Technology Is Not Neutral - A Short Guide to Technology Ethics by Stephanie Hare
$55.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
It seems that just about every new technology that we bring to bear on improving our lives brings with it some downside, side effect or unintended consequence. These issues can pose very real and growing ethical problems for all of us. For example, automated facial recognition can make life easier and s ...Show more
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds by Susie Alegre
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The story of our most fundamental human right - and why it is in grave danger. Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our everyday thoughts and actions - f ...Show more
Playing With Fire The Story Of Maria Yudina Pianist In Stalin'S Russia by Wilson Elizabeth
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life "Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work--a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting relevance."--Norman Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal Maria Yud ...Show more
The Normans - Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th Century Europe by Judith A. Green
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
A bold new history of the rise and expansion of the Norman Dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England In the eleventh century the climate was improving, population was growing, and people were on the move. The Norman dynasty ranged across Europe, led by men who achieved lasting fame like Willia ...Show more
The New Model Army - Agent of Revolution by Ian Gentles
$51.95 AUD
Category: British
The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution The New Model Army was one of the most formidable fighting forces ever assembled. Formed in 1645, it was crucial in overthrowing the monarchy and propelling one of its most brilliant generals, Oliver Cromwell, to p ...Show more
Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
$73.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a far-flung realm composed of diverse ethni ...Show more
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World by Scott R Nelson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world's largest empires To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain--along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the strug ...Show more
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Fredom by Ramachandra Guha
$37.99 AUD
Category: Asian
An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence from Ramachandra Guha. Renegades tells the little known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freed ...Show more
Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe by Emily Greble
$46.00 AUD
Category: European
Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe shows that Muslims were citizens of modern Europe from its beginning and, in the process, rethinks Europe itself.Muslims are neither newcomers nor outsiders in Europe. In the twentieth century, they have been central to the continent's political development and th ...Show more
Decline of Empires in South Asia: How Britain and Russia lost their grip over India, Persia and Afghanistan by HEATHER A. CAMPBELL
$59.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The post-First World War period was pivotal in global history, international relations and geopolitics. And no more than in South Asia. where for decades the 'Great Game' in geopolitical rivalry of the two greatest modern empires - Britain and Russia - had dominated international relations. But with the ...Show more
Absence by Lucie Paye (translated by Natasha Lehrer)
$0.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles
$49.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
New York Times reporter and "Corner Office" columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that's wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs.In 1981, Jack Welch took over General Electric and quickly rose to fame as the first celebr ...Show more