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Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
$39.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies | Series: Pelican Bks.
Feminism's origins have often been framed around a limited cast of mostly white and educated foremothers, but the truth is that feminism has been and continues to be a global movement. For centuries, women from all walks of life have been mobilizing for gender justice. As the last decade has reminded ev ...Show more
Government of No-One by Anon; Ruth Kinna
$39.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pelican Bks.
A magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial political movements Anarchism routinely gets a bad press. It's usually seen as meaning chaos and disorder -- or even nothing at all. And yet, from Occupy Wall Street to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber, this philosop ...Show more
Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything by Graham Harman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Pelican Bks.
What is reality, really? Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive? How does this change the way we understand the world? We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as ...Show more
Our Universe - An Astronomer's Guide by Jo Dunkley
$49.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Pelican Bks.
For many years now, we have known the story of the Solar System, and the Earth's place in it. We have mapped out the stars in the night sky, and have known that we live in a disk of stars that makes up the Milky Way galaxy. But, in the past few decades, huge steps have been taken in the field of astrono ...Show more
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Pelican Bks.
We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are cordoned off for private events and our national art galleries are sponsored by banks and ...Show more
The Art of Statistics by Spiegelhalter David
$39.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pelican Bks.
Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalised, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statis ...Show more
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics | Series: Pelican Bks.
Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalized, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statis ...Show more
The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Pelican Bks.
Often associated with chaos or disorder, anarchy defies definition and routinely gets a bad press. And yet from Occupy to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber, this philosophical and political movement is as relevant as ever. Contrary to popular perception, different strands of anarchism--from indi ...Show more
The Road to Conscious Machines by Michael Wooldridge
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science | 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
The Road to Conscious Machines - The Story of AI by Michael Wooldridge
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Pelican Bks.
The ultimate dream of AI is to build machines that are conscious and self-aware. While this remains a remote possibility, rapid progress in AI is transforming our world. Yet the public debate is still largely centred on unlikely prospects, from sentient machines to dystopian robot takeovers.Michael Wool ...Show more
Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pelican Bks.
How does anthropology help us understand who we are? What can it tell us about culture, from Melanesia to the City of London? Why does it matter? For well over one hundred years, social and cultural anthropologists have traversed the world from urban Zimbabwe to suburban England, Beijing to Barcelona, u ...Show more
This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
$11.25 AUD
$45.00 (75% off)
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling | Series: Pelican Bks.
'I admire the freshness and attack of her writing, the passion and curiosity that light up the page. The book does something very important - it makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other ...Show more