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Risk Management for Security Professionals
2017 || Hardcover || C. A. Roper || Butterworth-Heinemann
This book describes the risk management methodology as a specific process, a theory, or a procedure for determining your assets, vulnerabilities, and threats and how security professionals can protect them. Risk Management for Security Professionals is a practical handbook for security managers who need to learn risk management skills. It goes beyond the physical security realm to encompass all risks to which a company may be exposed.
Risk Management as presented in this book has several goal...
NATO
From Regional to Global Security Provider
2017 || Paperback || Yonah Alexander e.a. || Lexington Books
The purpose of NATO: From Regional to Global Security Provider is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Alliance's new vision (the new Strategic Concept) and common security impact - associated tasks to be undertaken within a short and longer term time horizon. The book serves as a relevant and timely study of the most pressing issues facing NATO today - including recent lessons gained. It provides recommendations for consideration and further discussion (i.e., the "what" and the "how" r...
Weapons of Math Destruction
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
2021 || Paperback || Cathy O'Neil || Crown
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric with a new afterword
A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent. Financial Times
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Boston Globe Wired Fortune Kirkus Reviews The Guardian Nature On Point
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasing...
The Government and Politics of the European Union / 8th edition
2017 || Paperback || Neill Nugent || Bloomsbury Publishing
The definitive textbook on EU politics and governance, now in its 8th edition, has been thoroughly updated to take into account the ongoing developments and evolution of the EU. Major changes, recent developments, and the crises that have befallen the union in recent times are analysed within this context. This includes eurozone crisis, the migration crisis, and the UK's decision to leave the EU.
Acclaimed author and academic Neill Nugent has written a comprehensive text, enabling students wi...
Destroying a Nation
The Civil War in Syria
2017 || Paperback || Nikolaos Van Dam || Bloomsbury Publishing
Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS as well as the root cause of the greatest refugee crisis in modern history. In this important book, former Special Envoy of the Netherlands to Syria, Nikolaos van Dam, explains the recent history of Syria, covering the growing disenchantment with the Asad regime, the chaos of civil war and the fract...
An Introduction to Sustainability
Environmental, Social and Personal Perspectives
2017 || Paperback || Martin Mulligan || Taylor & Francis
An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing subject of sustainability. This is an essential textbook for any sustainability course.
Public Policy Analysis / 6th edition
An Integrated Approach
2021 || Paperback || William N. Dunn || Taylor & Francis
Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for solving practical problems facing public and nonprofit organizations. This thoroughly revised sixth edition contains a number of important updates: Each chapter includes an all-new "big ideas" case study in policy analysis to stimulate student interest in ti...