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History and Current Events November 2020 |
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The alignment problem : machine learning and human values
by Brian Christian
The best-selling author of The Most Human Human exposes the ethical and potentially existential risks of data-trained artificial-intelligence algorithms that are making inherently flawed decisions on behalf of humans, outlining ambitious recommendations for urgent responses and preventative measures.
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| A masterwork from acclaimed historian David Nasaw, The Last Million tells the gripping yet until now largely hidden story of postwar displacement and statelessness. By 1952, the Last Million were scattered around the world. As they crossed from their broken past into an unknowable future, they carried with them their wounds, their fears, their hope, and their secrets. Here for the first time, Nasaw illuminates their incredible history and, with profound contemporary resonance, shows us that it is our history as well.
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Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
by Ben Macintyre
The New York Times best-selling author of The Spy and the Traitor reveals the story of the female spy hidden in plain sight who set the stage for the Cold War—one of the last great intelligence secrets of the 20th century.
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War : how conflict shaped us
by Margaret MacMillan
From the internationally renowned historian and bestselling author of Paris 1919 comes a provocative argument that war is an essential aspect of human nature, and that peace is an aberration in history.
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The Best Presidential Writing : From 1789 to the Present
by Craig Fehrman
A wide-ranging treasury of presidential writings is comprised of history-shaping and lesser-known speeches, excerpts and personal notes, from Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and FDR’s “Infamy” speech to JFK’s Profiles in Courage and Barack Obama’s Dreams of My Father.
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Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
by David S. Reynolds
The award-winning author of Walt Whitman’s America presents an immersive portrait of the 16th President, from his younger life in the decades before the Civil War through his emergence as a progressive political leader and advocate for human justice.
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