Moral AI by Jana Schaich Borg; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; Vincent Conitzer
$45.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous ...Show more
Outliers: The Story of Success0 by Malcolm Gladwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful ...Show more
Fragility of Goodness by NUSSBAUM MARTHA C
$85.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
This book is a study of ancient views aboutmoral luck'.
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company and the best writers of our time Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for ...Show more
Chaucer Here and Now by Marion Turner (Editor)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
The Geoffrey Chaucer of this book is not the Father of English Literature that you think you know. In this wide-ranging collection of essays you will find wartime Chaucer, postcolonial Chaucer, feminist Chaucer, misogynist Chaucer, radical Chaucer and conservative Chaucer, among many other interpretatio ...Show more
Critical Revolutionaries - Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read by Terry Eagleton
$20.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A celebration of an extraordinary generation who transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large. In the years following, a younger generation of critics came to the fore. Their work represented a reaction to the imp ...Show more
On Animals by Susan Orlean
$29.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A delightful and entertaining collection of a lifetime of musings, meditations and in-depth profiles about animals, by the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book.
On Helen Garner: Writers on Writers by Sean O'Beirne
$17.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
In a brilliantly argued and very personal essay, Sean O'Beirne looks at the whole of Helen Garner's writing life so far - from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries - while trying to come to terms with the demands, and the rewards, of Garner's extraordinary, radical individualism and honesty. In ...Show more
Fugitive by Simon Tedeschi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
In 1917, a young composer writes a suite of twenty pieces for piano. Each pass by like a gust of wind. They are short, violent and strange - the music of another world. In 1938, a young Jewish family flees Italy for Sydney, Australia. In 1942, another family, this time Polish, is nearly destroyed.Half a ...Show more
Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust by Eimear McBride
$22.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A blistering, galvanising essay from Eimear McBride, award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.
The Real Thing - Reflections on a Literary Form by Terry Eagleton
$34.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Realist fiction is one of the most enduring artforms history has ever witnessed. By describing the intricate inner life of its characters, or widening its focus to set their experience in context, it can evoke the reader's sympathies as few other forms can.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
'A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him' Michael Lewis In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour c ...Show more