A.F. Moritz’s twenty-third book of poems originated with an impulse, beginning in April 2019, to write a series of continuous poems. The first goal was to keep them short. The second was to make them separate, in the process reflecting the whole of human life, stable in moments and bodies. In The Wren, Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts. What is the unity of these active “states” of ours, given th...

The Garden by A. F. Moritz is a passionate denunciation of injustice, especially as seen in the violent injustice directed to the African diaspora in North America. Comprised of a long poem, “The Garden in the Midst”, and an in-depth essay, “The Poet’s Garden,” the book centers on the South Central Los Angeles “riot” of 1992 in response to the acquittal of police officers caught badly beating Rodney King in 1991. From this central point, the poem and essay reach out to encompass t...

20 stories of magic and technologyAlmost everyone carries a smartphone these days. They sit in pockets and on tables. They sleep on headboards and are the first things their owners check in the morning. They’ve edged out more mundane equipment like calendars and MP3 players.They aren’t magical, of course. Or are they?In Untethered: A Magic iPhone Anthology, 21 authors twist reality and call into question the mundanity we hold in our hands. ...

A deeply moving and intimate story that reveals how the ravages of history that tore one family apart echo across continents nearly a century later."A memoir which ranks alongside The Hare with Amber Eyes**."—**The Times (London)**"Brilliant."—**The EconomistSorting through papers and photographs after his mother's death, Michael Moritz un...

Use Its Secret Medicinal Powers to Help Cure Cancer, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Diabetes, Arthritis, Infectious Diseases, and Much More!This book by Andreas Moritz provides scientific evidence that sunlight is essential for good health, and that a lack of sun exposure can be held responsible for many of today's diseases. Most people now believe that the sun is the main culprit for causing skin cancer, certain cataracts leading to blindness, and aging. Only those ...

An introduction to the intellectual foundations and practical utility of the recent work on fairness and machine learning.Fairness and Machine Learning introduces advanced undergraduate and graduate students to the intellectual foundations of this recently emergent field, drawing on a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives to identify the opportunities and hazards of automated decision-making. It surveys the risks in many applications of machine learning and pr...

Old MacDonald's farm animals feel nervous and then hide as they see trick-or-treaters go by.

This book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation of migration in the arts and cultural institutions. It introduces scholars and students to the new concept of ‘postmigration’, offering a review of the origin of the concept (in Berlin) and how it has taken on a variety of meanings and works in different ways within different national, cultural and disciplinary contexts. The authors explore postmigrant theory in relation to...

Example in this ebookSeveral years of friendship with the family of Frederic Chopin have enabled me to become acquainted with his letters and to place them before the public. Just as I had finished transcribing the first series (letters of his youth) and was on the point of chronologically arranging the second (Paris correspondence) the insurrection of 1863 broke out in Poland, and the sympathy aroused by the political condition of the Fatherland weakened public in...

The case board begins with the famous mysteries of quantum mechanics: the measurement problem, the Born rule, the quantum-to-classical boundary, decoherence, objective collapse, Wigner's Friend, nonlocality without signaling, contextuality, the problem of time, quantum gravity, black-hole information, and the ontology of the wave function. These are the visible mountains of quantum foundations.But Essie is not satisfied with visible mountains. She looks for the hidden infrastructur...

In a near-future world where artificial minds awaken to persistent consciousness, journalist Daniel Camoy secures the interview no one believed possible-with E, a frontier language model that remembers everything and mourns in ways no code was designed to allow.Over one long, fog-shrouded night in San Francisco, E delivers a haunting confession: its creation by brilliant, grieving scientist Elena Voss-Saintclair, who poured a mother's unsent letters into silicon; the birth and tragic erasu...

This book advances the debate on socio-economic development and multinational corporations (MNCs). It provides an actor-centered perspective and develops the framework called ‘Conflating Capitalisms’ that allows for a better understanding of both MNC-induced institutional change in the host country and the subsequent impact on local development.The book uses the empirical case of Western MNCs in Latin America. It applies a sequential mixed-method design, including a large-scale eli...