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CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE "Martin takes a thorough and focused approach to the processes that rule threat intelligence, but he doesn't just cover gathering, processing and distributing intelligence. He explains why you should care who is trying to hack you, and what you can do about it when you know."—Simon Edwards, Security Testing Expert, CEO SE Labs Ltd., Chair AMTSO Effective introduction to cyber threat intelligence, supplemented with detailed case studies and after action reports of intelligence on real attacks Cyber Threat Intelligence introduces the history, terminology, and techniques to be applied within cyber security, offering an overview of the current state of cyberattacks and stimulating readers to consider their own issues from a threat intelligence point of view. The author takes a systematic, system-agnostic, and holistic view to generating, collecting, and applying threat intelligence. The text covers the threat environment, malicious attacks, collecting, generating, and applying intelligence and attribution, as well as legal and ethical considerations. It ensures readers know what to look out for when considering a potential cyber attack and imparts how to prevent attacks early on, explaining how threat actors can exploit a system's vulnerabilities. It also includes analysis of large scale attacks such as WannaCry, NotPetya, Solar Winds, VPNFilter, and the Target breach, looking at the real intelligence that was available before and after the attack. Topics covered in Cyber Threat Intelligence include: The constant change of the threat environment as capabilities, intent, opportunities, and defenses change and evolve Different business models of threat actors, and how these dictate the choice of victims and the nature of their attacks Planning and executing a threat intelligence programme to improve an organistation’s cyber security posture Techniques for attributing attacks and holding perpetrators to account for their actions Cyber Threat Intelligence describes the intelligence techniques and models used in cyber threat intelligence. It provides a survey of ideas, views and concepts, rather than offering a hands-on practical guide. It is intended for anyone who wishes to learn more about the domain, particularly if they wish to develop a career in intelligence, and as a reference for those already working in the area.

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This book is a comprehensive treatment of correlation/regression techniques and using SPSS for interpretation of findings. Striking a balance between detailed coverage and approachability, this book provides a thorough treatment of the elements of regression and how they can be used with real research problems in program evaluation. The author begins with a basic introduction to evaluation methodology, and its ability to recognize embedded patterns of meaning in research data. Subsequent chapters explore the statistical tools that can be applied by researchers and evaluators irrespective of the design that was used to generate this data. Topics of coverage include: correlation, single predictor regression, multiple correlation, part and partial correlation, detection of extreme scores, multiple regression, regression with continuous predictors, coding of categorical data, regression with categorical predictors, methods for entering predictors in multiple regression, and interaction in multiple regression. Each chapter is presented in the same comprehensive format: an introduction to the topic, followed by a discussion of its primary elements, illustrations of the data through numerous tables and figures, SPSS procedures for designing the analysis, SPSS output of the analysis , and guidance on how to interpret findings from the analyses. Discover Note and Research Steps sections illustrate how using statistical processes can unveil unobserved patterns and assist readers with identifying such patterns in their own data. Real-world analyses are used throughout the book, utilizing meaningful social issues as a catalyst for teaching statistical procedures, and a related Web site features additional data sets, solutions, and research projects for readers.

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Provides a step-by-step approach to statistical procedures to analyze data and conduct research, with detailed sections in each chapter explaining SPSS® and Excel® applications This book identifies connections between statistical applications and research design using cases, examples, and discussion of specific topics from the social and health sciences. Researched and class-tested to ensure an accessible presentation, the book combines clear, step-by-step explanations for both the novice and professional alike to understand the fundamental statistical practices for organizing, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from research data in their field. The book begins with an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics and then acquaints readers with important features of statistical applications (SPSS and Excel) that support statistical analysis and decision making. Subsequent chapters treat the procedures commonly employed when working with data across various fields of social science research. Individual chapters are devoted to specific statistical procedures, each ending with lab application exercises that pose research questions, examine the questions through their application in SPSS and Excel, and conclude with a brief research report that outlines key findings drawn from the results. Real-world examples and data from social and health sciences research are used throughout the book, allowing readers to reinforce their comprehension of the material. Using Statistics in the Social and Health Sciences with SPSS® and Excel® includes: Use of straightforward procedures and examples that help students focus on understanding of analysis and interpretation of findings Inclusion of a data lab section in each chapter that provides relevant, clear examples Introduction to advanced statistical procedures in chapter sections (e.g., regression diagnostics) and separate chapters (e.g., multiple linear regression) for greater relevance to real-world research needs Emphasizing applied statistical analyses, this book can serve as the primary text in undergraduate and graduate university courses within departments of sociology, psychology, urban studies, health sciences, and public health, as well as other related departments. It will also be useful to statistics practitioners through extended sections using SPSS® and Excel® for analyzing data.

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Utilizing the latest software, this book presents the essential statistical procedures for drawing valuable results from data in the social sciences. Mobilizing interesting real-world examples from the field of education, Understanding Educational Statistics Using Microsoft Excel and SPSS supplies a seamless presentation that identifies valuable connections between statistical applications and research design. Class-tested to ensure an accessible presentation, the book combines clear, step-by-step explanations and the use of software packages that are accessible to both the novice and professional alike to present the fundamental statistical practices for organizing, understanding, and drawing conclusions from educational research data. The book begines with an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics and then proceeds to acquaint readers with the various functions for working with quantitative data in the Microsoft Excel environment, such as spreadsheet navigation; sorting and filtering; and creating pivot tables. Subsequent chapters treat the procedures that are commonly-employed when working with data across various fields of social science research, including: Single-sample tests Repeated measure tests Independent t-tests One way ANOVA and factorial ANOVA Correlation Bivariate regression Chi square Multiple regression Individual chapters are devoted to specific procedures, each ending with a lab exercise that highlights the importance of that procedure by posing a research question, examining the question through its application in Excel and SPSS, and concluding with a brief research report that outlines key findings drawn from the results. Real-world examples and data from modern educational research are used throughout the book, and a related Web site features additional data sets, examples, and labs, allowing readers to reinforce their comprehension of the material. Bridging traditional statistical topics with the latest software and applications in the field of education, Understanding Educational Statistics Using Microsoft Excel and SPSS is an excellent book for courses on educational research methods and introductory statistics in the social sciences at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It also serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in the fields of education, psychology, and the social sciences who require a statistical background to work with data in their everyday work.

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A detailed history of the blossoming of psychedelic research in the 1950s• Explores the different groups--from research labs to the military--who were seeking how best to utilize LSD and other promising psychedelics like mescaline • Reintroduces forgotten scientists like Robert Hyde and Rosalind Heywood • Looks at the CIA’s notorious top-secret mind-control program MKUltra • Reveals how intellectuals, philosophers, artists, and mystics of the 1950s used LSD to bring ancient rites into the modern ageExploring the initial stages of psychedelic study in Europe and America, Thomas Hatsis offers a full history of the psychedelic-fueled revolution in healing and consciousness expansion that blossomed in the 1950s--the first “golden age” of psychedelic research. Revealing LSD as a “wonder child” rather than Albert Hofmann’s infamous “problem child,” the author focuses on the extensive studies with LSD that took place in the ’50s. He explores the different groups--from research labs to the military to bohemian art circles--who were seeking how best to utilize LSD and other promising psychedelics like mescaline. Sharing the details of many primary source medical reports, the author examines how doctors saw LSD as a tool to gain access to the minds of schizophrenics and thus better understand the causes of mental illness.The author also looks at how the CIA believed LSD could be turned into a powerful mind-control weapon, including a full account of the notorious top-secret program MKUltra. Reintroducing forgotten scientists like Robert Hyde, the first American to take LSD, and parapsychologist Rosalind Heywood, who believed LSD and mescaline opened doors to mystical and psychic abilities, the author also discusses how the infl uences of Central American mushroom ceremonies and peyote rites crossbred with experimental Western mysticism during the 1950s, turning LSD from a possible madness mimicker or mind weapon into a sacramental medicine. Finally, he explores how philosophers, parapsychologists, and mystics sought to use LSD to usher in a new age of human awareness.

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Boost literacy and develop close-reading skills with finely levelled short texts suitable for ages 6 to 11+. Each Teacher's book includes a comprehensive introduction along with Lexile levelled photocopiable texts with accompanying questions that use close reading comprehension strategies. Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text. By developing children's comprehension and higher-order thinking skills, you can help them make sense of the world. The Comprehension areas focused on include for the fiction titles: Character, Point of View, Setting/Mood, Key Events and Details, Sequence of events, Conflict & resolution, Context clues, Compare & contrast, Making inferences and Summarising. And for the non-fiction titles comprehension areas include: Main idea & details, Sequence of events, Fact & opinion, Compare & contrast, Cause and effect, Context clues, Problem & solution and summarising.

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Boost literacy and develop close-reading skills with finely levelled short texts suitable for ages 6 to 11+. Each Teacher's book includes a comprehensive introduction along with Lexile levelled photocopiable texts with accompanying questions that use close reading comprehension strategies. Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text. By developing children's comprehension and higher-order thinking skills, you can help them make sense of the world. The Comprehension areas focused on include for the fiction titles: Character, Point of View, Setting/Mood, Key Events and Details, Sequence of events, Conflict & resolution, Context clues, Compare & contrast, Making inferences and Summarising. And for the non-fiction titles comprehension areas include: Main idea & details, Sequence of events, Fact & opinion, Compare & contrast, Cause and effect, Context clues, Problem & solution and summarising.

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Boost literacy and develop close-reading skills with finely levelled short texts suitable for ages 6 to 11+. Each Teacher's book includes a comprehensive introduction along with Lexile levelled photocopiable texts with accompanying questions that use close reading comprehension strategies. Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text. By developing children's comprehension and higher-order thinking skills, you can help them make sense of the world. The Comprehension areas focused on include for the fiction titles: Character, Point of View, Setting/Mood, Key Events and Details, Sequence of events, Conflict & resolution, Context clues, Compare & contrast, Making inferences and Summarising. And for the non-fiction titles comprehension areas include: Main idea & details, Sequence of events, Fact & opinion, Compare & contrast, Cause and effect, Context clues, Problem & solution and summarising.

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Boost literacy and develop close-reading skills with finely levelled short texts suitable for ages 6 to 11+. Each Teacher's book includes a comprehensive introduction along with Lexile levelled photocopiable texts with accompanying questions that use close reading comprehension strategies. Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text. By developing children's comprehension and higher-order thinking skills, you can help them make sense of the world. The Comprehension areas focused on include for the fiction titles: Character, Point of View, Setting/Mood, Key Events and Details, Sequence of events, Conflict & resolution, Context clues, Compare & contrast, Making inferences and Summarising. And for the non-fiction titles comprehension areas include: Main idea & details, Sequence of events, Fact & opinion, Compare & contrast, Cause and effect, Context clues, Problem & solution and summarising.

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Tools are developing rapidly to aid public agencies and consultants with the management of land-use and transportation. Ever more powerful computers promise new generations of simulation models that allow novel investment strategies and public policies to be "tried on for size" before they are introduced. But for these models to reach their full potential, they must represent human behaviour in a realistic way. This book examines the behavioural foundations, often simplistic, that have limited land-use and transportation models in the past, and recommends alternative assumptions, frameworks and methods. At the heart of these are ways to measure and represent the processes of decision-making that lead to the organisation of human activities in time and space. All the main urban decision-makers are involved, including individuals, households, property developers, owners of shops and leisure facilities, employers, and public officials. The focus ranges from daily decisions of households concerning what to do, where and when to do it, and by what travel mode, to longer term decisions concerning residential choice, vehicle holdings or land consumption by housing and business entities. Collectively, these intentional micro-level behaviours culminate in aggregate flows of traffic and urban growth that may be unintended and contrary to public policy. The book is an essential guide to these behavioural foundations for anyone evaluating the environmental sustainability, healthiness and equitability of access to activities and services in city regions. This book was a product of the PROCESSUS international network research programme, funded principally by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence in geomatics (GEOIDE), and the Quebec Ministry of Transport.

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Boost literacy and develop close-reading skills with finely levelled short texts suitable for ages 6 to 11+. Each Teacher's book includes a comprehensive introduction along with Lexile levelled photocopiable texts with accompanying questions that use close reading comprehension strategies. Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text. By developing children's comprehension and higher-order thinking skills, you can help them make sense of the world. The Comprehension areas focused on include for the fiction titles: Character, Point of View, Setting/Mood, Key Events and Details, Sequence of events, Conflict & resolution, Context clues, Compare & contrast, Making inferences and Summarising. And for the non-fiction titles comprehension areas include: Main idea & details, Sequence of events, Fact & opinion, Compare & contrast, Cause and effect, Context clues, Problem & solution and summarising.

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Boost literacy and develop close-reading skills with finely levelled short texts suitable for ages 6 to 11+. Each Teacher's book includes a comprehensive introduction along with Lexile levelled photocopiable texts with accompanying questions that use close reading comprehension strategies. Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text. By developing children's comprehension and higher-order thinking skills, you can help them make sense of the world. The Comprehension areas focused on include for the fiction titles: Character, Point of View, Setting/Mood, Key Events and Details, Sequence of events, Conflict & resolution, Context clues, Compare & contrast, Making inferences and Summarising. And for the non-fiction titles comprehension areas include: Main idea & details, Sequence of events, Fact & opinion, Compare & contrast, Cause and effect, Context clues, Problem & solution and summarising.

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Boost literacy and develop close-reading skills with finely levelled short texts suitable for ages 6 to 11+. Each Teacher's book includes a comprehensive introduction along with Lexile levelled photocopiable texts with accompanying questions that use close reading comprehension strategies. Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text. By developing children's comprehension and higher-order thinking skills, you can help them make sense of the world. The Comprehension areas focused on include for the fiction titles: Character, Point of View, Setting/Mood, Key Events and Details, Sequence of events, Conflict & resolution, Context clues, Compare & contrast, Making inferences and Summarising. And for the non-fiction titles comprehension areas include: Main idea & details, Sequence of events, Fact & opinion, Compare & contrast, Cause and effect, Context clues, Problem & solution and summarising.

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Boost literacy and develop close-reading skills with finely levelled short texts suitable for ages 6 to 11+. Each Teacher's book includes a comprehensive introduction along with Lexile levelled photocopiable texts with accompanying questions that use close reading comprehension strategies. Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text. By developing children's comprehension and higher-order thinking skills, you can help them make sense of the world. The Comprehension areas focused on include for the fiction titles: Character, Point of View, Setting/Mood, Key Events and Details, Sequence of events, Conflict & resolution, Context clues, Compare & contrast, Making inferences and Summarising. And for the non-fiction titles comprehension areas include: Main idea & details, Sequence of events, Fact & opinion, Compare & contrast, Cause and effect, Context clues, Problem & solution and summarising.

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Nautilus Award Silver Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment In search of a new story for our place on earth Being Salmon, Being Human examines Western culture’s tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon—weaving together key narratives about the Norwegian salmon industry as well as wild salmon in indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest. Mueller uses this lens to articulate a comprehensive critique of human exceptionalism, directly challenging the four-hundred-year-old notion that other animals are nothing but complicated machines without rich inner lives and that Earth is a passive backdrop to human experience. Being fully human, he argues, means experiencing the intersection of our horizon of understanding with that of other animals. Salmon are the test case for this. Mueller experiments, in evocative narrative passages, with imagining the world as a salmon might see it, and considering how this enriches our understanding of humanity in the process. Being Salmon, Being Human is both a philosophical and a narrative work, rewarding readers with insightful interpretations of major philosophers—Descartes, Heidegger, Abram, and many more—and reflections on the human–Earth relationship. It stands alongside Abram’s Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal, as well as Andreas Weber’s The Biology of Wonder and Matter and Desire—heralding a new “Copernican revolution” in the fields of biology, ecology, and philosophy.

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Boost literacy and develop close-reading skills with finely levelled short texts suitable for ages 6 to 11+. Each Teacher's book includes a comprehensive introduction along with Lexile levelled photocopiable texts with accompanying questions that use close reading comprehension strategies. Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text. By developing children's comprehension and higher-order thinking skills, you can help them make sense of the world. The Comprehension areas focused on include for the fiction titles: Character, Point of View, Setting/Mood, Key Events and Details, Sequence of events, Conflict & resolution, Context clues, Compare & contrast, Making inferences and Summarising. And for the non-fiction titles comprehension areas include: Main idea & details, Sequence of events, Fact & opinion, Compare & contrast, Cause and effect, Context clues, Problem & solution and summarising.

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Boost literacy and develop close-reading skills with finely levelled short texts suitable for ages 6 to 11+. Each Teacher's book includes a comprehensive introduction along with Lexile levelled photocopiable texts with accompanying questions that use close reading comprehension strategies. Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text. By developing children's comprehension and higher-order thinking skills, you can help them make sense of the world. The Comprehension areas focused on include for the fiction titles: Character, Point of View, Setting/Mood, Key Events and Details, Sequence of events, Conflict & resolution, Context clues, Compare & contrast, Making inferences and Summarising. And for the non-fiction titles comprehension areas include: Main idea & details, Sequence of events, Fact & opinion, Compare & contrast, Cause and effect, Context clues, Problem & solution and summarising.

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Boost literacy and develop close-reading skills with finely levelled short texts suitable for ages 6 to 11+. Each Teacher's book includes a comprehensive introduction along with Lexile levelled photocopiable texts with accompanying questions that use close reading comprehension strategies. Close reading involves careful study of a short text passage to build a deep, critical understanding of the text. By developing children's comprehension and higher-order thinking skills, you can help them make sense of the world. The Comprehension areas focused on include for the fiction titles: Character, Point of View, Setting/Mood, Key Events and Details, Sequence of events, Conflict & resolution, Context clues, Compare & contrast, Making inferences and Summarising. And for the non-fiction titles comprehension areas include: Main idea & details, Sequence of events, Fact & opinion, Compare & contrast, Cause and effect, Context clues, Problem & solution and summarising.

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This book argues that the issues surrounding sustainable transport constitute a new - post-modern - phase in transport policy and management

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This book argues that the issues surrounding sustainable transport constitute a new - post-modern - phase in transport policy and management

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Every three years, researchers with interest and expertise in transport survey methods meet to improve and influence the conduct of surveys that support transportation planning, policy making, modelling, and monitoring related issues for urban, regional, intercity, and international person, vehicle, and commodity movements. This book compiles the critical thinking on priority topics in contemporary transport policy and planning contexts. The contributed papers cover two key themes related to types of decision-making of importance to the development of data collection on both passenger travel and freight movements: the first theme, Selecting the Right Survey Method, acknowledges the fact that transport survey methods are evolving to meet both changing uses of transport survey data and the challenges of conducting surveys within contemporary society. The second theme, Supporting Transport Planning and Policy, recognizes that the demands on transportation data programs to support decision-making for transport planning and policy making clearly have evolved.The chapters have been selected with particular emphasis on the challenges of the near and medium term future to the design of transport surveys. Rapidly evolving problems and policy contexts are compelling transport researchers to advance the state-of-the-art of methods, tools, strategies and protocols, while assuring the stability and coherence of the very data from which trends can be tracked and understood and on which important decisions can be made.

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