The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive
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"The Most Human Human" by Brian Christian is a mind-blowing piece of reportage that will appeal to...
An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Mega-City, 1750-1850
Sumie Jones and Kenji Watanabe
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During the eighteenth century, Edo (today's Tokyo) became the world's largest city, quickly...
Subtly Worded and Other Stories
Robert Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, Nadezhda Teffi and Clare Kitson
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A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov Teffi's genius with the short form made her...
The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino, Tim Parks and Martin McLaughlin
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Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are...
The World's Favourite: And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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A boxed set of the three books that have been confirmed in a popular vote as the World's Favourite...
6529: German Soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918
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WWI came to be known as the 'War to End All Wars', though alas this didn't turn out to be true....
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau
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Why is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in...
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The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court
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After the bloody French Revolution, Emperor Napoleon’s power is absolute. When Marie-Louise, the...
The Blue Pool
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What really happened that weekend? Four friends go to a remote cabin one summer. Only three return....
Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
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In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York Times bestselling...