of Africa trying to answer that question. Eventually, his investigation expanded to include nationalism and patriotism, private property and social order, hierarchy and status-seeking, even conscience. All revealed roots in our most ancient animal beginnings and parallels in primate societies. African Genesis is at once the story of an unprecedented personal search and a story of man that had never before been told. It is a shocking book in that it challenges assumptions of human uniqueness that color every segment of modern thought and every aspect of our daily life. While evolutionary science has advanced markedly since Ardrey\'s times, his insights on human behavior have a timeless quality and African Genesis remains a classic reference for anyone exploring life\'s biggest questions. Praise for the 1961 edition: It is fate and fortune of some books to mark or make a turning point in science and culture. This I believe African Genesis will do. Dr Harlow Shapley, Harvard University The most enjoyable and stimulating book on the evolution of man that has been published for some time. The Nation What this sensational book presents is a new and radical interpretation of human behavior. Since Ardrey has written it with excitement, clarity and style, the book will undoubtedly be widely read and cause widespread controversy. But African Genesis also deserves the most serious attention on the part of scientists as well as laymen. Dr Kenneth Oakley, Leading British Anthropologist, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, British Museum Mr Ardrey\'s African Genesis is a fascinating drama played on a very broad and deep stage of space, time, biological evolution and ideas. The theme develops around man\'s striving to collect evidence and to understand the relational orders and timed sequences of living organisms. The search is for rational light on the true place of man himself in these biotic orders, and in the vast sweeps of the controlling environments. In this high drama the characters enter, leave relics and artifacts, act their roles as species, express their views and then exit. Among the characters are men of prehistory, nonhuman primates and the searching scientists themselves. The latter quarrel and dispute, cooperate and agree, strive for status and retreat from controversy. They are \'humans\' as portrayed skillfully by Ardrey. Nevertheless, they contribute to the slowly advancing understanding of man in his living world or to what Ardrey describes as a revolution of biological conceptions. C. R. Carpenter, Penn State University This quarrel about the innate nature of man began outside the gates of Eden, was continued by Darwin and Wallace and now looms menacingly across the threshold of the United Nations. Mr Ardrey has peered into our inner human darkness with wisdom gained from discoveries of natural history. Loren Eiseley, Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science, University of Pennsylvania The popularity of TV programs such as the CSI trilogy attests to people s fascination with forensic science as a means of solving crimes, and this book follows the pathway into forensics via the fields of anthropology and anatomy. Missing & Murdered explains the practice of forensic anthropology and the skills base of skeletal biology, while at the same time debunking the CSI effect (the phenomenon of popular television raising crime victims real-world expectations of forensic science, especially crime-scene investigation and DNA testing). From muti murders, criminal cases and the Missing Persons Task Team to the study of archaeological skeletons, Missing & Murdered will grip and engross readers from one intriguing chapter to the next. The Benefits of Reading Books,Most people read to read and the benefits of reading are surplus. But what are the benefits of reading. 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