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Waiting for Robots

The Hired Hands of Automation

by Antonio A. Casilli ...

Translated by Saskia Brown ...

An essential investigation that pulls back the curtain on automation, like AI, to show human workers' hidden labor.Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they're animated beings, and consider them efficient. As users, we may complain when these technologies don't obey, or worry about their influence on our choices ... Read more

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An essential investigation that pulls back the curtain on automation, like AI, to show human workers' hidden labor.Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they're animated beings, and consider them efficient. As users, we may complain when these technologies don't obey, or worry about their influence on our choices
... Read more
Regimes of Historicity

Presentism and Experiences of Time

by François Hartog ...

Translated by Saskia Brown ...

Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
François Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning The Odyssey as a work on the threshold of historical consciousness and contrasting it with an investigation of the anthropologist ... Read more

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François Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning The Odyssey as a work on the threshold of historical consciousness and contrasting it with an investigation of the anthropologist
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Counterpoints

Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts

by Philippe Junod ...

Translated by Saskia Brown ...

Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict between the various arts has a long history. From opera to the symphonic poem, to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time and space. Counterpoints: Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts explores this artistic evolution ... Read more

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Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict between the various arts has a long history. From opera to the symphonic poem, to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time and space. Counterpoints: Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts explores this artistic evolution
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Her Best Kept Royal Secret & The Queen's Baby Scandal & An Heir Fit for a King

by Lynne Graham, Maisey Yates, Abby Green ...

Narrated by Melanie Crawley, Zara Hampton-Brown, Saskia Maarleveld ...

Unabridged

16 hours 42 min

Her Best Kept Royal SecretUSA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham delights with this dramatic royal baby romance!Reunited for one nightBound by the scandalous consequences!Playboy prince Angelino Diamandis has learned the hard way to hide his true emotions. Especially his inability to forget innocent Gaby and the passion they almost shared! Until a surprise meeting causes their still-simmering ... Read more

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Her Best Kept Royal SecretUSA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham delights with this dramatic royal baby romance!Reunited for one nightBound by the scandalous consequences!Playboy prince Angelino Diamandis has learned the hard way to hide his true emotions. Especially his inability to forget innocent Gaby and the passion they almost shared! Until a surprise meeting causes their still-simmering
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Homo Juridicus

On the Anthropological Function of the Law

by Alain Supiot ...

Translated by Saskia Brown ...

A provocative investigation of how law shapes everyday lifeIn this groundbreaking work, French legal scholar Alain Supiot examines the relationship of society to legal discourse.He argues that the law is how justice is implmented in secular society, but it is not simply a technique to be manipulated at will: it is also an expression of the core beliefs of the West. We must recognize its ... Read more

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A provocative investigation of how law shapes everyday lifeIn this groundbreaking work, French legal scholar Alain Supiot examines the relationship of society to legal discourse.He argues that the law is how justice is implmented in secular society, but it is not simply a technique to be manipulated at will: it is also an expression of the core beliefs of the West. We must recognize its
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The Sciences of the Soul

The Early Modern Origins of Psychology

by Fernando Vidal ...

Translated by Saskia Brown ...

Fernando Vidal's trailblazing text on the origins of psychology traces the development of the discipline from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eighteenth. Originally published in 2011, The Sciences of the Soul continues to be of wide importance in the history and philosophy of ... Read more

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Fernando Vidal's trailblazing text on the origins of psychology traces the development of the discipline from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eighteenth. Originally published in 2011, The Sciences of the Soul continues to be of wide importance in the history and philosophy of
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Marrow

by Samantha Browning Shea ...

Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld ...

Unabridged

9 hours 27 min

A searing take on femininity and power, Marrow transports readers to a small island off the coast of Maine, where a coven has done the seemingly impossible.The day Oona was kicked out of her mother’s coven, she gave up on her dreams of harnessing the witchcraft that was her birthright. Years later, she's carved out an ordinary life with her husband, though she is filled with a longing she can ... Read more

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A searing take on femininity and power, Marrow transports readers to a small island off the coast of Maine, where a coven has done the seemingly impossible.The day Oona was kicked out of her mother’s coven, she gave up on her dreams of harnessing the witchcraft that was her birthright. Years later, she's carved out an ordinary life with her husband, though she is filled with a longing she can
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She Made Herself a Monster

A Novel

by Anna Kovatcheva ...

Narrated by Helen Laser ...

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7 hours 39 min

“ The best kind of vampire story—one in which the real evil is us.”—Peng Shepherd“Deliciously monstrous and demanding of our attention, Anna Kovatcheva crafts a feminist vampire story like no other.”—Ms, MagazineA heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, a self-proclaimed vampire slayer—in truth, a traveling con artist—joins forces with a teenage girl to create ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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“ The best kind of vampire story—one in which the real evil is us.”—Peng Shepherd“Deliciously monstrous and demanding of our attention, Anna Kovatcheva crafts a feminist vampire story like no other.”—Ms, MagazineA heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, a self-proclaimed vampire slayer—in truth, a traveling con artist—joins forces with a teenage girl to create
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She Waits Where Shadows Gather

A Novel

by Michelle Tang ...

Narrated by Amielynn Abellera ...

Unabridged

10 hours 30 min

Parents should pass down stories, not spirits…Avery and Carlos Tam have built their lives on logic, not legends. Carlos, the host of a hit reality show that exposes paranormal hoaxes, has made a name disproving the supernatural.But when they travel to his ancestral home in the Philippines, darkness clings to every corner. The mirrors are shrouded. The housekeeper won't stay in the house alone. And ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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Parents should pass down stories, not spirits…Avery and Carlos Tam have built their lives on logic, not legends. Carlos, the host of a hit reality show that exposes paranormal hoaxes, has made a name disproving the supernatural.But when they travel to his ancestral home in the Philippines, darkness clings to every corner. The mirrors are shrouded. The housekeeper won't stay in the house alone. And
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They Fear Not Men in the Woods

by Gretchen McNeil ...

Narrated by Justis Bolding ...

Unabridged

11 hours 13 min

For fans of Midsommar**, Catriona Ward, and Sarah Gailey, this addictively readable modern horror novel unfolds like a movie with a climax you’ll never see coming**When Jen Monroe hears her father's remains have been found, she returns home to disprove his death, only to find the forests of rural Washington are hiding horrors beyond imaginingSeven years ago, Jen Monroe left behind her hometown of ... Read more

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For fans of Midsommar**, Catriona Ward, and Sarah Gailey, this addictively readable modern horror novel unfolds like a movie with a climax you’ll never see coming**When Jen Monroe hears her father's remains have been found, she returns home to disprove his death, only to find the forests of rural Washington are hiding horrors beyond imaginingSeven years ago, Jen Monroe left behind her hometown of
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Aphrodite

A Novel

by Phoenicia Rogerson ...

Narrated by Phoenicia Rogerson, Kristin Atherton, Jay Lafayette Valentine, Maryam Grace, Hamish Ings, Julia Bird, Charlie Keable, Saul Marron, Stacey Norris, James Murfitt0, Louise Lee1, David Ellis2, Richard Hughes3, Rebecca Fortuin4, Cornelia Colman5 ...

Unabridged

13 hours 59 min

From the award-winning author of Herc, an enrapturing feminist tale that brilliantly reimagines the story of Aphrodite and how she transformed herself from a lowly outsider to the darling goddess of love, for readers of Madeline Miller and Jennifer Saint.Aphrodite saw the gods on Mount Olympus and decided she wanted a piece of what they had. Only problem is, she’s not a goddess, just a lowly being ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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From the award-winning author of Herc, an enrapturing feminist tale that brilliantly reimagines the story of Aphrodite and how she transformed herself from a lowly outsider to the darling goddess of love, for readers of Madeline Miller and Jennifer Saint.Aphrodite saw the gods on Mount Olympus and decided she wanted a piece of what they had. Only problem is, she’s not a goddess, just a lowly being
... Read more

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If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You

A Novel

by Leigh Stein ...

Narrated by Leigh Stein, Kristen DiMercurio, Valerie Rose Lohman, Emily Marso ...

Unabridged

10 hours 2 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “For anyone who has felt fate intervening on their TikTok feed” (USA Today) comes a “gothic horror story wrapped up in a mystery [with] much to say about Hollywood, social media, and the creator economy” (Los Angeles Times)“Here you’ll find that gothic horror, so often lurking in the dingy dark, can manifest also in the fluorescent world of the terminally online.”—NPRThe ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “For anyone who has felt fate intervening on their TikTok feed” (USA Today) comes a “gothic horror story wrapped up in a mystery [with] much to say about Hollywood, social media, and the creator economy” (Los Angeles Times)“Here you’ll find that gothic horror, so often lurking in the dingy dark, can manifest also in the fluorescent world of the terminally online.”—NPRThe
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