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Girl decoded : a scientist's quest to reclaim our humanity by bringing emotional intelligence to technology / by El Kaliouby, Rana,author.; Colman, Carol,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling-to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another. Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim woman in charge in a field that is still overwhelmingly white and male. Growing up in Egypt and Kuwait, el Kaliouby was raised by a strict father who valued tradition-yet also had high expectations for his daughters-and a mother who was one of the first female computer programmers in the Middle East. Even before el Kaliouby broke ground as a scientist, she broke the rules of what it meant to be an obedient daughter and, later, an obedient wife to pursue her own daring dream. After earning her PhD at Cambridge, el Kaliouby, now the divorced mother of two, moved to America to pursue her mission to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us. The majority of our communication is conveyed through nonverbal cues: facial expressions, tone of voice, body language. But that communication is lost when we interact with others through our smartphones and devices. The result is an emotion-blind digital universe that impairs the very intelligence and capabilities-including empathy-that distinguish human beings from our machines. To combat our fundamental loss of emotional intelligence online, she cofounded Affectiva, the pioneer in the new field of Emotion AI, allowing our technology to understand humans the way we understand one another. Girl Decoded chronicles el Kaliouby's journey from being a "nice Egyptian girl" to becoming a woman, carving her own path as she revolutionizes technology. But decoding herself-learning to express and act on her own emotions-would prove to be the biggest challenge of all"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; El Kaliouby, Rana.; Women computer scientists; Women scientists; Egyptian American women; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence;
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American girls : one woman's journey into the Islamic state and her sister's fight to bring her home / by Roy, Jessica,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The Sally sisters, raised in a rural Jehovah's Witness community in Arkansas, spent their teens and twenties moving between cities and towns in the South and Midwest, working difficult and poorly-paid jobs and falling in and out of relationships. Caught in an eternal sibling rivalry-where Lori, younger by a year, protected bold, outgoing, reckless Sam-the two women eventually married a pair of brothers and settled down in Elkhart, Indiana, just around the corner from each other. And it was there that their lives totally and violently diverged. Today, Sam is in federal custody, where she will remain for the next six years after pleading guilty to Financing Terrorism. In July of 2018, she and her children were plucked from a Kurdish refugee camp in Syria, where she landed after spending two years in Raqqa, shielding her children from airstrikes as her husband fought for ISIS. Sam's oldest son appeared in several Islamic State propaganda videos, and she participated in ISIS's practice of enslaving Yazidi women and children. Sam says her husband coerced her to move to Raqqa, but Lori-who quit her job and worked tirelessly to get Sam out of Syria-isn't so sure. American Girls combines an in-depth examination of Sam and Lori's lives with on-the-ground reporting from Syria and Iraq, providing readers with a rare glimpse into the world of American women who join ISIS. Interweaving deeply reported narrative drama with expert analysis, the book explores how the structures of subjugation and abuse experienced at home by women in the U.S. like Sam and Lori are the same structures that enable the rise of patriarchal societies like ISIS. Fascinating, resonant, and moving, American Girls is an unforgettable journey -from small-town Arkansas to Raqqa, from domestic abuse to a militant terrorist organization-all through the story of two close, complicated sisters"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; IS (Organization); Radicalization; Terrorist organizations; Women radicals;
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The perfect girl / by Macmillan, Gilly,author.;
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Mothers; Genius; Musicians; Teenage girls; Detective and mystery stories;
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The forever girl / by McCall Smith, Alexander,1948-author.;
Subjects: Humorous stories.; Love stories.; Families;
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Dead girl running / by Dodd, Christina,author.;
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Coasts; Murder; Amnesia;
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The broken girls / by St. James, Simone,author.;
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Ghost stories.; Murder; Boarding schools;
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The forgotten girls / by Blædel, Sara.; Blædel, Sara.Glemte piger.English.; Golly, Signe Rod,translator.;
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Detectives; Missing persons; Murder; Policewomen;
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The flight girls / by Salazar, Noelle,author.;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.); Women air pilots; Pilots; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Female friendship; Interpersonal relationships; Man-woman relationships;
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The lost girls / by Brennan, Allison.;
FBI agent Lucy Kincaid and her mentor, Special Agent Noah Armstrong, investigate a black market baby ring with ties to human trafficking, and Lucy's fiancé faces a difficult choice when the son he never knew he had goes missing.LSC
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Kincaid, Lucy (Fictitious character); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Missing children; Human trafficking;
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Little girl gone / by Schmitt, Gerry,author.;
In the first 'Afton Tangler' thriller, a baby is abducted from her home after her teenage babysitter is violently assaulted. Tangler, family liaison officer with the Minneapolis P.D., begins to suspect that this is not an isolated case. Whoever did this has taken babies before - and if Afton doesn't solve this crime soon, more children are sure to go missing.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Kidnapping; Police;
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