Collusion - How Central Bankers Rigged the World by Nomi Prins
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Central banks and institutions like the IMF and the World Bank are overstepping the boundaries of their mandates by using the flow of money to control global markets and dictate economic policy both at the domestic and global level. These public institutions have become so dependent on funding from priv ...Show more
Can We All Be Feminists? - Seventeen Writers on Intersectionality, Identity and Finding the Right Way Forward for Feminism by June Eric-Udorie
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
"The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read" (Bustle), edited by a remarkable and inspiring twenty-year-old activist who the BBC named one of 100 "inspirational and influential women" of 2016. 'Not just a key read but a mandatory one' Stylist September Top Ten Books Why is it difficult fo ...Show more
Be the Change: A Toolkit for the Activist in You by Gina Martin
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
BE THE CHANGE is an essential handbook for the modern activist, whether your campaign is big or small, local or global... or somewhere in between. Without any legal or political experience, I changed the law and made upskirting illegal in eighteen months. But this book is not about changing the law. I ...Show more
The Geography of Thought - How Asians and Westerners Think Differently - and Why by Richard E. Nisbett
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.' -Malcolm Gladwell "One of the world's leading thinkers" Daily Telegraph When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on ...Show more
The People's Republic of Wal-Mart - How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism by Leigh Phillips; Michal Rozworski
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. T ...Show more
The Road to Conscious Machines by Michael Wooldridge
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Pelican Bks.
In this mythbusting guide to AI past and present, one of the world's leading researchers shows why our fears for the future are misplaced The ultimate dream of artificial intelligence is to build machines that are like us: conscious and self-aware. While this remains a remote possibility, rapid progres ...Show more
Stonewall - The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising That Changed America by Martin Duberman
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first Gay Rights March, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. "Martin Duberman is a national treasure."--Masha Gessen, The New Yorker On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided by police ...Show more
Because Internet - Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
39.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the ...Show more
The Russia Anxiety - And How History Can Resolve It by Mark B. Smith
55.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it? Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunning, malevolence and bruta ...Show more
What We Really Do All Day by Jonathan Gershuny and Oriel Sullivan
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Pelican Bks.
Are we spending more time at work than we would have 50 years ago? Are we sleeping less? How has the Internet affected the way we use our spare time? Everything we do happens in time and it feels like our lives are busier than ever before. Yet a detailed look at our daily activities reveals some surpris ...Show more
Xi Jinping - The Backlash by Richard McGregor
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Pengun Special
Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem de ...Show more
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything by David Christian
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Australian
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers ...Show more