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The Minders
A Gripping and powerful story about one man's desire to save his godson. He fights a nation and in the process uncovers and destroys three decades of clandestine Iranian operation to control ex-patriots. After graduating from college, a young man, the son of a prominent construction tycoon from Colorado, decides to tour the world. While in Iran, they kidnap him. ... A man and his daughter too are kidnapped in Iran. They are the family of an executive at the World Health Organization in Denmark. ... Then in Denver, Colorado, the county's head of Construction and Permits is threatened and asked to pay his gambling debts. ... Finally, in California, a young Stanford graduate is offered an amazi...
Autarky
One dusty old man stands between ISIS, Russia, and the U.S. and billions in gold. In the process of finding him, tens of thousands of people die in Syria and Russia. A gripping story of greed, violence, and vengeance. An Iraqi stonemason drives his family to a construction site to celebrate the project's completion. He arrives late and witnesses the Iraqi military burying all the dead workers, the women, and children in a mass grave. ... Years later, a computer software engineer working late one cold winter night in Virginia slides off the road at a highway exit on his way home. His death, a murder, leads to a favor that leads to clues tying the dead man and the stonemason together. Sitting ...
Digital Darkness
A simple computer prank throws the U.S. into darkness and chaos. While people survive the collapse of civil society, a small group hunt for the perpetrators. A gripping and powerful story about the hunt and the payback. A group of hackers break into a Chinese manufacturing company's computer system, steal some code, change it, and inject it into a U.S. based utility company's computer servers. That triggers a cascade electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event that throws a large portion of the U.S. in the dark. That day splits the story into two parts, surviving the chaos and decline of civil society, and the hunt for the perpetrators. Henry, a friend of Jason, travels deep into the dark zone to help...
The Post-American Presidency
Popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer sound a wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our hard-won freedoms, silencing our democratic voices, and irreparably harming America for generations to come. America is being tested in a way that she has never been tested before. Since taking the oath of office in January 2009, President Barack Obama has cheered our enemies and demoralized our allies. He is hard at work "remaking" America by destroying the free-market system and nationalizing major segments of our economy, demonizing dissent and restricting freedom of speech, turning against our longtime friend...
Autarky
Following his ordeal in Iran (The Minders), Jason reduced his work hours at the Defense Language Institute presenting at seminars only, to rejoin the CIA's special task force on the Middle East. Sitting at his desk one morning, he receives an encrypted email containing a series of files. He reads and passes them off to the proper people thinking it's the end. Within days, they summon him to a meeting between the CIA and FBI; the topic merely read 'Urgent - For Your Eyes Only.' At the meeting, he learns that the email and associated files point to the needed evidence in a long-standing case against one of the world's largest private military contractors, an American company. There is only one...
Digital Darkness
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Islam and Democracy in the Middle East
A comprehensive assessment of the origins and staying power of Middle East autocracies, as well as a sober account of the struggles of state reformers and opposition forces to promote civil liberties, competitive elections and a pluralistic vision of Islam. Drawing on the insights of some 25 leading Western and Middle Eastern scholars, the book highlights the dualistic and often contradictory nature of political liberalization. Yemen suggest, political liberalization - as managed by the state - not only opens new spaces for debate and criticism, but is also used as a deliberate tactic to avoid genuine democratization. In several chapters on Iran, the authors analyze the benefits and costs of...
The Minders
Iran's most secretive covert operation is revealed in, The Minders, a thriller about a complex terror plot triggered by text messages, which in turn unearths three decades of clandestine work. The unwitting terrorists include the CEO of a multi-billion dollar American company, a division head at the World Health Organization, and a Stanford graduate with a doctorate in mechanical engineering. The story dives deep into the ease by which several highly placed and successful Iranian-Americans react to coercion, partaking in a massive terror plot, all controlled by a reconstituted division of SAVAK, Iran's old secret police. The global reach and power of this decades old division closes all norm...
Ictis 2013
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Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks
This book provides a structured treatment of the key principles and techniques for enabling efficient processing of deep neural networks (DNNs). DNNs are currently widely used for many artificial intelligence (AI) applications, including computer vision, speech recognition, and robotics. While DNNs deliver state-of-the-art accuracy on many AI tasks, it comes at the cost of high computational complexity. Therefore, techniques that enable efficient processing of deep neural networks to improve key metrics—such as energy-efficiency, throughput, and latency—without sacrificing accuracy or increasing hardware costs are critical to enabling the wide deployment of DNNs in AI systems. The book i...
