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This collection will cement Valerie Trueblood’s standing asone of the finest American short story writers at work today:gathered together for the first time are stories spanning her acclaimed career,
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A skillful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines how popular culture, the media, and the psychological profession portrayed crimes against gay men in the years leading up to the Stonew
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This correspondence, full of warmth, candor, and humor, reflects the friendship of two men who worked to reconcile their intense spirituality with an urgent sense of social justice in a violent and tr
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“[Coleman] argues that the algorithms of machine learning — if they are instilled with human ethics and values — could bring about a new era of enlightenment.” —San Francisco ChronicleThe Age of Intel
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