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If Then - How One Data Company Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simu ...Show more
If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Radio 4's Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award'The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious, scathing and sobering - what you might get if you cr ...Show more
The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022 by Jill Lepore
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.The past decade has marked a shift in America's trajectory. Jill Lepore, the acclaimed writer and New Yorker columnist, has been tracing its contested storylines in real time, beginning with the run-up to Donald Trump's electi ...Show more
These Truths - A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
$72.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
Written in elegiac prose, Lepore's groundbreaking investigation places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereign ...Show more
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
$34.00 NZD
Category: World History
The challenge of retelling five hundred years of American history in a single volume has been so daunting that hardly any historian has attempted it in decades. When Jill Lepore's New York Times best-selling These Truths appeared in 2018, critics quickly hailed it as a classic--appealing not only to aca ...Show more
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