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In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past.

In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past.

The promised land of Amonlogia has turned out to be a nightmare for the people of the Mud Whale. Suou and the Unmarked are being held hostage, and in order to save them Ouni and Chakuro agree to become captive soldiers for the duke. A battle is inevitable as Orca’s forces draw ever closer, but the duke has a far darker mission in mind for Ouni—one that will rock the very foundations of Amonlogia!

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In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency's widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy. As the arguments rage on and the government considers various proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see the full impact of Snowden's disclosures.

Now for the first time, Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity 10-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA's unprecedented abuse of power with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself. Going beyond NSA specifics, Greenwald also takes on the establishment media, excoriating their habitual avoidance of adversarial reporting on the government and their failure to serve the interests of the people. Finally, he asks what it means both for individuals and for a nation's political health when a government pries so invasively into the private lives of its citizens - and considers what safeguards and forms of oversight are necessary to protect democracy in the digital age.

Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state.


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"It is 4 AM and I have just finished reading, in one sitting, the Kindle download of a book that I only intended to skim because I thought that I knew the full story. What was compelling was encountering the courage and decency of this whistleblower and that of the few brave journalists willing to honestly tell his story. That and the justifiable contempt for those in the housebroken media and compromised government who felt the need to besmirch the character of those willing to bear witness to crimes that almost everyone else in a position to know chose to ignore. The result is a page turner survey of just what the Snowden leaks tell us about the creation of the modern surveillance state and a reminder of the deep wisdom of this nation's founders in insisting on the Constitution's Fourth Amendment. This is a brilliant book that you will want to pass on to that neighbor absolutely convinced that the hollowing out of liberty has made us safer. Glenn Greenwald reminds us just why the Guardian and Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in publishing the documents that Edward Snowden made available and how outrageous it is that his effort to inform the public of attacks on their freedom has left this brave young man a hunted fugitive."

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  • It is 4 AM and I have just finished reading, in one sitting, the download of a book that I only intended to skim because I thought that I knew the full story. What was compelling was encountering the courage and decency of this whistleblower and that of the few brave journalists willing to honestly tell his story. That and the justifiable contempt for those in the housebroken media and compromised government who felt the need to besmirch the character of those willing to bear witness to crimes that almost everyone else in a position to know chose to ignore. The result is a page turner survey of just what the Snowden leaks tell us about the creation of the modern surveillance state and a reminder of the deep wisdom of this nation's founders in insisting on the Constitution's Fourth Amendment. This is a brilliant book that you will want to pass on to that neighbor absolutely convinced that the hollowing out of liberty has made us safer. Glenn Greenwald reminds us just why the Guardian and Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in publishing the documents that Edward Snowden made available and how outrageous it is that his effort to inform the public of attacks on their freedom has left this brave young man a hunted fugitive.
  • A brief note before you purchase this book
    This is not a book written for the purpose of telling you the US government is watching your every step and every move, everyone knows that. And the author did not waste time replicating news articles you've already read through the media outlets. I finished this book within 5 hours, and thought it was well written and well worth your time.

    Greenwald, one of the original journalists who revealed Snowden's leaks last year, did a remarkably good job on going over the history of U.S.'s surveillance tactics. In his new book, No Place to Hide, Greenwald briefly goes over his adventures/experience on meeting with Edward Snowden and revealing US's NSA surveillance program. Greenwald explains the difficulties and obstacles that were involved before the story went live, mostly by reluctant lawyers, and news agencies such as NYT and Washington Post. For those curious, Greenwald also explains in detail the true intentions of Edward Snowden.

    Later chapters of the book reveal Greenwald's opinion on the recent NSA leaks, and his classification of US as a surveillance state.

    Keep in mind that Greenwald was previously a columnist, and his writing style of a columnist is clearly seen throughout the book. This is not merely a book with facts, but a book with opinion, with logical and concrete evidence that not just the U.S., but other state actors are well, are progressing into what George Orwell wrote in his infamous 1984 novel (Orwellian state).

    Greenwald ends the book by warning the consequences involved as we progress into the Orwellian state and the issue of journalists not being journalists, but being government puppets instead.

    This is a highly recommended book for those who wish to read into detail one of the biggest government leaks in the history.
  • The answer to the question posed in the title of this review is a definite yes, and follows vacuously if, as the author of this book asserts, that the National Security Agency (NSA) collects data at the scale claimed. This scale covers every person on the planet, and therefore the NSA views everyone as a potential terrorist. Information on everyone is collected and then stored in the NSA’s data repositories, which indeed must be massive in order to store this magnitude of data. Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the company Booz-Allen-Hamilton (BAH), has revealed that the NSA is engaging in this activity. Snowden was placed by BAH in the NSA to engage in security work some of which was classified as Top Secret. As this book and ensuing documentaries reveal, because of moral and ethical reasons Snowden made the decision to abrogate the trust the NSA placed in him and put himself at risk for an extended prison term because of the information he chose to place in the public domain.

    The author of this book makes a good case for the morality behind Snowden’s decision, and therefore readers who formally viewed Snowden as a “criminal” or a “narcissist” may make a different assessment of his character after finishing the book. There is no doubt that Snowden did not view his decision as one of self-aggrandizement, and in fact exercised restraint in the sense he chose to not reveal information that could put people at severe risk. It might be a leap to call Snowden a “hero”, but he certainly possesses a level of intestinal fortitude that is unmatched by anyone in the government, whether the United States government or otherwise.

    The details of some of the revealed information are included in this book as images, with some of them actually looking as though they originated in PowerPoint presentations. That this may be the case reflects the obsession that many, especially those connected with the Department of Defense (DoD), have in using PowerPoint to not only summarize ideas but also to codify the information in them as valid, authentic, or profound. Therefore it was difficult for the reviewer to accept the author’s (implicit) premise that the information in these images as reflecting anything of genuine importance to those readers who want to understand the extent of the NSA’s illegal surveillance. Typical government/DoD PowerPoint presentations, even though quite impressive from an artistic point of view, reflect a naiveté about scientific and technological matters in general. There is no reason to believe that this is not the case also for the NSA, in spite of the imputation of technical and mathematical competence given to it.

    And this raises the further question as to the efficacy of the NSA in doing the analysis and data mining that would actually put individual privacy at risk. Many in the press have claimed that the NSA hires thousands of mathematicians and analysts and this is no doubt true. But what is not obvious from the press or from this book is the extent that this technical pseudo-army is able to extract damaging information about citizens or indeed any really useful information at all. The mere presence of thousands of analysts and mathematicians in a government agency may reflect the usual practice of patronage and other faulty and unethical governmental hiring practices rather than actual technical competence.
    But one could also argue, and it seems to be the belief of the author, that the NSA is technically competent to use the gathered information to find individuals who it deems are “harmful” to the interests of the United States. Then since the NSA has no qualms in violating the constitutional rights of US citizens by collecting “metadata” then it would not be an unreasonable assumption that it would collect the actual content of phone calls, Email messages, and so on. It would also not be unreasonable to assume that the NSA would deliberately alter the content of messages and phone calls in order to embarrass certain individuals or groups as part of their security strategy or simply from just pure meanness. There is ample precedent in history for the meanness of governments.
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40 leckere und abwechslungsreiche Wildrezepte von einem echten Jäger erwarten Sie in diesem Kochbuch. Wild ist ein Hochgenuss für Feinschmecker und alle, die ein köstliches Essen zu schätzen wissen. Die originellen Kreationen können einfach nachgekocht werden.

Wer es liebt, im Sommer draußen zu sitzen und zu grillen, findet in diesem Buch dazu noch zehn tolle Grillrezepte. Ob mit der Familie oder bei einer Grillparty mit Freunden Die kreativen Wildrezepte zum Grillen sind ein kulinarisches Highlight.

Wildfleisch ist delikat und vielseitig. Es enthält viele wichtige Vitamine und Mineralstoffe wie zum Beispiel Phosphor, Kalium und die B-Vitamine. Das edle Fleisch ist ein hervorragender Eiweißlieferant und ist zudem auch noch fettarm und cholesterinarm – ideal für gesundheitsbewusste Menschen.

Eine Besonderheit dieses Wildkochbuchs Im ersten Teil erfahren Sie, warum eine geordnete Jagd wichtig ist für unser Ökosystem. Das Jagen von Wild dient also nicht nur unserem Hochgenuss. Genießen Sie das grandiose Geschmackserlebnis!

Denn eine Jagd, die im gesetzlich vorgegebenen Rahmen stattfindet, nimmt einem Bestand in erster Linie den „Überschuss“ sowie kranke und alte Tiere. Würde nicht gejagt, würden die Bestände an Wildtieren überhandnehmen, was in den Wäldern und in der Landwirtschaft enorme Schäden durch Verbiss zur Folge hätte. Einst erledigten diese Regulation die natürlichen Feinde bzw. Jäger der Wildtiere – nämlich Luchs und Wolf.

Nachdem jedoch beide aus unseren Wäldern so gut wie verschwunden sind, muss diese Aufgabe von verantwortungsvollen menschlichen Jägern übernommen werden.

Merkwürdigerweise haben die meisten Menschen nicht das geringste Problem, im Supermarkt ihres Vertrauens täglich eingeschweißtes Fleisch von Schwein, Huhn und Pute für möglichst wenig Geld zu erstehen. Soll dagegen einmal Hirsch, Reh oder Kaninchen auf den Teller kommen, geht sofort ein Aufschrei durch die Reihen über die ach so armen Tiere. Warum eigentlich? Die Schweine, Hühner und Puten, deren Fleisch wir Tag für Tag auf dem Tisch haben, kommen – wenn wir nicht gerade direkt beim Biobauern kaufen – in der Regel aus der Massentierhaltung und wurden während ihres kurzen traurigen Lebens mit jeder Menge Antibiotika und künstlichen Zusatzstoffen vollgepumpt. Und das schmeckt man im Fleisch!

Ganz anders sieht es dagegen bei einem saftigen Hirschfilet oder einem Rehrücken aus. Hier handelt es sich um reines aromatisches Fleisch von Tieren, die ihr Leben in einem natürlichen Umfeld verbrachten, bevor es kurz und schmerzlos mit einem sauberen Schuss endete. Fleisch von Puten, Schweinen und Rindern wird das ganze Jahr wie am Fließband produziert. Wildfleisch gibt es nur zu einer bestimmten Zeit im Jahr – nämlich dann, wenn die Natur es zulässt.

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Immer mehr Feinschmecker begeistern sich für edles Wildbret. Und das zu Recht – sind sich Ernährungsexperten doch schon lange darin einig, dass Wildfleisch zu den hochwertigsten Lebensmitteln für gesundheitsbewusste Menschen zählt.


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Being a mom, wife, or woman ain't easy....especially in the Frat House. I'm a mother of two boys just trying to survive the dirt, fart jokes, and testosterone, not to mention the body image issues, social awkwardness, and marital rollercoaster that comes with the territory of wife and woman. What I really want to say is I'm really just an average woman-JUST LIKE YOU! I'm sharing my story, my creative spin on everything from disciplining your kids to sex (no, I'm not talking about positions), just so you can see that you are not alone. I want to help you get through the day. This book is just a way for you to see that although it's average, it doesn't have to be boring. Put a creative spin on the average and just make it weird. So, if you're feelin' it, come get weird with me.

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  • This is a book about a mom of boys that turn her home upside down. They grow together through trial & error, ( as we all do). The author has wit & wisdom learned through family & community to roll with the punches & live your best life. The book is encouraging that we all have insecurities and how to understand each other with a little kindness. It is a quick read & I enjoyed her perspective!
  • Such a fun read and totally relatable! I loved the honesty and practical no-nonsense parenting tips!
  • This book made me laugh out loud! The author is creative & funny & relatable on so many levels. Moms have hilarious stories to share about raising kids & Frat House Mom does so in a way that would make anyone laugh- even people who don't have kids. I also enjoyed the honesty shared in this book on so many topics women can relate to- body image, pregnancy, friendship, sex, and contentment. Read this book if you want fun advice and lots of laughs.
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  • A brief inspection reveals the addition of a HUGE number of new diagrams and pictures which improve the clarity of many, many concepts. As usual, great for any medical student getting ready for Step 1. As naturopathic medical students, we often use this 792-page bible to prepare for our first licensing exam and, no doubt, the entire cohort will be acquiring this bad boy.

    Some new diagrams/pictures include
    1) Mutations in DNA
    2) Protein synthesis
    3) Autosomal trisomies
    4) Ethanol metabolism
    5) Immunology was restructured and it reads more logically
    6) Endo vs exotoxins
    7) HIV diagnosis algorithm - GREAT diagram.
    8) Some additions about the immunology of cancer (v. important) - can be found in the general pathology section
    9) Hematology and oncology - rearranged order plus great diagrams about hematopoiesis, pro- and anticoagulation
    10) MSK - lovely diagrams about radiculopathy
    11) Very nice additions to the neuro section, e.g. lower extent of spinal cord
    12) Some handy photos of real-life examples of embryo pathologies
    13) Illustrations on the gonadal drainage
    14) GI - more histological slides and embryo photos
    15) Lots of diagrams in cardio/respiratory to complement the text, e.g. blood supply of myocardium
    16) Many other minor tweaks )

    Hope this helps meds students getting ready for their first licensing exams in 2019! Good luck, everyone. )
  • I was a little reluctant to purchase this since I had already done all my annotations on the previous edition of the book. However, due to my exam being really close, I couldnt wait for the ebook to come out so I went ahead and ordered the hardcopy, and boy am I glad that I did!
    Not only does this edition have some newer content (eg immune evasion by cancer) but also the pre-existing information has been updated and in some cases rearranged in a much more presentable way (eg, the horrible Neurocutaneous Syndromes now seem less daunting). New images (eg histology slides for the Transplant rejection reactions), charts (eg Diagnosis of HIV) and tables (eg different radiculopathies of the lower extermity) are commendable.
    A minor glitch for me was that some of the pages had ink bleeds on them but that can be easily overlooked compared to the overall worth of this book. Keep up the good work FirstAidTeam!!
  • Just received this product. Many of the pages have blue ink splattered onto them making some pages partially unreadable and generally aesthetically poor.
  • I'm enjoying the updated version, but unfortunately both books I ordered had the same ink splashing on the same exact pages. Still usable as I only found it on two pages, but there needs to be some quality control.
  • Recently upgraded from my 2016 First Aid book. Purchased 2 of the 2019 books. The index/page numbers unfortunately does not line up at all (off by 1-3 pages each time) and one of my books came damaged (wrinkles and a folded corner). Really disappointed.
  • I ordered this book to update my medical references library for the USMLE as I am yet to take my STEP 1. I did so optimistically but soon started to regret it as I read some reviews here on . Sadly my worst fears came to be as, right of the bat, the quality of this book was noticeably worse than previous iterations, even my badly beaten, stained and water damaged First Aide 2018.

    Still, I was optimistic that, maybe in some effort to reduce costs, the publisher would have had to lower the quality of the book itself; a sentiment that didn't last when I saw the watermark/authenticity seal common from these books was missing. Nowhere to be found.

    Fortunately, another classmate happened to have this new edition, purchased out form a different retailer. I asked him if I could compare both and by doing so my fears where confirmed. Not only the thickness of the book itself was affected, but so was the quality of the cover; gone was the characteristic, grainy and resistant cover of a book meant to be used, reused and abused for study.

    The pages were not of bad quality, but compared to the original it was as if most of the printed text and diagrams were blurry, giving the appearance that the ink wasn't allowed to set, or worse still, that the electronic source used for printing this material had somehow suffered from a reduced pixelation.

    The rating is not lower, as it is impossible to rate lower than a single star. I have decided to return it and expect nothing less than a full refund. Being a customer for more than 10 years (and a prime member at that) I am extremely disappointed by how this turned out.
  • Index page numbers are wrong. This makes this edition much less usable.
  • I upgraded my FA from my 2016 edition as I plan on taking Step 1 this spring.

    There are a lot of wonderful, new diagrams and explanations. Unfortunately, the index is often incorrect (I've started writing in the right pages numbers in the index once I find them to save time in the future.) I've wasted a lot of time trying to find what I need. I've also email McGraw Hill customer service about this issue twice without a reply.

    If you are someone who likes to cross-reference subjects while you study, or are using FA in conjunction with a question bank, you'll have trouble finding the subjects in your book if using the index.

    UPDATE 3/8/19
    Customer service emailed me back. After I let them know about a few of the index errors I had corrected in my book. They sent me a digital copy of the revised index which is all I asked for and needed.
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