Aftermath

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would. Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned ​a curiosity ​of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code. Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids? After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.

The Code Breaker

Abolition for the People

The 1619 Project

The First Nine Months Of Donald Trump's Term Were Stormy, Outrageous -- And Absolutely Mesmerizing. Now, Thanks To His Deep Access To The West Wing, Bestselling Author Michael Wolff Tells The Riveting Story Of How Trump Launched A Tenure As Volatile And Fiery As The Man Himself. In This Explosive Book, Wolff Provides A Wealth Of New Details About The Chaos In The Oval Office. Among The Revelations : What President Trump's Staff Really Thinks Of Him -- What Inspired Trump To Claim He Was Wire-tapped By President Obama -- Why Fbi Director James Comey Was Really Fired -- Why Chief Strategist Steve Bannon And Trump's Son-in-law Jared Kushner Couldn't Be In The Same Room -- Who Is Really Directing The Trump Administration's Strategy In The Wake Of Bannon's Firing -- What The Secret To Communicating With Trump Is -- What The Trump Administration Has In Common With The Movie The Producers. Never Before Has A Presidency So Divided The American People. Brilliantly Reported And Astoundingly Fresh, Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury Shows Us How And Why Donald Trump Has Become The King Of Discord And Disunion -- Book Jacket. Author's Notes -- Prologue: Ailes And Bannon -- Election Day -- Trump Tower -- Day One -- Bannon -- Jarvanka -- At Home -- Russia -- Org Chart -- Cpac -- Goldman -- Wiretap -- Repeal And Replace -- Bannon Agonistes -- Situation Room -- Media -- Comey -- Abroad And At Home -- Bannon Redux -- Mika Who? -- Mcmaster And Scaramucci -- Bannon And Scaramucci -- General Kelly -- Epilogue: Bannon And Trump -- Acknowledgments -- Index. Michael Wolff. Includes Index.

Fire and Fury

The National Book Award-winning Author Of Stamped From The Beginning Offers A Bracingly Original Approach To Understanding And Uprooting Racism And Inequality In Society--and In Ourselves.lves.

How To Be an Antiracist

The #1 New York Times bestselling, "must-read" (San Francisco Chronicle), "amazingly timely and stunningly accessible" (Jacqueline Woodson) exploration of race and racism from award-winning, beloved authors Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, now in paperback. This is NOT a history book. This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are. A book about race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. It takes you on a race journey from then to now, shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. It also proves that while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited. Through a gripping, fast-paced, and energizing narrative written by beloved award-winner Jason Reynolds, this book shines a light on the many insidious forms of racist ideas--and on ways readers can identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their daily lives. Download the free educator guide here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Stamped-Educator-Guide.pdf

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

The true story of the most devastating cyberattack in history and the desperate hunt to identify and track the elite Russian agents behind it, from Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg. “Lays out in chilling detail how future wars will be waged in cyberspace and makes the case that we have done little, as of yet, to prevent it.” —Washington Post In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen. They culminated in the summer of 2017, when the malware known as NotPetya was unleashed, penetrating, disrupting, and paralyzing some of the world's largest businesses—from drug manufacturers to software developers to shipping companies. At the attack's epicenter in Ukraine, ATMs froze. The railway and postal systems shut down. Hospitals went dark. NotPetya spread around the world, inflicting an unprecedented ten billion dollars in damage—the largest, most destructive cyberattack the world had ever seen. The hackers behind these attacks are quickly gaining a reputation as the most dangerous team of cyberwarriors in history: a group known as Sandworm. Working in the service of Russia's military intelligence agency, they represent a persistent, highly skilled force, one whose talents are matched by their willingness to launch broad, unrestrained attacks on the most critical infrastructure of their adversaries. They target government and private sector, military and civilians alike. A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, Sandworm considers the danger this force poses to our national security and stability. As the Kremlin's role in foreign government manipulation comes into greater focus, Sandworm exposes the realities not just of Russia's global digital offensive, but of an era where warfare ceases to be waged on the battlefield. It reveals how the lines between digital and physical conflict, between wartime and peacetime, have begun to blur—with world-shaking implications.

Sandworm

The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom, and even democracy itself. Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly anonymous, its members invented the concept of hacktivism, released the top tool for testing password security, and created what was for years the best technique for controlling computers from afar, forcing giant companies to work harder to protect customers. They contributed to the development of Tor, the most important privacy tool on the net, and helped build cyberweapons that advanced US security without injuring anyone. With its origins in the earliest days of the Internet, the cDc is full of oddball characters -- activists, artists, even future politicians. Many of these hackers have become top executives and advisors walking the corridors of power in Washington and Silicon Valley. The most famous is former Texas Congressman and current presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, whose time in the cDc set him up to found a tech business, launch an alternative publication in El Paso, and make long-shot bets on unconventional campaigns. Today, the group and its followers are battling electoral misinformation, making personal data safer, and battling to keep technology a force for good instead of for surveillance and oppression. Cult of the Dead Cow shows how governments, corporations, and criminals came to hold immense power over individuals and how we can fight back against them.

Cult of the Dead Cow

The Founding Myth

Insane Clown President

From New York Times-bestselling Author Nick Bilton Comes A True-life Thriller About The Rise And Fall Of Ross Ulbricht, Aka The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Founder Of The Online Black Market Silk Road.

American Kingpin

The One Device

The Daily Show

Top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb.   In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at an Iranian uranium enrichment plant were failing at an unprecedented rate. The cause was a complete mystery—apparently as much to the technicians replacing the centrifuges as to the inspectors observing them.   Then, five months later, a seemingly unrelated event occurred: A computer security firm in Belarus was called in to troubleshoot some computers in Iran that were crashing and rebooting repeatedly.    At first, the firm’s programmers believed the malicious code on the machines was a simple, routine piece of malware. But as they and other experts around the world investigated, they discovered a mysterious virus of unparalleled complexity.   They had, they soon learned, stumbled upon the world’s first digital weapon. For Stuxnet, as it came to be known, was unlike any other virus or worm built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it escaped the digital realm to wreak actual, physical destruction on a nuclear facility.    In these pages, Wired journalist Kim Zetter draws on her extensive sources and expertise to tell the story behind Stuxnet’s planning, execution, and discovery, covering its genesis in the corridors of Bush’s White House and its unleashing on systems in Iran—and telling the spectacular, unlikely tale of the security geeks who managed to unravel a sabotage campaign years in the making.   But Countdown to Zero Day ranges far beyond Stuxnet itself. Here, Zetter shows us how digital warfare developed in the US. She takes us inside today’s flourishing zero-day “grey markets,” in which intelligence agencies and militaries pay huge sums for the malicious code they need to carry out infiltrations and attacks. She reveals just how vulnerable many of our own critical systems are to Stuxnet-like strikes, from nation-state adversaries and anonymous hackers alike—and shows us just what might happen should our infrastructure be targeted by such an attack.   Propelled by Zetter’s unique knowledge and access, and filled with eye-opening explanations of the technologies involved, Countdown to Zero Day is a comprehensive and prescient portrait of a world at the edge of a new kind of war.

Countdown to Zero Day

Twitter Seems Like A Perfect Start-up Success Story. In Barely Six Years, A Small Group Of Young, Ambitious Programmers In Silicon Valley Built An $11.5 Billion Business Out Of The Ashes Of A Failed Podcasting Company. Today Twitter Boasts More Than 200 Million Active Users And Has Affected Business, Politics, Media, And Other Fields In Innumerable Ways. Now Nick Bilton Of The New York Times Takes Readers Behind The Scenes With A Narrative That Shows What Happened Inside Twitter As It Grew At Exponential Speeds. This Is A Tale Of Betrayed Friendships And High-stakes Power Struggles As The Four Founders-biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, And Noah Glass-went From Everyday Engineers To Wealthy Celebrities, Featured On Magazine Covers, Oprah, The Daily Show, And Time's List Of The World's Most Influential People. Bilton's Exclusive Access And Exhaustive Investigative Reporting-drawing On Hundreds Of Sources, Documents, And Internal E-mails-have Enabled Him To Write An Intimate Portrait Of Fame, Influence, And Power. He Also Captures The Zeitgeist And Global Influence Of Twitter, Which Has Been Used To Help Overthrow Governments In The Middle East And Disrupt The Very Fabric Of The Way People Communicate-- #start -- #founders. @ev ; @noah ; @jack ; @biz -- #noah. Troubled Waters ; Status ; Twitter ; Just Setting Up My Twttr ; The Cowboy At The Rodeo ; The Green Benches -- #jack. A Bloody Mess ; Chaos Again ; And The Winner Is-- ; The First Ceo ; The Hundred-million-dollar Offer ; Is Twitter Down? ; The Dressmaker ; Rumor ; Fuck Fuck Fuck ; Building Sand Castles Underwater ; Calling My Parents -- #ev. The Third Twitter Leader ; Fight Or Flight ; The Marathon Man ; Dinner With Al ; Oprah ; Spiraling Into Iraq ; The Time 101 ; Iranian Revolution ; The Accidental Billionaire ; The Coach And The Comedian ; Jack's Gone Rogue ; Steve Jobs 2.0 ; Russian-roulette Relations ; Secret Meetings ; The Clown Car In The Gold Mine ; A Sunday Storm -- #dick. No Adult Supervision ; Jack's Supervision ; Jack's Back! ; Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow ; What's Happening? Nick Bilton.

Hatching Twitter

The Facebook Effect

From The Award-winning Author Of A People's Tragedy And Natasha's Dance, A Landmark Account Of What Private Life Was Like For Russians In The Worst Years Of Soviet Repression There Have Been Many Accounts Of The Public Aspects Of Stalin's Dictatorship: The Arrests And Trials, The Enslavement And Killing In The Gulags. No Previous Book, However, Has Explored The Regime's Effect On People's Personal Lives, What One Historian Called The Stalinism That Entered Into All Of Us. Now, Drawing On A Huge Collection Of Newly Discovered Documents, The Whisperers Reveals For The First Time The Inner World Of Ordinary Soviet Citizens As They Struggled To Survive Amidst The Mistrust, Fear, Compromises, And Betrayals That Pervaded Their Existence. Moving From The Revolution Of 1917 To The Death Of Stalin And Beyond, Orlando Figes Re-creates The Moral Maze In Which Russians Found Themselves, Where One Wrong Turn Could Destroy A Family Or, Perversely, End Up Saving It. He Brings Us Inside Cramped Communal Apartments, Where Minor Squabbles Could Lead To Fatal Denunciations; He Examines The Communist Faithful, Who Often Rationalized Even Their Own Arrest As A Case Of Mistaken Identity; And He Casts A Humanizing Light On Informers, Demonstrating How, In A Repressive System, Anyone Could Easily Become A Collaborator. A Vast Panoramic Portrait Of A Society In Which Everyone Spoke In Whispers—whether To Protect Their Families And Friends, Or To Inform Upon Them—the Whisperers Is A Gripping Account Of Lives Lived In Impossible Times.

The Whisperers

1776

Team of Rivals

<p>In 1938, a non-Jewish upper-middle-class lawyer fled Germany for England and began writing an account of his daily life under Nazi rule (using the pen-name Sebastian Haffner). The manuscript was not discovered until after his death in 1999, and it was published in Germany in 2000. This first English-language edition, translated by Oliver Pretzel (the author's son), contains six additional chapters recently uncovered by archivists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR</p> <h3>Reinhard Mohr</h3> <p>Reviewers call it the book of the year; readers have made it a best-seller.</p>

Defying Hitler: A Memoir

Lies My Teacher Told Me

A Prominent Viennese Psychiatrist Recounts His Experiences In A Nazi Concentration Camp That Led To The Development Of His Existentialist Approach To Psychotherapy. Reissue.

All 24 books by History

History