The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come

Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and its vision of the future have been influential in spawning a worldwide movement with millions of followers, hundreds of books, major films (Her, Lucy, Ex Machina), and thousands of articles. During the succeeding decade many of Kurzweil's pr...

Mexican Gothic meets She is a Haunting in this sharp and propulsive horror thriller!

Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. The bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train.

Before fleeing the scene, the murderer whispered two words: bat eater.

Months pass, the killer is never caught, and Cora can ba...

"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." ?New York Times Book Review"Dazzling . . .

a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction." ?San Francisco Chronicle"Impressive . . .

a flight of fancy through a dreamlike Brazil." ?Village Voice"Surreal and misty, sweeping from one high-voltage scene to another." ?LA Weekly"Amuses and frightens at the same time." ?Newsday"Incisive and funny, this book yanks our chains and makes us see the absurdity that rules our world." ?Booklist...

An expert guide to transforming your teamwork and results

The key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking, to politics and to life, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.

. In an attempt to find out why we're not having the sex we want, Sofie asks the questions: can we blame a lacking sex education?

What distinguishes the great from the truly exceptional? After five years of writing The Profile, Polina Marinova Pompliano has studied hundreds of successful and interesting people in the world and examined how they reason their way through problems, unleash their creativity, and perform under extreme pressure.

The most comprehensive and authoritative history of D-Day ever published 'Extraordinary' Andrew Roberts'Fascinating' Daily Mail'Magisterial' James Holland________________ 6 June 1944, 4 a.m. Hundreds of boats assemble off the coast of France.

'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate MosseThis volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century.