Stories brought us together. Books spread our ideas and our mythologies. The internet promised infinite knowledge. The Algorithm learned our secrets and then turned us againts one another. What will AI do? Nexus is the thrilling account of how we arrived at this moment, and the urgent choices we must now make to survive and to thrive.
This is Alan. Alan is very scary. He says things like, "I'M BIG, SCARY ALAN! FEAR MY RAZOR-SHARP TEETH!'. But all is not as it seems. Alan, you see, has a very BIG (not-so-scary) secret...
This hugely successful range takes a fresh look at classic fiction. Richly illustrated throughout, every book has been carefully compiled and designed to give a rewarding reading experience.
As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School : they can′t help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school′s motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snickett′s Series of Unfortunate Eve…
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sa…