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  • The Laws of Thought

    The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind

    by Tom Griffiths ...
    From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and the ways in which they still differ from human mindsEveryone has a basic understanding of how the physical world works. We learn about physics and chemistry in school, letting us explain the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Algorithms to Live By

    The Computer Science of Human Decisions

    by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths ...
    An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, ... Read more

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  • Alice's dreaming

    An astonishing work of history about a girl and the Indigenous world she encountered

    by Tom Griffiths ...
    'An unforgettable, multi-layered history, Alice's dreaming is at once biography, literary thriller and stunning evocation of Country and place.' —Mark McKennaEarly last century, Alice Duncan-Kemp grew up on a remote Queensland cattle station. Later she would write down her childhood memories of learning from Aboriginal women and men at home on their own Country. In her books, she evoked a rich ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Holy Qur'an

    Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali ...
    by Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it was revealed, so it was committed to memory by his companions, though written copies were also made by literate believers during the lifetime of the Prophet.The ... Read more

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  • Democracy in America

    by Alexis de Tocqueville, Patrick Renshaw, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    Abridged, with an Introduction by Patrick Renshaw.Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe.De Tocqueville examines the structures, institutions and ... Read more

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  • The Art of Time Travel

    Historians and Their Craft

    by Tom Griffiths ...
    No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us.Winner of the Ernest Scott Prize and Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction'A rare feat of imagination and generosity' —Mark McKennaWith every sentence they write, historians must walk the tightrope between discipline and imagination, empathy and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Rights of Man

    by Thomas Paine, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    With an Introduction by Derek Matravers.Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, it differs from that great work in every relevant respect. Where Burke uses the language of the governing classes, Paine writes with the vigour of a self-taught mast-maker and ... Read more

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  • Histories

    by Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Tom Griffith ...
    Translated by George Rawlinson ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith.Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining.Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis ... Read more

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  • Living with Fire

    People, Nature and History in Steels Creek

    by Tom Griffiths, Christine Hansen ...
    Within the Yarra River catchment area nestles the valley of Steels Creek, a small shallow basin in the lee of Kinglake plateau and the Great Dividing Range. The escarpment walls of the range drop in a series of ridges to the valley and form the south-eastern boundary of the Kinglake National Park. The gentle undulations that flow out from the valley stretch into the productive and picturesque ... Read more

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  • The Pilgrim's Progress

    by John Bunyan, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim.John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of the hero - Christian - from the City of Destruction via the ... Read more

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  • The Essential Philosophical Works

    by David Hume, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    With an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris.David Hume (1711–1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–1740), published while Hume was still in his twenties, consists of three books on the understanding, the passions, and morals. It ... Read more

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  • The Communist Manifesto: The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

    by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow.A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyrannies which have ruled large parts of the globe in his name. Indeed, he would have been appalled ... Read more

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