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Billing and Collecting for Your Mental Health Practice Effective Strategies and Ethical Practice


Free Download Jeffrey E. Barnett PsyD, "Billing and Collecting for Your Mental Health Practice: Effective Strategies and Ethical Practice"
English | ISBN: 1433810174 | 2011 | 130 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book presents specific, practical guidance on the technical aspects of billing and related ethical and legal considerations. Topics include protecting client rights in the billing and collection processes, setting and raising fees, providing informed consent about billing and fees, establishing and enforcing a written financial agreement with clients, dealing with insurance companies and other third parties, knowing what to do when clients fail to pay agreed-upon fees, learning the pros and cons of using a billing service, handling billing issues specific to forensic mental health services, and more.

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Cyber Forensics A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes


Free Download Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes By Albert Marcella Jr., Robert S. Greenfield
2002 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0849309557 | PDF | 4 MB
Given our increasing dependency on computing technology in daily business processes, and the growing opportunity to use engineering technologies to engage in illegal, unauthorized, and unethical acts aimed at corporate infrastructure, every organization is at risk. Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes provides a comprehensive, highly usable, and clearly organized resource to the issues, tools, and control techniques needed to successfully investigate illegal activities perpetuated through the use of information technology.Traditional forensics professionals use fingerprints, DNA typing, and ballistics analysis to make their case. Infosec professionals have to develop new tools for collecting, examining, and evaluating data in an effort to establish intent, culpability, motive, means, methods and loss resulting from e-crimes. The field bible for infosecurity professionals, this book introduces you to the broad field of cyber forensics and presents the various tools and techniques designed to maintain control over your organization. You will understand how to:Identify inappropriate uses of corporate ITExamine computing environments to identify and gather electronic evidence of wrongdoingSecure corporate systems from further misuseIdentify individuals responsible for engaging in inappropriate acts taken with or without corporate computing systemsProtect and secure electronic evidence from intentional or accidental modification or destructionCyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes provides a set of varied resources for anyone required to look under the hood and behind closed doors of a virtual world to gather evidence and to establish credible audit trails of electronic wrong doing. Knowing how to identify, gather, document, and preserve evidence of electronic tampering and misuse makes reading this book and using the forensic audit procedures it discusses essential to protecting corporate assets.

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Recollecting Collecting A Film and Media Perspective


Free Download Lucy Fischer, "Recollecting Collecting: A Film and Media Perspective "
English | ISBN: 0814348564 | 2023 | 292 pages | PDF | 19 MB
This intriguing volume sheds light on the diverse world of collecting film- and media-related materials. Lucy Fischer’s introduction explores theories of collecting and representations of collecting and collections in film, while arguing that collections of film ephemera and other media-related collections are an important way in to understanding the relationship between material culture and film and media studies; she notes that the collectors have various motivations and types of collections. In the eleven chapters that follow, media studies scholars analyze a variety of fascinating collected materials, from Doris Day magazines to Godzilla action figures and LEGOs.

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Art Collecting Today Market Insights for Everyone Passionate about Art (2024)


Free Download Doug Woodham, "Art Collecting Today: Market Insights for Everyone Passionate about Art"
English | 2017 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 1621535738 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Grounded in real-life stories, Art Collecting Today is the essential practical guide to today’s art market. A lightly regulated industry with more than sixty billion dollars of annual sales, the art market is often opaque and confusing to even the most experienced collectors. But whether a seasoned collector, an uninitiated newcomer, or an art-world insider, readers will learn within these pages how the art marketplace works in practice and how to navigate it smartly. Those who may have been put off by art-world practices will finally feel they have the knowledge needed to participate freely and fully, and collectors will be able to pursue their passion with more confidence.

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Mapping Art Collecting in Europe, 1860-1940


Free Download Milena Wozniak-Koch, "Mapping Art Collecting in Europe, 1860-1940"
English | ISBN: 3506795430 | 2023 | 346 pages | PDF | 15 MB
The essays featured in this book cover a broad spectrum of topics related to individual identity strategies and art collecting in the late modern era. They give a pan-European perspective on collecting in its various facets, encompassing the history of museums, exhibition policy, art market history, history of taste shaping and provenance research. By showing how collecting mirrored the social problems of modernity, this book indirectly addresses issues such as the sociocultural role of ethnic minorities, the question of women’s emancipation, social exclusion versus inclusion, colonialism and the politicisation of museums. These matters, analysed in the context of private collections, reveal the complexity and relevance of the cultural processes underpinning many social issues that remain the subject of reflection to this day.

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Military Badge Collecting


Free Download Gaylor John, "Military Badge Collecting"
English | 2003 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1526738066, 0850525241 | EPUB | 10,9 mb
An identification guide to British Army cap badges from the Calvary and Royal Armoured Corps, the Guards, Women’s Units, Kitchener’s Army, and others.This book is a comprehensive guidebook, which will appeal to anyone with an interest in medal collecting. The book contains British Army badges from the earliest days to the present, with photographs of 800 examples."This is an excellent text and complements the bookshelves of any researcher of the British army… an outstanding feat of research and I can only summarise by saying ‘Well done.’"-Military Archive Research.com

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