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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
Category: Science
A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives. In this dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show us how the simple, precise algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions ...Show more
Algorithms to Live by by Brian Christian; Tom Griffiths
Category: Health and Wellbeing
A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives. In this dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show us how the simple, precise algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions ...Show more
FRONTIER RACE NATION - HENRY REYNOLDS AN by ATTWOOD BAIN & GRIFFITHS TOM [EDS]
Category: History
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths
Category: Australian History | Series: Studies in Australian History
Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Aust ...Show more
Living with Fire: People, Nature and History in Steels Creek by Christine Hansen and Tom Griffiths
Category: Animals & Nature
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 g ...Show more
Reason and Lovelessness: Essays, Reviews, Encounters - Barry Hill 1985-2015 by Barry Hill; Tom Griffiths (Introduction by)
Category: Short Stories | Series: Literary Studies
"These are intimate, stylish essays. This collection showcases Barry Hill's remarkable intellectual curiosity and erudition. From questions of belonging and attachment, to global challenges of survival, belief and knowledge, Barry unflinchingly pushes through new frontiers to reveal, with passion and pr ...Show more
Slicing the Silence : Voyaging the Antarctica by Tom Griffiths
Category: Biography
In the summer of 2002
The Art of Time Travel : Historians and their Craft by Tom Griffiths
Category: History | Series: 1st
No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us. The art of time travel is to maintain critical poise and grace in this dizzy space. In this landmark book, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths explores t ...Show more
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft by Tom Griffiths
Category: History
In this landmark, critically acclaimed book, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths explores the craft of history. Through portraits of fourteen historians, including Inga Clendinnen, Judith Wright, Geoffrey Blainey and Henry Reynolds, he traces how a body of work is formed out of a l ...Show more
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