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Hyperformance: Using Competitive Intelligence for Better Strategy and Execution

Jossey-Bass, 2010

Effective strategies for outsmarting the competition and driving better bottom-line results

In this groundbreaking book, T.J. Waters has turned his experience collecting and analyzing competitive intelligence for the CIA into effective strategies for businesses wanting to stay on the leading edge of their industries. The...

IT Compliance and Controls: Best Practices for Implementation

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Praise for IT Compliance and Controls

"James DeLuccia outlines a comprehensive, integrated strategy for achieving regulatory and legislative compliance. This approach is vastly superior, both in scalability and in sustainability, to the siloed compliance strategies that are often seen."
—Dr. Richard Reiner, founder,...

Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Code-breaking Computers (Popular Science)

Oxford University Press, 2006

"An excellent, ground breaking book, highly recommended."--Books-On-Line

The American ENIAC is customarily regarded as having been the starting point of electronic computation. This book rewrites the history of computer science, arguing that in reality Colossus--the giant computer built by the British secret service during...

On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders

Apress, 2008

On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders is an absorbing chronicle of the inventive, individualistic, and often cantankerous individuals who set the Internet free. Michael A. Banks describes how the online population created a new culture and turned a new frontier into their vision of the...

Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (v. 1)

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many new insights into the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and...

The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction (Acting with Technology)

MIT Press, 2005

In The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction, Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza proposes an account of HCI that draws on concepts from semiotics and computer science to investigate the relationship between user and designer. Semiotics is the study of signs, and the essence of semiotic engineering is the communication between...

Terrorism's Unanswered Questions (Praeger Security International)

Praeger Publishers, 2008

Despite the growth of interest in the study of terrorism since 9/11, terrorism analysts rarely take a multidisciplinary approach to the subject. This leaves a number of terrorism's characteristics to be explored in new and unique ways. Terrorism's Unanswered Questions brings together scholars from the fields of criminology,...

Leadership Principles for Project Success

CRC Press, 2010

This book is about project success. It reveals a secret for project success: effective project leadership. It shows where pure project management falls short and why project leadership is the decisive factor for project success. It outlines five simple yet powerful leadership principles which, if applied systematically, can help...

You Can't Lie to Me: The Revolutionary Program to Supercharge Your Inner Lie Detector and Get to the Truth

Harper Perennial, 2012

Janine Driver was trained as a lie detection expert for the ATF, FBI, and the CIA and is a New York Times bestselling author (You Say More Than You Think). Now she makes a powerful and incontrovertible declaration: You Can’t Lie to Me. Driver—who is known in professional circles as “the...

Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations

Brookings Institution Press, 2019

“We are dropping cyber bombs. We have never done that before.”—U.S. Defense Department official

A new era of war fighting is emerging for the U.S. military. Hi-tech weapons have given way to hi tech in a number of instances recently:

A computer virus is unleashed that...

American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us

Verso, 2019

How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him there

Donald Trump’s residency in the White House is not an accident of American history, and it can’t be blamed on a single cause. In American Breakdown, David Bromwich provides an essential analysis of...

Universities and Sustainable Communities: Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030 (World Sustainability Series)

Springer, 2019

The book showcases examples of university engagement in community initiatives and reports on the results from research and from a variety of institutional projects and programmes. As a whole, the book illustrates how actors at the community (microlevel) and other levels (meso and macro) can make valuable and concrete contributions to...

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