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Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet.

In The Secret Life, the essayist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan explores how we no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.

A fellow at the Harvard Center for Internet and Society, Bruce Schneier has been called 'one of the world's foremost security experts' (Wired). In Data and Goliath, Schneier offers a sobering look at government/corporate surveillance and the ever-rising threat to personal privacy and freedom.

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail There is no doubt that we have come to rely on technology, not only for our comfort and convenience, but for our very survival as a species. A hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin noted wryly that if the human species were returned to the wild without the advantage of technology, we would become extinct in six weeks.

As cyber attacks dominate front-page news, Fred Kaplan probes the most secretive government agencies to tell the never-before-told story of the policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised a new form of warfare and who have been planning--and fighting--these wars for decades.

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, provides both online and real life tactics and inexpensive methods to protect you and your family, in easy step-by-step instructions. He also discusses more advanced "elite" techniques, which, if used properly, can maximize your privacy while you're online.