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If Then - How One Data Company Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore (Harvard University)
$36.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Renowned Harvard scholar and "New Yorker "staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we d ...Show more
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History by Jill Lepore
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The Public Square
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution - so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty - so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's ...Show more
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