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The past decade has witnessed extraordinary advances in artificial intelligence. But what precisely is it and where does its future lie?In this brilliant, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Matt Burgess explains everything you need to know about AI. He describes how it works. He looks at the ways in which it has already brought us everything from voice recognition software to self-driving cars, and explores its potential for further revolutionary change in almost every area o...

Before the angels sang, before the shepherds watched their flocks, before a star rose over Bethlehem, Heaven had already announced the King.The King Announced by Heaven traces the story behind the story-how God prepared the world for the arrival of His Son through prophecy and the unfolding drama of redemption. This is not a retelling of the Christmas narrative; it is the deeper narrative beneath it, the one written long before the manger.Drawing f...

The app is called WARLD. 300 million downloads and counting. Sure it's addicting, but it gets people out of their comfort zones and on their way to new places, making new connections and finding new friends. What's the harm?Detective Jonah Ramirez thinks the game has a sinister, hidden purpose. He crosses paths with Yu-ri Park, a rebellious hacker with suspicions of her own. Together they uncover what the game is doing to society, and conclude that the game is designed to accomplis...

With a global population estimated to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050 we face a huge challenge in feeding everyone on the planet. How is that to be achieved?In this brilliantly insightful, one stop guide WIRED journalist Matt Reynolds assesses the limits and drawbacks of current food production and looks at the ways in which they can be tackled. He considers the potential for lab-grown meat to replace inefficient livestock farming. He talks to the scientists hoping to perf...

Quantum computing has been hailed as a technological game-changer. But what precisely is it and what is its true potential?In this superbly insightful, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Amit Katwala tells you everything you need to know about the next computer revolution. He explains the highly complex science that lies behind it. He describes the competing efforts of the likes of Google, Microsoft and Chinese companies Tencent and Alibaba to create a viable quantum computer...

The field of New Testament studies often appears splintered into widely different specializations and narrowly defined research projects. Nevertheless, some of the most important insights have come about when curious men and women have defied disciplinary boundaries and drawn on other fields of knowledge in order to gain a more adequate view of history. The essays in Bridges in New Testament Interpretation offer surveys of the current scholarly discussion in areas of New Testament and Chri...

Elinor De Wire has been writing about lighthouses and their keepers since 1972. During that time she found that hundreds of lighthouse animals wandered into her research notes and photo collection. This book is the story of all these cold-nosed, whiskered, wooly, hoofed, horned, slithery, buzzing, feathered, and finned keepers of the lights. Where else would a dog learn to ring a fogbell, a cat go swimming and catch a fish for its supper, or a parrot cuss the storm winds rattling its cage?...

The Seventh Western Novel MEGAPACK® presents four more great westerns:BLAZING TRAILS, by Francis W. Hilton. What happens when a cow-puncher with a lightning fast draw carries out his dying uncle's last wish?INDIAN BEEF, by Harold Channing Wire. When young Barnet trail-bosses cattle north to an Indian reservation, rival cattlemen resort to low trickery to beat him to the market. Fugitive Indians, outlaws, and spies in his crew add to Barnet's troubles!GUNS OF CIRCLE 8,...

From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a confession and Julie Myerson remembers how her career began beside the shelves. Using memoir, history, polemic and some short ...

Is it possible to make a case that the Gospel of Mark was not composed by a single man from scattered accounts but in a process of people's telling Jesus' story over several decades? And what can we say about the tellers who were shaping this story for changing audiences? After an introduction showing the groundwork already laid in oral tradition research, the case begins by tracing the Mark we know back to several quite different early manuscripts which continue the flexibility of their o...

When Pelé Broke Our Hearts is the definitive and bestselling story of Wales's remarkable 1958 World Cup campaign. Now republished in an updated and expanded third edition, Mario Risoli’s highly acclaimed book contains additional material from the players and their families and many more photographs and illustrations from the qualifying campaign and tournament. An incredible tale that features the Munich Air Disaster, a bizarre qualification as representatives of FIFA’s Middle East/Asia gro...

On May 20, 1890, after leaving the asylum in Saint-Rémy in the south of France, the Dutch painter arrived in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, where his brother, Theo, had placed him in the care of Dr. Paul Gachet, well known as physician and patron painters. A frequent guest in the Gachet household, Vincent came to know the doctor’s 20-year-old daughter, Marguerite. Was there a romance as she later claimed? What were the true circumstances of the artist’s death from a gunshot wo...