Algorithm How AI Can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future
ISBN: HB: 9781805260981, Hurst Publishers, February 2024
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A shocking expose of how AI controls the world of work. Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents and astonishing real-world p...
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22.00 GBP
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Hooghly The Global History of a River
ISBN: PB: 9781911723349, ISBN: HB: 9781787383258, Hurst Publishers, January 2024
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A lyrical history of one of India's great rivers – the entry-point of maritime commercial colonialism, and the life-sustaining waterway of Bengal and its former capital, Calcutta. The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay...
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16.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Bosniaks Nationhood After Genocide
ISBN: PB: 9781805260462, Hurst Publishers, December 2023
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A compelling exploration of Bosniak political identity, chronicling the development of a nation and its people in the wake of catastrophe. For the first time in nearly two centuries, one ethnic group now constitutes an absolute majority of Bosnia...
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27.50 GBP
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Proving Ground The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
ISBN: HB: 9781787388628, Hurst Publishers, August 2022
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A fascinating, forgotten story of the six brilliant women who launched modern computing. As the Cold War began, America's race for tech supremacy was taking off. Experts rushed to complete the top-secret computing research started during World War...
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20.00 GBP
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Planet Palm How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything - and Endangered the World
ISBN: HB: 9781787383784, Hurst Publishers, May 2021
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
From food to cosmetics, palm oil is everywhere – but at what cost? It's in our instant noodles and chocolate bars, our lipsticks and fuel tanks. But what even is palm oil, and how has it come to dominate our lives so completely? Jocelyn C. Zuckerm...
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20.00 GBP
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Longing for Wide and Unknown Things The Life of Alexander von Humboldt
ISBN: HB: 9781849048903, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day. But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his lifetime always fell short of perfection. When he climbed the Chimborazo, then believed to be the highest mountain in the...
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30.00 GBP
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