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The co-creator of ImageNet and a pioneer of modern computer vision tells the story of her journey from immigrant teenager to AI's most influential scientist — and reflects on what AI's creators owe to the humans whose data made it possible.

1986: the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes. The wives, widows, and liquidators speak to Alexievich about what they saw, what they lost, and what has never stopped. The firefighter's wife who held her husband's disintegrating hand. The child who grew up in the zone. The soldier who was told to bury the contaminated soil. The most moving of Alexievich's books.

Stephen Hawking's landmark exploration of cosmology, from the Big Bang to black holes, written for readers with no background in physics.

In Ford County, Mississippi, a Black father kills the two men who brutally raped his ten-year-old daughter — and the young lawyer Jake Brigance must defend him before a white jury in the Deep South.

A linked story collection following characters connected to the music industry — record executive Bennie Salazar and his assistant Sasha — across decades of time, using a different narrative voice, tense, and structural form in each chapter.

Three converging storylines — a desperate quest across a dying world, a brutal siege in the frozen North, and a city drowning in political corruption — deepen the First Law's devastating subversion of every fantasy trope it deploys.

A science journalist investigates the health implications of how we breathe — and finds that most people are doing it wrong, with significant consequences for their health.

Eilis Lacey, a young woman from Enniscorthy in County Wexford, emigrates to Brooklyn in the early 1950s. She builds a life, finds work, falls in love, and is called home by a family death — and faces a choice she cannot make without losing something she cannot replace.

Candide, raised on Pangloss's philosophy that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, is expelled from his castle and travels through earthquakes, Inquisitions, the Seven Years War, and El Dorado, finding nothing to support Pangloss's optimism. The sustained satirical assault on Leibnizian theodicy that made Voltaire famous.

Wharton professor Ethan Mollick — one of the most trusted guides to AI in the business world — offers practical wisdom on how individuals and organisations can work effectively with AI systems while maintaining the human judgment that makes the collaboration valuable.

Twin brothers born of a forbidden union in an Ethiopian mission hospital — Marion and Shiva Stone grow up as doctors in a country torn by revolution, their lives diverging and converging across two continents.

A retelling of David Copperfield transplanted to opioid-ravaged Appalachia, narrated by Damon 'Demon' Fields as he moves from poverty and foster care through addiction and hard-won survival.

A pioneering psychologist reveals the secret to outstanding achievement: not talent, but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance.

The eighth Discworld novel and first in the City Watch sub-series: a secret brotherhood summons a dragon to seize power in Ankh-Morpork, and the only thing standing between the city and a new dragon king is the most incompetent police force in fantasy history.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel traces four generations of a Chicago family from the 1920s to the 2000s, following the children and grandchildren of William Waters — who has never recovered from his own father's abandonment — as they repeat, reject, and survive the patterns that his wound set in motion.

Seven pilgrims journey to the Time Tombs on the world of Hyperion, each telling their story before facing the Shrike — a creature of blades that moves backward through time — in a far-future Canterbury Tales structured around one of science fiction's most enduring mysteries.

Krakauer's firsthand account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight climbers died during a single storm. One of the greatest adventure narratives ever written.

A billionaire's dinosaur theme park — built using ancient DNA extracted from prehistoric mosquitoes — collapses into chaos when the animals escape containment, in a gripping techno-thriller that is also a serious argument about the limits of human control over nature.

Cal Stephanides narrates the history of a genetic mutation across three generations of a Greek-American family — from Smyrna in 1922 to Detroit in the 1960s and 1970s — that eventually produces Cal: a hermaphrodite raised as a girl who discovers his true biology in adolescence.

Margaret Hale, a clergyman's daughter raised in the rural south of England, is forced to relocate to the grimy industrial north town of Milton where she meets the mill owner John Thornton and finds both her prejudices and her understanding of class radically transformed.

Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein show how small changes to the way choices are presented can steer people toward better decisions without restricting freedom.

A Vietnamese-American son writes a letter to his illiterate mother — she will never read it. Ocean Vuong's debut novel traces childhood, war's inheritance, queer first love, and the search for language adequate to lives that official history leaves out.

Narrated by Chief Bromden, a half-Native American patient who pretends to be deaf and dumb, the novel follows the arrival of Randle P. McMurphy to a psychiatric ward and his systematic challenge to the authoritarian Nurse Ratched and the institution she represents.

Snowman may be the last human alive after an engineered plague has wiped out humanity. Surviving among a tribe of genetically modified humanoids, he looks back on his friendship with the brilliant, catastrophic Crake — and the world they destroyed together.