Nuna Anodm by David Elkins is an unconventional, highly structured work that presents a series of conceptual designs, diagrams, and descriptive entries organized across multiple volumes. Rather than following a traditional narrative, the book introduces readers to a wide range of imagined systems, objects, and...

Futureproofing Humanity by Robert M. Geraci examines how modern scientific discoveries changed the way people understand the fate of human civilization. After geology and evolutionary theory revealed that life emerged through natural processes across immense spans of time, the possibility that humanity might also disappear...

In We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler revisit an assertion that humanity is acquiring powers once reserved for the divine and test that claim against measurable technological capability. Beginning with the early space...

Nuclear Family: A Memoir of the Atomic West by Ty Bannerman is a memoir that leans into Los Alamos and how generations of the Bannermans worked inside the nuclear weapons program. That inheritance drives him back to New Mexico ground, marked by the first atomic...

The In-Between: Living Through the Collapse of the Old Social Contract by E. Imboden is a book for today. It attempts to analyze why the world is in a state of chaos right now. The Old Order, as so many of us knew it, had...

Playing Blackjack Like an Engineer by David A. Janover, PE, presents blackjack as a structured decision-making system rather than a casual casino pastime. The book begins by reframing the game through engineering principles such as probability, optimization, risk control, and process thinking. Janover begins with...

Biblical Evolution: Reconciling Science and the Bible by Bill Thormodson is a fascinating book that seeks to reconcile the Bible and science from the standpoint of a lay enthusiast. The author discusses the origins of the universe and Earth, comparing passages from Genesis with scientific...

Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change by Dr. Mark Van Rijmenam aims to prepare us for the technological advancements that we will face in the future. It introduces the WAVE framework (Watch, Adapt, Verify, Empower) that will help ensure that the new...

Cognitive Kin: How to Work, Win, and Make Meaning with Agentic AI by Christophe Kolb and Jan Rosen offers a wide-ranging exploration of the shift from reactive artificial intelligence to systems that act with initiative. The book moves methodically from foundational concepts to broader implications,...

Mud, Microbes & Medicine by Elizabeth Reed Aden is a memoir that is definitely a study in two parts. As a young PhD anthropology student in the 1970s, the author sought a topic for her doctoral thesis. Searching the world for a suitable environment, she...