Invisible Influence is a gripping exposé of the hidden systems shaping your every decision. From curated feeds and microtargeted ads to AI companions and algorithmic manipulation, Steph McKenzie reveals how your reality is engineered without your consent. This book doesn't just diagnose a crisis—it arms you with clarity. With deep insight and electrifying urgency, McKenzie dismantles the myth of digital neutrality and shows how power, profit, and prediction collide to shape your thoughts, ...

You check your phone and realize three hours have vanished. You remember your childhood vividly, yet neuroscience says those memories are reconstructed fictions. You feel like you're living in the present, but physics suggests the past and future are equally real. Time is the most intimate dimension of human existence—and the most mysterious.Tapestry of Time is a sweeping exploration of how time actually works, told through five interconnected lenses. Discover the physics that reve...

**A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellerFrom New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox--and unleashing a new era of productivity.**Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations--a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect, an...

Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—scientific concepts to expand every mind.What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world’s most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enli...

Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, This Explains ...

‘Finally an e-book that explains self-management in a clear and unconvoluted way, proves its power and allows us to make this feasible within our organization.’ Milas Hietkamp - COO DolphiqSuccessful organizations grow. With growth in size, the need for information also grows. Intermediate layers are created to translate the strategy, plans and objectives for the workplace. People are needed to manage these intermediate layers, and the people underneath them. Gradually, th...

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth?Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. From examining why fashion designers create clothes that give the illusion of a more “attractive” body shape to studying how companies use color to elicit specific emotions in consumers, and even ...

The relationship between management and digital technology: experts present a new agenda for the practice of management.Digital technology has profoundly affected the ways that businesses design and produce goods, manage internal communication, and connect with customers. But the next phase of the digital revolution raises a new set of questions about the relationship between technology and the practice of management. Managers in the digital era must consider how b...

The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant mind...

What if the people you trusted most were using these tactics on you?They smile.They listen.They agree.But behind the mask, they're pulling strings.... yours.In ***"Dark Psychology"***, you'll uncover the forbidden techniques used by master manipulators to bend reality, rewrite emotions, and steer outcomes without a trace. Once you know them, you'll spot them everywhere - in boardrooms, breakups, sales calls, and social feeds.You'll n...

“This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world.”—Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and SteelEditor John Brockman continues in the same vein as his popular compilations What Are You Optimistic About and What Have You Changed Your Mind About with This Will Change Everything. Brockman asks 150 intellectual superstars “what game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect t...

Once upon a time, working from home was rewarding, the way to maintain our work-life balance. But then came Covid; working from home became the norm and, for many, the very thing that gets in the way of a balanced life. All back to the office then? Specialists agree that tomorrow's workplace will be location-independent and even transnational. Location-independent work offers numerous advantages. It answers employees' demand for more autonomy and creates unseen opportunities in the war on ...