Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.

"Where can drones fly that no human would dare? Why do engineers turn to nature to design new flying machines? Could a drone space rover reveal the secrets of distant planets? How can a fire rescue drone save lives? Fast, agile and cheap to build, drones offer all the benefits of flight with no risk to any pilot. Already vital tools for the world's armed forces, drones in our towns and cities could transform the way we live, work, and play."--Back...

From tiny UGVs to the huge SolarEagle UAV developed in part by Boeing, readers are introduced to the fascinating science and history of drones in the military.

"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about military drones. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--

For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel, or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don't last long. 13 year-old pickpocket Leandro and his sister Gabi do what they can to forge a life in Pocatel. The city does not take kindly to Cascabel like them, the descendants of those who worked the San Joaquin Valley for...

Created in collaboration with Dronestegram, the world-leading drone photography website, and Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, a highly renowned photography editor, 'Dronescapes' is the first book to bring together the very best photographs taken by quadcopters around the globe. It grants us the thrilling opportunity to see our planet from entirely new vantage points, whether this is a bird's-eye view of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, a photograph taken...

A young computer genius whose CIA analyst father went missing years earlier is chased by sleek, high-tech drones into a land populated by Godzilla-size dragons, triggering a war that only he can stop.

"To many people, the thought of pilotless vehicles whizzing overhead delivering everything from clothes to groceries to skateboards seems like something out of a science fiction novel. But some of the world's biggest e-commerce companies are in a fierce race for early control of the drone delivery market, especially in the United States. They are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to design and develop drone delivery systems that are cost-effective,...

When members of the U.S. drone program's Kill Committee identify high-threat enemies in a mountain region on the other side of the world, their targets plot a retaliatory strike against American civilians on U.S. soil.

"For the first time in our military history, how we wage war is being built around a single strategy: the tracking and elimination of "high value targets"--in other words, assassination by military drone. Kill Chain is the story of how this new paradigm came to be, from WWII to the present; revealing the inner workings of these military technologies; introducing the key figures behind the transformation as well as the people on whom these deadly technologies...