Author: I. D. Oro
Publisher: I. D. Oro
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Aurelio has a plan to defeat Reagan, the boss of his hacker group, Warhol Worm. Reagan wants to use nuclear weapons to regain the rights from the United States of America Constitution of 1787 which President Pyromaniac had managed to replace. Aurelio wants to get the rest of the members to stop looking for nuclear codes. Getting the nuclear codes from President Pyromaniac was easy, but now he has to prevent anyone else from getting them. Unleashing a nuclear war to destroy the planet is not going to be good for humanity, he realizes. Aurelio manages to convince Emmalee to challenge Reagan for control of Warhol Worm. Aurelio comes up with an idea to unleash a computer virus that will affect all of the members of the Government of the Racist (G. O. P.) Party. The problem is that the computer virus detection program keeps stopping his computer viruses. Along the way, he meets a mysterious character who can help him out. Aurelio falls in love with Irmina. The problem is that she is not interested in him. Now he had to think of a way to talk to her. Irmina challenges Reagan for control of the group and Aurelio must now train her to defeat him. Will she defeat Reagan?
Warhol Worm 162
Author: I. D. Oro
Publisher: I. D. Oro
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Aurelio has a plan to defeat Reagan, the boss of his hacker group, Warhol Worm. Reagan wants to use nuclear weapons to regain the rights from the United States of America Constitution of 1787 which President Pyromaniac had managed to replace. Aurelio wants to get the rest of the members to stop looking for nuclear codes. Getting the nuclear codes from President Pyromaniac was easy, but now he has to prevent anyone else from getting them. Unleashing a nuclear war to destroy the planet is not going to be good for humanity, he realizes. Aurelio manages to convince Emmalee to challenge Reagan for control of Warhol Worm. Aurelio comes up with an idea to unleash a computer virus that will affect all of the members of the Government of the Racist (G. O. P.) Party. The problem is that the computer virus detection program keeps stopping his computer viruses. Along the way, he meets a mysterious character who can help him out. Aurelio falls in love with Irmina. The problem is that she is not interested in him. Now he had to think of a way to talk to her. Irmina challenges Reagan for control of the group and Aurelio must now train her to defeat him. Will she defeat Reagan?
Publisher: I. D. Oro
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Aurelio has a plan to defeat Reagan, the boss of his hacker group, Warhol Worm. Reagan wants to use nuclear weapons to regain the rights from the United States of America Constitution of 1787 which President Pyromaniac had managed to replace. Aurelio wants to get the rest of the members to stop looking for nuclear codes. Getting the nuclear codes from President Pyromaniac was easy, but now he has to prevent anyone else from getting them. Unleashing a nuclear war to destroy the planet is not going to be good for humanity, he realizes. Aurelio manages to convince Emmalee to challenge Reagan for control of Warhol Worm. Aurelio comes up with an idea to unleash a computer virus that will affect all of the members of the Government of the Racist (G. O. P.) Party. The problem is that the computer virus detection program keeps stopping his computer viruses. Along the way, he meets a mysterious character who can help him out. Aurelio falls in love with Irmina. The problem is that she is not interested in him. Now he had to think of a way to talk to her. Irmina challenges Reagan for control of the group and Aurelio must now train her to defeat him. Will she defeat Reagan?
Warhol Worm
Author: I. D. Oro
Publisher: I. D. Oro
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
President Pyromaniac’s campaign slogan, ‘Make America Deplorable Again’ promises a new horrific wave of anti-intellectualism, book burning, censored internet access, and the end of education for the masses. A frightening new 2018 United States Constitution ends our Bill of Rights as freedom of speech, religion and the press are forbidden. Irmina a seventeen year old from Durango, Colorado is an expert hacker. Mysterious letters arrive from a vacant lot. Irmina meets a controversial group of hackers who have different ideas on how to combat the loss of their print materials to the evil Book Burning Centers. One of them wants to try peaceful measures while another one wants to use deadly force. The leader of a hacker group orders Irmina to steal the nuclear codes while he threatens Irmina’s family if she refuses. Irmina faces a tough decision to save her family from harm. Getting the nuclear codes from President Pyromaniac is not going to be easy. (Word Count 69, 188)
Publisher: I. D. Oro
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
President Pyromaniac’s campaign slogan, ‘Make America Deplorable Again’ promises a new horrific wave of anti-intellectualism, book burning, censored internet access, and the end of education for the masses. A frightening new 2018 United States Constitution ends our Bill of Rights as freedom of speech, religion and the press are forbidden. Irmina a seventeen year old from Durango, Colorado is an expert hacker. Mysterious letters arrive from a vacant lot. Irmina meets a controversial group of hackers who have different ideas on how to combat the loss of their print materials to the evil Book Burning Centers. One of them wants to try peaceful measures while another one wants to use deadly force. The leader of a hacker group orders Irmina to steal the nuclear codes while he threatens Irmina’s family if she refuses. Irmina faces a tough decision to save her family from harm. Getting the nuclear codes from President Pyromaniac is not going to be easy. (Word Count 69, 188)
Warhol Worm 160
Author: I. D. Oro
Publisher: I. D. Oro
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
President Pyromaniac´s new executive order allows all of the books and print material to burn while being rewritten by the Department of Tomecide. When the books burn then the alternative facts will take over the country and the government will rewrite the past. The government controlled internet, the fake media, and horrible social media influencers tell citizens what to think. Online learning replaces public education as the government bans teachers unions and destroys schools. The party of President Pyromaniac called Government of the Racist (G. O. P.) Party now controls all three branches of the federal government. The Government of the Racist (G. O. P.) Party has two thirds of the state’s legislatures behind them thanks to Russian President Vladimir Vladímirovich Putin. President Pyromaniac creates a new federal holiday called Vladimir Putin Decides Day that is celebrated every second Tuesday in November to thank his best friend for his help in the 2016 Presidential Election. A cast of characters must now deal with their new reality. Irmina finds the behavior of two of the members of her book club suspicious. Aurelio has a plan to defeat the boss of his hacker group and get the rest of the members to stop looking for the nuclear codes. Hadleigh meets a mysterious hitchhiker whose story does not add up as they travel across the country. Kylen runs into trouble as he goes to a dangerous neighborhood to conduct a book burning ceremony with his friends. Halle must decide whether to move in with her daughter or move out of the country to follow her dream. Jana does not want to believe that her husband is telling her the truth about her teaching job. Emmalee´s life is finally starting to go her way until a friend offers her a new challenge that can upset her life. Arely is given an opportunity to help out her country by developing a fake flu vaccine in Taiwan to destroy China and allow its annexation. Novalie must deal with her odd family and their lack of support for her passion in life. (Word Count 72,271)
Publisher: I. D. Oro
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
President Pyromaniac´s new executive order allows all of the books and print material to burn while being rewritten by the Department of Tomecide. When the books burn then the alternative facts will take over the country and the government will rewrite the past. The government controlled internet, the fake media, and horrible social media influencers tell citizens what to think. Online learning replaces public education as the government bans teachers unions and destroys schools. The party of President Pyromaniac called Government of the Racist (G. O. P.) Party now controls all three branches of the federal government. The Government of the Racist (G. O. P.) Party has two thirds of the state’s legislatures behind them thanks to Russian President Vladimir Vladímirovich Putin. President Pyromaniac creates a new federal holiday called Vladimir Putin Decides Day that is celebrated every second Tuesday in November to thank his best friend for his help in the 2016 Presidential Election. A cast of characters must now deal with their new reality. Irmina finds the behavior of two of the members of her book club suspicious. Aurelio has a plan to defeat the boss of his hacker group and get the rest of the members to stop looking for the nuclear codes. Hadleigh meets a mysterious hitchhiker whose story does not add up as they travel across the country. Kylen runs into trouble as he goes to a dangerous neighborhood to conduct a book burning ceremony with his friends. Halle must decide whether to move in with her daughter or move out of the country to follow her dream. Jana does not want to believe that her husband is telling her the truth about her teaching job. Emmalee´s life is finally starting to go her way until a friend offers her a new challenge that can upset her life. Arely is given an opportunity to help out her country by developing a fake flu vaccine in Taiwan to destroy China and allow its annexation. Novalie must deal with her odd family and their lack of support for her passion in life. (Word Count 72,271)
Computer Viruses and Malware
Author: John Aycock
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387341889
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Our Internet-connected society increasingly relies on computers. As a result, attacks on computers from malicious software have never been a bigger concern. Computer Viruses and Malware draws together hundreds of sources to provide an unprecedented view of malicious software and its countermeasures. This book discusses both the technical and human factors involved in computer viruses, worms, and anti-virus software. It also looks at the application of malicious software to computer crime and information warfare. Computer Viruses and Malware is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for advanced-level students in computer science.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387341889
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Our Internet-connected society increasingly relies on computers. As a result, attacks on computers from malicious software have never been a bigger concern. Computer Viruses and Malware draws together hundreds of sources to provide an unprecedented view of malicious software and its countermeasures. This book discusses both the technical and human factors involved in computer viruses, worms, and anti-virus software. It also looks at the application of malicious software to computer crime and information warfare. Computer Viruses and Malware is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for advanced-level students in computer science.
XSS Attacks
Author: Seth Fogie
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080553400
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
A cross site scripting attack is a very specific type of attack on a web application. It is used by hackers to mimic real sites and fool people into providing personal data.XSS Attacks starts by defining the terms and laying out the ground work. It assumes that the reader is familiar with basic web programming (HTML) and JavaScript. First it discusses the concepts, methodology, and technology that makes XSS a valid concern. It then moves into the various types of XSS attacks, how they are implemented, used, and abused. After XSS is thoroughly explored, the next part provides examples of XSS malware and demonstrates real cases where XSS is a dangerous risk that exposes internet users to remote access, sensitive data theft, and monetary losses. Finally, the book closes by examining the ways developers can avoid XSS vulnerabilities in their web applications, and how users can avoid becoming a victim. The audience is web developers, security practitioners, and managers. - XSS Vulnerabilities exist in 8 out of 10 Web sites - The authors of this book are the undisputed industry leading authorities - Contains independent, bleeding edge research, code listings and exploits that can not be found anywhere else
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080553400
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
A cross site scripting attack is a very specific type of attack on a web application. It is used by hackers to mimic real sites and fool people into providing personal data.XSS Attacks starts by defining the terms and laying out the ground work. It assumes that the reader is familiar with basic web programming (HTML) and JavaScript. First it discusses the concepts, methodology, and technology that makes XSS a valid concern. It then moves into the various types of XSS attacks, how they are implemented, used, and abused. After XSS is thoroughly explored, the next part provides examples of XSS malware and demonstrates real cases where XSS is a dangerous risk that exposes internet users to remote access, sensitive data theft, and monetary losses. Finally, the book closes by examining the ways developers can avoid XSS vulnerabilities in their web applications, and how users can avoid becoming a victim. The audience is web developers, security practitioners, and managers. - XSS Vulnerabilities exist in 8 out of 10 Web sites - The authors of this book are the undisputed industry leading authorities - Contains independent, bleeding edge research, code listings and exploits that can not be found anywhere else
Enemy at the Water Cooler
Author: Brian T Contos
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080477607
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The book covers a decade of work with some of the largest commercial and government agencies around the world in addressing cyber security related to malicious insiders (trusted employees, contractors, and partners). It explores organized crime, terrorist threats, and hackers. It addresses the steps organizations must take to address insider threats at a people, process, and technology level. Today's headlines are littered with news of identity thieves, organized cyber criminals, corporate espionage, nation-state threats, and terrorists. They represent the next wave of security threats but still possess nowhere near the devastating potential of the most insidious threat: the insider. This is not the bored 16-year-old hacker. We are talking about insiders like you and me, trusted employees with access to information - consultants, contractors, partners, visitors, vendors, and cleaning crews. Anyone in an organization's building or networks that possesses some level of trust.* Full coverage of this hot topic for virtually every global 5000 organization, government agency, and individual interested in security.* Brian Contos is the Chief Security Officer for one of the most well known, profitable and respected security software companies in the U.S.—ArcSight.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080477607
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The book covers a decade of work with some of the largest commercial and government agencies around the world in addressing cyber security related to malicious insiders (trusted employees, contractors, and partners). It explores organized crime, terrorist threats, and hackers. It addresses the steps organizations must take to address insider threats at a people, process, and technology level. Today's headlines are littered with news of identity thieves, organized cyber criminals, corporate espionage, nation-state threats, and terrorists. They represent the next wave of security threats but still possess nowhere near the devastating potential of the most insidious threat: the insider. This is not the bored 16-year-old hacker. We are talking about insiders like you and me, trusted employees with access to information - consultants, contractors, partners, visitors, vendors, and cleaning crews. Anyone in an organization's building or networks that possesses some level of trust.* Full coverage of this hot topic for virtually every global 5000 organization, government agency, and individual interested in security.* Brian Contos is the Chief Security Officer for one of the most well known, profitable and respected security software companies in the U.S.—ArcSight.
Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense, The, Portable Documents
Author: Peter Szor
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0672333902
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Symantec's chief antivirus researcher has written the definitive guide to contemporary virus threats, defense techniques, and analysis tools. Unlike most books on computer viruses, The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense is a reference written strictly for white hats: IT and security professionals responsible for protecting their organizations against malware. Peter Szor systematically covers everything you need to know, including virus behavior and classification, protection strategies, antivirus and worm-blocking techniques, and much more. Szor presents the state-of-the-art in both malware and protection, providing the full technical detail that professionals need to handle increasingly complex attacks. Along the way, he provides extensive information on code metamorphism and other emerging techniques, so you can anticipate and prepare for future threats. Szor also offers the most thorough and practical primer on virus analysis ever published—addressing everything from creating your own personal laboratory to automating the analysis process. This book's coverage includes Discovering how malicious code attacks on a variety of platforms Classifying malware strategies for infection, in-memory operation, self-protection, payload delivery, exploitation, and more Identifying and responding to code obfuscation threats: encrypted, polymorphic, and metamorphic Mastering empirical methods for analyzing malicious code—and what to do with what you learn Reverse-engineering malicious code with disassemblers, debuggers, emulators, and virtual machines Implementing technical defenses: scanning, code emulation, disinfection, inoculation, integrity checking, sandboxing, honeypots, behavior blocking, and much more Using worm blocking, host-based intrusion prevention, and network-level defense strategies
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0672333902
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Symantec's chief antivirus researcher has written the definitive guide to contemporary virus threats, defense techniques, and analysis tools. Unlike most books on computer viruses, The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense is a reference written strictly for white hats: IT and security professionals responsible for protecting their organizations against malware. Peter Szor systematically covers everything you need to know, including virus behavior and classification, protection strategies, antivirus and worm-blocking techniques, and much more. Szor presents the state-of-the-art in both malware and protection, providing the full technical detail that professionals need to handle increasingly complex attacks. Along the way, he provides extensive information on code metamorphism and other emerging techniques, so you can anticipate and prepare for future threats. Szor also offers the most thorough and practical primer on virus analysis ever published—addressing everything from creating your own personal laboratory to automating the analysis process. This book's coverage includes Discovering how malicious code attacks on a variety of platforms Classifying malware strategies for infection, in-memory operation, self-protection, payload delivery, exploitation, and more Identifying and responding to code obfuscation threats: encrypted, polymorphic, and metamorphic Mastering empirical methods for analyzing malicious code—and what to do with what you learn Reverse-engineering malicious code with disassemblers, debuggers, emulators, and virtual machines Implementing technical defenses: scanning, code emulation, disinfection, inoculation, integrity checking, sandboxing, honeypots, behavior blocking, and much more Using worm blocking, host-based intrusion prevention, and network-level defense strategies
Can't Find My Way Home
Author: Martin Torgoff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743258630
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Can't Find My Way Home is a history of illicit drug use in America in the second half of the twentieth century and a personal journey through the drug experience. It's the remarkable story of how America got high, the epic tale of how the American Century transformed into the Great Stoned Age. Martin Torgoff begins with the avant-garde worlds of bebop jazz and the emerging Beat writers, who embraced the consciousness-altering properties of marijuana and other underground drugs. These musicians and writers midwifed the age of marijuana in the 1960s even as Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) discovered the power of LSD, ushering in the psychedelic era. While President John Kennedy proclaimed a New Frontier and NASA journeyed to the moon, millions of young Americans began discovering their own new frontiers on a voyage to inner space. What had been the province of a fringe avant-garde only a decade earlier became a mass movement that affected and altered mainstream America. And so America sped through the century, dropping acid and eating magic mushrooms at home, shooting heroin and ingesting amphetamines in Vietnam, snorting cocaine in the disco era, smoking crack cocaine in the devastated inner cities of the 1980s, discovering MDMA (Ecstasy) in the rave culture of the 1990s. Can't Find My Way Home tells this extraordinary story by weaving together first-person accounts and historical background into a narrative vast in scope yet rich in intimate detail. Among those who describe their experiments with consciousness are Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Robert Stone, Wavy Gravy, Grace Slick, Oliver Stone, Peter Coyote, David Crosby, and many others from Haight Ashbury to Studio 54 to housing projects and rave warehouses. But Can't Find My Way Home does not neglect the recovery movement, the war on drugs, and the ongoing debate over drug policy. And even as Martin Torgoff tells the story of his own addiction and recovery, he neither romanticizes nor demonizes drugs. If he finds them less dangerous than the moral crusaders say they are, he also finds them less benign than advocates insist. Illegal drugs changed the cultural landscape of America, and they continue to shape our country, with enormous consequences. This ambitious, fascinating book is the story of how that happened.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743258630
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Can't Find My Way Home is a history of illicit drug use in America in the second half of the twentieth century and a personal journey through the drug experience. It's the remarkable story of how America got high, the epic tale of how the American Century transformed into the Great Stoned Age. Martin Torgoff begins with the avant-garde worlds of bebop jazz and the emerging Beat writers, who embraced the consciousness-altering properties of marijuana and other underground drugs. These musicians and writers midwifed the age of marijuana in the 1960s even as Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) discovered the power of LSD, ushering in the psychedelic era. While President John Kennedy proclaimed a New Frontier and NASA journeyed to the moon, millions of young Americans began discovering their own new frontiers on a voyage to inner space. What had been the province of a fringe avant-garde only a decade earlier became a mass movement that affected and altered mainstream America. And so America sped through the century, dropping acid and eating magic mushrooms at home, shooting heroin and ingesting amphetamines in Vietnam, snorting cocaine in the disco era, smoking crack cocaine in the devastated inner cities of the 1980s, discovering MDMA (Ecstasy) in the rave culture of the 1990s. Can't Find My Way Home tells this extraordinary story by weaving together first-person accounts and historical background into a narrative vast in scope yet rich in intimate detail. Among those who describe their experiments with consciousness are Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Robert Stone, Wavy Gravy, Grace Slick, Oliver Stone, Peter Coyote, David Crosby, and many others from Haight Ashbury to Studio 54 to housing projects and rave warehouses. But Can't Find My Way Home does not neglect the recovery movement, the war on drugs, and the ongoing debate over drug policy. And even as Martin Torgoff tells the story of his own addiction and recovery, he neither romanticizes nor demonizes drugs. If he finds them less dangerous than the moral crusaders say they are, he also finds them less benign than advocates insist. Illegal drugs changed the cultural landscape of America, and they continue to shape our country, with enormous consequences. This ambitious, fascinating book is the story of how that happened.
A Companion to Curation
Author: Brad Buckley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119206855
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The definitive reference text on curation both inside and outside the museum A Companion to Curation is the first collection of its kind, assembling the knowledge and experience of prominent curators, artists, art historians, scholars, and theorists in one comprehensive volume. Part of the Blackwell Companion series, this much-needed book provides up-to-date information and valuable insights on the field of curatorial studies and curation in the visual arts. Accessible and engaging chapters cover diverse, contemporary methods of curation, its origin and history, current and emerging approaches within the profession, and more. This timely publication fills a significant gap in literature on the role of the curator, the art and science of curating, and the historical arc of the field from the 17th century to the present. The Companion explores topics such as global developments in contemporary indigenous art, Asian and Chinese art since the 1980s, feminist and queer feminist curatorial practices, and new curatorial strategies beyond the museum. This unique volume: Offers readers a wide range of perspectives on curating in both theory and practice Includes coverage of curation outside of the Eurocentric and Anglosphere art worlds Presents clear and comprehensible information valuable for specialists and novices alike Discusses the movements, models, people and politics of curating Provides guidance on curating in a globalized world Broad in scope and detailed in content, A Companion to Curation is an essential text for professionals engaged in varied forms of curation, teachers and students of museum studies, and readers interested in the workings of the art world, museums, benefactors, and curators.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119206855
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The definitive reference text on curation both inside and outside the museum A Companion to Curation is the first collection of its kind, assembling the knowledge and experience of prominent curators, artists, art historians, scholars, and theorists in one comprehensive volume. Part of the Blackwell Companion series, this much-needed book provides up-to-date information and valuable insights on the field of curatorial studies and curation in the visual arts. Accessible and engaging chapters cover diverse, contemporary methods of curation, its origin and history, current and emerging approaches within the profession, and more. This timely publication fills a significant gap in literature on the role of the curator, the art and science of curating, and the historical arc of the field from the 17th century to the present. The Companion explores topics such as global developments in contemporary indigenous art, Asian and Chinese art since the 1980s, feminist and queer feminist curatorial practices, and new curatorial strategies beyond the museum. This unique volume: Offers readers a wide range of perspectives on curating in both theory and practice Includes coverage of curation outside of the Eurocentric and Anglosphere art worlds Presents clear and comprehensible information valuable for specialists and novices alike Discusses the movements, models, people and politics of curating Provides guidance on curating in a globalized world Broad in scope and detailed in content, A Companion to Curation is an essential text for professionals engaged in varied forms of curation, teachers and students of museum studies, and readers interested in the workings of the art world, museums, benefactors, and curators.
The Worm at the Core
Author: Sheldon Solomon
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 067960488X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A transformative, fascinating theory—based on robust and groundbreaking experimental research—reveals how our unconscious fear of death powers almost everything we do, shining a light on the hidden motives that drive human behavior More than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher William James dubbed the knowledge that we must die “the worm at the core” of the human condition. In 1974, cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Denial of Death, arguing that the terror of death has a pervasive effect on human affairs. Now authors Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski clarify with wide-ranging evidence the many ways the worm at the core guides our thoughts and actions, from the great art we create to the devastating wars we wage. The Worm at the Core is the product of twenty-five years of in-depth research. Drawing from innovative experiments conducted around the globe, Solomon, Greenberg, and Pyszczynski show conclusively that the fear of death and the desire to transcend it inspire us to buy expensive cars, crave fame, put our health at risk, and disguise our animal nature. The fear of death can also prompt judges to dole out harsher punishments, make children react negatively to people different from themselves, and inflame intolerance and violence. But the worm at the core need not consume us. Emerging from their research is a unique and compelling approach to these deeply existential issues: terror management theory. TMT proposes that human culture infuses our lives with order, stability, significance, and purpose, and these anchors enable us to function moment to moment without becoming overwhelmed by the knowledge of our ultimate fate. The authors immerse us in a new way of understanding human evolution, child development, history, religion, art, science, mental health, war, and politics in the twenty-first century. In so doing, they also reveal how we can better come to terms with death and learn to lead lives of courage, creativity, and compassion. Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, The Worm at the Core offers a compelling new paradigm for understanding the choices we make in life—and a pathway toward divesting ourselves of the cultural and personal illusions that keep us from accepting the end that awaits us all. Praise for The Worm at the Core “The idea that nearly all human individual and cultural activity is a response to death sounds far-fetched. But the evidence the authors present is compelling and does a great deal to address many otherwise intractable mysteries of human behaviour. This is an important, superbly readable and potentially life-changing book.”—The Guardian (U.K.) “A neat fusion of ideas borrowed from sociology, anthropology, existential philosophy and psychoanalysis.”—The Herald (U.K.) “Deep, important, and beautifully written, The Worm at the Core describes a brilliant and utterly original program of scientific research on a force so powerful that it drives our lives.”—Daniel Gilbert, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Stumbling on Happiness “As psychology becomes increasingly trivial, devolving into the promotion of positive-thinking platitudes, The Worm at the Core bucks the trend. The authors present—and provide robust evidence for—a psychological thesis with disturbing personal as well as political implications.”—John Horgan, author of The End of War and director of the Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 067960488X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A transformative, fascinating theory—based on robust and groundbreaking experimental research—reveals how our unconscious fear of death powers almost everything we do, shining a light on the hidden motives that drive human behavior More than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher William James dubbed the knowledge that we must die “the worm at the core” of the human condition. In 1974, cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Denial of Death, arguing that the terror of death has a pervasive effect on human affairs. Now authors Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski clarify with wide-ranging evidence the many ways the worm at the core guides our thoughts and actions, from the great art we create to the devastating wars we wage. The Worm at the Core is the product of twenty-five years of in-depth research. Drawing from innovative experiments conducted around the globe, Solomon, Greenberg, and Pyszczynski show conclusively that the fear of death and the desire to transcend it inspire us to buy expensive cars, crave fame, put our health at risk, and disguise our animal nature. The fear of death can also prompt judges to dole out harsher punishments, make children react negatively to people different from themselves, and inflame intolerance and violence. But the worm at the core need not consume us. Emerging from their research is a unique and compelling approach to these deeply existential issues: terror management theory. TMT proposes that human culture infuses our lives with order, stability, significance, and purpose, and these anchors enable us to function moment to moment without becoming overwhelmed by the knowledge of our ultimate fate. The authors immerse us in a new way of understanding human evolution, child development, history, religion, art, science, mental health, war, and politics in the twenty-first century. In so doing, they also reveal how we can better come to terms with death and learn to lead lives of courage, creativity, and compassion. Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, The Worm at the Core offers a compelling new paradigm for understanding the choices we make in life—and a pathway toward divesting ourselves of the cultural and personal illusions that keep us from accepting the end that awaits us all. Praise for The Worm at the Core “The idea that nearly all human individual and cultural activity is a response to death sounds far-fetched. But the evidence the authors present is compelling and does a great deal to address many otherwise intractable mysteries of human behaviour. This is an important, superbly readable and potentially life-changing book.”—The Guardian (U.K.) “A neat fusion of ideas borrowed from sociology, anthropology, existential philosophy and psychoanalysis.”—The Herald (U.K.) “Deep, important, and beautifully written, The Worm at the Core describes a brilliant and utterly original program of scientific research on a force so powerful that it drives our lives.”—Daniel Gilbert, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Stumbling on Happiness “As psychology becomes increasingly trivial, devolving into the promotion of positive-thinking platitudes, The Worm at the Core bucks the trend. The authors present—and provide robust evidence for—a psychological thesis with disturbing personal as well as political implications.”—John Horgan, author of The End of War and director of the Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology