High Technology

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods.

His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic best seller - one of the most influential business books of all time - innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right - yet still lose market leadership. Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation.

Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator's Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation. Sharp, cogent, and provocative—and consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all time—The Innovator's Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, or entrepreneur should be without.

From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might. For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons...

February 1, 2003. A light flashed over a Texas sky and twisted metal rained across the countryside. As images of the wreckage from the Space Shuttle Columbia streamed across the nation's television screens, they became forever burned into our memories. But behind those images were stories that remained untold...until now.

Effie didn’t intend to bring death and destruction to Earth. But when Enforcers close in, Special Agent EAFY584 crashes her stolen starship into an uncharted solar system, and the only habitable planet is one its inhabitants call Earth. Good news: she can pass for a human teenager. Bad news: standard Enforcer protocol is to sterilize any world where a fugitive might be hiding. Now Effie has to warn an entire civilization that extinction is coming. There’s just one problem, nobody believes her. She tells the government she’s an alien. She tells them an invasion fleet is on its way. All...

When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page turner from a #1 New York Times bestselling author. "Harrowing ... powerful." -Associated Press Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a...

Jean Twenge, PhD, award-winning professor of psychology and author of the “lavishly informative” (The New York Times) Generations, returns with a concrete and accessible guide to raising resilient, successful, happy children in a time of overwhelming technological intrusion. Parenting today...

In the spirit of The Final Countdown and The Man in the High Castle comes a time-bending alternate-history thriller where Napoleon Bonaparte gains access to the future. A modern military aircraft disappears into a violent storm... —and emerges in the middle of Napoleon’s rise to power. At first, survival is all that matters. But one man aboard the aircraft sees opportunity. A chance to change history itself. As Napoleon’s empire expands beyond anything the world was ever meant to become, the timeline begins to fracture. Battles change. Nations vanish. The future itself starts ...

The world has entered a new era of geopolitical conflict. Cold War Two is no longer a distant possibility—it is today’s high-stakes conflict reality, shaping the global economy, financial markets, supply chains, trade policies, energy security, and technological competition. In this groundbreaking book, Jason Schenker, a top-ranked economist and futurist, provides a data-driven, forward-looking analysis of Cold War Two—how it began, where it’s headed, and what it means for businesses, policymakers, investors, and national security leaders. Drawing on his expertise as Chairman of The...

Great companies can fail: not because they do anything wrong, but because they do everything right. Meeting customers' current needs leads firms to reject breakthrough innovations, "disruptive technologies", that create the products and opportunities of the future.

AI isn’t the threat. It’s the turning point. While the world debates whether AI will take our jobs, our clients, or our creativity, women like us are asking a different question: How can we use it to take our power back? You’ve been building the business, leading the team, hitting the goals, raising the family, and holding it all together. But now there’s this new AI wave moving faster than anything we’ve seen before. Everyone’s telling you to “figure it out.” But between the strategy calls, carpool lines, team meetings, and text messages, where’s the bandwidth to learn ...

Everything is a trigger. White House journalist Tom Miller thought it was a random accident. It wasn’t. Something has been planted inside him. Not a virus. Not a toxin. A weapon. Engineered to stay hidden… until it’s activated. And in a world powered by signals, surveillance, and smart technology— activation is everywhere. To survive, Miller must disconnect completely. No phone. No network. No second chances. But he’s not the only one. When he discovers a list of infected carriers heading to a high-level global summit, the truth becomes clear: This isn’t an attack. It’s a ...

A high-stakes space salvage mission. A mysterious signal. A discovery that changes everything. Ryan and his crew survive by salvaging derelict ships drifting through deep space recovering valuable tech from wrecks no one else dares to touch. It’s dangerous work, but it follows rules. Until a signal appears that shouldn’t exist. Drawn to a silent wreck far beyond established routes, the crew expects profit. What they find instead is something far more dangerous advanced technology, impossible data, and a mystery that refuses to stay buried. As systems begin to fail and tensions rise, ...

A dark family secret. A bizarre cult. A talisman that can destroy entire cities. Darwin must stop the skeletons in his past... before they bury our future. Darwin Lacroix is a wreck. An ancient booby trap nearly kills his wife, Eyrún. A tunnel under their home hides an alchemy lab with strange crystals. And a tabloid reveals his forebear stole American gold, threatening his job as Vatican special director of antiquities. Then he’s slapped with a paternity suit. Could his life get any worse? Modern tests show the crystals are a scientific holy grail—an unlimited energy source—worth ...

The horror is real. Darwin and team face off against a cult hellbent on resurrecting the world's deadliest disease. When thieves steal holy relics from the Vatican Museums, he suspects the antiquities cartel he shut down is still operating. But something doesn’t add up. As Darwin chases evidence of the saint’s bones from Rome to Kyrgyzstan and Warsaw, he meets an investigative reporter who links them to a series of devasting attacks on remote Siberian villages. Has someone genetically engineered a bioweapon? With time running out and no government willing to investigate Russia, Darwin ...

In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman's uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forward, doctors and scientists have turned to technology in ever more innovative ways to facilitate conception. Fertility Technology surveys this history in all its medical, practical, and ethical complexity, and offers a look at state-of-the-art fertility technology in various social and political contexts around the world.

The Alchemical Tech Revolution explores the hidden occult agenda behind the "transhumanist" movement. It also identifies seven key "alchemical" technologies that will be used to usher man into a new age of technological marvels. But, will this new age be an age of enlightenment? Or will it be an age of unimagineable tyranny?

Prophecy. Power. Payback. Celtic Omen ignites the final showdown that began in Tuscan Hoax and Louvre Escape. Some call it the Bethlehem Star. Others say it fulfills a darker, older prophecy. Astronomers insist it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. But does it bring salvation—or destruction? Darwin Lacroix, the Vatican's head of archaeological threats, is drawn into a storm of myth and danger in the explosive conclusion of this gripping trilogy. When a newly discovered comet appears on a collision course with Earth, panic spreads. Darwin uncovers evidence that Copernicus saw it too—and ...

Every hero must be tested . . . Dragonfly Falling is the second book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time. The Wasp Empire’s armies are on the move – and the city of Tark will...