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  • Spam Nation

    The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime—from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

    by Brian Krebs ...
    A New York Times bestseller and winner of a 2015 Prose Award!There is a threat lurking online. A secret war with the power to destroy your finances, steal your personal data, and endanger your life.In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank ... Read more

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  • Paths to Complexity - Centralisation and Urbanisation in Iron Age Europe

    Exploring the origins of urbanism – the emergence and development of the first cities, has long constituted one of the main challenges of archaeological and ancient historical research. Studying cities in a long-term and cross-cultural perspective links the past with the present, allowing a better understanding of one of the most important developments in human history. Moreover, archaeological ... Read more

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  • Why Ecology Matters

    Global temperatures and seawater levels rise; the world's smallest porpoise species looms at the edge of extinction; and a tiny emerald beetle from Japan flourishes in North America—but why does it matter? Who cares? With this concise, accessible, and up-to-date book, Charles J. Krebs answers critics and enlightens students and environmental advocates alike, revealing not why phenomena like these ... Read more

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  • Riding the Rails

    Inside the Business of America's Railroads

    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    A former Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway CEO tells the behind-the-scenes story of the transformation and resurgence of America's ailing railroads.When Robert D. Krebs joined the ranks of Southern Pacific Railroad in 1966, the industry had been in decline for decades, and the future of trains was in peril. Despite these obstacles, Krebs fell in love with the rugged, competitive business of ... Read more

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  • On a Knife Edge

    How Germany Lost the First World War

    Series series Cambridge Military Histories
    Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late in the war. Using new evidence from diaries, letters and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and the failure ... Read more

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  • Satori

    The path to understanding

    This small book describes the main steps of the Buddhist path that leads directly to understanding. The path to truth and peace. ... Read more

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  • After Promontory

    One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading

    "Some of the most accomplished scholars of railroad history…tell the story of these enterprises which totally re-shaped the western landscape."— The Michigan RailfanAfter Promontory profiles the history and heritage behind the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Starting with the original Union Pacific—Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, ... Read more

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  • Our Iceberg Is Melting

    Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

    The revised and updated tenth anniversary edition of the classic, beloved business fable that has changed millions of lives in organizations around the world.Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple story about doing well under the stress and uncertainty of rapid change. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard Business School’s John Kotter, it can help you and your colleagues thrive during tough ... Read more

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  • 100 People Drawings

    Build the habit of working visually — one drawing a day

    In this third drawing book, we cover the most complex and also the most magical thing you can draw — people! It‘s a special feeling to convey emotion through a facial expression, posture or gesture — with just a few strokes of your pen. As with the other Daily Drawings books, we make the complex simple and easy — showing you how to draw people step by step, with one drawing a day. You can use ... Read more

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  • Scars of Independence

    America's Violent Birth

    by Holger Hoock ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEA magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's founding**The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It’s a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock ... Read more

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  • The Girl in the Cellar

    Surviving the Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied Poland

    In September of 1939, thirteen-year-old Gerda Krebs's world changed when the Nazis invaded her hometown of Przemyśl, taking everything she held dear—her home, irreplaceable heirlooms, and ultimately, most of her family members. Escaping deportation to an extermination camp by hiding in the home of a Polish woman and using the papers of the woman's deceased, illegitimate daughter, Gerda never let ... Read more

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  • A Most Dangerous Book

    Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

    The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height ... Read more

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