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Exploded Views eBook Series

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  • The Inspection House

    An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance

    by Emily Horne, Tim Maly ...
    Series series Exploded Views
    In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labor-saving device for those in authority. While Bentham's design was ostensibly for a prison, he believed that any number of places that require supervision—factories, poorhouses, hospitals, and schools—would benefit from such a design. The French ... Read more

    S$ 11.98 SGD

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  • No Place to Hide

    Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

    by Glenn Greenwald ...
    A groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden.In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted ... Read more

    S$ 14.16 SGD

  • The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau

    how Australia’s signals-intelligence network helped win the Pacific War

    by David Dufty ...
    Alan Turing saved millions of lives. But Bletchley Park wasn’t the only major code-breaking operation during World War II. Down under, there was Central Bureau.Central Bureau — Australia’s own large and sophisticated intelligence network, built from scratch. It was this group of mathematicians, code-breakers, and radio experts who intercepted the travel plans of the architect of the Pearl Harbor ... Read more

    S$ 49.69 SGD

  • Spying on Democracy

    Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

    by Heidi Boghosian ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly clear, the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on every phone call Americans have ... Read more

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  • Privacy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of surveillance conducted by the security services in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere, concerns about individual privacy have significantly increased. The Internet generates risks, unimagined even twenty years ago, to the ... Read more

    S$ 10.99 SGD

  • The NSA Report

    Liberty and Security in a Changing World

    by President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, The, Richard A. Clarke, Michael J. Morell, Geoffrey R. Stone, Peter Swire, Cass R. Sunstein ...
    The official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly 'trusting' our ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD

  • Privacy: A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Professor Raymond Wacks is a leading international expert on privacy. For more than three decades he has published numerous books and articles on this controversial subject. Privacy is a fundamental value that is under attack from several quarters. Electronic surveillance, biometrics, CCTV, ID cards, RFID codes, online security, the monitoring of employees, the uses and misuses of DNA, - to name ... Read more

    S$ 10.99 SGD

  • Rising Road

    A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America

    by Sharon Davies ...
    It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer's motive? The priest had married Stephenson's eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing ... Read more

    S$ 39.23 SGD

  • Privacy

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Leslie P. Francis, John G. Francis ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, and listening to music. Without thinking twice, we operate with the understanding that the data that traces these activities will not be abused now or in the future. There is an ... Read more

    S$ 14.38 SGD

  • Putin and the Oligarch

    The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair

    by Professor Richard Sakwa ...
    The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, on 25 October 2003, was a key turning point in modern Russian history. At that time Khodorkovsky was one of the world's richest and most powerful men, while Yukos had been transformed into a vast and lucrative oil company that was set to go global. On all counts, this looked like a success story, but it was precisely at this ... Read more

    S$ 68.01 SGD

  • Blackstone's Guide to the Defamation Act

    Edited by James Price QC, Felicity McMahon ...
    Series series Blackstone's Guides
    The Defamation Act constitutes a significant overhaul of UK defamation legislation, which follows years of concern about the detrimental effects that preceeding libel laws had on freedom of expression, and the extent to which the jurisdiction had become a magnet for libel claimants. This new Blackstone's Guide combines the full text of the Act and extracts of related relevant legislation with an ... Read more

    S$ 105.28 SGD

  • Blackstone's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act 2000

    by John Wadham, Kelly Harris, Eric Metcalfe ...
    Series series Blackstone's Guides
    The Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force on 1 January 2005, creating a new statutory 'right to open government'. It imposed new duties on public authorities regarding the disclosure and handling of information. The fifth edition of this popular Guide offers the most up-to-date guidance on the Act, taking into account all the changes since the publication of the last edition. Most ... Read more

    S$ 142.34 SGD