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You Are Your Best Thing

Author : Tarana Burke
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0593243633
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book You Are Your Best Thing written by Tarana Burke and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience. Contributions by Kiese Laymon, Imani Perry, Laverne Cox, Jason Reynolds, Austin Channing Brown, and more NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE AND BOOKRIOT It started as a text between two friends. Tarana Burke, founder of the ‘me too.’ Movement, texted researcher and writer Brené Brown to see if she was free to jump on a call. Brené assumed that Tarana wanted to talk about wallpaper. They had been trading home decorating inspiration boards in their last text conversation so Brené started scrolling to find her latest Pinterest pictures when the phone rang. But it was immediately clear to Brené that the conversation wasn’t going to be about wallpaper. Tarana’s hello was serious and she hesitated for a bit before saying, “Brené, you know your work affected me so deeply, but as a Black woman, I’ve sometimes had to feel like I have to contort myself to fit into some of your words. The core of it rings so true for me, but the application has been harder.” Brené replied, “I’m so glad we’re talking about this. It makes sense to me. Especially in terms of vulnerability. How do you take the armor off in a country where you’re not physically or emotionally safe?” Long pause. “That’s why I’m calling,” said Tarana. “What do you think about working together on a book about the Black experience with vulnerability and shame resilience?” There was no hesitation. Burke and Brown are the perfect pair to usher in this stark, potent collection of essays on Black shame and healing. Along with the anthology contributors, they create a space to recognize and process the trauma of white supremacy, a space to be vulnerable and affirm the fullness of Black love and Black life.

Beat the Rain

Author : Nigel Jay Cooper
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785353659
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Beat the Rain written by Nigel Jay Cooper and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 semifinalist, Best Debut Author A love story about dysfunctional people. Can Louise move on from the loss of her lover Tom? Can she and Tom's twin brother Adam really find a way to love one another? Or are they trapped on a path of self-destruction, moving towards a tragedy neither can avoid? Beat The Rain is a moving and vulnerable depiction of a relationship in decline. At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, it explores what it means to live, to love and to lose.

Night Beat

Author : Mikal Gilmore
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385500297
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Night Beat written by Mikal Gilmore and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2000-01-04 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Now, for the first time, this collection gathers his cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings. Beginning with Elvis and the birth of rock and roll, Gilmore traces the seismic changes in America as its youth responded to the postwar economic and political climate. He hears in the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison the voices of unrest and fervor, and charts the rise and fall of punk in brilliant essays on Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash. Mikal Gilmore describes Bruce Springsteen's America and the problem of Michael Jackson. And like no one else, Gilmore listens to the lone voices: Al Green, Marianne Faithfull, Sinead O'Connor, Frank Sinatra. Four decades of American life are observed through the inimitable lens of rock and roll, and through the provocative and intelligent voice of one of the most committed chroniclers of American music, and its powerful expressions of love, soul, politics, and redemption.

Teens- Beat Future Economic Crisis!

Author : Laura Lyseight
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450034535
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Teens- Beat Future Economic Crisis! written by Laura Lyseight and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to learn the habits of an entrepreneur while in your teens? Do you see yourself owning your own business or businesses even as a teen or in the near future? Do you want to have a better advantage and a greater chance of succeeding in the world of business in this changing economic climate? This book will give you the most incredible exposure to the habits of the go-getter entrepreneurial teen, before you are exposed to the real world. It explores the kind of attitude the go-getter forms, knowing that their attitude in certain specific areas of life is what will determine their ultimate altitude. It exposes the secret on the knowledge they have on areas such as Practicing Delayed Gratification, Developing An Opportunist Eye, Learning From The Best Minds in the World, Adopting An Attitude Of Gratitude and lots more. It is filled with an in-depth wealth of wisdom and understanding that ONLY the go-getter entrepreneur applies to their lives daily. It works without fail time and time again. These revealed habits are what you need as a teen of today and as you start practicing such habits you will not be a victim to any economic crisis now or in the future. You need financial education and quickly too, as its neglect is sure to cost you millions. The credit card way of life must be dissuaded and discouraged from this early age. For any teen who has unanswered questions about wanting to be an entrepreneur, planning on running their own business in the future or for those who are noticing the disastrous effects of the Economic Recession and Nine to Five Jobs, look no further because this is the right book for you! There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own. J. Paul Getty, Former oil tycoon and once the richest man in America. The focal point of this book seeks to give you an opportunity to explore your unlimited boundaries before you get chained down to mortgages, family responsibilities, the credit card curse etc. http://xlibris.s3.amazonaws.com/XL-74356-Laura_Lyseight_-_Teens_Beat_Future_Economic_Crisis_-_WITHOUT_Voice_over_FINAL/index.html

Encyclopedia of Beat Literature

Author : Kurt Hemmer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109083
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Beat Literature written by Kurt Hemmer and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the literary works and great authors of the Beat Generation.

Slowdown blues? Let's beat it.

Author : Muralidharan Dhanapalan
Publisher : D Muralidharan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slowdown blues? Let's beat it. written by Muralidharan Dhanapalan and published by D Muralidharan. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is that time of the, where negative news pervades all over the world, including India, China and many European and Western nations as well. The most dreaded word, slowdown now is more heard and seen, both in the media, and through the Chinese whispers, and the annals of any organisation worth its size and name! So, how do we look at the future, and are we ready for tough times? How long is such a situation going to last? And is this for real, or are the media and the trail of negative news all over affecting the mood, and also exaggerating how bad things are, than they could be in reality. Whatever be the reality, the moment we are faced with a situation, it’s like a huge thunderbolt hit us. More than what in reality has happened – owing to external circumstances, and extraneous factors, what takes a toll is the way once reacts, when faced with a slowdown. This e-book is meant to be a good and thought helping companion when you think you are being bogged down by things like an impending slowdown or job loss, or anything similar. You are down, but that’s because of anything else BUT you – a host of factors not in anybody’s control. While there is nothing much you can do on the extraneous factors, what you can do, is to make use of the interregnum as a kind of platform for re-launching and rediscovering you, in every manner possible. The book is intended, not only for those who are in the midst of such an event, but also to everyone who wishes to be mentally prepared, just in case they are in any part of the globe, and are likely to be impacted by a slowdown. Not much has been written as to how the softer side of a slowdown situation is to be handled on the personal front. The pages of this book are meant to mentally prepare individuals, equip them to handle slowdown or pink-slips with grace, and face life with more confidence and renewed vigour, and make them more able and agile in handling the harsh reality of tough times in life, just in case. Read on. Let’s beat down the slow-down.

San Francisco Beat

Author : David Meltzer
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 0872868656
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco Beat written by David Meltzer and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco Beat is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual and artistic adventure. In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about the scene then and now, the traditions of poetry, and about anarchism, globalism, Zen, the Bomb, the Kabbalah and the Internet. Diane di Prima, William Everson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hirschman, Joanne Kyger, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Jack Micheline, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen " . . . as we begin to slip into a national slumber somewhat akin to that of the Eisenhower years, it’s exhilarating to have this squall line of Beats pass through our consciousness."—Kirkus Reviews " . . . fierce engagement executed with humor and vernacular sensitivity."—Dale Smith, Austin Chronicle David Meltzer (1937-2016) was the author of many books of poetry, including Tens, The Name, Arrows: Selected Poetry 1957-1992 and Two-Way Mirror (City Lights). He was the editor of Birth, The Secret Garden, Reading Jazz and Writing Jazz, among other collections. His agit-smut fictions include The Agency Trilogy. Meltzer read poetry at the Jazz Cellar in the 1950s and in the 1960s fronted the band, "Serpent Power."

How To Beat Panic Disorder One Step At A Time

Author : Paul Farrand
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472113438
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book How To Beat Panic Disorder One Step At A Time written by Paul Farrand and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), initiated in 2008, has made psychological therapy more accessible to those in need. This series of self-help titles is the first to be created specifically for low-intensity IAPT and all titles follow an evidence-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach which is the treatment of choice for depression and anxiety disorders. All titles are written by authors with considerable experience in the field of CBT self-help research, training and clinical practice. This book is the perfect resource for helping you to beat panic attacks and panic disorder, either by yourself or in conjunction with the support of an IAPT service. The book is written in a friendly, engaging (and jargon-free!) style and encourages interactive reading through tables, illustrations and worksheets. Real-life case studies illustrate the use of each intervention and demonstrate how you can work through your condition. This book will help you to understand your panic cycle, and to face your fears through gradual exposure.

And the Beat Goes on

Author : Vesta Beatty
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595270999
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book And the Beat Goes on written by Vesta Beatty and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer is a word that brings fear to the very center of each person. Yet it need not be considered a death sentence as there are scores of cancer survivors. Vesta Beatty wants you to join her on her journey through the fear, anger, and sorrow of cancer into the hope and joy of life after cancer. She wants to share with you those things that were most helpful to her in her fight to conquer this horrid thing which had invaded her body and threatened her life. During this journey she hopes to bring you a few laughs and show you that she is not content with just the fact of her continuing life. On the contrary, she insists on LIFE in all caps.

Beyond the Beat

Author : Daniel B. Cornfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400873894
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Beat written by Daniel B. Cornfield and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, Beyond the Beat looks at artist activists—those visionaries who create inclusive artist communities in today's individualistic and entrepreneurial art world. Using Nashville as a model, Daniel Cornfield develops a theory of artist activism—the ways that artist peers strengthen and build diverse artist communities. Cornfield discusses how genre-diversifying artist activists have arisen throughout the late twentieth-century musician migration to Nashville, a city that boasts the highest concentration of music jobs in the United States. Music City is now home to diverse recording artists—including Jack White, El Movimiento, the Black Keys, and Paramore. Cornfield identifies three types of artist activists: the artist-producer who produces and distributes his or her own and others' work while mentoring early-career artists, the social entrepreneur who maintains social spaces for artist networking, and arts trade union reformers who are revamping collective bargaining and union functions. Throughout, Cornfield examines enterprising musicians both known and less recognized. He links individual and collective actions taken by artist activists to their orientations toward success, audience, and risk and to their original inspirations for embarking on music careers. Beyond the Beat offers a new model of artistic success based on innovating creative institutions to benefit the society at large.

Beat Punks

Author : Victor Bockris
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497653061
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Beat Punks written by Victor Bockris and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “poet laureate of the New York underground scene” chronicles three decades of electrifying artistic expression Once dominated by Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, by the 1970s and ’80s, New York City’s creative scene had given way to a punk rock–era defined by figures like Debbie Harry and Richard Hell. While the aesthetics of these two movements seem different on the surface, author and prolific interviewer Victor Bockris—who witnessed it all—argues that the punks borrowed from the ideology and style of the beats, and that the beats were reenergized by the emergence of punk. In intimate conversation, Bockris’s close friends—including celebrities from both periods, such as William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Joey Ramone, and Patti Smith—reveal more about themselves and their art to him than to any other interviewer. Along with dozens of rare photos, Bockris’s interviews and essays capture the energy of this unique time.

How to Beat A Woman at Her Own Games

Author : Ralph Hemphill
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1645840794
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book How to Beat A Woman at Her Own Games written by Ralph Hemphill and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world, much unlike the world of long ago, before the 1980s--where women probably and seemingly didn't play as many games and didn't scheme as much as the women of today--one can clearly see, witness, and attest to the ever-present and overwhelming amount of game playing and scheming ways of most of the females we know, know of, see, and interact with on a day-to-day basis. Most every man, at one point or some point in his life, has fallen victim to a game or scheme of a female whom he has either tried to get with or hook up with, and many guys get hit with games and schemes even with those that they are married to or in relationships with. Practically no man is exempt. We all at some point will find ourselves faced with a woman whose sole purpose is to either go for what's in our pockets or bank accounts, or to try to get us to do something for them for free or to get us to buy them stuff without them appreciating it and then turning around and buying us stuff too as well. That's a big part of the world we live in as far as men interacting with women, and the sole purpose of this book is to at least get guys to recognize when they are being played and to not fall for the simple games that women play twenty-four hours a day.

Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them

Author : Patrick Letellier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317765508
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them written by Patrick Letellier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic violence in gay male relationships is the third largest health problem for gay men in America today. Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them breaks the silence surrounding gay male domestic violence and exposes this hidden yet prevalent and destructive problem. The authors paint a vivid picture of gay men’s domestic violence, bringing its brutality to life by including personal narratives, written by one of the authors, by clearly defining what it is and what it is not through lists of violent acts and criminal code categories, and by thoroughly examining and analyzing the criminal, mental health, medical, political, and interpersonal issues involved. The authors boldly depart from the battered women’s literature by asserting that batterers have a diagnosable mental disorder, that battering is not gender based, and that much further criminalization of domestic violence is necessary. Striving for victim advocacy, the book underscores the idea that gay men’s domestic violence is totally unacceptable and is caused solely by individual abusive gay men who choose to batter. The book builds on and departs from what is known about domestic violence, with the authors challenging several fundamental premises in the literature, unabashedly identifying battering as a mental disorder. The authors explain that victims cannot stop their battering partners from battering and virtually all batterers choose to harm their partners in a premeditated fashion. The authors provide practical steps and suggestions for victims who want to leave and stay away from their violent partners and for friends who want to help battered gay men. Chapters describe the scope of the problem and refute myths and misconceptions. There are several detailed theory chapters in which the authors explain why gay men’s domestic violence occurs, who the batterers are, who the victims are at different stages of victimization, and how domestic violence can be stopped. A visionary, wide-ranging governmental and private plan of action is introduced, including lists of necessary laws and policies, as well as outlines of strong education, training, and advertising problems needed in various sectors of society. As a self-help book, Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them provides practical information on a never-before discussed topic. As a trainer’s manual or teaching guide, it includes specific criteria for understanding the problem and for providing treatment.

Can Anything Beat White?

Author : Elisabeth Petry
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617030686
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Can Anything Beat White? written by Elisabeth Petry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Petry (1908-1997) achieved prominence during a period in which few black women were published with regularity in America. Her novels Country Place (1947) and The Narrows (1988), along with various short stories and nonfiction, poignantly described the struggles and triumphs of middle-class blacks living in primarily white communities. Petry's ancestors, the James family, served as inspiration for much of her fiction. This collection of more than four hundred family letters, edited by the daughter of Ann Petry, is an engaging portrait of black family life from the 1890s to the early twentieth century, a period not often documented by African American voices. Ann Petry's maternal grandfather, Willis Samuel James, was a slave taught by his children to read and write. He believed "the best place for the negro is as near the white man as he can get." He followed that "truth," working as coachman for a Connecticut governor and buying a house in a white neighborhood in Hartford. Willis had sixteen children by three wives. The letters in this collection are from him and his second wife, Anna E. Houston James, and five of Anna's children, of whom novelist Ann Petry's mother, Bertha James Lane, was the oldest. History is made and remade by the availability of new documents, sources, and interpretations. Can Anything Beat White? contributes a great deal to this process. The experiences of the James family as documented in their letters challenge both representations of black people at the turn of the century as well as our contemporary sense of black Americans.

One Beat of a ButterflyÕs Heart

Author : Ronald Callander
Publisher : 30 Degrees South Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1920143955
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book One Beat of a ButterflyÕs Heart written by Ronald Callander and published by 30 Degrees South Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book we are given a unique view of East Africa of the 1950s; not the stereotyped picture of wildlife safaris and leaping Masai, but the emerging independence struggle of a new African nation from the viewpoint of a white police office, in an exceptionally detailed, thoroughly readable, firsthand account of a rare period of recent history. It tells how an Australian veteran, fresh from the Korean War, became a colonial police officer in Tanganyika Territory (later Tanzania after federation with the offshore islands of Zanzibar in 1964). Ê The reader is taken on a journey which tourists in Africa never see: from back alleys and police cells in the polyglot city of Dar es Salaam, to snake-infested camps on UgandaÐRuanda border patrols, and on police field force emergency operations from barracks at the foot of Kilimanjaro. There is much here to discover about a mostly benign semi-colonial period in Africa which lasted less than fifty years, passing, in one AfricanÕs description, as briefly as a butterflyÕs heartbeat; where a few conscientious white administrators and their loyal African assistants managed vast regions of a desolate territory with remarkably selfless care and scarce resources; where things worked most of the time, but sometimes where chaos reigned. It is about the country itself, its ubiquitous animals and its people at close range, including villagers, criminals, hunters, witch doctors, and colonial officials, but most of all, the African askari policemen who were the authorÕs closeÑand often onlyÑcompanions.

How to Beat Worry and Stress

Author : Dr. David Delvin
Publisher : Sheldon Press
ISBN 13 : 1847092004
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book How to Beat Worry and Stress written by Dr. David Delvin and published by Sheldon Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A certain amount of worry and stress can be energising. They may act as a natural warning system when something is wrong, and can help people meet deadlines and complete tasks. High levels of both are however counter-productive, and all too common. Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is believed to affect some two million people in the UK, while the World Health Organisation estimates that half of all cases go undiagnosed. These figures put anxiety only second to depression as a mental health problem. Topics covered in this book include: * What is 'normal' worry and when is it useful - e.g., sitting an exam, completing a work assignment * signs and symptoms of excessive worry and stress * tackling worry and stress - analysing the problem, accepting uncertainty * developing problem-solving skills, including prioritising and time management * the value of exercise (helps release serotonin) * diet, e.g. eliminating sugar, caffeine and alcohol * relaxation and breathing * when worry gets out of hand - what to do if you need help * treatment - cognitive behavioural therapy, medication * support groups.

Beat Cop to Top Cop

Author : John F. Timoney
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205421
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Beat Cop to Top Cop written by John F. Timoney and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx, he entered the New York City Police Department, quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in the history of that department. Timoney and the rest of the command assembled under Police Commissioner Bill Bratton implemented a number of radical strategies, protocols, and management systems, including CompStat, that led to historic declines in nearly every category of crime. In 1998, Mayor Ed Rendell of Philadelphia hired Timoney as police commissioner to tackle the city's seemingly intractable violent crime rate. Philadelphia became the great laboratory experiment: Could the systems and policies employed in New York work elsewhere? Under Timoney's leadership, crime declined in every major category, especially homicide. A similar decrease not only in crime but also in corruption marked Timoney's tenure in his next position as police chief of Miami, a post he held from 2003 to January 2010. Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities documents Timoney's rise, from his days as a tough street cop in the South Bronx to his role as police chief of Miami. This fast-moving narrative by the man Esquire magazine named "America's Top Cop" offers a blueprint for crime prevention through first-person accounts from the street, detailing how big-city chiefs and their teams can tame even the most unruly cities. Policy makers and academicians have long embraced the view that the police could do little to affect crime in the long term. John Timoney has devoted his career to dispelling this notion. Beat Cop to Top Cop tells us how.