Out There

The Plague Year

Abolition for the People

Talking to Strangers

A Future-looking, Game-changing Book About The Radical Transformational Potential Of Working From Home. If You Think You're Working From Home During The Pandemic, Charlie Warzel And Anne Helen Petersen Are Here To Tell You Otherwise. What We're Doing Right Now Is Something Else, A Jury-rigged Compromise Made Under The Duress Of A National Crisis That's Satisfactory For Neither The Worker Nor The Employer. But They Also See That The Past Few Months Have Revealed That There May Be Another Way To Go To Work On A More Permanent Basis, One That Doesn't Involve Hellish Daily Commutes And The Demands Of Jampacked Work Schedules That No Longer Make Sense For Our Time. As A Society We Have Talked For Decades About Flexible Work Arrangements, And, As The Authors Make Clear, We May Finally Be At An Inflection Point Where This Becomes Possible For Almost Everyone. Out Of Office Combines Groundbreaking Reporting And The Couple's First-person Experiences After They Made The Decision To Leave Their Desk Jobs In New York City For Montana. They Describe How Workers And Employers Across America, And Around The World, Are Finding New Ways Of Working That Make People Happier And More Productive, And Companies More Profitable. This Is A Book That Aims To Reshape Our Entire Relationship To The Office, And Outline A Path Toward A New Kind Of Work-life Balance That Can Improve Our Lives And Strengthen Our Communities.

Out of Office

“One of the finest books on information security published so far in this century—easily accessible, tightly argued, superbly well-sourced, intimidatingly perceptive.”
—Thomas Rid, author of Active Measures

“The best examination I have read of how increasingly dramatic developments in cyberspace are defining the ‘new normal’ of geopolitics in the digital age. Buchanan…captures the dynamics of all of this truly brilliantly.”
—General David Petraeus, former Director of the CIA and Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan

Few national-security threats are as potent—or as nebulous—as cyber attacks. Ben Buchanan reveals how hackers are transforming spycraft and statecraft, catching us all in the crossfire, whether we know it or not.

Ever since WarGames, we have been bracing for the cyberwar to come, conjuring images of exploding power plants and mass panic. But while cyber attacks are now disturbingly common, they don’t look anything like we thought they would.

Packed with insider information based on interviews, declassified files, and forensic analysis of company reports, The Hacker and the State sets aside fantasies of cyber-annihilation to explore the real geopolitical competition of the digital age. Tracing the conflict of wills and interests among modern nations, Ben Buchanan reveals little-known details of how China, Russia, North Korea, Britain, and the United States hack one another in a relentless struggle for dominance. His analysis moves deftly from underseas cable taps to underground nuclear sabotage, from blackouts and data breaches to billion-dollar heists and election interference.

Buchanan brings to life this continuous cycle of espionage and deception, attack and counterattack, destabilization and retaliation. He explains why cyber attacks are far less destructive than we anticipated, far more pervasive, and much harder to prevent. With little fanfare and far less scrutiny, they impact our banks, our tech and health systems, our democracy, and every aspect of our lives. Quietly, insidiously, they have reshaped our national-security priorities and transformed spycraft and statecraft. The contest for geopolitical advantage has moved into cyberspace. The United States and its allies can no longer dominate the way they once did. The nation that hacks best will triumph.

The Hacker and the State

The Future of Feeling

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Everything All at Once

From New York Times-bestselling Author Nick Bilton Comes A True-life Thriller About The Rise And Fall Of Ross Ulbricht, Aka The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Founder Of The Online Black Market Silk Road.

American Kingpin

The One Device

High-security organizations around the world face devastating threats from insiders—trusted employees with access to sensitive information, facilities, and materials. From Edward Snowden to the Fort Hood shooter to the theft of nuclear materials, the threat from insiders is on the front page and at the top of the policy agenda. Insider Threats offers detailed case studies of insider disasters across a range of different types of institutions, from biological research laboratories, to nuclear power plants, to the U.S. Army. Matthew Bunn and Scott D. Sagan outline cognitive and organizational biases that lead organizations to downplay the insider threat, and they synthesize "worst practices" from these past mistakes, offering lessons that will be valuable for any organization with high security and a lot to lose.Insider threats pose dangers to anyone who handles information that is secret or proprietary, material that is highly valuable or hazardous, people who must be protected, or facilities that might be sabotaged. This is the first book to offer in-depth case studies across a range of industries and contexts, allowing entities such as nuclear facilities and casinos to learn from each other. It also offers an unprecedented analysis of terrorist thinking about using insiders to get fissile material or sabotage nuclear facilities.Contributors: Matthew Bunn, Harvard University; Andreas Hoelstad Dæhli, Oslo; Kathryn M. Glynn, IBM Global Business Services; Thomas Hegghammer, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Oslo; Austin Long, Columbia University; Scott D. Sagan, Stanford University; Ronald Schouten, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Jessica Stern, Harvard University; Amy B. Zegart, Stanford University

Insider Threats

The China Study

A Negotiation Guide From A Former Fbi Hostage Negotiator-- Never Split The Difference Is A Riveting, Indispensable Handbook Of Negotiation Principles Culled And Perfected From Chris Voss's Remarkable Career As A Hostage Negotiator And Later As An Award-winning Teacher In The World's Most Prestigious Business Schools. From Policing The Rough Streets Of Kansas City, Missouri, To Becoming The Fbi's Lead International Kidnapping Negotiator, To Teaching Negotiation At Leading Universities, Voss Has Tested These Techniques Across The Full Spectrum Of Human Endeavor And Proved Their Effectiveness. Those Who Have Benefited From These Techniques Include Business Clients Generating Millions In Additional Profits, Mba Students Getting Better Jobs, And Even Parents Dealing With Their Kids. Never Split The Difference Provides A Gripping, Behind-the-scenes Recounting Of Dramatic Scenarios From The Gang-infested Streets Of Haiti To A Brooklyn Bank Robbery Gone Horribly Wrong, Revealing The Negotiation Strategies That Helped Voss And His Colleagues Succeed Where It Mattered Most: Saving Lives. As A World-class Negotiator, Voss Shows You How To Use These Skills In The Workplace And In Every Other Realm Of Your Life. Life Is A Series Of Negotiations: Whether Buying A Car, Getting A Better Raise, Buying A Home, Renegotiating Rent, Or Deliberating With Your Partner, Never Split The Difference Gives You The Competitive Edge In Any Discussion.--jacket. The New Rules : How To Become The Smartest Person ... In Any Room -- Be A Mirror : How To Quickly Establish Rapport -- Don't Feel Their Pain, Label It : How To Create Trust With Tactical Empathy -- Beware Yes, Master No : How To Generate Momentum And Make It Safe To Reveal The Real Stakes -- Trigger The Two Words That Immediately Transform Any Negotiation : How To Gain Permission To Persuade -- Bend Their Reality : How To Shape What Is Fair -- Create The Illusion Of Control : How To Calibrate Questions To Transform Conflict Into Collaboration -- Guarantee Execution : How To Spot The Liars And Ensure Follow-through From Everyone Else -- Bargain Hard : How To Get Your Price -- Find The Black Swan : How To Create Breakthroughs By Revealing The Unknown Unknowns. Chris Voss With Tahl Raz. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 259-262) And Index.

Never Split the Difference

A Fascinating Exploration Of How Insights From Computer Algorithms Can Be Applied To Our Everyday Lives, Helping To Solve Common Decision-making Problems And Illuminate The Workings Of The Human Mind All Our Lives Are Constrained By Limited Space And Time, Limits That Give Rise To A Particular Set Of Problems. What Should We Do, Or Leave Undone, In A Day Or A Lifetime? How Much Messiness Should We Accept? What Balance Of New Activities And Familiar Favorites Is The Most Fulfilling? These May Seem Like Uniquely Human Quandaries, But They Are Not: Computers, Too, Face The Same Constraints, So Computer Scientists Have Been Grappling With Their Version Of Such Issues For Decades. And The Solutions They've Found Have Much To Teach Us. In A Dazzlingly Interdisciplinary Work, Acclaimed Author Brian Christian And Cognitive Scientist Tom Griffiths Show How The Algorithms Used By Computers Can Also Untangle Very Human Questions. They Explain How To Have Better Hunches And When To Leave Things To Chance, How To Deal With Overwhelming Choices And How Best To Connect With Others. From Finding A Spouse To Finding A Parking Spot, From Organizing One's Inbox To Understanding The Workings Of Memory, Algorithms To Live By Transforms The Wisdom Of Computer Science Into Strategies For Human Living.

Algorithms to Live By

The Daily Show

Things a Little Bird Told Me

Unstoppable

Our new digital landscape has spawned an entrepreneurial culture and the belief that anyone with a laptop and an Internet connection has the power to change the world—to create an idea that flies. But for every groundbreaking business that started this way, a thousand others have stalled or failed. Why? What’s the secret to success? What do Khan Academy, the GoPro camera, the Dyson vacuum cleaner and Kickstarter have in common?

Meaningful

Argues That The Leaders Of Today Actually Have Less Power Than Ever Before, Discussing The Changing Nature Of Leadership And The Modern Dynamics Of Power. Machine Generated Contents Note: Ch. One The Decay Of Power -- Have You Heard Of James Black Jr.? -- From The Chess Board... To Everything Around Us -- What Changed? -- The Decay Of Power: Is It New? Is It True? So What? -- But What Is Power? -- The Decay Of Power: What's At Stake? -- Ch. Two Making Sense Of Power: How It Works And How To Keep It -- How To Talk About Power -- How Power Works -- Why Power Shifts -- Or Stays Steady -- The Importance Of Barriers To Power -- The Blueprint: Explaining Market Power -- Barriers To Entry: A Key To Market Power -- From Barriers To Entry To Barriers To Power -- Ch. Three How Power Got Big: An Assumption's Unquestioned Rise -- Max Weber, Or Why Size Made Sense -- How The World Went Weberian -- The Myth Of The Power Elite? -- Ch. Four How Power Lost Its Edge: The More, Mobility, And Mentality Revolutions -- So What Has Changed? -- The More Revolution: Overwhelming The Means Of Control -- The Mobility Revolution: The End Of Captive Audiences --^ The Mentality Revolution: Taking Nothing For Granted Anymore -- How Does It Work? -- Revolutionary Consequences: Undermining The Barriers To Power -- Barriers Down: The Opportunity For Micropowers -- Ch. Five Why Are Landslides, Majorities, And Mandates Endangered Species? -- The Decay Of Power In National Politics -- From Empires To States: The More Revolution And The Proliferation Of Countries -- From Despots To Democrats -- From Majorities To Minorities -- From Parties To Factions -- From Capitals To Regions -- From Governors To Lawyers -- From Leaders To Laymen -- Hedge Funds And Hacktivists -- The Political Centrifuge -- Ch. Six Pentagons Versus Pirates: The Decaying Power Of Large Armies -- The Big Rise Of Small Forces -- The End Of The Ultimate Monopoly: The Use Of Violence -- A Tsunami Of Weapons -- The Decay Of Power And The New Rules Of War -- Ch. Seven Whose World Will It Be? Vetoes, Resistance, And Leaks -- Or Why Geopolitics Is Turning Upside Down --^ The Stakes Of Hegemony -- The New Ingredients -- If Not Hegemony, Then What? -- Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf? Traditional Power At Bay -- Soft Power For All -- The New Rules Of Geopolitics -- Just Say No -- From Ambassadors To Gongos: The New Emissaries -- Alliances Of The Few -- Anyone In Charge Here? -- Ch. Eight Business As Unusual: Corporate Dominance Under Siege -- In The Land Of Bosses, Authority, And Hierarchy -- What Is Globalization Doing To Business Concentration? -- The Power And Peril Of Brands -- Market Power: The Antidote To Business Insecurity -- Barriers Are Down, Competition Is Up -- New Entrants And New Opportunities -- What Does All This Mean? -- Ch. Nine Hyper-competition For Your Soul, Heart, And Brain -- Religion: The Nine Billion Names Of God -- Labor: New Unions And Nonunions -- Philanthropy: Putting The Bono In Pro Bono -- Media: Everyone Reports, Everyone Decides -- Ch. Ten The Decay Of Power: Is The Glass Half-full Or Half-empty? --^ Celebrating The Decay Of Power -- What's Not To Like? The Dangers Of Decay -- Political Paralysis As Collateral Damage Of The Decay Of Power -- Ruinous Competition -- Be Careful What You Wish For: Overdosing On Checks And Balances -- Five Risks -- Ch. Eleven Power Is Decaying: So What? What To Do? -- Get Off The Elevator -- Make Life Harder For The Terrible Simplifiers -- Bring Trust Back -- Strengthen Political Parties: The Lessons From Occupy Wall Street And Al Qaeda -- Increase Political Participation -- The Coming Surge Of Political Innovations. Moisés Naím. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

The End of Power

Everybody Writes is a go-to guide to attracting and retaining customers through stellar online communication, because in our content-driven world, every one of us is, in fact, a writer.

Everybody Writes

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

10% Happier

Die Empty

The Great Deformation

The Power of Habit

The $100 Startup

Dreamland

Inside Apple

Antifragile

Neuromarketing Studies The Way The Brain Responds To Various Cognitive And Sensory Marketing Stimuli. Analysts Use This To Measure A Consumer's Preference, What A Customer Reacts To, And Why Consumers Make Certain Decisions. This Scientific Approach To Marketing Has Helped Many Brands And Companies Determine How To Best Market Their Products To Different Demographics And Consumer Groups. Brainfluence Explains How To Practically Apply Neuroscience And Behavior Research To Everyday Marketing Problems. This Book Is Designed To Be A Practical Guide With Quick And Easy Takeaways Offered In 60 Short Chapters, Each Containing One Key Strategy. The Chapters Are Organized Into Major Groups, Mainly By Application: In-person Sales, Web Marketing, Print Advertising, And Many Others. The Book Explains Several Key Concepts, Including: New Insights Into What Makes People Buy, Ways For Brands To Form Emotional Bonds With Customers, Short, Easy To Digest Ideas That Can Be Accessed In Any Order, Techniques For All Types Of Businesses, Including Small Businesses And Non-profits This Book Contains Practical, Easy-to-understand Ways To Improve Marketing, Advertising, And Sales Efforts--

Brainfluence

Argues That The Growth Of Social Networking And Increased Openness Online Is Beneficial In The Digital Age And Can Lead To Increased Collaboration And Changes In The Way People Organize, Govern, Teach, And Learn. The Ages Of Publicness -- The Prophet Of Publicness: Mark Zuckerberg -- Public Choices : Private Germans ; The German Paradox ; My Public Parts ; My Private Parts -- The Benefits Of Publicness : Publicness ... ; Builds Relationships ; Disarms Strangers ; Enables Collaboration ; Unleases The Wisdom (and Generosity) Of The Crowd ; Defuses The Myth Of Perfection ; Neutralizes Stigmas ; Grants Immortality ... Or At Least Credit ; Organizes Us ; Protects Us -- A History The Private And The Public : Fiendish Kodakers ; Technology Fears ; The Making Of The Modern Public ; The Public Sphere -- The Public Press : Gutenberg's And God's Gift ; The Making And Unmaking Of Mass Media -- What Is Privacy? : How Do You Define Privacy? ; How Do We Protect Privacy? ; The Ethics Of Privacy And Publicness -- How Public Are We? : We Have Met The Public, And They Are Us ; How Public Is Too Public? ; Oversharing -- The Public You : Identity And Reputation ; Public Advice -- The Sharing Industry : The Public Economy ; Evan Williams: Blogger And Twitter ; Dennis Crowley: Dodgeball And Foursquare ; Philip Kaplan: Blippy ; Josh Harris: We Live In Public And Wired City -- The Radically Public Company : Imagine ; Open-and-shut Case Studies -- By The People : Killing Secrecy ; Beyond Openness -- The New World : Who Will Protect Publicness? ; Principles Of Publicness. Jeff Jarvis. Includes Bibliographical References.

Public Parts

The 4 Hour Body

Thinkertoys

The Grand Design

Ignore Everybody

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

From The Award-winning Author Of A People's Tragedy And Natasha's Dance, A Landmark Account Of What Private Life Was Like For Russians In The Worst Years Of Soviet Repression There Have Been Many Accounts Of The Public Aspects Of Stalin's Dictatorship: The Arrests And Trials, The Enslavement And Killing In The Gulags. No Previous Book, However, Has Explored The Regime's Effect On People's Personal Lives, What One Historian Called The Stalinism That Entered Into All Of Us. Now, Drawing On A Huge Collection Of Newly Discovered Documents, The Whisperers Reveals For The First Time The Inner World Of Ordinary Soviet Citizens As They Struggled To Survive Amidst The Mistrust, Fear, Compromises, And Betrayals That Pervaded Their Existence. Moving From The Revolution Of 1917 To The Death Of Stalin And Beyond, Orlando Figes Re-creates The Moral Maze In Which Russians Found Themselves, Where One Wrong Turn Could Destroy A Family Or, Perversely, End Up Saving It. He Brings Us Inside Cramped Communal Apartments, Where Minor Squabbles Could Lead To Fatal Denunciations; He Examines The Communist Faithful, Who Often Rationalized Even Their Own Arrest As A Case Of Mistaken Identity; And He Casts A Humanizing Light On Informers, Demonstrating How, In A Repressive System, Anyone Could Easily Become A Collaborator. A Vast Panoramic Portrait Of A Society In Which Everyone Spoke In Whispers—whether To Protect Their Families And Friends, Or To Inform Upon Them—the Whisperers Is A Gripping Account Of Lives Lived In Impossible Times.

The Whisperers

How Do We Think Without Thinking, Seem To Make Choices In An Instant--in The Blink Of An Eye--that Actually Aren't As Simple As They Seem? Why Are Some People Brilliant Decision Makers, While Others Are Consistently Inept? Why Do Some People Follow Their Instincts And Win, While Others End Up Stumbling Into Error? And Why Are The Best Decisions Often Those That Are Impossible To Explain To Others? Drawing On Cutting-edge Neuroscience And Psychology, The Author Reveals That Great Decision Makers Aren't Those Who Process The Most Information Or Spend The Most Time Deliberating, But Those Who Have Perfected The Art Of Filtering The Very Few Factors That Matter From An Overwhelming Number Of Variables. The Statue That Didn't Look Right -- The Theory Of Thin-slicing -- The Locked Door -- The Warren Harding Error -- Paul Van Riper's Big Victory : Creating Structure For Spontaneity -- Kenna's Dilemma : The Right-and Wrong-way To Ask People What They Want -- Seven Seconds In The Bronx : The Delicate Art Of Mind-reading -- Conclusion: Listening With Your Eyes : The Lessons Of Blink. Malcolm Gladwell. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [255]-262) And Index.

Non-fiction