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Engendering Adjustment For The 1990S: Report Of A Commonwealth Expert Group On Women And Structural Adjustment
$80.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Pages bright. A landmark work in development economics and gender studies, Engendering Adjustment...
Grand Pursuit: The Story of the People Who Made Modern Economics
From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind, a brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into today's financial mess. As the...
The Future of Success
The internet-driven marketplace offers unprecedented opportunities, but this technology also drives relentless competition. When consumers can change allegiance with the click of a mouse, sellers must make constant improvements -...
The New Geography of Innovation: The global contest for breakthrough
The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, web browsers, email, search engines, social networks, electric cars...
The Real Meaning Of Money
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis insightful work by Dorothy Rowe uncovers the psychological complexities surrounding our relationship with...
1880 Melbourne International Exhibition: Fifty Years Of Commerce And Trade Between Italy And The Australian Colonies
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA richly detailed work of historical scholarship, 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition: Fifty Years Of...
BBQ Economics: How money works and why it matters
From interest rates to the price of cheese and everything in between, this is an essential guide to the New Zealand economy, how it works and why it matters. Should...
Brexit and Ireland: The Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside
The essential Irish guide to Brexit Brexit represents potentially the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any area...
Growth: A Reckoning
A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink it Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from...
Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth
One of the most deeply ingrained beliefs of our age is that perpetual economic growth is the solution to most, if not all, of society's problems. In Slow Down or...
Creative Capitalism
Bill Gates is not only the world's most successful capitalist; he's the world's biggest philanthropist. Gates has approached philanthropy the same way he revolutionized computer software: with a fierce ambition...
The Silent Takeover
Noreena Hertz's groundbreaking political book has established itself as an essential socio-economic text as the world faces the challenge of the power of big business. This fascinating insight into the...
Climate Clangers: The Bad Ideas Blocking Real Action
The impacts of climate change keep getting worse, but the typical framing of the problem and the solutions so far being pursued are seriously insufficient. As a result, the steps...
The Future is Smart: How Your Company Can Capitalize on the Internet
Are you ready for the IoT revolution The Internet of Things (IoT) will soon be everywhere-embedded in interconnected devices we'll use every day, and this book documents the shifts now...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics 'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the...
The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Will Shape
Capitalism stands alone, and apparently triumphant. Socialism is almost a memory. The social welfare state is under siege, if not already broke. But the economic, social and political forces heading...
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
$12.00 AUD
An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and...
Money: A Story of Humanity
*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION...
Making Progress: How Good Policy Happens
Learn about transformational reforms like paid parental leave, the NDIS, the Apology to the Stolen Generations, and revolutionising pensions from Labor's Jenny Macklin, with insights from Julia Gillard, Ross Garnaut,...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth...
The Do It! List 50 Big Business Ideas & How To Action Them
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis essential guide, The Do It! List 50 Big Business Ideas & How To...
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Tanked: Why the British Economy is Failing and How to Fix It
In the autumn of 2022, Liz Truss took Britain on a journey into economic la-la land and comprehensively tanked the economy. The result? Higher mortgages and rents, soaring inflation, debt...
Tanked: Why the British Economy is Failing and How to Fix It
In the autumn of 2022, Liz Truss took Britain on a journey into economic la-la land and comprehensively tanked the economy. The result? Higher mortgages and rents, soaring inflation, debt...
Founding Brass: George Stewardson And Extruded Metals (SIGNED)
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis biographical work, Founding Brass: George Stewardson And Extruded Metals, chronicles the remarkable...
The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward
Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry, revolutionised our understanding of the models of modern financial theory. This new edition includes material on the current market crisis, calling for an end...
The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward
Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry, revolutionised our understanding of the models of modern financial theory. This new edition includes material on the current market crisis, calling for an end...
The Road Ahead
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe seminal work The Road Ahead presents a visionary look into the future of...
Political Risk: Facing the Threat of Global Insecurity in the
Political risk - the probability that a political action could significantly affect an organisation - is changing fast, and it's more widespread than ever before. In the past, the chief...
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy." From batting averages and political polls to...
In Search Of Excellence: Lessons From America's Best-Run Companies
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis seminal work in business literature presents a compelling analysis of what made America's...
The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward
Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry, revolutionised our understanding of the models of modern financial theory. This new edition includes material on the current market crisis, calling for an end...
Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality and Why Men
'You should read this book' Philippa Gregory - The most lucrative industries are male-dominated - yet half of men think they're the ones being discriminated against. - Post #MeToo, we're...
The Gambling Animal: Humanity's Evolutionary Winning Streak - and How
Evolution is a series of bets, and no animal gambles the way humans do. This has led us to unprecedented ecological dominance, via the steepest odds and unlikeliest of outcomes,...
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
"Timely... a crucial foundation for building a more empathetic and informed society." - Daniel H. Pink "An important book for those who want to understand... the increasingly complex world." -...
The World in 2050: How to Think About the Future
'A dazzling history of the future - Hamish McRae has given us a tour de force ' - Tim Harford _______________ A bold and illuminating vision of the future, from...
Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You've Heard About China is Wrong
We think we know China. The world's most venerable and self-confident civilisation, home to the largest unified race of people on the planet, China manufactures the objects that fill our...
Numbermania: How Figures Are Taking Over Our Lives and How To Set
'An entertaining and thought-provoking antidote to the tyranny of numbers in the modern world.' -Alex Bellos, author of Can You Solve My Problems? 'A smart and insightful read that will...
Reefer Madness: ...and Other Tales from the American Underground
Eric Schlosser explores three of the most prominent and least understood features of globalization; drugs, pornography and migrant labour. "Reefer Madness" traces the history of the contemporary "war on drugs"...
The Dish: The Story of One Restaurant Meal, from Farm to Kitchen to
"A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story." - Wall Street Journal Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes...
Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth
' Stand by for fireworks as it hits the shelves' SUNDAY TIMES 'If Orwell were with us today, he'd be writing books like this' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE 'Breath-taking and jaw-dropping'...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret
'The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years.' James Patterson 'This is, by far, the deepest investigation into possibly the biggest mystery of...
The Gambling Animal: Humanity's Evolutionary Winning Streak - and How
Evolution is a series of bets, and no animal gambles the way humans do. This has led us to unprecedented ecological dominance, via the steepest odds and unlikeliest of outcomes,...
The Gambling Animal: Humanity's Evolutionary Winning Streak - and How
Evolution is a series of bets, and no animal gambles the way humans do. This has led us to unprecedented ecological dominance, via the steepest odds and unlikeliest of outcomes,...
Every Body Counts: Money, lies, and the hidden trade in human lives
Abetted by gangs of people smugglers, today human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. As governments spend more than ever on policing borders, this ground-breaking investigation reveals...