We live under the illusion of progress: as long as GDP is going up and prices stay low, we accept poverty and pollution as unfortunate but inevitable byproducts of a successful economy. In fact, the infallibility of the free market and the necessity of endless growth are so ingrained in the public consciousness that they seem like scientific fact. Jon Erickson asks, why? With the planet in peril and humanity in crisis, how did we get duped into believing the fairytale of economics? And how...

In The Progress Illusion, Jon D. Erickson charts the rise of the economic worldview and its infiltration into our daily lives as a theory of everything. Drawing on his own experience as a young economist inoculated in the 1980s era of "greed is good," Erickson shows how pseudoscience came to dominate economic thought. He pokes holes in the conventional wisdom of neo-classical economics, illustrating how flawed theories about financial decision-making and maximizing efficiency igno...

Sortez des sentiers battus et forcez les limites des systèmes informatiqueLes hackers n'ont de cesse de repousser les limites, d’explorer l’inconnu et de faire évoluer leur science. Connaître leurs techniques permet non seulement de prendre conscience des conséquences insoupçonnées des erreurs de codage mais aussi de résoudre des problèmes de programmation complexes.Dans cet ouvrage, Jon Erickson présente les bases de la programmation en C du point de vue du hacker et dissè...

L'ebook che non si limita a mostrare come funzionano le tecniche di exploit, ma spiega come svilupparle, ritorna in due ebook. Jon Erickson guida il lettore in un percorso di iniziazione alle tecniche hacker. Ancora una volta il presupposto è che conoscere i metodi, le logiche, la teoria e i fondamenti scientifici che stanno alla base dell'hacking stesso, rappresenta l'unica via per costruire sistemi sicuri. Se la prima edizione di questo libro, pubblicata sul finire del 2003 e tradotta in...

L'ebook che non si limita a mostrare come funzionano le tecniche di exploit, ma spiega come svilupparle, ritorna in due ebook.Jon Erickson guida il lettore in un percorso di iniziazione alle tecniche hacker. Ancora una volta il presupposto è che conoscere i metodi, le logiche, la teoria e i fondamenti scientifici che stanno alla base dell'hacking stesso, rappresenta l'unica via per costruire sistemi sicuri.Se la prima edizione di questo libro, pubblicata sul finire del 2003 e tradotta in u...

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. Many people call themselves hackers, but few have the strong technical foundation needed to really push the envelope.Rather than merely showing how to run existing exploits, author Jon Erickson explains how arcane hacking techniques actually work. To share the art and science of hacking in a way that is accessible to...

Homelessness has become a lasting issue of vital social concern. As the number of the homeless has grown, the complexity of the issue has become increasingly clear to researchers and private and public service providers. The plight of the homeless raises many ethical, anthropological, political, sociological, and public health questions. The most serious and perplexing of these questions is what steps private, charitable, and public organizations can take to alleviate and eventually solve ...

The Fate of the Object traces the historical shift in focus from the "difficult" essential object of modernist theater, art, and poetry to its transformation as a sign in a postmodern field of signs. In modern art, the central object had been the abstract painting; in theater, the body of the actor; in poetry, the sonic, visual and grammatical elements of the poem. Spanning several disciplinary boundaries, this ambitious and pioneering book examines how the very process of refinement to lo...

Women and the Land examines the pre-history of gendered property relations in England, focusing on the four-hundred-year period between roughly 1500 and 1900. More specifically, the book is about how gender shaped opportunities for and experiences of owning property, particularly for women. The focus is especially on land, residential buildings and commercial property, but livestock, common and personal property also feature. This project is drivenby an explicitly feminist agenda:...

One of the most serious challenges to environmentalism that has emerged in the 1990s is the so-called Wise Use movement. While operating under the guise of an independent movement of small landowners, it is in reality a backlash against environmental protection measures, funded and organized by corporations with a vested interest in preventing further environmental gains. Let the People Judge collects the writings of a wide range of thinkers on the Wise Use movement and the contro...

The Adirondack region of New York State is, in many respects, America’s cauldron of conservation. It was there, more than a century ago, that wanton exploitation of forests first aroused concern about human impact on the environment. It was there that Americans first began to set aside lands proclaimed as "forever wild." The establishment of the Adirondack Park created an immense landscape of 6 million acres composed of a mixture of public and private lands in nearly equal proportion. This...