Dedicated to "the librarians then, now, and in the years to come," Cloud Cuckoo Land is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship-of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart. Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness-with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us and those who will be here after we're gone. An ancient text-the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky-provides solace and mystery to these unforgettable characters. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for an exoplanet, decades from now. Book Synopsis From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story.
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This charming story is filled with fun facts, activities, and an applesauce recipe. As the bunnies fill their baskets, Farmer Miller teaches them all about apples. The book walks readers through the planting, growing, picking, and selling that bring this tasty fruit into the home.Īpples, Apples, Apples by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace – It’s a blue sky autumn day and Minna, Pop, Mom, and Dad have decided to go on an outing to Long Hill Orchard. Explore how apples come in all shapes and sizes from all over the world. This simple, joyful book with radiant illustrations introduces readers to the amazing and delectableway the earth provides food.Īpples by Gail Gibbons – Discover where your favorite crunchy, refreshing fruit comes from. One Red Apple by Harriet Ziefert – Follow the life cycle of an apple: from fruit growing on the tree to market, to picnic, to seed, to sapling and tree, andfinally to a new apple. This is an adorable collection of apple books for kids ages 3-7. 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So, I would like to propose another metaphor for the risks of artificial intelligence. If your reading of the parable is that, when you are granted a wish by the gods, you should phrase your wish very, very carefully, then you have missed the point. The point of the Midas parable is that greed will destroy you, and that the pursuit of wealth will cost you everything that is truly important. There are multiple problems with this metaphor, but one of them is that it derives the wrong lessons from the tale to which it refers. doing what you tell it to do instead of what you want it to do. The metaphor is meant to highlight the difficulty of making powerful entities obey your commands the computer scientist Stuart Russell has cited the parable of King Midas, who demanded that everything he touched turn into gold, to illustrate the dangers of an A.I. For example, it’s become very common to compare powerful A.I.s to genies in fairy tales. Metaphors are, by their nature, imperfect, but we still need to choose them carefully, because bad ones can lead us astray. When we talk about artificial intelligence, we rely on metaphor, as we always do when dealing with something new and unfamiliar. She speaks from real-life experience of the personal and intellectual challenges we encounter today in considering the claims of Jesus Christ. “A deep and caring response to current criticisms and confrontations of the Christian faith fills Rebecca McLaughlin’s book. Williams, Principal, Tyndale House, Cambridge author, Can We Trust the Gospels? In this bombshell of a book packed with myth-busting statistics, McLaughlin reveals the many surprises in authentic Christianity.” “In the West, many people are persuaded by dominant secular narratives and think they already know what Christianity is about. 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