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If Then - How One Data Company Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
$33.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simu ...Show more
If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
$23.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Radio 4's Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award'The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious, scathing and sobering - what you might get if you cr ...Show more
The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022 by Jill Lepore
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.The past decade has marked a shift in America's trajectory. Jill Lepore, the acclaimed writer and New Yorker columnist, has been tracing its contested storylines in real time, beginning with the run-up to Donald Trump's electi ...Show more
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. Drawing from an astonishing trove of documents, including never-before-seen private papers, Harvard historian and New Yorkerstaff writer Jill Lepore reveals the fascinating fami ...Show more
The Story of America: Essays on Origins by Jill Lepore
$42.95 AUD
Category: Essays
In "The Story of America", Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories - from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over ...Show more
The Story of America: Essays on Origins by Jill Lepore
$36.95 AUD
Category: American
In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories - from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over t ...Show more
These Truths - A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
$62.95 AUD
Category: American
Written in elegiac prose, Lepore's groundbreaking investigation places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereign ...Show more
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
$29.95 AUD
Category: American
The challenge of retelling five hundred years of American history in a single volume has been so daunting that hardly any historian has attempted it in decades. When Jill Lepore's New York Times best-selling These Truths appeared in 2018, critics quickly hailed it as a classic--appealing not only to aca ...Show more
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