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Author : Jen Beagin
Genre : Fiction

Summary : NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND CULT FAVORITE Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, Time, NPR, Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, NBC News, Lit Hub, theSkimm, Condé Nast Traveler, Town & Country, and more! “One of the funniest books of the last few years” (Los Angeles Times) about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist and her affair with one of the patients. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship… “A fantastic, weird-as-hell, super funny novel” (Bustle), Big Swiss is both a love story and a deft examination of infidelity, mental health, sexual stereotypes, and more—from an amazingly talented, singular voice in contemporary fiction.

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Author : François Micheloud
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Author : Alexander E Brunner
Genre : Technology & Engineering

Summary : The race to master Artificial Intelligence is more competitive than ever. All eyes are on the global AI platforms as countries race to take the top position — and Switzerland has emerged as a strong contender despite its size.What lies behind Switzerland's AI success? How did it succeed in creating a world-leading AI ecosystem with limited resources? This book answers these questions and more. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews, this book sheds light on the secretive Swiss AI industry. In its pages, you will find insights gleaned from world-class researchers, visionary founders, savvy investors, and cutting-edge startups, each from Switzerland's thriving and exclusive AI industry. The Big Swiss AI Secret demonstrates how one can compete in the global AI race, highlighting that short-term victories are less important than achieving clever, long-term successes.Alexander E Brunner's second book on the Swiss deep tech ecosystem examines how Switzerland, with a small but impactful AI industry, has created a world-leading AI ecosystem, recognized by luminaries like Prof. Yann LeCun, META's AI head. Written by a practitioner for practitioners, this book offers an exciting, behind-the-scenes exploration of the future of AI, business, and society. It highlights cutting-edge use cases with a sharp focus on distinguishing what is currently real from what is just hype. Adopting a cross-disciplinary perspective, it examines what is already feasible today and how leading Swiss companies successfully position themselves for the future.

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Author : Hal Roth
Genre : Sports & Recreation

Summary : Big adventures on the high seas—from one of the greatest seafaring writers of our age Hal Roth’s vivid, authentic tales of the sea have riveted readers around the world for forty years. Here, in one volume, are three of his classic sea stories, each one a white-knuckled, rail-down voyage into the unknown. A hard-working San Francisco husband and wife abandon their jobs, their security, and, some would say, their sanity to sail their 35-foot sloop to Japan and back—the long way! Over the next nineteen months, they discover exotic islands, fascinating people, and a whole new way of life. A few years later these intrepid voyagers decide to try their luck against Cape Horn, but they will need a lot more than luck to survive the vicious storms, violent seas, and perilous shores of the world’s most dangerous stretch of water. Then nine courageous sailors accept a challenge to do what has never been done before: to race alone, in a small sailboat, around the world—nonstop. Only one will complete the race; seven will be forced to withdraw, and one will simply disappear.

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Author : Ellen Lupton
Genre : Design

Summary : The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton—revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces. "Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."—I Love Typography The bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Covering the essentials of typography, this book explores everything from typefaces and type families to kerning and tracking to grids and layout principles. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. Historical and contemporary examples of graphic design show how to learn the rules and how to break them. Critical essays, eye-opening diagrams, helpful exercises, and dozens of examples and illustrations show readers how to be inventive within systems that inform and communicate. Featuring 32 pages of new content, the third edition is revised and refined from cover to cover: More fonts: old fonts, new fonts, weird fonts, libre fonts, Google fonts, Adobe fonts, fonts from independent foundries, and fonts and lettering by women and BIPOC designers Introductions to diverse writing systems, contributed by expert typographers from around the world Demonstrations of basic design principles, such as vi­sual balance, Gestalt grouping, and responsive layout Current approaches to typeface design, including Variable fonts and optical sizes Tips for readability, legibility, and accessibility Stunning reproductions from the Letterform Archive Thinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, anyone who works with words on page or screen, and enthusiasts of type and lettering. Readers will also love Ellen Lupton's book Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers.

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Summary : Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.