High Technology

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.

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.

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?

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.

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...

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...

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.

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, ...

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.

One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton.

Technology is awesome. Teachers are better. Blending new technologies into instruction is a non-negotiable if we are to help our students gain the skills they'll need to thrive in careers. And so too is educators' old school wisdom in planning intentional blended learning that works. Too often, sincere enthusiasm for technologies pushes proven instructional strategies to the wayside, all but guaranteeing blended learning that is all show and no go. Bold School is an audiobook that restores teachers to their rightful place in effective instruction.

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...

This program is read by Raza Jaffrey, best known for his role in Homeland. A gripping and entertaining memoir that shines a rare light on an industry that is disrupting our lives. Veteran Morgan Stanley banker Alok Sama thought he'd seen it all. Then he found himself chief dealmaker at the most...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In The Drone Age, Michael J. Boyle addresses some of the biggest questions surrounding the impact of drones on our world today and the risks that we might face tomorrow. Will drones produce a safer world because they reduce risk to pilots, or will the prospect of clean, remote warfare lead governments to engage in more conflicts? Will drones begin to replace humans on the battlefield? Will they empower soldiers and peacekeepers to act more precisely and humanely in crisis zones? How will terrorist organizations turn this technology back on the governments that fight them?

The Claimed by the Kyrathi Collection brings together four scorching sci-fi alien romances where advanced technology, primal desire, and fated bonds collide. These powerful Kyrathi males claim the human women who ignite their instincts and refuse to let them go. This complete collection includes: Bonded to the Iron Guardian Bonded to the Alloy Sovereign Bonded to the Nano Healer Bonded to the Neural Hunter Each novella in the Claimed by the Kyrathi Collection is a standalone romance featuring fated mates, possessive alien protectors, forced proximity, power imbalances, and the perfect ...

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 ...

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...