Baluja, S.: The Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue. What happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions?
Young Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its users with popular online services, from a search engine and shopping to e-mail and social networking. When Stephen's boss asks him to work on a project with the American Coalition for Civil Liberties, Stephen innocently obliges, believing he is mining Ubatoo's vast databases to protect the ever-growing number of people unfairly targeted in the name of national security. But nothing is as it seems. Suspicious individuals--do-gooders, voyeurs, government agents, and radicals--surface, doing all they can to access the mass of desires and vulnerabilities gleaned from scouring Ubatoo's wealth of intimate information. Entry into Ubatoo's vaults of personal data need not require technical wizardry--simply knowing how to manipulate a well-intentioned intern may be enough. Review: Endorsement: "Un traître à notre goût", de John le Carré : Le Carré, les banques et la drogue.
Networks and States. The Semi-Sovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America. Support Injured Photojournalist Joao Silva. Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union. Russia and Islam, BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East Eu. Le nouveau défi des Chrétiens d'Orient. Books: Negotiating with Iran : Wrestling the Ghosts of History. John Limbert steps up with a pragmatic yet positive assessment of how to engage Iran.
Through four detailed case studies of past successes and failures, he draws lessons for today’s negotiators and outlines 14 principles to guide the American who finds himself in a negotiation—commercial, political, or other—with an Iranian counterpart. "This is an excellent book and an important contribution to what is rapidly becoming the central issue in American foreign policy. Limbert draws on years of professional and personal experience to explore and explain the problematic nature of Iran-U.S. relations and to offer coherent and constructive solutions for the future. Limbert is in the enviable position of being able to combine the perspective of a historian with the immediacy of a diplomat who has been at the forefront of America’s tragic relationship with Iran, to provide a penetrating yet accessible account of the relationship. John Limbert is a retired Foreign Service Officer and academic. Khatami and Gorbachev: Politics of Change in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the USSR.
India, China, and Asia's Growing Presence in the Middle East. Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israe. The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationshi. The International Relations of the Persian Gulf. Gause sees the three big states of Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, together with the small states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, as forming a distinct system of international relations in which the foreign policy of each country is shaped largely by its relations with the others (plus its relationship with a dominant outside actor).
He demonstrates the workings of this distinctive system from the early 1970s to the present. Given that these four decades witnessed the British withdrawal from the Persian Gulf, the United States' ever-increasing involvement, the rise of Iran, and three wars, simply producing a clear and coherent account of the system at work would be an achievement. Gause accomplishes this and more. Book Review - The Shallows - What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains - By Nicholas Carr. Europe.view: Redrawing the map. Archipod. The way people work is changing...
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