BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell 

ABOUT THE BOOK

'After reading Mitchell’s guide, you’ll know what you don’t know and what other people don’t know, even though they claim to know it. And that’s invaluable'' The New York Times

A leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubble

No recent scientific enterprise has been so alluring, terrifying and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. Writing with clarity and passion, leading AI researcher Melanie Mitchell offers a captivating account of modern-day artificial intelligence.

Flavoured with personal stories and a twist of humour, Artificial Intelligence illuminates the workings of machines that mimic human learning, perception, language, creativity and common sense. Weaving together advances in AI with cognitive science and philosophy, Mitchell probes the extent to which today's 'smart' machines can actually think or understand, and whether AI even requires such elusive human qualities at all.

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans provides readers with an accessible and clear-eyed view of the AI landscape, what the field has actually accomplished, how much further it has to go and what it means for all of our futures.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Melanie Mitchell is a professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She is the author of An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms and Complexity: A Guided Tour, which won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award.

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BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom by Mithi Mukherjee

ABOUT THE BOOK 

Offering a new global perspective on India's freedom struggle, Asianism and the Fall of Empire identifies the rise of Asianism in the early twentieth century as the origin and primary driving force of the resistance movements that brought down the British Empire.

Thoroughly researched and thought-provoking, the book ties together into a single sweeping narrative two contrasting, conflicting forms of anticolonialism: the nonviolent resistance movement under Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa and the militant movement that culminated in the war on British India by the Indian National Army under Bose in alliance with the Japanese army. Asia emerges in this breakthrough retelling not as an inert geographical category, but as a singular agent of change in modern world history.

As Asian powers become central to global politics once again in the twenty-first century, Mithi Mukherjee's timely and perceptive book traces India's historical relations with its neighbours and presents a strong case for transnational solidarities against ethnonationalist discourses.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mithi Mukherjee is Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History, 1774–1950.

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At the Speed of Flowers: A Hopeful Book of Essays on Mindfulness, Self Discovery, Healing And Everyday Wisdom by Deepak Ramola

ABOUT THE BOOK

You are holding a book that doesn’t want to hurry you. A book that believes wisdom lives in tender, unglamorous places―in handwritten recipes, lingering goodbyes, crocheted blankets and silences that speak louder than words.

Written over six years and across many countries, At the Speed of Flowers is a collection of essays that invites you to notice the life happening at the edges of your attention. With the intimacy of a friend and the clarity of a teacher, Deepak Ramola leads you through stories and small, sturdy truths that unfold one memory, one encounter, one love note at a time. Deeply human and hopeful, this book is about learning to bloom in your own season.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Deepak Ramola is probably on a long walk somewhere, humming a folk melody. He recently learnt how to drive and how to swim. What he has known for much longer is that he loves potatoes, people and possibilities, roughly in that order.

As a wisdom historian and award-winning educator, Deepak has spent seventeen years gathering life lessons from everyday people across 195 countries through his organization Project FUEL. That same curiosity carries him into the classroom―as faculty and a Life Design Fellow at Stanford University and co-instructor of the Meaning of Life course at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former Kindness Ambassador for UNESCO MGIEP, he is the author of three books spanning poetry, self-help and narrative non-fiction. He was a 2024 finalist for the Yuva Sahitya Akademi Award for his poetry collection Karwan Ka Shauq Hai.

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