Many of us especially since 911 have become personally concerned about issues of security & this is no surprise Security is near the top of government & corporate agendas around the globe Security-related stories appear on the front page everyday How well though do any of us truly understand what achieving real security involves? In Beyond Fear Bruce Schneier invites us to take a critical look at not just the threats to our security but the ways in which we're encouraged to think about security by law enforcement agencies businesses of all shapes & sizes & our national governments & militaries Schneier believes we all can & should be better security consumers & that the trade-offs we make in the name of security
- in terms of cash outlays taxes inconvenience & diminished freedoms
- should be part of an ongoing negotiation in our personal professional & civic lives & the subject of an open & informed national discussion With a well-deserved reputation for original & sometimes iconoclastic thought Schneier has a lot to say that is provocative counter-intuitive & just plain good sense He explains in detail for example why we need to design security systems that don't just work well but fail well & why secrecy on the part of government often undermines security He also believes for instance that national ID cards are an exceptionally bad idea technically unsound & even destructive of security & contrary to a lot of current nay-sayers he thinks online shopping is fundamentally safe & that many of the new airline security measure (though by no means all) are actually quite effective A skeptic of much that's promised by highly touted technologies like biometrics Schneier is also a refreshingly positive problem-solving force in the often self-dramatizing & fear-mongering world of security pundits Schneier helps the reader to understand the issues at stake & how to best come to one's own conclusions including the vast infrastructure we already have in place & the vaster systems--some useful others useless or worse--that we're being asked to submit to & pay for Bruce Schneier is the author of seven books including Applied Cryptography (which Wired called the one book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published) & Secrets & Lies (described in Fortune as startlingly livelya jewel box of little surprises you can actually use) He is also Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Counterpane Internet Security Inc & publishes Crypto-Gram one of the most widely read newsletters in the field of online security

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In this profound & profoundly controversial work a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971 B F Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind & society Insisting that the problems of the world today can be solved only by dealing much more effectively with human behavior Skinner argues that our traditional concepts of freedom & dignity must be sharply revised They have played an important historical role in our struggle against many kinds of tyranny he acknowledges but they are now responsible for the futile defense of a presumed free & autonomous individual; they are perpetuating our use of punishment & blocking the development of more effective cultural practices Basing his arguments on the massive results of the experimental analysis of behavior he pioneered Skinner rejects traditional explanations of behavior in terms of states of mind feelings & other mental attributes in favor of explanations to be sought in the interaction between genetic endowment & personal history He argues that instead of promoting freedom & dignity as personal attributes we should direct our attention to the physical & social environments in which people live It is the environment rather than humankind itself that must be changed if the traditional goals of the struggle for freedom & dignity are to be reached Beyond Freedom & Dignity urges us to reexamine the ideals we have taken for granted & to consider the possibility of a radically behaviorist approach to human problems--one that has appeared to some incompatible with those ideals but which envisions the building of a world in which humankind can attain its greatest possible achievements ...

One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good & evil truth & God Beyond Good & Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety & infected with a &slave morality& With wit & subversive energy Nietzsche demands that the individual impose their own &will to power& upon the world ...

Developed by Ubisoft Montpellier Beyond Good & Evil 2 puts players in System 3 a solar system that is at the center of interstellar colonization & trade in the Milky Way in the 24th century While private enterprises exploit hybrid slave for domination over resources System 3 colonists struggle to survive & give meaning to their existence by weaving together the diverse heritages of Old Earth So begins a new era of space piracy In this Action-Adventure you can play alone or with friends everyone will take part in the intense action & drama found throughout System 3’s planets moons & space Beyond Good & Evil 2 is being developed on Voyager a new proprietary engine & set of tools the team at Ubisoft Montpellier spent three years building This breakthrough technology is capable of generating vast worlds tailor-made territories with rich gorgeous environments & robust online systems ...

Developed by Ubisoft Montpellier Beyond Good & Evil 2 puts players in System 3 a solar system that is at the center of interstellar colonization & trade in the Milky Way in the 24th century While private enterprises exploit hybrid slave for domination over resources System 3 colonists struggle to survive & give meaning to their existence by weaving together the diverse heritages of Old Earth So begins a new era of space piracy In this Action-Adventure you can play alone or with friends everyone will take part in the intense action & drama found throughout System 3’s planets moons & space Beyond Good & Evil 2 is being developed on Voyager a new proprietary engine & set of tools the team at Ubisoft Montpellier spent three years building This breakthrough technology is capable of generating vast worlds tailor-made territories with rich gorgeous environments & robust online systems ...

' What is done out of love always takes place beyond good & evil' Always provocative the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good & Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist & philosopher-seer passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights & uncanny prescience This masterpiece of his maturity considers quintessential Nietzschean topics such as the origins & nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism & beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science & scholarship; liberal democracy nationalism & women's emancipation Written in his most masterful style full of irreverence & brio Nietzsche dissects self-deluding human behaviour bankrupt intellectual traditions & the symptoms of social decadence while at the same time advancing an extra-moral wisdom to be shared by those kindred soul who think 'beyond good & evil' This new translation of Beyond Good & Evil provides readers with a true classic of modernity that sums up those forces & counterforces in nineteenth-century Western Civilisation that to an astonishing degree have also determined & continue to inform the course of our own century ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in the face of deepening interdependence rising multipolarity & the growing complexity & fragmentation that characterise the global order The Gridlock authors have now partnered with a group of leading experts to offer a trenchant reassessment of elements of the argument Comparing anomalies & exceptions to multilateral dysfunction across a number of spheres of world politics Beyond Gridlock explores seven pathways through & beyond gridlock While multilateralism continues to fall short Beyond Gridlock identifies systematic means to avoid or resist these forces & turn them into collective solutions This book offers a vital new perspective on world politics as well as a practical guide for positive change in global policy ...

Is your talent strategy a unique competitive advantage? As competition for top talent increases companies must recognize that decisions about talent & its organization can have a significant strategic impact Beyond HR shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions strategically differentiate their HR practices & metrics & more optimally allocate talent to create value Illustrations from companies such as Disney Boeing & Corning describe a new decision science called Talentship that reveals opportunities by identifying strategy pivot points & the optimal talent & organization decisions that address them A unique framework helps readers identify their own distinctive strategic pivot points & connect them to talent decisions showing how today's HR can evolve to fulfill its potential as a source of strategic advantage ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A young criminal defense attorney is handed a cut & dried homicide case However things turn out to be a lot more complicated & he is thrown into a world of human trafficking & violent gangs ...

We're losing hundreds of billions of dollars a year on broken software & great new ideas such as agile development & Scrum don't always pay off But there's hope The nine software development practices in Beyond Legacy Code are designed to solve the problems facing our industry Discover why these practices work not just how they work & dramatically increase the quality & maintainability of any software project These nine practices could save the software industry Beyond Legacy Code is filled with practical hands-on advice & a common-sense exploration of why technical practices such as refactoring & test-first development are critical to building maintainable software Discover how to avoid the pitfalls teams encounter when adopting these practices & how to dramatically reduce the risk associated with building software--realizing significant savings in both the short & long term With a deeper understanding of the principles behind the practices you'll build software that's easier & less costly to maintain & extend By adopting these nine key technical practices you'll learn to say what why & for whom before how; build in small batches; integrate continuously; collaborate; create CLEAN code; write the test first; specify behaviors with tests; implement the design last; & refactor legacy code Software developers will find hands-on pragmatic advice for writing higher quality more maintainable & bug-free code Managers customers & product owners will gain deeper insight into vital processes By moving beyond the old-fashioned procedural thinking of the Industrial Revolution & working together to embrace standards & practices that will advance software development we can turn the legacy code crisis into a true Information Revolution ...