NEW BOOKS on POLITICAL FREEDOM & SECURITY SNOWDEN by Ted Rall
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n this this new graphic novel, award-winning political cartoonist Ted Rall delves into Edward Snowden’s early life and work experience, his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, new surveillance technologies, and government intrusion. “Ted Rall’s Snowden is a dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century—and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are roused to action to rein in abusive state power.” —Noam Chomsky Seven Stories Press · TR · 978-1-609-80635-4 · 224 pp. · $16.95
SURVEILLANCE A-Z by Danny Schechter
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ased on fresh interviews with key players, Surveillance A-Z offers cogent insight across the full spectrum of surveillance culture, from WikiLeaks, Manning, and Snowden to black world ops, from SAPs and ECIs to VRKs, from Dan Ellsberg to Thomas Drake and Bill Binney, from the law to the technology to the reality. Seven Stories Press · TR · 978-1-60980-643-9 272 pp. · $16.95
OBJECTIVE TROY
A TERRORIST, A PRESIDENT, AND THE RISE OF THE DRONE by Scott Shane
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bjective Troy tells the story of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen involved in planning terrorist operations for al-Qaeda, who was executed without a trial. It follows Barack Obama’s campaign against the excesses of the Bush counterterrorism and recounts how the president directed spy agencies to hunt al-Awlaki. Illuminating and provocative, and based on years of in-depth reporting, Objective Troy is a reckoning with the moral challenge of terrorism and a masterful chronicle of our times. “Scott Shane is unsurpassed in shedding clear light on America’s darkest secrets, including the gripping human drama behind a drone strike that changed history. It’s a story that had to be told, and must be read.” —Jane Mayer Tim Duggan Books · HC · 978-0-8041-4029-4 · 416 pp. · $28.00
COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY STUXNET AND THE LAUNCH OF THE WORLD’S FIRST DIGITAL WEAPON by Kim Zetter
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op cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb.
“Exhaustively researched . . . Zetter gives a full account of this ‘hack of the century,’ as the operation has been called, [but] the book goes well beyond its ostensible subject to offer a hairraising introduction to the age of cyber warfare.” —Wall Street Journal Broadway Books · TR · 978-0-7704-3619-3 · 448 pp. · $16.00 Professors: To order an Examination Copy of any title(s), go to: www.randomhouseacademic.com/desk-exam-copy
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