Political Risk - Facing the Threat of Global Insecurity in the Twenty-First Century by Condoleezza Rice; Amy Zegart
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'Smart. Informative. Overdue' Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google 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 concern used to be whether a foreign dictator would n ...Show more
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Sex, Genius, Betrayal & Redemption by Ben Mezrich
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Ben Mezrich's 2009 bestseller The Accidental Billionaires is the definitive account of Facebook's founding - and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network. Two of the story's iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic rowers, and l ...Show more
Morality by Jonathan Sacks
45.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In today's world of cultural climate change, argues Jonathan Sacks, we have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and to government on the other. If the market rewards it, it must be OK - unless the law says not to. Yet while the markets have brought wealth to many and the state has done m ...Show more
A Thousand Small Sanities - The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of fa ...Show more
Rockonomics How Music Explains Everything (about the Economy) by Alan Krueger
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Economist using examples from music industry
Alan Krueger, the former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from rock artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain the principles of economics, and the forces shaping our economic lives. As economists recognize, the music ...Show more
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting h ...Show more
Coal by Mark C. Thurber
31.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Resources Ser.
By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age--and it still does. Coal today generates more electricity worldwide than any other energy source, helping drive economic growth in major emerging markets. And yet continued reliance on thi ...Show more
The Ministry of Truth - A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes - Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5 - that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a ...Show more
Near-Death Experiences ... and Others by Robert Gottlieb
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A new collection of immersive essays from the most acclaimed editor of the second half of the twentieth century This new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he's written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging from reconsiderations of American writ ...Show more
On the Other Side of Freedom - Race and Justice in a Divided America by DeRay Mckesson
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Five years ago, DeRay Mckesson quit his job as a schoolteacher, moved to Ferguson, Missouri, and spent the next 400 days on the streets as an activist, helping to bring the Black Lives Matter movement into being. Now, in his first book, he draws on his own experiences - of growing up without his mother, ...Show more
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands - Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
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Category: Non-Fiction
In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present day. He dissects the hollow works of Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson, Galbraith and Dworkin, Sartre and Foucault and exposes the lack of coherence in the wor ...Show more