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A dialogue between Associate Professor Loh Chin Ee & Professor Naomi S. Baron, on the book 'Reader Bot: What Happens Whe...
07/10/2026

A dialogue between Associate Professor Loh Chin Ee & Professor Naomi S. Baron, on the book 'Reader Bot: What Happens When AI Reads and Why It Matters'.

📍In-Store Event
Date: Saturday, 31 October 2026
Time: 4.30 pm
Venue: Wardah Books, 58 Bussorah Street, Level 2 (Stairs only).

Tickets for this event are $5 each. The $5 value may be used as credit against book purchases, but only on the day of the event.

🎟 Purchase ticket: tinyurl.com/wb-nsb26

📝About the Author
Naomi S. Baron is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at American University in Washington, DC. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, and Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. For more than thirty years she has been studying the effects of technology on language, including the ways we speak, read, write, and think.

📗 About the Book
What happens to human reading when AI bots can do it for us? Explosive developments in artificial intelligence have awed everyday users with the technology's ability to draw, do computer coding, and especially to write. Those AI-generated essays and poems, legal briefs and responses to requests for information are all visible evidence of large language models at work. What we don't see is the critical prior step: before it can write, AI needs to read.

While AI's written outcomes are remarkably similar to what a diligent student, lawyer, or researcher might produce, AI doesn't read the way that humans do. Now that AI is proving an adept reader, what happens to our own reading skills and motivations—especially at a time when both voluntary and school reading are increasingly on the decline? We have learned that when we let chatbots write for us, there are pros and cons to handing over our virtual pens. It's critical that we also think through the consequences of relinquishing reading—a deeply human activity—to bots.

What do we stand to gain and lose when we let AI read for us? Tracing the intersecting trajectories of AI and reading, Reader Bot tackles this vital question, revealing why we must be thoughtful about how we welcome AI-as-reader into our lives.

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📚 Explore 3: On Racism 📚
1️⃣ [NEW] Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
2️⃣ Censure of Wealth and Miserliness, Book 27 of Ihya ulum al-din
3️⃣ The Barakah Effect: More With Less

🎉 Top 10: 28Sep to 04 Oct 2026 🎉---1) Eight Doors to Jannah2) The Barakah Effect: More With Less3) Mind the Gap4) 1000 Y...
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🎉 Top 10: 28Sep to 04 Oct 2026 🎉
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1) Eight Doors to Jannah
2) The Barakah Effect: More With Less
3) Mind the Gap
4) 1000 Years of Sejarah Melayu in Singapore
5) The Warung Between Worlds
6) Meet Me at the Bookstore
7) Understanding the Signs of the End Times
8) Why Me? Understanding One’s Worldly Fate
9) Unease: Life in Singapore Families
10) Basma Bear Loves Bismillah

💸 On Wealth 💸1️⃣ Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme WealthIn this astonishing, eye-opening intervention, world-lead...
04/10/2026

💸 On Wealth 💸
1️⃣ Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
In this astonishing, eye-opening intervention, world-leading philosopher and economist Ingrid Robeyns exposes the true extent of our wealth problem, which has spent the past fifty years silently spiralling out of control. In moral, political, economic, social, environmental and psychological terms, she shows, extreme wealth is not only unjustifiable but harmful to us all - the rich included.

2️⃣ Censure of Wealth and Miserliness, Book 27 of Ihya ulum al-din
al-Ghazali explains the subtle connection between one’s inner relationship with wealth and one’s outward actions and lifestyle. He roots his treatment of the subject in the Quranic passages, hadith, and traditional accounts which relate to wealth and the love of it. He covers such topics as the proper uses of wealth according to the obligations of both the law and social graces as well as the vices of miserliness, greed, covetousness, and avarice.

3️⃣ Al-Ghazali on Poverty and Abstinence
Taking as his example the Prophet’s love for the poor, al-Ghazali explains that poverty is not simply an accidental state of destitution that might befall anyone but rather an inner acceptance of the Will of God and a form of abstinence for His sake. Thus, the life of poverty described by al-Ghazali refers to what every devoted follower of the Prophet is meant to adopt.

4️⃣ What Money Can’t Buy
In recent decades, market values have impinged on almost every aspect of life - medicine, education, government, law, even family life. We have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In What Money Can't Buy Michael Sandel asks: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? And how do we protect the things that really matter?

🍉 Palestine, as the World Watches 🍉1️⃣ One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This PBWinner of the National Boo...
03/10/2026

🍉 Palestine, as the World Watches 🍉
1️⃣ One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This PB
Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction | Winner of the Palestine Book Awards | Omar El Akkad won awards for his journalism and his fiction. But now, watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he comes to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. This powerful book is a chronicle of Omar's painful realisation, a moral grappling with what it means - as a citizen, as a father - to carve out some sense of possibility during these devastating times.

2️⃣ Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide
Highlighting the linguistic moves and framing devices at play and surfacing stories Western media decided not to report, Rad maps with devastating clarity mainstream media's instrumental role in sanitizing, white-washing, and downplaying a human rights crisis.

3️⃣ No Land to Stand On
'Are you Mahmoud Khalil?' With this question, ICE took the Palestinian student and US legal resident from his pregnant wife and home in New York City, transported him across the country and locked him up in a Louisiana detention camp under threat of deportation. His 'crime': exercising his right to free speech at Columbia University, where he emerged as a leading voice against the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. No Land to Stand On is his indelible account of becoming the target of a lawless regime shredding basic rights.

💜 On Parenting 💜1️⃣ Heart to Heart: A Fatherhood Guide from Surah LuqmanExplores the critical role of fatherhood, drawin...
03/10/2026

💜 On Parenting 💜
1️⃣ Heart to Heart: A Fatherhood Guide from Surah Luqman
Explores the critical role of fatherhood, drawing deeply from the timeless wisdom of the Qur’an, particularly the profound parenting insights found in Surah Luqman. This book is both a spiritual and practical guide, calling fathers to embrace their God-given responsibility with intentionality, emotional intelligence, and wisdom. It highlights how responsible fatherhood serves as the driving force behind the moral and psychological development of the next generation.

2️⃣ Islamic Guide to Parenting: Nurturing Character, Spirituality & Resilience
Through self-reflective exercises, assessment tools, and evidence-based strategies, this guide equips you with the tools needed to navigate the complexities of raising Muslim children in the modern age. By the end of this journey, you’ll feel confident, prepared, and inspired to create a nurturing home environment that unlocks your child’s full potential, helping them grow into resilient, knowledgeable, and spiritually grounded individuals.

3️⃣ The Integrity of the Family & the Role of Parents
This short text from Habib 'Umar bin Hafiz gives a concise overview of the main responsibilities of parents towards their children, and also addresses many of the unique challenges and concerns faced by parents today, both in the the traditional Islamic world and especially in the West.

4️⃣ Unease: Life in Singapore Families
Sociologist and bestselling author Teo You Yenn turns her eyes to the contours and rhythms of life inside families, exploring how ‘kiasu’ parents are made and investigating the ways in which inequality marks life in contemporary Singapore. Drawing from in-depth interviews with parents from all walks of life, Unease examines how social structures, individual strategies and common practices come to produce Singaporean ‘cultures’ of doing family.

📚On Bookshops 📚1️⃣ The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling From the Dawn of Print to the 21st CenturyExplores the evoluti...
02/10/2026

📚On Bookshops 📚
1️⃣ The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling From the Dawn of Print to the 21st Century
Explores the evolution of bookselling from the cramped collectors' shops frequented by Samuel Pepys to the radical feminist bookshops of the 70s, the rise of monolithic chains and the new world of online selling. Connecting stories and lives that span centuries, countries and continents, The Bookshop brings us into beloved bookshops of today and looks forward to the possible experience of booksellers of tomorrow.

2️⃣ In Praise of Good Bookstores
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch—the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world—pays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. He considers how qualities like space, time, abundance, and community find expression in a good bookstore. Along the way, he also predicts—perhaps audaciously—a future in which the bookstore not only endures, but realizes its highest aspirations.

3️⃣ How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling
As bastions of culture, anchors of local retail districts, community gathering places, and the sources of new ideas, inspiration, and delight, bookstores have the capacity to save the world. Therefore, we need to protect them and the critical roles they fill in our communities. Danny Caine makes a compelling case for the power of small, local businesses in this thoughtful examination of the dynamic world of bookstores.

4️⃣ The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
Evan Friss’s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many.

🤩 New For Children 🤩1️⃣ The Final SermonOn the plain of Arafat, under the desert sun, thousands of people were waiting f...
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🤩 New For Children 🤩
1️⃣ The Final Sermon
On the plain of Arafat, under the desert sun, thousands of people were waiting for a single voice. For little Lulu, it was just another crowded day of selling camel’s milk. Until a voice rose, drifting through the crowd, touching hearts: “You are all brothers!" Step into the crowd alongside Lulu, and hear the greatest message of love and brotherhood.

2️⃣ Allah Hears You and Me
An interactive sound book that helps little ones learn one simple, powerful truth: Allah hears everything. From moos and neighs to clucks and quacks, every page gives curious little hands something to explore. Turn everyday play into meaningful moments that help introduce your little one to Allah from an early age.

3️⃣ My First Duas Board Book Set
My First Duas is a set of four beautifully illustrated Islamic books that introduces young children to simple, heartfelt duas for their mom, dad, family, and themselves.
Through gentle and relatable duas, children learn to ask Allah to care for their loved ones, bring happiness and mercy into their lives, accept their duas, and bless them with goodness.

4️⃣ Let’s Pray - The Fun Salah Game
There's more than one way to learn about Salah, and even if your child knows how to pray, getting them to engage with the prayer is a life-long journey. Making that journey fun, is what Let's Pray is all about. Covers all aspects of the prayer, from the steps of wudu, prayer actions, prayer words, and prayer times.

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🕊Explore 3: On Jalal ad-Din Rumi's Poetry 🕊
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🎉 Top 10: 21 Sep to 27 Sep 2026 🎉---1) Mind the Gap2) Understanding the Signs of the End Times3) Eight Doors to Jannah4)...
28/09/2026

🎉 Top 10: 21 Sep to 27 Sep 2026 🎉
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1) Mind the Gap
2) Understanding the Signs of the End Times
3) Eight Doors to Jannah
4) A Light of Her Own: Muslim Womanhood as a Path to Allah
5) Alhamdulillah Saves the Day
6) Soothing Du’as for Every Difficult Emotion
7) 1000 Years of Sejarah Melayu in Singapore.
8) Pearls from the Diwan of Imam al-Haddad
9) The Power of Du’a
10) The Warung Between Worlds

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58 Bussorah Street
Singapore
199542

Opening Hours

Monday 10:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 10:00 - 18:00
Thursday 10:00 - 18:00
Friday 10:00 - 21:00
Saturday 10:00 - 21:00
Sunday 10:00 - 18:00

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