Algorithmic Intimacy - The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships by Anthony Elliott
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us how to live, who to befriend and who to date. In ...Show more
Making Sense of AI: Our Algorithmic World by Anthony Elliott
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google’s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate. Why is AI the source of such intense controversy and what are its economic, political, social and cultural consequences? Tracing the ...Show more
High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink: Quarterly Essay 95 by Don Watson
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Is the United States disintegrating? Don Watson offers a report from America that catches the madness and the politics of an election like no other. This is a deeply historically informed, characteristically mordant account of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and a divided country. Watson considers how things ...Show more
Best Laid Plans: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: The Inside Story of Reform in Aung San Suu Kyi's Myanmar by Sean Turnell
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Best laid Plans is a unique first-hand account of the radical economic reforms implemented in Myanmar under the ill-fated civilian government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. These reforms, designed both to turn around Myanmar's dire economy and lay the economic foundations for democracy, were brought to a dram ...Show more
The Next Australian City - The Suburban Evolution by Ross Elliott
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Dive into the heart of Australia's suburban landscape with 'Suburban Futures.' In this groundbreaking collection of essays, we challenge prevailing misconceptions surrounding suburbia, shedding light on its integral role in shaping our cities and communities. For decades, suburbs have been unfairly sti ...Show more
Tragedy without Triumph: The Coalition in Office 2013 - 2022 by Scott Prasser
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The sixth volume of Sir Winston's Churchill's Nobel Prize-winning series, The Second World War was entitled Triumph and Tragedy. It was a triumph because of the "overwhelming victory of the grand Alliance", but a tragedy because it had "failed so far to bring general peace to our anxious world". This v ...Show more
The End of Settlement: why the 2023 referendum failed by Damien Freeman
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Has Australia reached the end of settlement? Reflecting on his pivotal role in the development of a proposal to recognise Australia's Indigenous peoples in the Constitution, Damien Freeman explains how something that started off as an exercise in settlement politics ended in a failed referendum. From ...Show more
Lessons from Our Failure to Build a Constitutional Bridge in the 2023 Referendum by Frank Brennan
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'This book provides the practical pointers for hope if we are ever to achieve constitutional recognition of my people. It addresses the mistakes of the 2023 referendum so that we can all learn and regroup. It's a "must read".' - John Lochowiak, Chairperson of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is ...Show more
Bullshit Jobs - A Theory by David Graeber
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesBe honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows wh ...Show more
Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil by Royce Kurmelovs
34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A riveting expose of the global oil industry's multi-decade conspiracy to muddy the waters around the science of climate change and use the Australian government to undermine worldwide efforts to address environmental devastation. Slick- Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil takes a comprehensive ...Show more
The Show : Another Side of Santamaria's Movement by Mark Aarons John Grenville
32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In late 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia's Catholic bishops took the first steps in creating a clandestine church organisation to smash the Communist Party's massive trade union base. Before long, The Movement, as it was known, developed into a sophisticated intellige ...Show more
Fascists Among Us by Jeff Sparrow
19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The first book since Christchurch to trace the massacre's fascist roots and what it represents. The massacre of more than fifty worshippers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, shocked the world. The murders were not random. They expressed a particular ideology, one that the alleged perpetrator desc ...Show more