Snowden's Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance (Bruder Jessica)(Paperback)

Snowden's Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance (Bruder Jessica)(Paperback)

Two behind-the-scenes players in the edward snowden story reflect on the meaning of snowden's revelations in our age of surveillance One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sender, only knew she

Age of Surveillance Capitalism - The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019 (Zuboff Professor Shoshana)(Paperback / softback)

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called 'surveillance capitalism,' and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us.The heady optimism of the Internet's early days is gone. Technologies that

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Bruder Jessica)(Paperback)

From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on

Nomadland - ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actress (Bruder Jessica)(Paperback / softback)

From the beetroot fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens

Search Warrant - Dora Bruder (Modiano Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 2014Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder - a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir - Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano sets out to find all he can about

Mirror with a Memory: Photography, Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence (Leers Dan)(Paperback)

The complicity of the image: photography at the intersection of police surveillance, corporate/state control and artificial intelligenceHow are images being utilized to gather data on our daily activities? With the development and advancement of artificial intelligence, there has been a radical

Surveillance Countermeasures: The Professional's Guide to Countering Hostile Surveillance Threats (Magee Aden C.)(Paperback)

In today's prolific hostile threat environment, surveillance countermeasures expertise is a necessary component of security knowledge. The wide range of increasingly unconstrained threats to the personal privacy and security of average citizens include common criminals and stalkers, private and

The Culture of Surveillance: Watching as a Way of Life (Lyon David)(Paperback)

From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the headlines. But security and police agencies or internet and phone companies are not the only players. Surveillance is not only 'done to us' - it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to surveillance,

Novice Dragoneer (Knight E. E.)(Paperback)

In the first book in an exciting new coming-of-age fantasy series from the author of the Age of Fire series, an impoverished girl enters into a military order of dragonriders, but her path won't be as easy or as straightforward as she expected. Fourteen-year-old Ileth grew up in an orphanage, and

Liffey Swim (Traynor Jessica)(Paperback)

Liffey Swim is the debut collection of poems from Dubliner Jessica Traynor, in which family portraits combine with myth and history to create a strikingly assured and engaging suite of poems. Delivered in a language that is at once fresh and confident, these poems have already earned the poet a

State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain: 1880-1914 (Solomon Vlad)(Pevná vazba)

Examines the formation of state surveillance and the emergence of institutionalized political policing in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. This book deals with the formation of state surveillance and the emergence of institutionalized political policing in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Voice Of The Gods - Book 3 of the Age of the Five (Canavan Trudi)(Paperback / softback)

Revelations abound in the stunning conclusion to the Age of the Five

On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel (Humphreys Andrew)(Paperback)

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Browne Simone)(Paperback)

In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing

Hello World - How to be Human in the Age of the Machine (Fry Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

Theory of Covert Surveillance - The Surveillance Training Course Handbook (Jenkins Peter)(Paperback / softback)

This surveillance training course handbook has been compiled as a learning aid, guide and reference book for the surveillance operative who is undergoing surveillance or bodyguard

Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age (Mizruchi Susan L.)(Paperback)

The role of archives and libraries in our digital age is one of the most pressing concerns of humanists, scholars, and citizens worldwide. This collection brings together specialists from academia, public libraries, governmental agencies, and non-profit archives to pursue common questions about

Silence - In the Age of Noise (Kagge Erling)(Paperback / softback)

Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Mayer-Schnberger Viktor)(Paperback)

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in

On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research: Third Edition (Institute of Medicine)(Paperback)

The scientific research enterprise is built on a foundation of trust. Scientists trust that the results reported by others are valid. Society trusts that the results of research reflect an honest attempt by scientists to describe the world accurately and without bias. But this trust will endure

Cirque Berserk (Guess Jessica)(Paperback)

The summer of 1989 brought terror to the town of Shadows Creek, Florida in the form of a massacre at the local carnival, Cirque Berserk. One fateful night, a group of teens killed a dozen people then disappeared into thin air. No one knows why they did it, where they went, or even how many of them

Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age (Grincheva Natalia)(Paperback)

Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age explores online museums as sites of contemporary cultural diplomacy. Building on scholarship that highlights how museums can constitute and regulate citizens, construct national communities, and project messages across borders, the book explores the political

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Chesterton G. K.)(Paperback)

A group of anarchists are under surveillance by Scotland Yard in Chesterton's hugely popular metaphysical thriller. The Supreme Anarchists Council is dedicated to overthrowing the world order. To keep their identities a secret, each of them has been named a day of the week. Gabriel Syme, an

Death of a Blue Blood (Fletcher Jessica)(Mass Market Paperbound)

In the latest mystery in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher rings in the New Year with British aristocracy, but someone's about to end the life of the party.... A VERY PROPER MURDER Jessica Fletcher and her friend Scotland Yard detective inspector George Sutherland are invited to