Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping"—Smithsonian.Cliff Stoll...

** New 10th Anniversary Edition of the best-selling travel memoir.** 2018 Indie Book Award for Memoir (Personal Struggle).** Re-live Falling Uphill with a new afterword that paints the journey in a light that only time can tell.** New bonus chapters.** Over one hundred photographs (color photos in e-book only)!In one week, Scott Stoll lost his job, his best friend, his girlfriend and his confidence. Disillusioned with society, full of an...

Political Consumerism captures the creative ways in which citizens, consumers and political activists use the market as their arena for politics. This book theorizes, describes, analyzes, compares and evaluates the phenomenon of political consumerism and how it attempts to use market choice to solve complex globalized problems. It investigates theoretically and empirically how and why consumers practice citizenship and have become important political actors. Dietlind Stolle and Michele Mic...

Transformation of public education requires the reawakening of the sleeping giant in the room: the learners. Students, teachers, and principals must develop a learner-centric, standards-driven school. Reawakening the Learner is a guide to creating just such an environment. Continua describe the journey of teachers, teacher leaders, and principals in partnering with learners. Adult-driven routines must be replaced with learner-centric practices.All stakeholders must identify a commo...

"A vibrant, nuanced novel about marriage . . . and the moment when we realize that the shimmer of fantasy pales next to the tumultuous reality of . . . happiness." — Carolyn Parkhurst, national bestselling author of The Dogs of BabelWhat sane woman would consider becoming any man's ninth wife? Bess Gray is a thirty-five-year-old folklorist and amateur martial artist living in Washington, DC. Just as she's about to give up...

Adam's sin is still much in evidence today. History is repeating again and again. We not only see it all about us, but we continue to experience the same temptations that these biblical saints and non-saints succumbed to. Will it never end? Prominent national leaders and church leaders fail. There are unfaithful spouses, broken marriages, and parental delinquency that produce dysfunctional families. There is also drunkenness, drug abuse, murder, rape, pornography, immodest dress, and filth...

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Although many bluesmen began leaving the Magnolia State in the early twentieth century to pursue fortune and fame up north, many others stayed home. These musicians remained rooted to the traditions of their land, which came to define a distinctive playing style unique to Mississippi. They didn't simply play the blues, they lived it. Travel through the hallowed juke joints and cotton fields with author Roger Stolle as he recounts the history of Mississippi blues and the musicians who have ...

Derived from various avant-garde painting styles of the early twentieth century, the Art Deco movement comprised a mix of Cubism, abstraction, distortion, and simplification. Geometric shapes and vibrant colors were popular elements of this sophisticated style of ornamentation that found expression in architecture and the applied arts.This collection of sensuous, bold and exotic motifs, reprinted from a rare 1910 portfolio, contains a wealth of arresting Art Deco wallpaper patterns....

When the system fails, who delivers justice?Bill Black had it all: a brilliant mind, a loving family, and a career at the forefront of cybersecurity. Until one night destroyed everything. His wife and daughter are murdered, and the killers walk free, protected by legal loopholes.Driven by grief and fury, Bill turns to the one thing he trusts above all: data. With his groundbreaking AI, Holmes, he uncovers a web of corruption that stretches from crooked judges and complicit ...

A major history of early Americans' ideas about conservationFifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country's voters faced a crisis. The very soil of American farms seemed to be failing, and agricultural prosperity, upon which the Republic was founded, was threatened. Steven Stoll's passionate and brilliantly argued book explores the tempestuous debates that erupted between "improvers," who believed in practi...

A sweeping meditation on the historical relationship between humans and land that challenges us to rethink common beliefsLand is the natural environment that humans have defined, shaped, and endlessly reinvented. In this lyrical narrative, Steven Stoll explores ways of thinking about land through social, cultural, political, economic, and ecological lenses.Stoll tells the stories of the first Sumerian farmers, the medieval commons, the origins of private pr...