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The Coming Swarm: DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet
Molly Sauter · Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
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What is Hacktivism? In The Coming Swarm, rising star Molly Sauter examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. The internet is a vital arena of communication, self expression, and interpersonal organizing.... |
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The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year
Amy Siskind · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List."In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda,... |
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Tyrant
STEPHEN GREENBLATT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny.... |
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Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
William M. Arkin · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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UNMANNED is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centers on drones, now accumulated in the thousands, the front end of a spying and killing machine that is disconnected from either security or safety.Drones, however, are only part of the problem.... |
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Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
Dennis Ross · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Pages: 474
Format: Print book
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award's Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award in History.A necessary and unprecedented account of America's changing relationship with IsraelWhen it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad... |
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Solitary
Albert Woodfox · Grove Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement -- in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana -- all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary... |
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Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir
Christopher R. Hill · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An “inside the room” memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in a career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy. From the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless... |
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Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News
BOB SCHIEFFER · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 190
Format: Hardcover
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We are in the midst of a communications revolution. We have access to more information than any people in history. But are we more informed or just overwhelmed by so much information we can't process? In Overload, legendary television journalist Bob Schieffer examines today's journalism... |
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Bravehearts: Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden
Mark Hertsgaard · Hot Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Whistleblowers pay with their lives to save ours. When insiders like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden or ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley or Big Tobacco truth-teller Jeffrey Wigand blow the whistle on high-level lying, lawbreaking or other wrongdoing - whether it's government spying, corporate... |
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Huckabee: The Authorized Biography
Scott Lamb · W Publishing Group, an Imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pages: 344
Format: eBook
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The Mike Huckabee Story An Intimate Look For the first time, the former governor of Arkansas opens up the vault to friend and biographer W. Scott Lamb (Pujols: More Than the Game, 2011) to tell his life story. In this thoroughly unique biography of one of the most likeable, influential... |
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
NADIA MURAD · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters... |
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The Politics of Deception: JFK's Secret Decisions on Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Cuba
Patrick J Sloyan · St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Pages: 308
Format: Print book
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Beneath the myths of Camelot lies the truth of the presidency of John F. Kennedy.Patrick J. Sloyan, a young wire-service reporter during the Kennedy administration, revisits the last year of JFK's presidency to reveal a ruthless politician.As the president prepared for his 1964 reelection... |
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Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything
Thomas Lake · Melcher Media
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Unprecedented's second printing features a new cover for the inauguration, with an exclusive portrait of the president-elect.Packed with exclusive photojournalism and new revelations straight from the front lines, Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything chronicles the most hard-... |
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