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DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You

Knopf, 2011

"This extraordinarily powerful book demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cybercrime. Essential reading." --Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorah

The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a...

Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945: Abridged Edition

Harper Perennial, 2009

Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an abridged edition of Saul Friedländer's definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning two-volume history of the Holocaust: Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 and The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.

The book's...

Criminal Investigative Failures

CRC Press, 2008

This topic is vitally important for not only understanding the causes and prevention of failures, but for understanding and measuring success.
—John Eck, University of Cincinnati, Department of Criminal Justice

For serious crimes, criminal investigators are the gatekeepers for the rest of the criminal...

Are You Afraid of the Dark? : A Novel

William Morrow, 2004

All around the globe, people are being reported dead or missing.

In Berlin, a woman vanishes from the city streets. In Paris, a man plunges from the Eiffel Tower. In Denver, a small plane crashes into the mountains. In Manhattan, a body washes ashore along the East River. At first these seem to be random incidents, but the police...

Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents

CRC Press, 1999

With terrorist groups expanding their weapons of destruction beyond bombs and bullets, chemical and biological warfare agents aren't merely limited to the battlefield anymore. In some cases, they are now being used on a new front: major metropolitan cities. And in the Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, emergency response...

Handbook of Biosurveillance

Academic Press, 2006

Over the past five years, the very real threat posed by emerging infections and bioterrorism has challenged and revolutionized the practice of disease surveillance. Many cities and countries are constructing new disease surveillance systems. Even the basic concept of surveillance data has changed, expanding dramatically beyond notifiable disease...

Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition

University of California Press, 2003

Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong—more than four times the size of the American Mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most Westerners. Here is the first book...

The Dynamics of Peaceful and Violent Protests in Hong Kong: The Anti-extradition Movement

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This book shows that Hong Kong’s protests from June to December 2019 originated from not only an attempt to extradite a Hong Kong man involved in a Taiwan murder case, but also China’s effort at extraditing corrupt mainlanders who laundered dirty money in the territory. The mixture of peaceful and violent protests was due...

And Every Word Is True: Newfound evidence reveals Truman Capote's

Literati Editions, 2019

Truman Capote’s bestselling book “In Cold Blood” has captivated worldwide audiences for over fifty years. It is a gripping story about the consequences of a trivial robbery gone terribly wrong in a remote village of western Kansas.But what if robbery was not the motive at all, but something more sinister? And why would the...

Digital Forensics Basics: A Practical Guide Using Windows OS

Apress, 2019

Use this hands-on, introductory guide to understand and implement digital forensics to investigate computer crime using Windows, the most widely used operating system. This book provides you with the necessary skills to identify an intruder's footprints and to gather the necessary digital evidence in a forensically sound manner...

Rick Gallaher's MPLS Training Guide: Building Multi Protocol Label Switching Networks

Syngress Publishing, 2003

Many large to mid-size enterprise and private networks are examining the benefits of MPLS. The biggest benefit of migrating to MPLS is the savings that it promises through convergence and additional services. MPLS offers the ability to construct a scalable network that can handle data, voice, and video conferencing. The cry from CTOs around the...

America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia

Zed Books, 2005

This controversial book maintains that in Colombia the US has long supported a pervasive campaign of state violence directed against both armed insurgents and a wide range of unarmed progressive social forces. While the context may change from one decade to the next, the basic policies remain the same: maintain the pro-US Colombian...

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