Bulls, Bears and a Croupier : The New Bull Market and How to Profit from it by Matthew Kidman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
An experienced Australian fund manager explains how the share market can be a fun and simple place to operate if you take the right approach. The share market is awash with new opportunities to profit everyday as millions of shares in thousands of companies change hands. Even if half of your decisions g ...Show more
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry by Jacquie McNish
$28.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
This title is short-listed for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015. In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the US smart phone market. Today that number is less than one per cent. What went so wrong? Losing the Signal is the riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before s ...Show more
Genentech - The Beginnings of Biotech by Sally Smith Hughes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Synthesis Ser.
In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from ...Show more
Uncommon Knowledge by Tom Standage
$23.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of satellite from orbit? If everything is so terrible, why is the global suicide rate falling?The keen minds of th ...Show more
The Power of Productivity - Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability by William W. Lewis
$21.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography
The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable problem facing the world today. Chronic poverty affects more than the citizens and economies of these nations; it threatens global stability as the pressures of immigration become unsustainable and rogue nations seek power an ...Show more
The Tycoons - How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy by Charles R. Morris
$43.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet.Acclaimed aut ...Show more
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
$20.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and longer-lived than any previous generation. Thanks to the unique human habits of exchange and specialisation, our species has found in ...Show more
Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine by Antonio Garcia Martinez
$23.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
This is New York Times Best-seller. An adrenaline-fuelled expose of life inside the tech bubble, Chaos Monkeys lays bare the secrets, power plays and lifestyle excesses of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists and money cowboys who are revolutionising our world. Written by startup CEO and in ...Show more
Stay the Course - The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution by John C. Bogle
$54.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
A journey through the Index Revolution from the man who started it allStay the Course is the story the Vanguard Group as told by its founder, legendary investor John C. Bogle. This engrossing book traces the history of Vanguard--the largest mutual fund organization on earth.Offering the world's first in ...Show more
The Spider Network The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History by David Enrich
$23.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Book Prize! 'Will snare you in its web of deceit, lies, corruption, manipulation and colourful characters. [a] brilliant investigative exposé' - Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author 'Reads like a fast-paced John le Carré thriller, and never lets up' - New ...Show more
The Gambler: How a Penniless Dropout Became One of the Greatest Deal Makers in Capitalist History by William C. Rempel
$33.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Offers an entertaining look at Kerkorian's outsize life... an interesting portrait of a billionaire." - Wall Street Journal The rags-to-riches story of one of America's wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian--the daring aviator, movie mogul ...Show more
The Automatic Customer by Warrillow John
$25.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
In The Automatic Customer, John Warrillow provides the essential blueprint for turning your customers into subscribers The lifeblood of your business is repeat customers. But customers can be fickle, markets shift and competitors are ruthless. So how do you ensure a steady flow of business? The secret - ...Show more