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The second edition of Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides a comprehensive and updated look at the rapidly evolving world of drones, otherwise known as unmanned or uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). Covering the past, present, and future of military and civilian applications, this book explores how drones have transformed—and are transforming—industries and warfare. It delves into the ethical, legal, and safety concerns raised by their widespread use, examining issues from privacy violations to international security.

What happens when you're the threat? Sergeant John Kelly discovered during his thirty-year career in law enforcement that the biggest threat to his own survival wasn't the multiple attempts on his life, but came from within. When facing external dangers, risks are mitigated, intelligence is gathered, and a plan is devised to address the threat. But when everyone turns to you for answers, and there's nothing left but pain and despair, sometimes heroes need help!

"Covert action" is generally understood as politically motivated and plausibly deniable interference by one state in the affairs of another state. It includes propaganda, political or economic subversion, paramilitary action, and assassinations. Covert action is the most consequential and controversial form of secret statecraft, and it has become a ubiquitous feature of international politics. However, it is often sensationalized or seen through a narrow, US-centric lens.

La aparente estabilidad de las últimas décadas ha quedado atrás, es una etapa que no ha dejado de ser una anomalía: los nuevos líderes vuelven a ejercer el poder mediante acciones despiadadas y caóticas. El respeto a instituciones o derechos ha dejado de tener la menor importancia para los autócratas o los señores de la tecnología, en un mundo con una IA ya fuera de control. Este ensayo se convierte en un viaje apasionante y estremecedor por los nuevos centros del poder, desde Nueva York hasta Buenos Aires o El Salvador, desde las Naciones Unidas hasta Arabia Saudí.

El 15 de diciembre de 2022, Ciro Gómez Leyva, el periodista más escuchado de México, sorteó su propia muerte y sobrevivió a un atentado en su contra. Estas páginas relatan su poderoso testimonio y la visión del autor sobre la fragilidad de la vida y la cercanía con su fin.

Hidden deep in Russia’s borderlands, Black Dolphin is not just a prison—it’s a place designed to erase. Housing the country’s most dangerous murderers, terrorists, and cannibals, this maximum-security facility operates under a regime of total control and absolute silence. Black Dolphin: Russia’s Most Notorious Prison takes listeners inside a world of 23-hour confinement, psychological erosion, and a justice system that offers no second chances. Through chilling detail and unsparing truth, this book reveals the machinery of punishment at its most extreme.

The Practical Guide to Free Speech turns one of America’s most misunderstood freedoms into an engaging, surprisingly fun exploration of how the First Amendment actually works. Imagine a world where an off-color joke or unpopular opinion could land you in jail. For most of human history, that wasn’t imagination — it was reality. The First Amendment changed everything.

Climate change: a man-made doom and gloom disastrous event on the horizon, or a false god made up by a clever devil often called Lucifer? This book offers some common sense to help you decide. The difference between a diamond and a chunk of coal is just a little "know-how." They are both pure carbon. In the last few years, man has learned how to grow diamonds in labs, not mines, but the prices are nearly the same. Sell the sizzle when you've got no facts; carbon is simply carbon.

From CNN’s Abby Phillip, a triumphant new look at Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns of the 1980s and how they changed Black political power. This program is read by the author. “A joyful, rich, must-read biography of a politician whose flaws and gifts were in constant, intense...

The CIA has shaped world history from behind the scenes for over 75 years—through spycraft, propaganda, coups, mind games, surveillance, and a whole lot of denial. This book walks through the actual history, one operation at a time. No hype. No spin. Just what happened. From Cold War beginnings and MKUltra experiments to media manipulation, secret prisons, drone strikes, and digital warfare, The CIA covers the major programs and turning points that changed not just American policy—but global reality. If you’ve ever wondered what the CIA actually does—this is the answer.

This is your emergency manual—equal parts survival satire, absurd checklist, and dark comedy. Not a memoir. Not a lecture. Just 50 unhinged ways to mentally, physically, or spiritually nope out of Trump’s America.

Canine Crimebusters delves into the history and heroism of UK police dogs, exploring their evolution, highlighting amazing canines, and celebrating their bond with handlers. This book follows the heroic and touching tales of dogs on the frontline of crime prevention.

Never afraid to stand up for what’s right or call out hypocrisy at either end of the political spectrum, Piers Morgan became a voice of leadership at a time when so many of us were treading on eggshells. But now, with Trump’s comprehensive defeat of Kamala Harris and the accompanying rejection of woke ideology, it seems like the rest of the world is finally catching up.

A groundbreaking, revelatory assessment of America’s broken two-party system. Rachel Maddow calls it “a brave firecracker of a book.” In a country obsessed with blind loyalty to a two-party democratic system, Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House press secretary to the Biden-Harris...

“What is our obligation to each other?” asks Jennifer Eli Bowen in this propulsive exploration of community, solitude, and love. Drawing on her experiences as a mother, daughter, and founder of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, the country’s largest and most enduring prison-based literary organization, she examines the wild spectrum of shapes that care can take. She investigates the role of community across the world and in her own neighborhood, driven by a curiosity to uncover what might be gleaned from various vanishments in her own life.

The figure of the supplicant negro—a figure famously represented in Josiah Wedgwood's 18th-century anti-slavery medallion—continues to sideline radical Black anti-colonialist struggle. The End of Supplication contends that Black freedom struggles are anti-colonial movements against anti-Blackness and the permutations of slavery, and as such they are ill-served by a dominant Civil Rights discourse that escapes neither the paternalism of white abolitionism nor the caricatures of minstrelsy.

The True Story of a Georgia Police Officer Who Stood Alone Against a System Built to Bury Him. In a small town in Southwest Georgia, a routine traffic stop uncovered a truth far more dangerous than any suspect ever arrested; a police chief tampering with evidence and a department willing to protect the chief at all costs. Blue Line Rogue is the gripping true story of John Masters, a decorated U. S. Army Veteran and certified peace officer, who discovered corruption inside his own agency and paid the ultimate professional price for speaking out.

España traicionada es un retrato afilado que desafía las ideas impuestas y denuncia cómo, bajo la fachada del progreso, se busca desmantelar los cimientos de nuestra historia y nuestra identidad. Con su inconfundible estilo comprometido, el autor ofrece un recorrido definitivo por los hechos que han marcado los diferentes Gobiernos socialistas de los últimos años y que han desembocado en una era de incertidumbre y división.

Just hours after his grandfather's funeral in the remote Northern Territory community of Yuendumu, 19-year-old Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker was dead. Three days later, Rolfe was charged with murder, the first time a police officer had been charged for killing a First Nations person in the Northern Territory in 130 years. In Death in Yuendumu, the ABC journalist who broke the story gives a clear-eyed account of the failed systems that led to this tragedy.

There is no such thing as free, unconstrained speech. Laws and constitutions may protect us from the state when we speak our minds. But the state is just one possible constraint. Glenn Loury, one of America's most outspoken and important intellectuals, provides a provocative and dazzling analysis of the powerful social forces that can prevent speakers from voicing unpopular views in public forums.