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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent.A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020Renowned historian Olivette Otele un.

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Zustand: New. Rule of the Robots explores the future implications of artificial intelligence as a uniquely scalable and potentially disruptive technology. The best up-to-date, go-to book on the social and economic implications.

Zustand: New. How game theory - the ultimate theory of rationality - explains irrational behaviour. Packed with fresh and clear insights that will change the way you think about the world Uri Gneezy One of those books that you pick up and then can t pu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The best up-to-date, go-to book on the social and economic implications of artificial intelligence - Tyler Cowen'Rule of the Robots explores the future implications of artificial intelligence as a uniquely scalable and potentially disruptive technology.In this sequel to his prescient New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology, a kind of 'electricity of intelligence' that is altering every dimension of human life, often for the better with advanced science being done by machines who can solve problems humans can not. AI has the potential to help us fight climate change or the next pandemic, but it also has a capacity for profound harm. Deep fakes-AI-generated audio or video of events that never happened-are poised to cause havoc throughout society. AI empowers authoritarian regimes like China with unprecedented mechanisms for social control. And AI can be deeply biased, learning bigoted attitudes from the data used to train algorithms and perpetuating them. Hard-hitting and thought-provoking, covering everything from self-driving cars to the history of deep learning to apps for diagnosing skin cancer, Rule of the Robots challenges our fears and preconceptions about artificial intelligence. Ford argues that AI is here to stay and the real question is not how to stop it, but how to control its negative potential and harness its power for good as AI transforms our economy, our politics, and our lives.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Packed with fresh and clear insights that will change the way you think about the world' Uri Gneezy'One of those books that you pick up and then can't put down' Steve Stewart-Williams'This is a book I will come back to again and again' Nichola RaihaniHow game theory - the ultimate theory of rationality - explains irrational behaviour.In Hidden Games, MIT economists Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli find a surprising middle ground between the hyperrationality of classical economics and the hyper-irrationality of behavioural economics. They call it hidden games. Reviving game theory, Hoffman and Yoeli use it to explain our most puzzling behaviour, from the mechanics of Stockholm syndrome and internalised misogyny to why we help strangers and have a sense of fairness.Fun and powerfully insightful, Hidden Games is an eye-opening argument for using game theory to explain all the irrational things we think, feel, and do and will change how you think forever.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A collection of twenty-three volumes exploring the life, times, work, and contemporaries of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Twenty-three volumes. A collection surrounding the lives and relationship between Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Often called Dr Johnson, Samuel Johnson was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". James Boswell was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer best known for his Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language. Boswell's diaries, letters, and private papers were recovered and published by Yale University, transforming his reputation. These volumes explore the lives of two great men, the historical time in which they lived and key events from this period, the great writers and thinkers working alongside them, as well as their own writings and contributions. This set contains: Portraits, 1952. First edition. Written by Sir Joshua Reynolds, an English painter who specialised in portraits. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten plates. Collated complete. Young Samuel Johnson, 1957. Readers Union edition. Written by James Lowry Clifford, a British author and historian. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates, with mapped endpapers. Collated complete. James Boswell: The Earlier Years 1740-1769, 1966. First edition. Written by Frederick Albert Pottle, an American scholar and editor. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eight black-and-white plates. Collated complete. Boswell in Extremes: 1776-1778, 1971. First UK edition. Edited by Charles McCullough Weis, an American professor of English, and Frederick Albert Pottle. Illustrated with six plates and a double-page plan. Collated complete. The Impossible Friendship: Boswell and Mrs. Theatre, 1973. First edition. Written by Mary Hyde, founder of the Hyde Collection. Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated complete. Boswell's Book of Bad Verse, 1974. First edition. Edited by Jack Werner, a Scottish scholar and researcher. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one plate. Collated complete. Samuel Johnson, 1974. First edition. Written by John Wain, an English poet, novelist, and critic. Illustrated with thirty-six images across sixteen plates. Collated complete. The Treasure of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers, 1975. First edition. Written by David Buchanan, a Scottish writer. Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-five images. Boswell: Laird of Auchinleck 1778-1782, 1977. First edition. Edited by Joseph W. Reed, an American professor of English and film, and Frederick Albert Pottle. Illustrated with eight plates. Collated complete. Samuel Johnson, 1978. First edition. Written by Walter Jackson Bate, an American literary critic and biographer. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-five images across sixteen plates. Collated complete. Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years, 1979. First edition. Written by James Lowry Clifford. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen images. Pride and Negligence: The History of the Boswell Papers, 1982. First edition. Written by Frederick Albert Pottle. James Boswell: The Later Years 1769-1795, 1984. First edition. Written by Frank Brady, an American writer, editor, biographer, and educator. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten plates. Collated complete. The Journals of James Boswell 1760-1795, 1991. First edition. Selected and introduced by John Wain. Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage, 1993. First edition. Written by Richard Holmes, a British author, biographer, and academic. A Life of James Boswell, 1999. First edition. Written by Peter Martin, an English literature scholar, biographer, and eighteenth century garden historian. Illustrated with twelve plates. Collated complete. Boswell's Presumptuous Task, 2000. First edition. Written by Adam Sisman, a British writer, editor and biographer. 1700 Scenes from London Life, 2000. First edition. Written by Maureen Waller, an English writer and historian, specialising in social and family history. The Essential Boswell: Selections from the Writings of James Boswell, 2003. First edition. Selected and introduced by Peter Martin. Samuel Johnson: A Biography, 2008. First edition. Written by Peter Martin. Illustrated with twenty-four plates, some of which are in colour. Collated complete. Samuel Johnson: The Struggle, 2008. First edition. Written by Jeffrey Meyers, an American biographer and literary, art, and film critic. Illustrated with sixteen images across eight plates. Collated complete. Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Johnson's 'Dear Mistress', 2008. First edition. Written by Ian McIntyre, a British BBC Radio producer, journalist, broadcaster and author. Illustrated with twenty-three images across sixteen plates. Collated complete. The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson's Heir, 2015. First edition. Written by Michael Bundock, a British barrister, researcher, and director of Dr. Johnson's House Trust. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear and light fading to the extremities. Original dust wrappers remain unclipped other than Boswell in Extremes, The Impossible Friendship, and Pride and Negligence which have been price-clipped. Wrappers are smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Minor sunning to the spines with the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front free endpaper of the odd volume. Very Good. book.