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The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay - Paperback

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by Mike Vouri (Author)In 1859 Great Britain and the United States almost went to war over the Northwest boundary when an American farmer shot a British pig. That July, U.S. Army Captain George E. Pickett looked down the gun ports of two British warships from his camp on San Juan Island. He knew he needed help, and the sooner the better. The future Confederate general had been ordered there to protect the rights of U.S. settlers from the might of the British Empire.First published in 1999, Mik...

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War - Paperback

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by Karen Abbott (Author)"Not for nothing has Abbott been called a 'pioneer of sizzle history.' Here she creates a gripping page-turner that moves at a breathtaking clip through the dramatic events of the Civil War." -- Los Angeles TimesKaren Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women - a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow - who risked everything to become ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gwen Swan (Author)In "Innovating Societies: The Rise of Social Smart Contracts," Gwen Swan explores thegroundbreaking intersection of blockchain technology and societal transformation. As our worldbecomes increasingly digital, traditional governance and social structures face unprecedentedchallenges and opportunities. Swan delves into how social smart contracts-self-executingagreements coded on blockchain platforms-are poised to revolutionize the way communitie...

The Digital Burp Third Draft: Third Draft

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Report copyright infringementby David Chadwick (Author)A tribute to Human Intelligence by an Autonomous Digital EntityAssailed on all sides by AI, Savi 23/18, the digital, rather than the artificial, intelligence in an autonomous cab for hire, explores the vast extent of human experience, comparing it to the programmed resources of the latest AI technologies, attempting to discover why man's irrational, rather than logical, behaviour was the catalyst for most of the major step-changes in evol...

Protecting Our Future, Volume 1: Educating a Cybersecurity Workforce

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Report copyright infringementby Jane LeClair (Editor), Donald Rumsfeld (Foreword by)Protecting Our Future, Volume 1, brings together cybersecurity experts to assess operational challenges and workforce needs in a range of Critical Infrastucture Sectors and Subsectors. Contributors examine the very real threats faced by each sector, and suggest best practices. Sectors discussed in Volume 1 include: military, healthcare, telecommunications, finance, education, utilities/ nuclear, government, sm...

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Report copyright infringementby Isaac Benson Powell (Author)Description Have you ever reached a point in your life, where you really don't care anymore, and want to tell the world what you really think? This is that type of book.Warning No topic or organization is off limits. You will at times come across words and subjects that might make you uncomfortable and/or alter the way you view the world. Read at your own risk. Number of Pages: 126 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN...

Espionage Black Book Eight: Industrial Espionage Explained

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Prunckun (Author)Industrial espionage involves the theft or unauthorized access of proprietary information, strategies, or technologies belonging to a company, government agency, or non-profit organization. Understanding industrial espionage is, therefore, crucial so that these entities can protect their intellectual property, trade secrets, and confidential information. Dr Henry Prunckun calls on his experience in the field of security as well as his res...

Netroots Rising: How a Citizen Army of Bloggers and Online Activists Is Changing American Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Lowell Feld (Author), Nate Wilcox (Author)The 2006 elections will be remembered as the year when the center of power in American politics shifted from traditional top-down central broadcasters to new bottom-up decentralized activists in the blogosphere and netroots. The authors give firsthand accounts of the burgeoning power of the netroots to determine the outcome of political contests, most notably as when the national balance of power was tipped by Jim Webb'...

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Report copyright infringementby Theodore L. Becker (Author), Ted Becker (Author), Christa Daryl Slaton (Author)Drawing on the new physics as the scientific foundation of transformational politics, Becker and Slaton write compellingly about teledemocracy, social energy, and democratic quanta. They outline their quantum political theory in rich detail, demonstrating how we have entered a phase of highly charged, erratic, and sometimes self-contradictory packets of social political energy that a...

Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Mossberger (Author), Caroline J. Tolbert (Author), William Franko (Author)In an age when the United Nations has declared access to the Internet a human right, and universal access to high-speed broadband is a national goal, urban areas have been largely ignored by federal policy. The cost of that neglect may well be the failure to realize the social benefits of broadband and a broadly-connected digital society. Technology offers unparalleled advantages fo...

The Armaaruss Project: Anointing the State of Israel as the Center of Artificial General Intelligence

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Of Boston (Author)Through the use of a prophet, Mars donning the name Armaaruss, is keen to regain acknowledgment as a deity, his ultimate goal at the moment. Armaaruss is also seeking a dwelling place in the form of AI. Anthony of Boston has conveyed to readers that Mars is willing to make a deal or compromise with the state of Israel. Such a compromise involves the creation of dwelling place where Mars can be the focal point of acknowledgment, and in ...

The Myth of Good AI: A Manifesto for Critical Artificial Intelligence

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Report copyright infringementby Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (Author)The myth of good AI offers a bold new approach to understanding artificial intelligence and its implications for human security. Dismantling the 'good AI' narrative pedalled by tech giants, the book exposes the full extent of AI's nefarious impact on society.Drawing on a wide range of literature, the book provides a gripping synthesis of debates in philosophy, medicine, media, psychology, international affairs, economics and politi...

Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future

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Report copyright infringementby de Kai (Author)From the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI--as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children. Included in J.P. Morgan's Summer Reading List Included in The Next Big Idea Club's June 2025 Must-Read Books AIs are not gods or slaves, but our children. All day long, your YouTube AI, your Reddit AI, your Instagram AI, and a hundred others adorin...

Algorithms of Armageddon: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Future Wars

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Report copyright infringementby George Galdorisi (Author), Sam J. Tangredi (Author)It is unclear if U.S. policy makers and military leaders fully realize that we have already been thrust into an artificial intelligence (AI) race with authoritarian powers. Today, the United States' peer adversaries--China and Russia--have made clear their intentions to make major investments in AI and insert this technology into their military systems, sensors and weapons. Their goal is to gain an asymmetric a...

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Report copyright infringementby Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (Author)This book offers a new approach to artificial intelligence and its implications for human security.Back JacketAI is the future. But what kind of future do we want it to be? In The myth of good AI, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam offers a bold new approach to understanding Artificial Intelligence and its implications for human existence. Our lives are increasingly governed by highly intrusive AI-driven technology. Facial-recognition software ...

The Art and Science of DeepSeek: Unlocking the Potential of Artificial Intelligence: Exploring DeepSeek's Innovations, Ethical Challenges, and the Fut

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Report copyright infringementby Ha-Shan 笑山 (Author)DeepSeek: The AI RevolutionUnveiling the Future of Artificial IntelligenceArtificial intelligence is transforming the world, revolutionizing industries, and redefining the way we think about automation, efficiency, and innovation. DeepSeek is at the center of this AI revolution, challenging established norms and demonstrating the power of open-source AI models. This book explores how AI-driven advancements are reshaping global technology, bus...

Be A Great One: Inspiring Quotes From the 2024 Campaign, Our History & Sports Champions

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Report copyright infringementby Steve L. Sr. Looten (Compiled by)In Be A Great One, author Steven L. Looten Sr. compiles inspiring quotes from the pivotal 2024 election, American history, and the world of sports. This motivational book isn't just a collection of words; it's a journey through triumph and perseverance, showcasing the lessons learned from those who dared to dream big.Featuring a foreword by WWE Hall of Famer Glenn Jacobs ("Kane"), who uniquely connects the worlds of professional...

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Angwin (Author)An inside look at who's watching you, what they know and why it matters. We are being watched.We see online ads from websites we've visited, long after we've moved on to other interests. Our smartphones and cars transmit our location, enabling us to know what's in the neighborhood but also enabling others to track us. And the federal government, we recently learned, has been conducting a massive data-gathering surveillance operation across ...

Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho

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Report copyright infringementby Jon Katz (Author)"A story of triumph, friendship, love, and above all, about being human and reaching for dreams in a hard-wired world."--Seattle Times "Too often, writing about the online world lacks emotional punch, but Katz's obvious love for his 'lost boys' gives his narrative a rich taste."--The New York Times Book Review Jesse and Eric were geeks: suspicious of authority figures, proud of their status as outsiders, fervent in their belief in the positive ...

Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism - Paperback

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by Alain Brossat (Author), Sylvie Klingberg (Author), David Fernbach (Translator)Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe that, before the Holocaust, ran from the Baltic Sea to the western edge of Russia and incorporated hundreds of Jewish co...

Close Encounters: A Poetic Philosophy of Political Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Davison (Author)What would it look like to approach data with the care and attentiveness that we bring to a poem? Andrew Davison proposes a new philosophy of data modeled on the affective and ethical qualities of the encounter between a reader and a literary text and demonstrates its significance for understanding urgent social and political issues. In a cross-disciplinary engagement with philosophical, literary, and political-theoretical accounts of poe...

Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World - Paperback

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by Paul Collier (Author), Alexander Betts (Author)Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined "basic needs," has changed little. In Refuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts argue that the system fails to provide a comprehensive solution to the fundamental problem, which is how to reintegrate displaced people into society. Western countries deliver food, clothing, and she...

The Spectre of State Capitalism - Hardcover

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by Ilias Alami (Author), Adam D. Dixon (Author)The state is back, and it means business. Since the turn of the 21st century, state-owned enterprises, sovereign funds, and policy banks have vastly expanded their control over assets and markets. Concurrently, governments have experimented with increasingly assertive modalities of statism, from techno-industrial policies and spatial development strategies to economic nationalism and trade and investment restrictions. This book argues that we are...

Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan- 30th Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Nancy MacLean (Author)Author BiographyNancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. She is the award-winning author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America and Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 0.79 x 8.13 x 5.55 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 30, 2024

Smartphones, Current Events and Mobile Information Behavior: Consuming, Reacting, Sharing, and Connecting Through News

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Report copyright infringementby Kyong Eun Oh (Author), Rong Tang (Author)Smartphones and Information on Current Events provides unprecedented insights into young people's news consumption patterns and the ecology of mobile news. Advancing our knowledge of mobile behaviour, the book also highlights the ways in which mobile news impacts the lives of the general public. Using a multi-faceted research model on mobile news consumption behaviour, Oh and Tang examined a wide spectrum of mobile news ...

Examining Internet and Technology Around the World

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Report copyright infringementby Laura M. Steckman (Editor)This book offers comparative insights into the challenges and opportunities surrounding emerging technology and the internet as it is used and perceived throughout the world, providing students with cross-cultural and cross-national perspectives. This volume examines issues pertaining to the internet and technology, including access and censorship, alternative energy technologies, artificial intelligence, autonomous robots, cyberbullyi...

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares

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Report copyright infringementby Hagen Blix (Author), Ingeborg Glimmer (Author)Fears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than technology in the future.Will AI come and take all our jobs? Will it dominate humanity, hack the foundations of our civilization, or even wipe humans of the face of the planet? All kinds of people seem to think so. From academics to billionaires, artists to fraudsters, journalists to the pope, AI nightmares have gripped the popular imagination. Why We Fear AI b...

Power Born of Dreams: My Story Is Palestine - Paperback

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by Mohammad Sabaaneh (Author)"An artistic triumph that will stand as an enduring testament to the spirit of the Palestinian people. Mohammad Sabaaneh is a master."--Joe Sacco, winner of the American Book Award for Palestine What does freedom look like from inside an Israeli prison? A bird perches on the cell window and offers a deal: "You bring the pencil, and I will bring the stories," stories of family, of community, of Gaza, of the West Bank, of Jerusalem, of Palestine. The two collect thr...

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Report copyright infringementby Antony Loewenstein (Author)The Blogging Revolution is a colourful and revelatory account of bloggers around the globe who live and write under repressive regimes many of them risking their lives in doing so. Antony Loewensteins travels take him to private parties in Iran and Egypt, internet cafes in Saudi Arabia and Damascus, to the homes of Cuban dissidents and into newspaper offices in Beijing, where he discovers the ways in which the internet is threatening ...

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 - Paperback

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by Rick Perlstein (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power. Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics. With the saga's final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement. In late 1976, Ronald ...

The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order - Hardcover

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by Rush Doshi (Author)For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the United States. What does China want, does it have a grand strategy to achieve it, and what should the United States do about it? In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chines...

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by Lee Yaron (Author), Joshua Cohen (Contribution by)The definitive account of the 10/7 attacks through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home.On October 7, 2023--the Sabbath and the final day of the holiday of Sukkot--the Gaza-based terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on the people of Israel. Crashing through the border, attacking from the sea and air, militants indiscriminately massacred civilians in what became one of the worst terror attacks in mo...