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Book Reviews

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI to Europe and Asia, and it provides unique
By Arthur Goldstuck perspectives on generative AI and practical
For the past decade, Arthur Goldstuck advice for using it.
has had a front-row seat to witness the
remarkable rise of AI across all sectors of It is useful for consumers, academics,
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 or practically. It also entertains and inspires
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
Africa to the Middle East to North America 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
and creator of the Red It would be the journey
Table Talk series Jada of a lifetime. ‘Women can
Pinkett Smith. Smith be heroes, too.’ When
recounts her story in an twenty-year-old nursing
intimate conversation student Frances “Frankie”
with readers in a media- McGrath hears these
driven landscape that unexpected words, it is a
crafts narratives for our revelation.
celebrities.
Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered
Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself
power as a woman and discovering that a strong sense of on doing the right thing and being a good girl.
self is every woman’s right and saving grace. An impactful
and rare memoir that engages and educates, Worthy is a But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly
courageous love song to self, family, life, and the world. imagines a different path for her life. When her brother
ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the
From an unconventional upbringing in Baltimore to an Army Nurses Corps and follows his path.
unconventional marriage to one of the most famous men
in the world, adhering to the status quo has never been a As green and inexperienced as the young men sent to
familiar road for Jada Pinkett Smith. Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and
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-love. Worthy teaches us who Jada is and how to Frankie will also discover the true value of female
embrace our most authentic, loveable souls. friendship and the heartbreak love can cause.
Price: R390.00 Price: R375.00

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