The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions by Marek Kowalkiewicz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
An insider's guide to the invisible new economy that is reshaping our lives. Welcome to the economy of algorithms. It's here and it's growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with examples of impressive technology. Algorithms have been around for hundreds of years, but they have only recent ...Show more
Your Brain Is a Lump of Goo by Idan Ben-Barak
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A funny exploration of the most mysterious organ in the human body from the bestselling and award-winning author of Do Not Lick This Book. Hi, I'm your brain. Here are some things you should know about me: I'm about the size of a pineapple. I sit behind your eyes. I look like a big walnut (but gooey). I ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident. ...Show more
Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita
$65.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The collected writings of Raimond Gaita 'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sen ...Show more
Too Much of Life - Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); Robin Patterson (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life 'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and 1977, the internationally reno ...Show more
A Really Short Journey Through the Body: An illustrated edition of the bestselling book about our incredible anatomy by Bill Bryson
$44.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A funny and fascinating, fully illustrated new edition for children, of the bestselling book about everything inside our body, from legendary author Bill Bryson. We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. Want to know why th ...Show more
Scars and Stripes - An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy; Nick Palmisciano
$49.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
From decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to embrace failure and weather storms, in order to unlock the strongest version of yourself. Tim Kennedy has a problem; he only feels alive right before h ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 by Donna Lu (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
The annual collection — now in its thirteenth year — celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Should we alter animals’ DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth’s deep past? How is the world’s most expensive — and explosive — substance ma ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSIf a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to a ...Show more
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial Artificially intelligent machines are set to play an increasingly important role in our lives. They will take the dirty tasks of life off our hands, as well as the dull, the difficult and the dangerous - which is a good thing. ...Show more
The A – Z of Who I Could Be: 26 Athletes That Every Little Kid [and Big Adult] Should Know by Chloe Dalton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A wonderfully inspirational and celebratory picture book showcasing 26 amazing female and non-binary Australian athletes across 26 different sports - perfect for sporty kids, future sports stars and fans of the Rebel Girls books. Created by elite athlete and founder of The [Female] Athlete Project, Chl ...Show more
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The world-famous #1 bestselling economist explains how capitalism has been usurped by a technologically enhanced form of feudalism. No one noticed when capitalism died. Perhaps we were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, or the rise of populism, or the demise of the planet - or all of th ...Show more