The thrilling inside story of the race to build a world-changing artificial superintelligence. As the San Francisco-based tech columnist for The New York Times , Kevin Roose has seen the AI revolution from a front-row seat-and even participated in it: his account of how Microsoft's Bing chatbot attempted to break up his marriage became worldwide news. In his new book, The AGI Chronicles , Roose delivers a deeply reported, behind-the-scenes account...
One in every five US adults has chatted with an AI romantic partner, and 83% of Gen Z-ers say they could form a "deep emotional bond" with one. Nearly 75% of teens and one third of adults use AI for companionship, and 23% prefer these AI friends over humans. Increasingly, AI is replacing teachers, caregivers, and therapists, with 28% of US adults having used it for mental health support. Chatbots respond to the fantasy of the perfect companion. They...
"A work of true crime following one American family's search for the truth after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian revolution collided with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, setting off the geopolitical conflagration that burns to this day, from acclaimed and bestselling author Kim Ghattas. On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, was assassinated by a pair of gunmen outside his office. His...
An inside look at the early days of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, as told by the public servants it targeted and one of America's best storytellers. -- Provided by publisher.
"Losing a child is one of the most unreconcilable griefs. In Cloud Runner, Joy Harjo reckons with the unspeakable pain of losing her daughter: "Reason has no home in this hour," she writes. Despite a devastating loss, Harjo constructs a shrine to human resilience, reminding us that the most profound revelations can appear in our darkest hours: "I now know why we construct ceremonial epics of mystery and beauty, / Of enemy and failure: it is so we...
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A spectacularly original memoir that's at once an elegy for a beloved family member and a deeply moving meditation on what it means to be a mortal creature, from one of our greatest novelists.
Death of an Ordinary Man opens on a charming, merry seaside
"More than rock 'n' roll royalty, Alice Cooper is a living legend who has transformed shock rock and left an indelible mark on music and pop culture. Known for his theatrical stage shows, razor-sharp lyrics, and a career spanning nearly five decades, he's captivated audiences worldwide as both the fiendish onstage persona of "Alice Cooper" and the man beneath the makeup-a figure with a story as compelling as his onstage act. From unforgettable songs...
We've been here before ... but we forgot." It's 1916. President Woodrow Wilson--a deeply divisive authoritarian who is also a white supremacist with open contempt for constitutional rights--sits in the Oval Office. Racial tensions, unprecedented economic inequality, a groundswell of support for unionization, and the rise of both a reactionary far right militia and a growing radical opposition shake the very foundations of American society. A pandemic...
New York Times bestselling author offers an original approach to home decorating that helps readers quiet visual noise and make room for beauty, soul, and function without converting to rigid minimalism or giving into all-the-things maximalism. -- Provided by publisher.
"In 2023, New York City emerged from the COVID pandemic licking its wounds: Subway crime was spiking, public trust in law enforcement was waning, and the city's unhoused and mentally ill populations languished in the face of inadequate services. In this combustible moment, the lives of two men-Jordan Neely, a 31-year-old man who'd become known for his Michael Jackson impersonations on subway platforms, and Daniel Penny, an ex-Marine who saw himself...
New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal traces the dramatic changes in humanity's perception of animals over the past half-century.
Are you Mahmoud Khalil?" The question marked the start of a politically charged odyssey that took the Palestinian graduate student and legal resident from his pregnant wife and home in New York City, transported him across the country, and locked him up in a Louisiana detention camp under threat of deportation. His "crime": exercising his right to free speech at Columbia University, where he emerged as a leading voice against the slaughter of Palestinians...
"This book is about where I came from, what I fought against, and what I chose for myself. Fame can blur the truth; this is my attempt to bring it back into focus." A legendary actor and Hollywood Icon whose five-decade career spans film, television, and producing, Michael Douglas has won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, five Golden Globes, a Primetime Emmy, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the AFI Life Achievement Award, among many others. Douglas...
Soldier, spy, scout, saboteur, and French Resistance leader in the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe--the untold story of Marine legend Pete Ortiz. He received two Navy Crosses for extraordinary heroism in World War II.
PlantYou: Quickies is your go-to guide for fast, easy, plant-based cooking on days when you feel like doing anything but. Designed for real life and real schedules, Carleigh's recipes will help you get a fabulous meal on the table. -- Provided by publisher.
Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler, born to wealth and privilege in New York's Hudson Valley during the latter half of the eighteenth century, were raised to make good marriages and supervise substantial households. Instead they became embroiled in the turmoil of America's insurrection against Great Britain--and rebelled themselves, in ways as different as each was from the other, against the destiny mapped out for them. Glamorous Angelica, who sought...
"National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California's Gold Rush forged the modern United States-and lit the long fuse to civil war In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter's Mill in California-triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history and jolting a fragile republic already sliding toward crisis....
