Book Review Read and summarize Singer & Friedman's book "Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everybody Needs To Know". In your summary, underline the policies mentioned and also list the advices of the author in order to protect our way of life and homeland, also incorporate your answer with the controversial counter-terrorism policies and applications stated by the author. 3 pages maximum (2.5 page minimum in 12 font Times New Roman). ACADEMIC BOOK REVIEW GUIDELINES What to include: A book review should include all of the following: 1. Statements about what the author is attempting to achieve by writing the book 2. A brief summary of what the book covers 3. An evaluation of whether the author achieves what he sets out to achieve 4. Statements about where the book fits into its field Please read the following explanations below to help you develop an approach for authoring your book review. 1. Statements about what the author is attempting to achieve by writing the book. Authors almost always include statements about why they have written an academic book and what they hope to achieve. These statements can usually be found in prefaces, and/or introductions, and in conclusions. Try to discover if the author is starting from a particular theoretical or ideological base, developing a particular argument, using a particular method to explore an issue, or a combination of these. Try to provide the academic context in which the book has been written. 2. A brief summary of what the book covers. Outline the main sections or components that develop the text. Don't try to cover everything. A summary of key development is far more useful than a blow-by-blow account of chapters. Aim to be succinct and accurate. Your summary should only take up five or six paragraphs. 3. An evaluation of whether the author achieves what he sets out to achieve. Having identified the author's intentions, you are now in a position to judge whether he achieves them. This section forms the body of the book review. Support your arguments with examples from the book, but mostly put these into your own words. You might want to include a few direct quotations for important points, but keep these short and to the point, and remember to reference them accurately. You can comment on the author's style and presentation in this section. Resist the temptation to digress into your own subject knowledge or to suggest that the author should have written a completely different book. Keep to the job at hand. 4. Statements about where the book fits into its field. This is probably difficult to do if you are new to the subject and/or discipline. But, if you are in a position to comment on how the book does or does not make a contribution to the subject area, go ahead. How to structure a review Here is one suggestion for a structure. It includes all of the items outlined above. 1. An introductory paragraph identifying the work and its author, presenting the thesis of the book, and giving some indication of whether the author achieves the stated purpose of the book. 2. Five or six paragraphs summarizing the book and relating it (where possible) to other books in the field. 3. A paragraph or two noting the strengths of the book. 4. A paragraph or two noting the weaknesses of the book. 5. Concluding paragraphs that conveys, on balance, your assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the book (does the book succeed in fulfilling its purpose?)
