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Bookshelf
Welcome to my bookshelf! From time to time - usually when someone asks me for a specific recomendation - I sit down and inventory the current selections on my real-world bookshelf. If you know of a book that I should read (and perhaps note here) please let me know. It's not as though I need an excuse to read, but one is always appreciated. :-)
E-mail Security: How to Keep Your Electronic Messages Private, Bruce Schneier, John Wiley and Sons, 1995.
Kahn on Codes: Secrets of the New Cryptology, David Kahn, MacMillan, 1983.
Man Called Intrepid, A, William Stevenson, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
Managing Privacy: Information Technology and Corporate America, H. Jeff Smith. University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Official PGP Guide, The, Philip R. Zimmermann, MIT Press, 1995.
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy, Simson Garfinkel, O'Reilly and Associates, 1995.
Seizing the Enigma, David Kahn, Houghton-Mifflin, 1991.
SPYWORLD: Inside the Canadian and American Intelligence Establishments, Mike Frost as told to Michel Gratton, Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-385-25494-6.
Rather that write my own review, I'll allow Dave Del Torto's comments to stand by themselves:
To the few on the list who have not already had the pleasure, I'd put
"SPYWORLD" in the "Puzzle Palace" category of must-reads. Before recently
leaving our own Wunderland for a course in advanced bird-watching off in
the Canary Islands, Michael 'Mickey' Sattler was kind enough to loan me his
hardcover of this pithy little 1994 history/expose on the Canadian spook
community by one of their first key propeller-heads, "Mike Frost." After
being unceremoniously dumped by the Canucks a few years back, he decided to
"share" about it all to work out his frustrations. Though I assume it was
'tidied up' by various government censors in pre-publication, and according
to the inside page was printed and "bound in the U.S.A." ;), I must say it
was nevertheless an arousing read, albeit a bit nit-sloppy with the ghost
writing/editing here and there.
It paints a colorful picture of the TLA gang-bang that resulted in the
conception of the Canadian black budget intercept operations. The potent
schtuppingvermachen of the American and British, each waiting patiently for
sloppy seconds is, to say the least, pruriently fascinating. "Frost"
manages to (un)cover, in pleasurably lurid detail, some of the tools used,
and policies openly violated, during such intercepts as "Stephanie" in
Moscow. There are even some descriptions of the scenes behind the green
doors of the NSA and CIA. Frankly, all it really lacks is a nude picture of
the American Ambassador in Ottowa pulling his pants up _before_ drawing the
shades for the last time. If you do read it, use protection. ;)
dave
PS: Don't worry, Mike, none of the pages stick together. :)
American Deaf Culture, [edited by] Sherman Wilcox. Linstok Press, 1989. ISBN 0-932130-08-9.
American Sign Language Concise Dictionary, [edited by] Martin L. A. Sternberg. Harper & Row, 1990. ISBN 0-06-080996-5.
American Sign Language: Linguistic and Applied Dimensions (2nd edition), Ronnie Wilbur. Little, Brown, and Company, 1987. ISBN 0-316-94013-5.
A Deaf Adult Speaks Out, Leo M. Jacobs. Gallaudet University Press, Washington D.C., 1974.
The Deaf Experience: An Anthology of Literature By and About the Deaf, [edited by] Trenton W. Batson & Eugene Bergman. Merriam-Eddy, 1976. ISBN 0-914562-03-7.
Deaf in America: Voices From a Culture, Carol Padden & Tom Humphries. Harvard University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-674-19423-3.
Deaf Women: A Parade Through the Decades, Mabs Holcomb & Sharon Wood. DawnSignPress, 1989. ISBN 0-915035-28-6.
Deafness, David Wright. Stein & Day, 1969. ISBN 0-8128-1805-9.
Deafness and Mental Health, [edited by] L. K. Stein, E. D. Mindel, and T. Jabaley. Grune & Stratton (Harcourt, Brace, Javanovich), 1981. ISBN 0-8089-1347-6.
Hearing is Believing, Marie Hays Heiner. The World Publishing Company, 1949.
The Integration and Disintegration of the Deaf in Society, [edited by] George Montgomery. Scottish Workshop Publications, 1981.
Legal Rights of Hearing-Impaired People, National Center for Law and the Deaf. Gallaudet University Press, Washington D.C., 1982. ISBN 0-913580-78-3.
Meaning-based Translation, M. L. Larson. University Press of America, 1984. ISBN 0-8191-4301-4.
Mental Health Assessment of Deaf Clients: A Practical Manual, [edited by] H. Elliott, L. Glass, & J. W. Evans. Taylor & Francis Limited, London, 1987. ISBN 0-85055-652-X.
The Other Side of Silence, Arden Neisser. Gallaudet University Press, 1983. ISBN 0-930323-64-5.
A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America, J. V. Van Cleve & B. A. Crouch. Gallaudet University Press, 1989. ISBN 0-930323-49-1.
Psychotherapy with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Persons: A Systemic Model , M. A. Harvey. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1989. ISBN 0-8058-0204-5.
Religious Signing, Elaine Costello. Bantam, 1986. ISBN 0-553-34244-4.
A Rose for Tomorrow: Biography of Frederick C. Schreiber, Jerome D. Schein. National Association of the Deaf, 1981. ISBN 0-913072-46-X.
The Signs of Language, Edward Klima & Ursula Bellugi. Harvard University Press, 1979. ISBN 0-674-80796-0
Speaking the Language of Sign: The Art and Science of Signing, Jerome D. Schein. Doubleday, 1984. ISBN 0-385-17344-X.
The Week the World Heard Gallaudet, Jack R. Gannon. Gallaudet University Press, 1989. ISBN 0-930323-50-5.
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Volume 1, Totalitarianism, Arendt, Hanna. Harvest/HBJ, 1968.
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Volume 2, Imperialism, Arendt, Hanna. Harvest/HBJ, 1968.
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Volume 3, Antisemitism, Arendt, Hanna. Harvest/HBJ, 1968.
The Man in the High Castle, Dick, Philip K.. Berkley Books, 1962.
The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewery, 1933-1945, Levin, Nora. Schocken Books, 1945.
Prisoner of 68 Months...Buchenwald & Auschwitz, Sattler, Stanislaw. Gefen Pub. Co., 1980.
Feldafing, Schochet, Simon. November House (Vancouver, Canada), 1983.
Retter in der Nacht: Wie eine jüdische Familie überlebte {Rescuers in the Night: How a Jewish Family Survived}, Spiegel, Marga. R&oulm;derberg im Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, K&oulm;ln (Cologne), 1987. ISBN 3-87682-830-9.
Adam Engst, The Internet Starter Kit for {Macintosh,Windows} (includes disk), 1995.
Mark Gibbs & Richard Smith, Navigating the Internet, SAMS Pub., 1993, ISBN 0-672-30362-0.
The Elements of Style, Strunk & White. Macmillan, 1979. ISBN 0-02-418200-1.
Reading for the fun of it
Bluefeather Fellini in the Sarced Realm
Dr Neruda's Cure for Evil
Cryptography, Privacy, Security
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Bruce Schneier, John Wiley & Sons, 1994.Whoo, hoo! This is it; the book that got the necessary paperwork to be exported from the USA. Much of what you want to know when you just have to code a cryptographic system. There's an on-line errata that you'll need as well. You may not have to type as much source from the book as you thought, quite a bit of it is on-line, straight from the author.
Computer Privacy Handbook, The, Andé Bacard, Peachpit Press, 1995.Solid basic coverage of all the cryptography issues facing the personal computer user today.
A practical book by the author of the source code tome.
A good book about modern cryptography. Much better than dusting off some old tome from pre-computer days.
Really good historical context to the modern fuss and bother. Especially good if you have a fireplace.
I haven't read this, but it sure has an impressive title. Recommended by Netsurfer Focus on Cryptography.
Written by PGP's author his own self, PRZ.
This is perhaps the best introductory work regarding PGP, a brief working history of cryptography, and the current political issues surrounding privacy and the citizen.
Solid historical account of World War Two machinations with the Enigma cipher system.
Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access, Anne W. Branscomb, Basic Books, 1994.
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 18:10:04 -0800
From: Dave Del Torto
A more socially-oriented discussion of policy and privacy.
Deafness, American Sign LanguageA collection of "classic articles" about the Deaf community and ASL, it's a must-read for newbies.
The canonical in-your-backpack accessory.
A personal account (and good introduction to) the impact on Deaf persons of hearing society.
Stories by and about Deaf people, grouped into three categories: Deaf authors, the nineteenth century, the twentieth century.
A collection of personal reflection on the experience of being Deaf in hearing society.
A compilation of photographs, accounts, anecdotes, and tales about Deaf women from the mid-eighteenth century to the present.
An autobiography, this personal perspective is one of the most poetic paeans to the experience of being without hearing in a hearing world.
Includes expanded and updated papers from the First National Symposium on Mental Health Needs of Deaf Adults and Children, held in Chicago in June 1975.
A book more about the "deafened" than the Deaf, this propaganda piece was written for and distributed by the Zenith Radio Corporation's Hearing Aid Division. This 1949 "infomercial" is the story of a late-deafened woman's introduction to, and use of, a hearing aid. Sacchrine beyond belief, this tale harkens back to an optimistic time before J.F.K., Watergate, and AIDS, when technology was going to save us all.
A collection of articles with the occasional poem.
An introductory text.
A textbook that posits that a translator must first know the meaning of the source text before translation into a receptor language; has a goal of meaning-based, rather than form-based, translation.
An in-the-field practical manual that touches on the daily working aspects of, and problems encountered in, initial contacts, taking a drug history, mental status examination, psychological assessment, learning disability assessment, and assessment from the perspective of the hearing therapist, Deaf therapist, and sign-language interpreter.
A chronicle of the Deaf community across the USA and an exploration of the "growing use" of ASL. Somewhat dated, but interesting.
An outgrowth of a Gallaudet class, this history text that traces the movement of Deaf people in America through the nineteenth century.
A text that touches upon the many aspects and problems associated with the long-term psychotherapy of Deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
A dictionary of over 500 religious signs.
The personal tale of an Executive Secretary of the National Association of the Deaf
One of the original works about ASL, it's the foundation of many of the others that follow. Dr. Bellugi has been, and continues to be, a force in the linguistic analysis of ASL.
A good introductory text to American Sign Language, including much context and few signs.
A spectacular book about the week that the student body of Gallaudet University took the campus in protest, demanding the installation of a Deaf president. Includes many photographs and quotes from media and luminaries of the day.
Judaic Studies
ComputersThis is the canonical (and encyclopedic) source of information on this subject. Predates almost everything. Updated from time to time.
It's hard to describe this book without sounding like a paid advertisment. Contains absolutely everything you need to connect your Mac or Windows machine to the Internet plus clearly-written explanations of what's out there. Invaluable.
This book takes over where Adam's ends. It teaches you how to find things on the net, a skill more important than almost every other for staying afloat in this information deluge.
General referenceThe essence of clear writing boiled down to the very basics in one frightfully slim volume.
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