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Batman

By Alan Moore

General Nonfiction

Critically acclaimed author Alan Moore redefined graphic novel story-telling with Watchmen and V for Vendetta. In Batman: The Killing Joke, he takes on the origin of comics' greatest super-villain, The Joker, and changes Batman's world forever. ONE BAD DAY. According…

Barracoon

By Zora Neale Hurston

History

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was the only person alive to tell the story of…

Atlas of AI

By Kate Crawford

General Nonfiction

AI is both human-dependent and material. AI systems are not autonomous, rational, and incapable of perceiving anything without being computationally trained with large data sets. . The funding and optimization methods for AI will be biased and will be designed…

Asian American Histories of the United States (ReVisioning History Book 7)

By Catherine Ceniza Choy

General Nonfiction

An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation…