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Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

Why do some people succeed at change while others fail? It's the way they think! Liminal thinking is a way to create change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs. What beliefs are stopping you right now? You have a choice. You can create the world you want to live in, or live in a world created by others. If you are ready to start making changes, read this book.

Dave Gray (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator)

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The Art of Invisibility : The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Bi

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, teaches you easy cloaking and counter-measures for citizens and consumers in the age of Big Brother and Big Data. Like it or not, your every move is being watched and analyzed. Consumer's identities are being stolen, and a person's every step is being tracked and stored. What once might have been dismissed as paranoia is now a hard truth, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand. In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick illustrates what is happening without your knowledge--and he teaches you "the art of invisibility." Mitnick is the world's most famous--and formerly the Most Wanted--computer hacker. He has hacked into some of the country's most powerful and seemingly impenetrable agencies and companies, and at one point he was on a three-year run from the FBI. Now, though, Mitnick is reformed and is widely regarded as the expert on the subject of computer security. He knows exactly how vulnerabilities can be exploited and just what to do to prevent that from happening. In THE ART OF INVISIBILITY Mitnick provides both online and real life tactics and inexpensive methods to protect you and your family, in easy step-by-step instructions. He even talks about more advanced "elite" techniques, which, if used properly, can maximize your privacy. Invisibility isn't just for superheroes--privacy is a power you deserve and need in this modern age.

Kevin Mitnick (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator)

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To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest P

An eye-opening journey into a world of tech visionaries, billionaires, and eccentrics dedicated to nothing less than the salvation of mankind Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our biology—of our senses, intelligence, and lifespans. It has been quietly exerting its influence on technology for decades, but in the last few years it has achieved critical mass, finding support among some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley and beyond. In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell explores the staggering (and terrifying) possibilities that present themselves when you of think of your body as an outmoded device. He visits the world's foremost cryonics facility to witness how some have chosen to forestall death. He discovers an underground collective of biohackers, enhancing their senses by implanting electronics under their skin. He meets with members of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a team urgently investigating how to protect mankind from falling victim to artificial superintelligence. Through this journey, O'Connell presents a singular, entertaining look at a growing movement, and an exploration of the ancient yearning to transcend our animal condition—a desire as primal as the oldest religions, as elemental as the ancient myths. In investigating what it means to be a machine, he offers a surprising meditation on what it means to be human.

Mark O'Connell (Author), James Garnon (Narrator)

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How To Start Green Home Computing

If you want to know how to be environmental friendly while using computers at home, then check this How to Start Green Home Computing guide. In this step-by-step guide you will reap the following benefits: - Green tips for home personal computers. - Techniques to do home green computing. - Eco-Friendly tips for home computing. - Green tools for building home green computing. - Simple tactics for doing home green computing. - Best techniques for making your PC green. - Simple guidelines to do home green computing. - Ultimate tools for building green computers. - Tactics to do green computing at home. - Simple green maintenance techniques for home computing. - And much more. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Howexpert (Author), Kelly Mcgee (Narrator)

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Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous

Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the non-name Anonymous, by the writer the Huffington Post says "knows all of [Anonymous's] deepest, darkest secrets." Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of this global phenomenon just as some of its members were turning to political protest and dangerous disruption. She ended up becoming so closely connected to Anonymous that the tricky story of her inside-outside status as Anon confidante, interpreter, and erstwhile mouthpiece forms one of the themes of this witty and entirely engrossing book. The narrative brims with details unearthed from within a notoriously mysterious subculture, whose semi-legendary tricksters-such as Topiary, tflow, Anachaos, and Sabu-emerge as complex, diverse, politically and culturally sophisticated people. Propelled by years of chats and encounters with a multitude of hackers, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy is filled with insights into the meaning of digital activism and little-understood facets of culture in the Internet age.

Gabriella Coleman (Author), Tavia Gilbert (Narrator)

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Facing Cyber Threats Head On: Protecting Yourself and Your Business

News breaks all the time that hackers have attacked another company. Media outlets regularly cover cyber events. The President issues executive orders, and Congress explores cyber legislation. With all these events happening, business leaders must ask: what does this mean for my business and me? Facing Cyber Threats Head On looks at cyber security from a business leader perspective. By avoiding deep technical explanations of “how” and focusing on the “why” and “so what,” this book guides readers to a better understanding of the challenges that cyber security presents to modern business, and shows them what they can do as leaders to solve these challenges. Facing Cyber Threats Head On explains that technology is not the answer to cyber security issues. People, not technology, are behind emerging cyber risks. Understanding this brings to light that cyber protection is not a battle of technology against technology, but people against people. Based on this, a new approach is required—one that balances business risk with the cost of creating defenses that can change as quickly and often as attackers can. Readers will find here a ready resource for understanding the why and how of cyber risks, and will be better able to defend themselves and their businesses against them in the future.

Brian Minick (Author), Patrick Lawlor (Narrator)

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Data For the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You

Every time we google something, facebook someone, or just carry a phone, we create data. Yet, we do not benefit from this wealth of information as much as we should. Andreas Weigend-an advisor to Alibaba, BMW, Hyatt, MasterCard and Lufthansa, among others-wants to change that. In Data for the People, he proposes six basic data rights that we all need to make better decisions. Big data is here to stay. The time has come to shift the balance of power back to the individual and find out how data is being used and what needs to change to make data work for you. Vital reading for anyone who owns a mobile phone, internet connection, or even a debit card, Data for the People puts the power of data back into our hands.

Andreas S. Weigend (Author), Barry Abrams (Narrator)

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Streaming, Sharing, Stealing

Traditional network television programming has always followed the same script: executives approve a pilot, order a trial number of episodes, and broadcast them, expecting viewers to watch a given show on their television sets at the same time every week. But then came Netflix's House of Cards. Netflix gauged the show's potential from data it had gathered about subscribers' preferences, ordered two seasons without seeing a pilot, and uploaded the first thirteen episodes all at once for viewers to watch whenever they wanted on the devices of their choice.In this book, Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, experts on entertainment analytics, show how the success of House of Cards upended the film and TV industries--and how companies like Amazon and Apple are changing the rules in other entertainment industries, notably publishing and music. We're living through a period of unprecedented technological disruption in the entertainment industries. Just about everything is affected: pricing, production, distribution, piracy. Smith and Telang discuss niche products and the long tail, product differentiation, price discrimination, and incentives for users not to steal content. To survive and succeed, businesses have to adapt rapidly and creatively. Smith and Telang explain how.How can companies discover who their customers are, what they want, and how much they are willing to pay for it? Data. The entertainment industries, must learn to play a little 'moneyball.' The bottom line: follow the data.

Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang (Author), Timothy Andrés Pabon (Narrator)

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Usenet - The Ultimate Guide

Usenet. The term conjures images of archaic bulletin boards from the 1980s in which jacking in meant astronomical charges every month. No longer. Ignore those who say 'Don't talk about Usenet'. No longer can you afford to leave your IP address out there for the world to see. You want privacy & anonymity? Come to Usenet. Learn to be a ghost in the machine called the Internet, and do it anonymously. This book will teach you how. I will teach you the best groups to join, which ones to avoid and how to be anonymous on all of them. Learn why anonymity will decrease with peer-to-peer systems but increase with Usenet. Everything you need to know to set up a Usenet account and leech to your heart's content with a few bonus gems: How to use Tor, How to use PGP, Remailers/Mixmaster, SSL, and How to encrypt (and how it preserves anonymity) Even how to use a VPN with Usenet and which VPN and Usenet companies will rat you out and which will not. If you haven't experienced the freedom and zero censorship of Usenet, try it today. You won't be coming back. 100% satisfaction.

Lance Henderson (Author), James C. Lewis (Narrator)

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The Social Organism: A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life

From visionary tech entrepreneur Oliver Luckett and MIT Media Lab's Michael J. Casey, a groundbreaking, must-read theory of social media how it works, how it's changing human life, and how we can master it for good and for profit. In barely a decade, social media has positioned itself at the center of twenty-first century life. The combined power of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and Vine have helped topple dictators and turned anonymous teenagers into celebrities overnight. In the social media age, ideas spread and morph through shared hashtags, photos, and videos, and the most compelling and emotive ones can transform public opinion in mere days and weeks, even attitudes and priorities that had persisted for decades. How did this happen? The scope and pace of these changes have left traditional businesses -- and their old-guard marketing gatekeepers -- bewildered. We simply do not comprehend social media's form, function, and possibilities. It's time we did. In The Social Organism, Luckett and Casey offer a revolutionary theory: social networks -- to an astonishing degree -- mimic the rules and functions of biological life. In sharing and replicating packets of information known as memes, the world's social media users are facilitating an evolutionary process just like the transfer of genetic information in living things. Memes are the basic building blocks of our culture, our social DNA. To master social media -- and to make online content that impacts the world -- you must start with the Social Organism. With the scope and ambition of The Second Machine Age and James Gleick's The Information, The Social Organism is an indispensable guide for business leaders, marketing professionals, and anyone serious about understanding our digital world -- a guide not just to social media, but to human life today and where it is headed next. ** Please contact Customer Service for additional content.

Michael J. Casey, Oliver Luckett (Author), Oliver Luckett (Narrator)

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How To Podcast: Your Step By Step Guide To Podcasting

If you want to learn the basics about podcasting, then get 'How To Podcast' by someone who has real life experience doing podcasts. In the 'How To Podcast' guide, you will find a number of skills and techniques related to podcasting, including: • How to develop a solid niche and create the product that people want. • How to choose theme music, transitions, Wordpress™ plug-ins and themes. • Taking your podcast, and making money from it. • Recording techniques, and how to make a show that resembles the professionals. • Tips for getting people to share the show for you. • How to choose the right equipment and software for your budget. • How to get your show hosted on a blog, listed through Feedburner™, and posted through iTunes™. • Where to market your show for the greatest impact. • Making a show that advertisers want to use for their campaigns. • Learning to podcast with a purpose and how to build a community around it. This step-by-step guide helps you develop your own show quickly and effectively. Let 'How To Podcast' help you develop the skills to market yourself, your company, and make a positive impact in your community with podcasting. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Howexpert (Author), Kelly Rhodes (Narrator)

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DER SPIEGEL ERKLÄRT: Neue Medien: Zwölf Einblicke in die Welt der Medien.

Wie entstand das Silicon Valley und wie viel Geld wird dort verdient? Was ist Quantum Insert und wie funktioniert Rocket Internet? Die Welt der Medien entwickelt sich schnell. Tag für Tag kommen neue Geschäftsmodelle auf den Markt. Egal ob in der S-Bahn, im Gespräch mit den Kollegen oder in den Nachrichten, die Medien sind in aller Munde. Sie wollen mitreden und aktuelle Entwicklungen nachvollziehen können? In jedem Smalltalk FunFacts rund um das Thema Medien parat haben? DER SPIEGEL erklärt in diesem Audiobook wichtige Daten, Trends und Entwicklungen. Dieses Audiobook entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit der SPIEGEL iPad Redaktion.

Der Spiegel (Author), Spiegel Ipad Redaktion (Narrator)

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