Erik Larson

#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

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Tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of al

In the early 1900's, Isaac Cline was 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 Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous. I

This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's...

New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake and The Devil in the White City delivers a startlingly fresh portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz.

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...

On May 1, 1915, with World War I entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers surprisingly were at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. The Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "greyhounds" and the captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures...

A group of researchers sets sail for the Isle of Dorn in the North Atlantic in 1905 to explore the cause of several mysterious disappearances, most notably a family of four who vanished without a trace after a week-long holiday on the island. Led by Professor James, a prominent member of the Society for Psychical Research, they begin to explore the island's sole cottage and surrounding landscape in search of a logical explanation. The idyllic setting...