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Kairos is a 2021 novel by German author Jenny Erpenbeck.It received Germany's Uwe Johnson Prize in 2022. [1] The English translation, by Michael Hofmann, published in the U.S. by New Directions and in the U.K. by Granta Books, was shortlisted for the U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2023 [2] and won the International Booker Prize in 2024.
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
Kairos, the framework in which the stories of the Murry and O'Keefe families take place, was defined as "real time, pure numbers with no measurement", and often includes such elements as time travel, fantasy and religious content in a struggle between good and evil. A third category of characters, called by L'Engle "those who cross and connect ...
Google said by committing to a so-called order book framework with Kairos, instead of buying one reactor at a time, it is sending a demand signal to the market and making a long-term investment to ...
She later said, "the end of the system that I knew, that I grew up in — this made me write.” [6] She is author of narrative prose and plays: her debut novella in 1999, Geschichte vom alten Kind (The Old Child); in 2001, her collection of stories Tand (Trinkets); in 2004, the novella Wörterbuch (The Book of Words); and in 2008, the novel ...
The book received a variety of reviews. The book was well covered in The New York Times [1] and given a warm reception on The Colbert Report. [2] Genevieve Fox wrote in The Telegraph, "If the humanists are in the ascendant, then Grayling's self-help book for the spiritually rudderless will be snapped up", [3] while Christopher Hart, reviewing it in the Sunday Times, concluded that: "Compared ...
On Friday morning, Google announced a $75 million grant in an upskilling initiative called the AI Opportunity Fund. The fund—meted out through Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm ...
The book would sell 170,000 copies [5] and receive translation into five languages. [1] The Nearings gave their royalties to their Social Science Institute. [5] A 1979 documentary film by the same name showed the Nearings tending to their homestead and discussing their philosophy. [6] A follow-up book, Continuing the Good Life, was also ...