Britain's domestic intelligence agencies maintained secret records on many left-wing writers after the First World War. Drawing on recently declassified material from 1930 to 1960, this revealing ...study examines how leading figures in Britain's literary scene fell under MI5 and Special Branch surveillance, and the surprising extent to which writers became willing participants in the world of covert intelligence and propaganda. Chapters devoted to W. H. Auden and his associates, theatre pioneers Ewan MacColl and Joan Littlewood, George Orwell and others describe methods used by MI5 to gather information through and about the cultural world. The book also investigates how these covert agencies assessed the political influence of such writers, providing scholars and students of twentieth-century British literature with an unprecedented account of clandestine operations in popular culture.
A step-by-step approach to building stunning dashboards with QlikView Key Features * Perform effective storytelling through interactive dashboards built with QlikView * Create different types of ...visualizations from a variety of data sources * Includes tips, tricks, and best practices to perform effective Business Intelligence using QlikView Book Description QlikView is one of the market leaders when it comes to building effective Business Intelligence solutions. This book will show how you can leverage its power to build your own dashboards to tell your own data story. The book starts with showing you how to connect your data to QlikView and create your own QlikView application. You will learn how to add data from multiple sources, create a data model by joining data, and then review it on the front end. You will work with QlikView components such as charts, list boxes, input boxes, and text objects to create stunning visualizations that help give actionable business insights. You will also learn how to perform analysis on your data in QlikView and master the various types of security measures to be taken in QlikView. By the end of this book, you will have all the essential knowledge required for insightful data storytelling and creating useful BI dashboards using QlikView. What you will learn * Learn to use the latest and newest features of QlikView * Connect QlikView to various data sources, such as databases and websites * Create a fully featured data model without circular references * Display your data in maps, charts, and text across multiple sheets * Apply set analysis to your data in QlikView expressions * Secure your data based on the various audience types Who this book is for This book is best suited for BI professionals, data analysts and budding QlikView developers who wish to build effective dashboards using QlikView. Some basic understanding of the data visualization concepts and Business Intelligence is required.
Organized crime has been on the rise in the Greater China region since the People's Republic opened up its economy and society in the mid-1980s. Today, triads from Hong Kong, Macao, and even Taiwan ...are involved in businesses in Guangdong Province, and often recruit local Chinese for illegal activities such as extortion, kidnapping, assassinations, and smuggling of illegal aliens.This book provides a detailed and comprehensive study of how the state at the central and local levels has responded to the changing patterns and activities of cross-border crime in Greater China. It discusses the theoretical concept of organized crime; the transnational nature of organized crime in recent years; the significance of studying organized crime in Greater China; and the implications for the national security of other countries such as the United States, Canada, and Australia.The author reviews the history of organized crime and secret societies, and addresses the legal complexities of dealing with criminal groups in the region. He covers such topics as money laundering, the financing of terrorist activities, and regional efforts in fighting terrorism.
When Lt General Faiz Hameed, Pakistan’s spy agency chief until recently, allowed himself to be photographed at the Serena Hotel in Kabul shortly after the capital fell to the Taliban, and just before ...an interim government emerged, the regional response was scathing.In India, especially, the visit was said to show that Afghanistan was now a puppet state, the Taliban a wholly owned Pakistan subsidiary. Officials and journalists framed the new order as a spectacular victory for the Inter Services Intelligence directorate (ISI), Pakistan’s notorious spy agency, perhaps as significant as India’s in East Pakistan in 1971. Afghanistan, which had tilted to the West, where women were folded into government and society, was now heading back towards a dour Islamism, orchestrated by a pathological agency that had spent two decades duping the US. But this is an extraordinary partial reading, seen through the lens of South Asian conflict and India’s missteps.
Build reporting applications and dashboards using the different MicroStrategy objects Key Features * Learn the fundamentals of MicroStrategy * Use MicroStrategy to get actionable insights from your ...business data * Create visualizations and build intuitive dashboards and reports Book Description MicroStrategy is an enterprise business intelligence application. It turns data into reports for making and executing key organization decisions. This book shows you how to implement Business Intelligence (BI) with MicroStrategy. It takes you from setting up and configuring MicroStrategy to security and administration. The book starts by detailing the different components of the MicroStrategy platform, and the key concepts of Metadata and Project Source. You will then install and configure MicroStrategy and lay down the foundations for building MicroStrategy BI solutions. By learning about objects and different object types, you will develop a strong understanding of the MicroStrategy Schema and Public Objects. With these MicroStrategy objects, you will enhance and scale your BI and Analytics solutions. Finally, you will learn about the administration, security, and monitoring of your BI solution. What you will learn * Set up the MicroStrategy Intelligence Server and client tools * Create a MicroStrategy metadata repository and your first Project * Explore the main MicroStrategy object types and their dependencies * Create, manipulate, and share Reports * Create and share Dashboards * Manage Users and Groups Who this book is for This book is for Business Intelligence professionals or data analysts who want to get started with Microstrategy. Some basic understanding of BI and data analysis will be required to get the most from this book.
An independent Timor-Leste posed a dilemma for Australian foreign policy. On the one hand, Australia led the multinational military coalition that restored peace in 1999, and had an obvious interest ...in ensuring that its newest neighbour was self-reliant and stable. On the other hand, independence negated three decades of Australian diplomatic effort to control the oil and gas resources of the Timor Sea. Accordingly, Australia accepted Timor-Leste's formal independence but tried to influence key aspects of its internal and external policies using foreign aid, espionage and other instruments of statecraft.
Sarah Lias Ceide is a research associate at the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Rome. She received her PhD from the University of Naples Federico II within the doctoral program in Historical, ...Archeological and Artistic Sciences. Her research interests concentrate on German-Italian contemporary history, with a focus on Cold War Studies, Intelligence History, and the history of Italy’s “Second Republic”.
Information in all its forms is at the heart of the economic intelligence process. It is also a powerful vector of innovation and, more than ever, a balance between economic and societal forces. That ...is why a large part of Strategic Intelligence for the Future 2 analyzes the various aspects of information, from traditional processing and research to the psychological and epigenetic aspects of its development. This leads to a new vision of its integration into organizations. In addition, new technologies offer extensive access to information, including social networks which are critically analyzed here. In a complex world where geopolitics and the new concept of information warfare are becoming increasingly important, it becomes imperative to better apprehend and understand our environment, in order to develop critical thinking that will reinforce the different global aspects of security in economic intelligence.
Big Data Analytics will assist managers in providing an overview of the drivers for introducing big data technology into the organization and for understanding the types of business problems best ...suited to big data analytics solutions, understanding the value drivers and benefits, strategic planning, developing a pilot, and eventually planning to integrate back into production within the enterprise. * Guides the reader in assessing the opportunities and value proposition * Overview of big data hardware and software architectures * Presents a variety of technologies and how they fit into the big data ecosystem
