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Machine-learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour is cancerous, or deciding whether someone gets bail. They now influence discoveries in chemistry, biology and physics - the study of genomes, extra-solar planets, even the intricacies of quantum systems. We are living through a revolution in artificial intelligence that ...
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-51474-0
EAN 9780241514740
A heartbreaking debut' - New York Times 'Life-affirming... Khabushani is a talented writer' - The Sunday TimesA searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American familyThree young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ...
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Brave new words
How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-68096-4
EAN 9780241680964
Whether we like it or not, the AI revolution is coming to education. In Brave New Words, Salman Khan, the visionary behind Khan Academy, explores how artificial intelligence and GPT technology will transform learning, offering a roadmap for teachers, parents, and students to navigate this exciting (and sometimes intimidating) new world. A pioneer in the ...
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-65266-4
EAN 9780241652664
Set in the freezing wastelands of the northern wilds, Jack London's majestic adventure tale is a moving story of cruelty and redemptionThe wolf-dog White Fang, born in the biting cold and aching silence of the Yukon, grows up to learn the harsh laws of nature, and must struggle to survive in a human society every ...
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The Safekeep
Shortlisted for Women's Prize 25 / Shortlisted for Booker Prize 24
- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-65230-5
EAN 9780241652305
An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan's Atonement. It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, ...
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99684-3
EAN 9780241996843
A brilliant, glittering intelligence' Sunday TimesOn Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deservesWritten during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays remain strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and ...
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50866-4
EAN 9780241508664
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-63842-2
EAN 9780241638422
Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable ...
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-59582-4
EAN 9780241595824
From one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how gender is understood todayJudith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed anti-gender ideology movements' ...
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-65270-1
EAN 9780241652701
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed'Spirited Jo March, now Mrs Bhaer, has settled into living and teaching at Plumfield boarding school, also home to a lively band of orphan boys. Jo's many pupils include Nat, a shy but talented ...
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Poems
1968-2020
- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-51644-7
EAN 9780241516447
A major new career-spanning selection from one of the worldâ s foremost poets, an international treasure, from 1968 to the present day Nikki Giovanni's poetry has dazzled and inspired readers for more than sixty years. When she first emerged from the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately became one of the most ...
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-65268-8
EAN 9780241652688
Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom ...
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-61564-5
EAN 9780241615645
'John Sellars excels at writing short books for a general audience on ancient philosophy. . .A great way into one of the greatest philosophers of all time' Nigel Warburton, Five Books Why has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world? What are his key ideas? What can he still teach us today?The Lyceum ...
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-65531-3
EAN 9780241655313
In a shabby house in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil. But when her scheming mistress discovers her scullion is hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to win over the royal court.Determined to seize this chance ...
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-63334-2
EAN 9780241633342
'This novel is one of his finest in a long and redoubtable oeuvre' William Boyd, New York Times From renowned author Paul Theroux comes a fascinating, atmospheric novel inspired by George Orwell's years in Burma There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever . . .' George OrwellEric Blair ...
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99706-2
EAN 9780241997062
A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian. 'Breathtaking . .. She is simply my favourite living writer to read, and think with, and see the world with' Max PorterIn a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the ...
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My Friends
Longlisted For The Booker Prize 2024
- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 173 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-40949-7
EAN 9780241409497
Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their ...
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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99390-3
EAN 9780241993903
'A shimmering fever-dream of a novel' Telegraph'A dreamy sapphic romp' The Times'Gauzy and gripping, a quietly rich maturation of Mackintosh's skill' GuardianAudacious and mesmerising, Cursed Bread is a darkly erotic tale of a town gripped by madness, envy like poison in the blood, and desire that burns and consumes. Elodie is the baker's wife: plain, ...
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Weinersmith, Zack/Weinersmith, Kelly
A City on Mars
Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Thr
- Viking, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-45493-0
EAN 9780241454930
From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlementEarth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Bestselling authors Kelly and Zach ...
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- Viking, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-65175-9
EAN 9780241651759
The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicamentWe hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only way to prevent a catastrophe is to assume that it has already ...
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