‘A refreshing variation on the will-intelligent-robots-bring-Armageddon genre . . . this colorful mixture of expert futurology and quirky speculation does not disappoint’
Kirkus

‘A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.’ Isaac Asimov, The First Law of Robotics

What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate for our human-robot future? For even as robots and AI intrigue us and make us anxious about the future, our fascination with robots has always been about more than the potential of the technology – it also concerns what robots tell us about being human.

From present-day Facebook and Amazon bots to near-future ‘intimacy’ bots and ‘the robot that swiped my job’ bots, bestselling American popular science writer David Ewing Duncan’s Talking to Robots is a wonderfully entertaining and insightful guide to possible future scenarios about robots, both real and imagined.

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation’s capital. On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step of granting its writer anonymity. Described only as “a senior official in the Trump administration,” the author provided eyewitness insight into White House chaos, administration instability, and the people working to keep Donald Trump’s reckless impulses in check. With the 2020 election on the horizon, Anonymous is speaking out once again. In this book, the original author pulls back the curtain even further, offering a first-of-its-kind look at the president and his record — a must-read before Election Day. It will surprise and challenge both Democrats and Republicans, motivate them to consider how we judge our nation’s leaders, and illuminate the consequences of re-electing a commander in chief unfit for the role. This book is a sobering assessment of the man in the Oval Office and a warning about something even more important — who we are as a people.

An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it’s like to be othered in an increasingly divided America.

From Trump’s proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as “lively and vital,” editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be here is under attack.

Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland, in this stunning new standalone novel from New York Times bestseller Jane Harper

They are at the stockman’s grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their middle brother, Cameron.

The Bright family’s quiet existence is thrown into grief and anguish.

Something had been troubling Cameron. Did he lose hope and walk to his death? Because if he didn’t, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects…

Dark, suspenseful, and deeply atmospheric, The Lost Man is the highly anticipated next book from the bestselling and award-winning Jane Harper, author of The Dry and Force of Nature.

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy – an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity – waited to welcome the incoming administration’s transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened: nothing.

People don’t notice when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does. It manages everything that underpins our lives from funding free school meals, to policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme weather events. It steps in where private investment fears to tread, innovates and creates knowledge, assesses extreme long-term risk.

And now, government is under attack. By its own leaders.

In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis reveals the combustible cocktail of wilful ignorance and venality that is fuelling the destruction of a country’s fabric. All of this, Lewis shows, exposes America and the world to the biggest risk of all. It is what you never learned that might have saved you

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself.

A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend to write a feature on the anniversary of the tragedy. But the stories he hears from the locals about the priest and incidents leading up to the shooting don’t fit with the accepted version of events his own newspaper reported in an award-winning investigation. Martin can’t ignore his doubts, nor the urgings of some locals to unearth the real reason behind the priest’s deadly rampage

S. A. Chakraborty continues the sweeping adventure begun in The City of Brass—”the best adult fantasy I’ve read since The Name of the Wind” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir)—conjuring a world where djinn summon flames with the snap of a finger and waters run deep with old magic; where blood can be dangerous as any spell, and a clever con artist from Cairo will alter the fate of a kingdom.

When a young man breaks into her home claiming her life is in danger, Ada Luring’s world changes forever. Geller is a wizard, on the run from his father’s hidden clan who want to kill Ada and her mother. Sara Luring is the scientist who will create the first robot, the wizards’ age-old foes.

But a robot has travelled back in time to find Ada, and will lay everything on the line to protect her, as she may just be the key to preventing the earth’s destruction in the future.

Ada, Geller and the robots must learn to work together to change the past and secure the future. But they don’t have much time before a mysterious enemy launches its attack on Earth…

“How well we listen determines how we love, learn, and connect with one another, and in this moment when we need to hear and be heard more than ever, this thought-provoking and engaging book shows us how.” (Lori Gottlieb, New York Times best-selling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone)

At work, we’re taught to lead the conversation.

هذا الكتاب الذي كان تحقيقًا لحلم طفل كبر وهو يحمل هم وجود كتاب عربي مبسط يشرح هذا العالم الموسيقي بمنهج أكاديمي. لكل من يشارك هذا الحالم حلمه، هذا الكتاب لك.

يحتل درس “تأويل الذات” الذي قدمه ميشيل فوكو سنة 1982 منزلة خاصة ضمن دروسه في الكوليج دوفرانس، وكذلك ضمن أعماله الفلسفية التي نشرها وهو على قيد الحياة.
وهذا الكتاب يضم دروس ميشيل فوكو في الكوليج دوفرانس في (1981- 1982). لقد كان درس سنة 1981 متعلَق بالذات الحقيقة، وكان موضوعه نظام المتع في المرحلة اليونانية والرومانية، ولقد ظهر هذا الدرس في الجزء الثالث من تاريخ الجنسانية بعنوان “الإهتمام بالذات”، أما في درس “تأويل الذات” اعتمد الفيلسوف على المرحلة التاريخية نفسها أي اليونانية والرومانية ولكنه اهتم بموضوع جديد سنقرأ انعكاساته الخطيرة على مجمل فلسفته وتعني بذلك: الإهتمام بالنفس/ الذات، وبالممارسات المتعلقة بهذا الإهتمام أو ما يسميه فيلسوفنا بثقافة النفس.
ينطلق فوكو في درسه من قراءته لنص مجاورة ألقيبيا دسي لأفلاطون ولحكمتي: “اعرف نفسك” و”اهتم بنفسك”. في محاولة لتحليل التحولات التي عرفتها حكمة الإهتمام بالنفس، أو بتعبير ىخر تابع مسار الإهتمام بالنفس عند الرواقيين والابيقوريين والكلبيين في المرحلتين اليونانية والرومانية.
من هذا المنطلق دأب فوكر في دروسه إلى تحليل مختلف التقنيات والإجراءات التي أدت إلى تشكل النفس/ الذات في مرحلة تاريخية معينة وضمن علاقات اجتماعية محددة.
يعتبر فوكو “أن الإهتمام بالنفس ليس استعداداً بسيطاً ومؤقتاً في الحياة، إنه شكل من أشكال الحياة، لقد أدرك ألقيبادس أن عليه أن يهتم بنفسه إذا كان يريد لاحقاً أن يهتم بالآخرين. أما الآن فأصبح الأمر يتعلق بالإهتمام بالنفس من أجل ذات النفس، علينا أن نكون من أجل أنفسنا، وطوال وجودنا، وأن نجعل ذاتنا موضوعنا الخاص (…)”.

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