Just as a professional athlete doesn’t show up without a solid game plan, ethical hackers, IT professionals, and security researchers should not be unprepared, either. The Hacker Playbook provides them their own game plans. Written by a longtime security professional and CEO of Secure Planet, LLC, this step-by-step guide to the “game” of penetration hacking features hands-on examples and helpful advice from the top of the field.Through a series of football-style “plays,” this strai...

This book explains how to build time. Start building the time you need - for the most precious person in your life: you.

Park Geun-hye was truly a political phenomenon. She was elected democratically, twice chosen as the leader of her party, and served in the South Korean legislature for over fourteen years. Her countrymen dubbed her the “Queen of Elections” for her successful leadership in winning her own elections and steering her party to great electoral victories. Yet in 2016–2017, she was impeached and subsequently removed from office. How did it happen? How could it have happened? How, why, and with wh...

From the world's leading expert on trust repair, a guide to understanding the most essential foundation of our relationships and communities.When our trust is broken, and when our own trustworthiness is called into question, many of us are left wondering what to do. We barely know how trust works. How could we possibly repair it?Dr. Peter H. Kim, the world's leading expert in the rapidly growing field of trust repair, has conducted over two decades of groundb...

Set during the Tang Dynasty, this historical mystery features Chinese detective Judge Dee as he investigates a locked room mystery involving a prostitute.A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads magistrate Judge Dee to investigate the murder of a man who spent his last week alive with the infamous prostitute. When the lady herself is murdered, the mystery deepens, leading Dee through a tangled history of passion and...

"The magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in the select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes." —Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times"The China of old, in Mr. van Gulik's skilled hands, comes vividly alive again." —Allen J. Hubin, The New York Times Book Review**"Entertaining, instructive, and impressive." —**Times Literary SupplementJ...

The latest puzzling mystery facing Jude Dee begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in 699 A.D.: a drummer in the leading boat collapses, and the body of a beautiful young woman turns up in a deserted country mansion. There, Judge Dee—tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger—steps in to investigate the murders and return order to the Tang Dynasty.In The Emperor’s Pearl, the judge discovers that these two deaths are connected by an a...

"For any Bruce Lee fan, this book is an absolute must-have and must-read. As you delve into the letters within, you will find that Bruce Lee's private self was as extraordinary as his public persona — but even more profound and expansive."— Wing Chun Illustrated MagazineBruce Lee Letters of the Dragon is a fascinating glimpse of the private Bruce Lee behind the public image—a man with the patience and concern to dedicate as...

An eerie tale, combining investigation, horror and surprise, Robert van Gulik's latest Chinese detective story is set in a remote western border province of the mighty Tang empire.There, in the district of Lan-fang, separated from the vast Tartar steppes of Central Asia by only a boundary river, Judge Dee faces and solves one of the most frightening cases of his long career.Outside the east city gate, on a wooded hill, stood a centuries-old Buddhist temple....

A magistrate investigates the death of a nobleman in this historical mystery set in China's Tang Dynasty era.Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague and drought ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an "accident" in a deserted mansion.In The Willow Pattern, the illustrious judge uses his trademark expertise to unravel the my...

A fiendishly clever, yet cozy entry in the much-loved mystery series starring Judge Dee, whom the Los Angeles Times ranked with Sherlock Holmes.Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely la...

Useful books already exist to provide tactical overviews for how to apply social media to various areas of a business (marketing, customer service, product development, etc.) There are also fairly strong books that evangelize social media at a strategic level. But there is no definitive management book with detailed, credibile specifics on how to rethink the modern organization for the social media era. Social Business is that book. Social Business begins by exploring how the social, cultu...