Rebecca Lam

"Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen...

"Social justice work, we often assume, is raised voices and raised fists. It requires leading, advocating, fighting, and organizing wherever it takes place--in the streets, slums, villages, inner cities, halls of political power, and more. But what does social justice work look like for those of us who don't feel comfortable battling in the trenches? Sensitive souls--including those who consider themselves highly emotional, empathic, or introverted--have...

"Diva, heroine, icon, and-to the most devoted-a goddess. Stevie Nicks sings of spell casters and dream smiths, stars of the silver screen, her grandmother Alice and Alice in Wonderland, Joan of Arc, the power of sibyls and sylphs. This book tells her story, from the bleached Arizona landscape of her childhood to the strobe-lit Night of a Thousand Stevies celebrations, highlighting throughout her strengths as singer, songwriter, and performer"--

First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens--the "smart cookies" who learned on the job despite the obstacles. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads, who, despite their hard-earned diplomas, often settled for less. Eventually came the yuppies of the 1980s in power suits and commuter sneakers. In She-Wolves, award-winning historian Paulina Bren tells the story of the first generations of women who fought their way into the bad-boy...