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(0)Michael Lewis
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W. W. Norton & Company
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English
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 • One of Pure Wow's 42 Book to Gift This Year • One of Fortune's Best Crypto Books of 2023
"Going Infinite is in many ways Lewis at his best. He marshals a complex global story without losing sight of the delightful and revealing human details. He is a world-class noticer."—Jesse Armstrong, writer and creator of HBO's
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English
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Welcome to "Mind Fucking AI," where I take the gloves off and go toe-to-toe with AI, hell-bent on proving my radical propulsion theory. This isn't just a book; it's a full-blown insurrection against the norms of science and technology. I'm not here to coddle your sensibilities; I'm here to shatter them.From the get-go, I'm throwing down the gauntlet. I don't care if you believe me or not; that's your problem. My mission? To drag an AI through the...
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English
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We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place-compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (social, ecological, economic) change as a prerequisite for replacing the paradigm of limitless economic growth with a more decentralized, cooperative, steady-state economy.
The authors present a comprehensive series...
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Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"This book isolates three moments within the epidemic-'the Science,' non-pharmaceutical intervention, and pharmaceutic remedies-and shows how each of these unities came to immunise itself against alternative proposals. Michael Lewis demonstrates the auto-immune and counter-productive effects of this approach"--
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English
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Michael J. Lewis is the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History at Williams College. His books include Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind, The Gothic Revival, and American Art and Architecture. His essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinking
The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"From a beat reporter at the Washington Post to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement, Tom Wolfe was at the forefront of reshaping how American stories are told. Recognizing the importance of overlooked subcultures and communities, Wolfe documented everything from rural stock car drivers to hippies in Haight Ashbury to the Apollo Astronauts, and his ability to bridge cultural and class divides while tackling stories central...