50 Business Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on innovation, management, and strategy by Tom Butler-Bowdon
Category: Business / Politics
50 Business Classics presents the key ideas from classic texts such as My Years with General Motors and Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited to contemporary business lessons from the rise of tech giants like Google, Apple and Amazon. It contains revealing biographies of luminaries like Steve Jobs and W ...Show more
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David Finkel
Category: Business / Politics
An immersive account of a man navigating the startling changes underway in contemporary America, from the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Award-winning author of The Good Soldiers and Thank You for Your Service. Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find him ...Show more
BBQ Economics: How Money Works And Why It Matters by Liam Dann
Category: Business / Politics
From interest rates to the price of cheese and everything in between, this is an essential guide to the New Zealand economy, how it works and why it matters. Should I fix or float? Is everyone moving to Australia? What's with the price of cheese? Who controls the OCR? What do self-made billionaires kno ...Show more
The Inequality of Wealth: Why it Matters and How to Fix it by Liam Byrne
Category: Business / Politics
The super-rich have never had it so good. But millions of us can't afford a home, an education or a pension. And unless we change course soon, the future will be worse. Much worse. Yet, it doesn't have to be like this. In this bold new book, former Treasury Minister, Liam Byrne, explains the fast-accele ...Show more
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
Category: Business / Politics
A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
Category: Business / Politics
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JO ...Show more
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
Category: Business / Politics
An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look like much - it is made up of fibre optic cables and obscure payment syste ...Show more
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
Category: Business / Politics
The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world's most critical resources--microchip technology--with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is "pulse quickening...a nonfiction thriller" (The New York Times). ...Show more
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
Category: Business / Politics
The world-famous #1 bestselling economist explains how capitalism has been usurped by a technologically enhanced form of feudalism. No one noticed when capitalism died. Perhaps we were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, or the rise of populism, or the demise of the planet - or all of th ...Show more
The Art of Risk: What we can learn from the world's leading risk-takers by Richard Harris
Category: Business / Politics
Diving doctor on the Thai Cave Rescue (now a Netflix series) and former joint Australian of the Year explores the stories of other people who regularly risk their lives and what we can learn from their expertise. ‘Harry’ Harris – Thai Cave Rescuer, joint Australian of the Year – does something for fun t ...Show more
Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? by Daniel Chandler
Category: Business / Politics
In this ambitious and uplifting debut, Daniel Chandler argues that the ideas of John Rawls - the twentieth century’s greatest political philosopher - have the potential to transform society for the better, ending years of escalating inequality, democratic erosion, and culture wars. Taking Rawls’s egalit ...Show more
Hegarty on Advertising by John Hegarty
Category: Business / Politics
A revised and expanded edition of the book described by Books Monthly as 'an absolute gem. A bible, in fact'.If the future is going to be creative, then Hegarty on Advertising points you in the right direction. Written by one of the world's legendary advertising men, this best-selling book contains five ...Show more