The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers by Vicky Ward
$22.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failed In The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers inside Lehman's highly charged offices. Wh ...Show more
Nice Girls Just Don't Get it by Lois Frankel & Carol Frohlinger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Have you ever felt invisible? Taken advantage of? Reluctant or unable to articulate what you really want? If so, join the club. The nice girls club. Nice girls are those who behave the way others want them to, sacrificing their own needs. Winning women, on the other hand, aren't afraid to stand up to di ...Show more
Money: Everything You Never Knew About Your Favorite Thing to Save, Spend, and Covet by Sandra & Harry Choron
$22.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Ever made a fast buck? How about traded cowrie shells for a bride or paid for gum with a $10,000 bill? This entertaining and information-packed miscellany explains our fascination with money and how it has shaped our world. Vintage photographs and artwork illustrate surprising facts, lists, and trivia a ...Show more
Dot.Bomb Australia: How We Wrangled, Conned and Argie-bargied Our Way into the New Digital Universe by Kate Askew
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Category: Y.A Fiction
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone
$26.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Why do text messages cost money, while e-mails are free? Why do jars of peanut butter keep getting smaller in order to keep the price the 'same'?
Consumer Republic: Using Brands to Get What You Want, Make Corporations Behave, and Maybe Even Save the World by Bruce Philp
$32.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Consumer Republic's message begins with this single, inarguable truth: brands make corporations accountable. Expensive to create, essential to making money, and more public than anything else a corporation has or does, a brand is an enormously valuable and fragile asset to them. And we consumers have th ...Show more
The Short Goodbye: A Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust by Elisabeth Wynhausen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Elisabeth Wynhausen was working at her desk in the newsroom of "The Australian", writing a story about people being given the pink slip, when she was given a pink slip of her own. 'The Short Goodbye' tells the story of the people who were crunched in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: people like her, wh ...Show more
The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
$25.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
One of the top ten greatest doctors in the world looks at the lowly checklist, and how this simple idea - which is free to reproduce - will revolutionise the way we approach problems, and help save lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands ...Show more
Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Category: Business & Economics
This book was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson prize 2010. They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees. Andrew Ross Sorkin, the news-breaking "New York Times" journal ...Show more
In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took it Down by Stanley Reed
$32.95 AUD
$37.95 (13% off)
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Bloomberg
The truth behind the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history In 2005, fifteen workers were killed when BP's Texas City Refinery exploded. In 2006, corroded pipes owned by BP led to an oil spill in Alaska. Now, in 2010, eleven BP workers were killed in the Gulf of Mexico's Macondo blowout. What's ...Show more
Man Bites Murdoch by Bruce Guthrie
$49.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
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, to become a foreign correspondent and then one of Australia's feistiest and most controversial editors. His CV boasts editorships of The Age, The Sunday ...Show more
A Global Life: My Journey Among Rich and Poor, from Wall Street to the World Bank by James D. Wolfensohn
$50.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
James D. Wolfensohn is one of the business world's most successful and unconventional figures - an expat Aussie and former World Bank President who has gone on to channel his personal success into the struggle against poverty. In this illuminating autobiography, co-written with award-winning journalist ...Show more