"Josh Chin and Liza Lin's Surveillance State is a groundbreaking work of investigative nonfiction on life in China's burgeoning surveillance state. People living in democracies have for decades drawn comfort from the notion that their form of government, for all its flaws, is the best history has managed to produce. Surveillance State documents with startling detail how even as China's Communist Party pays lip service to democracy as a core value...

"Social networking has grown into a staple of modern society, but its continued evolution is becoming increasingly detrimental to our lives. Shifts in communication and privacy are affecting us more than we realize or understand. Terms of Service crystallizes the current moment in technology and contemplates its implications: the identity-validating pleasures and perils of online visibility; our newly adopted view of daily life through the lens of...

The secret gathering of intelligence has been practiced for thousands of years and spies have proven to be highly inventive. Over the last 100 years methods of spying have become much more technologically sophisticated and invasive. From the days of code cracking early computers to modern satellite reconnaissance, has the line between legitimate surveillance and police state tactics become blurred?