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Have you ever wondered what makes Elon Musk tick? This book serves as a short yet concise guide on the life and the mind behind Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity. It's a book made for every Elon Musk fan. It touches on his history with Zip2 and Paypal, his pursuit to create an electric sports car at Tesla - as well as his interest in space exploration - and his vision for future private space travel. From doing menial work to comparisons to genius inventor Nikola Tesla and pop culture superhero Tony Stark, Elon Musk has come a long way. Hear about his journey.

Elaine is a young astronaut. One day, while watching her colleague Matt Davies performing routine maintenance, she is blinded by anomalous orange lights. Could her worst nightmares be coming true? Her vision returns and the last thing she sees is the sight of Matt being helplessly sucked into space. In this epic story, humankind will make first contact. An apocalyptic threat will emerge on Earth and the corrupt world government will do anything to save itself. A tale of two people's unbreakable love, stopping at nothing to reunite with each other.

No previously published work examines General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold’s role in depth during the Pacific War of 1944-1945, in the context of planning for the destruction of Japan. In this new study, Herman S. Wolk, retired Senior Historian of the U.S. Air Force, examines the thinking of Hap Arnold, Commanding General, Army Air Forces (AAF), during World War II. Specifically, Wolk concentrates on Arnold’s leadership in crafting the weapons, organization, and command of the strategic bombing offensive against Japan, which culminated in Japan’s capitulation in the summer of 1945, ending the Pacific War.

Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates have proclaimed Artificial Intelligence as a possible threat in the future unless humans learn to use it wisely. Could this be true? Is it possible for us to create artificial intelligence programming so that we'll soon have thinking and feeling AI? Is it even possible for us to have a human-looking AI run for president in the future? All of these questions and thoughts are addressed in Artificial Intelligence: Understanding A.I. and the Implications of Machine Learning.