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Future Imperfect

Philip K. Dick at the Movies

By: Jason P. Vest

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Future Imperfect

Philip K. Dick at the Movies

By: Jason P. Vest

Examines the first eight cinematic adaptations of Dick's fiction in light of their literary sources.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803218605

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Buffer Overflow Attacks

Detect, Exploit, Prevent

By: Jason Deckard

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Buffer Overflow Attacks

Detect, Exploit, Prevent

By: Jason Deckard

The SANS Institute maintains a list of the "Top 10 Software Vulnerabilities." At the current time, over half of these vulnerabilities are exploitable by Buffer Overflow attacks, making this class of attack one of the most common and most dangerous weapon used by malicious attackers. This is the first book specifically aimed at detecting, exploiting, and preventing the most common and dangerous attacks.Buffer overflows make up one of the largest collections of vulnerabilities in existence; And a large percentage of possible remote exploits are of the overflow variety. Almost all of the most devastating computer attacks to hit the Internet in recent years including SQL Slammer, Blaster, and I Love You attacks. If executed properly, an overflow vulnerability will allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on the victim's machine with the equivalent rights of whichever process was overflowed. This is often used to provide a remote shell onto the victim machine, which can be used for further exploitation.A buffer overflow is an unexpected behavior that exists in certain programming languages. This book provides specific, real code examples on exploiting buffer overflow attacks from a hacker's perspective and defending against these attacks for the software developer. - Over half of the "SANS TOP 10 Software Vulnerabilities" are related to buffer overflows. - None of the current-best selling software security books focus exclusively on buffer overflows. - This book provides specific, real code examples on exploiting buffer overflow attacks from a hacker's perspective and defending against these attacks for the software developer.

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Elsevier

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0080488420

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9780080488424

We Built Reality

How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power

By: Jason Blakely

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We Built Reality

How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power

By: Jason Blakely

Over the last fifty years, pseudoscience has crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Popular sciences of everything from dating and economics, to voting and artificial intelligence, radically changed the world today. The abuse of popular scientific authority has catastrophic consequences, contributing to the 2008 financial crisis; the failure to predict the rise of Donald Trump; increased tensions between poor communities and the police; and the sidelining of nonscientific forms of knowledge and wisdom. In We Built Reality, Jason Blakely explains how recent social science theories have not simply described political realities but also helped create them. But he also offers readers a way out of the culture of scientism: hermeneutics, or the art of interpretation. Hermeneutics urges sensitivity to the historical and cultural contexts of human behavior. It gives ordinary people a way to appreciate the insights of the humanities in guiding decisions. As Blakely contends, we need insights from the humanities to see how social science theories never simply neutrally describe reality, they also help build it.

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Oxford University Press

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0190087390

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9780190087395

Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives

By: Jason Jacobs

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Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives

By: Jason Jacobs

Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives examines the detective figure in four noir and neo-noir films: Out of the Past (1947), Notorious (1946), Vertigo (1958), and Chinatown (1974). Exploring the way that these characters each move from an initial state of reluctant passivity to one of passionate engagement with the world around them, it questions the cinematic forces required to motivate and move them. In its close examinations of each film, the book meditates on the detectives' hunts and how they interact with the cinematic apparatus that captures and presents them to an audience, and it tracks the receptive experience of these films in relation to these questions of motivation and movement.

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State University of New York Press

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1438492251

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Work and Labor in American Popular Culture

Representation in Film, Music and Television in the 1970s and 1980s

By: Jason Russell

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Work and Labor in American Popular Culture

Representation in Film, Music and Television in the 1970s and 1980s

By: Jason Russell

Crisis and decline in the working class were frequent themes in American popular culture during the 1970s. In contrast, more positive narratives about America’s managerial and professional class appeared during the 1980s. Focusing on these two key decades, this book explores how portrayals of social class and associated work and labor issues including gender and race appeared in specific films, television shows, and music. Comparing and contrasting how forms of popular media portrayed both unionized and non-unionized workers, the book discusses how workers’ perceptions of themselves were in turn shaped by messages conveyed through media. The book opens with an introduction which outlines the historical context of the immediate post-war period and the heightened social, political, and economic tension of the Cold War era. Three substantial chapters then explore film, television, and music in turn, looking at key works including Star Wars, Coming Home, 9 to 5, Good Times, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and the music of Bruce Springsteen and rap artists. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, the book is principally situated within wider labor and working-class history research, and the relatively new history of capitalism historical sub-field. This book is vital reading for anyone interested in issues around labor and work in the media, labor history, and popular culture history during two key decades in modern American history.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040042279

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9781040042274

Robots, Cyborgs, and Androids

By: Jason Porterfield

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Robots, Cyborgs, and Androids

By: Jason Porterfield

People have long dreamed of creating machines that can carry out the same tasks as people. These dreams have led to the creation of many sci-fi books, movies, and shows that attempt to depict how people would live with robots, cyborgs, and androids. This compelling book traces the history of robotics as a science, while describing in vivid detail some of the most influential works in all of science fiction, including those by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Fritz Lang, Eando Binder, and Isaac Asimov. Readers will ponder intriguing questions about the ethics of how robots, cyborgs, and androids are used and treated.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1508180431

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9781508180432

The Soulful Art of Persuasion

The 11 Habits That Will Make Anyone a Master Influencer

By: Jason Harris

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The Soulful Art of Persuasion

The 11 Habits That Will Make Anyone a Master Influencer

By: Jason Harris

WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • The Soulful Art of Persuasion is a revolutionary guide to becoming a master influencer in an age of distrust through the cultivation of character-building habits that are essential to both personal growth and sustained business success. This isn’t a book full of tips and life-hacks. Instead, The Soulful Art of Persuasion will develop the habits that others want to be influenced by. This book is based on a radical idea: Persuasion isn’t about facts and argument. It’s all about personal character. Jason Harris, CEO of the powerhouse creative agency Mekanism, argues that genuine persuasion in the twenty-first century is about developing character rather than relying on the easy tactics of flattery, manipulation, and short-term gains. It is about engaging rather than insisting; it is about developing empathy and communicating your values. Based on his experience in and out of the boardroom, and drawing on the latest in-depth research on trust, influence, and habit formation, Harris shows that being persuasive in a culture plagued by deception means rejecting the ethos of the quick and embracing the commitment of putting your truest self forward and playing the long game.

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198482256X

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9781984822567

The Democratic Sublime

On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly

By: Jason Frank

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The Democratic Sublime

On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly

By: Jason Frank

In a series of articles written for the Neue Rhenische Zeitung in 1850, later published by Friedrich Engels as The Class Struggles in France, Karl Marx looked back on the failed French revolution of 1848 and attempted to explain how the democratic aspirations that inspired the February assault on the July Monarchy-and promised to fulfill the dashed hopes of 1789, 1792, and 1830-also led to its termination in the reactionary popular dictatorship of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Popular sovereignty, which had so often defined the emancipatory visions of two generations of radical activists and thinkers was now not only an obstacle to genuine emancipation, but a plebiscitary source of power for newly emergent forms of political domination. Bonapartism became, for Marx, an important way of understanding the complex internal dynamics of popular-and later "populist"-authoritarianism. It is an analysis that continues to resonate powerfully today. The national enthusiasm that propelled the revolution forward, and which overturned the hated regime of Louis Phillippe in three glorious days, had successfully established for the first time in history a parliamentary republic based in universal male suffrage. The Second Republic's provisional government was immediately thrown into a legitimation crisis, however, by the underlying sectional, parliamentary, and class conflicts lurking beneath its illusory foundation in the people's unitary will. When the popular classes of Paris returned to the barricades in June to protest the conservative government's closure of the National Workshops-and to convert the political revolution into a social revolution based in the "right to work"-they were abandoned by their fellow citizens and thousands were massacred in the streets by Cavaignac's National Guard. The "fantastic republic" built around the pretensions of national unity, Marx proclaimed, quickly "dissolved in powder and smoke." Tocqueville described the June days as a "slave's war," and in its aftermath the Party of Order quickly consolidated its power against any furthering of revolutionary aspiration"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190658150

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9780190658151

Capitalism in the Web of Life

Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital

By: Jason W. Moore

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Capitalism in the Web of Life

Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital

By: Jason W. Moore

Integrating both social and historical factors, this radical analysis of the development of capitalism reveals the ever-deepening relationship between capital and ecology Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. Drawing on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought, Moore offers a groundbreaking new synthesis: capitalism as a “world-ecology” of wealth, power, and nature. Capitalism’s greatest strength—and the source of its problems—is its capacity to create Cheap Natures: labor, food, energy, and raw materials. That capacity is now in question. Rethinking capitalism through the pulsing and renewing dialectic of humanity-in-nature, Moore takes readers on a journey from the rise of capitalism to the modern mosaic of crisis. Capitalism in the Web of Life shows how the critique of capitalism-in-nature—rather than capitalism and nature—is key to understanding our predicament, and to pursuing the politics of liberation in the century ahead.

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Verso Books

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1781689040

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9781781689042

The C# Workshop

Kickstart your career as a software developer with C#

By: Jason Hales,Almantas Karpavicius,Mateus Viegas

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The C# Workshop

Kickstart your career as a software developer with C#

By: Jason Hales,Almantas Karpavicius,Mateus Viegas

Build your understanding and confidence with this hands-on guide to programming with C# 10 and .NET 6 Key FeaturesGain a solid foundation in C# and focus on coding real-world applicationsLearn how to write clean, effective code and think like a C# developerBuild your experience and confidence with hands-on exercises and activitiesBook Description C# is a powerful, versatile language that can unlock a variety of career paths. But, as with any programming language, learning C# can be a challenging process. With a wide range of different resources available, it's difficult to know where to start. That's where The C# Workshop comes in. Written and reviewed by industry experts, it provides a fast-paced, supportive learning experience that will quickly get you writing C# code and building applications. Unlike other software development books that focus on dry, technical explanations of the underlying theory, this Workshop cuts through the noise and uses engaging examples to help you understand how each concept is applied in the real world. As you work through the book, you'll tackle realistic exercises that simulate the type of problems that software developers work on every day. These mini-projects include building a random-number guessing game, using the publisher-subscriber model to design a web file downloader, creating a to-do list using Razor Pages, generating images from the Fibonacci sequence using async/await tasks, and developing a temperature unit conversion app which you will then deploy to a production server. By the end of this book, you'll have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to advance your career and tackle your own ambitious projects with C#. What you will learnUnderstand the fundamentals of programming with C# 10 and .NET 6Build your familiarity with .NET CLI and Visual Studio CodeMaster the fundamentals of object-oriented programming (OOP)Understand and implement concurrency to write more efficient codeCreate a database and handle data using C#, SQL, and Entity FrameworkBuild web applications using the ASP.NET frameworkRun automated unit tests with NUnit to validate your codeUse principles including SOLID, KISS, ACID, DRY, and design patternsWho this book is for This book is for aspiring C# developers. It is recommended that you already have a basic understanding of core programming concepts before you start. Prior experience of another programming language would be beneficial, though it is not absolutely necessary.

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Packt Publishing Ltd

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1800568509

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9781800568501

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

By: Raj Patel,Jason W. Moore

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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

By: Raj Patel,Jason W. Moore

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding-and reclaiming-the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.

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Verso Books

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1788732154

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Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology

By: Stacey E. Mills,Joel K. Greenson,Jason L. Hornick,Teri A. Longacre,Victor E. Reuter

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Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology

By: Stacey E. Mills,Joel K. Greenson,Jason L. Hornick,Teri A. Longacre,Victor E. Reuter

Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology is a flagship book in pathology. This classic 2-volume reference presents advanced diagnostic techniques and the latest information on all currently known diseases. The book emphasizes the practical differential diagnosis of the surgical specimen while keeping to a minimum discussion of the natural history of the disease, treatment and autopsy findings. Contributors are asked to provide their expert advice on the diagnostic evaluation of every type of specimen from every anatomic site. This approach distinguishes it and provides a style of a personal consultation.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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149630828X

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9781496308283

Buffer Overflow Attacks

Detect, Exploit, Prevent

By: Jason Deckard

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Buffer Overflow Attacks

Detect, Exploit, Prevent

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Pandemonium Issue #2

Of the Horror World Series

By: Jason Gray

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Pandemonium Issue #2

Of the Horror World Series

By: Jason Gray

The second installment of the ongoing "Pandemonium" serial, Erik La Chance saves Alex from her dad, but the P.A.G.A.N. Society learns of his disappearance. He learns of his dark origins and saves her from her dark future. The second in an ongoing collection of issues to be reassembled at a later date in one massive volume as "Horror World 6: Pandemonium".

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1468934244

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On the Road Again

By: Jason Davis

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On the Road Again

By: Jason Davis

The "Marco Polo" of television news reveals behind-the-scenes dramas and some of the most interesting and unusual people and stories he has produced for local and national television.

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089658108X

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Future Imperfect

Future Imperfect

Buffer Overflow Attacks

Buffer Overflow Attacks

We Built Reality

We Built Reality

Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives

Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives

Work and Labor in American Popular Culture

Work and Labor in American Popular Culture

Robots, Cyborgs, and Androids

Robots, Cyborgs, and Androids

The Soulful Art of Persuasion

The Soulful Art of Persuasion

The Democratic Sublime

The Democratic Sublime

Capitalism in the Web of Life

Capitalism in the Web of Life

The C# Workshop

The C# Workshop

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology

Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology

Buffer Overflow Attacks

Buffer Overflow Attacks

Pandemonium Issue #2

Pandemonium Issue #2

On the Road Again

On the Road Again

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