Search results for “[Subject: safety-security-general]”

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Strategic Planning The field of homeland security is only a few years old, and is changing rapidly as new practices emerge to sa...

• Author(s): Bryan Simpson • Publisher: CRC Press • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • BISAC: Civil - GeneralThis book brings together contributions from some of the leading researchers and practising engineers in the field of silos and containment s...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster Relief Although the phrase "homeland security" evokes images of cataclysmic terrorist attacks, and a ma...

• Author(s): Frank R. Spellman • Publisher: Bernan Press • Publisher Imprint: Bernan Press • BISAC: Industrial Health & SafetyThe third edition of Safety Engineering: Principles and Practices has been thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded...

• Author(s): Nancy G. Leveson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: System TheoryA new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques....

• Author(s): Lawrence S. Bacow • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralAssessing the role of government regulation in occupational safety issues.In 1977, a grain elevator explosion ...

• Author(s): Sheldon Friedman | David Jacobs • Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association • Publisher Imprint: Labor and Employment Research Association • BISAC: Insurance - GeneralSocial insurance and employee benefits are key elements...

• Author(s): Denis Fred Simon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Internet - Online Safety & PrivacyThis text assesses the changing dimensions of national security in a world where business and technology issues hav...

• Author(s): Jonathan B. Tucker | Richard Danzig • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Chemical & BiochemicalA framework for assessing the security risks of emerging dual-use technologies and devising tailored governa...

• Author(s): Joel Brenner • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Security - GeneralA chilling and revelatory appraisal of the new faces of espionage and warfare on the digital battleground Sho...

• Author(s): Nathan W. Fisk • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Security - Online Safety & PrivacyAn examination of youth Internet safety as a technology of gov...

• Author(s): Joseph Migga Kizza • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General In its 4th edition, this book remains focused on increasing public awareness of...

• Author(s): Charles Hauss • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Library & Information Science • BISAC: Security (National & International)About the Book Today, international security issues ...

• Author(s): Paul Battersby | Joseph M. Siracusa • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: GlobalizationThis concise text presents a focused, well-rounded, and clear-eyed in...

• Author(s): Amos A. Jordan • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Military ScienceThe sixth edition of American National Security has been extensively rewritten to take into accou...

• Author(s): Paul Battersby | Joseph M. Siracusa • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: GlobalizationThis concise text presents a focused, well-rounded, and clear-eyed in...

• Author(s): Steve Pollock • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Jet airliner operations in the United States began in 1958, bringing, it was thought, a new era of fast, high, safe, smo...

• Author(s): Frederick Hatch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State From his election in November 1860 to his death in April 1865, Abraham Lincoln faced constant ...

• Author(s): Andrew McClary • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Parenting - General In early America, most children had only a few toys and parents received advice from family and friends on ...

• Author(s): Ross Koppel • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryEach year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and ot...

• Author(s): Suzanne Gordon • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryLegally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates believe that mi...

• Author(s): Walter Gellhorn • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralBoth sides of a sensitive problem are assessed by Professor Gellhorn in this penetrating analysis of national securit...

• Author(s): Richard J. Ellings | Sheldon W. Simon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Security (National & International)Assessing trends toward creating innovative forms of political, economic and security co-oper...

• Author(s): Thomas A. Drohan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Science What led two mortal enemies to become allies nine years after the end of World War II? When the Allies began...

• Author(s): Sheldon W. Simon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Military ScienceAssesses the impact on the Asia-Pacific region of the detente in great power relations attendant upon the end of the Cold War. The book e...

• Author(s): Amy L. Fraher • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Industries - TransportationIf you are one of over 700 million passengers who will fly in America this year, you need to read this book. The Next Crash offer...

• Author(s): Sean M. Lynn-Jones | Steven E. Miller • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe essays collected in Global Dangers provide both conceptual analysis and empirical assessment of...

• Author(s): Sheldon W. Simon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Modern - 20Th CenturyThis edition adds chapters on Burma and Vietnam, and updated material throughout reflects the current economic crisis in the region.

• Author(s): Philip Zwerling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays Former CIA Personnel Director F.W.M. Janney once wrote, "It is absolutely essential that the Agency have available to i...

• Author(s): David E. Nye • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralBy viewing the corporation as a communicator, Image Worlds links the histories of labor, business, consumption, engineering, and photography, providin...

• Author(s): Ivelaw L. Griffith • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Military ScienceThis comprehensive work on security in the English-speaking Caribbean, offers a wealth of information about the history, politics, econ...

• Author(s): Richard J. Ellings | Sheldon W. Simon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Security (National & International)Assessing trends toward creating innovative forms of political, economic and security co-oper...

• Author(s): Richard Alan Schwartz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century For over forty years much of the world was held captive by a conflict between two wholly incompati...

• Author(s): A. M. Homes • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)The breakthrough story collection that established A. M. Homes as one of the most daring writers of...

• Author(s): Frank L. Smith • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II....

• Author(s): Robert M. Brzenchek • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Organized CrimeTransnational Organized Crime and Gangs: Intervention, Prevention, and Suppression ...