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The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth

by Robin Hanson

Published: 2018-06-05

Paperback: 528 pages

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Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like?Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human.Train an em...

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Sofia o el origen de todas las historias (Spanish Edition)

by Rafik Schami

Published: 2017-02-28

Paperback: 480 pages

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Alternando el pasado con el presente, Schami dibuja un colorido retrato sobre la convivencia de judios, cristianos y musulmanes en las calles de Damasco, plasma los colores, olores y sabores de esa ciudad, y evoca la legendaria hospitalidad de los sirios. Pero todo eso no lo ciega ante la brutalidad...

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Un mundo feliz / Brave New World (Spanish Edition)

by Aldous Huxley

Published: 2013-10-29

Paperback: 256 pages

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Un mundo feliz es un clásico de la literatura de este siglo. Con ironía mordiente, el genial autor inglés plasma una sombría metáfora sobre el futuro, muchas de cuyas previsiones se han materializado, acelerada e inquietantemente, en los últimos años. La novela describe un mundo en ...

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Dear Amy: A Novel

by Helen Callaghan

Published: 2016-10-18

Paperback: 352 pages

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In Helen Callaghan’s chilling, tightly-spun debut novel of psychological suspense, a teenage girl’s abduction stirs dark memories of a twenty-year-old cold case...Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she w...

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The Overstory

by RICHARD POWERS

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastropheThe best novel ever written about trees, and really, just one of the best novels,...

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The Enneagram in Love and Work: Understanding Your Intimate and Business Relationships

by Helen Palmer

Published: 1995-12-15

Paperback: 432 pages

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New from Helen Palmer, a "leading teacher and practitioner of the Enneagram" (San Francisco Chronicle), the first Enneagram book to give practical advice, in fascinating detail, on how to have the best possible relationships in love and business.

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The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others In Your Life

by Helen Palmer

Published: 1991-04-12

Paperback: 416 pages

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It would be impossible for most of us to spend a day without coming into direct or indirect contact with dozens of people family, friends, people in the street, at the office, on television, in our fantasies and fears. Our relationships with others are the most changeable, infuriating, ple...

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As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth

by Juan Enriquez

Published: 2005-10-25

Paperback: 259 pages

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If you think the world has changed dramatically in the last five years, you haven’t seen anything yet.You will never look at the world in the same way after reading As the Future Catches You. Juan Enriquez puts you face to face with unprecedented political, ethical, economic, and financi...

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Hidden History of Southeast New Mexico

by Donna Blake Birchell & John LeMay, John LeMay

Published: 2017-04-10

Paperback: 144 pages

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Outlaws, cattlemen and a plethora of quirky pioneers once riddled southeastern New Mexico. In November 1892, E.W. Doll and J.B. Coates ignited rumors of an eight-foot petrified man in McKittrick Cave. A massive fire and subsequent shootout led to the demise of Phenix, one of the Old West's most scandalous...

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The Collector's Apprentice: A Novel

by B. A. Shapiro

Published: 2019-06-11

Paperback: 352 pages

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"A clever and complex tale of art fraud, theft, scandal, murder, and revenge.” --Publishers Weekly In this surprising, noirish page-turner, B. A. Shapiro once again takes readers into the world of art, glamour, and mystery. Accused of helping her fiancé steal her family’s fortune...