Jeanette Battista

A girl, a boy, and a family curse...Devon can’t wait to put her podunk mountain town behind her once and for all when she graduates high school. But even though she’s the class valedictorian, the like

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work – her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don’t always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There’s only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, all would be lost.When Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he’s relying – as usual – on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he’s really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men’s t

'Joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers'ObserverHow is artificial intelligence changing the way we live and love? Now with a new chapter, this is the eye-opening book fromSunday Timesbestselling author Jeanette Winterson.Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about AI, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now.With wit, compassion and curiosity, Winterson tackles AI's most interesting talking points - from the weirdness of backing up your brain and the connections between humans and non-human helpers to whether it's time to leave planet Earth.'Very funny... A kind of comparative mythology, where the hype and ideology of cutting-edge tech is read through the lens of far older stories'Spectator'Refreshingly optimistic'Guardian

With a heartwarming story and tender illustrations, Jeanette Bradley's debut picture book Love, Mama is perfect for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, and any day when a child needs a reminder of the stre

Experience Arctic chills and warm hugs in this nonfiction picture book about a loving polar bear family from acclaimed author-illustrator Jeanette Winter.At the top of the world, Nanuk the ice bear hu

After a disastrous mission and betrayal from within its own ranks, the London Resistance is shattered beyond repair. Amaranth and the meager remains of the Resistance journey to Vatican City, where th

With the threat of a werehyena takeover dealt with, Kess, Finn, and Rafe can finally enjoy the tentative peace Miami has to offer. As Kess moves forward with her decision to open up the territory to p

The Moon Omnibus combines the first three volumes in the Moon Series in one volume:Leopard Moon--Kess, a wereleopard, is forced to flee her home in Miami once her brother's obsession with her turns vi

Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband''s return.Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder.The Myths series brings together some of the world''s finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s “late plays.” It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of extraordinary events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited.In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of The Winter’s Tale, we move from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crisis, to a storm-ravaged American city called New Bohemia. Her story is one of childhood friendship, money, status, technology and the elliptical nature of time. Written with energy and wit, this is a story of the consuming power of jealousy on the one hand, and redemption and the enduring love of a lost child on the other.From the Hardcover edition.

人工智慧有何侷限和潛力？「創意」真正的意涵是什麼？創造力可以培養嗎？它是人類獨有的，還是人工智慧也可被視為具有創造力？ 屢獲殊榮的天才數學家探索創造力的未來機器學習將如何顛覆、豐富並轉變我們對「人性」的理解「面對即將到來的AI世界，這是一本絕佳的旅遊指南。」──珍奈．溫特森（Jeanette Winterson） 身為人類，我們擁有非凡的能力，能創造出提升、拓展和轉化生命意義的藝術作品。然而，在其他許多領域，人工智慧的新發展正在撼動現狀，我們逐漸發現許多人類從事的任務，電腦也一樣做得好，甚至更好。複雜的演算法正在幫我們採購雜貨、挑選伴侶及管理我們的投資。它們能處理比醫生或律師更多的資料，以更高的精確度行動。但機器有創造力嗎？它們能很快從感動我們的藝術中學習，並理解藝術與平凡之作的差別嗎？ 屢獲殊榮的天才數學家馬庫斯．杜．索托伊，在這本關於創造力未來的必備指南中，帶領我們深入人工智慧和演算法學習的世界。他詢問我們對藝術的情感反應，有多少是源自大腦對模式和結構的回應？在數學、藝術、語言和音樂中，「創意」真正的意涵是什麼？他探索電腦學習將如何改變創造力的未來，也探究模式和模仿在創造過程中的作用，並著手研究那些試圖在遊戲、音樂、藝術和語言領域與人類創新匹敵、甚至超越人類的程式和程式設計師──從DeepMind、Flow Machine到Botnik、WHIM──像DeepDream這樣的程式能生成看似波洛克的抽象滴畫，DeepJazz則能以艾靈頓的風格寫出爵士樂。但這些程式是在模仿，還是真的擁有「創造」的能力？ 電腦要多久才能創造出有創意的作品？它們是否可能反過來激發我們發揮更多的想像力？當市面上大多數談論人工智慧的書籍聚焦於工作的未來時，本書對人工智慧與身為人類的本質，提供引人入勝且與眾不同的探索，引導我們來到創新科技的前線，並且呈現出一幅更積極、更充滿意外的未來圖景，一個人類與機器共存、並肩創造的世界。

人生再脆弱，也值得一場迷宮中的冒險。暢銷奇幻小說經典《英倫魔法師》作者蘇珊娜‧克拉克　萬眾矚目最新傑作他是誰？這裡是什麼地方？你又是誰？怎麼會讀到他寫的東西？他是「屋子」的愛子。屋子的美，無與倫比。「如果我不再是皮拉奈奇了，我還是我嗎？」25年來，第一本榮獲「女性文學獎」的奇幻小說「真正原創、出人意料的新奇幻之旅。」──評審團主席柏娜汀．埃瓦里斯托★世界奇幻文學獎決選★科斯塔圖書獎、雨果獎、星雲獎、軌跡獎入圍★榮獲2021年英國基希斯文學獎(The Kitschies)★榮獲2020年美國音頻出版商協會奧迪獎(Audie Award)★《時代雜誌》《衛報》《泰晤士報》《觀察家報》《每日電訊報》《金融時報》、BBC等權威媒體年度選書臺灣大學外文系教授　趙恬儀─專文推薦這個世界必然存在一個通道或一扇門，連結我們和魔法的去處。宛如一場沉浸式體驗，放下所有規則，進入皮拉奈奇的世界。信天翁來到西南堂的那年……小說主人公皮拉奈奇住在屋子裡。也許他一直都在那裡。他每天將種種在屋子裡觀察到的奇觀詳細記錄在筆記本，一座由無數大廳組成的迷宮，數以千計奇形怪狀的雕像。潮水有時湧上階梯，白雲緩緩飄過天花板。每週二和週五，他會去見另一個人，其他時候，他會帶上食物去供奉亡者。大部分時間他都是獨自一人。直到某天地板上出現用粉筆寫下的留言，屋子裡似乎來了陌生人，是誰？有什麼目的？他們是朋友嗎？還是如另一個人所說，陌生人只會帶來災難？此時，皮拉奈奇發現自己的日記與記憶出入的地方……憑藉《英倫魔法師》囊括世界四項奇幻大獎的英國作家蘇珊娜‧克拉克，睽違十四年全新力作，刻劃一個人獨居在迷宮般的屋子裡的神祕故事。為什麼這個屋子裡只有一個人？他是誰？住了多久？發生過什麼事？讀者將跟隨皮拉奈奇一起進入這個神祕的魔幻世界，在他的帶領之下層層抽絲剝繭，拼湊出故事的謎團真相。「皮拉奈奇」這個名字靈感源自於十八世紀的義大利藝術家皮拉奈奇（Giovanni Battista Piranesi），以版畫作品舉世聞名。這是一本關於失去和尋找自我的奇幻之書，它寫出人類在追求智慧的過程中可能失去寶貴的東西。當年《英倫魔法師》出版後一鳴驚人，作者卻意外罹患慢性疾病，長期居家療養。創作這本書的過程中，克拉克意識到自己和筆下的主人翁一樣成了與世隔絕的人。作者創造出一個美輪美奐的迷宮。筆調潔淨，激發哲學思考，深刻探索身為人的意義，全書超

Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on perspective and painting. Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text. Dr Sinisgalli reverses the received understanding of the relationship between the Italian and Latin versions of Alberti's treatise by demonstrating that Alberti wrote it first in Italian and then translated it into a polished Latin over the course of several decades. This volume is richly illustrated to help demonstrate how Alberti understood optics and art.

Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the fifteenth century, alongside Piero della Francesca and before Leonardo da Vinci. While his contributions to architecture and the visual arts ar

Giovanni Battista Franco (before 1510-1561) was an Italian mannerist painter, draughtsman and engraver. Native of Venice, he spent the first part of his career in Rome, but by 1536 had settled in Flor

Giovanni Battista Viotti was unquestionably the most influential violinist of his time, and his style continues to pervade to the present day. The last great representative of the Italian tradition th

This book provides students with an introduction to the work of Jeanette Winterson, and places her fiction in a clear historical, critical and theoretical context. It starts by exploring Winterson's b

Jeanette Winterson: A contemporary critical guide is a comprehensive introduction to Winterson's writing. It brings together new essays by leading critics writing on key topics across her work from

Jeanette Winterson: A contemporary critical guide is a comprehensive introduction to Winterson's writing. It brings together new essays by leading critics writing on key topics across her work from

This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson’s complete oeuvre, offering detailed analysis of her nine novels as well as addressing her non-fiction and minor fictional work. Susana Onega

This book examines the life and work of mathematician Giovanni Battista Guccia, founder of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo and its renowned journal, the Rendiconti del Circolo matematico di Palermo.

This book tells a heartwarming and compelling story of Bob and Jeanette Crick’s relationship and their journey together through Jeanette’s battle with Alzheimer’s.You’re about to learn a new language

Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson investigates a fundamental shift, from the 1920s to the present day, in the way that trauma is culturally perceived and aesthetical

Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith share an ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprised of multiple and equal, human and non-human participants. Thi

Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854) was a legendary tenor and the first 19th-century non-castrati male singer to become an international star of opera. The previous two centuries had been the era of

"Explores Italian Renaissance writer and architect Leon Battista Alberti's complex and sometimes ambivalent attitudes toward the concept of the city, and relates them to his broader intellectual posit

"Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on persp

In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti's approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatis

‘You can’t get around Kate Battista as easily as all that’ Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sist

*** As read on Radio 4 *** ‘You can’t get around Kate Battista as easily as all that’ Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and

This autobiography bears witness to Jeanette Boersma's lifetime of service in Iraq and Oman as a missionary nurse. An inspiring story of God's grace at work in and through one whose Arabic name, Khatu

The first exploration of Piranesi’s work as a draughtsman, published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum.The Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) is best known

A Poetry Precise and Free collects 150 lyric poems by the Renaissance Italian poet Giovanni Battista Guarini in new translations, accompanied by the Italian originals and commentary that will enlighte

A thoughtful, highly acclaimed biography of Giovanni Battista Montini, Paul VI, which sheds light on and powerfully underscores the personal and ecclesial sides of a man who brought modernity to the c

This volume contains essays that examine the optical works of Giovan Battista Della Porta, an Italian natural philosopher during the Scientific Revolution. Coverage also explores the science and techn

In December 1494, the German traveller Hieronymus Münzer began his pilgrimage toSantiago de Compostela on the Portuguese Camino. One hundred years later, theItalian priest Giovanni Battista Confalonie

Sometime around 1446 A.D., Cardinal Prospero Colonna commissioned engineer Battista Alberti to raise two immense Roman vessels from the bottom of the lago di Nemi, just south of Rome. By that time, lo

The work of Italian printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) has captivated artists, architects and designers for centuries. Although contemporary Australia is a long way from eighteenth-cent