Biometrics: Advanced Identity Verification: The Complete Guide5 reviews
Julian Ashbourn

Springer, 2000

A good practical guide

+ A technical guide to the future
+ A Great Biometrics Book

This book is a very good practical guide for all those wishing to actually implement biometric systems. It cuts right through to the practical issues and doesn't get lost in unnecessary technical detail. The example project section is especially valuable and gives a great deal of useful and ...
  
  











  



  
50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your Credit: Everything You Need to Know About Identity Theft, Credit ...2 reviews
Steve Weisman

Prentice Hall, 2005

A Home Security System

+ Good reasonable information

This is not the feel good book of the summer, it almost scares the pants off of you given the many different ways faceless criminals can rudely interrupt your life with identity theft. This book details out many of the identity theft scams that are prevalent today. It shows you, maybe in a way ...
  
  











  



  
Handbook of Biometrics

Springer, 2007

Biometric recognition, or simply Biometrics, is a rapidly evolving field with applications ranging from accessing one's computer to gaining entry into a country. Biometric systems rely on the use of physical or behavioral traits, such as fingerprints, face, voice and hand geometry, to establish the identity of an individual. The deployment of large-scale biometric systems in both commercial ...
  
  











  



  
Gone Fission - Its a Power Thing
Barry Tighe

Can Write Will Write, 2008
  
  











  



  
Your Evil Twin: Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic4 reviews
Bob Sullivan

Wiley, 2004

Almost Like a good mystery book, but real

+ Humanizing Identity Theft
+ The risk is very real!

This book is all about a problem that simply didn't exist only a few years ago. Now it's become the fastest growing white collar crime in America. It strikes in every community from the smallest to the largest. The crime is profitable, nearly unpreventable, and hardly ever prosecuted (by one ...
  
  











  



  
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism4 reviews
Sheldon S. Wolin

Princeton University Press, 2008

A brilliant formulation of the American dilemma

+ Managed democracy
+ Managed Democracy, Superpower, and alas, even, "Inverted Totalitarianism"

Author makes a compelling case that the direction of our contemporary politics is toward a political system that is the very opposite of what our leadership, the mass media, opinion leaders, think tanks etc. claim it is--ie, the world's foremost exemplary of democracy. The consummated union of ...
  
  











  



  
From Victim To Victor: A Step By Step Guide For Ending the Nightmare of Identity Theft, Second Edition with CD12 reviews
Mari J. Frank, Dale Fetherling

Porpoise Press, 2005

A book everyone should have around

+ Book review
+ Very useful book when you are a victim of id thief
+ Security
  
  











  



  
Safeguard Your Identity: Protect Yourself With A Personal Privacy Audit
Mari J. Frank

Porpoise Press, 2005

This book will show you how to greatly reduce your chances of becoming a victim of identity theft. Although no one can promise that you won’t be victimized, because your personal information is readily available on myriad databases, the information in this book gives you the expertise to evaluate your own privacy risks and identity theft exposure so you will determine the changes you need to make ...
  
  











  



  
Guide to Biometrics (Springer Professional Computing)1 review
Ruud Bolle, Jonathan Connell, ...

Springer, 2003

Great general textbook on Biometrics

This book is a general textbook on biometric fundamentals as opposed to discussions on specific biometric measurements - fingerprint, iris, face recognition etc. Rather than just chatter on endlessly like an academic journal, the author keeps things interesting with numerical insights and ...
  
  











  



  
Reliable Face Recognition Methods: System Design, Implementation and Evaluation (International Series on ...1 review
Harry Wechsler

Springer, 2006

much more work needed

The problem tackled by this book is buried deep in evolution. It is one of the most basic properties of an organism that it reliably recognise others of its species. For reproduction, if nothing else. Humans have the added twist that facial recognition is important, for the extra reasons that the ...
  
  











  



  
Nineteen Eighty-Four69 reviews
George Orwell

Plume, 2003

May be coming to pass soon

+ Timeless story, wonderful presentation. Doubleplusgood!
+ So Possible it's scary
+ Still Relative Today
+ Forget WE, The Iron Heel and every other dystopian novel. Read this book!
  
  











  



  
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Seagull Edition, Volume 11 review
Eric Foner

W. W. Norton, 2005

I didn't know that reading this book would change how I live my life

This was required for college and read several chapters before dropping the class because of an inferior professor, while there maybe several stories and versions of what happened in American History, the one thing that has changed my life from reading this book is that, people who call people by ...
  
  











  



  
The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power20 reviews
Hannah Arendt

Schocken, 2004

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS I HAVE READ.

+ Perhaps History Can Turn Our Heads
+ Arendt's Opus Magnum

MY EDUCATION WOULD BE INCOMPLETE HAD I NOT READ THIS BOOK. EASILY 5 STARS.
  
  











  



  
Fascism, Totalitarianism, and Political Religion (Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions)
Roger Griffin

Routledge, 2005

The atrocities committed against untold millions of human beings by the Axis Powers in the Second World War, and the oceanic human suffering inflicted by the Soviet state on the Russian people, not only scarred the consciousness of the generations who lived through the period 1930-50, it also branded the terms 'fascism' and 'totalitarianism' with connotations of nihilism and moral evil that ...
  
  











  



  
Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century (European History Series (Arlington ...1 review
Bruce F. Pauley

Harlan Davidson, 2003

An insightful overview of the three dictators.

This is a great overview of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. In this book Pauley takes the reader through the evolution of the totalitarian dictators. He starts of by defining the terms under which each ideology fell: Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, and Fascism. From here he shows the reader how each ...
  
  











  



  
Casino - Heads we win tails you lose (Spawater Chronicles III) How casinos really work1 review
Barry Tighe

Can Write Will Write, 2007

casino is the BEST!!!

This is a great book that is certain fun for anyone who reads it! With multidimensional views, quirky characters, great analagies, and side splitting quotes, this book is guaranteed to make you laugh. I recommend reading all three books in order, to understand the characters better. The characters ...
  
  











  



  
Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust ...
Ira Katznelson

Columbia University Press, 2004

In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman, detailing their engagement with the larger project of reclaiming the West's moral bearing.
  
  











  



  
Implementing Biometric Security2 reviews
John Chirillo, Scott Blaul

Wiley, 2003

Biometric Puzzles Revealed

+ Informative, expert, immensely useful

There is a lot of mystery and myth concerning biometrics and the authors did a good job of exposing the facts and revealing the truth. "Implementing Biometric Security" breaks down the various forms of biometric technology into easily understandable blocks of information. Very few books breakdown ...
  
  











  



  
George Orwell Boxed Set (1984 and Animal Farm)2 reviews
George Orwell

Blackstone Audio Inc., 2007

Great readers

+ Very Pleasant Introduction to Audio Books

Simon Prebble and Ralph Cosham both do a fine job of narration. They both have easily understood English accents, and differentiated character voices that are not distracting and allow the listener to easily follow dialog between multiple characters. Both books are very good cautionary tales ...
  
  











  



  
Jeeves to the Fore
Barry Tighe

Can Write Will Write, 2009

Comedy Fiction - suitable for all. Aim at fans of PG Wodehouse.