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May 2025 new releases from Black Inc.
Out this month: The Shortest History of Scandinavia, Little World and The Shortest History of AI
'A superbly clear, learned and wide-ranging history of the five Nordic nations'—Andrew Scott, author of Northern Lights
'Josephine Rowe is a breathtakingly good writer.' —Michelle de Kretser
‘This history of AI in six simple ideas is so informative and easy to digest. Essential reading’—Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
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About the authors
Mart Kuldkepp is a professor and researcher of Estonian and Nordic history at University College London, where he specialises in the political history of the Baltic and Nordic regions in the twentieth century.
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Josephine Rowe is the author of three story collections and two novels, including A Loving, Faithful Animal, longlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin and selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She has twice been named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and her collection Here Until August was shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize. Rowe holds fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University, and the Dorothy and Lewis …
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Toby Walsh is one of the world's leading researchers in artificial intelligence. He is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales and chief scientist at its AI institute, UNSW.ai. He is the author of five books about AI, including Machines Behaving Badly, Faking It and, most recently, The Shortest History of AI. His forthcoming book is God AI.
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