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This book analyzes the brand communities of major American multinationals across three industries: finance, tech, and consumer goods. It assesses how companies communicate their diversity approaches on social media (Twitter) and studies the ensuing perceptions of online users.

How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think. Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas and advice are sought after by corporations, nonprofits, universities, and governments, makes a clear and compelling practical case for diversity and inclusion.

The work-life balance of fathers has increasingly come under scrutiny in political and academic debates. This collection brings together qualitative and quantitative empirical analyses to explore fathers' approaches to reconciling paid work and care responsibilities.

A delicate exploration of the discrimination that gender-diverse people face, this book analyzes the relationship between gender identity and performance in the workplace while considering the emotional and economic survival of those who identify as transgender.

Insights from professionals in the fields of organizational development and diversity provide practical tools to help employees and managers--regardless of race or gender--collaborate in reaching their workplace potential.

An accurate picture of the LGBTQ rights movement's achievements is incomplete without this surprising history of how corporate America joined the cause. Legal scholar Carlos Ball tells the overlooked story of how LGBTQ activism aimed at corporations since the Stonewall riots helped turn them from enterprises either indifferent to or openly hostile toward sexual minorities and transgender individuals into reliable and powerful allies of the movement for queer equality.

Using detailed case histories of corporate cultures such as the NFL, Eastern Bank, John Hancock, Hallmark Health, and PepsiCo, as well as her own experiences in the workplace and in advising companies on diversity practice, Fulp demonstrates how people of different races and ethnicities represent an essential asset to contemporary companies and organizations.

This book draws readers'attention to the financial aspects of daily life at a corporation by combining a robust mathematical setting and the explanation and derivation of the most popular models of the firm. Intended for third-year undergraduate students of business finance, quantitative finance, and financial mathematics, as well as first-year postgraduate students, it is based on the twin pillars of theory and analytics, which merge in a way that makes it easy for students to understand the exact meaning of the concepts and their representation and applicability in real-world contexts.

This textbook presents the tools and concepts used in multivariate data analysis in a style accessible for non-mathematicians and practitioners. All chapters include practical exercises that highlight applications in different multivariate data analysis fields, and all the examples involve high to ultra-high dimensions and represent a number of major fields in big data analysis.

This textbook teaches some of the basic econometric methods and the underlying assumptions behind them.

This book offers a comprehensive and readable introduction to modern business and data analytics. It is based on the use of Excel, a tool that virtually all students and professionals have access to.

This textbook presents the basics of game theory both on an undergraduate level and on a more advanced mathematical level. The book covers most topics of interest in game theory, including cooperative game theory. Every chapter in the book contains a problem section. Hints, answers and solutions are included.

In the present text the author deals with both conventional and new approaches to trade theory and policy, treating all important research topics in international economics and clarifying their mathematical intricacies. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the latest research on international trade.

This textbook provides students with real-world social marketing case studies from different countries and regions around the world, taking learners from classroom theory to practice. The primary objective is to clearly portray to students distinct, identifiable steps that are essential for successful social marketing campaigns.

This textbook gives a comprehensive introduction to stochastic processes and calculus in the fields of finance and economics, more specifically mathematical finance and time series econometrics. Over the past decades stochastic calculus and processes have gained great importance, because they play a decisive role in the modeling of financial markets and as a basis for modern time series econometrics.

This text presents modern developments in time series analysis and focuses on their application to economic problems. Mathematically rigorous, yet application-oriented, this self-contained text will help students develop a deeper understanding of theory and better command of the models that are vital to the field. Assuming a basic knowledge of statistics and/or econometrics, this text is best suited for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students.

The author, a leading expert on business management, argues that the world's many crises are destined to deepen unless we radically transform our economy by adopting democratic socialism.

Offering an account of Smith's life and times, the author, a political philosopher, explores Smith's work as a whole and traces his influence over two centuries to the present day.

The author argues powerfully that because of unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected.

This book analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications.

A historical overview of the nonprofit sector, discussing of the major influences, some legal, some social, some political, that helped shape the arena.

A provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitalism vie for world leadership, a look into what the future may hold.

A stunning inside look at how and why the foundations upon which China has built the world's second largest economy, have started to crumble.

A behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America.

This book assesses clarifies the sources of tension and controversy relating to all the major strands of Porter's work, and provides academics, students, and practitioners with a critical guide for the application of Porter's models.

From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today.

The authors demonstrate why widening inequality cannot be understood without examining the rise of big finance.

The compelling story of the Lehman collapse will interest anyone who cares about what caused the financial crisis, whether the leaders of the Federal Reserve have given accurate accounts of their actions, and how the Fed can prevent future financial disasters.

A revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web--and that foreshadows the true future of work.

Hard Times presents a comprehensive account of economic depressions in America, from colonial times to the "great recession" that began in 2008. Striner conveys how Americans have always endured and rebounded from hard times, emerging as a stronger nation in the aftermath of each downturn.

An engaging and critical account of the gig economy, charting the industry's dramatic growth, exploring the diverse platforms that comprise it, and describing how they operate.

The author argues that inequality is largely driven by technology and globalization that have led to the paradox of rising inequality even as worldwide poverty drops.

Game theory | Game theory -- Pictorial works | MATHEMATICS -- Applied | MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General | Game theory

This book is a powerful analysis of how the plutocracy sold us a toxic lie, and what we can do to reverse inequality.

The author argues that contrary to popular belief, the financial system cannot operate properly unless the government stands ready to bail out banks and other firms.

The author reveals the degree to which presidents, legislators, regulators, and even bankers themselves have long taken an active interest in regulating the industry. He demystifies the major trends in the banking industry and brings financial policy to life.

Using a diverse array of rich case studies--from pop culture, TV, movies, sports, politics, and history--the authors show how nearly every business and personal interaction has a game-theory component to it. Are the winners of reality-TV contests instinctive game theorists? Do big-time investors see things that most people miss? What do great poker players know that you don't? Mastering game theory will make you more successful in business and life, and this lively book is the key to that mastery.

Blue ocean strategy -- Blue ocean leadership -- Red ocean traps. Market segmentation | Marketing -- Decision making | Competition | Leadership | Employees -- Attitudes | Employees -- Coaching of | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior | Competition | Employees -- Attitudes | Employees -- Coaching of | Leadership | Market segmentation | Marketing -- Decision making |

A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises.

This book looks to the concept of cognitive readiness (CR), first developed by the United States Department of Defense to better prepare and manage teams of individuals in complex battlefield situations, intending to make project managers and teams more focused, responsive, resilient and adaptive through self-mastery and the mastering of interpersonal relationships.

With expert contributors from a range of disciplines including strategic management, economic development, economic geography, and planning, this book assesses the contribution Michael Porter has made to these respective disciplines.

This book shows you how to create an overarching corporate culture that gets every employee on the same page to drive an organization's success.

This book covers the important and innovative issue of dark triad personalities in the workplace.

This book aims to help the reader better understand the importance of data analysis in project management, showing tools, methods, techniques, and lessons learned on how to better utilize the data gathered from the projects.

The author shows how Modern Monetary Theory shifts the terrain from narrow budgetary questions to one of broader economic and social benefits.

This book explores the challenges organizations face when developing creative strategies to innovate and solve problems.

In Discovery-Driven Growth, authors McGrath and MacMillan show how companies can plan and pursue an aggressive growth agenda with confidence. By carefully framing their strategic growth opportunities, testing each project assumption against a series of checkpoints, and creating a culture that acts on evidence and learning instead of blind stumbling, companies can better control their costs, minimize surprises, and know when to disengage from questionable projects--before it's too late.

This book shows what different women in business have done to reach success as they define it.

This book explains the secret to avoiding all forms of drama, legal exposure, and low morale: A healthy workplace culture.

Serves as a comprehensive guide to project management for both educators and project management professionals.

This book serves as a new playbook for strategy, one based on updated assumptions about how the world works, and shows how some of the world’s most successful companies use this method to compete and win today. Filled with compelling examples from "growth outlier” firms such as Fujifilm, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Infosys, Yahoo! Japan, and Atmos Energy, The End of Competitive Advantage is your guide to renewed success and profitable growth in an economy increasingly defined by transient advantage.

This book offers a practical blueprint for thinking and acting in environments that are fast-paced, rapidly changing, and highly uncertain.

This book introduces the various strategic entrepreneurs, their power relations, and interactions and social ties, and shows how they are connected to entrepreneurship policies.

This book offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy.

This book offers an original perspective on the links between macro data on innovation, data on micro-entrepreneurial processes and venture capital supply.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to entrepreneurial finance, showing how entrepreneurs and investors jointly turn ideas into valuable high-growth start-ups.

Your company needs a winning business model to thrive--and it may soon need to reinvent that business model to survive. If you read nothing else on business model innovation, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you set up a model for success and stay ahead of your competitors.

Part 1: Organization theory and foundations Part 2: Organization behavior and dynamics Part 3: Organization development and change

The resilience paradigm : surviving and thriving in turbulent environments -- Adaptability : renewal and adjustment -- Agility : timely responses -- Anticipatory ability : forecasting and foresight -- Flexibility : changeability -- Building resilience capabilities

The environmental crisis, disruptive technologies, unforeseen competitors and unpredictable consumers are deeply challenging issues keeping business leaders awake at night. Influencers & Revolutionaries describes the emerging movements and future niches of growth that will impact international markets and industries; including the homes, workplaces and cities of tomorrow.

Get what you need to achieve your objectives and produce results Influence Without Authority is the classic guide to getting what you need from people you don't control. Getting things done requires collaboration, and convincing others to contribute requires political skill; this book introduces the Exchange Model, in which you get what you need by offering something of value in return. Influence Without Authority provides a proven model for success in this new environment, with expert guidance for real-world application.

Innovation is a top strategic priority for firms across all industries. In The Innovation Navigator, Tucker J. Marion and Sebastian K. Fixson explore four innovation archetypes or modes - "specialist," "venture," "community," and "network"--Which feature prominently in the expanding innovation landscape. The Innovation Navigator guides the reader in exploring and exploiting these different modes of innovation.

"In the Business of Change chronicles how social entrepreneurs weary of waste and injustice are using business savvy to tackle challenges in their communities. Part story-telling, part lessons learned, this book is for everyone who wants to rebuild their communities and believes that business can be a powerful, positive force for change."-- Provided by publisher.

Bezos, Jeffrey | Amazon.com (Firm) | Entrepreneurship | Book industries and trade -- United States | Creative thinking | Success

"This book takes a unique approach to post-mortem analysis to provide project managers with invaluable insight. For the first time, individual PM characteristics are quantitatively linked to project outcomes through a major study investigating the role of project leadership in the success and failure of complex industrial projects; hard data on the backgrounds, education, and personality characteristics of over 100 directors of complex projects is analyzed against the backdrop of project performance to provide insight into controllable determinants of outcomes. By placing these analyses alongside their own data, PMs will gain greater insight into areas of weakness and strength, locate recurring obstacles, and identify project components in need of greater planning, oversight, or control"-- Provided by publisher.

Robust methods to identify new growth opportunities YOUR SHAREHOLDERS DEMAND growth; your company needs growth; and your career can suffer or soar because of how you drive growth--or don't. In this hands-on guide, Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan identify powerful strategic moves they call "MarketBusters”--approaches that dramatically reconfigure profit streams in an industry, upend conventional competition, and ultimately deliver blockbuster growth.

This complete summary of the ideas from Al Ries and Jack Trout’s book “Marketing Warfare” shows how important it is for companies to stay ahead of their competitors in today’s overcrowded market.

Entrepreneurship -- Environmental aspects | Capitalism -- Environmental aspects | Sustainable development | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General | Entrepreneurship -- Environmental aspects | Capitalism -- Environmental aspects | Sustainable development | ENVIRONMENT/Energy

A compelling account of how incorporating play into work can help us overcome the uncertainty and turbulence that surrounds work How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer, as Dodgson and Gann eloquently portray in this pathfinding book, is to learn from the adaptive behaviors of entrepreneurs.

This second book in the Routledge Series on Women Writers in Organization Studies analyses the ways in which women have theorised and embodied relations of power. Each woman writer is introduced and analysed by experts in organization studies. This book will be relevant to students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in business and management, organizational studies, critical management studies, gender studies and sociology.

A book about teams to help teams become more positive, united and connected. Worldwide bestseller -- the author of The Energy Bus and The Power of Positive Leadership shares the proven principles and practices that build great teams - and provides practical tools to help teams overcome negativity and enhance their culture, communication, connection, commitment and performance.

Communications management -- Scope management -- Schedule management -- Requirements management -- Risk management -- Project resource management -- Vendor management -- Cost management -- Configuration management -- Quality management -- Tales from the trenches

The nature and value of strategic planning -- The strategic planning process -- Understanding your stakeholders and sources of organizational capital -- Understanding your organisation structure, operations and financials -- Understanding the business landscape: the supply chain, competitors and regulators -- Market models -- Direction finding -- Bringing it all together

An informative introduction for those considering a career in project management Project Management JumpStart offers a clear, practical introduction to the complex world of project management, with an entertaining approach based on real-world application.

Business model innovation is the key to unlocking transformational growth--but few executives know how to apply it to their businesses. In Reinvent Your Business Model, Mark Johnson reveals the playbook. Johnson lays out an eminently practical framework that identifies the four fundamental building blocks that make business models work. With road-tested frameworks, analytics, and diagnostics, this book gives executives everything they need to reshape their businesses and achieve transformative growth.

Part one: the people and the entrepreneurial processes. Part two: entrepreneurship and small business management and organization. Part three: entrepreneurial milieu. Part four: researching small business entrepreneurship. This handbook will be the leading reference book for Entrepreneurship academics and researchers, as well as those from other associated disciplines including business and management, psychology, marketing, sociology and anthropology."--Provided by publisher.

1. Snow Melts from the Edges -- 2. Early Warnings -- 3. On the Lookout for Weak Signals: Defining Your Arena -- 4. Customers, Not Hostages -- 5. What Must Be True? Creating a Plan to Learn Fast -- 6. Galvanizing the Organization -- 7. How Innovation Proficiency Defangs the Organizational Antibodies -- 8. How Leadership Can and Must Learn to See Around Corners -- 9. Seeing Around Corners in Your Own Life.

The phrase "skin in the game" means that you do not pay attention to what people say, only to what they do, and to how much of their necks they are putting on the line. This willingness to accept one's own risks is an essential attribute of people in all walks of life. Taleb challenges long-held beliefs about those who control our military, finances, religions, and so much more-- and shows how "skin in the game" applies to all aspects of our lives.

The definitive guide to maximizing workforce value, The Talent Revolution exposes work-life longevity as the most influential driver transforming today's workplace--a competitive edge for organizations smart enough to capitalize on it. This is a first--a book that positions older workers as revolutionaries and reveals how organizations that engage employees across all life stages will outperform their competitors. With clarity and specificity, it describes new models, debunks commonly held myths about older workers, demolishes justifications for traditional structures and attitudes, and builds the case for a reset that will help smart companies profit from their most valuable assets.

The authors draw on four years of research, conducted in partnership with MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte, surveying more than 16,000 people and conducting interviews with managers at such companies as Walmart, Google, and Salesforce. They introduce the concept of digital maturity--the ability to take advantage of opportunities offered by the new technology--and address the specifics of digital transformation, including cultivating a digital environment, enabling intentional collaboration, and fostering an experimental mindset.

Rethink your way to a better life In business, and in life, everything is changing fast, apart from how we behave. Our ways of thinking and making decisions have changed little since we lived in agricultural and industrial societies, but the problems we now need to solve are entirely different. It requires a revolution in thinking and behavior to meet the challenges that now face us and avoid disaster we need to totally rethink the model. Part business biography, part business blueprint, Total Rethink explains how this can be done.

Zero to One is about how to build companies that create new things. It draws on everything the author learned directly as a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir and then an investor in hundreds of startups, including Facebook and SpaceX. The single most powerful pattern he has noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas. Ask not, what would Mark do? Ask: what valuable company is no one building?

The most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence The long-anticipated revision of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach explores the full breadth and depth of the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

This second edition of the renowned Cambridge Handbook of Creativity expands on the first edition with over two thirds new material reaching across psychology, business, entrepreneurship, education, and neuroscience. It introduces creativity scholarship by summarising its history, major theories and assessments, how creativity develops across the lifespan, and suggestions for improving creativity. It also illustrates cutting-edge work on genetics and the neuroscience of creativity, alongside creativity's potential for both benevolence and malevolence. The chapters cover the related areas of imagination, genius, play, and aesthetics and tackle questions about how cultural differences, one's physical environment, mood, and self-belief can impact creativity. The book then examines the impacts on creativity of behaviour by teachers, managers, and leaders in particular.

This book explains the cloud from the user's viewpoint - the business user's, in particular. The author explains what the cloud is, when to use it (and when not to), how to select a cloud service, how to integrate it with other technologies, and what the best practices are for using cloud computing.

Enjoy reading interviews with more than two dozen data professionals to see a picture of what it’s like to work in the industry managing and analyzing data, helping you to know what it takes to move from your current expertise into one of the fastest growing areas of technology today.

Data Science and Big Data Analytics is about harnessing the power of data for new insights. The content focuses on concepts, principles and practical applications that are applicable to any industry and technology environment, and the learning is supported and explained with examples that you can replicate using open-source software.

Data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits are great for doing data science, but they're also a good way to dive into the discipline without actually understanding data science. With this updated second edition, you'll learn how many of the most fundamental data science tools and algorithms work by implementing them from scratch. If you have an aptitude for mathematics and some programming skills, author Joel Grus will help you get comfortable with the math and statistics at the core of data science, and with hacking skills you need to get started as a data scientist.

This textbook explains the concepts and techniques required to write programs that can handle large amounts of data efficiently. Project-oriented and classroom-tested, the book presents a number of important algorithms supported by examples that bring meaning to the problems faced by computer programmers.

Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications, Second Edition, is a comprehensive professional reference book that guides business analysts, scientists, engineers and researchers, both academic and industrial, through all stages of data analysis, model building and implementation. The handbook helps users discern technical and business problems, understand the strengths and weaknesses of modern data mining algorithms and employ the right statistical methods for practical application. This book is an ideal reference for users who want to address massive and complex datasets with novel statistical approaches and be able to objectively evaluate analyses and solutions. It has clear, intuitive explanations of the principles and tools for solving problems using modern analytic techniques and discusses their application to real problems in ways accessible and beneficial to practitioners across several areas--from science and engineering, to medicine, academia and commerce.

This accessible and classroom-tested textbook/reference presents an introduction to the fundamentals of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of data science. The coverage spans key concepts adopted from statistics and machine learning, useful techniques for graph analysis and parallel programming, and the practical application of data science for such tasks as building recommender systems or performing sentiment analysis.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance to marketing to astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents some of the most important modeling and prediction techniques, along with relevant applications.

"Get complete instructions for manipulating, processing, cleaning, and crunching datasets in Python. Updated for Python 3.6, the second edition of this hands-on guide is packed with practical case studies that show you how to solve a broad set of data analysis problems effectively. You'll learn the latest versions of pandas, NumPy, IPython, and Jupyter in the process.

The financial industry has recently adopted Python at a tremendous rate, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. Updated for Python 3, the second edition of this hands-on book helps you get started with the language, guiding developers and quantitative analysts through Python libraries and tools for building financial applications and interactive financial analytics.

This practical book provides a quick reference to the language--including Python 3.5, 2.7, and highlights of 3.6--commonly used areas of its vast standard library, and some of the most useful third-party modules and packages.

This easy-to-follow and classroom-tested textbook guides the reader through the fundamentals of programming with Python, an accessible language which can be learned incrementally.

“Aiello (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany) documents the history of the Web in this small but informative volume. … An excellent resource, particularly for students and professionals in computer science and engineering. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels.” (C. Tappert, Choice, Vol. 56 (7), March, 2019)

Recent advancements in control theory now make it possible to deal with long-standing problems in AC motors control. This text expertly draws on these developments to apply a wide range of model-based control design methods to a variety of AC motors.

This book addresses the technologies and methods used in interfacing analog devices to microprocessors, providing in-depth coverage of practical control applications, op amp examples, and much more.

This book introduces practical drive techniques of electric motors to enable stable and efficient control of many application systems, also covering basic principles of high-performance motor control techniques, driving methods, control theories and power converters.

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the theory (physical principles), design, and practical implementations of various sensors for scientific, industrial, and consumer applications.

This book discusses innovations in the field of hybrid energy storage systems (HESS) and covers the durability, practicality, cost-effectiveness, and utility of a HESS. It demonstrates how the coupling of two or more energy storage technologies can interact with and support renewable energy power systems.

Volume Two focuses on small batteries in consumer products and power banks, as well as large low voltage batteries in stationary or mobile house power, telecom, residential, marine and microgrid. Traction batteries, including passenger, industrial, race vehicles, public transit, marine, submarine and aircraft are also discussed. High voltage stationary batteries grid-tied and off-grid are presented, exploring their use in grid quality, arbitrage and back-up, residential, microgrid, industrial, office buildings. Finally, the book explores what happens when accidents occur, so readers may avoid these mistakes.

This book sets aside the layers of abstraction provided by the Arduino environment and explains how to program AVR microcontrollers directly.

Examine the history of smart homes, how technology shapes our lives, and ways you can think about the home when developing new products. This book presents the opportunities in the homespace that will come from understanding the history and multiple players that have contributed to the development of the home in general.

The key problem with VR development is understanding how to set up a project and running it on your desktop or mobile VR device. With this book, you will not only learn the specifics of virtual reality development in Unreal but also build immersive and fun VR projects that can be experienced on your VR devices.

"The world's most famous computer hacker and cybercult hero...has written a blueprint for system security based on his own experiences. Required reading for IT professionals, this book is highly recommended for public, academic, and corporate libraries."
―Library Journal

Auditing Cloud Computing expertly provides information to assist in preparing for an audit addressing cloud computing security and privacy for both businesses and cloud based service providers

If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you. In this fully revised second edition of the best-selling classic Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand--no prior programming experience required.

Cloud computing

Cloud computing | Web services | Computer security | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications | Cloud computing | Computer security | Web services | Technology

Introduction -- What is cloud computing? -- Infrastructure security -- Data security and storage -- Identity and access management -- Security management in the cloud -- Privacy -- Audit and compliance -- Examples of cloud service providers -- Security-as-a-[cloud] service -- The impact of cloud computing on the role of corporate IT -- Conclusion, and the future of the cloud.

Cloud Storage Security: A Practical Guide introduces and discusses the risks associated with cloud-based data storage from a security and privacy perspective.

"The Code Book" tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy. Throughout the text are clear technical and mathematical explanations, and portraits of the remarkable personalities who wrote and broke the world's most difficult codes.

"Presents a crash course in Python programming, followed by instructions for making, testing, and hacking classic cipher programs, from the Caesar cipher to public key cryptography and the RSA cipher"-- Provided by publisher.

Thorough, systematic introduction to serious cryptography, especially strong in modern forms of cipher solution used by experts. Nihilist, grille, U. S. Army, key-phrase, multiple-alphabet, Gronsfeld, Porta, Beaufort, periodic ciphers, and more. Simple and advanced methods. 166 specimens to solve -- with solutions.

The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom-even democracy itself Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Cult of the Dead Cow shows how governments, corporations, and criminals came to hold immense power over individuals and how we can fight back against them.

A groundbreaking exploration of how cyberspace is changing the way we think, feel, and behave Mary Aiken is the world's leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology--a discipline that combines psychology, criminology, and technology to investigate the intersection where technology and human behavior meet. In this, her first book, Aiken has created a starting point for all future conversations about how the Internet is shaping development and behavior, societal norms and values, children, safety, security, and our perception of the world.

Computer security

This comprehensive work focuses on the current state of play regarding cyber security threats to government and business, which are imposing unprecedented costs and disruption. At the same time, it aggressively takes a forward-looking approach to such emerging industries as automobiles and appliances, the operations of which are becoming more closely tied to the internet. Revolutionary developments will have security implications unforeseen by manufacturers, and the authors explore these in detail, drawing on lessons from overseas as well as the United States to show how nations and businesses can combat these threats.

This book offers a comprehensive and integrative introduction to cybercrime. It provides an authoritative synthesis of the disparate literature on the various types of cybercrime, the global investigation and detection of cybercrime and the role of digital information, and the wider role of technology as a facilitator for social relationships between deviants and criminals.

Computer security | Computer networks -- Security measures | Computer crimes | Computer crimes | Computer networks -- Security measures | Computer security

What exactly is cybersecurity? -- Getting to know common cyberattacks -- Bad guys and accidental bad guys: The folks you must defend against -- Evaluating your current cybersecurity posture -- Enhancing physical security -- Securing your accounts -- Passwords -- Preventing social engineering -- Securing your small business -- Cybersecurity and big businesses -- Identifying a security breach -- Recovering from a security breach -- Backing up -- Resetting your device -- Restoring from backups -- Pursuing a cybersecurity career -- Emerging technologies bring new threats -- Ten ways you can improve your cybersecurity without spending a fortune -- Ten lessons from major cybersecurity breaches -- Ten ways to safely use public wi-fi..

Why do nations break into one another's most important computer networks? There is an obvious answer: to steal valuable information or to attack. But this isn't the full story. This book draws on often-overlooked documents leaked by Edward Snowden, real-world case studies of cyber operations, and policymaker perspectives to show that intruding into other countries' networks has enormous defensive value as well.

This book argues that relying on cyber-doom rhetoric to frame our thinking about such threats is counterproductive, and encourages us to develop ways of thinking and speaking about cybersecurity beyond cyber doom. This book will be of much interest to students of cyber-security, foreign policy, public administration, national security and IR in general"-- Provided by publisher.

An accessible introduction to cybersecurity concepts and practices Cybersecurity Essentials provides a comprehensive introduction to the field, with expert coverage of essential topics required for entry-level cybersecurity certifications.

This new textbook offers an accessible introduction to the topic of cybersecurity ethics. The book is split into three parts. Part I provides an introduction to the field of ethics, philosophy and philosophy of science, three ethical frameworks - virtue ethics, utilitarian ethics and communitarian ethics - and the notion of ethical hacking. Part II applies these frameworks to particular issues within the field of cybersecurity, including privacy rights, intellectual property and piracy, surveillance, and cyberethics in relation to military affairs. The third part concludes by exploring current codes of ethics used in cybersecurity. The book will be of much interest to students of cybersecurity, cyberethics, hacking, surveillance studies, ethics and information science.

Computer security -- Law and legislation |

"This book offers easy-to-understand definitions of cybersecurity technical terminology and hacker jardon related to automated control systems common to buildings, utilities, and industry, and explains the threats and vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure ... Concepts related to cyber-physical attacks and building hacks are listed alphabetically with text easily searchable by key phrase ..."--Provided by the publisher.

This book draws on research into darknet cryptomarkets to examine themes of cybercrime, cybersecurity, illicit markets and drug use. This book argues that, far from being a dangerous anarchist haven, the darknet and the technologies used within it could have benefits and significance for everyone online.

Computer crimes -- Investigation | Computer security | Forensic sciences | Computer crimes -- Investigation | Computer security | Forensic sciences

Use this hands-on, introductory guide to understand and implement digital forensics to investigate computer crime using Windows, the most widely used operating system. Directed toward users with no experience in the digital forensics field, this book provides guidelines and best practices when conducting investigations as well as teaching you how to use a variety of tools to investigate computer crime.

This practical and accessible textbook/reference describes the theory and methodology of digital forensic examinations, presenting examples developed in collaboration with police authorities to ensure relevance to real-world practice. The coverage includes discussions on forensic artifacts and constraints, as well as forensic tools used for law enforcement and in the corporate sector.

Ghost in the Wires is a thrilling true story of intrigue, suspense, and unbelievable escape, and a portrait of a visionary whose creativity, skills, and persistence forced the authorities to rethink the way they pursued him, inspiring ripples that brought permanent changes in the way people and companies protect their most sensitive information. - Publisher.

Cutting-edge techniques for finding and fixing critical security flaws Fortify your network and avert digital catastrophe with proven strategies from a team of security experts. Completely updated and featuring 13 new chapters, Gray Hat Hacking, The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fifth Edition explains the enemy's current weapons, skills, and tactics and offers field-tested remedies, case studies, and ready-to-try testing labs. Find out how hackers gain access, overtake network devices, script and inject malicious code, and plunder Web applications and browsers.

Hacking is the art of creative problem solving, whether that means finding an unconventional solution to a difficult problem or exploiting holes in sloppy programming. Rather than merely showing how to run existing exploits, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition author Jon Erickson explains how arcane hacking techniques actually work.

This textbook provides an introduction to digital forensics, a rapidly evolving field for solving crimes. Beginning with the basic concepts of computer forensics, each of the book's 21 chapters focuses on a particular forensic topic composed of two parts: background knowledge and hands-on experience through practice exercises. Each theoretical or background section concludes with a series of review questions, which are prepared to test students' understanding of the materials, while the practice exercises are intended to afford students the opportunity to apply the concepts introduced in the section on background knowledge.

In A Leader's Guide to Cybersecurity, Thomas Parenty and Jack Domet, who have spent over three decades in the field, present a timely, clear-eyed, and actionable framework that will empower senior executives and board members to become stewards of their companies' cybersecurity activities. This includes: -Understanding cyber risks and how best to control them -Planning and preparing for a crisis'and leading in its aftermath -Making cybersecurity a companywide initiative and responsibility -Drawing attention to the nontechnical dynamics that influence the effectiveness of cybersecurity measures -Aligning the board, executive leadership, and cybersecurity teams on priorities Filled with tools, best practices, and strategies, A Leader's Guide to Cybersecurity will help boards navigate this seemingly daunting but extremely necessary transition.

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Cybercrimes are a threat and as dangerous as an armed intruder--yet millions of Americans are complacent or simply uninformed of how to protect themselves. The Secret to Cyber security closes that knowledge gap by using real-life examples to educate readers.

Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking reveals the craftier side of the hacker's repertoire--why hack into something when you could just ask for access? Undetectable by firewalls and antivirus software, social engineering relies on human fault to gain access to sensitive spaces; in this book, renowned expert Christopher Hadnagy explains the most commonly-used techniques that fool even the most robust security personnel, and shows you how these techniques have been used in the past. This new Second Edition has been updated with the most current methods used by sharing stories, examples, and scientific study behind how those decisions are exploited.

This book offers the practical know-how, industry perspectives, and technical insight needed for success in the rapidly growing information security market.

"Using conceptual innovations and case studies, this book clarifies the much-discussed but understudied phenomena of leaking and whistleblowing, with a particular focus on the collaborative networks that make the extraction and publication of secrets possible"-- Provided by publisher.