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12 Bytes - How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Politics
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson 'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, ...Show more
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Languages and Reference
Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. In this original, deeply researched and lively new book, Jeanette Winterson tr ...Show more
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Languages and Reference
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, v ...Show more
Antony Gormley by Antony Gormley (Artist); Martin Caiger-Smith (Text by); Michael Newman (Text by); Priyamvada Natarajan (Text by); Jeanette Winterson (Text by)
Category: Art and Design
Sculptor Antony Gormley (born 1950) has become a household name, particularly in his native Britain, thanks to his prominent public installations and major solo shows. Awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, he was knighted in 2014. From The Angel of the North (1998) to the hundred cast-iron life-size human f ...Show more
Antony Gormley: Land: An Exploration of What it Means to be Human in Remote Places Across the British Isles by Antony Gormley; Jeanette Winterson
Category: Art and Design
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Landmark Trust commissioned an installation from Antony Gormley. LAND was the result: this book records its places and explores their meanings. Author Jeanette Winterson and photographer Clare Richardson travelled to five Landmark sites in remote parts of the ...Show more
Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction
'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. Stories within ...Show more
Art Objects : Essays on Ecstacy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the "Mona Lisa" and Virginia Woolf's "The Waves," she frees them from layers of preconception and restore ...Show more
Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Languages and Reference
These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, paintin ...Show more
Art and Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Culture
Handel, Picasso and Sappho, seperately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book.
Boating for Beginners by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction
A pleasure boat company is transformed when the proprietor, Noah, is chosen by the "One True God" to put "sunny" faith back in the world and women back in the kitchen. The author has written "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit",(winner of the 1985 Whitbread award) and "Sexing the Cherry".
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction
A New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2017 "Nowhere is Winterson's] faith in the transporting power of storytelling more on display than in her new book, Christmas Days . . . dark, otherworldly and (trademark Winterson) wickedly funny . . . a] holiday treasure . . . to be pulled out on a ...Show more