Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write (A Norton Short)
By: Dennis Yi Tenen
3.61
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking reader…
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1. Armadale
By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins
3.94
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more
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"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"-John Sutherland, Armadale
"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"-John Sutherland, Armadale
2. Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
By: Chris Ware
4.60
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
Jimmy Corriganhas rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won th… read more
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3. Encounters with the Archdruid
By: John McPhee
5.00
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a … read more
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4. The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
By: Carol Zaleski , Philip Zaleski
4.32
Format: 210 pages, ebook
A stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J.R.R. Tolkien and C.… read more
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5. Nexus (Nexus, #1)
By: Ramez Naam
3.86
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
Mankind gets an upgrade In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans togeth… read more
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6. 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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7. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- audiobook
8. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
9. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- writing
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10. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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11. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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12. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
By: Deb Chachra
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdo… read more
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"We’re accustomed to thinking about making the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources as one that we are doing under duress, making a sacrifice to stave off disaster. But that’s not wh…"-Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
13. Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
By: David Bellos
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we … read more
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14. How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
By: Chris Wiggins
3.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world. From … read more
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- artificial intelligence
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15. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more
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16. How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite
By: Chris Balakrishnan
3.63
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, y… read more
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- science
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17. Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write (A Norton Short)
By: Dennis Yi Tenen
3.61
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking reader… read more
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18. Houses of the Unholy
By: Ed Brubaker
3.73
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
An FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn… read more
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19. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
20. The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots
By: Daniela Rus
3.60
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation … read more
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21. Eyes in the Sky: Space Telescopes from Hubble to Webb
By: Andrew May
4.33
Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition
Over 50 years ago, astronomers launched the world's first orbiting telescope to gaze further into o… read more
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