By Frank Herbert (1990)

Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and...

How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

By Marc Levinson (2006)

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. "The Box" tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted,..

How to Create Your Business Culture

By Ben Horowitz (2019)

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author combines lessons both from history and modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help us build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. The times and circumstances in which people were raised often shape them - yet...

Things That Gain from Disorder

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2014)

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb...

By Isaac Asimov (2008)

The story of our future begins with the Foundation. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humanity, Seldon...

By Cixin Liu (2016)

The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of...

Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

By Randall Munroe (2015)

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched...

By Cixin Liu (2017)

Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world science fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award. Here is the first collection of his short fiction : these stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, form a blazingly original ode to planet Earth - its pasts and...

By Neal Stephenson (2002)

A gripping and page-turning thriller that explores themes of power, information, secrecy and war in the twentieth century. From the author of the three-volume historical epic 'The Baroque Cycle' and Seveneves. In his legendary, sprawling masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting...

By Neal Stephenson (2015)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable...

By Isaac Asimov (2013)

In the year 2100, the invention of the Electron Pump - an apparently inexhaustible supply of free energy - has enabled humanity to devote its time and energies to more than the struggle for survival, finally breaking free of the Earth. But the Electron Pump works by exchanging materials with a parallel universe, and such unbalancing of the cosmos...

By Isaac Asimov (2011)

A spellbinding novel set in the universe of Isaac Asimov’s classic Galactic Empire series and Foundation series Due to circumstances within our control, tomorrow will be canceled. The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death not only over every human being but over the very centuries into which they were born. Past, Present, and...

By Maurice Leblanc (1953)

Arsène Lupin s'oppose à Isidore Beautrelet, jeune lycéen et détective amateur. L'aiguille creuse est le deuxième secret de la reine Marie-Antoinette et de Cagliostro (fortune des rois de France). Le Mystère de l'Aiguille creuse renferme un secret que les rois de France se transmettaient et dont Arsène Lupin s'est rendu maître. La fameuse aiguille contient le plus...

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Ultimo Parri est un jeune homme qui vieillit en s'efforçant de remettre de l'ordre dans le monde. Il a cinq ans lorsqu'il voit sa première automobile, l'année de la course mythique Versailles-Madrid de 1903, dix-neuf le jour de la grande défaite de Caporetto en 1917, vingt-cinq lorsqu'il rencontre la femme de sa vie, et beaucoup plus le soir où il meurt, loin de sa...

By Alessandro Baricco (1998)

Au bord de l'océan, à la pension Almayer, 'posée sur la corniche ultime du monde', se croisent sept personnages au destin étrange et romanesque, sept naufragés de la vie qui tentent de recoller les morceaux de leur existence. Mais leur séjour est bouleversé par le souvenir d'un hallucinant naufrage d'un siècle passé et la sanglante dérive d'un radeau. Et toujours...

By Alessandro Baricco (2003)

Vers le milieu du XIX siècle, dans la petite ville imaginaire de Quinnipak, vit toute une communauté rassemblée autour de la très belle Jun Reihl, dont toute la ville admire les lèvres, et de son mari Monsieur Reihl, directeur de la fabrique de verre. À Quinnipak, chacun a son désir, sa 'folie' secrète : Pekish, l'extravagant inventeur de l''humanophone...