Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over by Julia Ebner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The internationally bestselling author of Going Dark: the secret social lives of extremists (A Telegraph Book of the Year) returns to explore why radical ideas are increasingly infiltrating politics, popular culture and our everyday lives. Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, th ...Show more
Puff Piece by John Safran
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death. The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world ...Show more
Growing Up African in Australia by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
People of African descent have been in Australia for at least 200 years, yet their stories are largely missing from Australian writing. Australians of the African diaspora have arrived here in many different ways- directly from the continent; via the Caribbean, the Americas and the United Kingdom; makin ...Show more
Pandemedia - How Covid Changed Journalism by Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang (eds)
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Category: Culture & Ideas
If journalism is the first draft of history, what will it say about Covid? The Covid-19 pandemic ripped through the world with no regard for borders, age, status or wealth. It was brutal in its impact and created a raft of new social norms. And without warning, the pandemic changed journalism, in some ...Show more
Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity and Democracy by Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud
$36.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Pegasus is almost certainly the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed. Installed by as little as a missed WhatsApp call, once on your phone it can record your calls, copy your messages, steal your photos and secretly film you. Those that control it can find out your daily movements: exactly wher ...Show more
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh
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Category: Culture & Ideas
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial Artificially intelligent machines are set to play an increasingly important role in our lives. They will take the dirty tasks of life off our hands, as well as the dull, the difficult and the dangerous - which is a good thing. ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
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Category: Culture & Ideas
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more