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Surveillance state : inside China's quest to launch a new era of social control / by Chin, Josh,author.; Lin, Liza,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Josh Chin and Liza Lin's Surveillance State is a groundbreaking work of investigative nonfiction on life in China's burgeoning surveillance state People living in democracies have for decades drawn comfort from the notion that their form of government, for all its flaws, is the best history has managed to produce. Surveillance State documents with startling detail how even as China's Communist Party pays lip service to democracy as a core value of "socialism with Chinese characteristics," it is striving for something new: a political model that shapes the will of the people not through the ballot box but through the sophisticated-and often brutal-harnessing of data. On the country's remote Central Asian frontier, where a separatist movement strains against Party control, China's leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. Across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where tech giants help optimize the friction out of daily life. Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through both places, and several in between, as they document the Party's ambitious push-aided, in some cases, by American technology-to engineer a new society around the power of digital surveillance. China is hardly alone. As faith in democratic principles wavers, advances in surveillance have upended debate about the balance between security and liberty in countries around the globe, including the US. Succeed or fail, the Chinese experiment has implications for people everywhere"--
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Electronic surveillance; Internal security; Social control;
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Father night / by Lustbader, Eric.; Lustbader, Eric Van.;
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Children of presidents; International relations; National security;
© c2012., Forge,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Collusion : secret meetings, dirty money, and how Russia helped Donald Trump win / by Harding, Luke,1968-author.;
Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Elections; Espionage, Russian.; Political corruption; Political corruption; Political culture; Political culture; Presidents; Security, International;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sentinel / by Greaney, Mark,author.;
"An African coup may force Josh Duffy to choose between his mission and his family in this intense thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series. Josh Duffy lives by a simple code: Duty. Honor. Family. But sometimes it's hard to know what order the words go in. Josh Duffy and his wife, Nikki, are both working for the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service, providing protection for diplomats in the field. They and their two children have been posted to Ghana, the most stable democracy in western Africa. But that stability proves to be fleeting. A Chinese plan to overthrow the Ghanaian government brings Josh face-to-face with a particularly malignant ghost from his past. He knows his duty. His honor requires he fulfill it. But will his family pay the price?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Political fiction.; Novels.; United States. Department of State. Bureau of Diplomatic Security; United States. Department of State. Diplomatic Security Service; Bodyguards; Coups d'état; Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes; Married people; Undercover operations;
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Sentinel [text (large print)] / by Greaney, Mark,author.;
"An African coup may force Josh Duffy to choose between his mission and his family in this intense thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series. Josh Duffy lives by a simple code: Duty. Honor. Family. But sometimes it's hard to know what order the words go in. Josh Duffy and his wife, Nikki, are both working for the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service, providing protection for diplomats in the field. They and their two children have been posted to Ghana, the most stable democracy in western Africa. But that stability proves to be fleeting. A Chinese plan to overthrow the Ghanaian government brings Josh face-to-face with a particularly malignant ghost from his past. He knows his duty. His honor requires he fulfill it. But will his family pay the price?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Political fiction.; Novels.; United States. Department of State. Bureau of Diplomatic Security; United States. Department of State. Diplomatic Security Service; Bodyguards; Coups d'état; Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes; Married people; Undercover operations;
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The wild side / by Michaels, Fern,author.;
Called back to the Office of Special Investigations for a highly specialized assignment, school guidance counselor Melanie Drake must pose as an escort to infiltrate a dangerous international group of billionaires during a decadent dinner to collect information vital to national security.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Billionaires; Escort services; Undercover operations; Women intelligence officers;
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Basic income for Canadians : from the COVID-19 emergency to financial security for all / by Forget, Evelyn L.,1956-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put millions out of work, the federal government implemented new measures which constituted Canada's largest ever experiment with a basic income for almost everyone. In this new and revised edition, Evelyn L. Forget offers a clear‐eyed look at how these emergency measures could be transformed into a program that ensures an adequate basic income for every Canadian. Forget details what we can learn from earlier basic income experiments in Canada and internationally. She weighs the options, investigates whether Canadians can afford a permanent basic income program and describes how it could best be implemented across the country. This accessible book offers everything a reader needs to decide if a basic income program is the right follow-up to the short-term government response to COVID-19.
Subjects: Basic income; Income distribution; Income maintenance programs; Poverty; Economic security; Social security;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bryant & May. by Fowler, Christopher,author.;
"The brilliant duo of Arthur Bryant and John May uncover a nefarious plot behind the seemingly innocuous death of an old lady--and when the case leads them to the London Bridge, it all comes down on the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Ninety-one-year-old Alice Hoffman died alone in her top-floor flat. Social services say she slipped through the cracks in a failing system. But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their suspicions. Mrs. Hoffman was not as innocent as she appeared. A former government security expert, she had once worked for their own unit, but there's no one left who can remember her. And when they uncover a link between her and a diplomat desperate to leave the country, it begins to look as if someone might have committed an impossible murder. But Mrs. Hoffman wasn't acting alone. Arthur Bryant is convinced that a group of talented women have been working together for decades and now the others are in danger. With the help of some of his more certifiable contacts and historical experts, he and John May embark on an investigation that will lead them down forgotten alleyways to riverside buildings and on to the city's oldest bridge. But just when the case appears to have been solved and unit chief Raymond Land can congratulate everyone on ending a threat to international security, the detectives discover that they've been the victims of the biggest deception of all. For even after her death, Mrs. Hoffman would prove too clever for them ... Bryant and May's twentieth-anniversary case brings an ending and a new beginning to London's most peculiar crimes unit and all who work there"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Bryant, Arthur (Fictitious character); May, John (Fictitious character); Murder; Police; Secrecy;
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Hostile takeover / by Van Lente, Fred.; Cordeiro, James.;
Kidnapped by A.I.M. and forced to build weapons, Tony Stark, head of Stark International, instead built an iron suit and escaped. Tony returned to America and became Iron Man--Tony Stark's body guard and head of security. Now Iron Man fights villains, saves his family's company and protects his secret identity.LSC
Subjects: Superhero comic books, strips, etc.; Graphic novels.; Iron Man (Fictitious character);
© 2009., Spotlight,
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The creeping doom / by Van Lente, Fred.; Cordeiro, James.;
Kidnapped by A.I.M. and forced to build weapons, Tony Stark, head of Stark International, instead built an iron suit and escaped. Tony returned to America and became Iron Man--Tony Stark's body guard and head of security. Now Iron Man fights villains, saves his family's company and protects his secret identity.LSC
Subjects: Superhero comic books, strips, etc.; Graphic novels.; Iron Man (Fictitious character);
© 2009., Spotlight,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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