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SURVIVING PROGRESS AT VIFF
Enter to win a pair of tickets to see this brilliant new documentary Do you live in Vancouver or the surrounding area? We're giving away three pairs of tickets to see Surviving Progress at the Vancouver International Film Festival, the film based on Ronald Wright's bestselling book A Short History of Progress.
To enter, email us at reader@anansi.ca with SURVIVING PROGRESS in the subject line, and tell us which Massey Lecture book is your favourite!
The screening will take place on Friday, September 30, at 6:30 p.m. Contest closes on Tuesday, September 27, 2011, at midnight EST. Void where prohibited.
Watch the trailer for Surviving Progress:
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NOW AVAILABLE
Hard-hitting new nonfiction from Misha Glenny and The Sisters Brothers in paperback DARKMARKET Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You by Misha Glenny@MishaGlennywww.darkmarketinsider.com A revealing look at cyber crime, cyber warfare, and cyber industrial espionage from the author of the international bestseller McMafia. In this fascinating and compelling book, Misha Glenny, author of the international bestseller McMafia, explores the three fundamental threats facing us in the twenty-first century: cyber crime, cyber warfare and cyber industrial espionage. Governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars each year, fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible, and highly intelligent new breed of criminal: the hacker. Glenny has travelled and trawled the world. And by exploring the rise and fall of the criminal website, DarkMarket, he has uncovered the most vivid, alarming and illuminating stories. Whether JiLsi or Matrix, Iceman, Master Splynter or Lord Cyric; whether Detective Sergeant Chris Dawson in Bolton or Agent Keith Mularski in Pittsburgh, Glenny has tracked down and interviewed all the players -- the criminals, the geeks, the police, the security experts and the victims -- and he places everyone and everything in a rich brew of politics, economics and history. The result is simply unputdownable. DarkMarket is authoritative and completely engrossing. It's a must-read for everyone who uses a computer: the essential crime book for our times. The first reviews are in!"Nobody writes more compellingly about contemporary international crime than the author of McMafia. Misha Glenny combines a terrific pace with the best journalistic practice and stylish writing . . . Illuminating and terrifying." -- Globe and Mail "Misha Glenny's journey through the undergrowth of cybercrime is a dark read. But this most assiduous of writers manages a deft feat. He has turned a subject that could be geekish, dull and frightening into an enjoyable page-turner . . . This is a gripping tale, brilliantly researched." -- Sunday Times
THE SISTERS BROTHERS by Patrick deWitt
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, this brilliant novel is now available in paperback.
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Eli and Charlie Sisters can be counted on for that. Though Eli has never shared his brother's penchant for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. On the road to Warm's gold-mining claim outside San Francisco -- and from the back of his long-suffering one-eyed horse -- Eli struggles to make sense of his life without abandoning the job he's sworn to do. DeWitt spins a violent, lustful, hung-over and humorous odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier. Doffing his hat to the classic Western, he then transforms it into a comic tour-de-force with an unforgettable narrative voice that captures all the absurdity, melancholy, and grit of the West -- and of these two brothers, bound to each other by blood and scars and love.
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