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Still: The Code Within Book Cover
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Still: The Code Within

Michael Nicasio

  • Jun 9 - Jun 24
  • 116 entries
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Discover the secret code that shapes your thoughts, feelings, and actions—without you ever realizing it. STILL: The Code Within is not just a book; it is your ultimate guide to unlocking the mysteries of human nature. Blending cutting-edge science, philosophy, and history, this captivating read reveals why your struggles aren't personal shortcomings—they are simply the result of an ancient brain navigating a hyper-modern world. If you are ready to break free from invisible barriers and master your own mind, this is the book you cannot afford to miss.



Prepare for a jaw-dropping perspective shift: once you open these pages, you will never look at yourself or the world the same way again.



Warning: The Existence Decoded series will challenge everything you thought you knew about consciousness, reality, and what it means to be human. If you crave bold answers, love to question the status quo, and are ready to reclaim your freedom from the forces you can’t see, this book is your invitation to transformation. Dare to discover what’s holding you back—and how to finally break through.



Are you ready to better understand what it means to be human and decode existence? STILL: The Code Within is where it begins.
  • Science
  • Self help
Quevedo And Cajal: The Story of the True AGI Architects Book Cover
100 copies
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Quevedo And Cajal: The Story of the True AGI Architects

David Vivancos

  • Jun 9 - Jun 19
  • 95 entries
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What if the two true architects of Artificial Intelligence were Spanish, had been born in the same year (1852)… and official history had erased them?

In 1912, a Spanish engineer built the first machine in history capable of deciding for itself: El Ajedrecista, by Leonardo Torres Quevedo. In 1894, an Aragonese physician formulated the principle that today allows neural networks to learn: Santiago Ramón y Cajal wrote that “every man can, if he set his mind to it, be the sculptor of his own brain.” Decades before Turing, Shannon, von Neumann, or Zuse, they had already drawn the complete blueprint of AGI.

This book recovers, with rigor and passion, what the Anglo-Saxon world failed to recognize.

What you will discover:

How Torres Quevedo invented remote control (Telekino, 1903), conditional branching (1911), floating point (1914), and the first automaton that played and won — technologies that Shannon and Samuel would cite half a century later.

How Cajal drew the retina as nature’s first convolutional network, inferred the synapse, and formulated the plasticity that is now the foundation of deep learning.

Why Transformers, LLMs such as GPT or Claude, humanoid robots, and multimodal agents are direct heirs to three Spanish patents filed between 1907 and 1934.

The “Great Silence” after 1936: how a Civil War and the absence of disciples buried one of the most important scientific legacies of the 20th century.

What is still missing to achieve true AGI, and where the clues Cajal and Quevedo had already left behind can be found.
A book written from inside the revolution.

David Vivancos has spent 30 years on the front line of Artificial Intelligence. An entrepreneur since 1995, founder of five startups, creator of MindBigData (the world’s largest open dataset of brain signals), author of 7 books, speaker at more than 500 conferences across Europe and the United States, advisor to 35+ CEOs on the transition to an automated world. A teacher of machines with more than 28,000 hours devoted to researching AGI.

This is not a history book. It is the lost manual of artificial intelligence, told by someone who has spent three decades building the future these two men imagined.

12 chapters. almost 500 pages (in the print version). Exhaustive glossary. More than one hundred references.

From the childhood of two boys born in the same year in different corners of Spain, to the Cajal-Quevedo fusion of 1943 that gave rise to the Perceptron. From Simarro’s Madrid kitchen-laboratory to today’s wetware at Cortical Labs. From the Niagara Whirlpool Aero Car (still in service) to the agents that now navigate your screen.

Why read it now.

We are living through the greatest technological transformation in human history. Understanding where it comes from tells us where it is going. Recognizing those who opened the path is not nostalgia: it is justice, perspective, and advantage.

If you are interested in AI, neuroscience, the history of science, or simply want to understand the world that is coming, this book will change the way you look at it.

Join us in reclaiming the first architects of AGI. A century late, but still in time.
  • Biography
  • Science
We Are Called to Rise: The Power of Refugee Women Book Cover
20 copies
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We Are Called to Rise: The Power of Refugee Women

Jina Krause-Vilmar

  • Jun 7 - Jun 28
  • 978 entries
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We Are Called to Rise is a call-to-action to embrace the economic potential of refugee women and break the invisible barriers that constrain their power

Jina Krause-Vilmar has spent her career working closely with women in some of the most challenging moments of their lives. When women and their families are pushed from their home countries by war, famine, economic instability, or religious persecution, they land in new homes with no safety nets. Alongside poor communities in their host countries, they struggle to survive in informal work systems where resentment runs high and they are easily exploited. It doesn’t have to be this way.

We Are Called to Rise is about the economic power of refugee women―the power that policymakers overlook, governments fail to harness, and stereotypes erase. It is about the opportunities we miss when we reduce refugee women to victims instead of recognizing them as economic drivers, changemakers, and leaders. Krause-Vilmar, President and CEO of Upwardly Mobile, explores the invisible threads that constrain them and how, despite the barriers, they are reweaving those threads to create opportunity―not just for themselves, but for entire communities.

When the most vulnerable are supported, we all thrive.
  • Science
  • History
Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old Book Cover
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Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old

Lucy Schiller

  • Jun 4 - Jun 25
  • 1,610 entries
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A deeply personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America

Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has long been one of casual avoidance and neglect. This attitude became brutally clear during the height of the COVID pandemic, when too many people saw elderly deaths not as tragedies but as foregone conclusions.

Like many of us, Lucy Schiller experienced this callousness firsthand when her grandmother passed away during the pandemic. In the wake of this trauma, propelled by equal parts grief and curiosity about her own fear of aging, Schiller embarked on an investigative journey to understand why the prospect of aging is so frightening and how being “old” in America intersects with class, race, disability, and public policy.

From profit-driven networks of care facilities to systemic failures in economic support, the future of older Americans looks increasingly uncertain. In Aging Out, Schiller reports this crisis, sharing the human toll of inadequate housing, health care, and community, while simultaneously excavating her own complicated relationship with aging.

Combining the incisive reporting of Evicted with the beautifully rendered introspection of The Empathy Exams, Aging Out is an intimate and unflinching exploration of what it means to age in this country and why Americans—including Schiller herself—are so terrified of getting old.
  • Science
  • Non-fiction
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