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IEEE. 2014. "C95.7-2014 - IEEE Recommended Practice for Radio Frequency Safety Programs, 3 kHz to 300 GHz." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6874474.

IEEE. 2025. "2025 IEEE International Radar Conference Student Paper Competition." https://radarconf2025.org/student-paper-competition/.

IEEE. 2025. "FPGA Implementation of a Hardware-Optimized Autonomous Real-Time Radar Altimeter Processor for Interplanetary Landing Missions." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11107321.

IEEE. 2025. "Repeat-Pass VideoSAR System Jamming: Novel Perspective and Challenges." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11146702.

A PhD is Not Enough by Peter J. Feibelman.
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
American Gun by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Attacking Network Protocols by James Forshaw.
Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew.
Burn Book by Kara Swisher.
Chip War by Chris Miller.
Comets: Creators and Destroyers by David H. Levy.
Compost Science for Gardeners.
DevOps for the Desperate by Bradley Smith.
EMF Book by Mark A. Pinsky.
Everything is Negotiable by Meg Myers Morgan.
How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner.
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything by Rosa Brooks.
How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr.
How to Kill an Asteroid by Robin George Andrews.
How to Lead When You're Not in Charge by Clay Scroggins.
Inside the Five-Sided Box by Ash Carter.
Leading the Charge by Toni Zinni and Tony Koltz
Mastery by Robert Greene.
Men's Work by Connor Beaton.
Mill by David Macaulay.
Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout.
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku.
Radiation by Robert Peter Gale and Eric Lax.
Relativity Simply Explained by Martin Gardner.
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli.
Skinwalkers at the Pentagon by James T. Lacatski, Colm A. Kelleher Ph.D., and George Knapp.
Smart Brevity by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz.
Space Junk by Karen Romano Young.
Spillover by David Quammen.
Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, and David Silverman.
The 48  Laws of Power by Robert Greene.
The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature.
The AI Revolution in Medicine by Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Isaac Kohane.
The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene.
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson.
The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga.
The End of Everything by Victor Davis Hanson.
The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner.
The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene.
The Perfect Weapon by David E. Sanger.
The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios.
The Story of Greece and Rome by Tony Spawforth.
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei.
What If? by Randall Munroe.
X-Men: Magneto Testament (2008) by Pak, Giandomenico, Djurdjevic, and Aja.

A Shot History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Attacking Network Protocols by James Forshaw provides the reader an excellent dive into tool, tips, and resources. Coming from an embedded background, it is refreshing to see some of the same protocols implemented on the web side. I do like the lower architecture and system structures being addressed such as stack cookies. Stack cookies were a new one, though I do believe I have seen them implemented elsewhere by a different name. Here is a Javascript version it seems - https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_cookies.asp. This may be a different concept entirely. I shall explore more.

Comets: Creators and Destroyers by David H. Levy

Key Points:
Physics of the Impossible summarizes where society currently is in terms of technology, and what it would take to reach the next level of technology. While these are shots in the dark and the connecting ideas do need to be filled in by the engineers, physicists, and scientists of today, it serves as a shining way forward. This book does focuses on leveraging popular culture to introduce complex physics ideas such as leveraging Star Trek's shields to explore what would be required to make actual shields for use in and out of combat.
Michio Kaku does not shy away from military application and explored the ideas from the physicists perspective. As an Electrical Engineer, I very much thank him for pointing my studies in the right direction.

IEEE. 2014. "C95.7-2014 - IEEE Recommended Practice for Radio Frequency Safety Programs, 3 kHz to 300 GHz." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6874474.

IEEE. 2025. "2025 IEEE International Radar Conference Student Paper Competition." https://radarconf2025.org/student-paper-competition/.

IEEE. 2025. "FPGA Implementation of a Hardware-Optimized Autonomous Real-Time Radar Altimeter Processor for Interplanetary Landing Missions." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11107321.

IEEE. 2025. "Repeat-Pass VideoSAR System Jamming: Novel Perspective and Challenges." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11146702.

w3 Schools. 2026. "JavaScript Cookies." https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_cookies.asp.