Security Risk Professional’s Bookshelf, Volume 1, Number 1
Citation: Purpura, P. P. (2007). Terrorism and Homeland Security: An Introduction with Applications. Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier). ISBN: 978-0-7506-7843-8.
Here we have what appears to be an undergraduate text centered on this idea of homeland security. It seems that the target readership for this book are HLS novices, so from that point of view the text covers a nice swath of homeland security issues and recent milestones (legislation, strategies, etc.). But I think the book would come off as being quite lame to those in the homeland security community who know a thing or two about what it is, what is should be, and where it is (really) headed. This book is truly an introductory text aimed at exposing… Click to Continue Reading...