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“david burnham”

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  • Above the Law

    Secret Deals, Political Fixes and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice

    by David Burnham ...
    The U.S. Department of Justice is an institution of vast reach and power over the American people, with little oversight into its internal operations. This book examines the ways that attorneys general, FBI directors, federal prosecutors and other Justice Department officials have often abused their powers to achieve political goals rather than pursuing justice. Its warning remains as relevant in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Law unto Itself

    Power, Politics and the IRS

    by David Burnham ...
    This is a fully documented inside examination of the Internal Revenue Service, in many ways the largest and most powerful of all federal agencies, and also the agency whose competent function is most essential to our democracy. The book's appearance in 1989 sparked a public furor and major legislation attempting to redress the IRS' many abuses of power, both political and bureaucratic. The book ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of the Computer State

    The Threat to Our Freedoms, Our Ethics and our Democratic Process

    by David Burnham ...
    The Rise of the Computer State is a comprehensive examination of the ways that computers and massive databases are enabling the nation's corporations and law enforcement agencies to steadily erode our privacy and manipulate and control the American people. This book was written in 1983 as a warning. Today it is a history. Most of its grim scenarios are now part of everyday life. The remedy ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Worker Speaks

    A History of Social Workers Through the Twentieth Century

    by David Burnham ...
    The Social Worker Speaks charts the motivations, work activities and attitudes of social workers across the country from 1904 to 1989. The book is about workers in the public sector (from Poor Law to Social Services Departments), probation and workers in the voluntary field (including early century philanthropic visiting societies as well as specialist societies such as the Children's Society and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

    by Kevin Mitnick ...
    Real-world advice on how to be invisible online from "the FBI's most wanted hacker" (Wired).Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand.In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick uses ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Codes of the Underworld

    How Criminals Communicate

    by Diego Gambetta ...
    How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. They face uniquely intense dilemmas as they grapple with the basic problems of whom to trust, how to make themselves trusted, and how to handle information without being detected ... Read more

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  • First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts

    Tiddlers and Toddlers Second Edition

    by Caroline Archer ...
    `This excellent book looks at the attachment and development of very young children in the fostering and adoption situation. It deals sensitively and practically with the young child's "hurts" to help adopters and foster carers understand and cope with the many traumas they may experience in integrating a young child into their family. Caroline Archer is a real adoptive parent speaking from ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Impeach the President

    The Case Against Bush and Cheney

    Edited by Dennis Loo, Peter Phillips ...
    This brilliantly argued and wonderfully written collection by twenty-two of the best political analysts in the US analyzes the extraordinary and unprecedented threat the White House and its allies present to civil liberties, civil rights, the Constitution, international law, and the future of the planet.Impeach the President unearths the stories behind election fraud in 2000 and 2004, the overt ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Stealing Your Life

    The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan

    by Frank W. Abagnale ...
    The charismatic forger immortalized in Catch Me If You Can exposes the astonishing tactics of today’s identity theft criminals and offers powerful strategies to thwart them based on his second career as an acclaimed fraud-fighting consultant.When Frank Abagnale trains law enforcement officers around the country about identity theft, he asks officers for their names and addresses and nothing more. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition

    How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy

    by Ryan Meili ...
    A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition, is one doctor’s vision for a new approach to politics – and a new approach to building a healthier world. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician, Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores more fundamental conditions that lead to poor health. The social determinants of health – ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide

    Learn to perform professional penetration testing for highly-secured environments with this intensive hands-on guide with this book and ebook.

    by Lee Allen ...
    An intensive hands-on guide to perform professional penetration testing for highly-secured environments from start to finish. You will learn to provide penetration testing services to clients with mature security infrastructure. Understand how to perform each stage of the penetration test by gaining hands-on experience in performing attacks that mimic those seen in the wild. In the end, take the ... Read more

    $37.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era

    Edited by Michael Geist ...
    Series series Law, Technology and Media
    Years of surveillance-related leaks from US whistleblower Edward Snowden have fuelled an international debate on privacy, spying, and Internet surveillance. Much of the focus has centered on the role of the US National Security Agency, yet there is an important Canadian side to the story. The Communications Security Establishment, the Canadian counterpart to the NSA, has played an active role in ... Read more

    $32.39 USD