![]() ![]() ![]() What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. ![]() How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today’s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning, or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle? How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology – and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial. ![]() Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This repackaged edition features a new cover by Hugo award–winning illustrator, John Picacio and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author, Dean Koontz. Subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms are taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, friends, family, the woman he loves, and the entire world as he knows it.įirst published in 1955, this classic science fiction thriller about the ultimate alien invasion and the triumph of the human spirit over an invisible enemy has inspired multiple film adaptations and entertained readers for decades. Miles Bennell discovers an insidious, horrifying plot. ![]() On a quiet fall evening in the peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers almost had a perfect ending, with Kevin McCarthys hero - driven half-mad by fear and grief - escapes the pod town and screams warnings at motorists on a highway as trucks filled with alien seeds pass him and leave for other cities. Celebrate one of the earliest science fiction novels by rediscovering Jack Finney’s internationally acclaimed Invasion of the Body Snatchers-which Stephen King calls a story “to be read and savored for its own satisfactions,” now repackaged with a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author, Dean Koontz. ![]() ![]() Her bestselling series include THE REGRET SERIES, CLOSER TO YOU, BLEEDING STARS, FIGHT FOR ME, CONFESSIONS OF THE HEART, FALLING STARS, and REDEMPTION HILLS novels. She writes emotional, sexy, heart-filled stories about boys who usually like to be a little bit bad. Jackson is the New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance. I’ll do anything to protect her, but it’s my past that might destroy her in the end…Ī.L. Now we’re falling into an abyss of passion and need. Tessa is everything I crave but can’t have.īut she’s a red-headed flame I can’t resist, and I can’t help but take her to my bed. This gorgeous, tatted, mountain-of-a-man who’s riddled with secrets. He’s only supposed to be my friend, but every time he comes in the room, he makes my knees weak. When he insists I stay at his cabin with him, he sparks the feelings I’ve tried to suppress. They are the one thing I have left to fight for.īattered and broken by my ex with no place to call home. ![]() I’m a dark, dangerous disaster who leaves destruction in his wake.īut when she offers to pretend to marry me to help me get my kids back, I can’t refuse. ![]() I should know better than to let Tessa McDaniels pretend to be my fiancée. ![]() ![]() ![]() But a prophecy, coupled with the appearance of unnatural creatures in the Middle Worlds, reveal a breach in Chaos, which may lead to another Apocalypse. The General is dead and chances of rebuilding Asgard seem remote. After the destruction of the Order, the surviving gods, having rescued their friends from the Black Fortress of Netherworld, have regrouped in the village of Malbry. ![]() Three years after the events in Runemarks, the Middle World has changed again. Harris began working on the sequel due to feeling "that it wasn't finished as a story, that there was one chapter in the story that might continue". The book centers on Maddy Smith, and her twin sister, Maggie Rede, both on opposing sides of a war between the new gods and the old, who must both face powerful forces in order to save everything they hold dear. Runelight is a 2011 children's fantasy novel by Joanne Harris and is the second in her RUNE series, following her previous novel, Runemarks. ![]() ![]() ![]() In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.Īt once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents-a remote icon-or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. ![]() Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. ![]() One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus ReviewsĪ president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis.Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award.Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize “Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”-Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ![]() Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how-and why-he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had to cheat and skip to the end though, which I hate doing, because the story became too intense for my poor heart at one point. It manages to touch on several existential questions, while never feeling 'heavy'. more l facts, the fictional account of one concubine and one slave in the sultan's court is a love story full of twists. Jane Johnson The Sultans Wife: Page-turning mystery, seductive romance and full immersion into Moroccan court history, from the author of The Tenth Gift Kindle Edition by Jane Johnson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited 6. Review 2: A fascinating glimpse into a different culture and era, managing to be (mostly) respectful of both faiths. It got to a point when I felt as though everything that could have gone wrong to her, had come to pass, but then the mysterious web opened up again and pulled me further into the desert and the back streets of the cities, and I found some soothing gems in the pages. Maybe this one even though I found it good, was a little bit slow in places and too much going on with the main character. Maybe it is was just me, but still think her best was the Tenth Gift. There were some brilliant moments, and some that really pulled me into the time and the desert. Review 1: I searched high and low to find this her third book set in Morocco. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cambyses II returned to his country seven months later only to find that he could not take his throne back. He set up his own brother, Gaumata, as a false king under the name of Bardiya or Smerdis, Cambyses' brother, becoming the new ruler in 522 BCE. Patizithes saw this situation as an opportunity to gain power. Before leaving for Egypt, Cambyses named Patizithes as custodian of the royal palace in his absence. ![]() During the reign of Cambyses, Darius held the position of spearman ( doryphoros) and accompanied the king in his campaign to Egypt between 528 and 525 BCE. The Behistun Inscription mentions that his father occupied the position of satrap ( Persian governor) of Bactria and Persis during the reign of Cyrus the Great (559-530 BCE) and his son, Cambyses (530-522 BCE). 550 BCE, the oldest son of Hystapes and Rhodugune. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your lovely poems often feature nature and the world around us. If you could have Christmas dinner with anyone (alive today or person from history) who would it be? Jane Austen What is your favourite story to read at Christmas? The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde. There are wonderful stories shared at Christmas time. Name three things on your Christmas list this year! I don’t really have a Christmas list – I just hope for lots of books!Ĭhristmas is a time of family traditions – what are your best (or worst!) family traditions? Singing! She won the Smarties Gold Award for her picture book Nice Work, Little Wolf ! and her book The Galloping Ghost was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Book Prize and the Portsmouth Children’s Book Award. Hilda’s books include the Rita the Rescuer series, Too Many Hats and Blue Balloons and Rabbit Ears, which was shortlisted for the 2015 CLPE Poetry Award. Hilda Offen is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator with many books in print. ![]() Author and illustrator Hilda Offen joins the Calendar! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then Rachel meets Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman intent upon feeding her. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. By day, she maintains an illusion of control by way of obsessive food rituals. Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. I couldn't get enough of this devastating and extremely sexy book' Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties 'A luscious, heartbreaking story of self-discovery through the relentless pursuit of desire. ![]() Melissa Broder has produced one of the strangest and sexiest novels of the new year. This riot of carnal pleasure will make you laugh as well as gasp' The Times A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and god from the Women's Prize longlisted author of The PiscesĪ STYLIST, INDEPENDENT, THE WEEK AND RED HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021 ![]() ![]() ![]() is essential reading, a stunningly simple tale of youthful desires and obsessions. is the title of a last collection of short stories by a celebrated Japanese writer. Haunted by Shoji's death, Kazami discovers the truth behind the ninety-eighth story-and comes to believe that "everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy." Banana Yoshimoto's language sweeps the reader immediately into the streets of Tokyo, with her uncanny ability to merge the echoes of Japanese traditional literature with a contemporary plot. Author: Banana Yoshimoto ISBN: 9780571212101. But the book may never be published in his native Japan: each translator who takes up the ninety-eighth story chooses death too-including Kazami's boyfriend, Shoji. In N.P., a celebrated Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind a collection of stories written in English, entitled N.P. is an extraordinarily powerful story of passion and friendship, the nature of love and the taboos surrounding it, confirming Banana Yoshimotos place as one of Japans most important writers. ![]() ![]() "Yoshimoto hits some of the same notes that a previous generation's literary masters (say, Kawabata or Tanizaki) might sound, and yet the effect seems artless, spontaneous and wonderfully fresh." - Los Angeles Times Book Reviewīanana Yoshimoto's warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and best-seller status, as well as a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. ![]() |