Einstein's Unfinished Revolution by Lee Smolin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Human beings, says Lee Smolin, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and fantasy, confusing our representations of the world with the world itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in quantum physics, which forms the basis for our understanding of everything from elementary partic ...Show more
Clear Bright Future - A Radical Defence of the Human Being by Paul Mason
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of Postcapitalism How do we preserve what makes us human in an age of uncertainty? Are we now just consumers shaped by market forces? A sequence of DNA? A collection of base instincts? Or will we so ...Show more
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The extraordinary #1 bestseller - a word-of-mouth literary phenomenon 'Do not read this book in public: it will make you cry' Anne Enright 'Every line pulses with the pain and joy and complexity of an extraordinary life' Mark O'Connell 'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disr ...Show more
On Us by Mark Scott
$15.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
How do we step outside our own echo chamber to understand others? What are we losing when we share fewer and fewer national moments? The new media is enabling despots and disempowering democracy. So when every opinion seems to matter equally, On Usoffers a few more on choice in a concentrated media worl ...Show more
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - The Fight for the Soul of Our Information Civilization by Shoshana Zuboff
$60.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. Shoshana Zuboff's interdisciplinary breadth and depth enable her to ...Show more
Power and Humility - Reflections on the Future of Monitory Democracy by John Keane
$45.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Democracy urgently needs re-imagining if it is to address the dangers and opportunities posed by current global realities, argues leading political thinker John Keane. He offers an imaginative, radically new interpretation of the twenty-first-century fate of democracy. The book shows why the current lit ...Show more
How Political Correctness is Destroying Australia by Kevin Donnelly
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
The Tyranny of Silence by Flemming Rose
$45.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (Viby, Denmark) published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed nine years ago, Denmark found itself at the center of a global battle about the freedom of speech. The paper's culture editor, Flemming Rose, defended the decision to print the 12 drawings, and he qu ...Show more
The Wizard and the Prophet - Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet by Charles C. Mann
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet'Does the earth's finite carrying capacity mean economic growth has to stop? That momentous question is the subject of Charles Mann's brilliant book.' Wall Street JournalIn forty years, the population of the Earth wil ...Show more
The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view gi ...Show more
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal; Joshua Gans; Avi Goldfarb
$45.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
"What does AI mean for your business? Read this book to find out." (Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google) Artificial intelligence does the seemingly impossible, magically bringing machines to life - driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that AI will bring can be ...Show more
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of our Planet by Charles C. Mann
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493 - an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first cen ...Show more