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Beyond Acadia: Exploring the Bold Coast of Down East Maine

Rich Bard · Down East Books
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback

Travel just a few miles beyond Acadia National Park and you will find a little known and seldom visited patchwork of quaint fishing villages, rocky coastlines, wild blueberry fields, and vast stretches of forestland reaching all the way to the Canadian border, a hundred miles away. Beyond...
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Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media

Nicholas Diakopoulos · Harvard University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. An expert in computer science and media explains the present and future of a world in which news is created by algorithm.Amid the push for self-driving cars and the roboticization...
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The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation - A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy

J. Randy Taraborrelli · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes The Kennedy Heirs, his most revealing Kennedy book yet.A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings, Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised in a world of enormous...
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Grasses and Rushes of Maine

Matt Arsenault, Don Cameron, Eric Doucette Glen H Mittelhauser

Grasses and Rushes of Maine is a comprehensive field guide for all species of grass (family Poaceae) and rush (family Juncaceae) currently found in the state of Maine. It was designed for a wide range of readers and will be useful to botanists, ecologists, wetland scientis
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The Last Leonardo: The Secret Life of the World's Most Expensive Painting

Ben Lewis · Ballantine Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million - and might not be the real thing.For two centuries, art dealers and historians searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait of Christ...
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