Tanner, Adam.
Summary: Looks at how Caesar's Entertainment in Las Vegas collects personal data and uses it to cater to their clients' every need, inspiring companies of all kinds to do likewise in order to grow their businesses and stay relevant.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 TANEdgar, Timothy H.
Summary: America's mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration's own reforms have also helped bring the National Security Agency and its programs of signals intelligence collection out of the shadows. The real question is: What should we do about mass surveillance?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 EDGKristof, Nicholas D.
Summary: "From the authors of the #1 New York Times best-selling Half the Sky, a unique and essential narrative about making a difference in the world--a roadmap to becoming a conscientious global citizen. Equal in urgency and compassion to Half the Sky, this galvanizing new book from the acclaimed husband and wife team is even more ambitious in scale: nothing less than a deep examination of people who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 360 KRIHubbard, Ben
Summary: "In a growing digital world, how can you remain safe and secure? How can you protect yourself and your information? Learn all about your digital safety and security in this eye-opening book."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J343.73 HUBScahill, Jeremy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.354 SCAZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: "The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 ZUCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 ZUCMitnick, Kevin D. (Kevin David)
Summary: "Like it or not, your every move is being watched and analyzed. Consumer's identities are being stolen, and a person's every step is being tracked and stored. What once might have been dismissed as paranoia is now a hard truth, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand. In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick illustrates what is happening without your knowledge--and he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005 MITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 005.8 MITChertoff, Michael
Summary: "Chertoff [posits] that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be ... overhauled in the Internet era. On the one hand, the collection of data--more widespread by business than by government, and impossible to stop--should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for society. On the other, standards under which information...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343 CHEZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: "The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 363 ZUCCurrie, Stephen
Summary: Discusses issues regarding the right to privacy and the impact of the internet, including information on identity theft, cyberbullying, secret data collection, hacking, and security breaches.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 004.67 CURZegart, Amy B.
Summary: Spying has never been more ubiquitous-or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are more congressional experts on powdered milk than espionage. This crisis in intelligence education is distorting public opinion, fueling conspiracy theories, and hurting intelligence policy. Amy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 ZEGPatterson, James
Summary: "John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENNON, JOHN PATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LENNON PATEpstein, Edward Jay
Summary: Challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable the United States' national security systems have become.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 EPSAnderson, Jennifer Joline.
Summary: Discusses the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders in Victorian England.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.1523 ANDAckroyd, Peter
Summary: A short study of everything that goes on under London--from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern tube stations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.2104 ACKOlson, Lynne
Summary: "When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 OLSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 OLSFlanders, Judith.
Summary: "Expert Victorian-era historian Judith Flanders explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dicken's novels, bringing life on the streets of London to vivid, fascinating life. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capitol grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rubenhold, Hallie
Summary: The "canonical five" women murdered by Jack the Ripper have always been dismissed as society's waste, their stories passed down to us wrapped in a package of Victorian assumptions and prejudice. But social historian Hallie Rubenhold sets the record straight in The Five. In reality, only two of the victims were prostitutes, and Rubenhold has uncovered entirely new research about them all--in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 RUBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 RUBVéliz, Carissa
Summary: The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away data. Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organizations have been alerted to when you woke up, where you slept, and with whom. As you check the weather, scroll through your 'suggested friends' on Facebook, you continually compromise your privacy. Without your permission, or even your awareness, tech...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005.8 VELLunden, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)
Summary: "A literary, historical exploration about the way in which our industrialized lives have made us sick--from diarist Alice James and the 19th century neuraesthenics to current day chronic and stress-related illnesses--that seeks to answer the question who gets sick, and why?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUNDEN, JENNIFER LUNKlein, Aaron.
Summary: An investigative journalist exposes significant issues related to the Benghazi attack, including secretive activities inside the doomed facility, the withholding of critical protection, the fate of Ambassador Chris Stevens, and the role Hillary Clinton played in the scandal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WND Books 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 KLEHowley, Kerry
Summary: "Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections--a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Howley's subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.3 HOWKitfield, James
Summary: "When U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, it signaled the end of the longest conflict in the nation's history. Yet we are still at war--no longer with other states, but with a host of new enemies, from nihilistic terrorists and narco-traffickers to transnational criminal cartels, lone wolf assassins, and modern-day pirates. Standing against these foes is a tight-knit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 KITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 KITDawson, Kate Winkler
Summary: In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and 12,000 people died. That same month, there was another killer at large in London: John...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017