Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year“An exceedingly important book!” —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA“Essential reading for understanding how technology will change the future of warfare.” —Chris Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Chip War“Inspiring. A riveting reminder of how hard protecting our nation’s se...

In August 2016, the Aspen Strategy Group examined how to reform America’s national security decision-making process. The papers in this volume provide practical solutions to repair the key functions of Washington’s executive departments, agencies, and advisory bodies responsible for shaping U.S. foreign policy and national security.

Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States’ most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the liberal world order. The papers in this volume outline the history and importance the system of institutions and normative values that have underpinned the international system since the end of WWII. They also highlight some of the key threats to this order that have emerged over the past several ...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year“An exceedingly important book!” —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA“Essential reading for understanding how technology will change the future of warfare.” —Chris Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Chip War“Inspiring. A riveting reminder of how hard protecting our nation’s se...

From the finance editor of The New York Times, an insightful and illuminating examination of Bill Gates—one of the most powerful and provocative figures of the past four decades—and an exploration of our national fixation on billionaires.Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first hailed as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder morphed into a ruthless capitalist, only to change yet again when...

**Brought to you by Penguin.What does it mean for us all when death is treated as a glitch and Silicon Valley invests in the “science” of eternal life?**From the epic of Gilgamesh to the alchemy of the philosopher’s stone, humanity’s eternal quest for immortality – and its rejuvenation tricks, therapies and tinctures – has always been our most mortal endeavour.But now the giants of invention and investment are building a fountain of youth of their own creation: one ...

The inspiring story of a pathbreaking 1919 flight and the courageous fliers who risked their lives to make aviation history.In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in "the Big Hop": an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was forced to abandon the journey halfway, and two pairs never made it into the air. Only one team, after a death-defying sixteen-hour flight, made...

From the moment John Brown arrived as a servant to Queen Victoria's household, he became known across the land as her loyal companion, her fierce protector, and her right-hand man: their friendship immortalized in print and later onscreen. But what if there was more to their relationship than we know? And what has history been hiding from us?Rumors have swirled around this relationship for years as historians have attempted to bring the truth to light. Now for the first time, Dr. F...

What does it mean for us all when death is treated as a glitch and Silicon Valley invests in the “science” of eternal life?Telegraph Book of the Year'A fascinating, deeply reported adventure' Oliver Burkeman'Riveting' Daily Mail'Utterly compelling' New Statesman'Brilliantly troubling ... eye-opening, entertaining' New Scie...

In 1795, Catherine the Great of Russia was in search of a bride for her grandson Constantine, who stood third in line to her throne. In an eerie echo of her own story, Catherine selected an innocent young German princess, Julie of Saxe-Coburg, aunt of the future Queen Victoria. Though Julie had everything a young bride could wish for, she was alone in a court dominated by an aging empress and riven with rivalries, plotting, and gossip—not to mention her brute of a husband. She longed to le...

The passionate, provocative story of Queen Victoria's relationship with her servant John Brown that reveals the secrets that royal historians have kept from us.From the moment John Brown arrived as a servant to Queen Victoria's household, he became known across the land as her loyal companion, her fierce protector, and her right-hand man: their friendship immortalized in print and later onscreen. But what if there was more to their relationship than we know? And wh...

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn 2024, award-winning reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf bring us the definitive, inside story of the most high-stakes and volatile presidential election in modern U.S. history"A well-paced, thorough and often (darkly) humorous account of the two-year campaign season that began when Donald Trump announced he was running for president again . . . Plenty of thrilling fly-on-the-wall moments." —The New Yo...