The Inheritors - An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning by Eve Fairbanks
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction This "elegant" and "unfailingly empathetic" narrative (The New York Times) follows three ordinary South Africans living through the most extraordinary reckoning with race and power any modern country has ever faced. Dipuo, who grew up ...Show more
The Dean of Shandong - Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University by Daniel A. Bell
$55.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political system On January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University--the first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China's history. ...Show more
An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals by Polly Toynbee
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
***Chosen as a 2023 non-fiction highlight in the Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Tablet and Irish Times***While for generations Polly Toynbee's ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for ...Show more
Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Wonder Boy is a riveting investigation into the turbulent life of Zappos visionary Tony Hsieh, whose radical business strategies revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture, based on rigorous research and reporting by two seasoned journalists. Tony Hsieh's first successful venture was in mi ...Show more
The Rise of Corporate Feminism - Women in the American Office, 1960-1990 by Allison Elias
$57.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Columbia Studies in the History of U. S. Capitalism Ser.
From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greater opportunities for career advancement, occupational segregation by gender remained entrenched. How did feminism in corporate America come to represent th ...Show more
Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change by Simon Sharpe
$38.00 AUD
Category: Climate
We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and ins ...Show more
The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers by Ben Jacob
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
TEN YEARS AGO, BEN JACOB TURNED OUTLAW TO SAVE OUR RAREST FLOWERS. THIS IS HIS STORY.Obsessed by orchids since childhood, Ben spent years travelling to far-flung jungles to see them in the wild. Then a chance encounter set him off on a journey of discovery into the wonderful, but often forgotten, world ...Show more
The Power of Money - How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper by Paul Sheard
$65.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Money permeates our everyday lives--it literally makes the economic world go round--and yet confusion and controversy about money abound. In The Power of Money, economist Paul Sheard distills what money is, how it comes into existence, and how it interacts with the real ec ...Show more
The Collapse Of Antiquity by Michael Hudson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization's Oligarchic Turning Point The Collapse of Antiquity, the sequel to Michael's "...and forgive them their debts, " is the second and latest book in his trilogy on the history of debt. It describes how the dynamics of interest-bearing debt led ...Show more
A World of Insecurity - Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries by Pranab Bardhan
$51.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
An ambitious account of the corrosion of liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike, arguing that antidemocratic sentiment reflects fear of material and cultural loss, not a critique of liberalism's failure to deliver equality, and suggesting possible ways out. The retreat of liberal democracy i ...Show more
Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath - and Beyond by Geezer Butler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
Geezer Butler – Black Sabbath’s legendary bassist – is one of the world’s most established musicians and lyricists. In this ground-breaking memoir, Geezer recalls his remarkable story to date and revisits the band’s most iconic moments. A hugely entertaining must-read for rock and roll fans across the g ...Show more