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Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() To order a copy for 17, go to or call 03. It doesn't shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues-from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos."-Jacket. Max Tegmarks Life 3.0 tries to rectify the situation. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark (Allen Lane, 20). ![]() 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? What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. ![]() "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. ![]()
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Rogues patrick radden keefe review5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Bill Koch, the scion of a famous industrialist family and a successful businessman in his own right, purchases a Jefferson bottle and discovers that there is no tangible evidence of its authenticity. Keefe opens the work with “The Jefferson Bottles,” in which a famous cache of wine believed to come from the collection of the third president of the United States sparks a broader controversy about the extent of fraud in the rarefied world of those who sell and purchase extremely rare wines. His 2021 work, Empire of Pain, is a history of the Sackler Family and the American pharmaceutical industry, including the public health crisis around opioid use disorder and deaths by overdose.Ĭontent warning: This work includes discussions of suicide, substance use disorder, sudden death, gun violence, and domestic abuse. His 2018 book, Say Nothing, about sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In addition to his longform journalism, Keefe has achieved significant recognition for his narrative nonfiction works. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Frederik Pohl’s “Pohl Selections” over at Bantam Books brought the world Samuel Delany’s Dhalgren (I’m still reading it…) and Joanna Russ’ The Female Man, arguably the two most genre-defying science fiction books of all time. ![]() Ron Hubbard would win a Nobel Prize for Dianetics, but he also published the first Robert Heinlein and Theodore Sturgeon stories. Campbell, considered the most important editor in the history of science fiction, was a hawkish kook convinced that L. ![]() Since the genre was shaped by decades of magazine publishing, the editors of those magazines - rags like Amazing Stories, Galaxy, Analog Science Fiction, and New Worlds - have largely defined what we consider the “canon.” And, of course, each editor has their own peccadilloes and accompanying infamy. One thing that hasn’t been discussed yet on this blog is the major role that editors have historically played in the sci-fi scene. ![]()
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The chaperone liane moriarty5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() November (11/21/22): Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owensĭecember (12/19/22): Still Life: Chief Gamache by Louise Penny October (10/17/22): The Girl from Berlin by Ronald Balson September (9/19/22): The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See July (7/18/22): The Henna Artist by Alka JoshiĪugust (8/15/22): The Runaway Midwife by Patricia Harman June (6/20/22) Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banierjie Divakaruni May (5/16/22 ) Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty ![]() Please contact Liz Lannigan at for further information about obtaining a library loan book and joining the book discussion meetings. Try out a meeting to consider if this is an activity for you, even if you have not read the book selection. Meetings are the third Monday of the month at 7 pm in the clubhouse.Įveryone is welcomed to join this group. Below is the list of book selections and meeting times for May – December 2022. Please join the Book Club discussions! The HW Book Club has arranged library book loans from the Londonderry Leach Library. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In this heartwarming piece of historical fiction, critically acclaimed author Sheila O'Connor delivers a tale of devotion, sacrifice, and family. Marsworth's dedication to her cause goes far beyond his antiwar beliefs. Together, they concoct a plan to keep Billy home, though Reenie doesn't know Mr. Marsworth hears this, he knows he can't stand idly by. Reenie is desperate to stop him, and when Mr. Through their letters, Reenie tells of her older brother Billy, who might enlist to fight in the Vietnam War. Slowly, the two become pen pals, striking up the most unlikely of friendships. When he doesn't answer his doorbell, Reenie begins to leave him letters. As they introduce themselves to every home on their route, Reenie's stumped by just one-the house belonging to Mr. Adjusting to life in her parents' Midwestern hometown isn't easy, but once Reenie takes up a paper route with her older brother Dare, she has something she can look forward to. ![]() Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, one young girl is determined to save her brother from the draft-and gets help from an unlikely source-in this middle-grade tale, perfect for fans of The Wednesday Wars When eleven-year-old Reenie Kelly's mother passes away, she and her brothers are shipped off to live with their grandmother. ![]()
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The sibley guide to bird life & behavior5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The 80 family-by-family chapters describe the amazing range of behavior dictated by birds' biology and environment. Introductory essays outline the principles of avian evolution, life cycle, body structure, flight dynamics, and more. In this new guide Sibley takes us beyond identification, to show ushow birds live and what they do. Designed to enhance the birding experience and to enrich the popular study of North American birds, the book combines more than 795 of his full-color illustrations with authoritative text by 48 expert birders and biologists. The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavioris the new landmark book from David Allen Sibley. In 1838, John ames Audubon'sBirds of Americawas one.In 1934, Roger Tory Peterson producedField Guide to the Birds.Now comesThe Sibley Guide to Birds." Thus didThe New York Times, in 1999, greet David Allen Sibley's monumental book, which has quickly been established nationwide as the peerless, standard bird identification guide. "Once in a great while, a natural history book changes the way people look at the world. ![]()
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Night witches by kathryn lasky5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Historical fiction master Lasky sheds light on the wars unsung heroes - daredevil girls who took to the skies to fight for their country - in an action-packed thrill ride that'll leave you electrified and breathless. ![]() If they fail, they'll face death.or even worse horrors. If they succeed, they'll inflict serious damage on the Nazis. The women have been assigned a critical mission. Butterfly Yellow, Night Witches, Someday We Will Fly, Daughter of Venice by Thanhha Lai, Kathryn Lasky, Rachel DeWoskin, Donna Jo Napoli for sale on Pangobooks. Using all her wits, Valya manages to get past the German blockage and find the Night Witches base.and that's when the real danger starts. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. ![]() 16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. When her mother is killed during the siege, Valya is left with one burning desire: to join up with her older sister, a member of the famous and feared Night Witches - a brigade of young female pilots. From bestselling and award-winning author Kathryn Lasky comes an explosive adventure following the teen girl fighter pilots who took on Hitler's army. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valyas been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble. From best-selling and award-winning author Kathryn Lasky comes an explosive adventure following the teen girl fighter pilots who took on Hitler's army.and won.įifteen-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. ![]()
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Arsenic and adobo by mia p manansala5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() If you’d like to try some of the plentiful food Manansala mentions, you don’t have to go far! She conveniently included a few recipes in the back: Lila’s go-to cookie recipe for ube crinkles, salabat-spiced banana bread, a coconut jam, and of course, chicken adobo. Since this is my first cozy mystery, I don’t have much to compare it to, but it was fun and enjoyable and will definitely make you hungry - if that’s what you’re looking for. Overall, the story was super entertaining. ![]() Tita Rosie runs a Filipino restaurant, and Lila’s investigation of the food critic’s death takes her to restaurants all over town, which had me drooling all over the place. ![]() ![]() Alongside the characters, of course, are plenty of food mentions. I really appreciated the diverse representation throughout. The pages are full of a varied cast of characters - they almost pop right off the page. Lila is quickly caught up in the investigation and trying to conduct her own so she can clear her and her family’s name. Right away, a local food critic heads into the restaurant to cause trouble and then drops dead at a table - oh, and he happens to be Lila’s ex-boyfriend too. In the story, Lila moves back home from Chicago to help her Tita Rosie save her restaurant. ![]()
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The kindly ones the sandman5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The most structurally ambitious of the collections, The Kindly Ones is a single storyline written as a Greek tragedy, with Morpheus as its doomed hero and an aspect of the triad of witches, the Erinyes, as the Greek chorus. A character from A Game of You, which also has its roots in The Doll's House, also appears. ![]() The Kindly Ones belongs with the second collection, The Doll's House, and the seventh, Brief Lives, in that it finishes off a story that mostly originated in these collections but includes elements of Season of Mists and the story of Orpheus, told mostly in Fables and Reflections. It was preceded by Worlds' End and followed by The Wake. Kevin Nowlan draws a short story which originally appeared in a Vertigo promo book. He is relieved at different points in the story by Teddy Kristiansen, Glyn Dillon and Dean Ormston, and Charles Vess draws a story within a story sequence. Marc Hempel is the primary penciller, inked variously by himself, D'Israeli and Richard Case. The collection first appeared in paperback and hardback in 1996. The issues in the collection first appeared in 1993, 19. ![]() Written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Marc Hempel, Richard Case, D'Israeli, Teddy Kristiansen, Glyn Dillon, Charles Vess, Dean Ormston and Kevin Nowlan, coloured by Daniel Vozzo, and lettered by Todd Klein.The volume features an introduction by Frank McConnell. The Kindly Ones (1996) is the ninth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman. Cover of The Sandman: The Kindly Ones (1996), trade paperback collected editionArt by Dave McKean. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The autonomy of administrative regions has increased and new forms of regional cooperation have emerged. The regional level has become more important over the last decades. Hybrid regional identities combining a locally specific mix of thick and thin elements of regional identity, and which link up with regional identities at other relevant scales, appear to be the most effective regional identities for regional administrations facing the challenges of both globalisation and the decline in collective identities. These concepts are used to analyse the regional identity of regional administrations in Northwest Germany and the Netherlands. It uses the contrast between ‘thick’ traditional and historical rooted well-established regional identities, and ‘thin’ regional identities which are more transitory and focus more on economic competitiveness. This article analyses the shifts in types of regional identities used by regional administrations in an increasingly competitive environment. Globalisation and the decline of collective identities through individualisation transform both this regional reality and how regions are conceptualised. At the same time regions have become less discernable as distinct historically rooted spatial entities. Regions and regional identity have become more important over the last decades. ![]() |