Introduction to Security or The Choice

Introduction to Security

Author: Robert Fischer

Introduction to Security, 8th Edition, has been the leading introduction to private security for over thirty years, celebrated for its balanced and professional approach to this increasingly important area. Now the eighth edition expands the key topics and adds material on important issues in the 21st c environment.

The author team brings together top-level professional experience in industry with years of teaching experience. As a recommended title for security certifications, it is a crucial resource for the 30,000+ ASIS International members, and is also used as a core security textbook in universities throughout the country. This is Butterworth-Heinemann's best-selling security text of all time, an essential reference for all security professionals.

* Significantly expanded chapters on computer issues, cargo, homeland security and terrorism
* New chapter on Internal Issues and Controls covering crucial information on internal theft, pe rsonnel policies, and drugs and violence in the workplace
* More illustrations and photos to make learning easier

Booknews

New edition of a book which discusses contemporary security issues<-->from security equipment and procedures to management and loss prevention theory. Readers are introduced to the options used to deal with a variety of today's security dilemmas, including recent concerns such as workplace violence and drugs in the workplace. Each chapter is followed up with an essay and short-answer questions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Homeland Security - Changing the Emphasis on Security in the United States	3
2	Origins and Development of Security	21
3	Defining Security's Role	37
4	The Proprietary Security Organization	55
5	Career Opportunities in Loss Prevention	75
6	Security Education, Training, Certification, and Regulation	89
7	Security and the Law	103
8	Risk Analysis and the Security Survey	129
9	The Outer Defenses: Building and Perimeter Protection	147
10	Interior and Exterior Security Concerns	167
11	The Inner Defenses: Intrusion and Access Control	193
12	Fire Protection, Safety, and Emergency Planning	215
13	Insurance	241
14	Internal Theft Controls	253
15	Personnel Policies for Internal Security	273
16	Transportation/Cargo Security	297
17	Workplace Violence: Prevention and Intervention	319
18	Drugs in the Workplace	333
19	Retail Security	345
20	Terrorism and Other Tools of Destruction	369
21	Computer and Information Security	399
22	Specific Security Threats	427
23	Security: Its Problems, Its Futur e	443
App. A	Security Journals, Magazines, and Newsletters	453
App. B	World Wide Web Sites	455
App. C	Security Surveys	457
	Index	465

Look this: Coaching for Emotional Intelligence or Government and Not for Profit Accounting

The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protection

Author: Russell Roberts

Written as a novel, the book makes the complex concepts, issues and terminology of international trade understandable for students. Professors complain that their students cannot grasp the nature of how some economic tools are used or how they work in life. This novel bridges the gap of concepts with applications by use of a fictional story.

David Ricardo comes to life to discuss international trade theory and policy with Ed Johnson, a fictional American television manufacturer seeking trade protection from television manufacturers. Their dialogue is a sophisticated, rigorous discussion of virtually every major issue in trade theory and policy. To illustrate the positive and normative effects of international trade and trade policy, Ricardo takes the reader and Ed Johnson into the future to see an America of free trade and an America of complete self-sufficiency. The fictional element brings these topics to life so that students gain the intuition and understanding of how trade changes the lives of people and the industries they work in. The fundamental intuition of how international markets function including general equilibrium effects and policy analysis is provided.

Table of Contents:

CHAPTER 1 Minutes of the Heavenly Court: Soul of David Ricardo

CHAPTER 2 The Challenge of Foreign Competition

CHAPTER 3 The Roundabout Way to Wealth

CHAPTER 4 Is Trade Good for America?

CHAPTER 5 Are Manufacturing Jobs Better Than Service Jobs?

CHAPTER 6 Is Outsourcing a Threat to American Prosperity?

CHAPTER 7 Do Tariffs Protect American Jobs?

CHAPTER 8 Tariffs versus Quotas

CHAPTER 9 Road Trip

CHAPTER 10 The Case for Protection

CHAPTER 11 Do Trade Deficits Hurt America?

CHAPTER 12 Fair Trade versus Free Trade

CHAPTER 13 Is Globalization Good for the Poor?

CHAPTER 14 Self-Sufficiency Is the Road to Poverty

CHAPTER 15 The Choice

CHAPTER 16 A Final Word from David Ricardo

CHAPTER 17 Explanations, Sources, and Further Reading

About the Au thor

Index