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'An auditor is a person who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to bayonet the wounded.' The best way to prove this often repeated quote wrong is to study your new profession, learn its best practices, immerse yourself in its history, and its future direction. This six-step guide will set new entrants to the internal audit profession on the right path.

Unlock Your Mind's Full Potential: Discover How to Sharpen Your Focus and Revolutionize Your Thinking in Just 14 Days!It's commonly believed that intellect, memory, and problem-solving are decided at birth – the brain you start with is only capable of growing to a certain degree.The truth is, your brain adapts and evolves daily as life unfolds around you and it is exposed to new experiences and stimuli.When you read a book, your brain streng...

Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton. In this richly detailed work of literary and cultural history, Ritchie Devon Watson Jr. charts how the partnership brought fantastic wealth to both the South and Gotham during the first half of the nineteenth century. That mutually be...

The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy. Warfare and the military are ubiquitous in popular culture.At War offers short, accessible essays ad...

In this indispensable and comprehensive text, Scott D. Watson critically examines the current understanding of international order that underpins international disaster management and disaster diplomacy.Based on empirical analysis of the three international disaster management regimes - disaster relief, disaster risk reduction, and disaster migration - and case studies of disaster diplomacy in the United States, Egypt and China, Watson argues that international disaster management ...

This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian principles. Watson examines how refugees and asylum seekers have come to be treated so poorly by these states through the use of policies such as visa requirements, mandatory detention and preve...

Depuis 2015, les mouvements transfrontaliers de migrants et de réfugiés ont atteint des niveaux sans précédent. La guerre, la persécution, l’extrême pauvreté et la désertification ont forcé des millions de personnes à fuir leur pays d’Asie centrale, du Levant ou de l’Afrique du Nord. Les pays du Nord ont réagi de manières diverses, certains ouvrant leurs frontières à un nombre historique de réfugiés et de demandeurs d’asile, alors que d’autres ont encore resserré leurs politiques frontaliè...

A collaberative book. One story. Many tongues.Each chapter by a different author.

“I could never do your job.”Maybe you could. Maybe you couldn’t.Duress follows a 38‑year career on the front lines of mental health care — a world where bringing order to chaos is the daily work. Told through humour, lived experience, and the stories clinicians rarely share, this memoir offers a view of mental health that patients never see.Across decades, Scott Watson witnessed moments of hope, moments of loss, and everything in between. By the end, listeners gain a...

"I could never do your job". Well, maybe you could and maybe you couldn't.A 38-year journey through the front lines of mental health care, where bringing order to chaos isn't just a metaphor—it's the daily work.Told through humour and anecdotes, this book offers a rare perspective: the side of healthcare that patients never see—the world of a front-line clinician.Over the decades, I witnessed moments of profound hope, devastating loss, and everything in between. By ...

Pediatric Intensive Care offers clinicians and trainees a concise, easy-to-carry resource on pediatric critical care medicine, designed for frequent and quick reference at the bedside, providing solutions to questions and situations encountered in practice. The book is sized to fit in a pocket and contains focused text, bulleted lists, tables, and figures. The book facilitates the delivery of critical care by a range of practitioners, from residents to generalists in settings where CCM exp...