Pricing the Priceless - The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets by Paula DiPerna
$49.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
In Pricing the Priceless, renowned environmental strategist, speaker, world traveler, and author Paula DiPerna brings a unique voice and optic to demystify and unveil today's most fascinating financial disruption-pricing the priceless to flip conventional ideas of how we value natural assets and why. Sh ...Show more
Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. Faced with the regular stuff of life - work, aspiration, marriage, age, divorce, bereavement - his ordina ...Show more
How Big Things Get Done: Lessons from the World's Top Project Manager by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
$37.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to an enormously successful product launch in eleven months. But they are the exception. Consider how London’s Crossrail project delivered five years l ...Show more
Why Empires Fall by John Rapley; Peter Heather
$45.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed s ...Show more
Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music by Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards
$75.00 AUD
Category: Music
An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and celebrated composer is one of three jazz artists (along with Ornette Col ...Show more
The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin by Patrick Barkham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man, seller o ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present by Nigel Townson
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first, drawing on a wealth of Spanish-led historical scholarship never before seen in English'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world h ...Show more
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy pe ...Show more
Unscripted by James B Stewart Rachel Abrams
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
'Addicted to Succession? Well, here's the real thing.' Hollywood ReporterThe shocking inside story of how dysfunction, misconduct and scandal almost brought down one of Hollywood's greatest companies.Unscripted is the inside story of the struggle to control one of the world's great entertainment empires ...Show more
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark
$75.00 AUD
Category: European
An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers 'People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every eye, there was no limit to the celebrations . . .' There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in E ...Show more
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage. In her mid-thirties Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those ye ...Show more
Hungry Heart - A Story of Food and Love by Clare Finney
$35.00 AUD
Category: Food
Hungry Heart is a moving memoir exploring the manifold ways in which food has defined both the life of author Clare Finney and also how it becomes interwined in almost every modern day relationship, including that with ourselves.