Innovations

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....

Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....

How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology....

Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of “deaths of despair” from suicide and substance abuse? Why is Israel’s population young and growing while all other wealthy democracies are aging and shrinking?....

An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, Longitude is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd....

This isn't a tech-babble narration or AI's self-portrait. It's an easy-to-grasp audio guide aimed at anyone and everyone—parents, executives, retirees—ready to embrace the future....

The best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history....

From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....

Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and solving an extraordinary range of problems....

Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known....

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century....

Jaron Lanier - the father of virtual reality - explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology....

How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....

The long-awaited audio version of the seminal book by legendary space pioneer, Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill, credited with inspiring the likes of Jeff Bezos, Peter Diamandis, and Dylan Taylor....

For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies, traveling from continent to continent—flying thousands of miles across the earth each fall and spring....

A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world....

Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology....

A hilarious investigation into future technologies - from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing....

The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly 60 years....

This history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change....

How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? Veteran technology journalist Brian Merchant reveals the inside story....

Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate....

Michelle Malkin tells the fascinating, little-known stories of the inventors who have contributed to American exceptionalism and technological progress....

This audiobook paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us....

An illuminating and maddening examination of how gender bias skews innovation, technology, history, and work, by Swedish journalist Katrine Marçal....