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Defence & Security Books

An Ugly Truth
by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
Review
People Count
by Susan Landau
Review
Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond
by Ashley Jean Yeager
Review
Zero Fail
by Carol Leonnig
Review
Silicon Values
by Jillian C. York
Review
The Perfect Police State
by Geoffrey Cain
Review
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
by Bimal Bhattacharya, George P. Petropoulos, Heiko Balzter, Prashant K. Srivastava, Prem Chandra Pandey
Review
Restricted Data
by Alex Wellerstein
Review
Robots in Space
by Dr Ezzy Pearson
Review
A Billion Little Pieces
by Jordan Frith
Review
Predict and Surveil
by Sarah Brayne
Review
The Internet in Everything
by Laura Denardis
Review
AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Peter Dauvergne
Review
Blockchain Chicken Farm
by Xiaowei Wang
Review
Turning Point
by Darrell M. West and John R. Allen
Review
Attacking Network Protocols
by James Forshaw
Review
War in Space
by Bleddyn Bowen
Review
The Smallest Lights in the Universe
by Sara Seager
Review
Futureproof
by D. Asher Ghertner, Daniel M. Goldstein and Hudson McFann
Review
T-Minus AI
by Michael Kanaan
Review
The Information Trade
by Alexis Wichowski
Review
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
by Barton Gellman
Review
The Drone Age
by Michael J. Boyle
Review
Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies
by Yuri Diogenes and Erdal Ozkaya
Review
Permanent Record
by Arthur King
Review
The Contact Paradox
by Keith Cooper
Review
Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies
by Dr. Chase Cunningham
Review
Handprints on Hubble
by Kathryn D. Sullivan
Review
Fire Doesn’t Innovate
by Kip Boyle
Review
Breaking and Entering
by Jeremy N. Smith
Review
A Leader’s Guide to Cybersecurity
by Jack Domet, Thomas J. Parenty
Review
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
by Arthur Holland Michel
Review
Digital Cash
by Finn Brunton
The White Paper
by Satoshi Nakamoto
Review
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State
by Kai Strittmatter
Review
The Rules of Security: Staying Safe in a Risky World
by Paul Martin
Review
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption
by Ben Mezrich
Review
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
by Joseph Menn
Review
Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing
by Beth Simone Noveck
Review
The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
by James Griffiths
Review
The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust
by Kevin Werbach
Review
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
by Dermot Turing
Review
Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable
by Seth Fletcher
Review
Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
by John P. Carlin and Garret M. Graff
Review
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
by James Bridle
Review
Cyber Strategy: The Evolving Character of Power and Coercion
by Brandon Valeriano, Benjamin Jensen, and Ryan C. Maness
Review
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by Kai-Fu Lee
Review
Security without Obscurity: A Guide to Confidentiality, Authentication, and Integrity
by J. J. Stapleton
Review
Learning Malware Analysis: Explore the concepts, tools, and techniques to analyze and investigate Windows malware
by Monnappa K A
Review
Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain
by Roger Wattenhofer
Review
Malware Data Science: Attack, Detection, and Attribution
by Joshua Saxe and Hillary Sanders
Review
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind
Review
Fiber-Optic Sensors for Biomedical Applications
by Daniele Tosi and Guido Perrone
Review
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
by Bruce Schneier
Review
Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality
by Bill Kilday
Review
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
by Dermot Turing
Review
Social Media Intelligence
by Wendy W. Moe and David A. Schweidel
Review
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
by Paul Scharre
Review
Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
by Michael Chertoff
Review
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
by Matthew Salganik
Review
The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age
by David E. Sanger
Review
Cyber Wars: Hacks that Shocked the Business World
by Charles Arthur
Review
Machine Learning and Security
by Clarence Chio and David Freeman
Review
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by Garry Kasparov
Review
Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age
by Susan Landau
Review
Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
by Robert H. Latiff
Review
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
by David Gerard
Review
Inventing a Space Mission: The Story of the Herschel Space Observatory (ISSI Scientific Report Series)
by Vincent Minier, Roger-Maurice Bonnet, Vincent Bontems, Thijs de Graauw, Mike Griffin, Frank Helmich, Göran Pilbratt, and Sergio Volonte
Review
The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything (International Edition)
by Michael J. Casey, Paul Vigna
Review
The Turing Guide
by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, and Robin Wilson
Review
Hacking the Hacker: Learn From the Experts Who Take Down Hackers
by Roger A. Grimes
Review
Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
by Priyamvada Natarajan
Review
Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Review
Serious Cryptography
by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Review
Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World
by Phaidon Editors
Review
Cosmology for the Curious (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
by Delia Perlov and Alex Vilenkin
Review
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil
Review
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies
by Jason Fagone
Review
The Search For Earth’s Twin
by Stuart Clark
Review
Code Girls
by Liza Mundy
Review
Planet Hunters: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
by Lucas Ellerbroek
Review
Where The Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
by James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti
Review
Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering (Scientific and Engineering Computation)
by Ian Foster and Dennis B. Gannon
Review
Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos
by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
Review
Borderless Behavior Analytics: Who’s Inside? What’re They Doing?
by Saryu Nayyar
Review
Hyperspectral Imaging Remote Sensing: Physics, Sensors, and Algorithms
by Dimitris Manolakis, Ronald Lockwood, Thomas Cooley
Review
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing the Digital Revolution
by Andrew Mcafee, Erik Brynjolfsson
Review
Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times: Ground-Based Optical and Radio Astronomy Facilities since 1945
by David Leverington
Review
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal MasterMind Behind the Silk Road
by Nick Bilton
Review
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
by Fred Kaplan
Review
The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
by Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi
Review
Mathematics of Secrets
by Joshua Holden
Review
The Car Hacking Handbook: A Guide for the Penetration Tester
by Craig Smith
Review
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott
Review
Windows Into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
by Gary T. Marx
Review
Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know About Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security
by Brian W. Kernighan
Review
Military Robots: Mapping the Moral Landscape (Military and Defence Ethics)
by Jai Galliott
Review
Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies
by Gordon Corera
The Network Security Test Lab: A Step-by-Step Guide
by Michael Gregg
Review
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by Paul Vigna and Michael Casey
Review
Military Laser Technology and Systems (Optoelectronics)
by David H. Titterton
Review
Building the H Bomb: A Personal History
by Kenneth W. Ford
Review
Drone Theory
by Grégoire Chamayou
Review
Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials
by Detlev Ristau
Review
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
by Michael Hiltzik
Review
The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones–Confronting A New Age of Threat
by Benjamin Wittes, Gabriella Blum
Review
Data and Goliath
by Bruce Schneier
Review
Electromagnetic Scattering by Particles and Particle Groups: An Introduction
by Michael I. Mishchenko
Review
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
by Frank Close
Review
Drone Warfare
by John Kaag and Sarah Kreps
Review
Predator
by Richard Whittle
Review
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon
by Kim Zetter
Review
@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
by Shane Harris
Review
Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer that Changed the World
by Jean Jennings Bartik, Jon T. Rickman, and Kim D. Todd
Review
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
Review
The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-Earth Objects
by William E. Burrows
Review
Nuclear Dawn: F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II
by Kenneth D. McRae
Review
You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves
by Hiawatha Bray
Review
Coherent Doppler Wind Lidars in a Turbulent Atmosphere
by Viktor Banakh and Igor Smalikho
Review
Threat Modeling: Designing for Security
by Adam Shostack
Review

Articles

MICROSCOPE satellite puts Einstein’s general relativity to record-breaking test
Can AI stop rare eagles flying into wind turbines in Germany?
Meta injecting code into websites to track its users, research says
Tesla’s self-driving technology fails to detect children in the road, group claims
Webb telescope reveals unpredicted bounty of bright galaxies in early universe
Post-quantum crypto cracked in an hour with one core of an ancient Xeon
Neutrino detectors could monitor treaty compliance by nuclear submarines
The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth
Wandering Robots in the Wild
Self-driving cars work better with smart roads
4,000 Robots Roam the Oceans, Climate in Their Crosshairs
NASA Hubble Finds First Free-Floating Black Hole
Underwater drone used for first-ever autonomous wind farm foundations inspection
Bam deploys robot dog for surveying work
Deepfake attacks can easily trick live facial recognition systems online
Laser Imaging Reveals How Fire Renews Sierra Nevada Forests
Black Hole Image Reveals the Beast Inside the Milky Way’s Heart
An Elusive Gravity Signal Could Mean Faster Earthquake Warnings
Automating Road Maintenance With LiDAR Technology
Physicists Pin Down How Quantum Uncertainty Sharpens Measurements
The X-Ray Tech That Reveals Chip Designs
Can A.I. All but End Car Crashes? The Potential Is There.
Uni team demo algorithm to shield conversations from eavesdropping AI
Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography
Astronomers find a new way to detect gravitational waves
New technique makes directional measurements of low-energy solar neutrinos
Quantum gravity gradiometer makes first find outside lab
Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes
Double locked: Polymer hydrogels secure confidential information
How satellites are helping us to understand deadly avalanches
The secret police: Cops built a shadowy surveillance machine in Minnesota after George Floyd’s murder
Draughty window or door? Now it can be seen from space
NUI remotely operated submersible to help unlock Greenland’s glaciers
Astrophysicists Release the Biggest Map of the Universe Yet
Laser Propagating through Air Sets Stability Record
How Early Warning Systems Help Us Deal With Extreme Weather
Forest maps of the future with Airbus’ Biomass
Wozniak’s Privateer Space Unveils 3D Printed Satellite for Monitoring Space Debris
All-in-one quantum key distribution system makes its debut
Satellites Could Help Track if Nations Keep Their Carbon Pledges
Researchers want to ‘slice and dice’ deadly asteroids with rocket-powered bombs, new paper says
LAN traffic can be wirelessly sniffed from cables with $30 setup, says researcher
Pentagon Wants AI to Predict Events Before They Occur
Enabling AI-driven health advances without sacrificing patient privacy
Is it OK to use stolen data? What if it’s scientific research in the public interest?
NASA is going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid. Things might get pretty chaotic.
Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow With Trillions of Organisms
Why Robots Can’t Be Counted On to Find Survivors in the Florida Building Collapse
Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Come in Two Distinct Flavors
Ceiling mounted sensor can ‘smell’ Covid-19 on infected people