Author: Elizabeth HandPublisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439339315
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The next action-packed installment in the New York Times best-selling Boba Fett series.
A New Threat
Author: Elizabeth HandPublisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439339315
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The next action-packed installment in the New York Times best-selling Boba Fett series.
A New Threat Rises
Author: StoryBuddiesPlayPublisher: StoryBuddiesPlay
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Delve into the epic fantasy adventure of "Forgotten Kingdom," a tale where a young king embarks on a perilous quest to unearth the lost knowledge of his ancestors. Whispers of a hidden library echo through the Whispering Mountains, beckoning Vikramaditya on a journey fraught with danger. Accompanied by his loyal warrior Kaveri and the wise scholar Raj, he must navigate treacherous landscapes and solve cryptic riddles to reach the library's entrance. Inside, a labyrinth of knowledge awaits, guarded by celestial puzzles and forgotten magic. As they decipher ancient texts and unlock hidden chambers, they uncover the secrets of Agyaa's glorious past – advancements in science, engineering, and forgotten technologies. But the knowledge comes at a price. Memories of a devastating downfall surface, revealing the dangers of unchecked ambition and the importance of wielding power responsibly. Vikramaditya faces a critical decision: will he succumb to the destructive forces of the past, or will he forge a new path for Agyaa, a path that balances progress with wisdom? As he returns to his kingdom, a new threat emerges from the shadows. The whispers from the forgotten throne warn of a dark sorcerer, Malkor, who seeks to exploit Agyaa's newfound power for his own twisted purposes. Join Vikramaditya, Kaveri, and Raj on their thrilling quest as they confront not only external dangers but also the internal struggle to maintain balance. "Forgotten Kingdom" is a story about the power of knowledge, the importance of learning from the past, and the courage it takes to face the unknown. It's a captivating tale that will leave you pondering the delicate balance between progress and responsibility, and the enduring legacy of forgotten wisdom.
America the Vulnerable
Author: Joel BrennerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101547839
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Now available in a new edition entitled GLASS HOUSES: Privacy, Secrecy, and Cyber Insecurity in a Transparent World. A former top-level National Security Agency insider goes behind the headlines to explore America's next great battleground: digital security. An urgent wake-up call that identifies our foes; unveils their methods; and charts the dire consequences for government, business, and individuals. Shortly after 9/11, Joel Brenner entered the inner sanctum of American espionage, first as the inspector general of the National Security Agency, then as the head of counterintelligence for the director of national intelligence. He saw at close range the battleground on which our adversaries are now attacking us-cyberspace. We are at the mercy of a new generation of spies who operate remotely from China, the Middle East, Russia, even France, among many other places. These operatives have already shown their ability to penetrate our power plants, steal our latest submarine technology, rob our banks, and invade the Pentagon's secret communications systems. Incidents like the WikiLeaks posting of secret U.S. State Department cables hint at the urgency of this problem, but they hardly reveal its extent or its danger. Our government and corporations are a "glass house," all but transparent to our adversaries. Counterfeit computer chips have found their way into our fighter aircraft; the Chinese stole a new radar system that the navy spent billions to develop; our own soldiers used intentionally corrupted thumb drives to download classified intel from laptops in Iraq. And much more. Dispatches from the corporate world are just as dire. In 2008, hackers lifted customer files from the Royal Bank of Scotland and used them to withdraw $9 million in half an hour from ATMs in the United States, Britain, and Canada. If that was a traditional heist, it would be counted as one of the largest in history. Worldwide, corporations lose on average $5 million worth of intellectual property apiece annually, and big companies lose many times that. The structure and culture of the Internet favor spies over governments and corporations, and hackers over privacy, and we've done little to alter that balance. Brenner draws on his extraordinary background to show how to right this imbalance and bring to cyberspace the freedom, accountability, and security we expect elsewhere in our lives. In America the Vulnerable, Brenner offers a chilling and revelatory appraisal of the new faces of war and espionage-virtual battles with dangerous implications for government, business, and all of us.
The New Threat
Author: Dominique JollyPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031086902
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This book explores technology creation in China, offering a holistic picture of the national system of innovation. By analyzing companies of various sizes and sectors and taking a deep dive into the role of the Chinese government, the author reveals how China has become the market leader in innovative technologies. The author investigates where innovation is being produced at a regional level, the contribution of Chinese start-ups and large companies, the value of registered patents in China, and what this all means to Western countries. An insightful resource to students and scholars interested in Chinese business and economy, this book illustrates the various elements that are required for countries to develop innovative outputs, and shows that China has developed all of these components.
Understanding New Security Threats
Author: Michel GueldryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351590936
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This textbook examines non-traditional forms of security and expands the notion of security to include non-state actors and non-human actors. Proposing an expansive view of non-traditional forms of security that go beyond traditionally recognized issues of threats to state and national territory, this new textbook rests on the following premises: traditional state-centered threats, such as nuclear proliferation and espionage, remain a concern; old and new threats combine and create interlocking puzzles—a feature of wicked problems and wicked messes; because of the global erosion of borders, new developments of unconventional insecurity interact in ways that frustrate traditional conceptual definitions, conceptual maps, and national policies; unconventional security challenges which have traditionally been seen as "low politics" or "soft" issues are now being recognized as "hard security" challenges in the twenty-first century; many of the so-called "new" threats detailed here are in fact very old: diseases, gender violence, food insecurity, under-development, and crime are all traditional security threats, but deeply modified today by globalization. The chapters offer local and global examples and engage with various theoretical approaches to help readers see the bigger picture. Solutions are also suggested to these problems. Each chapter contains discussion questions to help readers understand the key points and facilitate class discussion. This book will be of great interest to students of international security studies, human security, global politics, and international relations.
Bully of Asia
Author: Steven W. MosherPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621577058
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The Once and Future Hegemon In a world bristling with dangers, only one enemy poses a truly mortal challenge to the United States and the peaceful and prosperous world that America guarantees. That enemy is China, a country -that invented totalitarianism thousands of years ago -whose economic power rivals our own -that believes its superior race and culture give it the right to universal deference -that teaches its people to hate America for standing in the way of achieving its narcissistic “dream” of world domination -that believes in its manifest destiny to usher in the World of Great Harmony -which publishes maps showing the exact extent of the nuclear destruction it could rain down on the United States Steven Mosher exposes the resurgent aspirations of the would-be hegemon—and the roots of China’s will to domination in its five-thousand-year history of ruthless conquest and assimilation of other nations, brutal repression of its own people, and belligerence toward any civilization that challenges its claim to superiority. The naïve idealism of our “China hands” has lulled America into a fool’s dream of “engagement” with the People’s Republic of China and its “peaceful evolution” toward democracy and freedom. Wishful thinking, says Mosher, has blinded us to the danger we face and left the world vulnerable to China’s overweening ambitions. Mosher knows China as few Westerners do. Having exposed as a visiting graduate student the monstrous practice of forced abortions, he became the target of the regime’s crushing retaliation. His encyclopedic grasp of China’s history and its present-day politics, his astute insights, and his bracing realism are the perfect antidote for our dangerous confusion about the Bully of Asia.
New Threats and New Actors in International Security
Author: E. KrahmannPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403981663
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Non-state threats and actors have become key topics in contemporary international security as since the end of the Cold War the notion that state is the primary unit of interest in international security has increasingly been challenged. Statistics show that today many more people are killed by ethnic conflicts, HIV/AIDS or the proliferation of small arms than by international war. Moreover, non-state actors, such as non-governmental organizations, private military companies and international regimes, are progressively complementing or even replacing states in the provision of security. Suggesting that such developments can be understood as part of a shift from government to governance in international security, this book examines both how private actors have become one of the main sources of insecurity in the contemporary world and how non-state actors play a growing role in combating these threats.
Star Wars®: Boba Fett #5: A New Threat
Author: Elizabeth HandPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545482593
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The next action-packed installment in the New York Times best-selling Boba Fett series.
The Threat on the Horizon
Author: Loch K. JohnsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199792437
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Aspin-Brown Commission of 1995-1996, led by former U.S. Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and Harold Brown, was a landmark inquiry into the activities of America's secret agencies. The purpose of the commission was to help the Central Intelligence Agency and other organizations in the U.S. intelligence community adapt to the quite different world that had emerged after the end of the Cold War in 1991. In The Threat on the Horizon, eminent national security scholar Loch K. Johnson, who served as Aspin's assistant, offers a comprehensive insider's account of this inquiry. Based on a close sifting of government documents and media reports, interviews with participants, and, above all, his own eyewitness impressions, Johnson's thorough history offers a unique window onto why the terrorist attacks of 2001 caught the United States by surprise and why the intelligence community failed again in 2002 when it predicted that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. It will be the first published account by an insider of a presidential commission on intelligence--a companion volume to Johnson's acclaimed study of the Church Committee investigation into intelligence in 1975 (A Season of Inquiry). This examination of the Aspin-Brown Commission is an invaluable source for anyone interested in the how the intelligence agencies of the world's most powerful nation struggled to confront new global threats that followed the collapse of the Soviet empire, and why Washington, D.C. was unprepared for the calamities that would soon arise.
The Threat
Author: David M. JacobsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471109526
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
After fifty years of widespread speculation about UFOs and abductions by aliens, a distinguished historian and UFO researcher presents the first evidence-based explanation of alien intentions. Based on over thirty years of personal research, Professor Jacobs exposes the aliens' profoundly alarming agenda: to create a breed of alien-human 'hybrids' who will eventually colonise - and control - Earth. He explains why aliens are here, what they want and why their agenda has been kept secret. In doing so he presents a disturbing picture of a profoundly changed future in which humans will be relegated to inferior status. This incredible story is all the more remarkable because every account of an alien abduction is thoroughly documented and is corroborated by independent testimony. This book answers in astonishing depth some of the most important questions about the UFO phenomenon that researchers have been asking since the beginning of the controversy.