Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World
By: Thomas P. Hughes
3.62
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
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1. Understanding Social Networks: Theories, Concepts, and Findings
By: Charles Kadushin
3.79
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Despite the swift spread of social network concepts and their applications and the rising use of ne… read more
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2. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
By: Ashlee Vance
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist As… read more
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3. The Terrorist's Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives … read more
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4. The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics
By: None
4.23
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no… read more
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5. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
By: None
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movem… read more
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6. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
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7. War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics. Emile Simpson
By: None
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
In the wars in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and in recent conflicts more generally, liberal powers have… read more
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8. The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge
By: Vijay Govindarajan , Chris Trimble
4.54
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
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9. The Pursuit of Power
By: William H. McNeill
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
s/t: Technology, Armed Force & Society since AD 1000 In this magnificent synthesis of military, tec… read more
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10. Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency
By: Roger Trinquier
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Er… read more
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11. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
By: Kai-Fu Lee
4.10
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more
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"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
12. Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare
By: Seth G. Jones
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How three key figures in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns tha… read more
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13. Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
By: Paul Scharre
3.80
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have wea… read more
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"In practice, the line between automatic, automated, and autonomous systems is still blurry. Often, the term “autonomous"-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
"Machines can do many things, but they cannot create meaning. They cannot answer these questions for us. Machines cannot tell us what we value, what choices we should make. The world we are creating i…"-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
14. The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
By: Ben Buchanan
4.20
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"A must-read...It reveals important truths."--Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer "One of the finest boo… read more
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15. LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
By: P.W. Singer
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter an… read more
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16. Revolution in the Revolution? Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America
By: Régis Debray
3.46
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Régis Debray studied at the École Normale Supérieure under Louis Althusser, becaming "agrégé de phi… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958
By: David Galula
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
When Algerian nationalists launched a rebellion against French rule in November 1954, France was fo… read more
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18. Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age
By: Lori Garver
3.84
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The inside look at how the battle of the space billionaires began and why it matters, Escaping Grav… read more
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19. Flight Risk: The Coalition's Air Advisory Mission in Afghanistan, 2005-2015 (History of Military Aviation)
By: Forrest L. Marion
3.50
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
After 2005, the United States and coalition partners led an air advisory campaign to rebuild the Af… read more
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20. Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
By: Stephen Peter Rosen
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace … read more
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"Technological innovations that produced certain major components of the United States military cannot be understood as resulting from a qualitative arms race. Those involved in decisions about new mi…"-Stephen Peter Rosen, Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
21. Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World
By: Thomas P. Hughes
3.62
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
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22. Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists
By: Audrey Kurth Cronin
3.77
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotic… read more
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23. Astropolitik (Strategy and History)
By: Everett C. Dolman
4.03
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
This volume identifies and evaluates the relationship between outer-space geography and geographic … read more
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- science
24. War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics
By: Bleddyn E. Bowen
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
War in Space presents a theory of spacepower and considers the implications of space technology on … read more
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25. Space Warfare in the 21st Century (Cass Military Studies)
By: Joan Johnson-Freese
3.83
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
This book examines the recent shift in US space policy and the forces that continually draw the US … read more
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26. The Virtual Weapon and International Order
By: Lucas Kello
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develo… read more
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27. Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations
By: Herbert Lin
3.94
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
“We are dropping cyber bombs. We have never done that before.”—U.S. Defense Department official A n… read more
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28. Cognitive Superiority: Information to Power
By: Dean S. Hartley III
3.33
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
In a world of accelerating unending change, perpetual surveillance, and increasing connectivity, co… read more
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29. Security and Stability in the New Space Age: The Orbital Security Dilemma (Space Power and Politics)
By: Brad Townsend
4.00
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
This book examines the drivers behind great power security competition in space to determine whethe… read more
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30. Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team
By: Marina Nitze
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“A deeply empowering and practical book: for anyone, anywhere, who just wants to GET STUFF DONE.”--… read more
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31. The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests
By: James Moltz
3.81
Format: 396 pages, Paperback
The past five decades have witnessed often fierce international rivalry in space, but also surprisi… read more
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