Computer Wars

Drawing on deep, exclusive reporting, a veteran national security correspondent reveals how a new military-industrial complex is arising from the cradle of Silicon Valley, with vast implications for American democracy and the global balance of power. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Alexander Karp...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The epic, definitive story of Sylvanas Windrunner, one of World of Warcraft’s most enduring and iconic characters, as chronicled by bestselling author Christie Golden. Ranger-General. Banshee Queen. Warchief. Sylvanas Windrunner has borne many titles. To some, she is a...

The New York Times bestselling author of One Minute to Midnight Michael Dobbs reconstructs the thrilling inside story of the climactic nuclear crisis of the Cold War, revealing the tension between “the human in the loop” and the algorithms that could trigger World War III. The year is 1983...

When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?

The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency’s original mission was to create “the unimagined weapons of the...

"With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer, Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the future while at the same time placing his story in the long arc of Russian and Ukrainian history." —Anne Applebaum, bestselling author of Twilight of Democracy The true...

Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders’ grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’ visions of success.

Bloomsbury presents Little Blue Dot by Katherine Dunn, read by Laurel Lefkow The unexplored history of GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all aspects of our lives. Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road, twisted a map this way and that, and...

The dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team whose feats of innovation and engineering created the world’s first digital electronic computer—decrypting the Nazis’ toughest code, helping bring an end to WWII, and ushering in the information age. Winner, Institute of Electrical and...

Award Winning author, T.L. Williams, has crafted another spellbinding journey through the murky world of intelligence operations as CIA Operations Officer, Logan Alexander, goes under deep cover to do battle against China’s massive cyber hacking apparatus. Based in Hong Kong, under the auspices of Alexander Maritime, a maritime consulting firm and defense contractor, Logan is at the forefront of a U.S. government program to identify and mitigate Chinese cyber hacking against U.S. targets. China’s state-sponsored hacking machine costs the U.S. billions of dollars in intellectual property...

Like a thief in the night, artificial intelligence has inserted itself into our lives. It makes important decisions for us every day. Often, we barely notice. As Joe Allen writes in this groundbreaking book, “Transhumanism is the great merger of humankind with the Machine. At this stage in history, it consists of billions using smartphones. Going forward, we’ll be hardwiring our brains to artificial intelligence systems.” With an academic background in both science and theology, Allen confronts the paradox of what he calls “good people constructing a digital abomination.”

Book 10 in the explosive Bob Burke action-thriller series. Four Russian airborne divisions are studying invasion maps of Beijing. A Chinese spymaster in Washington, D.C., disappears. And Bob Burke’s fifteen-year-old daughter may have just hacked her way into World War III. After nearly a decade of dismantling mob empires, cartels, terrorists, and foreign assassins, former Delta Force commander Bob Burke is finally ready to retire. His wife wants peace. His North Carolina farm is waiting. Then Wei Jun—Chinese intelligence chief, double agent, and trusted ally—vanishes without a trace. ...

A 2023 Audie Award winner! "Ever careful in his pacing, BD Wong narrates this cybersecurity tale as if he's pitching the story for a movie."- AudioFile A real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time. "What Michael...

They were told the code was unbreakable. Then a shy mathematician cycled through the rain and proved them wrong. Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman, and the brilliant eccentrics of Bletchley Park who cracked the Nazi Enigma and changed the course of the war. The history books mention Enigma. They mention D‑Day. But they leave out the most important question: how did a team of crossword solvers, chess champions, and a man who couldn‘t tie his shoelaces break the cipher that the Nazis believed was impenetrable? The official records left out one crucial detail: the war was won not only on the ...

He vowed to be her ruin. She dared him to try. Dina Anthony is a prodigy. Her bass guitar is her weapon, and the university’s Battle of the Bands is her war. She plays with a technical perfection no one can touch, her focus absolute. Winning is not just a dream, it is her destiny. But Lorenzo Houghton, the campus rock god with a cruel smile, stands in her way. He does not just want to win. He wants to obliterate her. He launches a vicious campaign of psychological warfare, determined to shatter her confidence and break her spirit before the final showdown. His obsession spirals into ...

A "dazzling" tale of empire and betrayal set among the stars (#1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston), this queer, spectacular space opera draws inspiration from Roman and Egyptian empires—and the lives and loves of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Princess Altagracia has lost...

The saga of the alien hybrid, James Ripley, continues in volume 2 of the Not From Earth® series. The hybrid alien is Earth's last hope to stop a 93-mile-wide comet on a collision course with Earth. The aliens sent James to Earth as an infant to grow, witness, and record Earth's final chapter, not to save the Earth. But James rebels and decides to fight for Earth despite all its faults. In this hard sci-fi, James, a computer programmer, struggles with AI and quantum mechanics to devise a plan using Quantum Tunneling. The ending is a high-tech mind-bender that expands far beyond the ...

How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related? Did teenagers exist before 1950? If not, who invented them? James May's 20th Century answers all these questions and more. In this exclusive download released to tie-in with the BBC...

The reach of Corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater; many of us rarely use cash these days. But what we’re told is a natural and inevitable move is actually the work of powerful interests. And the great battle of our time is the battle for ownership of the...

The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, more than a decade before the arrival of the Osborne 1, the Apple 1, the first Intel microprocessor, and IBM's PC5150. The human, business...