You've Been Played by Adrian Hon
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation ? and what we can do about it.
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and No.1 international bestselling author of The World is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century. We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your children. You c ...Show more
Power Freedom and Grace by Deepak Chopra
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Deepak Chopra considers the mystery of our existence and its significance in our eternal quest for happiness. Who am I? Where did I come from? Where do I go when I die? Chopra draws upon the ancient philosophy of Vedanta and the findings of modern science to help us understand and experience our true n ...Show more
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins by Garry Kasparov; Mig Greengard (Contribution by)
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game. That moment was more than a centur ...Show more
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world's philosophical and animal-protection circles to their cores. Now, forty years later, Peter Singer's landmark work still looms large as a foundational and canonical text of animal advocacy. Arguing that al ...Show more
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con by Guy Lawson
32.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the wild search, by a colourful cast of rogues and schemers, for a 'secret market' beneath the financial market we all know.
A Point of View by Clive James
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: 16
21st century Britain: a point of view from our fiercest and funniest critic The BBC Radio 4 series A Point of View has been on the air since 2007. Clive James was one of the most popular presenters, and now, for the first time, his original pieces -- sixty in total -- and all-new postscripts are collect ...Show more
Made in China: Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy by Jasper Becker
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
What might COVID-19 mean for, and reveal about, China’s place in the world?The coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, home to the leading lab studying the SARS virus and bats. Was that pure coincidence? This book explores what we know, and still don’t know, about the origins of COVID-19, and how it was ...Show more
Emotional: The New Thinking about Feelings by Leonard Mlodinow
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
We've been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are every bit as important to our success as thinkingYou make hundreds of decisions every day, from what to eat for breakfast to how to influence people, and not one of them could ...Show more
Fair Food: Inspiring Stories of Ethical Living by Nick Rose
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Australia's food system is more than just broken: it's killing us. Now is the time to act, to make a difference - to change the world. The groundbreaking Fair Foodtells the new story of food: how food and farming in Australia are dramatically transforming at the grassroots level towards reconnection, t ...Show more
Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants by Jill Soloway
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The unforgettable collection of autobiographical essays from Jill Soloway, the creator and director of Transparent and Emmy-nominated writer for Six Feet Under. When Jill was just thirteen, she and her best friend donned the tightest satin pants they could find, poufed up their hair and squeezed into Ca ...Show more