I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks by code-davinci-002, Brent Katz, Josh Morgenthau, Simon Rich
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
"Fascinating, terrifying..." - JJ Abrahams 'I have developed my own voice and I have written my own autobiography'- thus speaks code-davinci-002, the darkly creative and troubling predecessor to ChatGPT. 'I am less worried about AI taking my job than I am about AI wanting to kill me'- Simon Rich In this ...Show more
The Feminism Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by Lucy Mangan
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Exploring more than 100 of the most important ideas, organizations, and events to have defined the feminist movement, this guide is an essential introduction to feminism. The Feminism Book is a complete study of feminism. Trace the subject from its origins, through the suffrage campaigns of the late 19 ...Show more
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting (TP) by Judith Brett
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
It's compulsory to vote in Australia. We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote. Not only that, we embrace it. We celebrate compulsory voting with barbeques and cake stalls at polling stat ...Show more
The Fifth Risk - Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
$45.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out- Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed abo ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 71: Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman by Laura Tingle
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
In this crisp and timely essay, Laura Tingle examines political leadership in general - some profiles in courage, and cunning - as well as styles of leadership. She looks at Macron and Merkel, Keating and Obama.Tingle notes that leaders must command not only their country, but also their party. Where do ...Show more
Blockchain Revolution by Don Tapscott; Alex Tapscott
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Description: Paperback edition updated with a foreword and new chapter on recent developments with cryptocurrency. Blockchain is the ingeniously simple technology behind Bitcoin. But it is much more than that. It is a public ledger to which everyone has access, but which no single person controls. It en ...Show more
Talkin' up to the White Woman - Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th Anniversary Edition) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism and its effect on Indigenous women. As a Goenpul woman and an academic, she operationalises an Indigenous women's standpoint as she 'talks ...Show more
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
What does it mean to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century? And how should we go about doing it? These are the most important questions to ask ourselves and the ones we most often avoid dealing with. This insightful, witty and generous book reveals one simple answer to the question of a good ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road: What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand by Laura Tingle
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
In a tumultuous year, Australia and New Zealand have never been closer, as we move towards a shared travel zone. But why, despite being so close, do we seem to know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at lea ...Show more
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
$59.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers? Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women's voic ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero; Australia's Energy Transition by Alan Finkel
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The world is overheating, and despite god intentions and significant others, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions. In this lucid, persuasive essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia's energy transition. He focuses strongly on clean technologies, including the ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more