United Technologies

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...

To live in 19th-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent. There were revolutions in transport, communication and work; cities grew vast; and scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognisable. This was an exhilarating time but also a horrifying one. In his new book, David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of the British 19th century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice.

The shocking techno-thriller that cements Daniel Suarez’s status as the heir to Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy—a terrifying, breathtaking, and all-too-plausible vision of the world’s near future. Unmanned weaponized drones already exist—they’re widely used by America in our war...

A teen criminal hacker turned secret operative must outwit a band of cyberterrorists in this gripping novel from the acclaimed author of The Bone Houses. This program features multicast narration. I was fifteen when I became a murderer. After a hack gone tragically wrong, a teen girl is given an...

THE AUDACIOUS FORMULAE FOR CHANGING THE WORLD IN FIVE YEARS For instance, here is a summary of the “EXPONENTIAL PLAN OF ACTION FOR THE UN TO ACHIEVE THE 2030 AGENDA THROUGH A.I AND EMERGING TECH DEPLOYMENT”. If practically, the UN and MEMBER STATES could locate, mobilize and empower ONE BILLION SDGs friendly and Tech savvy skilled actors from the 8. 3 BILLIONS Humans on Earth in this year 2025. If these ONE BILLION SDGs Skilled Force are well motivated and empowered with the right physical and digital tools and technologies to act and DISCIPLES JUST ONE PERSON FOR A YEAR on the ...

Americans are measuring the wrong war and using the wrong scoreboard. For years, the U.S. China debate has focused on headlines: tariffs, diplomacy, and who invents the next breakthrough. But national power is built on something quieter and harder to rebuild: industrial ecosystems, supply-chain chokepoints, and the ability to scale technology into mass-market reality. This book makes a controversial argument and tests it with data: the United States has already lost key dimensions of the economic, trade, and technology contest with China, and the American public does not yet grasp how far ...

A fascinating, eye-opening, and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the United States—and the world—from one of our most incisive futurists George Friedman has become a leading expert in geopolitical forecasting, sought after for his unmatched grasp of both historical and contemporary...

We’re often told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s endangering our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent? This program is read by the author. The Information State is an incisive examination of...

Early True Believers: The Untold Story of Silicon Alley is a 1990s saga of ambition and innovation set in Manhattan’s Silicon Alley, a swath of downtown that served as New York City’s nerve center of tech entrepreneurship. The series features the stories of a forgotten cohort of early internet visionaries, countercultural social networks, the digital gold rush, and the lavish events that came with it, including one held in an underground Tribeca bunker that abruptly ended in a police raid—a harbinger of the upheaval to come.

Everybody has secrets, and former US presidents are no exception. Discover which stories about America’s past leaders are true and which ones are just tall tales.

In this series of interlocking stories that spreads out like a detailed painting, modern Americans, including a NASA scientist and a forest ranger, mingle with the last of a tribe of Native American peoples – the Tukudika, also called Sheepeaters. This results in a peaceful, cultural exchange in which the Tukudika spell out their opposition to the technologically-advanced world of the White Man, while illuminating the old ways of their ancestors.

This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises). What if a lifesaving...

Have you ever looked into the night sky and wished that you could walk on the Moon? Find about what it is like from the astronauts that were first to do it! Learn about how Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins traveled into space and created history in 1969, and what it was like to take those famous first steps that made “one giant leap for mankind."

Visit the Nation's Capital! Learn about Washington, D.C.'s, history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our nation's capital.

Feed the Dragon is a detailed study of China's battery mineral operations in Africa. The U.S. and China are chief rivals in the international system and part of this competition includes the race for increasingly limited critical minerals. Africa, once the preserve of Western colonial powers, is open for business and their raw materials are on the table for discussion. To date, China has engaged the African nations in a persistent and comprehensive manner to secure their mineral needs in order to feed their growing battery and electric vehicle industries. While there are serious challenges ...

The Japanese War Machine in 1945: Secret and Special Weapons of Imperial Japan By Alan Yuen In the final year of the Second World War, Imperial Japan faced overwhelming industrial, material, and strategic disadvantage. Yet even as its conventional military power declined, Japan fielded a remarkable array of advanced, unconventional, and desperate weapons in an attempt to alter the course of the war. The Japanese War Machine in 1945 is a deeply researched and visually rich examination of the weapons, technologies, and strategic doctrines that defined Japan’s final wartime efforts. ...

The Drone Age Is Not Coming — It Is Already Here There is a temptation, when writing about emerging technologies, to speak of them in the future tense. We warn. We predict. We describe the dangers that lie ahead as though they remain conveniently hypothetical, as though the reader still has time to prepare, to deliberate, to choose. That temptation must be resisted here, because the story told in the preceding chapters is not a warning about what may come. It is an accounting of what already exists. The drone age is not approaching. It arrived somewhere over the deserts of Afghanistan in ...

An illustrated history of American innovators—some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating—by the author of the bestselling The American Century. The real inventor of the steam engine. The creator of the bra. The man who invented modern banking. The creator of the computer operating...

Federal agencies with a lead role to assist and protect one or more of the nation’s 16 critical infrastructures are referred to as sector risk management agencies (SRMAs). The SRMAs for three of the 16 have determined the extent of their sector’s adoption of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (framework). In doing so, lead agencies took actions such as developing sector surveys and conducting technical assessments mapped to framework elements.

America's greatest economic triumphs were all beautiful accidents. From the cotton gin that accidentally entrenched slavery to the graphics cards designed for video games that became the backbone of artificial intelligence—American capitalism wasn't planned. It was stumbled into, one unintended consequence at a time. Unintended Consequences: The Making of American Capitalism traces 250 years of economic transformation through the lens of stunning historical accidents. This isn't a story of visionary entrepreneurs executing brilliant strategies. It's the real story: good intentions ...