Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity down an ill-advised path, one that's increasingly making us behave like simple machines? In this wide-reaching, interdisciplinary book, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger examine what's happening to our lives as society embraces big data, predictive analytics, and smart environments. They exp...

Our fourteen-year-old Marnie Camden finds herself in something of an adventure simply because she picked up a shiny green bottle from the beach. In the past, she has recovered many objects from her beach, and this particular bottle is nothing exceptional . . . other than the fact that she has found a note inside. Somebody called Timothy is in trouble, it says. How old is this note? Should she do something about it? What could she possibly do anyway? In the meantime, the note writer is inde...

At the age of fifteen, these young men, through a messy thumb-pricking ceremony, swore allegiance to each other for life. By nineteen, they had gone their separate ways. Twelve years later, they find themselves together again, ostensibly for the wedding of one of their former mates. What character-changing tales do they remember from those early days growing up in their coastal town during the 50s and 60s? As they find out, via a postwedding gathering of the Harbour Rats, many very persona...

Avoid costly mistakes when moving, living and returning from overseasMore than 1 million Australians live and work abroad. The move is exciting, but tax residency questions, superannuation confusion and income dilemmas create stress fast. One wrong move with the ATO can cost you thousands — or even derail your plans entirely. The Expat's Handbook gives you a three-phase roadmap for departure, expat life and repatriation. Inside, you’ll find clear explanati...

Do you work with anyone who thinks or acts differently than you? Would you like to understand why they think and act that way? Would you like to have THE answer for how to build more productive relationships with your coworkers (including your boss)? If so, #1 Amazon Best-Seller Solving the People Problem is for you.By sharing their own personal insights - gained over two decades as Organizational Health Consultants - and more than twenty interesting and o...

Do you work with anyone who thinks or acts differently than you? Would you like to have a better understanding of why they think and act the way they do? Would you like to learn how to create healthier and more productive relationships with your coworkers, including colleagues, direct reports, and even your boss? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then Solving the People Problem is the book for you. How well you interact with coworkers has an outsized impact on your career su...

Gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poetsAnother South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the direction of a new breed of southern writing that is at onc...

See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone -- Season 2 streaming now!Meet Kaz Brekker and his crew: Jesper, Inej, Wylan, and the star-crossed Nina and Matthias, on the heist of a lifetime in Six of Crows from #1 bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo.Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal p...

A beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century". (The New York Times)Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination — a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams’s best-known poetry, including Sectio...

**Now an Apple Original series from Ted Lasso Executive Producer Bill Lawrence and starring Vince Vaughn • A wickedly funny novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of what’s left of pristine Florida—now, of the Bahamas as well—get their comeuppance.“[A] comedic marvel … [Hiaasen] hasn’t written a novel this funny since Skinny Dip.”—The New York Times**Andrew Yancy—...

Heart of the Sea: An Others Bonus StoryIn the world of the Others, affairs of the heart are no less complicated. Even when talented witch, Jenny Ferguson, gets caught in a questionable situation with a current friend and former lover by her fiancé no less, she might need more than magic to save her wedding day.

Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry is an exciting collection from poets who teach both in and outside academia. Fifty-eight poets in various stages of their careers have contributed sixty-one exercises ranging from quick and simple to involved and multi-layered. In seven chapters, ranging from "Springboards to Imagination" to "Chancing the Accidental" to "Complicating the Poem," each exercise includes not only clear step-by-step instructions, but numerous poems that exemplify the su...