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What are the greatest inventions of all time? What were the worst technology failures? Did you know that they had toilets in Ancient Crete? How was the wheel invented? What happens if you strap the wings from a Cessna onto a Ford Pinto? Take this fun and informative romp through the ages to find answers to these questions and many more.
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In Sex Robots & Vegan Meat, award-winning journalist and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on a journey into the world of the people who are changing what it means to be human. Focusing on the central pillars of the human experience-birth, food, sex, and death-Kleeman examines the people who are driving some truly amazing (and perhaps worrying) innovations. We are on the brink of seismic changes in the ways we live and die, from babies grown...
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"You don't understand the software running your car or your iPhone. But here's a secret: neither do the geniuses at Apple or the Ph.D.'s at Toyota--not perfectly, anyway. No one, not lawyers, doctors, accountants, or policy makers, fully grasps the rules governing your tax return, your retirement account, or your hospital's medical machinery. The same technological advances that have simplified our lives have made the systems governing our lives incomprehensible,...
5) Zero Days
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In the arsenal of cyber weapons out there, these zero days are the most deadly. Like nukes...
A new and dangerous computer bug is sweeping the internet. But this bug is different. Smart, quick, sophisticated, and developed by elite hackers working for a cybercrime syndicate, it can break through an unknown flaw in the world's most secure computer chips and cripple any system within seconds - the ultimate cyber weapon.
Reluctant American cyber...
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Department Z tracks down a doomsday weapon in an edge-of-your-seat spy thriller from the Edgar Award–winning author who sold eighty million books worldwide.
Professor Toller has created a weapon that could change the world as we know it. The threat is imminent as the professor and his formula are kidnapped, and it is left to the head of Department Z, Gordon Craigie, to save the day.
Department Z is a small and little-known faction of the intelligence...
7) Rebellium
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In a fast paced thriller, Chandler Scott continues his quest for the dream story. What will it cost him? His career, his love, his life?Continuing his dangerous investigations, he discovers plots more sinister than even he could ever imagine. As he plunges into the world of secessionists and government run wild, he soon realizes that his life hangs in the balance. He must decide whom he can trust-his documentary partner with a dark past or the people...
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The wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marcal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because "real men" carried their bags, no matter how heavy. There were rolling suitcases before the '70s, but they were marketed as a niche product for (the presumably few) women...
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"Information technology is changing the world through automation, by bypassing middlemen and by digitization. We see dramatic effects today in the music industry, going from CDs to streaming, in newspapers, from paper to online, and in the banking industry, from branch offices to the Internet. One of the most fundamental changes is the replacement of physical cash, money and coins, by bits in a computer. A Cash-Free Society is about this dramatic...
10) Caste American
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You're Wanted Because the People Deserve Justice. Jimmy Larkin's mouth dried, his armpits dampened, and a nervous twitch tremored through his body. The teacher's reaction was identical to anyone in 2024 who'd received the screen-paralyzing notification known as the Medusa. No initial explanation of your crime; no chance to conceal your guilt from your entire list of contacts or the public domain; nothing to do but accept the fact that someone, somewhere...
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A chilling Dark Web thriller An anonymous website, a few clicks, and Joe Henderson's life is changed forever. 'The Red Room' is the only place where the failings of a weak justice system are righted and where the line between good and evil becomes blurred. When the lights go up, viewers bid, criminals are punished, and the Brotherhood of the Righteous broadcasts a show like no other. The room has remained hidden until now, when a video arrives in...
12) Abnormal End
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A KILL CODE SURVIVOR In KILL CODE, Jackie Winn narrowly survived attacks by ruthless assassins Now, she's fighting for her life again HER ALLY Leo Marston, retired sniper assassin, is at her side; friend, lover and mentor. Despite their difficult pasts and uncertain future, they band together to combat the enemy THE CAUSE Terrorists directed by fiendish software unknowingly unleashed by Jackie in KILL CODE to cast an entire city into darkness and...
13) Speed the Dawn
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In the style of Clive Cussler, best-selling author Philip Donlay climbs to a new height of terror in his 8th Donovan Nash thriller.
Hundreds of white-hot meteor fragments plunge toward Earth near Monterey Bay, California. Huge fires ignite the tinder-dry landscape and, as the sun sets, the power grid collapses and the fires grow, illuminating a nightmare created in hell itself. Donovan Nash realizes he is trapped.
Injured and growing desperate,...
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A Chinese invasion force, struck and wiped out the entire US Pacific fleet and a full conquest of America seems certain. The lady president and an unlikely ally, Ox, a hacker, join forces to stop the invasion and repair the cyber defenses. For years an unsuspecting United States did not know that it's entire defense establishment, from security satellites to requisition orders, fed all that data into a Chinese supercomputer hidden deep within Beijing....
15) Faster
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Fans of Ex Machina and I, Robot will love this book with "something to interest almost everyone." (Screencraft)
"Faster is an exciting drama with deeply drawn and flawed characters. The action is often exciting, and many chapters are page-turners." -Valerie W., Amazon reviewer
Inspired by the incredible true story of three geniuses who changed the world.
Out in the sun-bleached sands of the Mojave Desert, a group of masterminds comes together...
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The Lyon family was truly a red-blooded all-American family, and well known as a strong honest, very wealthy family, in Texas and other parts of the world. John was the patriarch of the Lyon family. John started his empire in the late 1880s. Born to a well-off family in New Mexico, his father was a cattleman who owned a large cattle ranch, south of Santa-Fe some twenty-odd miles. Due to a tragic accident when John was about sixteen, he lost both parents...
17) Arnarstapi
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La guerra por el dominio del clima ya ha empezado en una remota aldea de Islandia.
Un inesperado cambio meteorológico está a punto de acabar con la vida de un consagrado y mediático alpinista recién llegado a Islandia. Tras comentarlo con los habitantes de Arnarstapi, una remota aldea del noroeste de Islandia, el montañero decide investigar los misteriosos experimentos científicos que se llevan a cabo desde una gran antena de telecomunicaciones...
18) Rogue Code
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Michael Lewis' Flash Boys revealed how high frequency trading has created a ruthless breed of traders capable of winning whichever way the market turns. In Rogue Code, Mark Russinovich takes it one-step further to show how their grip on high finance makes the stock market vulnerable to hackers who could bring about worldwide financial collapse.
Cyber security expert Jeff Aiken knows that no computer system is completely secure. When he's called to...
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There is a war going on. A war between the dominant power, the undisputed victor of the Cold War and the richest country in the world, versus the ascending power, the most populous nation on the earth that wishes to claim a place in the world order. This war is not fought by their armed forces on the battlefields, with missiles in the air, or navies on the open seas. No, instead it is fought by nerds and wonks in research labs, in patent offices and...
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