Engineering Future

In Breakneck, Wang blends political, economic, and philosophical analysis with reportage to reveal a new framework for understanding China—one that helps us see America more clearly, too. While China is an engineering state, relentlessly pursuing megaprojects, the United States has stalled. America has transformed into a lawyerly society, reflexively blocking everything, good and bad.

Brought to you by Penguin. From an indispensable voice on China, comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress For close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and astounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming railways and...

In Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine, naturopathic doctor Lee Know tells the epic story of mitochondria - the widely misunderstood and often-overlooked powerhouses of our cells. The legendary saga began over two billion years ago, when one bacterium entered another without being digested, which would evolve to create the first mitochondrion. Since then, for life to exist beyond single-celled bacteria, it's the mitochondria that have been responsible for this life-giving energy.

Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100. In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible—gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the...

More than half a century after humans first walked on the Moon, exciting new space adventures are in the works. Thanks to major advances in rocketry, robotics, and other space technologies, humanity is on the verge of returning to the Moon, exploring Mars, building permanent orbiting space stations, expanding space tourism, and pushing the boundaries of exploration throughout the solar system and beyond. The Future of Space Exploration explores these exciting developments in 12 half-hour episodes, hosted by aerospace engineer and executive Dr. Ariel Ekblaw.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of...

We’re running out of time. Fossil fuels are choking the planet and renewable energy isn’t cutting it. The solution has been hiding in plain sight all along. Nuclear. When most people hear that word, they go to a very bad place: bombs, Chernobyl, hazmat suits, radioactive fallout… the stuff...

An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made. The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear...

This book, "Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering," is born out of the pressing need to equip the next generation of civil engineers—and indeed, practicing professionals—with the knowledge and skills to navigate and lead this transformation. "Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering: Bridging Bytes and Beams for a Smarter, Sustainable Future" is a comprehensive textbook designed to introduce undergraduate (B.Tech) and postgraduate (M.Tech) students, as well as practicing civil engineers and researchers, to the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the ...

If you've always wanted to harness the full power of Artificial Intelligence to transform your career, business, and life — but every tutorial, course, and guide has left you more confused than when you started — then keep reading… Are you sick and tired of watching AI reshape the entire world while you're still standing on the sidelines, unsure where to even begin? Have you tried YouTube videos, online courses, and tech blogs, only to find yourself drowning in jargon, wasting hours, and getting absolutely nowhere? You see, mastering Artificial Intelligence doesn't have to be ...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street Journal From the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of...

What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey? Black Mirror meets thriller with a dash of Naomi Alderman’s The Power in this dark, high-concept novel by the bestselling author of The One, now available as an expanded edition. Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has...

Artificial Intelligence is no longer experimental—it is becoming the operating layer of modern work. By 2026, AI tools have moved far beyond simple chatbots. We now see autonomous agents, multimodal systems, AI-powered platforms, and entirely new workflows reshaping how individuals and organizations think, build, and operate. Top 100 Next-Generation AI Tools of 2026 provides a clear, structured guide to the most important AI tools, platforms, agents, and concepts shaping the future of work. This book cuts through marketing noise and rapid product churn to deliver a practical, up-to-date ...

In Technologies of Tomorrow: Engineering the Future of Life, Matter, and Information, Bernd Riemann provides a definitive and rigorous analysis of the one hundred breakthroughs that are actively dismantling the boundaries between the biological, the physical, and the digital worlds. This is not a work of science fiction, but a technical roadmap for the next century of civilization. The complexity of modern innovation is categorized into three fundamental ontological domains: Part I: The Future of Life. The biological sciences have shifted from observation to predictive engineering. We now ...

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to...

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to...

Large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion have unprecedented potential. Because they have been trained on all the public text and images on the internet, they can make useful contributions to a wide variety of tasks. And with the barrier to entry greatly reduced today, practically any developer can harness LLMs and diffusion models to tackle problems previously unsuitable for automation. With this book, you'll gain a solid foundation in generative AI, including how to apply these models in practice.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents an “elaborate, smart, and persuasive” (The Boston Globe) view of the future course of human development. “Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.”—Los Angeles Times “Startling in scope and bravado...

The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components.