Home Security Books

No amount of home security books will prevent a burglar from breaking into your home. You have to study the information that they contain and put it into practice on a daily basis, then you will start to make your home that bit more secure for you and your family.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Security.

A good overview of the basics of home security and safety for the average homeowner.

This book presents its information in a very readable style, with even the odd foray into humor about its very serious subject.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Security does not delve very far into how to carry out an installation of a home security system, but does give very helpful information about assessing the risk of your neighborhood and your home in particular.

Home Security: Your Guide to Protecting Your Family (Better Homes and Gardens Books)

Not a mammoth volume at just 80 pages, but nevertheless covers a lot of good solid basic security and safety information for your home and family.

This book gives a good grounding in making your home that much less likely to be burgled, starting with security in your yard and moving on to choosing and fitting locks and installing an alarm system. Good illustrations.

Securing Your Home.

If you are seeking information about improving the security of your home without necessarily spending out on security systems this could be the home security book that you need.

Includes a risk assessment survey to help you discover the inexpensive ways you can protect your home and beat the burglar.

What About My Security.

Although presented as being focused on personal and property security, this book in fact concentrates a great deal on home security systems (with good advice on buying or leasing.)

Fire prevention, identity theft, and general crime prevention are also covered. A good informative read.

The Complete Book of Locks and Locksmithing (Complete Book of Locks & Locksmithing)

If you want to learn all that you can about choosing the correct locks to fit throughout your home then you will find this book invaluable.

Complete and illustrated coverage from a master locksmith.

Tom Patire's Personal Protection Handbook: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Keep Yourself, Your Family, and Your Assets Safe.

Should this work appear in a list of home security books? Yes it should, the personal security and protection of yourself, and your family, is even more important than the security of your home. The two things are often interwoven of course, as in home invasions.

Tom Patire's book really does cover all aspects of personal protection. From using brains over brawn to survive an attack, to carjacking, to child abduction, to self defense devices, to domestic violence. Highly recommended.

Burglars On The Job: Streetlife and Residential Break-ins.

Not a home security book as such, but a study of those who commit burglaries, why they do it, how they select their targets and the methods they use to break-in.

Gives a very useful insight into the mind of a burglar, if you know how he thinks you know how to thwart him.

Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)

Do you know about Kindle 2 ? Now, instead of having shelves stacked with books, simply keep them in Amazon's new wireless reading device.

Kindle holds over 1,500 books and over 230,000 books are available for swift download, including many home security books.

© copyright surveillanceforsecurity.com