The New York Times (09 February 2013)

Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

Written with acclaimed tune journalist Ann Powers, Tori Amos: Piece by means of Piece is a firsthand account of the main complicated and intimate information of Amos’s existence as either a personal person and a truly public appearing musician. In passionate and informative prose, Amos explains how her songs come to her and the way she documents after which plays them for audiences far and wide, the entire whereas connecting with listeners the world over and retaining her family lifestyles (which contains elevating a tender daughter).

Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation (1st Edition)

An entire consultant to figuring out and combating complicated continual threats—today's such a lot harmful danger to company security

Reverse Deception: prepared Cyber possibility Counter-Exploitation explains the way to establish complex chronic threats (APTs), categorize them in accordance with danger point, and prioritize your activities as a result via making use of professional, field-tested deepest- and government-sector equipment (NSA, FBI, and DOD).

APTs can't be visible, unfold invisibly, after which proceed to stay in an company community, undetected. during this distinctive booklet, the authors clarify find out how to get—and stay—ahead of today's well-organized and very chronic model of community enemies. The publication describes the features of malware and botnets, how they could morph, avoid detection, and spin off decoys that stay in-network, whereas showing to were wiped clean up and debugged. This unique advisor then finds the way to realize the looks of malicious code, decode the categories of enemies they originate from, and eventually, how one can extricate malcode and deflect its destiny access into networks.

Reverse Deception: geared up Cyber hazard Counter-Exploitation features:
> complete insurance of the number 1 feared form of community assault at the present time, the APT
> Descriptions of cyber espionage strategies visible within the U. S. and across the world, with comparisons of the kinds of countermeasures permissible by means of legislations within the U. S. and Asia as opposed to much less strict international locations in Europe, the center East, and Africa
> enchanting case reviews and actual tales from the authors' FBI, DOD, NSA, and personal quarter work
> Foreword by way of Fred Feer, a safety specialist with forty years' event with the U. S. military counterintelligence, CIA, RAND, and self sufficient consulting
> entire assurance of key facets of deception, counter-deception, behavioral profiling, and safety in the cyber realm
> Cat-and-mouse techniques from the simplest within the game—explains the way to enforce deception and disinformation concepts opposed to quite a few incoming threats aimed toward attractive adversaries out into the open
> A clean viewpoint on leading edge, field-tested principles for effectively countering present electronic threats—plus anticipated features of the following threats to come
> criminal reasons of functions, obstacles, and requisites for aiding legislations enforcement investigations

Coverage includes:
Deception all through heritage to at the present time; The purposes & targets of Cyber Counterintelligence; The Missions and results of felony Profiling; felony & moral points of Deception; assault Tradecraft; Operational Deception; instruments, strategies & methods; assault Attribution; Black Hat Motivators; realizing complicated chronic Threats; while & whilst to not Act; Implementation & Validation strategies

Aristotle in 90 Minutes

“Each of those little books is witty and dramatic and creates a feeling of time, position, and personality. .. .I can't reflect on a greater technique to introduce oneself and one’s pals to Western civilization. ”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, transparent and proficient, they've got a breezy wit approximately them.

The Illusions of Progress

Translated through John & Charlotte Stanley.
With a Foreword by way of Robert A. Nisbet & an advent by way of Joh Stanley

It is a excitement to welcome this publication into the English language, the extra so for the overall excellence of the interpretation and for the precious creation that Professor Stanley has given to Sorel's paintings. This Frenchman has been capable of divulge to the very center the trendy notion of growth, the concept that mankind has advanced in linear model long ago, is now progressing, and may proceed to growth indefinitely into the longer term, got here into being within the French Enlightenment.