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English-language non-fiction books
- Human CompatibleStuart J. Russell published Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control in 2019. The book opens by attacking a core assumption in…
- The Fate of LibertyIn 1861, the United States stood on a knife-edge of legal uncertainty. President Abraham Lincoln faced a nation tearing itself apart while Congress remained…
- The Beatles Anthology (book)The Beatles Anthology is a book that arrived in October 2000 carrying a claim no other volume could make: it is billed as the only autobiography of the…
- Manga: The Complete GuideManga: The Complete Guide landed in 2007 as a reference book unlike any other in the English-speaking world. Written by Jason Thompson and published by Del…
- On the Origin of SpeciesOn the Origin of Species arrived in bookshops on the 24th of November 1859, priced at fifteen shillings, and every available copy was gone before the end of…
- The Evolution of PhysicsThe Evolution of Physics appeared in 1938, a book by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld that set out to explain the entire sweep of physical thought to…
- J. R. R. Tolkien EncyclopediaThe J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia arrived in bookshops in 2006, the product of 127 scholars spread across many countries, packed into 720 pages.
- The Alignment ProblemIn 2016, journalist Julia Angwin published a report that changed how people viewed automated decision-making. Her investigation into the COMPAS algorithm…
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern ApproachStuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig released the first edition of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach in 1995 with a red cover.
- Einstein: His Life and UniverseEinstein: His Life and Universe opens with a provocation embedded in Walter Isaacson's central argument: the Swiss army rejected Albert Einstein for…
- The Art of Star WarsThe Art of Star Wars is a series of books that pulled back the curtain on one of cinema's most closely guarded creative processes.