Author:Marc Goodman
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *
* Future-proof yourself and your business by reading this book *
Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flipside. Criminals are often the earliest, and most innovative, adopters of technology and modern times have led to modern crimes. Today's criminals are stealing identities, draining online bank-accounts and wiping out computer servers. It's disturbingly easy to activate baby cam monitors to spy on families, pacemakers can be hacked to deliver a lethal jolt, and thieves are analyzing your social media in order to determine the best time for a home invasion.
Meanwhile, 3D printers produce AK-47s, terrorists can download the recipe for the Ebola virus, and drug cartels are building drones. This is just the beginning of the tsunami of technological threats coming our way. In Future Crimes, Marc Goodman rips open his database of hundreds of real cases to give us front-row access to these impending perils. Reading like a sci-fi thriller, but based in startling fact, Goodman raises tough questions about the expanding role of technology in our lives. Future Crimes is a call to action for better security measures worldwide, but most importantly, will empower readers to protect themselves against these looming technological threats - before it's too late.
Goodman describes Future Crimes as a 'rough ride' — and with some justice. But in an area where criminals profit from the ignorance of the general public, it is a ride well worth taking if we are to prevent the worst of his predictions from taking shape
—— Financial TimesA riveting read
—— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black SwanExcellent and timely
—— The EconomistFuture Crimes has the pace of a sci-fi film but it's happening now. It will be a long time before anyone who reads it will feel safe on-line again
—— William Hartston , ExpressGoodman is a go-to guide for all who want a good scaring about the dark side of technology
—— New ScientistOMG. This is a wake-up call.
—— Kevin Kelly, co-founder of WIRED MagazineAn essential read for law enforcers, corporations and the community alike
—— Khoo Boon Hui, former President of InterpolFuture-proof yourself by reading this book
—— Jane McGonigal, New York Times bestselling author of Reality is BrokenFuture Crimes deserves a prominent place in our front-line library
—— Ed Burns, co-creator of The WireThe question I am most often asked in my lectures is 'what's the next big crime?' The answer is in this book.
—— Frank Abagnale, New York Times bestselling author of Catch Me if You CanA masterful page-turner that warns of a hundred worst case scenarios you've never thought of, while also - thank goodness - offering bold and clever strategies to thwart them
—— PW Singer, author of Wired for WarFuture Crimes is the Must Read Book of the Year.
—— Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive and To Sell is HumanMore than a tribute to a rare and doughty tribe. If hills could speak, this is surely a tale the fells would tell
—— Horatio Clare , TelegraphAn enlightening, exquisitely written account... I was beguiled by this book, an eloquent love-letter to a cherished way of life
—— Brian Viner , Daily MailMay well do for sheep what Helen Macdonald did for hawks
—— Stephen Moss , GuardianPunchy, well-read and occasionally lyrical... a glorious book, alive with the author's voice, which is strong and individual, as befits a man who makes a living in this ancient but precarious way. Most striking is its honesty
—— Herald ScotlandRebanks offers a fascinating account of his life in farming that is in equal parts memoir, social commentary and procedural. Even for the most committed urbanite, it's a brilliant read
—— Alexander Larman , ObserverJames Rebanks's unsentimental, sharply detailed memoir about his life as a shepherd gripped me from the first page
—— Moira Hodgson , Wall Street JournalA timely and important book, with flashes of beauty in its spare and honest prose
—— Sadie Jones, author of The OutcastIn James Rebanks we hear a new voice from the fells. The toil and the beauty in The Shepherd's Life are utterly compelling
—— Nicholas Crane, author of CoastA vivid, honest, unforgettably written account not just of one shepherd's year, but of an ancient way of life
—— Lucy Dillon, author of A Hundred Pieces of MeThe Shepherd's Life is a reader's delight. No tourist wandering the iconic Lake District is Rebanks; coming from centuries of farmers he is as 'hefted' to the fells as the Herdwick sheep he keeps. He lives, breathes and works his landscape - which gives him an inside edge as sharp as shears over most of the flock of current countryside-writers. Rebanks has written a marvellous autobiography - of himself, his family, and the hills themselves. For they are indivisible
—— John Lewis-Stempel, author of MeadowlandWhat came through was the stolid humility, gentle stubbornness and genuine care you need to live this life. Many books are written about a thing but this book is of a thing and is valuable for it
—— Cynan Jones, author of The DigThe Shepherd's Life is that rare thing, a well-written book about the life of the land by a man who gets his living from the land. It's a paean for a peopled landscape, and a powerful counterblast to the doleful environmentalism that would empty our land of its people
—— Philip Walling, author of Counting SheepBeautifully written
—— Alan Cumming, actor and author of Not My Father's SonIrreverent, honest, achingly beautiful and totally authentic. Rebanks challenges us to understand what would be lost if no one remembers the seasons of a shepherd's life or the culture of sheep farming. His joy is as contagious as his writing
—— Linda Lear, author of Beatrix Potter: The extraordinary life of a Victorian geniusTruly extraordinary... written with a mastery of vivid, concrete detail that makes you gasp
—— WI LifeA wonderful book which will surely become a Lake District classic. Powerfully written and unflinchingly honest, it provides a vivid insight into the realities of hill farming life
—— Angus J L Winchester, Professor of Local & Landscape History, Lancaster UniversityA gorgeous book, unsentimental but exultant, vivid and profound, and a fierce defense of small-scale farming
—— Maryn McKenna , National GeographicA beautifully told tale suffused by a profound sense of belonging and a clear-eyed love of the land and its people.
—— Sunday Morning HeraldHis prose is earthed and conversational; it feels as if you're leaning over a gate, listening to his ruminations. The book exudes tough passion, and a sense of belonging and love that holds you rapt to the very last line
—— Intelligent LifeWhat a great idea this is...a masterpiece of time, distance, palm trees, frosty mornings, lofty ambition and self-effacing charm
—— MonocleA fascinating book that ought to put flight in a new light for many people
—— Nautilus International TelegraphMasterly, beautifully written book
—— Alexander Frater , The Times Literary SupplementAlive with the joy of everything from takeoff…to the dream-like quality of flight itself
—— Tony Parsons , GQMarvelously literate… If [Vanhoenacker’s] book had been around in the mid-‘80s, I suspect I wouldn’t have been afraid to fly in the first place
—— Dwight Garner , New York TimesIn the pages of his book…you will find yourself agreeing that “The ordinary things we thought we knew…becomes more beautiful”
—— Michael Kerr , IndependentCommendably, the technical aspects are outlined in a straightforward, accessible manner, while overall the book demonstrates that aviation has lost none of its appeal
—— Good Book GuideA lovely memoir
—— Gulliver , The EconomistFor anyone who wishes to get a pilot’s insight into what it’s really like to notch up thousands of miles and hours… – you won’t find a much more passionate account than this one
—— Elinor Evans , Flyer[Vanhoenacker] invites readers with him on to the flight deck, describing the minutiae of flight with a degree of detail that would be nerdy were it not for the poetry of his writing
—— Tom Robbins , Financial TimesAs you battle with the cramped legroom in economy class, [Vanhoenacker’s] view of aviation may just transport you
—— Robbie Millen , The Times[An] elegant meditation on being an airline pilot
—— John Lanchester , Guardian[Vanhoenacker] wants us to fall in love with flying again
—— Damian Whitworth , The TimesA highly readable account, as moving as it is unexpected, of what flying means, by an airline pilot with a gift for words. Antoine de Saint-Exupery lives again
—— Economist[This] airborne odyssey of a book is enthralling, from the physics of lift and the vicissitudes of flight paths to the aura borealis and the pristine sunsets. Read it and you’ll request a window seat every time you fly
—— Caroline Sanderson , Sunday ExpressThis mesmerising book will make you view the world differently
—— Helen Davies , The TimesFew people have captured the fascination of flying as well as U.S. journalist and pilot Mark Vanhoenacker.
—— Lufthansa MagazineDelves deeply into the magic and beauty of flight. An elegant writer with a sharp eye and a literary mind, Vanhoenacker… Writes about flight on an emotional and spiritual level, how it makes him feel to soar above the Earth while watching the landscape pass below.
—— Kent German , CNETHe spins a curious and articulate exploration of flying.
—— GuardianVanhoenacker’s calm and scrupulously composed prose style is soothing… Vanhoenacker manages to make flying seem exciting again.
—— Alexander Larman , ObserverA beautiful, contemplative book… What Skyfaring gives is something we need: elevation; another perspective… Normally when I find a volume where prose style and subject matter fuse so pleasingly, I tear through it in a day. Here, I found myself pausing on almost every page, as I absorbed its detail or phrasing.
—— Nicholas Lezard , GuardianHere is the simple wonder that remains at the heart of an experience which modern travellers all too easily take for granted.
—— IA writer of exquisite prose, fascinated both by the technical and mystical aspects of flight... In every line of this lovely book, there is something beautiful and strange.
—— Jane Shilling , Daily MailThis is the best book I've ever read on the subject... It's one of the best travel books I've ever read... Superb.
—— William Leith , Evening StandardAn unexpectedly lyrical memoir on a fascinating subject… Skyfaring will give you a delightfully fresh perspective on the wonder that is air travel.
—— Kate Slotover , RiddleIt’s calm, poetic and riveting… Fascinating.
—— National Geographic TravellerHe writes beautifully about the strange, alien world of high-altitude passenger flights… Vanhoenacker loves flying and communicates beautifully its marvels and mysteries.
—— Peter McKay , Daily Mail, Book of the YearI loved this fabulous insight into the secret world of the sky.
—— Melanie Reid , The Times, Book of the YearA brilliant, chunky, study of genes.
—— William Leith , Evening StandardThis book captures the progression from that intuitive sense of genetics to its birth as a veritable science and, for better or for worse, its evolution into a powerful tool… The book ends not with a conclusion, but with a feeling of anticipation… In many ways, The Gene is a call for caution and for a thoughtful consideration of the possibilities that progress may bring… When genes become tools, what will those tools be used for? As we try to answer that question, Mukherjee’s book asks us to carefully look back before we continue to move forward
—— Claire McDaniel & Daniel Marchalik , British Medical JournalA comprehensive – and gripping – history of the gene
—— Emma Finamore , Memo