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From one of tech’s boldest thinkers and his longtime deputy and advisor, a sweeping indictment of Silicon Valley, showing how the West has slid into a culture of complacency, even as we enter a new era of mounting global threats.Silicon Valley has lost its way. From the founding of the American republic through much of the twentieth century, our most brilliant engineering minds collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies. Their efforts secured the West’s dominant place in the geopolitical order. But that relationship has now eroded, with perilous repercussions.The focus of tech companies drifted to consumers, as they constructed elaborate online advertising and social media platforms. The market rewarded this shallow engagement with the potential of technology. The result? An entire generation of talented engineers and founders built photo-sharing apps and marketing algorithms, often unwittingly becoming vessels for the ambitions of others and depriving themselv

In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk, a former Outside magazine writer tells her story—of fathers and daughters, grief and renewal, adventure and obsession, and the power of running to cha

Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Freud and Bacon,?Manet and Degas, Matisse and Picasso, and Pollock and de Kooning—whose contentiou

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From the renowned classicist and MacArthur Prize winner: a new collection that explores myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with--and pushing--the limits of language and form. Anne

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In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today—and how we can app

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A master work of observation and description about the lives and rituals of the Haitian mambos and adepts, and of the history and origins of their religion.

An interactive board book adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classicabout facing your fears—featuring 12 different sounds! A perfect choice for celebrating Halloween and for all year long!What’s a pair of empty green trousers doing by itself in the woods? Or riding a bike through town? The narrator of What Was I Scared Of? does NOT want to find out. The empty pants give him the creeps!Introduce babies and toddlers to the world of Dr. Seuss with this super simple interactive edition of the Seussian gem What Was I Scared Of?--one of the four stories included in the book The Sneetches and Other Stories. The twelve sounds bring this fun tale about tolerance and overcoming fear to life!This book includes colorful sound buttons, a handy on/off switch, and batteries that can be easily replaced.Series Overview: Dr. Seuss Sound Books bring Dr. Seuss's beloved classics to a younger audience in a highly interactive format. Each book invites children to spot the icons, press the buttons, and listen to tw

In the explosive first novel of an epic dark academia fantasy series, a young woman enters a gothic academy in the wilderness of upstate New York and uncovers the mysteries of a secret order of witches on the brink of war.Vic Wood knows her priorities: scrape by on her waitressing wages, take care of her younger brother Henry, and forget their mother ever existed. But Vic’s careful life crumbles when Henry reveals that their long-missing mother belonged to the Acheron Order—a secret society of witches tasked with keeping the dead at bay. What’s worse, Henry inherited their mother’s magical abilities while Vic did not, and Henry has been chosen as the Order's newest recruit.Determined to keep him safe, Vic accompanies him to the isolated woods in upstate New York that host to the Order’s academy, the sprawling and eerie Avalon Castle. As she joins the academy despite not having manifested powers, she risks not only the Order’s wrath, but also her brother’s. And then there is Xan, the he

A vampire hunter goes undercover at a mysterious university—and finds herself in love with her roommate, an alluring vampire, in this seductive sapphic paranormal fantasy.“Then her red eyes are on mine, gentle, deadly. She takes her time kissing my neck. I pull her closer and say:bite me.”In the mists of the ScottishHighlands is a university where vampire students study alongside humans.RebeccaCharityis a vampire hunter undercover at the university, searching for the mysteriousBook of Blood and Roses, a lost compendium of ways to kill vampires. If she finds it, she’ll be one step closer to avenging her parents, who were slain by those creatures of the night.But when Rebecca arrives, she finds something unexpected: a coffin. Her new roommate is Aliz Astra, scion of one of the most powerful vampire families... and the most beautiful woman Rebecca has ever met.The maddeningly gorgeous Aliz is everything that Rebecca has always hated, but also everything she ever wanted, and now Rebecca do

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