In early 1965 at age thirteen, Mark Aarons came under the ‘adverse notice’ of ASIO, which opened volume one of his nine-volume security file. Mark was following in the footsteps of his father, Laurie Aarons, whose 85-volume file commenced in the early 1930s when he was fourteen.For four generations the Aarons family were ‘subversive revolutionaries’, avowed communists who challenged the established constitutional order.Having obtained access to his family’s ASIO files – the...

In some dark corner of the universe, eight human brains are salvaged from the ruins of a broken starship, their last memories absorbed into a vast alien intellect. In their final moments, these humans were dreaming.Five of them were imagining new Science Fiction Horror stories, two of them were creating art, and one of them was somehow astral projecting, nudging each of these twisted visions toward a shared goal.The result of this merging of human minds is Macabre Multivers...

For more than seventy years, Australia has been a safe haven for war criminals. After World War II, hundreds of Nazi war criminals illegally entered this country. Governments, both Labor and Liberal, decided to turn a blind eye. Some known killers were even recruited by Australian intelligence in the Cold War battle against communism. Others became active in Australian party politics.Half a century later, nothing has changed. Australia continues to be a sanctuary for war criminals ...

In 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia’s Catholic bishops created a clandestine church organisation to smash the Communist Party’s massive trade union base. Soon, The Movement, working closely with ASIO, became a sophisticated intelligence agency that would influence every corner of politics.Santamaria based his Movement (also called The Show) completely on the Communist Party, copying its spectacularly successful union-organising m...

Develop the skillset essential to successful securitisation swaps managementSecuritisation Swaps is a complete practitioner’s guide to this unique and complex class of derivatives. This detailed examination follows the entire life cycle of securitisation swaps to give quants, structurers, traders, originators, issuers and lawyers a common reference for understanding their shared objective. Broad in scope to provide a common-ground perspective — yet detaile...

The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology brings together philosophers, cognitive scientists, developmental and evolutionary psychologists, animal ethologists, intellectual historians, and educators to provide the most comprehensive analysis of the prospects for moral knowledge ever assembled in print. The book’s thirty chapters feature leading experts describing the nature of moral thought, its evolution, childhood development, and neurological realization. Various forms of moral skept...

The incredible story of the special investigations unit that tracked down the Nazis who called Australia home after World War II.In 1986 journalist Mark Aarons presented a Radio National series, which established that a significant number of Nazi collaborators and war criminals – particularly from Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Yugoslavia – had settled in Australia after World War II.Aarons' explosive reporting led to the formation in 1987 of the Special ...

This book explores new and novel applications of machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence that are related to major challenges in the field of cybersecurity. The provided research goes beyond simply applying AI techniques to datasets and instead delves into deeper issues that arise at the interface between deep learning and cybersecurity.This book also provides insight into the difficult "how" and "why" questions that arise in AI within the security domain. For ...

The coauthors of Unholy Trinity uncover a wide-ranging, international conspiracy against the Jews from WWI to the Reagan administration.Drawing on thousands of declassified documents and numerous insider accounts, attorney John Loftus and investigative reporter Mark Aarons expose nearly a century of clandestine operations against Israel and the Jews, carried out by Western countries such as the United States and Great Britain. Professed allies of Israel on ...

In this updated and expanded edition of The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, some of the world's foremost experts on expertise share their scientific knowledge of expertise and expert performance and show how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of development, training, reasoning, knowledge, and social support. The book reviews innovative methods for measuring experts' knowledge and performance in relevant tasks. Sixteen major domains of expertise are covere...

Become captivated by tales of wonderful, astounding, and downright bizarre people, places, and things throughout history. Perfect for trivia aficionados, history readers, or anyone with a thirst for unusual knowledge, Cabinet of Curiosities is full of titillating tidbits and mind-boggling stories you never knew you needed to know.From the creator of the long-running, smash-hit podcast Aaron Mahnke’s Cabinet of Curiosities comes the book—a riveting...

Written by fellow Canadians from Cape Breton Island to Prince Edward Island, from Montreal to Vancouver, this book reveals the people, the history and the special moments that give Canada such a distinctive charm and character.