Lizzy's Picks for Her Dad

Dad, I Want to Hear Your Story (Deluxe Edition)

Capture His Story, Honor His Legacy The Official Hear Your Story Collection Your dad's story is more than just memories-it's a journey filled with wisdom, experiences, and defining moments that shaped his life. Dad, I Want to Hear Your Story is a guided journal that gives him the chance to share those stories in his own words, creating a legacy that will endure for generations. With over 300 engaging prompts, it's an opportunity for him to dive into his childhood memories, teenage years, and adult life-offering insights that might surprise and inspire you. The revised and expanded edition of this beloved journal features: Deluxe edition: With a soft leatherette cover and gold foil features, this meaningful journal becomes a collectible family heirloom. Over 40 pages of new content!...

Life 3.0

Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark explores the future of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on society. It delves into the possibilities of advanced AI transforming civilization, examining ethical and existential questions, and debating how we can steer this technology towards beneficial outcomes for humanity.

Ironwood

Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that his posting on Catalina Island is no paradise, but to most residents, it seems blissfully separated - by twenty-two miles of ocean - from the troubles of Los Angeles County. But now a threat is coming to his safe haven. Acting on a tip from a confidential informant, Stilwell and his deputies watch a plane land in the middle of the night at the Airport in the Sky, a remote airstrip in the mountains. A duffel bag of drugs is dropped and the deputies move in, but things quickly go sideways. While Stilwell chases the fleeing pickup man into the mountainside brush, shots are fired on the runway and the plane flies off. An internal inquiry follows, putting Stilwell on the bench until...

Shane Cameron

The Valley

Goliath’s Curse

Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp offers a radical retelling of human history through the lens of collapse, delving into what this means for our uncertain future. This narrative spans from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond. It's grounded in the latest research and a comprehensive database of more than 440 societal lifespans over the last 5,000 years. Why do civilisations collapse? Is human progress a feasible goal? Are we nearing our endgame? For the first 200,000 years of human history, hunter-gatherer Homo sapiens existed in fluid, egalitarian societies that prevented any individual or group from claiming permanent dominance. This equilibrium began to shift around 12,000 years ago. As we gathered in the first farms and cities, dependency on...

Co-Intelligence

From Wharton professor and author of the One Useful Thing Substack, comes an urgent and definitive playbook for working, learning and living in the new age of AI. For fans of Kevin Kelly, Ray Kurzweil, Cal Newport, and Martin Ford. A New York Times Bestseller Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, and ethics of generative AI. Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW' Angela Duckworth Consumer AI has arrived. And with it, inescapable upheaval as we grapple with what it means for our jobs, lives and the future of humanity. Cutting through the noise of AI evangelists and AI doom-mongers, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical...

Better Never Stops

No Prisoners

Dying Days

Award-winning writer delivers a pulse-pounding espionage thriller. Missing soldiers, MI6 secrets and European partisans collide in a deadly game where the lines between lies and reality are fast disintegrating. In the dying days of the Second World War, a new conflict is about to ignite. May, 1945: After fighting to liberate Europe from the Nazis, Tito's Yugoslav Army and Allied forces have come to a tense standoff in the city of Trieste. Every day, locals with fascist and Nazi ties are disappearing, arrested by Yugoslav soldiers. Meanwhile, the Allies watch on, reluctant to become mired in yet another conflict. But when rumours circulate that New Zealand soldiers are among the missing, the stakes begin to rise. A British MI6 agent and a New Zealand intelligence officer must uncover...