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2010.
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From the cover. Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon -- private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in LA, and Doc knows that...
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Reference shelf volume 90, no. 4
Pub. Date
2018.
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This volume explores the latest thinking around the ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence. Where will robots make the most useful impact in society? As computers become more adept at mimicking human behavior and problem solving, what issues will be solved or created by new forms of artificial intelligence? It covers the scientific, economic and social implications of advanced artificial intelligence systems in human life.
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[1997]
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In this entertaining and informative book, journalist and political commentator Steven Stark takes us on a guided tour of the tube, and charts with unique wit and intelligence how America came of age, so to speak, in a box - watching everything from I Love Lucy, All in the Family, The Brady Bunch, and Saturday Night Live, to the CBS Evening News, Roots, MTV, and ER. Glued to the set asks the simple question - What has TV done to us? - and answers...
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[1928]
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"Virginia Woolf's exuberant 'biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the 'life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence; it is also Woolf's light-hearted...
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2021.
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Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr. Sacks splendid and sympathetic telling, his...
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©1988
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This collection presents the best gay and lesbian poetry written from 1950 to the present, with some 200 poems by 94 writers. Cutting across class, gender, and color lines like nothing else in American literature, this anthology offers a thoroughly refreshed report and exploration of our deepest social, sexual, political, and spiritual realities. With contributions from the well-known -- James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Frank O'Hara, Audre...
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[2018]
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"Alphabet aquarium upper and lower case letters" --In this program, join young host, Julianna, as she journeys on an amazing, aquatic adventure, under the sea, through the alphabet from A to Z! You'll learn both upper and lower case letters and meet some of the most eye-catching and exotic fish in the world! A kid-friendly, interactive approach reinforces identification...