Jane's Facility Security Handbook

Rating:
Summary: Little Useful Information, Poorly Written & Organized
Review: I have used (and liked) "Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook" for the past four years.

This book, however, is another story. What little information presented is poorly organized. Information is scattered throughout the book. Some of it is duplicated. Information that is presented as being targeted towards a particular section (such as Hospitals, Utilities, Entertainment Facilities, etc.) is most often of a nature that should have been presented as base data. As a result, the targeted sections loose their "punch".

The book is very good at telling you that you need do something, but often doesn't tell you how to do that thing...So we have a document that manages to fall short as a checklist (for those that have a knowledge of the basics), and which also fails to provide much in the way of fundamentals (the discussion of explosives hidden in the Utilities section fails to mention ANFO (ammonium nitrate/fuel oil).

A good idea for a book, but wait until Jane's revises it.