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Coyote Returns

By: Micah S. Hackler

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COYOTE MADE MOTHER EARTH ANGRY. COYOTE MADE THE DEER DANCE. NOW,COYOTE HAS RETURNED, TRAILING VIOLENCE AND DEATH. A small-town sheriff. A big-time land deal. A season of violence in a land of ancient myths… From a New Mexico arroyo, a bullet-ridden body has been mysteriously dragged to a highway. In a small town, a lawman is swamped by complaints of coyote attacks. On Navajo land, a young man faces the truth about who he is, where he comes from, and where he must go. COYOTE RETURNS Investigating the murder of a Navajo leader, Sheriff Cliff Lansing comes up against an official whitewash that has branded the victim a drug dealer. But Lansing's deputy, Gabe Hanna, has already made a connection between the dead man and a multimillion-dollar timber deal on Navajo land. Suddenly, a land torn between ancient spirits and high-stakes power struggles is burning with violence. And as men die, the Trickster, Coyote, runs through the land—demanding justice and revenge.

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Speaking Volumes

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1628158905

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9781628158908

Brains Explained

How They Work & Why They Work That Way | STEM Learning about the Human Brain | Fun and Educational Facts about Human Body

By: Alison Caldwell,Micah Caldwell

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Brains Explained

How They Work & Why They Work That Way | STEM Learning about the Human Brain | Fun and Educational Facts about Human Body

By: Alison Caldwell,Micah Caldwell

It's Not Rocket Surgery, It's Brain Science! If you have a brain (spoiler alert: if you're reading this, you do!), you've probably wondered how and why it works the way it does (and why it sometimes...doesn't). What do dreams mean? Why do we fall in love? Can doing brain-teasers make us smarter? What about "smart drugs"? Dr. Alison Caldwell, a neuroscientist and Micah Caldwell, a licensed clinical therapist (and, together, the hosts of the popular YouTube series Neuro Transmissions) are here to answer those questions, and hundreds more you never thought to ask, such as...does your cat really love you? What can therapists learn from TRON? Can my diet make me smarter? Why do some people really like feet? And much, much more. Book jacket.

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Simon and Schuster

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1681885638

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9781681885636

Operation Honeybee

By: Micah Thorp

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Operation Honeybee

By: Micah Thorp

The late 1980s saw the rise of the drug wars. At the same time, the beginnings of modern genetic engineering were starting to transform agricultural production. These two forces collide in Operation Honeybee, a medical thriller set in South Florida.

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Lulu.com

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1411630785

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9781411630789

American Hostage

A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release

By: Micah Garen,Marie-Helene Carleton

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American Hostage

A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release

By: Micah Garen,Marie-Helene Carleton

A rare and powerful story of hope, love, survival,and the struggle to bring back alive a hostage in Iraq Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton were journalists and filmmakers working in Iraq on a documentary about the looting of the country's legendary archaeological sites, with their Iraqi translator Amir Doshi. In the late summer of 2004, they began to wrap up their work, and Marie-Hélène returned home while Micah remained for a final two weeks of filming. As Micah and Amir were filming in a Nasiriyah market, something went horribly wrong: Micah, who wore a bushy mustache and was dressed in Iraqi clothing, was unmasked as a foreigner and kidnapped by militants in southern Iraq. Home in New York, Marie-Hélène awoke to a gut-wrenching phone call from Micah's mother with word of his abduction. She promised Micah's mother the impossible--that together they would bring Micah back alive. American Hostage is the remarkable memoir of Micah Garen's harrowing abduction and survival in captivity, as well as the heroic and successful struggle of Marie-Hélène; Micah's sister, Eva; along with family and friends to win Micah's and Amir's release from their captors. The world watched and waited as Micah's drama unfolded, but the authors, now safely home and engaged to be married, detail the dramatic untold story. After learning of Micah's abduction, Marie-Hélène took a risky and unusual step: instead of relying on the authorities to rescue Micah, she used her recent experience in Iraq to construct a massive grassroots effort to reach out to Micah's captors and plead for his release. As fighting between Coalition forces and the Mahdi Army raged in Najaf, Micah and Amir became pawns in a terrible political game. The kidnappers released a video threatening to kill Micah unless the United States withdrew from Najaf within forty-eight hours. In response, Marie-Hélène's and Micah's families redoubled their efforts, eventually sending a representative to Nasiriyah to lobby for Micah. While Marie-Hélène worked on his release, Micah, imprisoned alongside Amir under armed guard deep in the marshes of southern Iraq, lived the nightmare of a hostagehaunted by the alternating impulses of hope and despair, his desire for survival and plans of escape. His experience reveals a great deal about the lives and minds of militants in southern Iraq. American Hostage is an engrossing and rare story of how hope, love, and communal effort can overcome war, distance, and cultural differences in Iraq.

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Simon and Schuster

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074328173X

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9780743281737

Thugs

How History's Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World through Terror, Tyranny, and Mass Murder

By: Micah D. Halpern

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Thugs

How History's Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World through Terror, Tyranny, and Mass Murder

By: Micah D. Halpern

An incisive look into the lives, politics, and horrible deeds of fifty-six of history’s most notorious world leaders—and how they shaped our world for the worst. For the most notorious leaders in the history of the world, evil is more than just a moment of weakness—it’s a way of life. For every noble king, righteous emperor, and peace-loving president, history seems to serve up a double portion of murderous pharaohs, deranged dictators, or corrupt czars. Thugs probes this dark and twisted side of raw human power—from France’s King Louis XIV to China’s Mao Tse-Tung and everywhere in between. It’s a fascinating peek into the lives of the rich and infamous, the sour crème de la crème. Some, like Herod the Great, earned villainous reputations for slaughtering their own family members and countrymen. Others, like Egypt’s King Farouk, were almost laughable in their misdeeds, amassing the world’s largest collection of pornography. Then there are those leaders, such as Hitler, who committed acts of such unspeakable evil that their names are uttered as curses. From Filipino first lady Imelda Marcos’s bullet-proof bras to African strongman Ide Amin’s bizarre fixation with all things Scottish, Micah D. Halpern turns the yellowed pages of history and contemporary news accounts to profile the bewildering, outrageous, horrific, gut-wrenching, zany, and tragicomic behavior of the world’s worst leaders. Praise for Thugs “Written in short, easy-to-digest sentences, columnist and historian Halpern fills his brief sketches with colorful, terrible details in the manner of that rare, beloved history teacher whose lectures stir rapture in a nap-prone student body.” —Publishers Weekly

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HarperChristian + ORM

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1418573353

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The Shadow Catcher

By: Micah S. Hackler

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The Shadow Catcher

By: Micah S. Hackler

Author of Legend of the Dead, and Coyote Returns A SERIAL KILLER. AN APACHE LEGEND. A TIME OF MURDER AND MAGIC ON ANCIENT GROUND… The owl moves on heavy wings, his eyes piercingly bright, his cry loud and haunting. The owl is the last thing they see before the sharp knife flashes… Sheriff Cliff Lansing is a single father, a part-time rancher, and an overworked lawman suddenly faced with a serial killing spree. A madman is moving through San Phillipe County on New Mexico's Continental Divide, leaving an owl feather by each of his ritually mutilated victims. While Lansing first suspects that Apache tribal politics lie behind the killings, he cannot ignore a troubled boy who claims to see the murders in his sleep, and then leads Lansing to the bodies. Suddenly, the sheriff is plunged into a bizarre world of Native American legend and magic. And in a hauntingly beautiful land, Lansing must walk a dangerous path between hard evidence and fleeting visions—to cleanse a blood rage from the earth….

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Speaking Volumes

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1628158913

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9781628158915

Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency

By: Micah L. Sifry

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Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency

By: Micah L. Sifry

WikiLeaks' release of a massive trove of secret official documents has riled politicians from across the spectrum, welcoming in the Age of Transparency. But political analyst and writer Micah Sifry argues that WikiLeaks is not the whole story: it is a symptom, an indicator of an ongoing generational and philosophical struggle between older, closed systems, and the new open culture of the Internet. Sifry, who has worked with and knows Julian Assange, cogently explores the implications of WikiLeaks' ascendancy.

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OR Books

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1935928317

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Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing

By: Micah McCrary

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Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing

By: Micah McCrary

Aimed toward graduate student instructors and other creative writing educators, Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing offers a formula for important changes in creative writing instruction-especially in literary/creative nonfiction, probing how instruction might become more inclusive and accessible for minoritized/marginalized student-authors. The book chapters use antiracist, trauma-informed, and anticolonial frameworks toward exploring the 21st-century professional, theoretical, and institutional concerns surrounding creative writing practices in North American higher education. As a result, the book explores ways creative writing pedagogies and theories might be adapted for racially and linguistically marginalized (by English) student-authors, who often inhabit minoritized positions within North American colleges and universities. Applying as a frame the notion of cultural dexterity as it is taught to medical professionals to allow them to engage effectively with patients from all backgrounds, ethnics groups and with all sensitivities, Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing examines why and how creative writing instruction needs to be urgently renegotiated. In this essential text for all creative writing instructors, McCray provides all the tools necessary to take positive action with discussions of potential readings, writing prompts and sample course materials.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350237159

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9781350237155

Confirmatory Factor Analysis

By: J. Micah Roos,Shawn Bauldry

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis

By: J. Micah Roos,Shawn Bauldry

Measurement connects theoretical concepts to what is observable in the empirical world, and is fundamental to all social and behavioral research. In this volume, J. Micah Roos and Shawn Bauldry introduce a popular approach to measurement: confirmatory factor analysis, with examples in every chapter draw from national survey data. Data to replicate the examples are available on a companion website, along with code in R, Stata, and Mplus.

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SAGE Publications

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1544375166

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The Dark Canyon

By: Micah S. Hackler

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The Dark Canyon

By: Micah S. Hackler

Author of Legend of the Dead, Coyote Returns, and The Shadow Catcher IN A RUGGED LAND STEEPED IN THE BLOOD OF HISTORY. A KILLER HAS COME BACK FOR REVENGE.... NEW BLOOD ON AN ANCIENT GROUND... In an air-conditioned university office, a man lies dead, brutally bludgeoned. A hundred miles away, in the high, arid New Mexico mountain country that Sheriff Cliff Lansing is sworn to protect, an animal is devastating ranchers' livestock, and is now turning to human prey.... For Lansing, the two cases are linked. The murder victim was part of an archaeological dig, and a local Indian believes that the animal killings have been unleashed by the excavations. Struggling to put together the jagged pieces of a puzzle. Lansing unearths a mystery of a missing emerald carving, a one-hundred-year-old diary, and a man accused of a crime he did not commit. To stop the bloodshed, Lansing must throw out everything he has ever believed about police work, evidence, and reason. Because between an archaeologist's ambitions and the secrets still hidden in the land, Lansing must follow his own trail of myth, legend, and intuition—to find a very real killer stalking the night....

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Speaking Volumes

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1628158921

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9781628158922

Surveillance Means Security

Remixed War Propaganda

By: Micah Ian Wright

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Surveillance Means Security

Remixed War Propaganda

By: Micah Ian Wright

Subversive and incendiary, this full-color poster book reworks classic war propaganda to comment on corporate corruption, domestic spying, election fraud, gay marriage, blind patriotism, the "War on Terror," and surveillance in America today. With laughs and jeers, Wright’s distinctive artwork and astute political commentary offers timely and clever insight into the state of post-9/11 America. Surveillance Means Security! is the hilarious follow-up to Wright’s previous books of reworked propaganda posters, You Back The Attack! We’ll Bomb Who We Want! and If You're Not A Terrorist ...Then Stop Asking Questions.

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Seven Stories Press

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1609801008

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Do You Remember House?

Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds

By: Micah E. Salkind

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Do You Remember House?

Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds

By: Micah E. Salkind

Tells the full story of house music in Chicago, from its emergence to its queer remediation to its memorialization from the late '70s to the present.

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Oxford University Press

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0190698411

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Bigger Than Bernie

How We Can Win Democratic Socialism in Our Time

By: Micah Uetricht,Meagan Day

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Bigger Than Bernie

How We Can Win Democratic Socialism in Our Time

By: Micah Uetricht,Meagan Day

Win or lose, Bernie has reshaped the landscape of American politics. Where does the political revolution go next? The political ambitions of the movement behind Bernie Sanders have never been limited to winning the White House. Since Bernie first entered the presidential primaries in 2016, his supporters have worked to organize a revolution intended to encourage the active participation of millions of ordinary people in political life. That revolution is already underway, as evidenced by the massive growth of the Democratic Socialists of America, the teachers Bernie motivated to lead strikes across red and blue states, and the rising new generation of radicals in Congress—led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar—inspired by his example. In Bigger than Bernie, activist writers Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht give us an intimate map of this emerging movement to remake American politics top to bottom, profiling the grassroots organizers who are building something bigger, and more ambitious, than the career of any one candidate. As participants themselves, Day and Uetricht provide a serious analysis of the prospects for long-term change, offering a strategy for making “political revolution” more than just a campaign slogan. They provide a road map for how to entrench democratic socialism in the halls of power and in our own lives. Bigger than Bernie offers unmatched insights into the people behind the most unique campaign in modern American history and a clear-eyed sense of how the movement can sustain itself for the long haul.

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178873839X

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Strike for America

Chicago Teachers Against Austerity

By: Micah Uetricht

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Strike for America

Chicago Teachers Against Austerity

By: Micah Uetricht

The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century—and perhaps for the last forty years—and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools and tying teacher salaries to standardized testing, among other changes. In 2012, Chicago teachers built a grassroots movement through education and engagement of an entire union membership, taking militant action in the face of enormous structural barriers and a hostile Democratic Party leadership. The teachers won massive concessions from the city and have become a new model for school reform led by teachers themselves, rather than by billionaires. Strike for America is the story of this movement, and how it has become the defining struggle for the labor movement today.

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Do You Remember House?

Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds

By: Micah Salkind

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Do You Remember House?

Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds

By: Micah Salkind

Today, no matter where you are in the world, you can turn on a radio and hear the echoes and influences of Chicago house music. Do You Remember House? tells a comprehensive story of the emergence, and contemporary memorialization of house in Chicago, tracing the development of Chicago house music culture from its beginnings in the late '70s to the present. Based on expansive research in archives and his extensive conversations with the makers of house in Chicago's parks, clubs, museums, and dance studios, author Micah Salkind argues that the remediation and adaptation of house music by crossover communities in its first decade shaped the ways that Chicago producers, DJs, dancers, and promoters today re-remember and mobilize the genre as an archive of collectivity and congregation. The book's engagement with musical, kinesthetic, and visual aspects of house music culture builds from a tradition of queer of color critique. As such, Do You Remember House? considers house music's liberatory potential in terms of its genre-defiant repertoire in motion. Ultimately, the book argues that even as house music culture has been appropriated and exploited, the music's porosity and flexibility have allowed it to remain what pioneering Chicago DJ Craig Cannon calls a "musical Stonewall" for queers and people of color in the Windy City and around the world.

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Oxford University Press

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0190698446

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The Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s (1682–1761) Journal of a Voyage in North America

An Annotated Translation

By: Micah True

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The Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s (1682–1761) Journal of a Voyage in North America

An Annotated Translation

By: Micah True

The French Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s 1744 journal of his voyage through French North America—New France, Louisiana, and the Caribbean—is among the richest eighteenth-century accounts of the continent’s colonization, as well as its indigenous inhabitants, flora, and fauna. Micah True’s new translation of this influential text is the first to appear since 1763. It provides the first complete and reliable English version of Charlevoix’s journal and reveals the famous Jesuit to have been a better literary stylist than has often been assumed on the basis of earlier translations. Complemented by a detailed introduction and richly annotated, this volume finally makes accessible to an Anglophone audience one of the key texts of eighteenth-century French America.

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BRILL

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9004408649

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9789004408647

Masters and Students

Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France

By: Micah True

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Masters and Students

Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France

By: Micah True

The word "mission" can suggest a distant and dangerous attempt to obtain information for the benefit of the home left behind. However, the term also applies to the movement of information in the opposite direction, as the primary motivation of those on religious missions is not to learn about another culture, but rather to teach their own particular worldview. In Masters and Students, Micah True considers the famous Jesuit Relations (1632-73) from New France as the product of two simultaneous missions, in which the Jesuit priests both extracted information from the poorly understood inhabitants of New France and attempted to deliver Europe's religious knowledge to potential Amerindian converts. This dual position of student and master provides the framework for the author’s reflection on the nature of the Jesuits’ "facts" about Amerindian languages, customs, and beliefs that are recorded in the Relations. Following the missionaries through the process of gaining access to New France, interacting with Amerindian groups, and communicating with Europe about the results of their efforts, Masters and Students explores how the Relations were shaped by the distinct nature of the Jesuit approach to their mission - in both senses of the word.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773582002

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9780773582002

Red Team

How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy

By: Micah Zenko

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Red Team

How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy

By: Micah Zenko

Essential reading for business leaders and policymakers, an in-depth investigation of red teaming, the practice of inhabiting the perspective of potential competitors to gain a strategic advantage Red teaming. The concept is as old as the Devil's Advocate, the eleventh-century Vatican official charged with discrediting candidates for sainthood. Today, red teams are used widely in both the public and the private sector by those seeking to better understand the interests, intentions, and capabilities of institutional rivals. In the right circumstances, red teams can yield impressive results, giving businesses an edge over their competition, poking holes in vital intelligence estimates, and troubleshooting dangerous military missions long before boots are on the ground. But not all red teams are created equal; indeed, some cause more damage than they prevent. Drawing on a fascinating range of case studies, Red Team shows not only how to create and empower red teams, but also what to do with the information they produce. In this vivid, deeply-informed account, national security expert Micah Zenko provides the definitive book on this important strategy -- full of vital insights for decision makers of all kinds.

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Basic Books

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0465073956

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Time Return: Red Moon science fiction, time travel trilogy Book 2

By: Micah Caida

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Time Return: Red Moon science fiction, time travel trilogy Book 2

By: Micah Caida

I have never read a book that was anything like this one before. It felt completely unique to me, which I loved!" ~~Feed Your Fiction Addiction Time Return: Red Moon Trilogy book 2 Rayen, Gabby, and Tony face their own problems at the Institute. Chaos erupts in the sphere. Time is everyone’s enemy. Stranded in Tony and Gabby’s world, Rayen must get back to the Sphere where Callan could turn eighteen at any moment and die. Gabby is locked in the Institute hospital suffering a deadly reaction from the Sphere and is being prepped for an unknown procedure. Tony can’t jeopardize his family by traveling again to another world and Rayen fears she can’t open the portal without all three of them. Time is running out for the MystiKs still imprisoned in the Sphere while a conflict threatens to explode on their home planet which will have a catastrophic backlash throughout time. Choices backfire, trust is forfeit, and alliances shift as elements of an ancient prophecy begin to fall into place. Micah Caida is a blend of two voices – New York Times Bestseller Dianna Love and USA Today Bestseller Mary Buckham. “Time Return will grip you and keep you reading until the very end. The action is undoubtedly exciting, as well as the suspense. You won't want to put it down!” ~~ Brooke McClure, teen “If I had found books like this [Time Return] when I was a teen, I would have started reading much earlier, instead of waiting until my mid-twenties!” ~~ Kay Barnes, adult

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Silver Hawk Press LLC

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1940651972

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Clear and Present Safety

By: Michael A. Cohen,Micah Zenko

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Clear and Present Safety

By: Michael A. Cohen,Micah Zenko

An eye-opening look at the history of national security fear-mongering in America and how it distracts citizens from the issues that really matter What most frightens the average American? Terrorism. North Korea. Iran. But what if none of these are probable or consequential threats to America? What if the world today is safer, freer, wealthier, healthier, and better educated than ever before? What if the real dangers to Americans are noncommunicable diseases, gun violence, drug overdoses--even hospital infections? In this compelling look at what they call the "Threat-Industrial Complex," Michael A. Cohen and Micah Zenko explain why politicians, policy analysts, academics, and journalists are misleading Americans about foreign threats and ignoring more serious national security challenges at home. Cohen and Zenko argue that we should ignore Washington's threat-mongering and focus instead on furthering extraordinary global advances in human development and economic and political cooperation. At home, we should focus on that which actually harms us and undermines our quality of life: substandard schools and healthcare, inadequate infrastructure, gun violence, income inequality, and political paralysis.

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Yale University Press

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0300222556

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9780300222555

Eat the Bible

Food, Metaphor, and the Nature of Scripture

By: Micah E. Chung

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Eat the Bible

Food, Metaphor, and the Nature of Scripture

By: Micah E. Chung

People love their metaphors for the Bible. The Bible is a sword, a mirror, a script, a score, a cathedral, a rule book, a user’s manual, a lamp, a love letter. But how did metaphor, which in the eighteenth century was seen as a deceptive rhetorical trick, become such a prominent tool for speaking of Scripture? And how does one judge between a good metaphor and a bad one? This book explores the theological use of metaphor to describe the nature and interpretation of Scripture. It interrogates three such models—the Bible as musical score (Anthony Thiselton), the Bible as theo-dramatic script (Kevin Vanhoozer), and the Bible as light (John Feinberg)—seeking to evaluate their faithfulness to Scripture and church tradition, their fittingness to the current culture, and their fruitfulness for understanding and practicing the biblical text. The author then proposes and explores what he considers a better model, one drawn from the Bible itself, namely that of Scripture as food.

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Between Threats and War

U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World

By: Micah Zenko

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Between Threats and War

U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World

By: Micah Zenko

In Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World, author Micah Zenko presents a new concept to capture and illuminate the phenomenon: "Discrete Military Operations.

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Stanford University Press

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0804771901

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9780804771900

Adobe Photoshop cs in 10 Simple Steps or Less

By: Micah Laaker,Christopher Schmitt

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Adobe Photoshop cs in 10 Simple Steps or Less

By: Micah Laaker,Christopher Schmitt

If you are looking to create exciting Web graphics and need to define and edit images quickly and easily, then this book is for you-whether you're new to Adobe's latest graphics editing software or you need a refresher on Photoshop's wide range of resources. Open the book and you'll discover clear, easy-to-follow instructions for more than 250 key Photoshop tasks, each presented in ten quick steps-or less. Easy - to - navigate pages, lots of screen shots, and to-the-point directions guide you through every common (and not so common) Photoshop challenge-and help you get more done in less time. * Each solution is ten steps-or less-to help you get the job done fast * Self-contained two-page spreads deliver the answers you need-without flipping pages * A no-fluff approach focuses on helping you achieve results * A resource packed with useful and fun ways to get the most out of Photoshop cs * Make it simple and get productive fast! - find full-color images and links to resources, downloads, and companion and plug-in software on this book's Web site

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John Wiley & Sons

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0764557750

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The End of Protest

A New Playbook for Revolution

By: Micah White

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The End of Protest

A New Playbook for Revolution

By: Micah White

Is protest broken? Micah White, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, thinks so. Disruptive tactics have failed to halt the rise of Donald Trump. Movements ranging from Black Lives Matter to environmentalism are leaving activists frustrated. Meanwhile, recent years have witnessed the largest protests in human history. Yet these mass mobilizations no longer change society. Now activism is at a crossroads: innovation or irrelevance. In The End of Protest Micah White heralds the future of activism. Drawing on his unique experience with Occupy Wall Street, a contagious protest that spread to eighty-two countries, White articulates a unified theory of revolution and eight principles of tactical innovation that are destined to catalyze the next generation of social movements. Despite global challenges—catastrophic climate change, economic collapse and the decline of democracy—White finds reason for optimism: the end of protest inaugurates a new era of social change. On the horizon are increasingly sophisticated movements that will emerge in a bid to challenge elections, govern cities and reorient the way we live. Activists will reshape society by forming a global political party capable of winning elections worldwide. In this provocative playbook, White offers three bold, revolutionary scenarios for harnessing the creativity of people from across the political spectrum. He also shows how social movements are created and how they spread, how materialism limits contemporary activism, and why we must re-conceive protest in timelines of centuries, not days. Rigorous, original and compelling, The End of Protest is an exhilarating vision of an all-encompassing revolution of revolution.

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Knopf Canada

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034581004X

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Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China

By: Micah S. Muscolino

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Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China

By: Micah S. Muscolino

Among the environmental challenges facing us is alleviating the damage to marine ecosystems caused by pollution and overfishing. Coming to grips with contemporary problems, this book argues, depends on understanding how people have historically generated, perceived, and responded to environmental change. This work explores interactions between society and environment in China’s most important marine fishery, the Zhoushan Archipelago off the coast of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, from its nineteenth-century expansion to the exhaustion of the most important fish species in the 1970s. This history of Zhoushan’s fisheries illuminates long-term environmental processes and analyzes the intersections of local, regional, and transnational ecological trends and the array of private and state interests that shaped struggles for the control of these common-pool natural resources. What institutions did private and state actors use to regulate the use of the fishery? How did relationships between social organizations and the state change over time? What types of problems could these arrangements solve and which not? What does the fate of these institutions tell us about environmental change in late imperial and modern China? Answering these questions will give us a better understanding of the relationship between past ecological changes and present environmental challenges.

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BRILL

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1684174988

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Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations

The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data

By: Micah Lee

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Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations

The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data

By: Micah Lee

Data-science investigations have brought journalism into the 21st century, and—guided by The Intercept’s infosec expert Micah Lee— this book is your blueprint for uncovering hidden secrets in hacked datasets. Unlock the internet’s treasure trove of public interest data with Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations by Micah Lee, an investigative reporter and security engineer. This hands-on guide blends real-world techniques for researching large datasets with lessons on coding, data authentication, and digital security. All of this is spiced up with gripping stories from the front lines of investigative journalism. Dive into exposed datasets from a wide array of sources: the FBI, the DHS, police intelligence agencies, extremist groups like the Oath Keepers, and even a Russian ransomware gang. Lee’s own in-depth case studies on disinformation-peddling pandemic profiteers and neo-Nazi chatrooms serve as blueprints for your research. Gain practical skills in searching massive troves of data for keywords like “antifa” and pinpointing documents with newsworthy revelations. Get a crash course in Python to automate the analysis of millions of files. You will also learn how to: Master encrypted messaging to safely communicate with whistleblowers. Secure datasets over encrypted channels using Signal, Tor Browser, OnionShare, and SecureDrop. Harvest data from the BlueLeaks collection of internal memos, financial records, and more from over 200 state, local, and federal agencies. Probe leaked email archives about offshore detention centers and the Heritage Foundation. Analyze metadata from videos of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, sourced from the Parler social network. We live in an age where hacking and whistleblowing can unearth secrets that alter history. Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations is your toolkit for uncovering new stories and hidden truths. Crack open your laptop, plug in a hard drive, and get ready to change history.

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No Starch Press

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1718503121

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9781718503120

Computer Forensics JumpStart

By: Micah Solomon,Diane Barrett,Neil Broom

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Computer Forensics JumpStart

By: Micah Solomon,Diane Barrett,Neil Broom

Launch Your Career in Computer Forensics—Quickly and Effectively Written by a team of computer forensics experts, Computer Forensics JumpStart provides all the core information you need to launch your career in this fast-growing field: Conducting a computer forensics investigation Examining the layout of a network Finding hidden data Capturing images Identifying, collecting, and preserving computer evidence Understanding encryption and examining encrypted files Documenting your case Evaluating common computer forensic tools Presenting computer evidence in court as an expert witness

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119124646

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New Immigrants, Changing Communities

Best Practices for a Better America

By: Elżbieta M. Goździak,Micah N. Bump

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New Immigrants, Changing Communities

Best Practices for a Better America

By: Elżbieta M. Goździak,Micah N. Bump

This book is a product of research stemming from a multiyear project conducted by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Micah N. Bump for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. The project studied immigration integration in areas that had no recent experience with foreign-born newcomers and the information presented within this book builds upon this by identifying and reviewing promising practices and strategies that facilitated immigrant integration. Gozdziak and Bump include descriptions of the most effective approaches as well as an analysis of challenges within resettlement programs. By highlighting successful initiatives in newcomer communities it seeks to assist stakeholders in their decision-making processes. As newcomer-related issues are complex and solutions are rarely 'one-size fits all,' the programs described here are unique responses to particular issues in individual communities, and they may not be an exact fit for other communities with similar problems. The book is not a cookbook or a blueprint that can be applied anywhere and everywhere. Rather, it is meant as inspiration and motivation for trying out new strategies. Successful practices discussed in this book include: programs facilitating English language acquisition, access to culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate health care services, access to vocational training and higher education opportunities, community development, microenterprise, creation of homeownership opportunities for immigrants, and efforts to ensure safety of newcomers. It is the hope of the authors that many practitioners_including service providers, community leaders, representatives of local governments, and donors both public and private_will find this book useful.

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0739106341

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Missional Fidelity of MoveIn

An International Christian Mission Movement among the Unreached, Urban Poor

By: Micah Kim

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Missional Fidelity of MoveIn

An International Christian Mission Movement among the Unreached, Urban Poor

By: Micah Kim

How can the church go beyond mere social services to having an incarnational, evangelistic impact on unreached, urban immigrants? This work explores how MoveIn, a global prayer movement of regular lay Christians, has become a model for how the church can authentically and radically share the gospel with unreached neighbors.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666727032

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Losing Graceland

A Novel

By: Micah Nathan

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Losing Graceland

A Novel

By: Micah Nathan

Taking a week-long driving job after a failed relationship and his father's sudden death, Ben is shocked when his employer appears to be a still-living Elvis, who needs Ben's help to get to Memphis and search for a missing grandchild. Original.

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Broadway Books

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0307591352

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American Hostage

A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release

By: Micah Garen,Marie-Helene Carleton

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American Hostage

A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release

By: Micah Garen,Marie-Helene Carleton

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Simon and Schuster

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074328173X

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