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Thousands of books from some of Australia’s most celebrated authors have potentially been caught up in what Booker prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan has called “the biggest act of copyright theft in history”. The works have allegedly been pirated by the US-based Books3 dataset and used to train generative AI for corporations such as Meta and …

Every writer, of school age and older, is in the sentences game. The sentence is our writing commons, the shared ground where all writers walk. A poet writes in sentences, and so does the unsung author who came up with “Items trapped in doors cause delays”. The sentence is the Ur-unit, the core material, the …

This article will go through the best Linux books for all the different target groups and use cases. Best Linux Books – Quick Overview Here’s a quick comparison table of the best Linux books: Book Cost Latest Release For Themes The Linux Command Line Paid March 7, 2019 Beginners Commands, CLI, bash How Linux Works …

It may be surprising to learn that serious mental illness—such as schizophrenia, bipolar disease and severe depression—afflicts about one in 20 Americans. Some of us have encountered these conditions in the experience of family members. Others see it routinely on display on city streets. By now, as Thomas Insel notes in “Healing: Our Path From …

1.During a recent visit to Cologne, I avoided the city’s most magnetic tourist attraction – you’ve seen one Gothic cathedral, you’ve seen them all – and instead I explored the city’s bookshops. Large and small, general and specialized, spacious and cramped, there seemed to be no end to the variety. But they all had one …

Under the subtitle “An American City and Its Search for Justice”, Scott Ellsworth has produced a much-needed book that acts like a mirror. Though documenting a particular place and time, it helps us understand the race-based and sectarian turmoil that is so pervasive today. Oprah Winfrey has hailed it as one of “20 of the …

Stand aside humanity, you’re holding up the progress. We’ve passed the point of usefulness for Homo sapiens, now is the dawning of the Homo Faber era. The idea that “I think therefore I am” has become quaint in this new age of builders and creators. But has our continued obsession with technology and progress actually …

We tend to think of bacteria as something to avoid. Germophobes beware, but our bodies are literally covered and filled with bacteria. From our skin to the lining of our GI tract, bacteria are literally part of us. For sure, some bacteria are harmful, but many more play an important role in our health. The …

AFP via Getty Images There were many great technology books published in 2020, but when polling technology and digital executives for some of the best reads of the year, here are some that rose to the top. If you have a new year’s resolution to read more, here is a list of books to start …

THE INVENTION OF MEDICINEFrom Homer to HippocratesBy Robin Lane Fox 404 pp. Basic Books. $35. The clinical eye — exacting, dispassionate, free of superstition — came into being a little after 500 B.C. on the wealthy Greek island of Thasos, Lane Fox argues in “The Invention of Medicine.” That eye belonged to the author of …