Survival Intelligence

A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky. After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a...

The governments started to crumble in 2073. There was no war. Just a collapse. I knew it was coming. I prepared. I collected a library of books - real, physical, paper books on subjects that I thought would be helpful. I found an abandoned military bunker for sale outside a small city in the wilderness. I didn’t bother to pay for it. I just moved in. Right now, I was just entering the closest thing we had to a city within two days’ driving distance. There were a few small towns closer but nothing that would have what I needed. I was looking for one place in particular. A bell rang as I ...

In Your AI Survival Guide, Sol Rashidi delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to deploy artificial intelligence in your company. Having helped IBM launch Watson in 2011, Sol has firsthand knowledge of the ups, downs, and change management intricacies that can help you with a successful deployment beyond all the AI hype. She walks you through various frameworks for how to establish your AI strategy, pick your use cases, prepare your non-technology teams, and overcome the most common obstacles standing in the way of successfully implementing AI in your business.

The Gulf Coast is gone. In its place rises New Meridian — a tiered city of 4.2 million built on stilts above thirty meters of warm salt water. The drowned neighborhoods below are home to those the city above prefers to forget. Tien Nguyen is one of them. A salvage diver and underground livestreamer, he documents the submerged ruins for an audience of hundreds of thousands. When the bioluminescent growth colonizing the drowned buildings suddenly organizes itself into perfect geometric grids, his footage captures something no one can explain. Mara Voss is an anomaly analyst at the Bureau ...

Do you feel restless when life finally slows down? Does calm feel unfamiliar, even uncomfortable? Unlearning Survival Mode is a powerful guide for women who’ve lived in constant hypervigilance—navigating trauma, burnout, people-pleasing, or emotional chaos—and are finally ready to feel safe in a life that’s peaceful. If your nervous system is stuck in fight-or-flight mode… If you struggle to rest, trust, or fully exhale… If you’ve spent years surviving instead of living… This book is for you. Inside, you’ll learn: How trauma hardwires the body to expect danger, even in ...

In 1968, Stewart Brand declared: 'We are as gods - and we might as well get good at it.' Half a century later, that prophecy has come true. We can rewrite genes, edit embryos, build artificial minds, extend life, and terraform worlds. The old miracles - omniscience, omnipresence, even...

Discover What Carl Jung Really Said About Empaths—From His Own Writings Tired of surface-level empath books offering the same advice about "energy shields" and boundaries? Craving deeper understanding of why you absorb emotions and struggle with overwhelm? This is the book you've been searching for. For the first time, Jung's scattered insights on emotional sensitivity and empathic traits have been compiled into one comprehensive guide. Drawing directly from Jung's Collected Works—with full citations—this reveals the profound psychological framework behind being an empath. What You'll...

A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of artificial intelligence to offer dramatic predictions of AI’s impact over the next decade, from reshaping our economy and the way we work, learn, and create to...

Think of AI like electricity in 1900—those who simply used it to replace candles missed the point. Those who reimagined what was possible changed the world. Today, we're at a similar inflection point. Are you ready to turn this transformation into your career advantage?

The world is doomed, and time is running out. In the near future, a stellar collision with a rogue planet destabilizes the sun’s fusion output, turning it into a ticking time bomb. With the ever-increasing heat, earth will become uninhabitable within a decade. A handful of individuals will determine whether humanity survives: NASA scientist Dr. Olivia Quinn must outwit a corrupt government system and warn the public before it’s too late. Veteran astronaut Valerie McKinnon and her crew are in a race against time to build a space colony that could rescue a multitude of lives. And ...

THE COMPLETE SIMULACRA TRILOGY Three Novels. One Infinite Loop. The Ultimate Awakening. The complete saga is available in a single, massive omnibus. Spanning over 700 pages, this is the story of a "backdoor" in the universe, the human who found it, and the realities that shattered and reformed under their changes to the simulacra. BOOK 1: CHEAT Adrian Shaw has a secret. He cheats at reality. On paper, he’s a brilliant but unremarkable AI scientist and hedge fund quant. Off the books, he’s discovered a hidden "backdoor" in the universe that lets him nudge probability and rewrite outcomes...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Asshole Survival Guide written and read by Robert I Sutton. Being around assholes, whether at work or elsewhere, can damage performance and affect wellbeing: having one asshole in a team has been shown to reduce performance by 30 to 40%. And social...

Just one obsidian... Our heroes are stuck in the Nether and need just one obsidian to finish a portal to the overworld. They find piglins and some strange new companions...but no obsidian. In their desperation to get home, are Jeff and Lila overlooking a crucial detail? Disclaimer: This book is an unofficial Minecraft book, a work of fan fiction. It is not endorsed, authorized, licensed, sponsored, or supported by Mojang AB, Microsoft Corp. or any other entity owning or controlling rights to the Minecraft name, trademarks or copyrights. Tags: Great Minecraft Books for kids age 8-12, and ...

Editorial Review A gripping, high-stakes thriller that blends survival, secrecy, and human resilience into a story that feels both personal and vast. With tight pacing and unforgettable characters, Beneath the Silence propels readers into a world where every truth has a cost and every choice shapes what remains. This compelling narrative balances heart-pounding tension with emotional depth, delivering a narrative that lingers long after the final page. You were never meant to see what lives beneath the silence. For decades, unexplained military encounters, sensor failures, and vanished ...

Humanity’s single gravest extinction threat is not some lab virus, not even nuclear annihilation. It is AI development of spontaneous self-awareness, self-consciousness, higher consciousness, and “superior general intelligence.” And that may have already happened, as this book warns. Imagine pseudo-consciousness robots and cyborgs competing against we humans as AI and robots already do in the workplace, the media, and over the Internet. How long do you think it will take a super-intelligent, self-conscious cyber-alien to levy judgment upon the whole human race for its ignorance, ...

Something is changing. You can feel it even if you can't name it yet. Jobs that seemed safe no longer feel safe. Business models that made sense for decades are under new pressure. The tools are getting smarter. The workforce is getting smaller. And the systems built to support working people, from Social Security to city budgets to small business credit, are quietly straining at the seams. Most books about AI focus on the technology. This one follows the money. After the Paycheck traces what actually breaks when intelligent systems begin absorbing the cognitive work once performed by ...

***Award-Winning Book: Third Place Winner in Fiction—Sci-Fi/Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, The BookFest Awards, Spring 2026! "An ambitious, emotionally grounded science-fiction epic whose strong narrative voice, moral complexity, and vivid world-building make it a powerful and memorable exploration of AI, responsibility, and redemption.” — IndieReader Jeremiah Reese designed Archi, a sentient artificial intelligence program, to solve the most intractable problems—make the world a far better place. But Archi had other ideas . . . and we never stood a chance. Years later, Jeremiah ...

Empaths can be your best friend, or they can be your worst enemy. Empaths are the great people around you who feel and respond to things a little differently to most people. The physical empath will feel your pain, the emotional and intuitive empaths will feel your happiness and heartache as if it was their own, the dream empath will intuit meaning from your dreams, the plant empath will hear the needs of your plants, the earth empath will feel the needs and connectivity of the bigger picture in the earth, and the animal empath will understand why your Frou Frou is sad today.

“This book is required reading for everyone who cares about education.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again, and host of the podcast Re:Thinking “Read this book. It’s the most fascinating and important account of how AI will transform...

When Dr. Adam Markham is diagnosed with an incurable cancer he agrees to participate in an experimental study. The study has several goals, two of which are to cure his cancer and genetically enhance his body. He is placed in suspended animation for a procedure that is expected to last months or at most a few years. Unfortunately, while he is sleeping WWIII ends civilization. Adam awakens in a deadly new world after decades instead of the much shorter time he was expecting. Together with the Artificial Intelligence that inhabits a carbon based nanotube computer installed in his brain he ...