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Durham Murder & Mayhem (Murder & Mayhem)
by Rick JacksonThe Dark Side of DurhamExplore the dark side of the Bull City. If the red brick walls that once held tobacco warehouses and textile mills could talk, they would tell the tale of how the crossroads settlement of Pin Hook turned into the vibrant city of Durham in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Since its genesis, Durham has been a city where crime was woven into the very fabric of its existence. Over the years, there have been many murders, robberies and shootouts on the streets, in the alleys and on the outskirts of town. Some crimes have caught the attention of the entire nation, but most have remained just in the conscience of the locals. Local historian Rick Jackson narrates the mysteries of one of North Carolina's most important cities.
Hidden History of Civil War South Carolina (Hidden History)
by D. Michael ThomasUntold Stories of the War Between the StatesAll of South Carolina’s history during the Civil War isn’t well known. Author D. Michael Thomas has uncovered fifty accounts of lost history pertaining to the state and its men during the war. These are stories of astounding chivalry and valor in the face of horrific tragedies, along with unprecedented events. A single South Carolinian captured nearly six hundred Union soldiers. Lieutenant Alexander Chisolm had an extraordinary career. See the connection between South Carolina College and its Confederate generals. Learn little-known tales about naval operations from the Union and the Confederacy and witness the recovery of the state’s “Gettysburg Dead.” Join the author as he recounts these hidden stories and more.
History of Modern Tamil Literature Volume 2: புதிய தமிழ் இலக்கிய வரலாறு தொகுதி 2
by Neela Padmanabhan Sirpi Balasubramaniamபுதிய தமிழ் இலக்கிய வரலாறு தொகுதி 2 தமிழ் எழுத்துக்களையும் அதன் முன்னணி எழுத்தாளர்களையும் ஆராய்கிறது. இது 20வது நூற்றாண்டின் தொடக்கமான காலம் முதல் பல முக்கிய மாற்றங்கள், திருப்பங்கள் மற்றும் வளர்ச்சிகளை அணுகுகிறது. தமிழ் சுவடுகளின் பெரும்பான்மையை முன்னெடுத்துக் கொண்ட முக்கிய எழுத்தாளர்களின் கதை இதற்குள் செருகப்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்த நூலில் சிறந்த புனைகதை, கவிதை, நாடகங்கள் மற்றும் கட்டுரைகள் ஆகியவற்றின் பரிணாமங்களை விரிவாக விளக்குகிறது. சமூக மற்றும் அரசியல் மாற்றங்கள், கலாச்சார வளர்ச்சி ஆகியவை இலக்கியத்தை எப்படி பாதித்தன என்பதை தெளிவுபடுத்துகிறது. முக்கியமான எழுத்தாளர்கள் மற்றும் அவர்களது படைப்புகளைப் பற்றிய விவரங்களை நுட்பமாக பதிவு செய்துள்ளது. இதுவே நவீன தமிழ் இலக்கியத்தை புரிந்து கொள்ள ஆர்வமுள்ள வாசகர்களுக்கு அத்தியாவசியமான ஆவணம் ஆகும். இத்தொகுதியின் ஆழ்ந்த ஆய்வு, தமிழின் சமூக-அரசியல் பின்னணிகளுக்கு ஏற்ற இலக்கிய வளர்ச்சியை சரியான முறையில் எடுத்துரைக்கின்றது.
Das Transfermanagement von Hochschulen: Eine empirische Untersuchung
by Linda GranowskeLinda Granowske analysiert in diesem Buch empirisch das Transfermanagement von Hochschulen und untersucht, wie diese die zunehmenden Anforderungen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft organisieren und bewältigen. Durch eine umfassende, prozessorientierte Untersuchung werden die Steuerung und Optimierung von Austauschbeziehungen zwischen Hochschulen und ihrer Umwelt analysiert. Der interdisziplinäre Forschungsansatz kombiniert verwaltungswissenschaftliche, betriebswirtschaftliche und organisationstheoretische Perspektiven, um zentrale Akteure und Managementinstrumente systematisch zu erfassen. Im Ergebnis werden innovative Ansätze für das Transfermanagement entwickelt, die sowohl theoretisch fundiert als auch praktisch umsetzbar sind.
Anomalous Stochastics: A Comprehensive Guide to Multifractals, Random Walks, and Real-World Applications (Understanding Complex Systems)
by Michał Chorowski Tomasz Gubiec Ryszard KutnerThis textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of anomalous stochastic processes and extreme events, commonly referred to as "black swans," with a particular focus on (multi-)fractal approaches and continuous-time random walks. The authors present a systematic examination of the subject, tracing its inception and providing a multi-directional perspective. By drawing on real-world experiences in finance, physics, and technology, the book underscores the practical relevance of anomalous stochastic processes for practitioners dealing with real-world data from complex systems. The content is based on a series of interdisciplinary physics lectures that have been delivered to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Warsaw for nearly two decades. Updated to reflect recent developments, this book is a valuable resource for graduate students, ambitious undergraduate students, and researchers interested in random processes and the practical implications of anomalous processes. Familiarity with fundamental principles of probability theory, algebra, and basic concepts of differential and integral calculus is assumed, while a foundational understanding of mathematical statistics, stochastic processes, and statistical thermodynamics is recommended. Additionally, each chapter includes practical exercises designed to help readers master the concepts, develop practical skills, and serve as teaching material.
Emerging Trends in Sustainable Geotechnics: Keynote Volume of EGRWSE 2024 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #584)
by Krishna R. Reddy Arvind Kumar Agnihotri Eugeniusz Koda Magdalena Daria VaverkováThis volume contains peer-reviewed and selected papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Materials, and Sustainable Engineering 2024, held in Warsaw, Poland. It covers the recent innovations, trends, concerns, practical challenges encountered, and the solutions adopted in waste management and engineering, geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, infrastructure engineering, and sustainable engineering. This book will be useful for academics, educators, policymakers, and professionals working in the field of civil engineering, chemical engineering, environmental sciences, and public policy.
Computational Methods in Physics: Compendium for Students (Graduate Texts in Physics)
by Martin Horvat Simon ŠircaThis textbook provides a compendium of numerical methods to assist physics students and researchers in their daily work. It carefully considers error estimates, stability and convergence issues, the choice of optimal methods, and techniques to increase program execution speeds. The book supplies numerous examples throughout the chapters that are concluded by more comprehensive problems with a strong physics background. Instead of uncritically employing modern black-box tools, the readers are encouraged to develop a more ponderous and skeptical approach. This revised and expanded edition now includes a new chapter on numerical integration and stable differentiation, as well as fresh material on optimal filtering, integration of gravitational many-body problems, computation of Poincaré maps, regularization of orbits, singular Sturm-Liouville problems, techniques for time evolution and spatial treatment of (semi)infinite domains in spectral methods, and phase retrieval. It also brings updated discussions of algebraic problems involving sparse matrices and of high-resolution schemes for partial differential equations.
Numerical Simulation Algorithm of Electromagnetic Field for Grounding Problems in Power System Substation Grounding Grids
by Zhong-Xin LiThis book focuses on numerical methods for grounding problems in substation grounding systems, which are rooted in horizontal multilayered earth models. The book discusses both theories and engineering applications and provides case studies to verify the accuracy of the methods introduced. Up to ten horizontal multilayered soil models were considered. This book employs numerical algorithms for Galerkin&’s method, including Galerkin&’s method of moments, Galerkin&’s boundary element method, and hybrid algorithms based on a variety of basis functions that have emerged as a result of simplifying Galerkin&’s method of moments. These numerical methods include both frequency and time domain algorithms that can be used to numerically simulate transient and steady state grounding problems in substation grounding grids. The most outstanding feature of this book is the incorporation of the frequency- and time-domain quasi-static complex imaging method (QSCIM) for point current sources in layered conducting media and its closed-form Green&’s function, as well as analytical algorithms for calculating the spatial two-dimensional line integrals of mutual impedances and inductances into numerical algorithmic modeling of electromagnetic fields, which greatly improves computational speed and accuracy.
Public Relations und Entscheidung: Zur kommunikativen Form der PR im digitalen Zeitalter (Organisationskommunikation)
by Anke OßwaldAnke Oßwald entwickelt in dem vorliegenden Buch eine entscheidungsorientierte Perspektive auf Public Relations. Aufbauend auf einem systemtheoretischen Kommunikationsverständnis konzipiert sie PR als spezifische Entscheidungspraxis und zeigt, welche weitergehenden Erkenntnismöglichkeiten damit verbunden sind. So lassen sich unter anderem Automatisierungsprozesse deutlich differenzierter darstellen und die Folgen für Öffentlichkeit diskutieren. Neue Impulse ergeben sich auch für die Schnittstelle von PR- und Organisationsstudien sowie für die kommunikationswissenschaftlich ausgerichtete Strategieforschung.
New York City in the Civil War (Images of America)
by Jonathan W. WhiteNew York City was the center of business, commerce, manufacturing, culture, and war spirit in the North during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln gained an important national audience at the Cooper Institute in February 1860. Tens of thousands of young men enlisted in the city and marched off to fight. Factories churned out materiel for the soldiers. Black leaders such as Frederick Douglass mobilized African American support for the Union. Foreign dignitaries were the subject of grand celebrations on Broadway. Immigrants raised celebrated ethnic regiments, and nationally renowned newspapers debated the pressing issues of the day. In short, the city was a vital engine that powered Union efforts. Yet New York was also a divided metropolis where political differences were hashed out—sometimes violently. The deadliest urban racial violence in American history took place in Manhattan in July 1863. In this book, New Yorkers regain their place at the center of the Union war effort on both the battlefield and the home front.Acclaimed historians Jonathan W. White and Timothy J. Orr bring New York City’s Civil War story to life through photographs and illustrations drawn from libraries, archives, and private collections around the United States. Foreword author Harold Holzer is the Jonathan F. Fanton Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and a leading historian of Lincoln and the Civil War in New York City.
Kentucky's Packhorse Librarians (Images of America)
by Nicki JacobsmeyerMarking the ridgelines and hearts of the Appalachians during the Great Depression, packhorse librarians delivered hope, one book at a time.When the Great Depression started, folks stumbled on hard times. Many lost their jobs and homes, and they struggled to support their families. But people craved hope for the future, and hope arrived with the packhorse librarians through Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1933. Each week, children, families, and schoolhouses celebrated when their packhorse librarian arrived at their doors with books. After being handled by many cherished hands, reading materials needed to be taken out of circulation. The librarians constructed scrapbooks and filled them with beloved items—recipes, quilt patterns, pictures, and stories. Challenges awaited the librarians at every pass. From muddy creeks to snowy hillsides, the packhorse librarians delivered books and hope to their patrons. Although the program ended in 1943, the lasting effects on literacy and the communities these packhorse librarians visited can still be seen today.Author Nicki Jacobsmeyer lives in rural Missouri, where she writes fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. She inspires others to discover and dream through reading and believes books are windows to the world.
1978: Baseball and America in the Disco Era
by David KrellAmericans struggled to find their footing in the late 1970s. The Vietnam War ended with more than fifty-eight thousand American soldiers&’ deaths; the public&’s trust in politicians plummeted amid the Watergate scandal. As deadly blizzards ripped through the Midwest and Northeast in early 1978 and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, Americans turned to baseball for the welcome distraction and promise of a new season. From spring training to the World Series, 1978 gave baseball fans one of the sport&’s greatest seasons, full of legendary moments like the battle between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox for the American League East pennant, Gaylord Perry&’s three thousandth strikeout, Tom Seaver&’s only career no-hitter, Willie McCovey&’s five hundredth home run, and Pete Rose&’s marathon forty-four-game hitting streak. The 1978 season played out against a backdrop of disco music, bell-bottom pants, and gas-guzzling cars, while Hollywood answered a desperate longing for a simpler time with nostalgic offerings such as Grease, The Buddy Holly Story, American Hot Wax, Animal House, and Superman. Robin Williams became a household name with a guest appearance on the popular TV show Happy Days, Atlantic City debuted its first casino, and Jill Clayburgh symbolized the emerging independence of women in An Unmarried Woman. In a memorable end to the baseball season, Reggie Jackson and Bucky Dent led the Yankees to their second consecutive World Series over the Dodgers after losing the first two games, then winning four in a row. With a month-by-month approach, David Krell breaks down major events in both baseball and American culture at large in 1978, chronicling in novelistic detail the notable achievements of some of the greatest players of the era, along with some of the national pastime&’s quirkiest moments, to capture an extraordinary year in baseball.
Flyover Fictions: Polarization in U.S.-American Culture, Media, and Politics
by Sascha Pöhlmann Cornelia KleckerFlyover Fictions critically engages the history and contemporary use of the &“flyover country&” trope in American culture and repurposes the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies. The term &“flyover&” arose in the 1970s with variations—&“flyover country,&” &“flyover states&”—mainly used as synonyms for the American Midwest in intranational banter regarding cultural differences from the dominant urban centers of New York City and Los Angeles. In recent years, the trope has shifted away from this playfulness and its traditional geographic reference points to indicate larger political and cultural developments that speak of a deepening polarization in the United States.Flyover Fictions is an exploration of the trope&’s current politicization, historical contexts, and general proliferation of meanings. Instead of resolving the ambiguities inherent in the concept, the volume considers what can be done with these ambiguities, and how precisely their fuzziness might be used to create an analytic tool to describe, understand, and critique processes of cultural hierarchization. The contributors show how flyover fictions may operate in different national contexts and also internationally or transnationally, not only providing a fresh perspective on historical and contemporary American culture but also supplying a conceptual toolbox for broader use.
Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives: Proceedings of the 46th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference (Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics #33)
by Giovanni Di Bartolomeo Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin Hakan Danis Ender DemirEBES conferences have been an intellectual hub for academic discussion in economics, finance, and business fields and provide network opportunities for participants to make long-lasting academic cooperation. This proceedings volume of the Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (EBES’s official proceeding series) includes selected papers from the 46th EBES Conference which took place in Rome on January 10-12, 2024. The conference was hosted by the faculty of economics of La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). In the conference, 170 papers by 365 colleagues from 48 countries were presented. The conference was held both in hybrid with both in-person and online paper presentation format.
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
by Russ Buettner Susanne CraigAn Instant New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year&“A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.&” –Alexander Nazaryan, The New York TimesFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump&’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump&’s wealth, revealing how one of the country&’s biggest business failures lied his way into the White HouseSoon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life &“has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.&” Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever.Drawing on over twenty years&’ worth of Trump&’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump's financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. For decades, he squanders his fortunes on money losing businesses, only to be saved yet again by financial serendipity. He tacks his name above the door of every building, while taking out huge loans he&’ll never repay. He obsesses over appearances, while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits against city officials. He tarnishes the value of his name by allowing anyone with a big enough check to use it, and cheats the television producer who not only rescues him from bankruptcy but casts him as a business savant – the public image that will carry him to the White House. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. At a moment when Trump&’s tether to success and power is more precarious than ever, here for the first time is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money – what he had, what he lost, and what he has left – and the final word on the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire.
The Secret Middle Ages: Discovering the Real Medieval World
by Malcolm Jones Marina WarnerThe Secret Middle Ages is a controversial and completely fresh view of the medieval world through its rare and amazing artefacts. Using the wealth of medieval art, much of it unseen or ignored by museums and art historians, Malcolm Jones paints a compelling picture of the visual environment of the great mass of ordinary people between 1200 and 1500. The picture that emerges is of a civilisation that is both like and unlike our own, one that teems with the richness of life and its contradictions. Unlike most studies of the medieval world, it does not concern itself greatly with religious or aristocratic art but with the products of popular and folk art. Here we find beliefs and traditions rendered memorable by the vivid creative imagination and strong visual culture of the middle ages. Love, hatred, crime and punishment, proverbs, heaven on earth, husband-beating - all feature in the jewellery, tableware, illustrations, carvings and textiles of the period.This book offers a major reassessment of the high medieval period and as such is not only important to specialist, but has much appeal to the general reader. It is essential reading for medievalists and those interested in the history of language and customs. It provides a brilliant and evocative picture of medieval Europe where people spent their time wearing their hearts on their sleeves, snapping sausages and getting bees in their bonnets. As Malcolm Jones writes, gems and precious metals may dazzle the eye, but a pewter brooch, though it may look tawdry, may be of more significance and can tell us more about the middle ages than a cofferful of royal jewels.
Luck on My Side: The Diaries & Reflections of a Young Wartime Sailor 1939–1945
by John PalmerSir John Palmer was at sea for virtually the entire war serving in three ships. During this time he kept a secret diary of events and his reactions and emotions which we are now proud to publish. This book vividly describes the author's many wartime exploits. For the worst period of the Battle of the Atlantic, he was on convoy protection duty in the Corvette HMS Clematis and recalls the famous Christmas Day action against the mighty German battle cruiser Hipper.Sadly Sir John died very recently, after a most distinguished life.
Beautiful Zero: Poems
by Jennifer WilloughbyFrom love and war to Shark Week and college football, this award-winning poetry collection “makes both the marvelous and quotidian buzz with brilliance” (Matt Rasmussen).Incantatory, intimate, and incendiary, the poems of this award-winning debut are filled with explosive wit and humor like “a knife you don’t see coming.” A kaleidoscopic intelligence flows through Beautiful Zero, embracing forms of culture high and low in effort to finding meaning in the chaos.A series of poems set in a Kaiser Permanente hospital tear into the world of privatized health care while simultaneously charting a story of love in the face of catastrophe. Yet even at her most surreal, Willoughby always finds the pulsing heart at the core of the poem. She embraces what she cannot understand about both the world and herself because after all, “Nothing is as random as they say it is. / You were born the weirdo that you are.”Winner of the 2015 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry
The Whippoorwill Trilogy: Whippoorwill, The Amen Trail, The Hen House (The Whippoorwill Trilogy)
by Sharon ShalaExperience the New York Times–bestselling author “at top form”—includes Whippoorwill, The Amen Trail, and The Hen House, all in one volume (Debbie Macomber).From bestselling author Sharon Sala comes the trilogy following Leticia Murphy on her adventures that take her from the Kansas Territories to Denver City, and from reluctant saloon girl to happily married woman. Orphaned at age twelve, all Leticia Murphy wants is love, a family, and a happily ever after. But the Kansas territories are a difficult place, and Letty has to do what it takes to survive. Now, she’s the last saloon girl in the rough-and-tumble town of Lizard Flats, a place where happily ever afters are nothing but a dream.Praise for The Whippoorwill Trilogy“Sharon Sala has created a one-of-a-kind, unforgettable character in Letty Murphy. Her rags-to-riches story is a mythic journey filled with moments of devastating emotional truth and soaring triumph.” —Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “No one does love and laughter like Sala. You’ll definitely want to take a journey down The Amen Trail.” —Joan Johnston, New York Times–bestselling author“Sharon Sala works her familiar magic and creates a story line that grabs your attention, along with a cast of unlikely characters who work their way right into your heart.” —Jasmine Cresswell, USA Today-bestselling author“Wear a corset because your sides will hurt from laughing! . . . You’re going to love this touching and memorable book.” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times–bestselling author
Stilwater: Finding Wild Mercy in the Outback
by Rafael de GrenadeIn this “rhapsodic [and] stirring” nature memoir, an American woman recounts a season of herding cattle in the Australian Outback (Kirkus).Rafael de Grenade was thirteen years old when she began working on a rough-country mountain ranch in Arizona. But when she read about cattlemen working the far edges of the Australian outback, it sparked a dream far wilder than anything she had ever known. A little over a decade later she arrived on Stilwater Station with two shirts, two pairs of jeans, cowboy boots, and some doubt that she would ever go home.Inundated by monsoon floods in the winter, baked dry in the summer, and filled with deadly animals, Stilwater was an unlikely home for a cattle operation. But in the wilderness beyond the station roamed tens of thousands of cows, many entirely feral from long neglect. Rafael has been hired, along with a ragged crew of ringers and stockmen, to bring them in. Over a season they use helicopters, motorcycles, bullcatcher jeeps, horses, ropes, and knives to win Stilwater Station back from the wild, to say nothing of their intuition, strength, muscle, and wit.
15-Minute Mindful Meals: 250+ Fail-Proof Recipes and Ideas for Quick, Pleasurable & Healthy Home Cooking (The Backyard Renaissance Collection)
by Caleb Warnock Lori HendersonThis practical guide to natural foods makes it easy to eat mindfully—with more than 250 simple recipes full of nutrients and free of processed ingredients.With his Backyard Renaissance Collection of how-to guides, Caleb Warnock has been helping people rediscover the simple pleasures of self-reliance. In 15-Minute Mindful Meals, Warnock demonstrates that eating natural foods and home-grown produce can be as simple as it is satisfying. Along with hundreds of quick, healthy recipes for breakfasts, lunches, and dinners—as well as snacks and desserts—Warnock offers easy-to-follow tips on maintaining a balanced and mindful diet. This volume also includes a handy guide to nutrients found in vegetables, fruits, berries, and herbs.
A Parallel Life and Other Stories
by Robin BeemanThe acclaimed author of The Lost Art of Desire explores grief and longing in the face of illness in this “delicate, atmospheric” story collection (Kirkus).In the ten spare yet surprising stories in this collection, Robin Beeman delves into the inner lives of ordinary women, revealing their passions and frustrations with the limitations of life. In “Life Signs,” a dying woman spends her final days camping on a beach with her husband. A man facing the death of his dog relives the traumatic loss of his father in “Secrets.” And in the title novella, a married librarian gets romantically involved with an insurance salesman whose wife is struggling with cancer.
The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
by Mustafa SuleymanNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI&“A fascinating, well-written, and important book.&”—Yuval Noah Harari &“Essential reading.&”—Daniel Kahneman&“My favorite book on AI.&”—Bill Gates, GatesNotesA Best Book of the Year: CNN, Economist, Bloomberg, Politico Playbook, Financial Times, The Guardian, CEO Magazine, Semafor • Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other. How do we ensure the flourishing of humankind? How do we maintain control? How do we navigate the narrow path to a successful future? This groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes &“the containment problem&”—the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age.
Black Woods, Blue Sky: A Novel
by Eowyn IveyNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Snow Child returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves?&“No one writes like Eowyn Ivey.&”—Geraldine Brooks&“You will find yourself in places you have never been.&”—Louise Erdrich&“Ivey is an enthralling storyteller.&”—The New York Times Book ReviewBirdie&’s keeping it together; of course she is. So she&’s a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she&’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature.Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons, brings Emaleen back to safety when she gets lost in the woods. Most people avoid him, but to Birdie, he represents everything she&’s ever longed for. She finds herself falling for Arthur and the land he knows so well. Against the warnings of those who care about them, Birdie and Emaleen move to his isolated cabin in the mountains, on the far side of the Wolverine River.It&’s just the three of them in the vast black woods, far from roads, telephones, electricity, and outside contact, but Birdie believes she has come prepared. At first, it&’s idyllic and she can picture a happily ever after: Together they catch salmon, pick berries, and climb mountains so tall it&’s as if they could touch the bright blue sky. But soon Birdie discovers that Arthur is something much more mysterious and dangerous than she could have ever imagined, and that like the Alaska wilderness, a fairy tale can be as dark as it is beautiful.Black Woods, Blue Sky is a novel with life-and-death stakes, about the love between a mother and daughter, and the allure of a wild life—about what we gain and what it might cost us.
All That Life Can Afford: Reese's Book Club
by Emily EverettA REESE&’S BOOK CLUB PICK &“An effervescent debut chock full of Austenian nods. Swoonworthy!&” —Sarah McCoy, New York Times bestselling author of Mustique Island &“All That Life Can Afford is about love, ambition, and the cost of belonging, and I cannot stop thinking about it.&” —Reese Witherspoon A young American woman navigates class, lies, and love amid London&’s jet-set elite.I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new.Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library—its Jane Austen balls a far cry from her life of food stamps and hand-me-downs. But when she finally arrives after college, the real London is a moldy flat and the same paycheck-to-paycheck grind—that fairy-tale life still out of reach.Then Anna meets the Wilders, who fly her to Saint-Tropez to tutor their teenage daughter. Swept up by the sphinxlike elder sister, Anna soon finds herself plunged into a heady whirlpool of parties and excess, a place where confidence is a birthright. There she meets two handsome young men—one who wants to whisk her into his world in a chauffeured car, the other who sees through Anna&’s struggle to outrun her past. It&’s like she&’s stepped into the pages of a glittering new novel, but what will it cost her to play the part?Sparkling with intelligence and insight, All That Life Can Afford peels back the glossy layers of class and privilege, exploring what it means to create a new life for yourself that still honors the one you&’ve left behind.