Beautifully illustrated and approachable, this is the only California-specific, statewide book devoted to all groups of insects. Completely revised for the first time in over 40 years, Field Guide to California Insects now includes over 600 insect species, each beautifully illustrated with color photographs. Engaging accounts focus on distinguishing features, remarkable aspects of biology, and geographical distribution in the state. An accessible and compact introduction to identifying, understanding, and appreciating these often unfamiliar and fascinating creatures, this guide covers insects that readers are likely to encounter in homes and natural areas, cities and suburbs, rural lands and wilderness. It also addresses exotic and invasive species and their impact on native plants and animals. Field Guide to California Insects remains the definitive portable reference and a captivating read for beginners as well as avid naturalists.

Cyber Minds brings together an unrivalled panel of international experts who offer their insights into current cybersecurity issues in the military, business, and government. Key Features Explore the latest developments in cybersecurity Hear expert insight from the industry's top practitioners Dive deep into cyber threats in business, government, and military Book DescriptionShira Rubinoff's Cyber Minds brings together the top authorities in cybersecurity to discuss the emergent threats that face industries, societies, militaries, and governments today. With new technology threats, rising international tensions, and state-sponsored cyber attacks, cybersecurity is more important than ever. Cyber Minds serves as a strategic briefing on cybersecurity and data safety, collecting expert insights from sector security leaders, including: General Gregory Touhill, former Federal Chief Information Security Officer of the United States Kevin L. Jackson, CEO and Founder, GovCloud Mark Lynd, Digital Business Leader, NETSYNC Joseph Steinberg, Internet Security advisor and thought leader Jim Reavis, Co-Founder and CEO, Cloud Security Alliance Dr. Tom Kellerman, Chief Cybersecurity Officer for Carbon Black Inc and Vice Chair of Strategic Cyber Ventures Board Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer, Oracle Dr. Sally Eaves, Emergent Technology CTO, Global Strategy Advisor - Blockchain AI FinTech, Social Impact award winner, keynote speaker and author Dr. Guenther Dobrauz, Partner with PwC in Zurich and Leader of PwC Legal Switzerland Barmak Meftah, President, AT&T Cybersecurity Cleve Adams, CEO, Site 1001 (AI and big data based smart building company) Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President - Cybersecurity Solutions Group, Microsoft Barbara Humpton, CEO, Siemens USA Businesses and states depend on effective cybersecurity. This book will help you to arm and inform yourself on what you need to know to keep your business - or your country - safe. What you will learn The threats and opportunities presented by AI How to mitigate social engineering and other human threats Developing cybersecurity strategies for the cloud Major data breaches, their causes, consequences, and key takeaways Blockchain applications for cybersecurity Implications of IoT and how to secure IoT services The role of security in cyberterrorism and state-sponsored cyber attacks Who this book is forThis book is essential reading for business leaders, the C-Suite, board members, IT decision makers within an organization, and anyone with a responsibility for cybersecurity.

The accidental transference of a pathogen harbored by the tentacles of sea worms living at the bottom of the Atlantic begins a series of seemingly random events that will disrupt the inhabits of the earth's surface. In this instance a giant sperm whale acts as the conduit. During a deep dive off the Azores he comes in contact with a sea vent warmed by magma flowing beneath the sea floor. In this harsh, alien place, strange forms of life survive and create organisms unknown to the globe's surface dwellers. And so begins dramatic events told through the lives of those directly involved from the beginning--destined to be impacted to the full extent by the bizarre events that follow.

Faces in the Firelight, using the vopice of its narrator, plunges the reader into the agony of his malignancy before remissions and periods of painless calm allow him or her to surface again and begin an exploration that will steer the reader over the volatile waves of history. During the journey the author offers plausible explanations for humanities need of the villain, the arch villain, and the other miscreants who populat global societies. His narrator, pausing briefly to further describe his personal battle with his disease, weaves a nuanced story line through strong characterizations that will take the reader on to mid twentieth century. And at its end, those who have probed its contents deeply will surface, perhaps unaware they have subtly changed in outlook. This is a book that will stand the test of time.

On a buying trip to Morocco in the 1970s Harry Richmond connects with three young people who are on their way to Spain after a spree of wild and unstructured living in the Arab Quarter of Tangier. Though they part company in Malaga, their paths are destined to cross in the future with dramatic consequences for them all. Eiva Terrez and Jack Paladrano separate as a unit from Joanna Bremmer who returns to her job as a social worker in New York City. In Madrid, Paladrano is introduced to Eiva's brilliant reclusive father, Alejandro Terrez--a former ambassador to the U.S., now retired. Yet he remains active, directing a group of young men with unusual talents, scattered about the globe. The motives driving them and the rules they live by are obscure and amorphous--touched lightly upon, yet managing to suggest an underlying sense of malignant purpose. For Alenjandro Terrez, once a devout Catholic, for personal reasons has devoted himself to sabotaging the Church in ways only he understands. The activities of his group require financing on a grand scale, which lead him to the nascent cocaine trade of the time. Unscrupulous and fanatical to the point of using his daughter to fulfill his mission, he recruits her and Paladrano to become active in setting up a network that has them traveling from Central and South America to the U.S. During this period Harry Richmond is prospering in his entrepreneurial endeavors. Having been attracted to Joanna's blond beauty from the outset, he contacts her while attending a trade show in New York. The chemistry is strong from the beginning, and their relationship eventually leads to marriage. The narrative continues to follow the paths of these five main characters: how their lives unexpectedly intertwine with results that lead to extreme passionate interludes as well as to pain and trauma that threaten physical and mental disintegration.

Adolf Goes Cosmic takes the reader down a dark satirical passageway as it winds its way through perhaps the most infamous brain of the Twentieth Century. The keywords here are creativity and originality aimed at the sophisticated reader who is prepared to set aside conventional thought and roam a labyrinth that offers up black humor, irony, and paradox. Ideas are floated that will absorb the interest of even the most jaded; and for those who remain until the end of this literary journey, there will be recurring smiles and grimaces.

Others choose to attribute some of the unexplained construction sites of the ancient world, such as the pyramids, to voyagers from ultra advanced civilizations from other planets. In Ancient Futurists, a hypothesis suggests that a tribe of the last ice age evolved superior talents due to extremely hostile climatic conditions. The novel proceeds from this premise into contemporary times following a genetic trail.

A Well Rehearsed Conspiracy gives a broad and in depth hypothesis about how a countries demographics and culture might be altered in fundamental ways. The plot revolves around three men who share extreme and revolutionary ideas about the human makeup of advanced and less developed societies. The narrative has them putting their views to work in plausible and creative ways that roil the underpinnings of our neighbor to the south. Although, they appear to be nearing the pinnacle of their success, they have activated countervailing forces that threaten the viability of their venture: a powerful group that possesses the resources to eliminate those who threaten to undermine their authority. How these three men react and deal with the consequences of their actions is central to the novel's plot.

Restless in the islands, with Patricia going her separate way, Harrison and Teresa with their newborn daughter set sail for the mainland. Reaching L.A. after a harrowing trip, they find that Ken Strossman and Gary Rutledge have established a hill community with Harrison's palatial home as its center. But their existence there is tenuous, requiring a great deal of effort and ingenuity to maintain their independence in dealing with the latest anomaly of nature, a mutated raccoon, much larger and more aggressive then their predecessors--now thriving in the inner city. They along with the organized human predators--mainly the surviving members of the city gangs--now represent an even greater threat to the community's survival. Harrison and Teresa are caught up in the ongoing struggle, while at the same time they attempt to deal with the vagaries of their personal lives.

A Novel which offers up the possibility of a biological combination that fusses the cellular structure of an amphibian to a mammal causing an imbalance in nature beginning with the mosquito. It follows the life of a brilliant young molecular biologist Franklin Austin Harrison, a disturbed individual who changes course to late to stop a global calamity

Hal Westerfield in the California foothils encounters an ancient oak that appears to offer a window back into a primeval world. There he is subjected to horrific scenes of violence and depravity committed by an ape-like figure of a man who seems able to retain an identical form that spans the centuries--all the way into present one. There he becomes a prey animal, stalking Westerfield and his family. The terrifying events that follow tax Westerfield's credulity, and finally. in order to save him and his family require that he abandon conventional thought and enter a world that has no discernible parameters.