A trail of terrorist attacks is littered with explosive danger.A powerful explosion leaves an American city devastated and the Middle-East Peace Summit dead in its tracks. As the Terrorism Task Force struggles to find leads and identify suspects, they become targets themselves.Who is responsible and can they be stopped? Chris Townsend and Zoe Aston are thrown together to track down the terrorists, led by a shadowy man of mystery. Can they find him before more terror strikes...

One Voice. One Vision. One Opinion in 8 Billion.In a world of noise, division, and endless opinion, One Opinion in 8 Billion: An Individual Perspective cuts through with clarity, curiosity, and courage.This is not just another non-fiction book — it is a bold, unapologetic exploration of life's most pressing, provocative, and perplexing questions.Across sixteen chapters, author Thomas Gordon tackles 335 controversial questions spanning politics, religion, media, scien...

One Voice. One Vision. One Opinion in 8 Billion.In a world of noise, division, and endless opinion, One Opinion in 8 Billion: An Individual Perspective cuts through with clarity, curiosity, and courage.This is not just another non-fiction book — it is a bold, unapologetic exploration of life’s most pressing, provocative, and perplexing questions.Across sixteen chapters, author Thomas Gordon tackles 335 controversial questions

One Voice. One Vision. One Opinion in 8 Billion.In a world of noise, division, and endless opinions, clarity is rare. One Opinion in 8 Billion: An Individual Perspective dares to be different - not preaching truth, but opening space for reflection.This is not a manifesto or textbook. It is an invitation to think. Across sixteen chapters, author Thom Gordon presents 335 challenging questions spanning politics, religion, science, i...

In this instant New York Times bestseller, a renowned philosopher puts forth the case for longtermismThe fate of the world – and the future – is in our hands. Now with a new foreword, What We Owe the Future argues for longtermism: that positively influencing the distant future is our time’s key moral priority. It’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert a pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; counter the ...

Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the planet's most influential minds. He asked them to disclose something that, for scientific reasons, worries them—particularly scenarios that aren't on the popular ra...

“For much of my life, […] I was unaware that my words echoed a script I was conditioned to follow, that the lights illuminated only that which I expected to see, and that the orchestra was merely a recording that had been playing since long before my birth.” - Nathan J. MurphyIn The Ideas That Rule Us, political theory researcher, author, and technology business owner Nathan J. Murphy takes an eye-opening, multi-disciplinary deep dive into how others’ ideology, pe...

**Get a science-based introduction to cultural and human evolution—and discover a blueprint for a better future—in this fascinating book for fans of Sapiens and Guns, Germs, and Steel.Who are we, and what makes us different from other species?**Playing on the phrase “a theory of everything” from physics, Michael Muthukrishna’s ambitious, original, and deeply hopeful book A Theory of Everyone draws on the most recent research from across t...

The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives—for better . . . or for worse . . .From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be tr...

Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand.Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world -- whether it's advances in technology and medical research or the latest revelations of neuroscience, psychology, physics, economics, anthropology, climatology, or genetics. And yet amid the flood of information today, it's often difficult to recognize the truly revolutionary ideas that ...

The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online salon, recently asked more than 150 high-powered scientific thinkers to answer a vital question for our frequently pessimistic times: "What are you optimistic about?"Spanning a wide range of topics—from string theory to education, from population g...

“Excellent (and very timely).” —Financial Times * “Smartly assembled case studies and insights.” —Publishers Weekly * A Financial Times Best Book of the YearFormer CEO and popular TED speaker Margaret Heffernan offers powerful and practical tools so you can face the future with confidence and courage.Most of us are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future. But the complexity of modern life ...