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CCTV for Security Professionals
Alan Matchett
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ASIN: 0750673036 |
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CCTV for Security Professionals provides the information necessary to design the ideal CCTV system. The chapters are stand-alone sources of information on their subjects and are presented in logical sequence to guide the reader from basic principles to more complex for a complete system understanding.
In his straight-forward and informative text, Alan Matchett approaches the camera systems from the user's point of view, providing the security manager with the knowledge to discuss the system, its desired features, and the areas of design concern within the context of an organization's business model. This can prove to be invaluable when evaluating an existing system, the use and components of a given system, or in evaluating a system design proposed by a vendor.
Installers and service personnel will benefit from the functions and possibilities that are available with the various components and by gaining an understanding of their customers' needs. Newer technicians will learn how to set up the system properly, and can familiarize themselves with the technologies that go into a CCTV system.
Security equipment sales personnel will also gain a better knowledge of the customer's needs as well as learn to determine exactly what questions they should be asking the customer and what the customer's responses mean. In this manner, the book will offer invaluable tips to ensure customers get exactly what they expect in a system.
* Provides a detailed explanation of CCTV components and the technology behind analog and digital CCTV systems.
* Establishes a "common language" for security professionals, CCTV system designers and sales personnel to use as a basis for system design.
* Provides a clear explanation of the design process and design principles.
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The book was in good condition delivery was bad!!!.......2006-08-24
I order the book with expedite service, the book never arrived. But at least Amazon, responded and took care of the situation. I received the book a day before I needed and was able to work my task.
Other than the delivery problems, the book was in good conditions.
This is only one thumb up.
Excellent review of video surveillance design and app's.......2005-06-03
"CCTV for Security Professionals" does a great job of reviewing design and application guidelines for video surveillance. It is comprehensive, but not complex. The book is targeted to an audience familiar with video security requirements who desire practical guidelines, not detailed engineering checklists.
"CCTV for Security Professionals" begins with older VHS tape-based analog technologies and moves through more advanced digital disk-based applications--but the real value of the book comes from a discussion of requirements for camera selection, placement, and lighting. The book is useful as an overview as well as a reference.
Really thorough & helpfull!.......2004-12-01
It is very concise & thorough explaining the different terminologies used by different systems, pros & cons, how to plan according to the different purposes, uses, areas, locations etc.. I would highly recommend this book, for anyone to buy before planning on buying a CCTV equipment.
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Our need for security has not waned since the dawn of civilization - it has only increased and become more complicated. Protection, Security, and Safeguards: Practical Approaches and Perspectives draws on the security prowess of former secret service agents and other notable security professionals as the authors touch on nearly every facet of the industry. Written to satisfy the practical needs of anyone in the business of protection, the text covers areas such as personal protection, security in the workplace, residence security, healthcare security, aviation security, and many more. Special chapters detailing the experiences of an identity theft victim, as well as a woman who must employ 24-hour security to insure she doesn't harm others, cover security issues from the client's viewpoint. Other chapters on quick threat assessment and defensive tactics will help agents protect themselves and their clients. Although other publications discuss and analyze security, none focus on both the professional and personal perspectives of this critical industry. Editor Dale L. June shares his vast knowledge and lucid insight into the business of protection. A former U.S. Secret Service agent in the Presidential Protection Division, he also worked with the U.S. Customs Service as a terrorism intelligence specialist and was a former police officer. He has more than 30 years experience in various fields of protection and security, including owning and operating an executive protection and security consulting business. He teaches university courses as well as security-related topics at private vocational academies.
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Cause For Alarm
Erica Spindler
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Kate and Richard Ryan have the perfect marriage -- marred only by their inability to have a child. The adoption agency's call fulfills that dream . . . and opens the door to a nightmare . . .
CAUSE FOR ALARM.
Julianna Starr has chosen Kate and Richard to be more than the parents of her child. For Richard is the man of her fantasies, the one she's been waiting for. Stalking the couple, Julianna molds herself in Kate's image and insinuates herself into Richard's life, determined to tear their perfect marriage apart.
But for Kate and Richard, the nightmare has only begun. Because Julianna is not alone. From her dark past comes a man of unspeakable evil . . .
No one is safe -- not even the innocent child Kate and Richard call their own.
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I would rate it ZERO STARS.......2006-01-13
I bought this book because it was recommended to me as a Mary Higgins Clark reader. This was the M*O*S*T boring book that I have ever read. The plot is cheese, the dialogs are corny, the events impossible.
For example, there is a part where Juliana calls Information and gets the phone number of " The CIA Headquarters" and then she calls the number looking for a guy and they tell her that the guy she is looking for is not working for the CIA any longer. Like that would ever happen. I mean how stupid does ES think we are?
Also the first time she introduces Richard and Kate is at their New Years party. They've been friends for a long time and married for 10 years and they talk to each other as if they were on their honeymoon. And then he goes and cheats on her because she is spending time with the baby, when in fact he was the one who initiated the adoption process as a New Years gift to Kate.
The killer in the book is introduced in the second paragraph. There is no mystery, no thrill, no nothing. I don't understand why people gave this book 5 stars. If possible I would have given it zero stars.
Please avoid this book. Stick with Mary Higgins Clark, Wendy Corsi Staub, Patricia MacDonald, Sidney Sheldon. I cannot even believe that this amateurish writer is being compared to all these great writers.
WoW.......2003-11-07
This is the first book by Erica Spindler that I have read. It was a very exciting book. While reading it I could acually feel the emotions of the characters. My heart would even begin to race at to parts of suspense. I can honestly say no book has made me react the way this one has. It is an excellent book and I encourage all to read it. Because I couldn't put it down. I read the book in a total of 3 days because it was so well written. Then I had to go and buy another by her. She is an excellent auther. She keeps you guessing and throws some controversial things in with it.
A chilling tale...........2003-03-22
Kate Ryan has it all, a husband that she adores, a business that is thriving, and her art which she loves. The only thing that is missing from her picture perfect life is a baby. When her and her husband, Richard, learn that he is sterile, Kate decides to move on and make the best of their life with no baby in the picture. After all, she believes that it's better knowing that it's not possible than hoping each month that she'll end up pregnant. Then her husband surprises her with their enrollment in the local adoption agency which stuns and makes her happier than she thought she would be. Finally her life will be complete.
Richard Ryan has always gotten whatever he desired in life. When he wanted Kate, he got her. No matter how many times he strayed in college, he always was able to win her back. When he realized that he would lose her if he kept breaking up with her and coming back, he made a commitment to her. He's always loved Kate and he never believed that the reason he wanted her was because his best friend was in love with her too. When he learns that he is sterile, he feels like less than a man and is more than happy to consider adopting. However, that is before his life is taken over by a six pound, drooling, crying bundle of baby. Suddenly he feels cast aside from his own wife and he turns to someone that makes him feel young again.
Julianna Starr fell in love with Richard and Kate when she saw their profile through the adoption agency. When she reads what Richard wrote, she is certain that they are soulmates and will do anything to prove that to him. She knows it's not going to be easy, after all, Richard loves Kate. So she starts stalking Kate. Following her at a distance, Julianna turns herself into a replica of Kate, following her gestures, her walk, her way of dressing, even her makeup. Then she finds a way to instigate herself in to Richard's life. She thinks it's only fair that since she gave Kate her baby, Kate will give Julianna her husband. She didn't count on the manevolent force that would follow her to the ends of the earth to purify her and bring out the very innocence that he was drawn to when he first saw her as a child.
Luke Dallas has loved Kate since their days at Tulane. When he finally thought he had her, Richard came tearing back in the scene and took her away again. He's tried to kid himself all these years that it hasn't effected him, but he knows different. Kate is the only woman that he will ever love and the only woman he can never have. When she comes to him for help with her daughter, Luke doesn't have the heart to turn her away. He's waited for her for ten years and he will wait for her for ten more.
John Powers in stalking Kate, Richard, Julianna, and Luke. All the people that are now apart of his little girl's life will pay. Julianna has been his 'special' girl since she was eleven years old and no one will ever take her away from him. So one by one he starts eliminating the very people that bring out the wicked part of her. He believes that there is still that innocence that touched a part of him that he thought was long dead.
Cause for Alarm was a surprise for me. I didn't expect it to be as good as it was, with as many conflicts between all the characters. John sickened me with his unnatural feelings for Julianna. Richard made me so angry with what he did though I was sad how he came to his ending. I really wish that he would have been able to lose Kate at the end while he was still alive to see it. If you like the easy going romances, this book would not be for you!
Another Late Night!.......2002-11-09
This was the second Erica Spindler novel I have read, but I can tell you, I am now a huge fan! "Cause for Alarm" kept me up until the wee hours of the morning, swearing "just one more chapter." Ms. Spindler brings you into the very core of her characters, and leaves you wrapped up in their lives. Just when you think you have her books figured out, she throws in an incredible plot twist that has you reading waaaayyy into dawn. Her intracate stories and the obsessions of her characters are unlike any other author I have read. When you finish the book, you'll be mad it's not longer.
I read this book about 2 years ago.......2002-09-03
I read this book about two years ago after reading Shocking Pink and I loved it was the second book that I read by Erica Spindler and it made me a instant fan since then I have read All Fall Down which I was lucky enough to win a signed copy. Just last year I read Bone Cold and I look forward to reading her new book Dead Run.
I recommand all of her novels if you enjoy a romantic like supsense.
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- When the angry trumpet sounds alarm
- One of My Favorites
- Adventures of an Engineer
- Spy versus spy.
- Espionage: Realistic, Vivid and Noir!!
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Cause for Alarm
Eric Ambler
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Nicky Marlow needs a job. He’s engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fiancé points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures he’ll be able to endure Milan for a year, long enough to save some money. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth of his predecessor’s death and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes it’s not so simple to just do the job he’s paid to do in fascist Italy on the eve of a world war.
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When the angry trumpet sounds alarm.......2006-07-12
And dead men's cries do fill the empty air . . . I say, come forth, and fight with me!
These words of Warwick from Shakespeare's Henry VII, Part II seem a very appropriate theme for Eric Ambler's "Cause for Alarm". First published in 1938, when the Second World War had not officially started, Cause for Alarm painted a picture of a world where the dying had already begun, albeit in the streets and alleys of Europe if not yet on the battlefield.
For those not familiar with his work, Ambler was to the modern British spy novel what Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett were to the American detective novel. Ambler transformed the spy novel from a simplistic black and white world of perfect good guys versus nefarious bad guys into a far more realistic world where sometimes the difference between good and evil is not all that great.
Typically, Ambler would take an unassuming, unsuspecting spectator and immerse him in a world of mystery and intrigue in pre-World War II Europe. The result was a series of highly entertaining and satisfying books that many believe set the stage for the likes of le Carre, Deighton, and, most recently, Alan Furst.
"Cause for Alarm" follows Ambler's typical plot line. Nicky Marlow is a recently laid-off English engineer. He is also recently engaged. His search for employment grows increasingly frustrated until he answers and advertisement for what appears to be a somewhat down-at-the heels machine tool company. Despite being told that that the company (the aptly named Spartacus Machine Tool Co.) sells machine tools used in the armaments industry and is profitably engaged in selling its equipment to Italian `military-industrial complex' Marlow accepts a position as the company's Italian sales agent.
No sooner does Marlow arrive in Italy than he is swept up into a web of death and intrigue. He soon finds his predecessor was murdered and finds himself in the cross-hairs of the OVRA (fascist Italy's secret police), a `general' who may be either a Yugoslav or German spy, and Soviet secret agents. It seems as if everyone is telling Marlow, "come forth and fight with me." Marlow, at first at least, has buried his head in the sands and ignore the moral implications of his work. He is just doing his job, or so he says more than once.
As mentioned the basic outline of an Ambler novel, the innocent Brit caught in a web of sinister, cynical European intrigue, may be found in Cause for Alarm. However, the pleasure of reading Ambler is not just for the plot but for his keen eye for detail, his vivid but realistic prose (Ambler writes in a world where black and white is overwhelmed by shades of grey), and his ability to place his `small characters' and their problems in the context of a world about to go mad yet again. You won't find easy answers in an Ambler novel and you won't always find a knight in shining armor riding off into the sunset with `his lady'.
If you like well-written, realistic novels set in pre-war Europe you should read Ambler. Similarly, if you are a fan of Alan Furst (as I am) you should read Ambler. It is always worth going back to the source!
Highly recommended.
L. Fleisig
One of My Favorites.......2006-06-12
This novel has all the suspense, all the action -- and all the humor -- of other Eric Ambler novels. It also features one of my favorite fictional characters -- the Russian agent Andreas P. Zaleshoff. If you like spy fiction, this one's for you.
Adventures of an Engineer.......2005-05-10
Cause for Alarm
The man Ferning is murdered at night in Milan, hit by a car to make it look like an accident. In England a production engineer loses his job due to the slump. After months, Nick Marlow decides to apply for a job that requires "fluent Italian". This company specializes in high-speed shell production for cannon. After Marlow arrives in Milan, he gets a visit from General Vagas, who says he was a friend of Ferning (Marlow is his replacement). Marlow reports to the Police for his residence permit, but peeves signor Capitano. Then he meets another businessman, Andreas Zaleshoff, who shows him a picture of Ferning, and offers advice, which Marlow spurns. Chapter V tells how to recognize the old-fashioned method of steaming open envelopes to read the letter.
Marlow meets Zaleshoff for dinner and is put wise to the situation. Ferning was murdered because he worked for Vagas; counter-espionage did this to avoid publicity. Marlow would be in danger if he accepted Vagas' offer. Vagas pays off important people so he is untouchable. Now Zaleshoff explains why Marlow should take Vagas' offer! Marlow is attacked and beaten by four men, it is only a warning.
But the secret deal with Vagas is exposed to the authorities; an overlooked human factor did something. Now Marlow has to flee, and he is helped by Zaleshoff. They begin walking cross-country, and hiding in the brush when necessary. This escape keeps your interest. The details about disguises and changing clothes are informative. Marlow gets his bonus from Vagas and returns to England. He then changes jobs.
This story follows the plot of "Background to Danger". A man gains important and dangerous knowledge while performing his job. He escapes by a long flight through the countryside until he crosses the border to an adjoining country. Later novels avoid this plot. This adventure story serves as a lesson the defense industry and politics that you won't find in your newspaper.
Spy versus spy........2004-11-28
It's the late 1930's and the European continent is poised on the brink of war. British engineer Nicholas Marlow accepts a position in the Milan office of a machine tool manufacturing company known as Spartacus. Since Spartacus' products are used in the production of munitions, Marlow has access to information of value to those engaged in espionage.
A bit naive, Marlow is rather easily sucked into the cloak and dagger intrigue endemic to that time and place and rather unfortunately incurs the wrath of Mussolini's secret police.
Cause for Alarm is an engaging spy novel that has a smooth narrative flow. Moreover, Ambler's detailed knowledge of his subject matter is quite apparent. A solid 4 stars for this early contribution to the genre. Well worth reading.
Espionage: Realistic, Vivid and Noir!!.......2003-05-27
To read or not to read the great spy novels of Eric Ambler? That is the question most people ignore because they are not familiar with Mr. Ambler and his particularly talent.
Mr. Ambler has always had this problem. As Alfred Hitchcock noted in his introduction to Intrigue (an omnibus volume containing Journey into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios, Cause for Alarm and Background to Danger), "Perhaps this was the volume that brought Mr. Ambler to the attention of the public that make best-sellers. They had been singularly inattentive until its appearance -- I suppose only God knows why." He goes on to say, "They had not even heeded the critics, who had said, from the very first, that Mr. Ambler had given new life and fresh viewpoint to the art of the spy novel -- an art supposedly threadbare and certainly cliché-infested."
So what's new and different about Eric Ambler writing? His heroes are ordinary people with whom almost any reader can identify, which puts you in the middle of a turmoil of emotions. His bad guys are characteristic of those who did the type of dirty deeds described in the book. His angels on the sidelines are equally realistic to the historical context. The backgrounds, histories and plot lines are finely nuanced into the actual evolution of the areas and events described during that time. In a way, these books are like historical fiction, except they describe deceit and betrayal rather than love and affection. From a distance of over 60 years, we read these books today as a way to step back into the darkest days of the past and relive them vividly. You can almost see and feel a dark hand raised to strike you in the back as you read one of his book's later pages. In a way, these stories are like a more realistic version of what Dashiell Hammett wrote as applied to European espionage.
Since Mr. Ambler wrote, the thrillers have gotten much bigger in scope . . . and moved beyond reality. Usually, the future of the human race is at stake. The heroes make Superman look like a wimp in terms of their prowess and knowledge. There's usually a love interest who exceeds your vision of the ideal woman. Fast-paced violence and killing dominate most pages. There are lots of toys to describe and use in imaginative ways. The villains combine the worst faults of the 45 most undesirable people in world history and have gained enormous wealth and power while being totally crazy. The plot twists and turns like cruise missile every few seconds in unexpected directions. If you want a book like that, please do not read Mr. Ambler's work. You won't like it.
If you want to taste, touch, smell, see and hear evil from close range and move through fear to defeat it, Mr. Ambler's your man.
On to Cause for Alarm. The book begins powerfully with a prologue, Death in Milan. A man is waiting to follow an Englishman in the cold. The Englishman appears and crosses the street. A large limousine accelerates violently into him, running him over. The man next to the driver sees that the Englishman is still alive, and directs the driver to "Go back and make certain." They run over the Englishman again. This time, he dies.
English production engineer, Nicky Marlow has just gotten engaged, and almost as quickly loses his job when the Barton Heath works have to be closed when a key customer is lost. Jobs are scarce during the Depression, yet he turns down a chance to take a four year contract in Bolivia for small pay. Finally, he applies for and obtains a one-year assignment in Milan which will mean being away from his fiancee, who has encouraged him to be sensible. They can get married later.
The job means supplying equipment needed to make munitions, and Germany and Italy are now allies. So Marlow is put in the touchy position of helping make arms that may be used later against his countrymen. He closes his eyes to that problem and begins doing his new job, replacing a predecessor who was unexpectedly killed in an automobile accident. Soon, strange characters begin courting his favors and offering him tempting deals. One of them even encourages him to play along with another of the characters. It seems that Marlow has unexpectedly put himself right in the middle of Britain's enemies as they spy on one another. Everyone needs him to do their bidding, and few care whether he survives or not. The Fascists even grab his passport to make him more vulnerable. Totally unprepared, he begins to pursue a dangerous double-timing game.
One of the reasons why I am so fond of this book (which I have read several times) is that it points out that when we ignore the morality of our business activities there will be a price to be paid. Another interesting moral question is what the right thing to do is when we are faced with the possibility of reducing risk to others by increasing the risk to ourselves. When are we obligated to do so?
The colorful figures of Zaleshoff and General Vagas make the story ever so much spicier. Neither are people with whom Marlow would have associated in England, yet the two are key to his making progress in Milan.
The book's structure is written like three novellas. The first details the situation in which Marlowe finds himself. The second involves his engagement in the espionage. The third relates his attempt to escape. You will feel like a person being sucked by the undertow out to sea as you progress from one novella to the next . . . as increasing fear and heaviness grip you.
After you finish, think about some place in your life where your work causes or could cause harm to others. How can you overcome that current or potential harm?
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- The target audience for the surveillance book
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Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Their Origins & Applications
Julie K. Petersen
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From handheld magnifying glasses to sophisticated magnetic resonance imaging machines, "spy" devices allow us to see beyond the basic senses that nature gave us in ways we wouldn't have imagined two hundred years ago. Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Their Origins and Applications lays the groundwork for understanding more advanced technologies such as radar, sonar, video cameras, and genetic profiling.
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The target audience for the surveillance book.......2002-08-01
In light of the previous review, I thought it would be useful to clarify the audience for people considering buying this book. Understanding Surveillance Technologies wasn't written for hands-on hobbyists or electronics buffs. There are some really good books out there with detailed schematics on designing cameras, audio devices, and more. Instead, this book was written to fill a glaring need for a comprehensive text introducing and explaining the scope of surveillance technologies and the many fields in which it is being used, including traffic and community safety, DNA testing, corporate and retail surveillance, and much more.
In a sense it is a "surveillance studies" text that describes the technologies and the ethical considerations concerning their use. This information is useful to newscasters, journalists, politicians making executive decisions about allocating public funds for surveillance technologies, corporations, legal assistants, post-secondary instructors, and students and beginning professionals in law enforcement, forensics, and military surveillance. If you need to know what surveillance encompasses, how it came about, how it's being used, and how and why we need to take a good hard look at how it's implemented, this book rounds out the picture more thoroughly than any other text on the subject at the present time.
Practically useless.......2002-07-18To read this book is a complete waste of time, at least if you are interested in technical information.
Hundreds of pages dedicated to description of problems starting almost from the Creation, when there was a vague similarity to what present technology can do, but no really good information for users or hobbysts.
Go to other books and save a lot of money!
"Industry standard introductory text" well-deserved.......2001-08-24
While those interested in specific cutting edge surveillance technologies per se will not find much of value here, those who want a sweeping reference to EVERYTHING (well, almost) in the field definitely need this book. The meticulous research on historical development of the various technologies is evident, and though technical detail is absent, readers are still given a good ideal of how things work. A mind-boggling array of available applications is presented, together with societal and legislative concerns. The modular structure of the chapters and the many references to resources elsewhere make this book a convenient starting point for both readers who want only an overview, and those who need to delve deeper into a particular technology.
I can only say that I am impressed by the effort taken to collect all the information in this understandably thick volume.
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I understand the adoptive parents' irrational fear of their baby's biological family, and the uncertainty born of having opened life and heart to the unknown. And I know the lengths and depths they, like any parent, would go to keep their child safe from harm. (Erica Spindler)
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Hardcover w/ dustjacket. Quite a collectible for the discerning mystery novel fan. Title page shows year 1940; next page says copyright 1938. Filmed by MGM in 1951. A good copy of this rare title! Pages crisp, only the slightest toning from age. Excellent for a 66-year-old book. Owners name written in three places in pages and inside cover. Dustjacket shows shelfwear, including some tiny tears. Actual hardcover in great shape. Ambler's photo on back of dustjacket, looking very serious! Ships securely and FAST, so enjoy...
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Cause For Alarm
Eric Ambler
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Cause for Alarm
Eric Ambler
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