We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible?With over 50 original essays by leadin...

The last thing I remember is the girls playing with my hair. It is curled on my forehead and they stroke it gently while I fall asleep. I wake up suddenly, my body wracked with hot piercing pain.Im in a car thats hurtling through the night, and all around me is darkness. Im lying across someones knees. The pain intensifies and shoots hot, raking talons down my body as I hear hideous screaming. It takes a moment before I realize Im the one screaming, then I drop back into the deep d...

A bold and revolutionary thinker’s legacy for how business can meet the greatest economic challenge in decades...It’s no secret: everyone knows that the way most companies do things is screwed up. Surprisingly, though, herein lays the biggest opportunity for improving growth and profitability in a world in which consumers are tapped out and competition is coming from the devastating combination of low-wage countries with high skills.For more than a decade, ...

On a remote volcanic island at the edge of the world, nothing is supposed to exist, let alone a secret facility, a rogue experiment, and a war no one fully understands.When a battered team of soldiers is blown off course and stranded on the island, they expect rescue. Instead, they find themselves caught between a brilliant billionaire with her own agenda, a group of scientists pushing the limits of human evolution, and a mission that has gone catastrophically off-script. Inside th...

Mac Mackenzie is fifty-eight years oldwith a titanium knee and a tremor inhis left hand. He is also the onlypilot alive who can thread a spacecraftthrough an orbital debris field withouta computer.When a catastrophic collision threatensto make low Earth orbit permanentlyuninhabitable, Mac is pulled out ofretirement for one final mission. Butthe debris field isn't random. Someonebuilt it. And they're watching to s...

A civilian hiker watches a fifty-ton concrete block levitate, vanish, and detonate. He has just witnessed the maiden flight of the USS Icarus, a 240-meter warship powered by quantum vacuum plasma thruster technology that cancels mass and falls through gravity itself. Major Kit Cassidy, a fighter pilot whose traumatic brain injury makes her the only human who can survive the vessel's disorienting gravity field, commands the ship. Within hours, a sleeper cell steals the Icarus and announces ...

Roar! Mighty tyrannosaurus rex is on the prowl. With giant jaws and sharp teeth, this predator gets its way. Learn more about this massive dinosaur in Tyrannosaurus Rex: Mighty Meat Eater.

Discover a Thrilling Dystopian Saga in Ayla: Echoes of DissentImmerse yourself in a world where the powerful elite controls society, and one young woman, Ayla, emerges as a symbol of hope. In the underground Depths, the working class struggles under an oppressive regime while the privileged thrive above. Ayla’s journey is a gripping tale of resistance, rebellion, and justice, packed with heart-pounding action and emotional depth.If you're a fan of dystopian...

It's been a year since Mitch Duchesne helped recover el Registro de Dios, an ancient artifact that reveals shocking information about human evolution. In addition to explaining how rapid, nonrandom mutations have enabled people with a rare gene to telepathically send data, the Registro contains a prophecy that places Mitch at the center of an international conspiracy.Behind the conspiracy is Lucas Shore, a wealthy industrialist on a mission to engineer -- and rule...

"We are on our own now ... From here on out, we win or lose on our own merit. We either save the realm, or we condemn it to burn."With the war in the Upper Realm in full swing, Grace has her hands full fighting for a society that has only just begun to accept her as its own. The House of Darkness and High Lord Carron only grow stronger, and with demonic magic involved, there's no telling what havoc the enemy plans to wreak across the Three Realms. She has no time t...

She breathes deeply, trying to quell the rising sense of panic. A detective came to her home, drugged her and kidnapped her. She tries to make sense of it, to imagine alternatives, but only one conclusion is possible: it's the past, come to claim her.Martin Scarsden's new life seems perfect, right up until the moment it's shattered by a voicemail: a single scream, abruptly cut off, from his partner Mandalay Blonde.Racing home, he finds an unconscious man sprawled o...