Adam Slade was a man who had nothing to lose by making a break for it. The trouble was, he knew that no one had ever escaped from the Prison of a Billion Years

Get the Summary of Mike Rinder's A Billion Years in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 2007, at the age of fifty-two, Rinder finally escaped Scientology. Overnight, he became one of the organization's biggest public enemies. He was followed, hacked, spied on, and tracked. But he refused to be intimidated and today helps people break free of Scientology. In A Billion Years, the dark,...

"In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in...

QUESTION: Can a cartoon cat save the world? ANSWER: It can-if the cat is one of the *most downloaded apps of all time*, made by a tiny company that grew into a Unicorn-by founders that wanted to protect Earth before it's too late. Talking cats? Saving the planet? Unicorns? Don't be fooled. This is *not* a science fiction book-this is a business book like you've never read before. Based on the true story of a tiny bootstrapped company, in the tiny...

In this head-twirling business novel, the founders of a billion-dollar tech startup prove how putting purpose before profit, and cultivating people-first leadership, results in massive financial success. Between the covers of this book is a... BEYOND PROFIT MINDSET that carries the flag for conscious leaders of businesses that answer the real needs of time and space. Iza and Samo Login didn't even know what they were going to sell when they started......

Over the last half billion years, there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around the cataclysm is us. In this book the author tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species...

Chart the evolution of life revealed in the extraordinary fossils of the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. This mountainside quarry records the proliferation of new organisms"”both familiar and bizarre"”that followed a mass extinction half a billion years ago.