12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.92
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial …
Want to Read $ 10.92"There’s a new kind of quasi-religious discourse forming, with its own followers, its creed, its orthodoxy, its heretics, its priests, its literature, its eschatological framework. Even its own Singularity. It’s AI."-Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
"The arts aren't a leisure industry - the arts have always been an imaginative and emotional wrestle with reality -a series of inventions and creations. A capacity to think differently, a willingness to change our understanding of ourselves. To help us be wiser, more reflective, less frightened people."-Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
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1. Aurora Leigh
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3.74
Format: 361 pages, Paperback
This verse-novel tells the story of a female writer, balancing work and love. It is and based on El… read more
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- feminism
"Italy/Is one thing, England one."-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
"Good aims not always make good books."-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
"The world of books is still the world."-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
"Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest..."-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
2. Petals of Blood
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o , Moses Isegawa
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this f… read more
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3. The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
By: Meghan Daum
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction "Daum is her generation's … read more
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4. Thirteen Cents
By: K. Sello Duiker
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the postcard mountain and sea, has its own shad… read more
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5. Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
By: Geoff Dyer
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
From a writer whose mastery encompasses fiction, criticism, and the fertile realm between the two, … read more
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6. Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
By: Roz Chast
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast's new… read more
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7. Quarantine
By: Jim Crace
5.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Yearand a Booker Prizefinalist. Two thousand years ago four tr… read more
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8. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- audiobook
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
9. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
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- cultural
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
10. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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- technology
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
11. Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
By: Brad Gooch
4.39
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
“It’s all the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for … read more
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- cultural
- nonfiction
- history
- lgbt
12. Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
By: László Krasznahorkai
4.18
Format: 558 pages, Hardcover
Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin–like fi… read more
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"...we must never lose sight of that gaze with which we look at things."-László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
"it’s precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that seems real when it’s merely an abstraction, namely that brain introduced or e…"-László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
"at this point, we must refocus our attention on this, as fear is what defines human existence, ...you will see that fear is the deepest element that can be grasped in this organic and inorganic world…"-László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
"empirical evidence is precisely that which is sacred in so-called scientific thought, and by these means—there’s no point in denying it—we can go far, but at the same time, by following this method, …"-László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
13. 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.92
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial … read more
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- cultural
- science
- history
- lgbt
- feminism
- technology
- artificial intelligence
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"There’s a new kind of quasi-religious discourse forming, with its own followers, its creed, its orthodoxy, its heretics, its priests, its literature, its eschatological framework. Even its own Singul…"-Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
"The arts aren't a leisure industry - the arts have always been an imaginative and emotional wrestle with reality -a series of inventions and creations. A capacity to think differently, a willingness …"-Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
14. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- artificial intelligence
- nonfiction
- technology
15. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
By: Joy Buolamwini
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- artificial intelligence
- nonfiction
- technology
16. System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
By: Rob Reich
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero … read more
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- cultural
- science
- nonfiction
- technology
17. The Modern
By: Anna Kate Blair
3.10
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
In an age driven by desire, what happens when you want two different things? Set in the pristin… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
18. Single Mothering
By: Anna Härmälä
4.01
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
With acidic humor, true stories and brutal honesty, Anna Härmälä explores the ups and downs of sing… read more
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- nonfiction
19. The World Goes On
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.78
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, an… read more
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"Memory is the art of forgetting."-László Krasznahorkai, The World Goes On
"Evil exists, and the good, sad to say, can never catch up with it."-László Krasznahorkai, The World Goes On
"...good can never catch up with evil, because with the gap between good and evil there is no hope whatsoever."-László Krasznahorkai, The World Goes On
"... to pour out one's heart and not drink vodka at the same time, well, that is inconceivable for a Russian soul..."-László Krasznahorkai, The World Goes On
20. Het internet is stuk
By: Marleen Stikker
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Het internet moet gerepareerd worden. Onze digitale omgeving, ooit ontstaan als vrije ruimte, wordt… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- technology
21. The Ladder: Life Lessons from Women Who Scaled the Heights & Dodged the Snakes
By: Cathy Newman
3.45
Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of Bloody Brilliant WomenThe Ladder brings together discussions between… read more
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