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AI can be all too human: quick to judge, capable of error, vulnerable to bias. It's made by humans after all. Made by Humans explores our role in automation and the responsibilities we must take on. Roaming from Australia to the UK and the US, this is a personal, thought-provoking examination of humans as data and humans as the designers of systems that try to understand us.

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Through the eyes of one young Australian, weAre invited to step back and look at the bigger picture of what we know about climate change, and what we don't.

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The road that led to the inauguration of the Australian nation in Centennial Park, Sydney, on 1 January 1901 was by no means smooth travelling. Alfred Deakin noted that Federation must always appear to have been secured by miracles. This work covers the individuals who made these miracles happen.

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Based on extensive research of Australian media coverage, public opinion, interest groups as well as in-depth interviews with current and former diplomats and politicians, this book provides a unique insight into the policy making process in regards to one of the world's most enduring and volatile dilemmas.

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Bruce Guthrie survived tuberculosis, Melbourne's gritty northern suburbs and a boss who twice tried to sack him in his first six months in newspapers. Then just as he claimed one of the industries most glittering prizes, he fell foul of Rupert Murdoch and his henchmen. What would any self-respecting Broadmeadows boy do Sue them of course

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A critical study of Marcus Clarke - arguably Australia's best known and most important nineteenth-century writer. It situates Clarke both within the bohemian culture of Melbourne and a burgeoning cosmopolitan print-culture extending beyond national borders. It also unearths the richness of Clarke's writing.

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In the heroic age of polar exploration, Sir Douglas Mawson stands in first rank. In this biography Mawson's many achievements are illuminated, which enabled us to understand the human side to the man.

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Meanjin is Australia's second oldest literary journal. Founded by Clem Christesen in 1940, it has documented both the changing concerns of Australians and the achievements of many of the nation's writers, thinkers and poets. This anthology offers a broad sweep of essays, fiction and poetry published in Meanjin since the magazine began.

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In the summer edition of Meanjin, Miles Franklin award winner Alexis Wright puts a challenging question: who should have the right to tell Aboriginal stories Also includes writing from Katharine Murphy, Tim Dunlop, Arnold Zable, Fiona Wright, John Kinsella, Beejay Silcox, Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, Geoff Page and John Clarke.

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Analyses eleven cases of Australian high-technology innovation, exploring where we have gone right and where more could have been achieved. Drawing lessons from both the successes and failures, this title provides insights into Australian innovation management, and the challenges that lie ahead.

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Journalists tend to go from one story to the next with little time to think deeply about the impact their work has on the people they cover, or how their professional practices might be refined. But what the public sees is often negative: intrusive cameras, shouted questions, rude and aggressive behaviour.

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Examines the early narratives of Australian 'discovery' and the settlement of what was perceived as a hostile, gothic environment; exercises of medieval revivalism and association consonant with the British nineteenth-century rediscovery of chivalric ideals and aesthetic, spiritual and architectural practices and models; and more.

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Revealed in this relentlessly candid yet sympathetic study is Nellie Melba the drama queen, the monstrous prima donna, the canny businesswoman, the generous and kindly friend, the unique star who refused to fade.

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In this vivid and iconoclastic memoir, John Passmore takes us on an unsentimental journey from his childhood in Manly, then half-village, half-resort - ""seven miles from Sydney, a thousand miles from care"" - to the hot house environment of the University of Sydney, and on to the realities of his imagined Europe.

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Peter Ruehl's humorous columns on life, family and politics have been one of the Australian Financial Review's most beloved and prominent features for more than two decades.

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A study of spiritualism in Melbourne between 1870 and 1890. Al Gabay explores the origins of the movement and relates its rise and fall to the wider intellectual and religious currents in Australian society. He shows that the seance was not a "scientific" enterprise but a religious event.