Erik Larson

On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the eras great transatlantic...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. 
“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Combining...

At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900, a year when America felt bigger and stronger than ever before. Nothing...

From New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson comes his first venture into fiction, an otherworldly tale of intrigue and the impossible that marshals his trademark approach to nonfiction to create something new: a ghost story thoroughly grounded in history.
Pioneering psychologist William James leads an expedition to a remote isle in search of answers after a family inexplicably vanishes. Was the cause rooted in the physical world...

Si quieres saber qué es la Inteligencia Artificial, lee este libro ― Peter Thiel, fundador de PayPal. Los mesías del futuro insisten en afirmar que la Inteligencia Artificial pronto eclipsará las capacidades de las mentes humanas con más talento. Según ellos, no queda ninguna esperanza, pues el avance de las máquinas superinteligentes es imparable. Pero la realidad es que ni estamos en el camino hacia el desarrollo de máquinas inteligentes...

Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #332-333, #346-347, #361-363 And #374-375; Spider-Man: The Trial Of Venom and material From Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #373, #388 And Annual #25-26; Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #12; And Web Of Spider-Man Annual #8. When the web-slinger donned a sleek black costume of alien origin, he had no idea it would one day become his deadliest foe: Venom! See the misguided Eddie Brock in some of his earliest...