Sits in the same time with Tokugawa Ieyasu. This book is the sea version of Shougun!In 1661, a Chinese warlord did what every European power believed impossible: he took Taiwan from the Dutch.For nine months, the guns of Fort Zeelandia held the most modern fortress in the East Indies. The Dutch East India Company had a proverb for men like the one massing on the sandbar outside: three volleys, and the Chinese will run. They were forty years out of ...

One grieving man hijacked the sun to shield the powerless. A billionaire turned their survival into a subscription.In a post-AI century where intelligent machines have priced human labor — and human mercy — out of the world, Qiu Fengyang has one weapon left: a shadow. Out of grief for his grandmother and the bulldozed Hakka mountains of his childhood, he smuggles a sentient bacterial swarm to the Earth–Sun L1 point and unfurls a living umbrella across the sky — a s...

Gina, you can sleep now. Thierry, same. And Tim — you can finally close that one open eye.Gina Raimondo called it "absolutely devastating." Thierry Breton called it "catastrophic." Tim Cook hasn't said anything publicly — but with Apple's entire silicon future running through one island, everyone knows he checks the Taiwan headlines before bed.The Avoidable Chip War is the book all three of them need to read.US policymakers — you can stop forcing TS...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving ...

Four years ago, Chang Geng and Gu Yun parted in anger. When fate draws them together again, Chang Geng, a once-awkward teen, is now an elegant and adroit young man. But storms lie ahead. As Great Liang faces foreign pressure from without, Gu Yun finds himself embroiled in turmoil within the imperial court. Meanwhile, as the curse in Chang Geng's blood grows, his feelings for his godfather become more painful to subdue by the day. How much longer can he keep Gu Yun from learning his secret....

From the highly acclaimed author of WAYS OF BEING. We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trends is a single idea: the belief that quantitative data can provide a coherent model of the world, and the efficacy of computable information to provide us with ways of acting ...

The year is 1624. In southwestern Taiwan the Dutch establish a trading settlement; in Nagasaki a boy is born who will become immortalized as Ming dynasty loyalist Koxinga. Lord of Formosa tells the intertwined stories of Koxinga and the Dutch colony from their beginnings to their fateful climax in 1662. The year before, as Ming China collapsed in the face of the Manchu conquest, Koxinga retreated across the Taiwan Strait intent on expelling the Dutch. Thus began a nine-month battl...

With the Westerners and their allies pressing in on all sides, the empire of Great Liang enters its darkest hour. Under these desperate conditions, Gu Yun leads the beleaguered Black Iron Battalion to hold the borders. Meanwhile, Chang Geng makes his move in the imperial court, sweeping corrupt officials aside in an effort to stabilize the nation before it's too late. As the two struggle to hold the tattered pieces of the empire together, Gu Yun uncovers a shocking truth about the curse sl...

As Chang Geng continues his dangerous mission investigating corruption in the south, Gu Yun races back to the capital in hopes of stopping a bloody insurrection. But internal unrest is not all that threatens the throne of Great Liang as foreign enemies gather on both land and sea. When Great Liang's northern foe sends an envoy of peace to the capital, an end to the war may be in sight. But the northern tribes come with their own desperate plan: a mechanism to ignite the curse lurking in Ch...

Elon Musk is a South African-born, Canadian-American business magnate, inventor and investor. He is currently the CEO and CTO of SpaceX and CEO and Chief Product Architect of Tesla Motors. He was an early investor in SpaceX, PayPal, Inc.Tesla Motors, and Zip2, and is widely considered a co-founder of each. He has also envisioned a conceptual high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop.Tesla Motors was co-founded by Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, JB Straubel, Ian Wrig...

With the Wolf King in the north defeated, Great Liang turns its full attention to the war's southern front, where the Westerners have occupied the fertile land of Jiangnan. Gu Yun races south to lead Great Liang's fledgling navy, while Chang Geng is recalled to the capital to solve the pressing matter of funding the war effort.Yet the imperial court is no less treacherous than the battlefield. As Chang Geng walks a precarious path where one misstep could brand him a traitor or worse, he be...

Learn from the past. Understand the present. Explore the future.“ . . . Present Future is a fascinating, expert look at the history of the key technological advances affecting life today, and preparation for the exponential leaps yet to come. . . . ”—BILL MARIS, Founder and First CEO of Google Ventures, Founder of Calico, Founder of Section 32“With the context of an economic historian and the on-the-ground insights of an active technology i...