books about: incident     books:       The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time1445 reviews Mark Haddon Vintage, 2004 Life through different lenses Why spend a few good evenings re-discovering life through the eyes of an autistic boy? The answer to that lies in this intriguing novel. While most fifteen-year-olds spend their time playing basketball or crunching popcorn at the movies, Christopher Boone - our protagonist - prefers cracking difficult maths puzzles and investigating the death of his neighbour's poodle. The latter event eventually ...             Cases in Hospitality Management: A Critical Incident Approach1 review Timothy R. Hinkin Wiley, 2005 Needed for class I needed it for class. It is a good tool to get one to think about how to handle different situations in a managerial position.             Fire Department Incident Safety Officer5 reviews David W. Dodson Delmar Cengage Learning, 2007 Lessons forgotten or never taught I found this book very informative, ignore Safety-Command's review. I attended David Dodson's 16 hour class during the FDIC conference in Indianapolis in 2005. The class was an overview of the book and the more important skill of learning to read smoke. Mr. Dodson also taught an Art of Reading Smoke class that was attended by over 1,000 people. This book is the basis for the FDSOA certification ...             Incident at Hawk's Hill56 reviews Allan W Eckert Little, Brown Young Readers, 1995 Encore This little boy was stranded all alone out on the prairie, and the only other helpful being there was a badger. Ben, a 6 year old boy can act like animals as if he was their brother. He picks an animal, then can follow it for hours acting like it, and making noises like it. But one day, when he was mocking a chicken he wandered too far. When he noticed it was about lunch time he turned back to go ...             Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic2 reviews Harriet Jacobs Prestwick House, Inc., 2006 Rare first hand account of slavery Harriet Jacobs book Life of a Slave Girl is a unique piece of slave literature directly from the pen of an articulate slave. One gets a sense of the poignant way she can retell the story of her enslavement from a passage she writes in the preface of her book. ". . . I do earnestly desire to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two millions ...             The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics)48 reviews Walter Van Tilburg Clark Modern Library, 2004 An American classic and a classic Western THE OX-BOW INCIDENT is a classic tale. It also is a classic Western, and because the Western is so central to American culture, THE OX-BOW INCIDENT surely is more important -- more "classic", if you will -- for Americans than for others. To be sure, at times the writing is somewhat dated, but that "flaw" is negligible. The cast of characters (at least 20) is very finely drawn, with only one ...             Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Large Print Edition) Harriet Ann Jacobs BiblioBazaar, 2008 Northerners know nothing at all about Slavery. They think it is perpetual bondage only. They have no conception of the depth of degradation involved in that word SLAVERY; if they had they would never cease their efforts until so horrible a system was overthrown." - A Woman of North Carolina (From Original Title Page)             The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl, Book 2)275 reviews Eoin Colfer, 2002 Another Excellent Artemis Fowl Purchased the Audio CDs for travel, and just like Book 1, Nathaniel Parker does an excellent job in narrating. If you enjoy Jim Dale (Harry Potter Series), you'll enjoy Nathaniel Park too. Book 1 picks right up with a ton of adventure and suspense. Like every Artemis Book, it leaves you wanting more.             Incident Response and Computer Forensics, Second Edition29 reviews Chris Prosise, Kevin Mandia, ... McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2003 The Very Best Computer Forensics Primer Out There (1/04) As an attorney and a formally-trained computer forensics examiner and instructor who has been tilling the fields of digital evidence for some time, I'm always on the prowl for the next great computer forensics tool or text that's going to help me find the next smoking gun...or at least be confident I haven't overlooked it. I've built a substantial library of books and articles on computer ...             The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time27 reviews Mark Haddon Vintage, 2004 Extremely Raw - and a Super read In a murder, there is usually one mystery to solve, even though plots are far-fetched and convoluted. This murder (of the dog mentioned in the title) has the actual killing, the highly involved world of the detective, and the question of whether "they all live happily ever after" to unravel. I read this book on recommendation after hearing a very inspiring talk by a Danish gentleman at a ...             Return to Hawk's Hill: Sequel to the Newbery Honor-Winning Incident at Hawk's Hill3 reviews Allan W. Eckert Little, Brown Young Readers, 2000 A GOOD BOOK! This sequal to Incident at Hawk's Hill was a great book. It was nice to find out that Ben MacDonold did well in school. When the familie's adventure starts, they didn't know that it would lead to a friendship with indians. This book was full of incredible suspense and action.             Incident Management for the Street-Smart Fire Officer, 2nd Edition4 reviews John F. (Skip) Coleman Fire Engineering Books & Videos, 2008 Incident Command For Dummies!!! This is a well written book that puts together the pieces of firefighting to bring the reader a better overall undestanding of the "big picture". Lots of examples and real-world scenarios. Our department uses this book for promotion exam material for Driver/Engineers. A good first step into Incident Commend for new officers, and deep enough for the seasoned Chief.             Principles of Incident Response and Disaster Recovery1 review Michael E. Whitman, Herbert J. Mattord Course Technology, 2006 Practical Method for experienced people This book provides lots of example formats for your DRP and gives solid guidance for how to conduct the DR planning sessions. If you know nothing about DRP/BCP, you might want to read Toigo's book first, but this book will get you started much more quickly.             The Nye Incidents OGN1 review Whitley Strieber, Craig Spector, ... Devil's Due Publishing, 2008 Cinematic. Very good. I've always thought Whitley to be an excellent writer of horror fiction. I thought his first book on the UFO phenomenon, Communion, to be very good as well. Folllowng these books and for many years, I've mostly disagreed with both his optimism and his interpretation of many aspects of that same phenomenon, and I've wondered if there's not a certain degree of confabulation coming out in his ...             1635: The Dreeson Incident (The Ring of Fire) Eric Flint, Virginia DeMarce Baen, 2008 The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident.   While the old entrenched rulers and manipulators continue to plot against this new upstart ...             Jesus Incident12 reviews Frank Herbert, B. Ransom Ace, 1987 The Jesus Incident Not a review, just a notice that BILL RANSOM was the co-author with Frank Herbert on this book and the whole series. Amazon left my name off this display.             Incidents That Define Process Safety (CCPS Concept Books)2 reviews Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Wiley-AIChE, 2008 great breadth and depth This book goes a lot further than previous books, in that it looks at incidents outside the process industry, and explores the failings of all elements of process safety. Obviously BP is stepping up the effort to become a recognized leader in process safety (those words were written for them by someone else, weren't they?) Anyway, it's a fascinating and informative read that should arm process ...             The Chaneysville Incident16 reviews David Bradley Harper Perennial, 1990 One of the great American novels This is one of the best books I have ever read. It is deeply steeped in both history and a profound sense of the limits of history. I think it has a justifiable claim to standing among the great American novels. It is well researched, and the product of a keen, nuanced, discriminating intellect that, one can tell, does not suffer fools gladly. It deals with our central American wounds, those of ...             Large Scale Incident Management Mark Haraway Delmar Cengage Learning, 2008 Taking the approach that experience is the best teacher, Large Scale Incident Management is the first book of its kind to use a major, real-life, contemporary event to teach key incident management concepts. The book places readers in the Incident Commander seat for the EQ chemical fires that occurred in Apex, North Carolina, in October 2006: an event that lasted three days, shut down an entire city, and displaced 17,000 citizens. Using this ...             Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods: Poems2 reviews Paula Bohince Sarabande Books, 2008 Lush, complex, necessary poems In this haunting debut, Paula Bohince shows us the complexity of a world that is as beautiful as it is violent, as violent as it is beautiful.In every poem in this collection, Bohince weaves images that dazzle and insights that will break your heart. If you believe poetry can show us what's true about the world, that it can teach us how and why to live, you need this book. I sure do.              search for books approach, artemis, bayonet, chaneysville, classic, classics, computer, concept, critical, curious, department, disaster, dreeson, edition, forensics, honor-winning, hospitality, incident, incidents, literary, management, newbery, night-time, principles, process, recovery, response, street-smart, touchstone, winning books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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