Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Computers and Business

"With Amazon's growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader's hands-what booksellers call handselling-becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and po...

"Artificial intelligence is swiftly moving from a sci-fi future to a modern reality. This edition ... keeps pace with the lightning-fast expansion of AI tools that are overhauling every corner of reality. This book demystifies how artificial intelligence systems operate, giving you a look at the ...

''Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History explores the historic origins and current applications of AI in such diverse fields as computing, medicine, popular culture, mythology, and philosophy. Through more than 100 entries, award-winning author Clifford A. Pickover, offers a granular, ye...

"Artificial Intelligence for Developers in easy steps is for anyone who wants to learn more about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and build AI applications using basic programming and No-Code AI tools. It has an easy-to-follow style that will be suited to anyone who wants to get started with AI prog...

"Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we cr...

What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of original research, award-winning science and technology scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a techno...

Fears of AI not only concern how it invades our digital lives, but also the implied threat of an intelligence that displaces us from our position at the centre of the world. Neil D. Lawrence's book shows why these fears may be misplaced. Atomism, proposed by Democritus, suggested it was impossibl...

"There's a popular belief that Australian manufacturing is sick and cannot be revived. Service industries have largely replaced factory work. But the economy is highly flexible and inventive. And new secondary industries are emerging, not least in the energy, environmental and space sectors. Foun...

Australia is experiencing a significant demographic shift - the proportion of the population that is aged 65 years and older is increasing substantially and will continue to do so. With this shift comes particular housing challenges for older people. The Australian Dream examines the impacts of h...

The seventh issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores Australia's status as the most China-dependent country in the developed world, and the potential risks this poses to its future prosperity and security. China dependence examines how Australia should respond to the emerging economic and dip...