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
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven Levitt, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
$25.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Sequel to the international bestseller "Freakonomics", Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's "Superfreakonomics" is an irresistible look at the counterintuitive science of everyday life. The Freakquel is here. In "Superfreakonomics" Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner look deeper, question harder and uncover ...Show more
The Big Fella: The Rise And Rise Of BHP Billiton by Robert Macklin, Peter Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
BHP is part of Australia's DNA; but it remains an enigma. This is the compelling story of how BHP and its partner Billiton rose from the humblest beginnings in the Australian Outback and on the Indonesian island of Belitung to starry heights on the great bourses of the world.
The Happy Economist: Happiness for the hard-headed by Ross Gittins
$26.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Most economists are obsessed with financial and economic measures, but not Ross Gittins. In The Happy Economist he mounts a provocative and persuasive case for a different approach. He argues that happiness is our most important measure of economic success. Distilling the practical wisdom from all the r ...Show more
Freefall by Joseph E Stiglitz
$32.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
This devastating and inspiring book, by one of the world's leading economic thinkers, lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but its underlying causes, and shows why much more radical reforms are needed than are currently being contemplated if we are to avoid similar ' ...Show more
The End of Wall Street by Roger Lowenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall Street CEOs, Lowenstein tells, with grace, wit, and razor-sharp understanding, the full story of the ...Show more
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read, a nonp ...Show more
Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin
$32.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment, account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, Russia and the corridors of Washing ...Show more
In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic by David Wessel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The Capitalism Delusion: How Global Economics Wrecked Everything and What to Do About it by Bob Ellis
$24.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
With our economy based upon money as illusory as God's love, Bob Ellis calls time on free market fundamentalism. We put our faith in a system that awards do-nothing CEOs with millions as their companies collapse and provoke a global crisis. We judge corporate success on the number of sackings, fund the ...Show more
Long Tail: How Endless Choice is Creating Unlimited Demand by Chris Anderson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? And when the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers? In this ground-breaking book, Chris Anderson shows tha ...Show more
Business Stripped Bare : Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur by Sir Richard Branson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
In "Business Stripped Bare", Sir Richard Branson shares the inside track on his life in business and reveals the incredible truth about his most risky, brilliant and audacious deals. Discover why Virgin tried to take on one of the world's biggest superbrands, how Virgin Mobile USA holds the record as th ...Show more