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A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace by Jonathan Holslag
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pelican Bks.
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent ...Show more
A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace by Jonathan Holslag
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pelican Bks.
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent ...Show more
A Short History of Brexit by Kevin O'Rourke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Pelican Bks.
A succinct, expert guide to how we got to Brexit After all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin O'Rourke writes, Brexit did not emerge out of nowhere: it is the culmination of events that have been under way for decades and have historical roots str ...Show more
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Pelican Bks.
Melanie Mitchell separates science fact from science fiction in this sweeping examination of the current state of AI and how it is remaking our world No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intellige ...Show more
Can We Be Happier?: The Ethics and Evidence for Better Lives by Richard Layard
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Pelican Bks.
Most people now realise that economic growth, however desirable, will not solve all our problems. Instead, we need a philosophy and a science which encompasses a much fuller range of human need and experience. This book argues that the goal for a society must be the greatest possible all round happines ...Show more
Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding by Roel Sterckx
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Pelican Bks.
We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally, economically or aesthetically present in everyday life in the Western world. But how much do we really know about its origins and key beliefs, especially co ...Show more
Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Pelican Bks.
Feminism's origins have often been framed around a limited cast of mostly white and educated foremothers, but the truth is that feminism has been and continues to be a global movement. For centuries, women from all walks of life have been mobilizing for gender justice. As the last decade has reminded ev ...Show more
National Populism by Roger;Goodwin Eatwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter
$22.99 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: 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
$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