What If Science Could Make You Immortal?For centuries, humanity has pursued the dream of immortality. Myths, religions, and now science all point toward the possibility of defeating aging. But what if someone had already unlocked the secret-and what if the consequences were far more terrifying than anyone ever imagined?The Serpent's Embrace is a brilliantly crafted scientific thriller that delves into genetic engineering, corporate power, and the ethical di...

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER‘Grim, forensic and often eye-opening … meticulously researched and soberly written’ Sunday Independent‘A fascinating book’ ***Pat Kenny, Newstalk---Kinahan Assassins* is the extraordinary story of how the killers used by Ireland’s most notorious drug gang, the Kinahan Cartel, were taken down.**After an audacious assassination attempt on boss Daniel Kinahan's life, the Kinahan Cartel recr...

At a time of a growing housing crisis this republication of John Hands's classic Housing Co-operatives could not be timelier.It provides a unique mixture of theory and practice, showing from other countries and from the author's own experience in Britain how housing co-operatives can work and how they can fail.In a new Introduction, John Hands argues that the creation of a third tenure for housing distinct from both individual owner occupation on the one hand and tenancy-wh...

A bomb slaughters American intelligence officers, their wives, and children. Irish-American CIA officer John Darcy seizes the opportunity to redeem his failed professional and personal life by finding and eliminating the terrorist..Darcy plunges deeper into an undercover operation that the CIA will disown should he fail. He's on his own in a terrorist world that operates according to its own rules. His quest forces him to confront not only the fanaticism of the bomber but a...

"A critical overview of scientific orthodoxy in an attempt to answer the fundamental questions "what are we?" and "why are we here?" (Kirkus Reviews).Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we as humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?John Hands's extraordinarily ambitious book merges scientific knowledge from multiple disciplines and...

The book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from.Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?John Hands’ extraordinarily ambitious quest is to bring together this scientific knowledge and evaluate without bias or preconception all the theories and evidence about the origin a...

This is the sequel to the award-winning Cosmosapiens, named Book of the Year by the UK’s Times Literary Supplement and One of the Best Science Books of 2015 by The Telegraph.In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans evolved from the origin of the universe to the present day. Building on that work, The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic looks ahead to our ultim...

A SCIENTIFIC THRILLER WHERE IMMORTALITY COMES AT A TERRIFYING COST"What if curing aging was humanity’s greatest breakthrough—and its deadliest mistake?"In The Serpent’s Embrace, John Hands crafts a heart-pounding scientific thriller that pits cutting-edge genetics against corporate greed, ancient mythology, and moral decay. Narrated by Phillip Nathaniel Freeman & Claire Glover and published by...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Kinahan Assassins is the extraordinary story of how the killers used by Ireland’s most notorious drug gang, the Kinahan Cartel, were taken down.**After an audacious assassination attempt on boss Daniel Kinahan's life, the Kinahan Cartel recruited an unprecedented number of killers to retaliate against their attackers, the Hutch gang. Kinahan Assassins is the compelling behind-the-scenes account of one man's thirst for vengeance ...

Our rapidly industrializing world has an insatiable hunger for energy and conventional sources are struggling to meet demand. Oil is running out, coal is damaging our climate, many nations are abandoning nuclear, yet solar, wind, and water will never be a complete replacement. The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply researched and revelatory audiobook, is to be found in the original energy source: the Sun itself. There, at its center, the fusion of 620 million tons of hydrogen every...

A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane.In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It hardly matters who’s president or whether liberals or conservatives operate the levers of power. The United States exercises dominion everywhere.In *Humane:*How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War...

Freedom is one of the most contested words in our deeply polarized nation. This eye-opening work reveals how this has happened and how it will continue on all fronts, economic, education, healthcare, religion, science, civil justice, and security, unless we reframe the debate with traditional progressive ideas of empathy, integrity, and responsibility.Engaged citizens can regain their power. Our government can function honestly. In this critical time for our country, Lakoff argues ...