The January 2016 revision of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security reading list

(source) The Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) is located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Since 2002, CHDS has conducted a wide range of programs focused on assisting current and future leaders in Homeland Defense and Security to develop the policies, strategies, programs and organizational elements needed to defeat terrorism in the United States. The programs are developed in partnership with and are sponsored by the National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA. All CHDS programs are focused on leadership development to enable the United States to win the war on terrorism. Through graduate- and executive-level coursework, seminars, and research, homeland security leaders gain the analytic skills and substantive expertise they need to counter terrorism. The programs also prepare leaders to bridge gaps in interagency and civil-military cooperation by bringing together a diverse range of participants to share perspectives and lay the foundation for long-term homeland security collaboration.

This revision

Introduction to Homeland Security

Book cover for The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It

Book cover for Anticipating 2025: A guide to the radical changes that may lie ahead, whether or not we're ready

Book cover for Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Building Cooperative Capacity

Book cover for Be Very Afraid: The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats

Book cover for Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

Book cover for Chasing Ghosts: The Policing of Terrorism

Book cover for The Constitution of the United States of America

Book cover for Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know

Book cover for Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Book cover for The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be

Book cover for Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)

Book cover for Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland--and How to Thwart Them

Book cover for Is the American Century Over

Book cover for Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies

Book cover for Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change after Catastrophic Events

Book cover for Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

Book cover for National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear

Book cover for National Security and Double Government

Book cover for Next-Generation Homeland Security: Network Federalism and the Course to National Preparedness

Book cover for No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

Book cover for Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War

Book cover for Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

Book cover for Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

Book cover for A Rulebook for Arguments

Book cover for Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power

Book cover for Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Book cover for Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century

Book cover for The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Book cover for The Circle

Book cover for The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation

Book cover for The Federalist Papers

Book cover for The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Book cover for They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

Book cover for Thinking, Fast and Slow

The Unconventional Threat to Homeland Security

Book cover for A Practitioner's Way Forward: Terrorism Analysis

Book cover for Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947

Book cover for Inside Terrorism

Book cover for Islamism

Book cover for Social Identity and Intergroup Relations

Book cover for The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

Book cover for The Wretched of the Earth

Research and Writing for Homeland Security

Book cover for Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving

Book cover for Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Building Cooperative Capacity

Book cover for Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking

Book cover for The Craft of Research

Book cover for How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Book cover for How to Write a Master's Thesis

Book cover for How to Write a Thesis

Book cover for Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

Book cover for Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

Book cover for Practical Research: Planning and Design

Book cover for The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Book cover for Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas

Book cover for The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations

Book cover for The Story Factor: Secrets Of Influence From The Art Of Storytelling

Book cover for The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving

Book cover for They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

Book cover for What Every Student Should Know About Avoiding Plagiarism

Intelligence for Homeland Security: Organizational and Policy Challenges

Book cover for Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond

Book cover for Intelligence: From Secrets To Policy

Book cover for Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11

Book cover for Transforming U.S. Intelligence

Critical Infrastructure: Vulnerability Analysis and Protection

Book cover for The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It

Book cover for The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It

Special Topics (prior to Winter 2016) OR Strategic Planning (Winter 2016 onward)

Book cover for Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know

Book cover for Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Book cover for Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)

Book cover for Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

Book cover for Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Book cover for Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

Book cover for The Lean Startup

Book cover for Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why

Book cover for Strategy: A History

Book cover for The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

Book cover for The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

Multi-discipline Approaches to Homeland Security

Book cover for The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

Book cover for Propaganda

Book cover for Terror and Liberalism

Book cover for The Roots of Our Children's War: Identity and the War on Terrorism

Comparative Government for Homeland Security

Book cover for Comparative Homeland Security: Global Lessons

Book cover for Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of al Qa'ida since 9/11

The Psychology of Fear Management and Terrorism

Book cover for From the Terrorists' Point of View: What They Experience and Why They Come to Destroy

Book cover for The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

Book cover for Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations: Psychological Implications for Democracy in Global Context

Book cover for Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Book cover for The Psychology of Democracy

Book cover for Psychology of Terrorism

Executive Leaders Program

Book cover for A Practitioner's Way Forward: Terrorism Analysis

Book cover for Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland--and How to Thwart Them

Book cover for The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

Book cover for Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Book cover for The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking

Book cover for The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse

Book cover for The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking our Way out of Extinction

Book cover for Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Building Cooperative Capacity

Book cover for The End of Leadership

Book cover for Bak's Sand Pile: Strategies for a Catastrophic World

Book cover for Glass Houses: Privacy, Secrecy, and Cyber Insecurity in a Transparent World

Book cover for War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror