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Islam: The Essentials by Tariq Ramadan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Pelican Bks.
Hardly a day goes by without mention of Islam. And yet, for most people, and in much of the world, Islam remains a little-known religion. Whether the issue is violence, terrorism, women's rights or slavery, Muslims are today expected to provide answers and to justify what Islam is - or is not. But littl ...Show more
National Populism by Roger;Goodwin Eatwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populismAcross the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neo-liberal economics. Many of ...Show more
Our Universe - An Astronomer's Guide by Jo Dunkley
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science | 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: Science | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | 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: Politics | 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 Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene by Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Pelican Bks.
'Brilliantly written and genuinely one of the most important books I have ever read' - Ellie Mae O'Hagan A remarkable exploration of the science, history and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned experts Meteorites, methane, mega-vo ...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: Ancient History | 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
$45.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | 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