Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, Kate Harris offers a travel narrative at once exuberant and meditative, wry and rapturous, about the nature of limits and the wildness of a world that, like the stars and like our selves, can never be fully mapped. So she quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Mel, this time determined to bike it from the beginning to end. And Harris had soared most fully out of bounds right here on Earth, travelling a bygone trading route on her bicycle. Eventually the truth dawned on her: an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. To pass the time before she could launch into outer space, Kate set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule, then settled down to study at Oxford and MIT. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole Earth. "Every day on a bike trip is like the one before-but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."Īs a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved-that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and philosopher-had gone extinct.
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The winners, including four Best First Book Awards recipients, will be announced at a public ceremony on 17 May during the 2023 Auckland Writers Festival. The 2023 longlist was announced on 2 February 2023 with shortlist announced on 8 March. In 2015, Ockham Residential, an Auckland urban development firm, was announced as the sponsor for the Awards which were previously known as the New Zealand Post Book Awards. The Awards are administered by the Auckland Writers Festival on behalf of the New Zealand Book Awards Trust. He also did freelance work for The Village Voice, Texas Monthly, and was an editor and contributor to Rolling Stone. His lengthy examinations of film, music and more in the 1970s included profiles of Paul Newman, The Allman Brothers Band, and an influential piece written about The Last Picture Show. "Grover Lewis (November 8, 1934≪pril 16, 1995) was an American journalist now regarded as one of the forerunners of new journalism. 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Urn:lcp:shadowspell00blac:epub:95a90243-69d1-4e87-a87e-8f2b0a13767d Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier shadowspell00blac Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t82k0jv85 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780312575946Ġ312575947 Lccn 2010037871 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL24479038M Openlibrary_edition On top of spending most of her time in a bunkerlike safe house and having her dates hijacked by a formidable Fae bodyguard, Faeriewalker Dana Hathaway is in for some more bad news: the Erlking and his pack of murderous minions known as the Wild Hunt have descended upon Avalon. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:39:34 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1162205 Boxid_2 CH129022 City New York Containerid_2 X0008 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. Bostrom was going out on a very shaky limb to broadcast a crazy-sounding warning about what might be the most important problem humanity has ever faced, and the book made this absolutely clear. It explored various outrageous scenarios (what if the AI destroyed humanity to prevent us from turning it off? what if it put us all in cryostasis so it didn’t count as destroying us? what if it converted the entire Earth into computronium?) with no excuse beyond that, outrageous or not, they might come true. But if you also open up the books to see what’s inside, the two defy easy comparison. From the artifactual point of view, HC is just better – more recent, and by a more domain-relevant expert. But Superintelligence was in 2014, and by a philosophy professor. Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies previously filled this role. I’m only half-joking: in addition to its contents, Human Compatible is important as an artifact, a crystallized proof that top scientists now think AI safety is worth writing books about. His new book Human Compatible states that superintelligent AI is possible Clarke would recommend we listen. But what he lacks in age, he makes up in distinction: he’s a computer science professor at Berkeley, neurosurgery professor at UCSF, DARPA advisor, and author of the leading textbook on AI. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Clarke’s First Law goes: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. In 2003 Milman gained wide exposure as "The New Guy" in the popular Wendy's Television commercial. Milman has also worked at the SoHo Repertory Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, and twice with playwright Israel Horovitz at the Gloucester Stage Company. Milman has numerous stage credits, including originating the role of Bill Wade in the 1999 New York premiere of Never Swim Alone, by Daniel MacIvor, and the role of Reed Williams in Cats Talk Back, which was a success at the New York City Fringe Festival, in 2002. Milman began his career as a playwright his first play, "A Visionary Drowns", which he had written while a student at Northwestern, premiered in New York, Off-Broadway, when he was 22. Milman attended Northwestern University, then received his Master of Fine Arts in acting at the Yale School of Drama. He wrote an underground humor magazine called Wasting Time in his youth, and sold it to local stores, prompting a profile in The New York Times. Milman was born in New York City, and raised in Westchester County, NY. What they find might change the course of history-but only if they can stay. Together, they will join Séverin as he explores the dark, glittering heart of Paris. Is Goliath (the likely very large and terrifying eight-legged creature featured in this book) friendly, or is he only going to reinforce my already overwhelming fear of his kind Id rather know before buying and reading nervous laugh. To hunt down the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin calls upon a band of unlikely experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. See all 4 answers Roshani Chokshi Young Adult :) But of the, ahem, upper YA variety. When the elite, ever-powerful Order of Babel coerces him to help them on a mission, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. truly this is one of the most richly diverse books i've ever read. everything about it leaps off the page, from the carefully constructed narrative to the wonderful cast of characters, spanning across the globe, from all walks of life. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. THE GILDED WOLVES is just that kind of novel. From New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi comes The Gilded Wolves, a novel set in Paris during a time of extraordinary change-one that is full of mystery, decadence, and dangerous desires. I had no interest in stories about gods fighting on rainbow bridges or whatever the hell they were supposed to be doing. It was like eating an Oreo but having crap in in the middle instead of a cream center. My bitterest disappointment always came when there was a Thor as that third comic. I’m pretty sure that the lower selling books were getting hidden between two more popular books. It was almost always a dud, at least for my taste. The downside was that the two outer issues would be something like Spider-Man or Captain America, you could never tell what the one in the middle would be. I got a lot of great stuff this way, including the first Daredevil that Frank Miller drew. Compare that to today‘s prices and weep, my fellow comic nerds.) I was allowed to get one of these packs a week. The problem was that the store only sold Marvel comics as a 3-pack sealed in a plastic bag. When I was kid in a small town in the ’70s long before I’d heard of comic book stores, and the idea that I would one day be able to order collections of comics via a computer and have it delivered to my doorstep would have seemed like something from a sci-fi story, my only steady source of superhero goodness was at my local grocery store. Surely, his imagination is getting the better of him. Setting sail on a time-sensitive voyage to Portugal, he's stunned to find a woman waiting for him in his cabin. Known to society as a rascal and reckless privateer, Captain Andrew James Rokesby actually transports essential goods and documents for the British government. But her delight turns to dismay when two pirates kidnap her and take her aboard a ship, leaving her bound and gagged on the captain's bed. While visiting a friend on the Dorset coast, Poppy is pleasantly surprised to discover a smugglers' hideaway tucked inside a cave. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. Bestselling author Julia Quinn continues her Bridgerton prequel series with a new novel following the adventures-and love stories-of the Bridgerton and Rokesby families.įiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Reading any one of these books will provide insight into a phenomenon that’s often thought of only in the broadest terms. These titles offer richly reported history, incisive critical analysis, detailed accounts of the quartet at work, and insider accounts that humanize a band who are still often seen as larger-than-life caricatures. While there are certainly more than 10 worthy books about the group, the following volumes provide the foundation of any Beatles library. The best books about the Beatles rank among the best pop culture writing-and criticism-ever.Īlong with the band’s massive, lasting influence on music, their narrative has a clean, dramatic arc, separated into three distinct acts, each of which is worthy of deep exploration. This constant trickle of books can overwhelm even steadfast Beatlemaniacs, but the greatness of the music has also drawn out greatness within authors. There are volumes dedicated to their recording equipment, encyclopedias chronicling all of the music and film the group has yet to release, collections of the photos from before they were stars-basically, if you can think of an idea related to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, it’s been published. It’s also been told via children’s story, salacious gossip, dry history, detailed diaries, technical manuals, cartoons, and graphic novels. In the decades since the Beatles’ 1970 breakup, the group’s rise and fall has been told as a myth. |