Ian Williams
1) Zero Days
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In the arsenal of cyber weapons out there, these zero days are the most deadly. Like nukes...
A new and dangerous computer bug is sweeping the internet. But this bug is different. Smart, quick, sophisticated, and developed by elite hackers working for a cybercrime syndicate, it can break through an unknown flaw in the world's most secure computer chips and cripple any system within seconds - the ultimate cyber weapon.
Reluctant American cyber...
2) Personals
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These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems. Jittery, plaintive, and fresh, these are poems voiced through a startling variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting with others, often to no avail. Ian Williams writes in traditional poetic forms: ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets. He also invents his own: poems that spin into indeterminacy, poems that don't end. With a deft hand...
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Felicia and Edgar come from different worlds. She's a nineteen-year-old student and Caribbean immigrant while he is the impetuous heir to his German family's fortune. When their ailing mothers are assigned the same Toronto hospital room, their chance encounter leads to an unlikely relationship full miscommunications, misunderstandings, and very surprising results.
Years later, Felicia's son Armistice-"Army" for short-is a teenager fixated on get-rich-quick...
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Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings a fresh point of view and new insights to the urgent conversation on race and racism in these illuminating essays born from his own experience as a Black man in the world.
With that one eloquent word, disorientation, Ian Williams captures the impact of racial encounters on racialized people-the whiplash of race that occurs while minding one's own business. Sometimes the consequences are only irritating, but...
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A Tale of Two Systems: Comparison of Communism and Capitalism in Everyday Life.
A narrative of personal experiences and observations of an engineer who is assigned to work in Russia, the Soviet Union, followed by the United States. He flies to Moscow then from Moscow over the eastern side of Ukraine over more than 500 miles of nothing but farmland. No towns. No cities. The Russians described it as the breadbasket of the USSR. He flew down to the...
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Monumental challenges threaten the sixth mass extinction on planet Earth. From increasing rates of infertility and chronic disease to soil degradation and climate collapse, reviving civilization requires changemakers to step forward and lead with their own unique genius.
In “Soil & Spirit”, Ian C. Williams presents a simple solution: self-actualization. Solutions at scale begin with individuals organizing themselves. Ian guides the reader through...
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Hauntings and obsessions, travelers in jeopardy, lives under siege...A ghost story with an erotic twist; a sociopath walking his victims along their fault lines until they crack; a black GI in wartime Brisbane loses his dog tag; an Australian woman on holiday in Romania finds herself implicated in her lover's stolen jewelry fencing activities...Eleven compelling stories exploring the unexpected and sometimes, terrifying consequences of stepping outside...
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Monumental challenges threaten the sixth mass extinction on planet Earth. From increasing rates of infertility and chronic disease to soil degradation and climate collapse, reviving civilization requires changemakers to step forward and lead with their own unique genius.
In Soil & Spirit, Ian C. Williams presents a simple solution: self-actualization. Solutions at scale begin with individuals organizing themselves. Ian guides the reader through that...
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Just World Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Drawing on personal experience with the UN, this combination of informative text and whimsical cartoons describes how the organization is supposed to work, how it actually behaves, and why there is a difference. UNtold lets readers in on the quirks and mysteries of international diplomacy and global decision-making. Delightfully irreverent, the message is that this vital body really can represent We the peoples of the world." The book has something...
10) Dolls
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MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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They're cute, they're cuddly...and they kill! A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a weak-kneed salesman inadvertently become the guests of two ghoulish senior citizens who have one seriously killer doll collection!
11) Gangster Land
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Al Capone recruits Machine Gun Jack McGurn to help fight the Irish & protect his empire on the crime ridden streets of Chicago. During the height of 1920s Prohibition, amateur boxer Jack McGurn ascends through the ranks of the Italian mob to become the right hand man of Al Capone. As the Italians of the Southside grow in power, so do the Irish of Northside, igniting the most brutal gang war the country has ever seen.