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Hbr's 10 Must Reads on AI (with Bonus Article How to Win with Machine Learning by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and AVI Goldfarb)

By Harvard Business Review, Thomas H Davenport, Marco Iansiti, Tsedal Neeley, Ajay Agrawal

"If you read nothing else on artificial intelligence and machine learning, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand what's happening, look ahead to what's possible, and bring your AI efforts to scale. This book will inspire you to: develop your next AI strategy; seize the potential of natural language processing; prepare for jobs and industries to be transformed; help people and machines work together; prepare for the regulation of AI; develop algorithms for sales and marketing; stop tinkering with AI and go all in."--

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The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now

By Hilke Schellmann

AI is on the brink of dominating our lives, threating our privacy and human future--if we don't take action now. In The Algorithm , Emmy-award winning Wall Street Journal and Guardian contributor Hilke Schellmann delivers a shocking and illuminating exposé on one of the most pressing civil rights issues of our time: how AI has quietly, and mostly out of sight, taken over the world of work.

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The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications

By Emily Oster, Nathan Fox

From the New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better , a guide to navigating a second pregnancy when the first did not go as planned--with Dr. Nathan Fox, maternal fetal medicine specialist In Expecting Better , Emily Oster revolutionized the pregnancy landscape with her data-driven approach.

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2054

By Elliot Ackerman, James Stavridis

"Military fiction that imagines a geopolitical conflict in the year 2054"--

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The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans

"For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters' fields--a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried to avoid. Today, more and more relatives are abandoning their dead, leaving it to local governments to dispose of the bodies. Up to 150,000 Americans now go unclaimed each year. Who are they? Why are they being forgotten? ... In this ... work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will"--

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Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By Gretchen Sisson

"Essential reading. " --NPR "Books We Love" "Dares to imagine a different world where Americans treat adoption like the justice issue it is. " ― Washington Post "Impressively reported. . . [Sisson] uses her deep well of knowledge to make the case that adoption is no solution for Americans' reduced access to abortion.

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When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others

By Elissa Strauss

"Journalist Elissa Strauss explores the powerful role caring for others plays in our individual and communal lives, weaving together research about care and stories from parents and caregivers, with a feminist bent"--

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