Three years before the events of 9/11, Osama bin Laden sent al Qaeda suicide bombers on a coordinated attack to destroy the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. That day, August 7, 1998, more than two hundred people were killed and thousands were wounded. Responding immediately, the FBI launched the largest international investigation in its history. Within months, suspects were arrested in six countries. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York indicted twenty-two individuals, including the elusive bin Laden. In […]

Three college students—a black man, a white woman, and a white man—travel to the dangerous world of Mississippi in 1964 to register Negro voters. Along the way, they discover that before they can change the world, they will have to change themselves. DOWN IN MISSISSIPPI is a celebration of a movement that gave birth to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

What happens when media technologies are able to interpret our feelings, emotions, moods, and intentions? In this cutting edge new book, Andrew McStay explores that very question and argues that these abilities result in a form of technological empathy. Offering a balanced and incisive overview of the issues raised by ‘Emotional AI’, this book: Provides a clear account of the social benefits and drawbacks of new media trends and technologies such as emoji, wearables, and chatbots Demonstrates through empirical research how ‘empathic media’ have been developed and […]

Real-world advice from Dick Dauch u the man who engineered the manufacturing renaissance at Chrysler. Automotive authority Richard Dauch, best known for his contribution to ChryslerAs early-eighties resuscitation, just wrote a new book based on his 27 years of experience building cars. A Passion for Manufacturing is loaded with issues and anecdotes about manufacturing from the man knighted by Iacocca as the number three Executive Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing. Twelve chapters cover everything from manufacturing dos and donAts, tips for a successful facility tour, how to […]

Incorporating Information and Communication Technology tools into the teaching and learning of history has become a common practice worldwide. It is no longer a question of if, but of how to introduce it in the classroom in order to make history education more effective and enjoyable. This book gathers the experiences and reflections of researchers from three continents, based on their own activities and on empirical studies. The contributions concentrate on videogames related to the past, history e-textbooks, and applications for mobile devices with historical content. Some […]

“Sandworm is much more than a true-life techno-thriller. It’s a tour through a realm that is both invisible and critical to the daily lives of every person alive in the 21st century.” —Los Angeles Times From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes to the true story of the most devastating cyberattack in history and the desperate hunt to identify and track the elite Russian agents behind it In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric […]

This basic text for courses in American Constitutional law contains texts, readings, documents, and cases. The author’s intent has been to go beyond the analysis of court cases and to analyze the political, historical, and social framework in which decisions are handed down. [VidConnect vidp=’17580′ vidn=’0′ vidt=’default’ vidv=’oU5gasRxYdU’] Uriah Heep – Rain (Live)