Publisher profile
Subjects: Technology, Ethics & Society, Historical Fiction, History & Society
Authors: Brian Christian, Maaza Mengiste, Richard Powers
Technology, Ethics & Society
by Brian Christian
Machine-learning systems learn from examples, rewards, and human behavior—but none of these provides a simple or neutral expression of what people truly want.
Historical Fiction
by Maaza Mengiste
Set principally during Fascist Italy’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King follows Hirut, a recently orphaned servant who is drawn from domestic subordination into armed resistance.
History & Society
by Richard Powers
The Overstory is a large-scale literary novel in which the lives of nine Americans become entangled with trees, forests, scientific discovery, and environmental resistance.
