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AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms, job interviews, and wars.As Maximilian Kasy shows, artificial intelligence, far from being an unstoppable force, is irrevocably shaped by human decisions—choices made to date by the ownership class that steers its development and deployment. Kasy shows that the technology of AI is ultimately not that complex. It is insidious, however, in its capacity to steer results to ...

Here are four short stories from Zane Grey, the acclaimed author of Western adventures and frontier characters.Living in the ruthless solitude of the desert, range, or mountains, the men in these four stories are all on personal journeys.In The Camp Robber, a man has driven his wife away and yearns for reconciliation. Amber’s Mirage reveals an old man’s realization of the corrupting power of gold when up against young love.In a harsh climate of san...

Finalist for the National Book AwardThis audiobook narrated by John Chancer recounts an intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times.

Listen to this book now and become a happy nonsmoker for the rest of your life.This book is the most up-to-date, cutting-edge, best-practice version of Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking method that will not only set you free from smoking but will also ensure that you find it easy and even enjoyable to quit.• Without using willpower, aids, substitutes, or gimmicks• Without gaining weight• Without suffering anxiety, depression, or unpleasa...

Love, learn, let go. Three decisions. Three actions. Three habits. Together, these offer leaders insight (Leadersights) into the true nature of leadership and can create the type of workplace that can thrive in a demanding future.Leadersights: Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great Workplaces focuses on how organizations of all types can create a leader-development system that defines critical leader behaviors, provides simple techniques for building and improving the skills that ...

The intent of this book -- the author's goal for you — is to understand the baseless underpinnings of almost all our fears. You read that correctly -- almost all our fears -- and therefore to discard them. The author has expertly coached leaders and managers in the discovery of, examination of, elimination of, and sustained freedom from fears.We all know people who are charming and articulate, but flounder on a stage addressing colleagues; musicians who master intricate scores but ...

Joint Gold medallist of the Axiom Business Book Award 2019 - Personal Finance/Retirement Planning/InvestingHow does money figure into a happy life?In The Geometry of Wealth, behavioral finance expert Brian Portnoy delivers an inspired answer, building on the critical distinction between being rich and being wealthy. While one is an unsatisfying treadmill, the other is the ability to underwrite a meaningful life, however one chooses to defi...

This audiobook narrated by John Chancer takes you to Teton County, Wyoming, where the ultra-wealthy romanticize rural poverty and leverage the natural world to ascend even higher on the socioeconomic ladderBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face. Justin Farrell spent five years in Teton County, Wyoming, t...

Born in Britain in 1737, Thomas Paine had a humble, religious upbringing and very little formal education. The course of his life turned in 1774, when he met the great American statesman Benjamin Franklin in London. With Franklin’s help, Paine emigrated to the American colonies, where his political writings such as Common Sense contributed to the discontent that resulted in the American Revolution. Paine maintained his stubborn commitment to morality and social justice until his death in 1...

'Brian Klein is destined to become a very big name in the thriller genre’ **- Peter JamesA terrorist plot to kidnap the President. A traitor in the White House. An impossible decision…**When intelligence confirms a credible plan to kidnap the President of the United States during a high-stakes visit to Saudi Arabia, Carmen Merino – Head of Presidential Security – is thrust into the most dangerous assignment of her career. She has one job: keep him alive.But the Pres...

Human beings are getting fatter and sicker. As we question what we eat and why we eat it, this book argues that living well involves consuming a raw vegan diet.With eating healthfully and eating ethically being simpler said than done, this book argues that the best solution to health, environmental, and ethical problems concerning animals is raw veganism—the human diet. The human diet is what humans are naturally designed to eat, and that is, a raw vegan diet of fruit, tender leafy greens,...

Du Bois's 1903 examination of the plight of African Americans is widely recognized as among the most important ever written on race and identity. Exposing the ways in which the Jim Crow Laws kept blacks in conditions they thought they had escaped when slavery was abolished, Du Bois explains how interaction with a white world caused them psychological anguish. He concluded that blacks should demand total equality a view in opposition to that of other black intellectuals, who accepted inequa...