Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism
The central focus of this book is a small but vitally important group of movements that constitute a distinct 'fifth wave' of modern terrorism, here called the "New Tribalism". Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism examines a collection...
Millennial Violence
This volume encompasses an array of material exploring the millennium phenomenon and the violent excitement it provokes. Consisting of three core parts, the book combines pertinent documents with insightful commentary and discussion.
Strategic IT Portfolio Management: Managing Enterprise Transformation
Strategic IT Portfolio Management delivers a solution to the IT dilemma that has evolved over the past 50 years; namely, how do we get the most value from our IT investment? Author Jeff Kaplan puts over three decades of experience to work exploring and identifying the knowledge, techniques, and strategies needed to maximize technology investments and achieve long-term business transformation for all types of organizations. Written for executives from all disciplines, the book highlights many of the root causes of the IT value dilemma and explains how executives can prevent and counter these issues. Readers will learn the portfolio management methods essential to achieving value.
Democracy
At a moment when the term "Democracy " is evoked to express inchoate aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that may or may not benefit more than a select minority of the population, this book examines...
Lone Wolf and Autonomous Cell Terrorism
President Obama has declared that the greatest terrorist threat which America faces is attacks by lone wolf terrorists. This volume expands the lone wolf rubric to include autonomous cells: small groups of terrorists who cooperate, but operate ind...
Decision Theory as Philosophy
Is Bayesian decision theory a panacea for many of the problems in epistemology and the philosophy of science, or is it philosophical snake-oil? For years a debate had been waged amongst specialists regarding the import and legitimacy of this body ...
Generative Artificial Intelligence
"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative A...
Humanscape
In dealing with environmental issues we are repeatedly confronted by the paradox that the biggest obstacle to a more humane world for people is -- people. Again and again designers, planners, citizen groups, policy makers, and managers set out to ...
Resisting War
In civil conflicts around the world, unarmed civilians take enormous risks to protect themselves and confront heavily armed combatants. This is not just counterintuitive - it is extraordinary. In this book, Oliver Kaplan explores cases from Colomb...
Resisting War
In civil conflicts around the world, unarmed civilians take enormous risks to protect themselves and confront heavily armed combatants. This is not just counterintuitive - it is extraordinary. In this book, Oliver Kaplan explores cases from Colomb...
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Civilization
Artificial intelligence is shaking up economies around the world as well as society at large and is predicted to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity. This book looks at what exactly artificial intelligence is, how it can be cla...
Women Talk More Than Men
Do women talk more than men? Does text messaging make you stupid? Can chimpanzees really talk to us? This fascinating textbook addresses a wide range of language myths, focusing on important big-picture issues such as the rule-governed nature of l...
Oneness and Seperateness
Provides insight into the process by which an infant is separated from oneness with its mother, revealing the impact of this separation on human behavior throughout life.
Generative Artificial Intelligence
"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative A...
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Civilization
Artificial intelligence is shaking up economies around the world as well as society at large and is predicted to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity. This book looks at what exactly artificial intelligence is, how it can be cla...
Intermolecular Interactions
The subject of this book - intermolecular interactions - is as important in physics as in chemistry and molecular biology. Intermolecular interactions are responsible for the existence of liquids and solids in nature. They determine the physical a...
3 Shades of Blue
The National Bestseller - One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year 'A superb book... Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.' --Los Angeles Times From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of three towering artists--Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans--and how they came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue In 1959, America's great indigenous art form, jazz, reached the height of its power and popularity. James Kaplan's magnificent 3 Shades of Blue captures how that golden era came to be, and its pinnacle with the recording of Kind of Blue. It's a book about music, and business, and race, and heroin, and the cities that gave jazz its home, and the Black geniuses behind its rise. It's an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange environments where it can flourish most. It's a book about the great forebears
Our American Israel
"Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience." -Ta-Nehisi Coates An essential account of America's most controversial alliance, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays our in our own time. In 1945, it was n...
Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously...
Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers
'Filled with cool cocktail-party tidbits, Matt Kaplan considers how things that were once the stuff of legends could one day become reality' (The Atlantic) in this fun scientific inquiry into the mystical places and magical objects of ancient and contemporary lore--from the fountain of youth, to love potions, to Super Mario's mushrooms.Can migrations of birds foretell our future? Do phases of the moon hold sway over our lives? Are there sacred springs that cure the ill? What is the best way to brew a love potion? How do we create mutant humans who regenerate like Wolverine? 'In Science of the Magical, Matt Kaplan takes us on a journey spiced with the wonders of myth, history and art, leavened with impeccable research, endlessly fascinating. And the result is both a compelling read and a deeply thoughtful exploration of the world around us and the ways we seek to understand it' (Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook). Like Ken Jennings and Mary Roach, Kaplan serves as a
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
'An important, disturbing, and gripping history' (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent and employ cyber wars--where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer. In June 1983, President Reagan watched the movie War Games, in which a teenager unwittingly hacks the Pentagon, and asked his top general if the scenario was plausible. The general said it was. This set in motion the first presidential directive on computer security. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future. Fred Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the 'information warfare' squads of the military
Microsoft Surface Application Sketch Book
Think you have the next great Windows 8 or RT app idea? The Surface App Sketch Book is an essential tool for any aspiring Windows 8 or RT-based Surface Pro or Surface tablet app developer. This sketch book makes it easy to centralize and organize ...
Disney Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas Sticker Art Puzzles
Fifteen challenging sticker puzzles featuring favorite moments and characters from Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas await on these pages Puzzle your way through spooky scenes from the iconic film with Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Sticker Art Puzzles Each of the 15 delightfully frightful puzzles in this book features full-color art of your favorite characters and moments from the beloved double-holiday film. To solve a puzzle, you'll need to fit more than 100 sticker shapes into a tessellated grid. When you're done, you'll have a glossy art poster to frame and hang on your wall. In the spirit of the haunting holiday, this book features a glow-in-the-dark cover, plus a bonus glow-in-the-dark puzzle of Oogie Boogie inside Ideal for fans of the movie and puzzle enthusiasts alike, this book will provide hours of enjoyment as you complete each scene.
Bahir
The Bahir is one of the oldest and most influential of all classical Kabbalah texts.¿ Until the publication of the Zohar, the Bahir was the most widely quoted primary source of Kabbalistic teachings. The Bahir is quoted in every major book on Kabb...
Nation and the Promise of Friendship
When strangers meet in social clubs, watch reality television, or interact on Facebook, they contribute to the social glue of mass society-not because they promote civic engagement or democracy, but because they enact the sacred promise of friends...
