Safe, Secure, and Streetwise

Safe, Secure, and Streetwise
Author: Reader's Digest Association South Africa
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1997
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

This text is written exclusively for South Africans and was compiled in conjunction with some of the country's leading crime-fighters.

Streetwise

Streetwise
Author: Peter Consterdine
Publisher: Summerdale Pub Limited
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1998-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781873475522

This illustrated guide covers all aspects of self-defence and personal security in the street, car and home. In addition to providing explanations of the various combat and martial arts techniques, the author describes how to recognize an impending attack and how to deal with the attack.

Streetwise

Streetwise
Author: Diego Gambetta
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2005-06-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1610442350

A taxi driver's life is dangerous work. Picking up a bad customer can leave the driver in a vulnerable position, and erring even once can prove fatal. To protect themselves, taxi drivers must quickly and accurately assess the trustworthiness of complete strangers. In Streetwise, Diego Gambetta and Heather Hamill take this predicament as a prototypical example of many trust decisions, where people must act on limited information and judge another person's trustworthiness based on signs that may or may not be honest indicators of that person's character or intent. Gambetta and Hamill analyze the behavior of cabbies in two cities where driving a taxi is especially perilous: New York City, where drivers have been the targets of frequent and violent robberies, and Belfast, Northern Ireland, a divided metropolis where drivers have been swept up in the region's sectarian violence. Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Streetwise lets drivers describe in their own words how they seek to determine the threat posed by each potential passenger. The drivers' decisions about whom to trust are treated in conjunction with the "sign-management" strategies of their prospective passengers—both genuine passengers who try to persuade drivers of their trustworthiness and the villains who mimic them. As the theory that guides this research suggests, drivers look for signs that correlate closely with trustworthiness but are difficult for an impostor to mimic. A smile, a business suit, or a skullcap alone do not reassure drivers, as any criminal could easily wear them. Only if attached to other signs—a middle-aged woman, a business address, or a synagogue—are they persuasive. Drivers are adept at deciphering deceitful signals, but trickery is occasionally undetectable, so they must adopt defensive strategies to minimize their exposure to harm. In Belfast, where drivers are locals and often have histories of paramilitary involvement, "macho" posturing often serves to deter would-be criminals, while New York cabbies, mostly immigrants who view themselves as outsiders, try simply to minimize the damage from attacks by appeasing robbers and carrying only small amounts of cash. For most people, erring in a trust decision leads to a broken heart or a few dollars lost. For cab drivers, such an error could mean losing their lives. The way drivers negotiate these high stakes offers us vivid insight into how to determine another person's trustworthiness. Written with clarity and color, Streetwise invites the reader to ride shotgun with cabbies as they grapple with a question of relevance to us all: which signs of trustworthiness can we really trust? A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust

Street Wise

Street Wise
Author: Janet Bamford
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-05-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470884649

Teen investors have powerful advantages over the rest of us. Many are whizzes at financial research on the Internet. They’re quick to master online stock trading. According to an August 2000 Wall Street Journal article, today more young Americans own investments than ever before, with 35 percent of eighth through twelfth graders owning stock or bonds, usually in a parent’s name, while about one-fifth own mutual funds. Often these teenage investors have amassed substantial nest eggs—even before they’ve finished high school. Although teen investors need adult cosigners for their brokerage and mutual fund custodial accounts, it’s not unusual for them to be the driving force behind their parents’ and relatives’ investment decisions. Now teens have another leg up—a book that explains the successes and investment strategies of real-life teen investors, along with the wisdom of Wall Street pros, and tips on how to make the most of the Web. The popularity of stock-picking contests and high school investment clubs—along with successful marketing vehicles, such as Stein Roe’s Young Investors Fund—have created a growing demand for investment information focused on teens, written for teens. Street Wise provides exactly what they want.

Safety First

Safety First
Author: Project Literacy
Publisher: Pearson South Africa
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2005
Genre: Crime prevention
ISBN: 9780798669221

Streetwise

Streetwise
Author: Peter L. Bernstein
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1998-02-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780691011288

Economist and money manager Peter Bernstein sought to encourage this exchange when, in 1974, he founded The Journal of Portfolio Management (JPM).

Security in the Bubble

Security in the Bubble
Author: Christine Hentschel
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2015-08-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452945306

Focusing on the South African city of Durban, Security in the Bubble looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of urban security governance in cities around the world. While apartheid was spatial governance at its most brutal, postapartheid South African cities have tried to reinvent space, using it as a “positive” technique of governance. Christine Hentschel traces the contours of two emerging urban regimes of governing security in contemporary Durban: handsome space and instant space. Handsome space is about aesthetic and affective communication as means to making places safe. Instant space, on the other hand, addresses the crime-related personal “navigation” systems employed by urban residents whenever they circulate through the city. While handsome space embraces the powers of attraction, instant space operates through the powers of fleeing. In both regimes, security is conceived not as a public good but as a situational experience that can. No longer reducible to the after-pains of racial apartheid, this city’s fragmentation is now better conceptualized, according to Hentschel, as a heterogeneous ensemble of bubbles of imagined safety.

Streetwise 24 Hour Mba

Streetwise 24 Hour Mba
Author: Alexander Hiam
Publisher: Adams Media
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-06-01
Genre: Industrial management
ISBN: 9781580622561

The savvy approach that readers expect from the "Streetwise" series is applied to critical MBA skills that are crucial to businesses of all sizes. In an innovative, user-friendly format, the book offers five popular business workshops: communications, leadership, employee motivation, financial management, and sales and marketing. Two-color throughout.

Streetwise Investing in Rental Housing

Streetwise Investing in Rental Housing
Author: Homer Roger Neal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781882877034

A sound and sensible guide to investing profitably in real estate, H.R. Neal's popular hands-on strategy will help you establish realistic goals, uncover hidden bargain properties, negotiate great deals, manage difficult tenants, and maintain a portfolio of units to give you an excellent monthly income and long term profit.

Streetwise Spanish (Book Only)

Streetwise Spanish (Book Only)
Author: Mary McVey Gill
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1998-09-11
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780844272818

Intermediate through advanced Streetwise Spanish presents the colloquial and slang expressions that students need and want to know but usually do not learn in their Spanish classes. The 15 chapters contain short dialogues, translations of the dialogues, explanations of the colloquial and slang expressions, authentic jokes, cartoons from Spanish publications, and exercises. Note: This text includes "earthy" and vulgar expressions! Each dialogue presents universal Spanish idioms and also includes slang from a particular country or city that is identified in the introductory line of the dialogue. Alternate forms used in other areas are explained in the vocabulary notes.