![]() ![]() ![]() This book is about helping people understand the very real social harms that can be embedded in technology. The message that bias can be embedded in our technological systems isn’t really new. Broussard is an associate professor at New York University’s Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute. ![]() Her new book is More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender and Ability Bias in Tech. She appeared in the Netflix documentary Coded Bias (2020), which explores how algorithms encode and propagate discrimination. Her previous book, Artificial Unintelligence (2018), coined the term “technochauvinism” to describe the blind belief in the superiority of tech solutions to solve our problems. She has been in the vanguard of raising awareness and sounding the alarm about unchecked AI. M eredith Broussard is a data journalist and academic whose research focuses on bias in artificial intelligence (AI). ![]()
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Tom Robbins has lived in La Conner, Washington since 1970, where he has written nine best-selling books. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as " comedy drama"), such as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Thomas Eugene Robbins (born July 22, 1932) is a best-selling and prolific American novelist. ![]() ![]() Moderate to heavy rubbing to corners and head and foot of spine with some loss and small closed tears to latter. Original full-bound cloth boards present well with only with only some small spots to both as well as some faint black spots to rear, mostly to bottom half. BusinessWeek magazine's Best-Seller List ranked it the sixth best-selling paperback business book 70 years after it was published.īinding mostly tight and square with mild slant and light forward lean to top text-block. It remains the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books. First published during the Great Depression, at the time of Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold more than 20 million copies, and by 2015 over 100 million copies had been sold worldwide. ![]() ![]() While the book's title and much of the text concerns increased income, the author insists that the philosophy taught in the book can help people succeed in any line of work, to do and be anything they can imagine. ![]() Hill writes that he was inspired by a suggestion from business magnate and (later) philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Think and Grow Rich was written in 1937 by Napoleon Hill. Binding : Octavo, full-bound cloth with title to front and spine.įirst Edition, First Printing of Napoleon Hill's highly sought-after personal development and self-improvement book, Think and Grow Rich. ![]() ![]() ![]() If the material world is intrinsically good, then it is to be respected and cared for, a notion which contests positivist or mechanised worldviews that have sanctioned environmental neglect or abuse. ![]() The treatises argue in favour of the making and veneration of images and suggest that because matter is divinely created and indwelled, it is inherently good. One set of Christian texts that portrays the material world in a positive way is the Three Treatises on the Divine Images by John of Damascus. Ecological theology endorses the importance of viewing the created world kindly and benevolently. 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Your safety and comfort is our first priority. ![]() As you know, we are honor-bound to accept all guests during this oldest of innkeeper holidays and we are expecting a dangerous guest. ![]() Thank you for joining us at Gertrude Hunt, the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, during the Treaty Stay. ![]() "A charming novella in the Innkeeper Chronicles, from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Ilona Andrews. ![]() ![]() Out and about with Janet and husband Graeme So Janet celebrated with several cups of tea! 9 in their top 10 best sellers for ebooks published directly with Amazon. THE TEA PLANTER’S DAUGHTER – was one of Amazon UK’s top selling ebooks in 2012! Emily is buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s in Morpeth. She has brought out his special edition, NO GREATER LOVE to help her home town, Morpeth in Northumberland, record the centenary of the suffragette’s death in June 1913. ![]() Janet has published a new edition of one of her suffragette novel to help mark the 100th anniversary of the death of famed women’s rights campaigner Emily Wilding Davison. In researching the novel, Janet tracked down places where Flora had lived on the Outer Isles of Scotland and the Isle of Skye, to get a feel of the way she lived.ĩ56 readers entered the Goodreads Giveaway to receive copies of NO GREATER LOVE, the novel about British suffragettes inspired by martyr Emily Wilding Davison, whose centenary it is this year.Ĭongratulations to the ten winners! Your free copies are winging their way to you now. Inspired by the life of Highland heroine, Flora MacDonald, the novel will be available on Amazon Kindle on 12th Sept and as a hardback from the 26th Sept. Janet's new Scottish historical novel, THE JACOBITE LASS, is due out soon. Janet Has Started A Blog For Books And Travel. ![]() |