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  The Uncanny Muse - Music Art and...

  David Hajdu

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  The Uncanny Muse explores the history of automation in the arts and delves into one of the most momentous and controversial aspects of AI: artificial creativity. The adoption of technology and machinery has long transformed the world, but as the potential for artificial intelligence expands, David Hajdu examines the new, increasingly urgent questions about technology's role in culture. 
   
   
   
  Hajdu traces the fascinating, varied ways in which inventors and artists have sought to emulate mental processes and mechanize creative production. For decades, machines and artists have engaged in expressing the human condition—along with the condition of living with machines—through player pianos, broadcasting technology, electric organs, digital movie effects, synthesizers, and motion capture. By communicating and informing human knowledge, the machines have exerted considerable influence on the history of art—and often more influence than humans have been willing to recognize. As Hajdu proclaims: "before machine learning, there was machine teaching." With thoughtful and surprising turns from Berry Gordy and George Harrison to Andy Warhol and Stevie Wonder, David Hajdu takes a novel and contrarian approach: he sees how machines through the ages have enabled creativity, not stifled it—and The Uncanny Muse sees no reason why this shouldn't be the case with AI today.

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  New York's Secret Subway - The...

  Matthew Algeo

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  In the nineteenth century, Manhattan's streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath Broadway from the Battery to Harlem. Air pressure would shoot passengers up and down the island in clean, quiet carriages. But Beach was up against the operators of the horse-drawn streetcars and the politicians in their pay, most conspicuously William M. Tweed, the notorious "Boss" of Tammany Hall.New York's Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit tells a classic story of good versus evil, pitting the mild-mannered Beach, a visionary inventor and entrepreneur, against the oafish tyrant Tweed, the exemplar of corruption in the Gilded Age. It also tells the story of one of the most astonishing feats of engineering in American history, the surreptitious creation of the nation's first operational subway. Unfortunately, political lethargy and greed would conspire to deny the city a subway for another thirty years. Yet Alfred Beach still proved conclusively the feasibility of underground railways in Manhattan, and paved the way for modern mass transportation systems. Although this true story took place more than a century ago, it will at times sound surprisingly familiar.

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  Land of Milk and (no) Money

  Roger Evans

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  Roger Evans has been an articulate dairy and poultry farmer all his life. From his Shropshire farm, he writes his diary in a well-informed, realistic and funny way, covering all aspects of his life as a farmer today.   
  In this book Roger talks about ratting, a particular cheeky robin, Gomer's latest weight problem and the challenges of being a dairy farmer during a national crisis.   
  But in the countryside the good things still prevail: the local pub, the burgeoning hedgerows, tenacious wildlife, ingenious farm dogs and let's not forget Roger's plastic swans.

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  Renewable energy targets in...

  Irena International Renewable...

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  This report presents an overview of the latest updates in climate commitments made ahead of COP27, focusing on the renewable energy targets in NDCs.

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  The Lost Rainforests of Britain

  Guy Shrubsole

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  WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023The Sunday Times Science Book of the YearAs seen on Countryfile 
  ‘If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole’ Sunday Times 
  Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary Prize 
  Temperate rainforest may once have covered up to one-fifth of Britain, inspiring Celtic druids, Welsh wizards, Romantic poets, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s most loved creations. Though only fragments now remain, they are home to a dazzling variety of luminous life-forms. 
  In this awe-inspiring investigation, Guy Shrubsole travels through the Western Highlands and the Lake District, down to the rainforests of Wales, Devon, and Cornwall to map these spectacular lost worlds for the first time. 
  This is the extraordinary tale of one person’s quest to find Britain’s lost rainforests – and bring them back. 
  *Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-30* 
  This Sunday Times bestselling book is an award-winning nonfiction exploration of Britain's top natural habitats. Shrubsole's environmental focus and dedication to the protection of these ecosystems make this a valuable resource for anyone interested in nature. 
  For fans of Robin Wall Kimmerer (The Democracy of Species), Derek Gow (Birds, Beasts and Bedlam), Christopher Hart (Hedgelands [US Edition]), Yanis Varoufakis (Technofeudalism), and Isabella Tree (Wilding). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  AI-Driven Data Modeling -...

  Mark Jackson

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  "AI-Driven Data Modeling: Transforming Insights and Decision-Making" explores the cutting-edge intersection of artificial intelligence and data modeling, offering a comprehensive guide for data professionals, AI enthusiasts, and decision-makers. This book provides a deep dive into how AI technologies can revolutionize traditional data modeling practices, unlocking new levels of insight and efficiency. 
  "AI-Driven Data Modeling: Transforming Insights and Decision-Making" is your essential guide to understanding and applying the latest advancements in AI to revolutionize your approach to data analysis and decision-making. 
   

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