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Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information by John D Caputo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Pelican Bks.
Renowned thinker John D. Caputo has spent his career recasting theology and philosophy for a new world. In Interpretations from the Margins, he explores the cross-disciplinary world of modern hermeneutics, blazing a new trail in the most modern of fields. Is anything ever not an interpretation? Does int ...Show more
Islam: The Essentials by Tariq Ramadan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything by Graham Harman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Pelican Bks.
What is reality, really? Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive? How does this change the way we understand the world? We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as ...Show more
Our Universe - An Astronomer's Guide by Jo Dunkley
$49.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Pelican Bks. | Reading Level: very good
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: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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: New Hardbacks | 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: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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