Moral AI by Jana Schaich Borg; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; Vincent Conitzer
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A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous ...Show more
The Vast Extent - On Seeing And Not Seeing Further by Lavinia Greenlaw
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From the renowned poet, novelist and memoirist, and ingenious constellation of writings on light, image, seeing . . . and the unseen. From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each i ...Show more
Mary Or, the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout
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Gothic, fantasy-tinged historical fiction, delving back into the teenage years of Mary Shelley to find the inspiration for Frankenstein __________ 'A fantastically moody, unsettling novel, with a teasing, enigmatic atmosphere entirely its own' Sarah Waters 'A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel ...Show more
Change: A Novel by Edouard Louis
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The major new novel from the international bestselling author Edouard Louis - about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind. One question took centre stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself- how could I get th ...Show more
One Woman Show by Christine Coulson
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Prized, collected, critiqued. One Woman Show revolves around the life of Kitty Whitaker as she is defined by her potential for display and moved from collection to collection through multiple marriages. Coulson precisely distils each stage of this sprawling life into exhibition wall labels, every brief ...Show more
We All Lived in Bondi Then by Georgia Blain
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From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories. A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple mistake. A daughter searches for certainty as her mother's memory degrades. An encounter at a house party changes ...Show more
Nadezhda in the Dark by Yelena Moskovich
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'Yelena Moskovich is a true original, a literary titan, an innovator' JENNI FAGANA queer anthem for doomed youth by the author of Virtuoso and A Door Behind a DoorOn the longest night of a Berlin winter two women sit side-by-side. Both fled the Soviet Union as children, one from Ukraine, and her girlfri ...Show more
The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
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The English-language debut of one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan. Told in three alternating first-person narratives, The Factory casts a vivid--if sometimes surreal--portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of modern life.
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia
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The story of Britain told through its islands - a personal journey through an ancient landscape The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Brita ...Show more
Time's Echo The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler
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A stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world. When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy E ...Show more
Tabula Rasa - Volume 1 by John McPhee
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A literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing ...Show more
Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox
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A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its dreadful consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. It was composed more than 260 ...Show more