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Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media
Nicholas Diakopoulos · Harvard University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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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Emotional Advantage: Embracing All Your Feelings to Create a Life You Love
Randy Taran · St. Martin's Essentials
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"Emotional Advantage is such an uplifting answer to our challenging times. In its pages, you will find encouragement, support, and new perspectives. Randy Taran offers an antidote to emotional overwhelm -- a powerful way to discover how useful your emotions can be in guiding you towards... |
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Naturally Tan: A Memoir
Tan France · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the stars of Netflix's overnight sensation Queer Eye, Tan France's memoir Naturally Tan has his signature wit, style, and tells the origin story of the one of the few openly gay, South Asian men on television. In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France tells his origin... |
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Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy
Russell Gold · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The author of The Boom, "the best all-around book yet on fracking" (San Francisco Chronicle) , turns his attention to renewable energy pioneer Michael Skelly, whose innovations, struggle, and persistence represent the groundbreaking changes underway in American energy.The United... |
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On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
Jennifer Pastiloff · Dutton
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff's years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how hearing loss taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness. Centered... |
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Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
Matthew Stanley · Dutton
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The birth of a world-changing idea in the middle of a bloodbath Einstein's War is a riveting exploration of both the beauty of scientific creativity and enduring horrors of human nature. These two great forces battle in a story that culminates with a victory now a century old, the mind... |
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The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia
Marin Sardy · Pantheon
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The debut of an important new literary voice: an extraordinarily affecting, fiercely intelligent memoir that unflinchingly traces the path of the schizophrenia that runs in the author's family.Against the starkly beautiful backdrop of Anchorage, Alaska, where the author grew up, Marin Sardy... |
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Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome
Susan Levenstein · Paul Dry Books
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback
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"Wise and witty." -- Publishers Weekly"A charming story well told." -- Kirkus Reviews"Smart, funny, charming . . . full of astute insights into the way Italy works." -- Alexander Stille"A wonderfully fun read." -- Dr. Robert Sapolsky"As funny... |
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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
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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... |
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