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Updated December 8, 2023
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The deadly rise of anti-science : a scientist's warning
Hotez, Peter J.
Paper Book
Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how the antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths. Shortlisted for the Non-Obvious Book Awards by the Non-Obvious Company During the...
Under the skin : the hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation
Villarosa, Linda
Paper Book
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'--an eye-opening game changer."--Oprah Daily From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a...
The hurting kind : poems
Limo?n, Ada
Paper Book
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. "I have always been too...
FOUR BATTLEGROUNDS: POWER IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Scharre, Paul
Paper Book
A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives--and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China, the United States, and Europe. Autonomous...
God, human, animal, machine : technology, metaphor, and the search for meaning
O'Gieblyn, Meghan
Audiobook
A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. * "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks...
I know who you are : how an amateur DNA sleuth unmasked the Golden State Killer and changed crime fighting forever
Rae-Venter, Barbara
Paper Book
EDGAR AWARD FINALIST ."A true-crime masterpiece written by a cold-case-cracking master."-John Douglas, New York Times bestselling co-author of Mindhunter "Barbara Rae-Venter isn't just the genealogy expert who helped capture the Golden State Killer-she's an...

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