This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Prepare yourself for the digital age with "The Hacker's Guide to Digital Safety." This comprehensive guide unveils the secrets of online privacy and security, empowering you to navigate the treacherous waters of surveillance and data tracking. Discover how to safeguard your online identity, protect your devices from cyberattacks, and maintain anonymity in an increasingly connected world.Dive into a captivating journey that explores the ...

How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a race war, a revolution, a war for liberation, and Armageddon. Reading their premonitions reveals how several factors, including race, religion, age, gender, region, and ...

In the Civil War era, Americans nearly unanimously accepted that humans battled in a cosmic contest between good and evil and that God was directing history toward its end. The concept of God's Providence and of millennialism -- Christian anticipations of the end of the world -- dominated religious thought in the nineteenth century. During the tumultuous years immediately prior to, during, and after the war, these ideas took on a greater importance as Americans struggled with the unprecede...

The Queen of Mystery takes readers deep into San Francisco’s Castro District during the mid-1980s, a time of glittering nightlife shadowed by danger and loss.UltraSheen, the radiant drag performer and beloved community icon, finds herself at the center of a storm when a series of shocking murders shakes the queer community. As Casey Johnson, the cab driver turned reluctant investigator, navigates a world of smoky clubs, back-alley secrets, and underground drag shows, he uncovers th...

Queen of the Mission transports readers to San Francisco’s Mission District in 1984, where a community of drag performers, cab drivers, and lovers fight to keep their dreams alive against a backdrop of prejudice, murder, and the looming AIDS crisis.At the heart of the story is UltraSheen—the dazzling star of a new drag revue—whose rise to fame collides with the twisted schemes of Dr. Lindstrom, a deranged academic obsessed with punishing queer culture. As Casey Johnson, th...

The Last Days of the Barbary Coast plunges readers into the gritty, intoxicating world of San Francisco in the early 1980s—a city teetering between freedom and destruction. Through the eyes of Casey Johnson, a cab driver turned reluctant chronicler, we witness a community alive with drag shows, drugs, danger, and desire.From the glitz of UltraSheen, the city’s dazzling drag queen star, to the sinister presence of the RedHair Killer, the novel explores the undercurrents of a culture...

In this innovative collection, Jason Phillips and ten other historians and literary scholars explore the enduring dynamic between history, literature, and power in the American South. Blending analysis with storytelling, and professional insights with personal experiences, they "deconstruct Dixie," insisting that writing the South's history means harnessing, not criticizing, the inherent power of narrative.Contributors examine white southern texts from multiple, fresh perspectives a...

Warning: this book may cause you to rethink your default typeface settings.Back to Font uncovers the secrets and lives behind 16 of the most famous typefaces. It answers all sorts of questions you might never have thought to ask before. Like: who were their 'parents' and where were they 'born'? What's pretty and interesting about them, and what isn't? How are the typefaces used (and abused), and where can you find them 'in the wild'? Most importantly, these...

Reasserting the Disney Brand in the Streaming Era investigates the evolution of the Disney brand at a pivotal moment – the move from content creation to acquisition and streaming – and how the company reasserted its brand in a changing marketplace.Exploring how Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox positioned the company to launch the Disney+ streaming service, the chapters look at the history of those acquisitions, and the deployment of the content, bra...

One of the ambitious dreams that Reclaiming Adoption and its authors share with the Apostle Paul is that when Christians hear the word adoption, they will think first about their adoption by God. As it now stands, Christians usually think first about the adoption of children. Reclaiming Adoption sets out to change this situation by providing breathtaking views of Gods love for and delight in His children views that will free you to live boldly in this world from Gods acceptance, not in order...

Academics extol high-minded ideals, such as serving the common good and promoting social justice. Universities aim to be centers of learning that find the best and brightest students, treat them fairly, and equip them with the knowledge they need to lead better lives. But as Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness show in Cracks in the Ivory Tower, American universities fall far short of this ideal. At almost every level, they find that students, professors, and administrators are guide...

Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E. Stanley, this volume explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction and evolution of American self-definition.Moving chronologically, eleven essay...