The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
$25.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown, managed a multimillion-dollar business smuggling people.
How Economics Can Save the World by Erik Angner
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Economics has the power to make the world a better, happier and safer place- this book shows you howOur world is in a mess. The challenges of climate change, inequality, hunger and a global pandemic mean our way of life seems more imperilled and society more divided than ever; but economics can help! Fr ...Show more
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
This text takes a look at work in the 20th century, with accounts from a variety of people about their jobs.
How Charts Work - Understand and Explain Data with Confidence by Alan Smith
$50.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
How Charts Work brings the secrets of effective data visualisation in a way that will help you bring data alive. Charts, graphs and tables are essential devices in business, but all too often they present information poorly. This book will help you: Feel confident understanding different types of ...Show more
Homecoming - The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World by Rana Foroohar
$60.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
A sweeping case that a new age of economic localization will reunite place and prosperity, putting an end to the last half century of globalization--by one of the preeminent economic journalists writing today "This invaluable book is as bold in its ambitions as it is readable."--Ian Bremmer, New Yor ...Show more
Dead in the Water - Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry by Matthew Campbell; Kit Chellel
$40.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
'Triumphant... A well-written, well-paced thriller.' Financial TimesInside the corrupt and secret business of global shipping, the explosive true story of a notorious international fraud and murderIn July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a cr ...Show more
Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China s Tech Ambition by Lulu Chen
$33.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
In 2019, a Chinese entity called Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world's fifth-largest company. It was a watershed moment, a wake-up call for those in the West accustomed to regarding the global tech industry through the prism of Silicon Valley: Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft. Yet to many ...Show more
Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of General Electric by William D. Cohan
$70.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporationPerhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing storied leaders and almost every product imaginable, GE ...Show more
Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy by Zainab Usman
$0.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa Ser.
Nigeria has for long been regarded as the poster child for the 'curse' of oil wealth. Yet despite this, Nigeria achieved strong economic growth for over a decade in the 21st century, driven largely by policy reforms in non-oil sectors. This open access book argues that Nigeria's major development challe ...Show more
Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order by Paul Tucker
$65.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggle Can the international economic and legal system survive today’s fractured geopolitics? Democracies are facing a drawn-out contest with authoritarian states that is entangling much of public policy with global se ...Show more
The Economics of the Stock Market by Andrew Smithers
$67.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
This book argues that the neoclassial synthesis is insufficiently attentative to the impact of the stock market on the economy. Smithers proposes an alternative model, which takes into account the differing preferences of business managers and owners of capital. The current consensus economic model, the ...Show more
Mao and Markets - The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise by Christopher Marquis; Kunyuan Qiao
$41.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
A thoroughly researched assessment of how China's economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of Chairman Mao It was long assumed that as China embraced open markets and private enterprise, its state-controlled economy would fall by the wayside as free markets would inevitably l ...Show more