The Artificial Intelligence Contagion - Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth and the Social Order? by David Barnhizer; Daniel Barnhizer
60.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Artificial Intelligence Contagion examines the ominous social impact of as many as half the world's workers in the US, EU, China and Japan being replaced by AI/Robotics within the next 30 years. Jobs are already being lost across the spectrum, from the most intellectual to basic areas of services an ...Show more
Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, and Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum
29.05 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an injury without anger. To not feel anger in those c ...Show more
The Dostoevsky Effect - Problem Gambling and the Origins of Addiction by Lorne Tepperman; Patrizia Albanese; Sasha Stark; Nadine Zahlan
69.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
When writing his novella The Gambler in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky remained true to the old adage "write what you know." Critically acclaimed for its insight into the mind of a gambling addict, the book offers a fascinating glimpse into Dostoevsky's personal struggle with gambling. Themanuscript, in fact, ...Show more
Uncontained - Digital Disconnection and the Experience of Time by Robert Hassan
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Author Robert Hassan believes that we are 'trapped in a digital prison of constant distraction', and that the time we spend on screens is draining more from us than hours in the day. With the increasing amount of attention that digital devices demand, diminishing our capacity for reflection, there is le ...Show more
Crack - Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed by David Farber
36.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcer ...Show more
The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert
45.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Memoir. Cultural Criticism. In THE WORD PRETTY Elisa Gabbert brings together humor and observational intelligence to create a roving and curious series of lyrical essays on writing, reading, and living. Combining elements of criticism, meditation, and personal essay ...Show more
Incerto Box Set by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
80.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don't understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumes - Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, a ...Show more
A Map Is Only One Story - Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Search for Belonging by Nicole Chung (Editor); Mensah Demary (Editor)
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in A Map Is Only One Story highlight the human side of immigration policies ...Show more
Butterfly Politics - Changing the World for Women, with a New Preface by Catharine A. Mackinnon
55.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Under certain conditions, the right small simple actions can produce large and complex "butterfly effects," as the #MeToo movement has shown. Thirty years after Catharine A. MacKinnon won the U.S. Supreme Court case establishing sexual harassment in law, this t ...Show more
Developing Positive Classroom Environments by Saggers Beth
69.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The middle years of learning are increasingly recognised as one of the most challenging yet opportune periods for growth and development. Based on the Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) framework, this book will equip educators with the appropriate knowledge, skills and strategies to support learners in m ...Show more
Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream 1875-1900 by Renato Miracco; Philip Kennicott (Introduction by)
45.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream, leading Wilde author Renato Miracco has combined written research with previously unseen visual iconographic material - from Wilde's earliest heady trips to Italy as an Oxford student to his final days in France and Italy in 1900 after his incarceration in Reading Gaol, a ...Show more
What Teachers Make - In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World by Taylor Mali
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In praise of the greatest job in the world... The right book at the right time: an impassioned defense of teachers and why we need them now more than ever. Teacher turned teacher's advocate Taylor Mali inspired millions with his original poem "What Teachers Make," a passionate and unforgettable response ...Show more