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Book Reviews

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Africa to the Middle East to North America
BY ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK to Europe and Asia, and it provides unique
For the past decade, Arthur Goldstuck perspectives on generative AI and practical
has had a front-row seat to witness the advice for using it.
remarkable rise of AI across all sectors It is useful for consumers, academics,
of business and society. As generative AI professionals and anyone in business
becomes a household phrase and sparks who wants to get up to speed quickly and
hopes and fears of machines augmenting practically. It also entertains and inspires
or replacing human beings, this guide offers anyone curious about AI or already engaged
an invaluable overview of AI’s past, present, in its possibilities.
and future. Do you need to understand or refine
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI is aimed prompting? You’re in the right place. Do you
at beginners and those who consider need to prepare for AI’s coming impact on
themselves experienced or skilled at using health, travel, education, and business? This
AI. It draws on many years of direct access to is the book for you.
global and regional leaders in using AI, from Price: R360.00

Worthy The Women
BY JADA PINKETT SMITH BY KRISTIN HANNAH
A gripping, painfully The Women is a story of
honest, and ultimately devastating loss and epic
inspirational memoir love.
from global superstar It would be the journey
and creator of the Red of a lifetime. ‘Women can
Table Talk series Jada be heroes, too.’ When
Pinkett Smith. Smith twenty-year-old nursing
recounts her story in an student Frances “Frankie”
intimate conversation McGrath hears these
with readers in a media- unexpected words, it is a
driven landscape that revelation.
crafts narratives for our Raised on California’s
celebrities. idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative
Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing
as a woman and discovering that a strong sense of self is every and being a good girl.
woman’s right and saving grace. An impactful and rare memoir But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly
that engages and educates, Worthy is a courageous love song imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships
to self, family, life, and the world. out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses
From an unconventional upbringing in Baltimore to an Corps and follows his path.
unconventional marriage to one of the most famous men in As green and inexperienced as the young men sent to
the world, adhering to the status quo has never been a familiar Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and
road for Jada Pinkett Smith. destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of
In Worthy, Smith strips herself of all the labels and stories coming home to a changed America.
crafted by others and reclaims her narrative with radical self- Frankie will also discover the true value of female friendship
love. Worthy teaches us who Jada is and how to embrace our and the heartbreak love can cause.
most authentic, loveable souls. Price: R375.00
Price: R390.00

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