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Against Security
- How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger
- Narrado por: Clinton Wade
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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Warnings
- Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
- De: Richard A. Clarke, R.P. Eddy
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
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Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the US economy, and possibly the fate of civilization. In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but was cursed by the gods to be ignored. Modern-day Cassandras clearly predicted the disasters of Katrina, Fukushima, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, and many more. Like the mythological Cassandra, they were ignored. There are others right now warning of impending disasters, but how do we know which warnings are likely to be right?
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On prediction, catastrophe and mitigation
- De S. Yates en 02-28-18
De: Richard A. Clarke, y otros
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Base Nation
- How US Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World
- De: David Vine
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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American military bases encircle the globe with nearly 1,000 locations in foreign lands. These bases are usually taken for granted or overlooked entirely. But, in an eye-opening account, Base Nation shows that the worldwide network of bases brings with it a panoply of ills - and actually makes the nation less safe in the long run.
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Looked Better On Paper
- De Lifeisshort en 09-03-15
De: David Vine
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Your Government Failed You
- Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters
- De: Richard A. Clarke
- Narrado por: Richard A. Clarke
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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In Your Government Failed You, Clarke looks at why failures have continued and how America and the world can succeed against the terrorists. But Clarke goes beyond terrorism to examine the recurring U.S. government disasters. Despite the lessons of Vietnam, we've gotten involved in Iraq. Drawing on his 30 years in the White House, Pentagon, State Department, and Intelligence Community, Clarke discovers patterns in the failure and suggests ways to stop the cycle.
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Stellar Criticism
- De Tim en 04-01-09
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Twitter and Tear Gas
- The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
- De: Zeynep Tufekci
- Narrado por: Carly Robins
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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An incisive observer, writer, and participant in today's social movements, Zeynep Tufekci explains in this accessible and compelling book the nuanced trajectories of modern protests - how they form, how they operate differently from past protests, and why they have difficulty persisting in their long-term quests for change.
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Insightful but frustrating
- De James en 03-11-18
De: Zeynep Tufekci
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The Smart Swarm
- De: Peter Miller
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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In a world where speed and flexibility are valued more than ever, leaders from the corporate boardroom to the military are looking for answers from seemingly unlikely experts - the ones in the grass, in the air, in the lakes, and in the woods. In this innovative audiobook, veteran National Geographic editor Peter Miller shows how swarm species, such as ants, bees, and fish, can teach us to tackle some of the most complex conundrums in business, politics, and technology.
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FLOCK TO THIS BOOK!
- De serine en 04-25-16
De: Peter Miller
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A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- De: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrado por: Emily Beresford
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become - one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.
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Eye opening and thought provoking
- De zachery en 10-09-15
De: Rebecca Solnit
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Automating Inequality
- How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- De: Virginia Eubanks
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, politics, health, and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.
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Excellent research, sprinkled with person bias
- De Katie en 12-31-19
De: Virginia Eubanks
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Blunder
- Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions
- De: Zachary Shore
- Narrado por: Zachary Shore, Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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We all make bad decisions. It's part of being human. The resulting mistakes can be valuable, the story goes, because we learn from them. But do we? Historian Zachary Shore says no, not always, and he has a long list of examples to prove his point.
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helpful extension of the genre
- De Andy en 07-11-09
De: Zachary Shore
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Team of Teams
- New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
- De: General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, y otros
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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The retired four-star general and and best-selling author of My Share of the Task shares a powerful new leadership model. Former General Stanley McChrystal held a key position for much of the War on Terror, as head of the Joint Special Operations Command. In Iraq, he found that despite the vastly superior resources, manpower, and training of the US Military, Al Qaeda had an advantage because of its structure as a loose network of small, independent cells. To defeat such an agile enemy, JSOC had to change its focus from efficiency to adaptability.
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excellent book, very informative.
- De J.J. Gardona en 08-24-15
De: General Stanley McChrystal, y otros
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Unwarranted
- Policing Without Permission
- De: Barry Friedman
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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In June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over a year later, the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, set off protests and triggered concern about militarization and discriminatory policing. In Unwarranted, Barry Friedman argues that these two seemingly disparate events are connected - and that the problem is not so much the policing agencies as it is the rest of us.
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Insightful book
- De laserpro en 03-02-17
De: Barry Friedman
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- De: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists, y otros
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted.
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Internal workings of the NRC
- De Eduards J. Vucins en 05-11-14
De: Susan Stranahan, y otros
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Applied Minds
- How Engineers Think
- De: Guru Madhavan
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
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Through narratives and case studies spanning the brilliant history of engineering, Madhavan shows how the concepts of prototyping, efficiency, reliability, standards, optimization, and feedback are put to use in fields as diverse as transportation, retail, health care, and entertainment. Equal parts personal, practical, and profound, Applied Minds charts a path to a future where we apply strategies borrowed from engineering to create useful and inspired solutions to our most pressing challenges.
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excellent edifying book; great narrator too.
- De Phillip en 01-16-22
De: Guru Madhavan
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To Protect and Serve
- How to Fix America's Police
- De: Norm Stamper
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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American policing is in crisis. The last decade witnessed a vast increase in police aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding reduction in transparency and accountability. Nowhere is this more noticeable and painful than in African American and other ethnic minority communities. Racism - from raw, individualized versions to insidious systemic examples - appears to be on the rise in our police departments.
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Truth mixed with liberal rhetoric
- De Eric G. en 11-19-16
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Against Security
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A brilliant analysis of security and design.
Where does Against Security rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
The most intelligent and thought provoking work on Audible.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
A brilliant interdisciplinary analysis of security and design.
What does Clinton Wade bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
An articulate and compelling voice that captures the excellent writing of the book.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I couldn't stop listening the first time. I had to listen for a second time to better understand some of the theoretical framework - it is a truly mind expanding work.
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This guy loves to hear himself think
Would you try another book from Harvey Molotch and/or Clinton Wade?
Observations and suggestions from an author who grounds his thoughts vis-a-vis the application of security in anecdotal observations. Poorly researched with little substantiation for the suggested changes. Not recommend
Has Against Security turned you off from other books in this genre?
no, I am an avid reader of all things security
Would you be willing to try another one of Clinton Wade’s performances?
a little too monotone for me. I would try another read by him as my overall impression has been clouded by the content of the book
What character would you cut from Against Security?
not applicable
Any additional comments?
It is very clear from the opening chapter of this book the bias that exists with the author coupled with the interjection of his personal life threaded throughout the book makes it very difficult to take seriously his suggestions. If he wishes to present a book of this kind to be taken seriously than something a bit more objective would be better received.
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