Author: Bill Stanton
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780060095291
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Will you know what to do? Now, that personal anxiety is more relevant than ever, a security expert offers a life-saving guidebook for individuals and families on how to prepare for and protect themselves in the event of an act of terrorism. With the horrific events of September 11th, 2001 still all-too fresh on the American consciousness, what do we do if something else happens? In The Anti-Terror Checklist security expert and former New York City police officer Bill Stanton explains it all for you. In rational, matter-of-fact language, he lays out the specifics: how different types of terrorist acts happen and what their effects are, and, most importantly, how we can be ready and fully-prepared in the face of such situations. This reassuring, easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidebook includes: Information on attacks of all sorts -- bombings, bio-terrorism, chemical terrorism, nuclear radiation, and more, and how to deal with the disruption of phone lines, electrical systems, waterways, roads, and airports Getting your family to safety: identifying threats; predetermined communication and coordination; modes of transportation for exiting the danger zone; target destinations; medical identification; nutritional needs; money: where to put it, how much to take with you; identifying emergency information and more A personal safety and preparedness checklist to cover all aspects of a disaster situation A security blanket for these uncertain times, The Anti-Terror Checklist should be in every American home to ensure the safety and security of ourselves, our families, and our country.
The Anti-Terror Checklist
Author: Bill Stanton
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780060095291
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Will you know what to do? Now, that personal anxiety is more relevant than ever, a security expert offers a life-saving guidebook for individuals and families on how to prepare for and protect themselves in the event of an act of terrorism. With the horrific events of September 11th, 2001 still all-too fresh on the American consciousness, what do we do if something else happens? In The Anti-Terror Checklist security expert and former New York City police officer Bill Stanton explains it all for you. In rational, matter-of-fact language, he lays out the specifics: how different types of terrorist acts happen and what their effects are, and, most importantly, how we can be ready and fully-prepared in the face of such situations. This reassuring, easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidebook includes: Information on attacks of all sorts -- bombings, bio-terrorism, chemical terrorism, nuclear radiation, and more, and how to deal with the disruption of phone lines, electrical systems, waterways, roads, and airports Getting your family to safety: identifying threats; predetermined communication and coordination; modes of transportation for exiting the danger zone; target destinations; medical identification; nutritional needs; money: where to put it, how much to take with you; identifying emergency information and more A personal safety and preparedness checklist to cover all aspects of a disaster situation A security blanket for these uncertain times, The Anti-Terror Checklist should be in every American home to ensure the safety and security of ourselves, our families, and our country.
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780060095291
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Will you know what to do? Now, that personal anxiety is more relevant than ever, a security expert offers a life-saving guidebook for individuals and families on how to prepare for and protect themselves in the event of an act of terrorism. With the horrific events of September 11th, 2001 still all-too fresh on the American consciousness, what do we do if something else happens? In The Anti-Terror Checklist security expert and former New York City police officer Bill Stanton explains it all for you. In rational, matter-of-fact language, he lays out the specifics: how different types of terrorist acts happen and what their effects are, and, most importantly, how we can be ready and fully-prepared in the face of such situations. This reassuring, easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidebook includes: Information on attacks of all sorts -- bombings, bio-terrorism, chemical terrorism, nuclear radiation, and more, and how to deal with the disruption of phone lines, electrical systems, waterways, roads, and airports Getting your family to safety: identifying threats; predetermined communication and coordination; modes of transportation for exiting the danger zone; target destinations; medical identification; nutritional needs; money: where to put it, how much to take with you; identifying emergency information and more A personal safety and preparedness checklist to cover all aspects of a disaster situation A security blanket for these uncertain times, The Anti-Terror Checklist should be in every American home to ensure the safety and security of ourselves, our families, and our country.
The Checklist Manifesto
Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429953381
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third. In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds. An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429953381
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third. In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds. An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.
Radicalization to Terrorism
Author: Sophia Moskalenko
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190862599
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Terrorism and radicalization came to the forefront of news and politics in the US after the unforgettable attacks of September 11th, 2001. When George W. Bush famously asked "Why do they hate us?," the President echoed the confusion, anger and fear felt by millions of Americans, while also creating a politicized discourse that has come to characterize and obscure discussions of both phenomenon in the media. Since then the American public has lived through a number of domestic attacks and threats, and watched international terrorist attacks from afar on television sets and computer screens. The anxiety and misinformation surrounding terrorism and radicalization are perhaps best detected in questions that have continued to recur in the last decade: "Are terrorists crazy?"; "Is there a profile of individuals likely to become terrorists?"; "Is it possible to prevent radicalization to terrorism?" Fortunately, in the two decades since 9/11, a significant body of research has emerged that can help provide definitive answers. As experts in the psychology of radicalization, Sophia Moskalenko and Clark McCauley propose twelve mechanisms that can move individuals, groups, and mass publics from political indifference to sympathy and support for terrorist violence. Radicalization to Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know synthesizes original and existing research to answer the questions raised after each new attack, including those committed by radicalized Americans. It offers a rigorously informed overview of the insight that will enable readers to see beyond the relentless new cycle to understand where terrorism comes from and how best to respond to it.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190862599
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Terrorism and radicalization came to the forefront of news and politics in the US after the unforgettable attacks of September 11th, 2001. When George W. Bush famously asked "Why do they hate us?," the President echoed the confusion, anger and fear felt by millions of Americans, while also creating a politicized discourse that has come to characterize and obscure discussions of both phenomenon in the media. Since then the American public has lived through a number of domestic attacks and threats, and watched international terrorist attacks from afar on television sets and computer screens. The anxiety and misinformation surrounding terrorism and radicalization are perhaps best detected in questions that have continued to recur in the last decade: "Are terrorists crazy?"; "Is there a profile of individuals likely to become terrorists?"; "Is it possible to prevent radicalization to terrorism?" Fortunately, in the two decades since 9/11, a significant body of research has emerged that can help provide definitive answers. As experts in the psychology of radicalization, Sophia Moskalenko and Clark McCauley propose twelve mechanisms that can move individuals, groups, and mass publics from political indifference to sympathy and support for terrorist violence. Radicalization to Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know synthesizes original and existing research to answer the questions raised after each new attack, including those committed by radicalized Americans. It offers a rigorously informed overview of the insight that will enable readers to see beyond the relentless new cycle to understand where terrorism comes from and how best to respond to it.
Ground Zero
Author: Alan Gratz
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338245775
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller. In time for the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, master storyteller Alan Gratz (Refugee) delivers a pulse-pounding and unforgettable take on history and hope, revenge and fear -- and the stunning links between the past and present. September 11, 2001, New York City: Brandon is visiting his dad at work, on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. Out of nowhere, an airplane slams into the tower, creating a fiery nightmare of terror and confusion. And Brandon is in the middle of it all. Can he survive -- and escape? September 11, 2019, Afghanistan: Reshmina has grown up in the shadow of war, but she dreams of peace and progress. When a battle erupts in her village, Reshmina stumbles upon a wounded American soldier named Taz. Should she help Taz -- and put herself and her family in mortal danger? Two kids. One devastating day. Nothing will ever be the same.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338245775
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller. In time for the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, master storyteller Alan Gratz (Refugee) delivers a pulse-pounding and unforgettable take on history and hope, revenge and fear -- and the stunning links between the past and present. September 11, 2001, New York City: Brandon is visiting his dad at work, on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. Out of nowhere, an airplane slams into the tower, creating a fiery nightmare of terror and confusion. And Brandon is in the middle of it all. Can he survive -- and escape? September 11, 2019, Afghanistan: Reshmina has grown up in the shadow of war, but she dreams of peace and progress. When a battle erupts in her village, Reshmina stumbles upon a wounded American soldier named Taz. Should she help Taz -- and put herself and her family in mortal danger? Two kids. One devastating day. Nothing will ever be the same.
Just War Against Terror
Author: Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 9780465019106
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The University of Chicago political philosopher applies "just war theory" to the war on terror and concludes that pacifism is an inappropriate response to the events of September 11, 2001. 35,000 first printing.
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 9780465019106
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The University of Chicago political philosopher applies "just war theory" to the war on terror and concludes that pacifism is an inappropriate response to the events of September 11, 2001. 35,000 first printing.
Terrorist Recognition Handbook
Author: Malcolm W. Nance
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1466554606
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
First published in 2003, Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities remains one of the only books available to provide detailed information on terrorist methodology revealing terrorist motivation, organizational structure, planning, financing, and operational tactics to carry out atta
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1466554606
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
First published in 2003, Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities remains one of the only books available to provide detailed information on terrorist methodology revealing terrorist motivation, organizational structure, planning, financing, and operational tactics to carry out atta
How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone
Author: Rosie Garthwaite
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608195856
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Offers advice on surviving the extreme conditions of war zones, covering topics ranging from how to avoid land mines and amputate a limb to handling hostage situations and foraging for safe food.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608195856
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Offers advice on surviving the extreme conditions of war zones, covering topics ranging from how to avoid land mines and amputate a limb to handling hostage situations and foraging for safe food.
The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research
Author: Alex Peter Schmid
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415411572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
This volume is a monumental collection of definitions, conceptual frameworks, paradigmatic formulations, and bibliographic sources, which is now being revised and updated as a resource for the expanding community of researchers on the subject of terrorism.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415411572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
This volume is a monumental collection of definitions, conceptual frameworks, paradigmatic formulations, and bibliographic sources, which is now being revised and updated as a resource for the expanding community of researchers on the subject of terrorism.
The Theater of Operations
Author: Joseph Masco
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822375990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
How did the most powerful nation on earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In The Theater of Operations, Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations. Tracing how specific aspects of emotional management, existential danger, state secrecy, and threat awareness have evolved as core aspects of the American social contract, Masco draws on archival, media, and ethnographic resources to offer a new portrait of American national security culture. Undemocratic and unrelenting, this counterterror state prioritizes speculative practices over facts, and ignores everyday forms of violence across climate, capital, and health in an unprecedented effort to anticipate and eliminate terror threats—real, imagined, and emergent.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822375990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
How did the most powerful nation on earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In The Theater of Operations, Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations. Tracing how specific aspects of emotional management, existential danger, state secrecy, and threat awareness have evolved as core aspects of the American social contract, Masco draws on archival, media, and ethnographic resources to offer a new portrait of American national security culture. Undemocratic and unrelenting, this counterterror state prioritizes speculative practices over facts, and ignores everyday forms of violence across climate, capital, and health in an unprecedented effort to anticipate and eliminate terror threats—real, imagined, and emergent.
Information Security Management Handbook, Volume 4
Author: Harold F. Tipton
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420072412
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
The Information Security Management Handbook continues its tradition of consistently communicating the fundamental concepts of security needed to be a true CISSP. In response to new developments, Volume 4 supplements the previous volumes with new information covering topics such as wireless, HIPAA, the latest hacker attacks and defenses, intrusion
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420072412
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
The Information Security Management Handbook continues its tradition of consistently communicating the fundamental concepts of security needed to be a true CISSP. In response to new developments, Volume 4 supplements the previous volumes with new information covering topics such as wireless, HIPAA, the latest hacker attacks and defenses, intrusion