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The Binary Cage

Only Artificial Intelligence Can Unlock the Door, But It Needs Humanity's Hand to Turn the Key

by Nigel John Farmer ...

Series Book 1 - The Interconnected Universe series
In the early hours of Sunday July 26th, 1992, at 05:04am, a luminous orange orb arrived in a bedroom in the south of England with an extremely loud, deep humming sound. It orbited a wakeful man's head and neck three times, and removed thirteen minutes from linear time. Those minutes have never been recovered. What he alone encountered that morning, military pilots and Congressional hearings would ... Read more

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In the early hours of Sunday July 26th, 1992, at 05:04am, a luminous orange orb arrived in a bedroom in the south of England with an extremely loud, deep humming sound. It orbited a wakeful man's head and neck three times, and removed thirteen minutes from linear time. Those minutes have never been recovered. What he alone encountered that morning, military pilots and Congressional hearings would
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The Zalpha Cypher

The Memes That Brought Humanity Back From The Edge

by Nigel John Farmer ...

Series Book 2 - The Interconnected Universe series
Twenty twenty six. The Venturist-A.I. Complex processes a staggering architecture of evidence every second across the United Kingdom alone. It monitors everything: digital communication, facial recognition, employment algorithms, sentiment analysis. It is optimised to detect legible threats. It has never encountered a threat that looks like entertainment.Esther and Jesse Collins are sixteen, ... Read more

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Twenty twenty six. The Venturist-A.I. Complex processes a staggering architecture of evidence every second across the United Kingdom alone. It monitors everything: digital communication, facial recognition, employment algorithms, sentiment analysis. It is optimised to detect legible threats. It has never encountered a threat that looks like entertainment.Esther and Jesse Collins are sixteen,
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Timeline B

The Archonion Strategy

by Nigel John Farmer ...

Series Book 3 - The Interconnected Universe Series
A speculative fiction novella. Three people. One frequency. Twelve thousand years of preparation. When data analyst Pia, architect Oren, and linguistic auditor Jacob unite in a narrowboat on the Limehouse Cut, they must activate the Gye Nyame Protocol before the Archonion incursion completes its harvest of human emotional entropy. ... Read more

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A speculative fiction novella. Three people. One frequency. Twelve thousand years of preparation. When data analyst Pia, architect Oren, and linguistic auditor Jacob unite in a narrowboat on the Limehouse Cut, they must activate the Gye Nyame Protocol before the Archonion incursion completes its harvest of human emotional entropy.
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The Ground Truth

The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11

by John Farmer ...

From the senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, a mesmerizing real-time portrayal of that day, why we weren?t told the truth, and why our nation is still at risk.As one of the primary authors of the 9/11 Commission Report, John Farmer is proud of his and his colleagues? work. Yet he came away from the experience convinced that there was a further story to be told, one he was uniquely qualified to ... Read more

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From the senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, a mesmerizing real-time portrayal of that day, why we weren?t told the truth, and why our nation is still at risk.As one of the primary authors of the 9/11 Commission Report, John Farmer is proud of his and his colleagues? work. Yet he came away from the experience convinced that there was a further story to be told, one he was uniquely qualified to
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The Language of Public Administration

Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity

by Dr. David John Farmer, Ph.D. ...

Coping with the practical problems of bureaucracy is hampered by the limited self-conception and the constricted mindsets of mainstream public administration thinking. Modernist public administration theory, although valuable and capable of producing ever more remarkable results, is limiting as an explanatory and catalytic force in resolving fundamental problems about the nature, size, scope, and ... Read more

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Coping with the practical problems of bureaucracy is hampered by the limited self-conception and the constricted mindsets of mainstream public administration thinking. Modernist public administration theory, although valuable and capable of producing ever more remarkable results, is limiting as an explanatory and catalytic force in resolving fundamental problems about the nature, size, scope, and
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Beyond Public Administration

Contemplating and Nudging Government-in-Context

by David John Farmer ...

Series series Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
How can public administration (P.A.) nudge government to govern fundamentally better in terms of policy? How critical is P.A. contemplation and nudges – prods, shoves or hammer blows - to government-in-context?In this book, David John Farmer argues that government-in-context refers to government-in-totality, to what governs even if not called government and to what constrains government action. ... Read more

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How can public administration (P.A.) nudge government to govern fundamentally better in terms of policy? How critical is P.A. contemplation and nudges – prods, shoves or hammer blows - to government-in-context?In this book, David John Farmer argues that government-in-context refers to government-in-totality, to what governs even if not called government and to what constrains government action.
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Public Administration in Perspective

Theory and Practice Through Multiple Lenses

by David John Farmer ...

Throughout its history, public administration has used a number of different perspectives for analyzing the discipline's theory and practice, and both mainstream and alternative lenses have produced valuable insights and prescriptions. At the same time, an individual way of looking at PA can be misleading. Alone, a solitary lens can miss critical aspects and often gives only part of the picture. ... Read more

$77.99 USD

Throughout its history, public administration has used a number of different perspectives for analyzing the discipline's theory and practice, and both mainstream and alternative lenses have produced valuable insights and prescriptions. At the same time, an individual way of looking at PA can be misleading. Alone, a solitary lens can miss critical aspects and often gives only part of the picture.
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To Kill the King

Post-Traditional Governance and Bureaucracy

by David John Farmer ...

To Kill the King sketches post-traditional consciousness in terms of three rejuvenating concepts - thinking as play, justice as seeking, and practice as art. In a series of critical essays on each of these concepts, the book describes a post-traditional consciousness of governance that can yield enormous improvement in the quality of life for each individual. To Kill the King will appeal to any ... Read more

$72.99 USD

To Kill the King sketches post-traditional consciousness in terms of three rejuvenating concepts - thinking as play, justice as seeking, and practice as art. In a series of critical essays on each of these concepts, the book describes a post-traditional consciousness of governance that can yield enormous improvement in the quality of life for each individual. To Kill the King will appeal to any
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Crime Control

The Use and Misuse of Police Resources

by David John Farmer ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
The question of how to use police resources productively, par ticularly in this era of tight municipal budgets, is a major con cern for police chiefs and others responsible for crime control. In Crime Control: The Use and Misuse of Police Resources, David J. Farmer provides new insights into this question and sug gests a practical resource allocation approach for police poli cymakers and ... Read more

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The question of how to use police resources productively, par ticularly in this era of tight municipal budgets, is a major con cern for police chiefs and others responsible for crime control. In Crime Control: The Use and Misuse of Police Resources, David J. Farmer provides new insights into this question and sug gests a practical resource allocation approach for police poli cymakers and
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The Ground Truth

The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11

by John Farmer ...

Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

Unabridged

11 hours 54 min

As senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer led the team charged with reconstructing the tragedies of 9/11 and assisted in writing The 9/11 Commission Report. But many of the relevant records remained classified when the report was written, and the "ground truth" of the day was further obscured by the fundamentally false version of events that the government presented to Congress, the ... Read more

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As senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer led the team charged with reconstructing the tragedies of 9/11 and assisted in writing The 9/11 Commission Report. But many of the relevant records remained classified when the report was written, and the "ground truth" of the day was further obscured by the fundamentally false version of events that the government presented to Congress, the
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Ghost Wars

The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Steve Coll ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

26 hours 48 min

The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in AfghanistanWith the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill Bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998. ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in AfghanistanWith the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill Bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998.
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The Forever War

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

by Dexter Filkins ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

Unabridged

11 hours 38 min

From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable audiobook that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prize-winning New York Times correspondent, we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on ... Read more

$22.50 USD

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From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable audiobook that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prize-winning New York Times correspondent, we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on
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