Butterworth Heinemann imprint: 969 books
by Lawrence J. Fennelly
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention, 5e, is a trusted resource for physical security professionals, students, and candidates for the coveted Certified Protection Professional (CPP) certification administered by ASIS International. The U.S. government recently announced that employees...
by John Fay
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
The Encyclopedia of Security Management is a valuable guide for all security professionals, and an essential resource for those who need a reference work to support their continuing education. In keeping with the excellent standard set by the First Edition, the Second Edition is completely updated.
The...
What Risk?
Paperback edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Whether the public or the environment is at risk is a commonly discussed question in numerous areas of public life, most recently and publicly with regard to issues like BSE, passive smoking and the dangers from pesticides in food production. It is therefore of great importance for everyone concerned...
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
Practical Methods for Engineers including Reliability Centred Maintenance and Safety-Related Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Eighth Edition, discusses tools and techniques for reliable and safe engineering, and for optimizing maintenance strategies. It emphasizes the importance of using reliability techniques to identify and eliminate potential failures...
Practical Aviation Security
Predicting and Preventing Future Threats
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The second edition of Practical Aviation Security is a complete guide to the aviation security system, from crucial historical events to the policies, policymakers, and major terrorist and criminal acts that have shaped the procedures in use today. The tip-of-the-spear technologies that are shaping...
by Inge Sebyan Black
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
The Art of Investigative Interviewing, Third Edition can be used by anyone who is involved in investigative interviewing. It is a perfect combination of real, practical, and effective techniques, procedures, and actual cases. Learn key elements of investigative interviewing, such as human psychology,...
Nuclear Energy
An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Nuclear Energy is one of the most popular texts ever published on basic nuclear physics, systems, and applications of nuclear energy. This newest edition continues the tradition of offering a holistic treatment of everything the undergraduate engineering student needs to know in a clear and accessible...
Nuclear Safeguards, Security and Nonproliferation
Achieving Security with Technology and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
With an increase of global security concerns over potential terrorist acts, the threat of WMDs, and increasing political issues with nations seeking nuclear capability, the need to track, detect, and safeguard nuclear material globally has never been greater. Nuclear Safeguards, Security and Nonproliferation...
by Shuren Wang, Paul C Hagan, Chen Cao
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Advances in Rock-Support and Geotechnical Engineering brings together the latest research results regarding the theory of rock mechanics, its analytical methods and innovative technologies, and its applications in practical engineering. This book is divided into six sections, rock tests, rock bolting,...
Cybercrime and Business
Strategies for Global Corporate Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Cybercrime and Business: Strategies for Global Corporate Security examines the three most prevalent cybercrimes afflicting today’s corporate security professionals: piracy, espionage, and computer hacking. By demonstrating how each of these threats evolved separately and then converged to form an...
by Charles Nemeth, JD, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Private Security and the Law, Fourth Edition, is a unique resource that provides a comprehensive analysis of practices in the security industry as they relate to law, regulation, licensure, and constitutional questions of case and statutory authority. It is an authoritative, scholarly treatise that...
Chemical and Process Plant Commissioning Handbook
A Practical Guide to Plant System and Equipment Installation and Commissioning
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The Chemical and Process Plant Commissioning Handbook, winner of the 2012 Basil Brennan Medal from the Institution of Chemical Engineers, is a guide to converting a newly constructed plant or equipment into a fully integrated and operational process unit. Good commissioning is based on a disciplined,...
Renewable Motor Fuels
The Past, the Present and the Uncertain Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Considering the ever-rising costs of traditional fuel paired with the increasing scarcity of its resources, it’s easy to see why exploring renewable fuels has become an increasingly critical goal for engineers, researchers, and end-users alike. However, due to the great diversity of technologies,...
Maritime Security
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2016
Maritime Security: An Introduction, Second Edition, provides practical, experience-based, and proven knowledge - and a "how-to-guide" - on maritime security. McNicholas explains in clear language how commercial seaports and vessels function; what threats currently exist; what security policies,...