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  • The Intelligence Explosion

    When AI Beats Humans at Everything

    by James Barrat ...
    With the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence, both existential fears and uncritical enthusiasm for AI systems have surged. In this era of unprecedented technological growth, understanding the profound impacts of AI — both positive and negative — is more crucial than ever.In The Intelligence Explosion, James Barrat, a leading technology expert, equips readers with the tools to navigate ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Facing Suicide

    Understanding Why People Kill Themselves and How We Can Stop Them

    by James Barrat ...
    A deep dive into a national catastrophe that examines how and why suicide happens so that we can prevent itSuicide has reached epidemic proportions in America, claiming over 45,000 lives each year—more than car accidents or homicides. For every person who dies there are about 10 unsuccessful attempts. Yet suicides are preventable, if we can grasp the complex factors behind it and look out for ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Our Final Invention

    Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

    by James Barrat ...
    Elon Musk named Our Final Invention one of five books everyone should read about the future—a Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013.Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    The Intelligence Explosion

    When AI Beats Humans at Everything

    by James Barrat ...
    Narrated by James Barrat ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 26 min

    With the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence, both existential fears and uncritical enthusiasm for AI systems have surged. In this era of unprecedented technological growth, understanding the profound impacts of AI—both positive and negative—is more crucial than ever. This program is read by the author.In The Intelligence Explosion, James Barrat, a leading technology expert, equips ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Facing Suicide

    Understanding Why People Kill Themselves and How We Can Stop Them

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    A deep dive into a national catastrophe that examines how and why suicide happens so that we can prevent itSuicide has reached epidemic proportions in America, claiming over 45,000 lives each year—more than car accidents or homicides. For every person who dies there are about 10 unsuccessful attempts. Yet suicides are preventable, if we can grasp the complex factors behind it and look out for ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

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    The Frighteners is a bizarrely compelling, laugh-out-loud exploration of societies’ fascination with the dark, spooky, and downright terrifying side of life. The author--self proclaimed “sinister minister”--opens the book by reflecting on how he went from a horror-obsessed atheist to a God-fearing Christian and then reconciled his love of the macabre with his new faith. In the chapters that follow ... Read more

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  • How to Think

    A Survival Guide for a World at Odds

    by Alan Jacobs ...
    "Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." **—David Brooks, New York TimesHow to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.**As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications ... Read more

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    We all want to be happy but what is happiness? Haim Shapira navigates the terrain of happiness, exploring and contemplating an eclectic range of theories and insights into the conflicts we face on our journey to creating our own happiness.What is your happiest moment? How can you know it? Do we waste time or does time waste us? Are questions about meaning truly meaningful? What’s really important? ... Read more

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  • The Last Full Measure

    How Soldiers Die in Battle

    In this brilliantly researched, deeply humane work of history, Michael Stephenson traces the paths that have led soldiers to their graves over the centuries, revealing a wealth of insight about the nature of combat, the differences among cultures, and the unchanging qualities of humanity itself.Behind every soldier’s death lies a story, a tale not just of the cold mathematics of the battlefield ... Read more

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  • Thomas Cromwell

    The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

    by Tracy Borman ...
    "An exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor Age's most complex and controversial figures." —Alison WeirThomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII's right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation; secured Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall ... Read more

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    The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life

    A transformative guide to embrace your own mortality and live a more fulfilling lifeTalking about death has been deemed morbid, taboo, or even pathological. But in order to fully embrace life, scientists, psychologists, and spiritual leaders all agree—contemplating death is the key to living a life with meaning.This life-changing book will give you a 12 week program to befriend death in your own ... Read more

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    “Fast-paced, relentlessly horrific, and loaded with twists and surprises, Faherty’s dark tour of Innsmouth delivers a gut-wrenching tale of madness, monsters, and heartbreak. Action-packed cosmic horror at its gruesome best!” —James Chambers, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Engines of Sacrifice and On the Night BorderHenry Gilman has spent years trying to separate himself from his father’s ... Read more

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