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Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind

David Sussillo

May 23 - Jun 916 minutes left
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David Sussillo has made a career at the cutting edge of neuroscience and technology—yet his path there was anything but a straight line. Born to drug-addicted parents in New Mexico, he navigated a childhood marked by violence and neglect. But a seed was planted at the unlikeliest of places—the local arcade.

What follows is a remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford. Along the way, Sussillo takes readers on an illuminating tour of the century-long dance between neuroscience, physics, and computation that has laid the groundwork for neural networks—the technology that drives modern artificial intelligence. As he advances in the field, working to demystify these networks, he also begins to pursue an answer to a more personal why, and how, did he succeed against all odds?

Emergence radiates heartbreak, humor, and scientific wonder, inviting readers on an unforgettable journey that bridges the personal and the profound, revealing how intricate complexities arise from simple beginnings.

Memoir
Science

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A New Vision of the Early Universe: The Spin-Coherent Origin of Structure, Force, and Matter

Robert J. Conover

Jun 5 - Jun 19
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Science

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We Are Called to Rise: The Power of Refugee Women

Jina Krause-Vilmar

Jun 7 - Jun 28
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We Are Called to Rise is a call-to-action to embrace the economic potential of refugee women and break the invisible barriers that constrain their power

Jina Krause-Vilmar has spent her career working closely with women in some of the most challenging moments of their lives. When women and their families are pushed from their home countries by war, famine, economic instability, or religious persecution, they land in new homes with no safety nets. Alongside poor communities in their host countries, they struggle to survive in informal work systems where resentment runs high and they are easily exploited. It doesn’t have to be this way.

We Are Called to Rise is about the economic power of refugee women―the power that policymakers overlook, governments fail to harness, and stereotypes erase. It is about the opportunities we miss when we reduce refugee women to victims instead of recognizing them as economic drivers, changemakers, and leaders. Krause-Vilmar, President and CEO of Upwardly Mobile, explores the invisible threads that constrain them and how, despite the barriers, they are reweaving those threads to create opportunity―not just for themselves, but for entire communities.

When the most vulnerable are supported, we all thrive.

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History

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Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old

Lucy Schiller

Jun 4 - Jun 25
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A deeply personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America

Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has long been one of casual avoidance and neglect. This attitude became brutally clear during the height of the COVID pandemic, when too many people saw elderly deaths not as tragedies but as foregone conclusions.

Like many of us, Lucy Schiller experienced this callousness firsthand when her grandmother passed away during the pandemic. In the wake of this trauma, propelled by equal parts grief and curiosity about her own fear of aging, Schiller embarked on an investigative journey to understand why the prospect of aging is so frightening and how being “old” in America intersects with class, race, disability, and public policy.

From profit-driven networks of care facilities to systemic failures in economic support, the future of older Americans looks increasingly uncertain. In Aging Out, Schiller reports this crisis, sharing the human toll of inadequate housing, health care, and community, while simultaneously excavating her own complicated relationship with aging.

Combining the incisive reporting of Evicted with the beautifully rendered introspection of The Empathy Exams, Aging Out is an intimate and unflinching exploration of what it means to age in this country and why Americans—including Schiller herself—are so terrified of getting old.

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Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life

Merritt Turetsky

Jun 3 - Jul 2
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From a stunning new voice in popular science, a beguiling invitation to discover the hidden power of one of Earth’s most mysterious landscapes.
Boglands have long been dismissed as wastelands—too sodden to farm, too perilous to cross, too unruly to be considered beautiful. Yet come closer and a strange truth emerges: These unconventional landscapes are fascinating paradoxes that stretch our minds, hold the history of humanity, and will shape the future of our planet. As acclaimed ecologist Merritt R. Turetsky reveals, here between the borders of land and water, bogs conjure new life forms—acid-flinging mosses, amphibian-eating plants—from an overabundance of death. The past and present commingle with uncanny intimacy as ancient lives linger in remarkable states of preservation. Even as bogs sequester nearly one third of Earth’s soil carbon, accelerating exploitation risks swiftly transforming them from climate allies to climate foes.

Gorgeously written, Bogland is an ode and a call to action: To value these places precisely for their refusal to conform, and to learn from them new ways to adapt, endure, and belong on our changing planet—before it’s too late.

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