From the ever-curious and acclaimed mind that brought you the bestselling Do You Think You're Clever??fifty thousand copies sold worldwide?comes a brand-new trip to the far reaches of the intellectual
Does a word mean what it says? Sometimes - but not always. Everyone thinks that meaning is contained within words - like sardines in a tin, or milk in a bottle. After all, words are nice stable things that you can look up in a dictionary aren't they? But dictionaries only take us so far… If you eavesdropped on a teenage conversation, rushing to a dictionary - with its definitions frozen in time - wouldn't help much. Who's using a word and to whom, in what context, for what purpose - all these influence the meaning of the language we use. The word's origins and history (its 'genetics') also help. Try teaching yourself another language from a phrasebook and you'll soon learn that you can be correct, in the formal sense, but still way behind the times in reality. In this book Wajnryb considers these and other questions to explore how and why our language works the way it does.
Sometimes life’s waves knock you down; other times, life might seem to sweep you along powerless. But the choice is always yours to swim back up to the light. Legendary world champion surfer Shaun Tomson and international bestselling poet-philosopher Noah benShea join forces to offer you insight on a path of purpose, hope, and faith. This timely guidebook alternates between Tomson’s inspiring experiential essays and benShea’s spiritual commentary that lift the soul, all accented with stunning full-color surfing photographs.After losing his son, Tomson walked the bitter road of loss and crossed from darkness into the light. The Surfer and the Sage addresses the ten relentless, breaking waves of life, from loss and aging to relationships and depression, and guides you to transformation. It is not a list of rules to follow that guarantee success, health, or wealth, but rather a collection of advice from two guides who have traveled far and wide and suffered deeply, but still look forward
Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has died suddenly. In this a drawn-out journey of bereavement, he discovers he is never far from the woman he still loves. If you enjoyed T
It's been 50 years since the discipline of cybersecurity originated, but users and developers still spread and succumb to many of the same pitfalls in design and practice. The same mistakes keep getting repeated, people keep getting misled, and cybersecurity remains far from optimal. In Cyber Myths, three cybersecurity pioneers don't just deliver the first comprehensive collection of false folk wisdom that derails security from the frontlines to the boardroom: they offer expert practical advice for avoiding or overcoming each myth. Whatever your cybersecurity role or experience, Eugene Spafford, Leigh Metcalf, and Josiah Dykstra will help you surface hidden dangers, prevent avoidable errors, eliminate faulty assumptions, and resist deeply human cognitive biases that compromise prevention, investigation, and research. Throughout, you'll find examples drawn from actual cybersecurity events, detailed techniques for recognizing and overcoming security fallacies, and recommended mitigations
How far would you go to save the only family you have left? Victoria "Vic" Asher is finally finding some balance in her life. Though she's still reeling from her parents' death in a plane crash, she's
Once you've started to accumulate property and money, you're not done managing your financial life. Far from it! You still need to protect your possessions, your money, and your identity from theft. F
