Start collecting all 4 Ryan The Spy adventures with The Superhero Secret. In this first book of the Ryan The Spy series, your child will join Ryan on a top secret mission to Planet Superhero, home of all the superheroes in the universe. With cool spy gadgets and some help from a special superhero, Ryan is able to unlock the superhero secret: Hard Work + Practice = Super. Inspired by Carol Dweck, a Stanford Professor and author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, The Superhero Secret is a story of fun and adventure that teaches kids that the way to become super at anything is to work hard and practice.A great book for parents and teachers who want the best for their children! Visit the Ryan The Spy website! RyanTheSpy.com *The Superhero Secret is also an official favorite growth minded children's book of Carol Dweck's Growth Mindset Digest.

With help from his spy friend Cassie, Ryan discovers The Inventor's Secret and learns that mistakes are helpers that teach us. A humorous and relatable story in which readers will see that in life, it is better to try and make mistakes than not to try at all because of a fear of imperfection.Ryan The Spy is a children's series with purpose. Each easily understandable story teaches children a new and valuable life lesson that adults often wish they had learned earlier in life. A must have for parents and teachers who want an extraordinary life for their children.

Nick and Tesla are bright 11-year-old siblings with a knack for science, electronics, and getting into trouble. When their parents mysteriously vanish, they’re sent to live with their Uncle Newt, a brilliant inventor who engineers top-secret gadgets for a classified government agency. It’s not long before Nick and Tesla are embarking on adventures of their own—engineering all kinds of outrageous MacGyverish contraptions to save their skin: 9-volt burglar alarms, electromagnets, mobile tracking devices, and more. Readers are invited to join in the fun as each story contains instructions and blueprints for five different projects. In Nick and Tesla’s High-Voltage Danger Lab, we meet the characters and learn how to make everything from rocket launchers to soda-powered vehicles. Learning about science has never been so dangerous—or so much fun!

With only one spot left on the famous Super Spy Squad, Ryan seeks out the oldest and wisest spy of them all to help with his training. After hard work and practice, Ryan improves greatly and unlocks The Super Spy Squad Secret. Readers of all ages will see that it is more important to focus on the process of improving than it is to focus on the end result. Ryan The Spy is a children's series with purpose. Each easily understandable story teaches children a new and valuable life lesson that adults often wish they had learned earlier in life. A must have for parents and teachers who want an extraordinary life for their children.

'Blown to Bits' is about how the digital explosion is changing everything. The text explains the technology, why it creates so many surprises and why things often don't work the way we expect them to. It is also about things the information explosion is destroying: old assumptions about who is really in control of our lives.

The world's most infamous hacker offers an insider's view of the low-tech threats to high-tech security Kevin Mitnick's exploits as a cyber-desperado and fugitive form one of the most exhaustive FBI manhunts in history and have spawned dozens of articles, books, films, and documentaries. Since his release from federal prison, in 1998, Mitnick has turned his life around and established himself as one of the most sought-after computer security experts worldwide. Now, in The Art of Deception, the world's most notorious hacker gives new meaning to the old adage, "It takes a thief to catch a thief." Focusing on the human factors involved with information security, Mitnick explains why all the firewalls and encryption protocols in the world will never be enough to stop a savvy grifter intent on rifling a corporate database or an irate employee determined to crash a system. With the help of many fascinating true stories of successful attacks on business and government, he illustrates just how susceptible even the most locked-down information systems are to a slick con artist impersonating an IRS agent. Narrating from the points of view of both the attacker and the victims, he explains why each attack was so successful and how it could have been prevented in an engaging and highly readable style reminiscent of a true-crime novel. And, perhaps most importantly, Mitnick offers advice for preventing these types of social engineering hacks through security protocols, training programs, and manuals that address the human element of security.

As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concepts that have become central in the digital media literature, focusing on three main areas. The first part, Technologies and Connections, historicises concepts like network, media convergence, multimedia, interactivity and artificial intelligence. The second one is related to Agency and Politics and explores global governance, datafication, fake news, echo chambers, digital media activism. The last one, Users and Practices, is finally devoted to telepresence, digital loneliness, amateurism, user generated content, fandom and authenticity. The book aims to shed light on how concepts emerge and are co-shaped, circulated, used and reappropriated in different contexts. It argues for the need for a conceptual media and communication history that will reveal new developments without concealing continuities and it demonstrates how the analogue/digital dichotomy is often a misleading one.