How AI Thinks - Harnessing the Electrifying Intelligence of Machines by Nigel Toon
$59.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in ways that are intuitive, or respond to questions as a human might. All that has changed, dram ...Show more
How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women by Jennifer Robinson, Keina Yoshida
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
This book is about a movement. A movement made up of women and men around the world who are no longer afraid to speak out about violence, abuse, harassment, sexism, abuse of power and patriarchy. A movement which started with the courage of a number of women in the media and advertising industries and h ...Show more
How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A guide to navigating modern media and staying sane in a world that does not turn off. Navigating the onslaught of media is overwhelming, to say the least. We are so used to living in a media-saturated world that we are numb to the onslaught of news, images, and posts that batter us daily. As we scrol ...Show more
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking by Michael Bhaskar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Why has the flow of big, world-changing ideas slowed down? A provocative look at what happens next at the frontiers of human knowledge.The history of humanity is the history of big ideas that expand our frontiers--from the wheel to space flight, cave painting to the massively multiplayer game, monotheis ...Show more
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It by Jake Wallis Simons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East security correspondent and Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. It analyses the often prejudiced coverage and intense scrutiny of Isra ...Show more
Keeping Them Honest: the case for a genuine national integrity commission and other vital democratic reforms by Stephen Charles QC AO Charles, Catherine Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A revealing and compelling case by Australia's foremost integrity advocate for a strong national body to expose political corruption, uphold accountability, and restore trust - and why the country needs it now. Over the last few years, instances of the federal government spending taxpayers' money to ga ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
Lads: A Guide to Respect and Consent - The antithesis of Andrew Tate by Alan Bissett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
This is a book about how to be the guy that everyone needs right now. In a world full of negative influences, LADS is a toolkit for teenage boys on respect and consent, helping them call out bad behaviour and giving them the confidence to be their best selves. Have you ever been in a situation where the ...Show more
Mind of the Nation: Universities in Australian Life by Michael Wesley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In this thought-provoking and timely examination, academic and writer Michael Wesley asks what Australians really think and how they feel about our universities, and where to next?In 1964, Donald Horne wrote in his classic The Lucky Country that 'in a sense - Australia does not have a mind. Intellectual ...Show more
Puff Piece by John Safran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death.The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world g ...Show more
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press, as Russian-born U.S. intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler reveals. Koffler details how Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a wide-ranging, multi-faceted campaign to retake his country’s role as a super-power ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more