Books published by publisher DOUBLEDAY ANCHOR BOOK

Published in 1987 the book is now 30 years old, as far from our current state of technology as the computers of the 1950s were from the mid-1980s. The book discusses the implications of building machines at the atomic, molecular level. He covers genetic engineering, big data, and other topics in the news today.The introduction is by Marvin Minsky of MIT. From the back cover, he says that the book "is by far the best book I have seen about the consequences of new technologies. It is ambitious and imaginative and , best of all, the thinking is technically sound. He discuss molecular level assemblers that ,can be machines out of atom, hypertext and the expansion of human knowledge.He also discovers the hazards of the appearance some of the problems we see in social media today with the flood of information. The book is long out of print. There was a followup book in 2007 according to Wikipedia.

A novel that recreates the suspense and excitement of an ancient legend - how Merlin, the enchanter, helped Arthur become King of all Britain. The Hollow Hills takes place in a fifth-century Britain fraught with superstition and fear, where no life is safe, no law is stable, and where a king risks accusations of murder and adultery to get himself an heir. For his own safety, the boy Arthur, rejected as a bastard by his father, is long kept ignorant of his parentage. Behind and around Arthur always is the mysterious, strong, yet vulnerable figure of Merlin, who sees and knows so much but who, like Arthur, must also suffer for the sake of a nation being born. In this world of embattled kings and courtiers, hurried journeys, whispered anxieties, and sudden death, we watch Merlin and Arthur follow their common destiny. Merlin is the narrator, and his prophetic voice communicates not only the bristling atmosphere of the ancient setting but also the profound relevance of this age-old tale to our own time.

It's Berlin, 1933. William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic from Chicago, has to his own and everyone else's surprise, become America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany, in a year that proves to be a turning point in history. Dodd and his family, notably his vivacious daughter, Martha, observe at first-hand the many changes - some subtle, some disturbing, and some horrifically violent - that signal Hitler's consolidation of power. Dodd has little choice but to associate with key figures in the Nazi party, his increasingly concerned cables make little impact on an indifferent U.S. State Department, while Martha is drawn to the Nazis and their vision of a 'New Germany' and has a succession of affairs with senior party players, including first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as the year darkens, Dodd and his daughter find their lives transformed and any last illusion they might have about Hitler are shattered by the violence of the 'Night of the Long Knives' in the summer of